Can we have an update on the situation.

These numbers look a bit better then the one I got form the Police Agency earlier, but still...

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14.54 Reuters has supplied an update of the disaster in figures:

• 7,348 people confirmed dead.
• 10,947 people still missing
• 340,000 people evacuated from their homes.
• 256,819 houses without electricity, 1.03 million without running water.

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At Fukushima Plant I, power cables are connected at No. 1 and 2 reactors to reactivate the cooling system. 50 minutes ago

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still no word on if 1 is up and running yet... they just saying they are hoping to get 2 up today

Sorry I can't give more Kraatos--NHK is in a prerecorded loop again, and JP updates are coming like 1 in 8 against Libya... getting hard to find them sometimes

good grief.. one guy just tweeted this like 15 times... lol

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Jiji Press reports pressure in 3rd reactor going down. Pumping in of seawater yesterday probable cause of pressure

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kool, really hope they get em workin 100% soon im going nutz lol my PS3 is busted and no ff so its like ugh WTF

and now comes the official tweet from TEPCO:

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TEPCO announces pressure has stabilized inside No3 reactor vessel at #Fukushima N-plant, will not release steam for time being

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My info is the reactor was not being legally maintained, and the back up systems were not positioned properly - and if they had been none of this would be happening right now. In other words, the people who were running the reactor messed up big time.

While not to take anything away from the "Fukushima 50" - as they are obviously courageous - the people in charge of those reactors had best do everything they can to avoid a meltdown, else they will have a lot of blood on their hands.

A lot of people are simply blaming the earthquake and the tsunami. I'm not hearing near enough critisim of the actual people who were in charge of the reactors themselves - because if my info is correct, they are a lot more responsible for what happened than mother nature is.

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Originally Posted by Dale

My info is the reactor was not being legally maintained, and the back up systems were not positioned properly - and if they had been none of this would be happening right now. In other words, the people who were running the reactor messed up big time.

While not to take anything away from the "Fukushima 50" - as they are obviously courageous - the people in charge of those reactors had best do everything they can to avoid a meltdown, else they will have a lot of blood on their hands.

A lot of people are simply blaming the earthquake and the tsunami. I'm not hearing near enough critisim of the actual people who were in charge of the reactors themselves - because if my info is correct, they are a lot more responsible for what happened than mother nature is.

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I would be curious as to the source of your information? This is the first I am hearing anything of the sort, that it was not being legally maintained. Are you refering to the saftey violations they received?

it's rather mute either way....the tsunami ripped up the fuel tanks for the deisel generators, took two of the transformers on the line supplying power to the pumps. So, both of their backup systems were rendered useless by the tsunami regardless.

edit: oh, and the flooding also caused damage to the pumps and circuitry controlling the systems as well.

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Originally Posted by Anela

I would be curious as to the source of your information? This is the first I am hearing anything of the sort, that it was not being legally maintained. Are you refering to the saftey violations they received?

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A friend was filling me in about it earlier on the phone. I'll have to ask him tomorrow about it if you want a specific source.

Basically the gist of what he told me was it was found that the back up generators that was suppose to kick in and cool the reactor in the event of an emergency didn't because it was not placed properly - or legally - and if it had been neither the Tsunami or Earthquake would have caused this to happen.

When you take into consideration this company's background, it's not hard to believe, and a lot of them are probably going to wish they had been nuked to death when this is all over, cause they are going to be swimming in lawsuits.

bah.. last TEPCO conference wasn't very fruitful... again.
Back and forth about pressure levels in #3, which appear to have stabilized now. 1 & 2 pumps should be operational soon and cooling on their own, but they will not be able to start them at the same time (no details given).

Still progress... I guess