4:52 inuchi: marine color means "tsunami alert turned off"
4:52 DagoLaR: cool news
4:53 bassmistro: so tokyo and chiba area just went down in tsunami threat level?
4:54 DagoLaR: thats u.s blackhawks?
4:54 kyouka_mitz: The tank of the heavy oil is destroyed, and heavy oil seems to leak
4:55 reimajinn: Any word on the nuclear plants?
4:55 kyouka_mitz: The warning level of Chiba, Tokyo fell
4:59 inuchi: They said "nuclear plants DON'T have serious problem".
5:01 DagoLaR: thats if water doesnt continue to dry off the reactors
5:03 inuchi: This was building ship.
5:03 kyouka_mitz: dead and missing 1900 over
5:04 reimajinn: What do the colors mean?
5:05 inuchi: Red=BigTsunami-alert, Orange=Tsunami-alert
5:07 DagoLaR: thx for keeping up the info japan guys :D
5:10 inuchi: Met Officer "Please keep care for afterquake and tsunami".
5:11 kyouka_mitz: He says the level of the tsunami warning the decrease.
5:11 rootuser: 我々が翻訳に感謝
5:13 inuchi: どもども。 Thanks.
5:15 DagoLaR: melt down? thats very bad news
5:15 kyouka_mitz: Meltdown started.
5:16 inuchi: on Fukushima 1st Nuclear plant.
5:17 reimajinn: are you in Japan?
5:17 DagoLaR: if the melting reaches the under base, thats a BOOM
5:18 kyouka_mitz: The water level of the nuclear reactor seems not to fall though they keep pouring water.
5:19 kyouka_mitz: It made a mistake. The water level of the nuclear reactor seems to have fallen though they keep pouring water.
5:20 DagoLaR: havent they used the emergency cooling or plan to use?
5:22 inuchi: I'm not sure.
5:24 kyouka_mitz: Information has not entered us yet.
5:25 inuchi: I'm living in Japan(Shizuoka) but OK. Thanks. >reimajinn
5:27 reimajinn: Good, I'm very glad to hear that.
5:27 kyouka_mitz: The cesium was detected in the nuclear power plant in Fukushima according to other news.
5:28 inuchi: Kesennuma-city, today.
5:29 inuchi: Tagajo-city, today.
5:31 inuchi: Rikuzentakata-city, today. many houses are lost by tsunami.
5:32 DagoLaR: cesium is harmful for humans, on high concentration it can kill you, thats one of the elements that was on the chernobyl accident
5:33 reimajinn: NHK is reporting that there is a chance that the fuel rods melted due to cesium detected in area, reactor N of Tokyo.
5:34 inuchi: Hospital.
5:35 kyouka_mitz: Nuclear fission seems to stop according to other news.
5:37 DagoLaR: because of water cooling kyouka? thats good to hear
5:38 chabatiy: すごい
5:39 tkk253: Meltdown seems to have started.
5:39 DagoLaR: :S
5:42 kyouka_mitz: Information is complicated.
5:42 inuchi: He is professor of Tokyo Institute of Technology.
5:44 kyouka_mitz: He is speaking the wind around Fukushima now.
5:45 DagoLaR: possible contamination area
5:46 inuchi: The cesium bar was appeared 170cm? from water, but still kept inside of shell container.
5:48 kyouka_mitz: He,professor is talking that such a situation is not assumed.
5:48 DagoLaR: assumed or expected? :P
5:49 kyouka_mitz: He says that nuclear fission will stop. Only when cooling it
5:49 neeee: fuji tv now showing pictogram of melted reactor
5:49 JBirdsall: おきな問題ですか。
5:50 inuchi: Needed to be cool cesium in nuclear plant, but reserve power was delayed yesterday.
5:53 neeee: again
5:55 kyouka_mitz: dead 129 missing 100 in Sendai pref.
5:56 inuchi: "reserve diesel power was delayed" was unexpected circumstance.
5:57 DagoLaR: diesel to use on what?
5:57 neeee: maybe for pumps
5:58 inuchi: Yes. For cooling cesium under trouble.
5:58 reimajinn: diesel generators for power. they have lost power from what I understand.
5:59 DagoLaR: wow, so now they cant put water on the reactors? thats really bad
5:59 neeee: Russia24 reported that all 3 emergency diesel alterators are started automacially yesterday but failed after 1.5 hours
6:08 kyouka_mitz: The temperature of the reactor core is about 1200 degrees.
6:08 DagoLaR: :S
6:10 kyouka_mitz: This time, cooling water was not injected at the beginning. Because the diesel generator did not move.
6:11 DagoLaR: are they saying anything about alternatives?
6:12 kyouka_mitz: They say that cooling anyway is important.
6:13 DagoLaR: damn, if they could just put the entire power plant under the sea...
6:15 reimajinn: A professor from University of Tokyo said: "Even in the worst-case scenario, that would mean some radioactive leakage and equipment damage, but not an explosion..."
6:18 kyouka_mitz: The temperature of the reactor core is 2700 degrees now.
6:19 JBirdsall: Is that C or F?
6:19 DagoLaR: wow, more than double from before, there's no stoping now i think
6:19 kyouka_mitz: C
6:21 JBirdsall: Wow, that's almost 3000 deg F
6:22 JBirdsall: sorry, almost 5000 deg F
6:23 DagoLaR: from a documental from chernobyl i saw once, theres some elements on the melting that react violently with water, and can cause the explosion
6:23 JBirdsall: Just a large quantity of water hitting 5000 degrees will explode
6:24 DagoLaR: yep, there was something like a critical temperature point
6:25 JBirdsall: crossed fingers...
6:25 DagoLaR: being unable to cool it anymore, you can only expect a miracle
6:31 JBirdsall: I have confidence in them. If anyone in the world can figure this out it is those Japanese technicians.
6:34 kyouka_mitz: The special force of the Self Defense Forces has arrived at the nuclear power plant.
6:35 DagoLaR: lets see what they do
6:40 kyouka_mitz: The pressure of the nuclear power plant fell.
6:41 kyouka_mitz: It succeeded in discharging steam, and the pressure of the nuclear reactor fell though the radioactivity material leaked.
6:43 DagoLaR: they said how much radiactivity they just leaked?
6:44 kyouka_mitz: They have not said it yet.
6:46 DagoLaR: funny thing is they cant do any other thing to maintain the pressure but to leak radioactive steam until they can reactivate cooling
6:48 kyouka_mitz: dead=116 missing=502 in Fukusima pref.
6:54 kyouka_mitz: dead=149 missing=many in Miyagi pref. Additionally, they are hundreds of remains in Natori City.
6:55 kyouka_mitz: The resident around the nuclear power plant almost took shelter.
6:58 kyouka_mitz: It shook widely in Kanto just now.
6:58 DagoLaR: was that just a shaking on the room?
6:58 inuchi: Keep away 10km from Fukushima 1st nuclear plant
6:59 kuronekonya: yeah
6:59 kyouka_mitz: A peripheral radioactivity material is 6.7 micro sievert according to other news.
7:00 inuchi: This TV program is from Roppongi, Tokyo.
7:01 DagoLaR: metropolitan area? that was scary
7:01 alvinchua: anybody can tell me if singapore is going to be affected
7:02 inuchi: Yes. Roppoingi is center of Tokyo, but the earthquake seems smaller.
7:03 alvinchua: so is tokyo olympic stadium and nagano olympic stadium has been destroyed
7:04 kyouka_mitz: The current image is Touna Station near Sendai.
7:05 inuchi: I think Singapore is OK, because the Ogasawara area (south of Japan) has tsunami warning but not serious.
Anyone who has visited or worked in Japan will tell you it is like landing on another planet. Beyond the baseball caps and Western clothes, the Japanese people have a distinct culture of their own, which is entirely alien to our own values. They are militantly racist and in the past have been capable of great cruelty.
Do you think the Japanese held a silent tribute for the victims of the London Transport bombings in 2005? Me neither.
brought out my tears http://youtu.be/-qq6slyZUes (http://youtu.be/-qq6slyZUes)Thought it should be here too, since it includes Sharan Q & the entire Upfront family