Radiation levels inside reactor at Japan's Fukushima nuclear plant have hit a record high: Radiation levels capable of shutting down robots
Posted: 03 Feb 2017 04:13 AM PST
Western Europe braces its self for series of massive storms rolling in from Atlantic: Waves over 9 meters (30 feet) and 100mph winds
Posted: 03 Feb 2017 02:04 AM PST
Photo The Sun Waves batter the Cornwall coast
A series of massive storms rolling in from the Atlantic are unleashing powerful winds to Ireland the UK, France, Spain and neighboring Portugal through the first weekend of February.
Northwestern France is likely to suffer the most extreme winds before the storms shifts southward later today.
Winds of 150 km/h are expected on some exposed coastal areas possibly resulting in travel delays power outages and damage to trees and homes.
Along with the threat for damaging winds, wind-driven rain will pound the same communities each day.
No hiding place! Earthwind map shows the perfect storm!
The greatest threat for flooding will be across northern Portugal and northwestern Spain where rainfall totals of 75-150 mm (3-6 inches) will be common with local amounts exceeding 200 mm (8 inches).
Locations in western and central France can expect 25-75 mm (1-3 inches) of rain through Sunday, prompting localized flooding.
“These storms will also bring a high risk for coastal flooding, especially during high tide,” said AccuWeather Meteorologist Tyler Roys.
“Dangerous seas will also persist across the Bay of Biscay through Sunday with waves over 9 meters (30 feet) at times,” Roys added.
Click on image to enlarge
Additional unsettled weather is expected across France and Spain next week. However, the threat for damaging winds and flooding will lessen.
A swell chart from Thursday at 9pm shows the largest waves reaching 36ft just off the coast of England and Ireland
UK
Storm Doris has arrived off the south coast of England and is battering Cornwall and will bring more gales and floods to the UK this weekend.
As storm Doris takes aim for the UK some coastal areas are bracing themselves for winds of up to 100mph.
Met Office has issued severe weather warnings but has not named the low pressure system moving across, they have issued 42 flood alerts.
Four people were rescued after getting stuck in 70mph winds on a Scottish coastal walk last night as storms brought huge waves and flash flooding across the west of Britain.
With weather warnings in place, power cables have exploded, sending sparks flying, as stormy weather makes its way across the Atlantic to Britain.
Trees have been blown over, crushing cars in Devon, while waves have battered the coastline in Dawlish.
Coastguard rescue teams from Portpatrick, Stranraer, Drummore and Ballantrae were scrambled after a woman injured her leg and she and her three companions got stuck in inaccessible terrain near Dunskey Castle, in Dumfries and Galloway.
In Stafford, a man had to be rescued by firefighters when his Mercedes was swamped with floodwater after a freak rain shower.
Posted: 03 Feb 2017 04:13 AM PST
Photo Fukushima Diary
Radiation levels inside a stricken reactor at Japan's Fukushima nuclear plant have hit a record high capable of shutting down robots, in the latest challenge to efforts aimed at dismantling the disaster-hit facility.
Radiation levels inside the plant's No. 2 reactor were estimated at 530 sieverts per hour at one spot, Tokyo Electric Power Co (TEPCO) said Thursday after analyzing images taken by a manually operated camera that probed the deepest point yet within the reactor.
Even after taking a 30-percent margin of error into account, the radiation level was still far higher than the previous record of 73 sieverts per hour detected by sensors in 2012 though at a point not as deep, TEPCO said.
Radiation exposure at 530 sieverts per hour would effectively shut down TEPCO's planned robot camera probe in under two hours.
But TEPCO said the high reading focused on a single point, with levels estimated to be much lower at other spots filmed by the camera.
It added that the planned robot probe would not sustain severe damage because it was unlikely to linger for too long at a single point.
The three cameras mounted on a caterpillar-type robot are designed to withstand up to 1,000 sieverts in total.
TEPCO said the radiation is not leaking outside the reactor.
A massive undersea earthquake on March 11, 2011 sent a huge tsunami barrelling into Japan's northeast coast, leaving more than 18,000 people dead or missing, and sending three reactors into meltdown at the Fukushima plant in the worst such accident since Chernobyl in 1986.
Japan's government said in December that it expects the total costs - including compensation, decommissioning and decontamination - to reach 21.5 trillion yen ($190 billion) in a process likely to take decades as high radiation levels have slowed operations.
TEPCO has said it plans to eventually use robots to locate the fuel debris as part of the decommissioning process.
Images of the wreckage inside the No. 2 reactor captured by the camera show that the metal grating under the pressure vessel which contained nuclear fuel has largely sunken in, causing a hole about one metre wide.
Black debris that could be melted fuel is also seen in the images.
Fuel may have melted through the vessel and damaged the grating but the exact cause was not determined, TEPCO spokesman Tatsuhiro Yamagishi said Friday.
"It may have been caused by nuclear fuel that would have melted and made a hole in the vessel, but it is only a hypothesis at this stage," he told AFP.
"We believe the captured images offer very useful information, but we still need to investigate given that it is very difficult to assume the actual condition inside," he said.
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Radiation levels inside a stricken reactor at Japan's Fukushima nuclear plant have hit a record high capable of shutting down robots, in the latest challenge to efforts aimed at dismantling the disaster-hit facility.
Radiation levels inside the plant's No. 2 reactor were estimated at 530 sieverts per hour at one spot, Tokyo Electric Power Co (TEPCO) said Thursday after analyzing images taken by a manually operated camera that probed the deepest point yet within the reactor.
Even after taking a 30-percent margin of error into account, the radiation level was still far higher than the previous record of 73 sieverts per hour detected by sensors in 2012 though at a point not as deep, TEPCO said.
Radiation exposure at 530 sieverts per hour would effectively shut down TEPCO's planned robot camera probe in under two hours.
But TEPCO said the high reading focused on a single point, with levels estimated to be much lower at other spots filmed by the camera.
It added that the planned robot probe would not sustain severe damage because it was unlikely to linger for too long at a single point.
The three cameras mounted on a caterpillar-type robot are designed to withstand up to 1,000 sieverts in total.
TEPCO said the radiation is not leaking outside the reactor.
A massive undersea earthquake on March 11, 2011 sent a huge tsunami barrelling into Japan's northeast coast, leaving more than 18,000 people dead or missing, and sending three reactors into meltdown at the Fukushima plant in the worst such accident since Chernobyl in 1986.
Japan's government said in December that it expects the total costs - including compensation, decommissioning and decontamination - to reach 21.5 trillion yen ($190 billion) in a process likely to take decades as high radiation levels have slowed operations.
TEPCO has said it plans to eventually use robots to locate the fuel debris as part of the decommissioning process.
Images of the wreckage inside the No. 2 reactor captured by the camera show that the metal grating under the pressure vessel which contained nuclear fuel has largely sunken in, causing a hole about one metre wide.
Black debris that could be melted fuel is also seen in the images.
Fuel may have melted through the vessel and damaged the grating but the exact cause was not determined, TEPCO spokesman Tatsuhiro Yamagishi said Friday.
"It may have been caused by nuclear fuel that would have melted and made a hole in the vessel, but it is only a hypothesis at this stage," he told AFP.
"We believe the captured images offer very useful information, but we still need to investigate given that it is very difficult to assume the actual condition inside," he said.
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Western Europe braces its self for series of massive storms rolling in from Atlantic: Waves over 9 meters (30 feet) and 100mph winds
Posted: 03 Feb 2017 02:04 AM PST
Photo The Sun Waves batter the Cornwall coast
A series of massive storms rolling in from the Atlantic are unleashing powerful winds to Ireland the UK, France, Spain and neighboring Portugal through the first weekend of February.
Northwestern France is likely to suffer the most extreme winds before the storms shifts southward later today.
Winds of 150 km/h are expected on some exposed coastal areas possibly resulting in travel delays power outages and damage to trees and homes.
Along with the threat for damaging winds, wind-driven rain will pound the same communities each day.
No hiding place! Earthwind map shows the perfect storm!
The greatest threat for flooding will be across northern Portugal and northwestern Spain where rainfall totals of 75-150 mm (3-6 inches) will be common with local amounts exceeding 200 mm (8 inches).
Locations in western and central France can expect 25-75 mm (1-3 inches) of rain through Sunday, prompting localized flooding.
“These storms will also bring a high risk for coastal flooding, especially during high tide,” said AccuWeather Meteorologist Tyler Roys.
“Dangerous seas will also persist across the Bay of Biscay through Sunday with waves over 9 meters (30 feet) at times,” Roys added.
Click on image to enlarge
Additional unsettled weather is expected across France and Spain next week. However, the threat for damaging winds and flooding will lessen.
A swell chart from Thursday at 9pm shows the largest waves reaching 36ft just off the coast of England and Ireland
UK
Storm Doris has arrived off the south coast of England and is battering Cornwall and will bring more gales and floods to the UK this weekend.
As storm Doris takes aim for the UK some coastal areas are bracing themselves for winds of up to 100mph.
Met Office has issued severe weather warnings but has not named the low pressure system moving across, they have issued 42 flood alerts.
Four people were rescued after getting stuck in 70mph winds on a Scottish coastal walk last night as storms brought huge waves and flash flooding across the west of Britain.
With weather warnings in place, power cables have exploded, sending sparks flying, as stormy weather makes its way across the Atlantic to Britain.
Trees have been blown over, crushing cars in Devon, while waves have battered the coastline in Dawlish.
Coastguard rescue teams from Portpatrick, Stranraer, Drummore and Ballantrae were scrambled after a woman injured her leg and she and her three companions got stuck in inaccessible terrain near Dunskey Castle, in Dumfries and Galloway.
In Stafford, a man had to be rescued by firefighters when his Mercedes was swamped with floodwater after a freak rain shower.
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