It's really hard to be 100% certain with what the news is saying, but my assumption would be that they are trying to prevent steam bubbles (Nucleate boiling) from forming in the cooling lines via atmospheric venting. Basically once those lines contain steam bubbles their ability to exchange heat is greatly reduced.

The venting would (should) still occur inside the containment building.

rs nuclear physicist at work

Hey, thanks for the kind offer. I'm all good so far here; stayed in all day so far just watching the news and sitting through some slight tremors (wow they seriously don't stop). Will head to the grocers soon to see if thy have restocked yet, else it's going to be rice and Campbells mushroom soup for the next few days hahaha.

It was hilarious when I called home after the initial quake. It went a little something like this:
"Hi mom, it's me."
"Oh hi! Hows it going?!" (super super cheerful and happy)
"Uh mom, turn on the news. I'm just calling to say I'm okay."
"Whats on the--... (two second pause) OMKSNFHDHNSBFNFJ ARE YOU OKAY?!?!"

Lol will never forget that pause hahaha.
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Translation please, LOL.

Is fresh water a problem where you are?

thanks for the laugh, good to hear you are ok and your spirits are up. You should take some pics and post em up of the damage in your area.

Man I feel so bad for my buddy (phil@rise) his g/f still hasn't been able to get a hold of her family and some real close friends or their's:(

Mind has been blasted by that video. coincidence or something there??

Not at all... other than the constant news feed and the general state of caution you can see in everyone, you could barely tell that a massive quake hit exactly this time yesterday. Seriously, chalk it up to their preparedness fo Hess things.

Murdoc, there's not much damage in the city. You see some crumbled sidewalks but even that is pretty rare. The city really doesn't look like it was hit at all. Unfortunately, can't say the same for Fukushima, Miyagi an Aomori :(
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jasonturbo, out of curiosity, what's your educational background?

That one knocked out a few fiber optics under the ocean for a few months. The same thing probably happened again.

Cocaine Institution of Southern Miami
area of study: distribution

jasonturbo has the good shit.

cesium detected outside of plant, they released vapour so it wont meltdown anymore but radiaton rose to high levels outside but not high enough to be life threatening

thats good at least. I know if something like that happened here I'm sure looting would go on. Has there been anything like that in the more damaged areas or is everyone acting normal I guess you can say?

Text REDCROSS to 30333 in Canada to instantly donate $5 to Japan earthquake relief.

Glad to hear you're okay. It's funny I'm responding to you thru RS :fullofwin:
Take care over there buddy!

Hell, I was playing Starcraft last night and played against some guys spewing dumbass comments as well, like "Karma for WW2".

At least we beat them...

dudes so weird.. yet i cant help but find it kinda eerie

are u kidding me?:eek:

^are YOU kidding?

are u forgetting they got nuked?

Originally Posted by darthchilli
gtfo, dont u hv any sympathy?

I guess the thousands of innocent lives lost from Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings don't mean anything to you.

they just showed some video of the tsunami hitting California and the docks and boats got pretty beat up

apparently some guy went down to one of the docks/beach to take photos of the tsunami hitting and got swept away to sea

"I think the pole shift is in November the second part and dec 21 2012 is when it really starts":damn:

So how does a pole shift fuck stuff up?

rofl went to the page and saw this in related links