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79.10.112.216 (talk) 16:09, 12 March 2011 (UTC) I am sure that TEPCO is not the fourth largest electric power company in the world. The article should be updated.[reply]

Name?

Why is this article titled "The Tokyo Electric Power Company", rather than just the "Tokyo Electric Power Company"?

Use tugboats to pump water onto the reactor cores

I have searched without success to try to find a way to contact the TEPCO about an idea for assisting with cooling the reactors. If you know of a way to contact someone at TEPCO who might listen, please let me know. The idea is this: Modern tugboats use thrusters, basically huge water pumps. A large tugboat could be moored tightly to the quayside, and a rigid pipeline welded up to carry seawater to the reactor containment area. Since the power-plants of the tugboats are very strong and self-contained, and since they're boats and not likely to have been damaged if they survived the tsunami, I feel this is a viable solution to quickly move a vast amount of cooling water onto the reactors. Multiple tugboats could feed multiple pipelines as quickly as they could be assembled. Please pass this idea to anyone who might benefit from hearing it. Wolfrick (talk) 02:41, 15 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Dr. Bill

There's a (science) radio host in San Francisco's ABC-owned-and-operated AM Radio station (810 kHz). His name is Bill Wattenberg, and is known as "Dr. Bill." He has a PhD in electrical engineering and was a professor at U.C. Berkeley. He also is an inventor and has worked for years on a nuclear staff at Livermore Labs, California, and consults I think. His radio show is 10pm to 1am PST Fri-Sat-Sunday. All night people call in and ask questions on this or offer suggestions. He has avidly supported nuclear energy and is gifted in explaining all things technical in simple layman terms. In fact many of his callers are teens and children. Listening to him is a constant flashback to Physics 101 and Circuits 101, but in plain English and often in the context of what any farmboy would do on a farm.

Two websites for "Dr. Bill":

http://www.pushback.com/Wattenburg

http://www.kgoam810.com/sectional.asp?id=33179

I wonder if TEPCO would at this juncture be receptive to suggestions from the public. Although I'm not sure the outcome was much different, for the BP oil gusher situation at least there was the apearance that ideas and suggestions like yours were welcomed. By the US Government, at least.

DonL (talk) 10:43, 17 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

News Contacts

I'd suggest news companies there to get in touch with. They may already be in contact. If I understand your suggestion, these tugs will either spray water onto a targeted area (or areas), right? Or is this for laying pipe, and using the tugs to pressurize the pipe with seawater, to lead them to their destination?

One source suggested boric acid, but it was not made clear what consequences are at stake to go that route (besides potential poisons etc)

Lead absorbs radiation, but perhaps does not help with the cooling until it's mixed well enough with the radioactive material in high enough amounts. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.52.165.200 (talk) 04:40, 17 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Water Canons (on the way?)

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26315908/vp/42120956%2342120956#42121221 —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.52.165.200 (talk) 04:46, 17 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Ownership (significant equity packages)?

Who owns TEPCO? Inquiring minds want to know. 212.188.109.138 (talk) 12:20, 17 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

WTF?

What's this rubbish about being 'bigger than 3 mile island' without anything but alarmist and highly speculative reference? There have been NO REACTOR EXPLOSIONS. The explosions have occurred around the reactor; not as part of it. There is little to no radiation; it's the kind of radiation you'd get from opening a microwave or CD-player 10 minutes after use. Talk about alarmism. i'm deleting this nonsense until an investigation and credible reports have surfaced -after the plant is contained or after it has actually blown up. 119.161.71.12 (talk) 09:42, 18 March 2011 (UTC)M0F02000[reply]

Warning To vandal

Total rubbish, it is officially level 5 as serious as 3MI and food is now contaminated. Do not cover up these facts and stop vandalising! This is insult to the workers risking their lives to cool the plant, the facts are cited and justified in this entry. ---It's not vandalism: there has been no breach of the reactor itself. Explain that without hyperbole, please119.161.71.12 (talk) 09:42, 20 March 2011 (UTC)COXMSTRZ[reply]