breaking gray smoke reactor 3

[Hannah Bell]

http://yokosonews.com/live/

3:55 pm japan time noted the smoke (it's currently 5:02 japan time)

workers evacuated site, checking site now

[Hannah Bell]

1. amount of smoke less than before, fire dept contacted

nhk experts speculating cable in #3 burning

[Hannah Bell]

2. tepco presser on now

http://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/index.html

they cut it off, basically just the info above

presser still ongoing here:

http://iwakamiyasumi.com/ustream-schedule/ustream2

per yosoko news, actual content was basically "they don't know, they are checking, they'll be back"

[Dennis Donovan]

3. Breaking on CNN-I now - grey smoke billowing from reactor 3

Workers have been evacuated.

[TacticalPeek]

4. AP

Japanese nuclear plant withdraws workers after troubled reactor emits gray smoke

http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/japanese-nuclear-plant-withdraws-workers-after-troubled-reactor-emits-gray-smoke/2011/03/20/ABdCo13_story.html

[aquart]

5. I caught the NHK scroll:

The Nuclear Safety Agency says the Tokyo Electric Power Company informed the agency about 4:30 PM that gray smoke is coming up from the No. 3 reactor building of the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant.

[Hannah Bell]

6. tepco is now doing second presser but sound was off, now on

http://iwakamiyasumi.com/ustream-schedule/ustream2

one tepco guy facing a room of journalists

http://yokosonews.com/live/

no change of radiation after the gray smoke came out.

now nuclear safety commission of japan:

http://iwakamiyasumi.com/ustream-schedule/ustream3

radiation readings have remained in same range 35 minutes after smoke broke out -- he (katz) gave exact figures but i didn't catch them they were in range of 2000 microsieverts

[Lasher]

7. They just connected the power line to this reactor.

And the Tokyo Fire Department poured water into this reactor for 6.5 hours yesterday. Maybe one or both of these things have something to do with the smoke.

[aquart]

8. Steam would be white, so they eliminated it.

The line may be connected but the power isn't, so this isn't electrical. If the heat of those areas melted the power line and that's what the smoke is...(is that even possible?) then it would make getting the electricity to work harder.

[Cetacea]

9. They eliminated electrical causes

6:15 am