Chris Harris, former licensed Senior Reactor Operator and engineer:
"Fukushima Unit 4, the plans are in November to start removing the fuel. The question is always, ‘What’s going to keep the fuel sub-critical as you’re withdrawing it from the pool?’ That hasn’t been answered to my satisfaction yet because — although there are a lot of spent fuel assemblies in there which could achieve criticality — there are also 200 new fuel assemblies which have equivalent to a full tank of gas, let’s call it that. Those are the ones most likely to go critical first. [...] Keep batteries fresh in your rad monitor, because you’re going to need to know what’s going on when they drop some fuel. [...] Some pictures that were released recently show that a lot of fuel is damaged, so when they go ahead and put the grapple on it, and they pull it up, it’s going to fall apart. The boreflex has been eaten away; it doesn’t take saltwater very good."
crane collapse yesterday so they're weakening.
saltwater and radiation = bad news
go critical = Puff the Magic Dragon (again)
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Edit: pretty much corresponds with the 'boiling sea' story ColonelZ posted & has been like this all weekend. I was watching the 'live cam' yesterday while listening to some old Stan Deyo interviews and caught quite a few bizarre looking 'things' emanating off and on from the cranes and towers that really, really look like they're getting a little off and on neutron 'glow'.
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Ever changing list of 'concern' but Omaha seems to be stuck...A look at tomorrow's jet stream, consistent with today's illustrates the 'why'.
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Subject: Fukushima Melt Down, It Is Called The ‘CHINA SYNDROME’ Biggest Problem Facing Mankind (Video) Mon Sep 09, 2013 2:30 pm
Fukushima Melt Down, It Is Called The ‘CHINA SYNDROME’ Biggest Problem Facing Mankind (Video) Friday, September 6, 2013 6:36
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While everyone is focused on Syria, there is a much larger danger on the worlds door step. It’s the Fukushima disaster that is still in full melt down as we speak.
There is not much that can be done any more. Hundreds of thousands of people will die, if not millions. Our oceans will be contaminated for millions of years. The sea life will die off and the ecosystem will be damaged forever.
Either they cool the reactors with sea water, or the reactors melt into the center of the earth causing a major nuclear explosion the likes of which has never been seen.
[url=http://beforeitsnews.com/r2/?url=http:// http://christophereverard.com/christophereverard.com/Welcome.html]The CORES[/url] of the Fukushima Nuclear Reactors are still dangerously hot – they are using SEA WATER to cool the reactors. Radiation is like Magnetism – everything it touches becomes radioactive and contaminated – every drop of sea water used to cool the reactors becomes contaminated. Secretly, the Japanese TEPCO corp. have been pumping billions of gallons through these cores and then flushing the contaminated water out to sea. Every drop is pure poison.
This is what is happening in the Fukushima melt down – the CORES MAY MELT INTO THE EARTH’S CRUST if they do not continue to pump billions of litres of sea water each year onto the cores. THE FUKUSHIMA PROBLEM REQUIRES INTERNATIONAL CO-OPERATION. It is the biggest problem facing Mankind right now. It is FAR MORE IMPORTANT than who Obama wants to bomb this week… Fukushima will not go away.
If these Fukushima cores melt down it is called the ‘CHINA SYNDROME’ within the Nuclear Industry. That is, that if they stop cooling the cores with billions of gallons of sea-water, then the cores will heat up the bedrock and become a seething hot mass which will begin to sink directly into the Earth’s core – supposedly burning all the way through to ‘China’… That is what will happen if the billions of gallons of sea-water are stopped from being pumped into these cores.
However, the off-flow of contaminated water will eventually poison and kill all living creatures in the Pacific ocean. Mass deaths of fish and seals and birds are already being reported.
The options are narrow, to say the least. If the cores are allowed to heat up, then they will bore and melt their way to the GROUND WATER within the earth’s crust and a giant NUCLEAR EXPLOSION WILL TAKE PLACE – plus, of course, the fresh ground water of the entire region of northern Japan will become contaminated.
I am sure, after having analysed the situation through the Japanese news sources, that this is the ‘Catch 22′ we are facing – and that the Japanese government need to develop some cutting-edge technology now to get those cores cooled down without contaminating the entire Pacific ocean.
There are already six nuclear cores rotting on the seabed from old Russian and American military submarines – another four cores washed into the ocean will probably send the ecological balance on a downward spiral. Residents of Hawaii and the West Coast of USA should take extra care in what they choose to eat from the sea.
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" The options are narrow, to say the least. If the cores are allowed to heat up, then they will bore and melt their way to the GROUND WATER within the earth’s crust and a giant NUCLEAR EXPLOSION WILL TAKE PLACE – plus, of course, the fresh ground water of the entire region of northern Japan will become contaminated."
The Nuclear explosions are already taking place. They're 'corium quakes' that have a seismic signature identical to that of a subterranean nuclear test. There's an example of one earlier in the thread. They've already admitted that 3 separate 100 ton blobs of corium are 'on the loose' and have been for awhile now.
The russians have countless reactors on the ocean floor that are a ticking timebomb...
"The catalogue of waste dumped at sea by the Soviets, according to documents seen by Bellona, and which were today released by the Norwegian daily Aftenposten, includes some 17,000 containers of radioactive waste, 19 ships containing radioactive waste, 14 nuclear reactors, including five that still contain spent nuclear fuel; 735 other pieces of radiactively contaminated heavy machinery, and the K-27 nuclear submarine with its two reactors loaded with nuclear fuel."
More people have now died because of the Fukushima evacuation process than were killed in the region by the 2011 Japanese earthquake and tsunami which caused the displacement, a survey said. Some 300,000 people evacuated their homes in the prefecture after the disaster caused multiple meltdowns at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant, according to Red Cross figures. A survey by popular Japanese newspaper Mainichi Shimbun said Monday that deaths relating to this displacement – around 1,600 – have surpassed the number killed in the region in the original disaster.
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Close to 16,000 people were killed across Japan as a direct result of the earthquake and tsunami in 2011. According to the Mainichi report, 1,599 of these deaths were in the Fukushima Prefecture. Causes of death in the aftermath have included “fatigue” due to conditions in evacuation centers, exhaustion from relocating, and illness resulting from hospital closures. The survey also said a number of suicides had been attributed to the ordeal. Francis Markus, East Asia spokesperson for the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC), said the conditions faced by those displaced is made worse by them not knowing when they can return. “What we are seeing is some very, very difficult social and emotional effects that communities are having to cope with,” he said Tuesday. “A lot of the people suffering are the older generation, and they need a lot of support to make it through with as little ill effect as possible. It's a very serious and painful existence.” Markus has visited many of the evacuees as part of the IFRC relief efforts in the region. A man prays as he mourns victims of the 2011 earthquake and tsunami as a ship brought ashore by the disaster is seen in the background, in Kesennuma, Japan, in March this year. “You drive into the settlements and find they are very neat and tidy,” he said. “There is a car park, and then there is rows upon rows of these very neat but very small prefabricated houses, each with a family trying to make them as homely as possible. In the summer they are very hot and in the winter they are very chilly. "People from the worst affected areas are really very concerned as to when they will be able to go back, if they will be able to go back at all." The Mainichi newspaper said it surveyed 25 towns and villages in the prefecture, as well as taking into account "condolence money” applications for at least 109 people reportedly killed in relation to the evacuation. Figures by Japan's Reconstruction Agency in March put the total number of these deaths at 1,383. Tepco, the company which runs the crippled Fukushima plant, came under increased scrutiny after it admitted last month 300 tons of highly radioactive water leaked from one of the hastily built tanks storing contaminated water at the site, according to a Reuters report Tuesday. Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s government last week pledged nearly half a billion dollars to contain the site’s contaminated water, including the construction of a subterranean ice wall. Abe, speaking from Buenos Aires where it was announced Tokyo had successfully won its bid to host the 2020 Olympic Games, said the issue is “under control.”
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"Gundersen: Medical doctors ordered to not tell patients their problems are related to Fukushima radiation — Of course they’re going to say nobody died."
They have socialized medicine, I.e. Obamacare, hence the politicians can dictate to the medical doctors.
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Subject: Tritium Levels Spike At Stricken Fukushima Nuclear Plant Thu Sep 12, 2013 7:58 am
Tritium Levels Spike At Stricken Fukushima Nuclear Plant
The operator of the wrecked Fukushima nuclear plant said levels of tritium – considered one of the least harmful radioactive elements – spiked more than 15 times in groundwater near a leaked tank at the facility over three days this week. Tokyo Electric Power Co (Tepco) said tritium levels in water taken from a well
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Thanks colonelz. Unit 4 has 'settled' by as much as 7'. Worse yet she's not sinking uniformly, getting a bit of a tower of pisa look. Thats an overstatement but in a industry measured in thousandths of an inch a foundation settling 7' in one corner and 5' in another with a mix in between is more akin to something from 'Godzilla vs Mothra'; not real world scenarios.
If there's life on mars they're gonna see this lightshow too.
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Thanks GZ. Now that I'm as irritated as an outhouse rat, this is another example of bioaccumulation. Spring has mentioned it as well in his Norcal fire thread. If sodobamacare isn't defunded in a couple of weeks very few doctors will even tell their patients they're dying of radiation exposure.
If you believe The HOLY BIBLE is the WORD OF GOD, explain all the errors in radio-carbon dating the Earth!!! ?????? The problem isn't in the WORD OF GOD or the science for that matter.
There is ONE (1) thing that skews radio-carbon dating: RADIATION!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Think a rock is a billion years old??? TRY AGAIN LOSER IT WAS IRRADIATED PRE-FLOOD!!! Hence The LORD sent the flood to rectify the situation for the time being.
Any 7-11 slurpee cup in the FUKU region of Japan will test a million years old at this point and every Cal Berkeley prof will do his or her best to explain the Styrofoam.....yadda yadda yadda........gotta keep my gov't grant(s)........blah blah blah.....yadda yadda yadda!
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Ecclesiastes 1:9 1599 Geneva Bible (GNV) 9 What is it that hath been? that that shall be: and what is it that hath been done? that which shall be done: and there is no new thing under the sun.
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Don't listen to us on this... listen to these guys. Surely this will just expand in area.
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Agreed GZ. Worldwide keibash. ....and speaking truth online will be a felony if j. Goebbels Carney gets his way. Blogger equates to lacking fascist stamp of approval. Never let the truth get in the way of a good story. Only thing I disagree with is the nippers were clearly working pluto and tritium; not The big U. Hence the "new" leaks are the original tanks catching the tritium bleedoff.Irrelevant at this point because this things gonna drop the deuce soon.
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Subject: Re: Fukushima - epa change forthcoming Sun Sep 15, 2013 6:01 am
Blowing radioactive particulate for a couple of days now. (mysterious black smoke) Next week's going to be ALERT levels out the wazzoo. At least when Russia gets around to invading Alaska they'll be doing so in rad suits.
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Scientists have no idea where the cores of the nuclear reactors are
Radiation could hit Korea, China and the West Coast of North America fairly hard
But the real problem is that the idiots who caused this mess are probably about to cause a much bigger problem. Specifically, the greatest short-term threat to humanity is from the fuel pools at Fukushima. If one of the pools collapsed or caught fire, it could have severe adverse impacts not only on Japan … but the rest of the world, including the United States. Indeed, a Senator called it a national security concern for the U.S.:
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The radiation caused by the failure of the spent fuel pools in the event of another earthquake could reach the West Coast within days. That absolutely makes the safe containment and protection of this spent fuel a security issue for the United States.
Nuclear expert Arnie Gundersen and physician Helen Caldicott have both said that people should evacuate the Northern Hemisphere if one of the Fukushima fuel pools collapses. Gundersen said:
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Move south of the equator if that ever happened, I think that’s probably the lesson there.
Former U.N. adviser Akio Matsumura calls removing the radioactive materials from the Fukushima fuel pools “an issue of human survival”. So the stakes in decommissioning the fuel pools are high, indeed. But in 2 months, Tepco – the knuckleheads who caused the accident – are going to start doing this very difficult operation on their own. The New York Times reports:
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Thousands of workers and a small fleet of cranes are preparing for one of the latest efforts to avoid a deepening environmental disaster that has China and other neighbors increasingly worried: removing spent fuel rods from the damaged No. 4 reactor building and storing them in a safer place.
The Telegraph notes:
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Tom Snitch, a senior professor at the University of Maryland and with more than 30 years’ experience in nuclear issues, said “[Japan officials] need to address the real problems, the spent fuel rods in Unit 4 and the leaking pressure vessels,” he said. “There has been too much work done wiping down walls and duct work in the reactors for any other reason then to do something…. This is a critical global issue and Japan must step up.”
The Japan Times writes:
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In November, Tepco plans to begin the delicate operation of removing spent fuel from Reactor No. 4 [with] radiation equivalent to 14,000 times the amount released by the Hiroshima atomic bomb. …. It remains vulnerable to any further shocks, and is also at risk from ground liquefaction. Removing its spent fuel, which contains deadly plutonium, is an urgent task…. The consequences could be far more severe than any nuclear accident the world has ever seen. If a fuel rod is dropped, breaks or becomes entangled while being removed, possible worst case scenarios include a big explosion, a meltdown in the pool, or a large fire. Any of these situations could lead to massive releases of deadly radionuclides into the atmosphere, putting much of Japan — including Tokyo and Yokohama — and even neighboring countries at serious risk.
CNBC points out:
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The radioactive leak at Japan’s Fukushima nuclear plant is far from under control and could get a lot worse, a nuclear energy expert, who compiles the annual “World Nuclear Industry Status Report” warned. *** The big danger – and it was identified by Japan’s atomic energy commission – is if you lose water in one of the spent fuel pools and you get a spent fuel fire.
CNN reports:
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[Mycle Schneider, nuclear consultant:] The situation could still get a lot worse. A massive spent fuel fire would likely dwarf the current dimensions of the catastrophe and could exceed the radioactivity releases of Chernobyl dozens of times. First, the pool walls could leak beyond the capacity to deliver cooling water or a reactor building could collapse following one of the hundred of aftershocks. Then, the fuel cladding could ignite spontaneously releasing its entire radioactive inventory.
Reuters notes:
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The operator of Japan’s crippled Fukushima nuclear plant is preparing to remove 400 tons of highly irradiated spent fuel from a damaged reactor building, a dangerous operation that has never been attempted before on this scale. Containing radiation equivalent to 14,000 times the amount released in the atomic bomb attack on Hiroshima 68 years ago, more than 1,300 used fuel rod assemblies packed tightly together need to be removed from a building that is vulnerable to collapse, should another large earthquake hit the area. Tokyo Electric Power Co (Tepco) is already in a losing battle to stop radioactive water overflowing from another part of the facility, and experts question whether it will be able to pull off the removal of all the assemblies successfully. “They are going to have difficulty in removing a significant number of the rods,” said Arnie Gundersen, a veteran U.S. nuclear engineer and director of Fairewinds Energy Education, who used to build fuel assemblies. The operation, beginning this November at the plant’s Reactor No. 4, is fraught with danger, including the possibility of a large release of radiation if a fuel assembly breaks, gets stuck or gets too close to an adjacent bundle, said Gundersen and other nuclear experts. That could lead to a worse disaster than the March 2011 nuclear crisis at the Fukushima plant, the world’s most serious since Chernobyl in 1986. No one knows how bad it can get, but independent consultants Mycle Schneider and Antony Froggatt said recently in their World Nuclear Industry Status Report 2013: “Full release from the Unit-4 spent fuel pool, without any containment or control, could cause by far the most serious radiological disaster to date.” *** The utility says it recognizes the operation will be difficult but believes it can carry it out safely. Nonetheless, Tepco inspires little confidence. Sharply criticized for failing to protect the Fukushima plant against natural disasters, its handling of the crisis since then has also been lambasted. *** The process will begin in November and Tepco expects to take about a year removing the assemblies, spokesman Yoshikazu Nagai told Reuters by e-mail. It’s just one installment in the decommissioning process for the plant forecast to take about 40 years and cost $11 billion. Each fuel rod assembly weighs about 300 kilograms (660 pounds) and is 4.5 meters (15 feet) long. There are 1,331 of the spent fuel assemblies and a further 202 unused assemblies are also stored in the pool, Nagai said. *** Spent fuel rods also contain plutonium, one of the most toxic substances in the universe, that gets formed during the later stages of a reactor core’s operation. *** “There is a risk of an inadvertent criticality if the bundles are distorted and get too close to each other,” Gundersen said. He was referring to an atomic chain reaction that left unchecked could result in a large release of radiation and heat that the fuel pool cooling system isn’t designed to absorb. “The problem with a fuel pool criticality is that you can’t stop it. There are no control rods to control it,” Gundersen said. “The spent fuel pool cooling system is designed only to remove decay heat, not heat from an ongoing nuclear reaction.” The rods are also vulnerable to fire should they be exposed to air, Gundersen said. [The pools have already boiled due to exposure to air.] *** Tepco has shored up the building, which may have tilted and was bulging after the explosion, a source of global concern that has been raised in the U.S. Congress. *** The fuel assemblies have to be first pulled from the racks they are stored in, then inserted into a heavy steel chamber. This operation takes place under water before the chamber, which shields the radiation pulsating from the rods, can be removed from the pool and lowered to ground level. The chamber is then transported to the plant’s common storage pool in an undamaged building where the assemblies will be stored. [Here is a visual tour of Fukushima's fuel pools, along with graphics of how the rods will be removed.] Tepco confirmed the Reactor No. 4 fuel pool contains debris during an investigation into the chamber earlier this month. Removing the rods from the pool is a delicate task normally assisted by computers, according to Toshio Kimura, a former Tepco technician, who worked at Fukushima Daiichi for 11 years. “Previously it was a computer-controlled process that memorized the exact locations of the rods down to the millimeter and now they don’t have that. It has to be done manually so there is a high risk that they will drop and break one of the fuel rods,” Kimura said. *** Corrosion from the salt water will have also weakened the building and equipment, he said. And if an another strong earthquake strikes before the fuel is fully removed that topples the building or punctures the pool and allow the water to drain, a spent fuel fire releasing more radiation than during the initial disaster is possible, threatening about Tokyo 200 kilometers (125 miles) away.
ABC Radio Australia quotes an expert on the situation (at 1:30):
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Richard Tanter, expert on nuclear power issues and professor of international relations at the University of Melbourne: *** Reactor Unit 4, the one which has a very large amount of stored fuel in its fuel storage pool, that is sinking. According to former prime Minister Kan Naoto, that has sunk some 31 inches in places and it’s not uneven. This is really not surprising given what’s happened in terms of pumping of water, the aftermath of the earthquake and the tsunami, the continuing infusions of water into the groundwater area. This is an immediate problem, and if it is not resolved there is an extraordinary possibility we really could be back at March 2011 again because of the possibility of a fission accident in that spent fuel pond in Unit No. 4.
Xinua writes:
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Mitsuhei Murata, a former Japanese ambassador to Switzerland has officially called for the withdrawalof Tokyo’s Olympic bid, due to the worsening crisis at Fukushima, which experts believe is not limited to storage tanks, but also potential cracks in the walls of the spent nuclear fuel pools.
Japan Focus points out:
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The spent-fuel pool … was damaged by the earthquake and tsunami, and is in adeteriorating condition. It remains vulnerable to any further shocks, and is also at risk from ground liquefaction. *** If a fuel rod is dropped, breaks or becomes entangled while being removed, possible worst case scenarios include a big explosion, a meltdown in the pool, or a large fire. *** This is literally a matter of national security – another mistake by TEPCO could have incredibly costly, even fatal, consequences for Japan.
Like Pulling Cigarettes Out of a Crumpled Pack Fuel rod expert Arnie Gundersen – a nuclear engineer and former senior manager of a nuclear power company which manufactured nuclear fuel rods – recently explained the biggest problem with the fuel rods (at 15:45):
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I think they’re belittling the complexity of the task. If you think of a nuclear fuel rack as a pack of cigarettes, if you pull a cigarette straight up it will come out — but these racks have been distorted. Now when they go to pull the cigarette straight out, it’s going to likely break and release radioactive cesium and other gases, xenon and krypton, into the air. I suspect come November, December, January we’re going to hear that the building’s been evacuated, they’ve broke a fuel rod, the fuel rod is off-gassing.
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I suspect we’ll have more airborne releases as they try to pull the fuel out. If they pull too hard, they’ll snap the fuel. I think the racks have been distorted, the fuel has overheated — the pool boiled – and the net effect is that it’s likely some of the fuel will be stuck in there for a long, long time.
In another interview, Gundersen provides additional details (at 31:00):
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The racks are distorted from the earthquake — oh, by the way, the roof has fallen in, which further distorted the racks. The net effect is they’ve got the bundles of fuel, the cigarettes in these racks, and as they pull them out, they’re likely to snap a few. When you snap a nuclear fuel rod, that releases radioactivity again, so my guess is, it’s things like krypton-85, which is a gas, cesium will also be released, strontium will be released. They’ll probably have to evacuate the building for a couple of days. They’ll take that radioactive gas and they’ll send it up the stack, up into the air, because xenon can’t be scrubbed, it can’t be cleaned, so they’ll send that radioactive xenon up into the air and purge the building of all the radioactive gases and then go back in and try again. It’s likely that that problem will exist on more than one bundle. So over the next year or two, it wouldn’t surprise me that either they don’t remove all the fuel because they don’t want to pull too hard, or if they do pull to hard, they’re likely to damage the fuel and cause a radiation leak inside the building. So that’s problem #2 in this process, getting the fuel out of Unit 4 is a top priority I have, but it’s not going to be easy. Tokyo Electric is portraying this as easy. In a normal nuclear reactor, all of this is done with computers. Everything gets pulled perfectly vertically. Well nothing is vertical anymore, the fuel racks are distorted, it’s all going to have to be done manually. The net effect is it’s a really difficult job. It wouldn’t surprise me if they snapped some of the fuel and they can’t remove it.
And Chris Harris – a, former licensed Senior Reactor Operator and engineer – notes that it doesn’t help that a lot of the rods are in very fragile condition:
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Although there are a lot of spent fuel assemblies in there which could achieve criticality — there are also 200 new fuel assemblies which have equivalent to a full tank of gas, let’s call it that. Those are the ones most likely to go critical first. *** Some pictures that were released recently show that a lot of fuel is damaged, so when they go ahead and put the grapple on it, and they pull it up, it’s going to fall apart. The boreflex has been eaten away; it doesn’t take saltwater very good.
Like Letting a Murderer Perform Brain Surgery On a VIP What’s the bottom line? Tepco has an abysmal track record:
Engineers warned Tepco and the Japanese government many years before the accident that the reactors were seismically unsafe … and that an earthquake could wipe them out
The Fukushima reactors were fatally damaged before the tsunami hit … the earthquake took them out even before the tidal wave hit
An official Japanese government investigation concluded that the Fukushima accident was a “man-made” disaster, caused by “collusion” between government and Tepco and bad reactor design
Tepco knew right after the 2011 accident that 3 nuclear reactors had lost containment, that the nuclear fuel had “gone missing”, and that there was in fact no real containment at all. Tepco has desperately been trying to cover this up for 2 and a half years … instead pretending that the reactors were in “cold shutdown”
Tepco just admitted that it’s known for 2 years that massive amounts of radioactive water are leaking into the groundwater and Pacific Ocean
Tepco – with no financial incentive to actually fix things – has only been pretending to clean it up. Andsee this
Tepco’s recent attempts to solidify the ground under the reactors using chemicals has backfired horribly. And NBC News notes: “[Tepco] is considering freezing the ground around the plant. Essentially building a mile-long ice wall underground, something that’s never been tried before to keep the water out. One scientist I spoke to dismissed this idea as grasping at straws, just more evidence that the power company failed to anticipate this problem … and now cannot solve it.”
Letting Tepco remove the fuel rods is like letting a convicted murderer perform delicate brain surgery on a VIP. Top scientists and government officials say that Tepco should be removed from all efforts to stabilize Fukushima. An international team of the smartest engineers and scientists should handle this difficult “surgery”. The stakes are high …
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Typhoon Man-yi hits Japan raising fears about Fukushima nuclear plant By North Asia correspondent Mark Willacy Posted Mon 16 Sep 2013, 1:51pm AEST PHOTO: Nuclear Regulation Authority members inspect contaminated water tanks at the Fukushima nuclear power plant. (AFP: Nuclear regulation authority) MAP: Japan Typhoon Man-yi has hit central Japan as officials issued a "special warning" of heavy rain, amid fears the storm could go on to hit the crippled Fukushima nuclear plant. The typhoon is generating heavy rain and wind gusts of more than 140 kilometres per hour. It is tracking north-east along the main Japanese island of Honshu at a speed of 45 kilometres per hour and was expected to pass over Fukushima this afternoon. TEPCO workers at the plant are battening down the site as the typhoon approaches. They have attached ropes to outdoor piping and pumps, and are using large weights to try to prevent cranes from possibly toppling over. With torrential rains expected this afternoon, there are fears that more contaminated water will seep into the groundwater and flow into the sea. Crews have struggled to contain the nuclear plant after an earthquake and tsunami in 2011 triggered an atomic disaster and led to the contamination of groundwater with radioactive materials. The typhoon had already brought heavy rain and strong winds to the south and east before even hitting Japan. Public broadcaster NHK said a woman in her 70s was missing following a landslide in Shiga prefecture, while at least six people were injured in other areas due to strong wind. The agency issued the highest alert for "possibly unprecedented heavy rain" in Kyoto and its adjacent prefectures, warning residents in danger zones to evacuate to shelters. About 350 domestic flights scheduled for Monday, a public holiday, were cancelled, mainly those departing Tokyo, and train services were also reduced, NHK reported.
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Looks like it faired the wind & waves fairly well GZ. More water to add to the swamp its sitting on now though & it will drain down from the mountiains as well.
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Yikes there's a problem of sorts if you follow this mess day to day. The worker's on the live-camera shots were wearing $5.00 disposable Tyvek suits (which do offer quite a bit of protection):
The post-typhoon news that is starting to trickle in from Fukushima...
Gundersen: Fukushima reactor buildings essentially now sitting in mud — Soil could ‘disappear’ during quake and bring structures down with it; That can result from what Tepco’s doing to groundwater Energy News Sep 17, 2013
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If they build and keep the water in, they risk changing the seismic characteristics of the building, and that’s not a good thing […] something called liquefaction — when you have water and soil together and you shake it just right – the soil essentially disappears, taking buildings with it.
http://www.blacklistednews.com/Typhoon_Forces_Dumping_of_Radioactive_Water_at_Fukushima/28905/0/0/0/Y/M.html Typhoon Forces Dumping of Radioactive Water at Fukushima September 16, 2013 Print Version
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TEPCO officials indicate measures were taken to avoid worse disaster, but it remains unclear how much water was pumped into ocean As Typhoon Man-Yi crashed into Japan on Monday with heavy winds and rain, the owners of the Fukushima nuclear power plant were forced to hurriedly pump rising levels of stored radioactive water into the ocean in order to fend off the threat of a further disaster. Ahead of the storm's landfall, fears were that high winds and rising waters could further destabilize the crippled Fukushima Daiichi plant which sits on the coast northeast of Tokyo. Though the storm battered southern prefectures of the island nation, sparking flash floods and mudslides in Saitama, Fukui, and Kyoto—Fukushima did not take a direct hit as was feared over the weekend. However, as heavy rains continued throughout the day, the water storage areas that blanket the area around the Fukushima plant came under threat. And as Channel NewsAsia reports:
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[TEPCO] workers were pumping out water from areas near tanks storing radioactive water, from which leaks are believed to have seeped into groundwater. "But we decided to release the water into sea as we reached a conclusion that it can be regarded as rainfall after we monitored levels of radiation," TEPCO spokesman Yo Koshimizu said. According to the spokesman, one litre of the water contained up to 24 becquerels of strontium and other radioactive materials -- below the 30 becquerel per litre safety limit imposed by Japanese authorities for a possible release to the environment. However, it was unknown how much water was released to sea under the "emergency measure," Koshimizu said.
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The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s draft EPA “Protective Action Guide” (PAG), posted on its website April 15, allows hundreds to thousands of times more radiation in disasters than the agency had previously allowed. Americans have until Monday, July 15 to comment* even though the EPA made the new PAG effective immediately.
According to EPA’s own data, the new PAGs will result in exponentially higher radiation-induced fatal cancers than the current goal of one in ten thousand to one in a million Americans.
In various exposure scenarios listed in the report, depending on which radionuclide, the resultant cancer rates would claim several out of ten, one in eight, one in six – even as low as one in 1.7.
The EPA PAG’s justification for these astronomically higher numbers is that during a disaster like a nuclear meltdown, a terrorist ‘dirty bomb,’ or a nuclear detonation, all limits currently for radiation exposure in air, water, food and soil are targets for revision.
“These PAGs are basically admitting that contamination levels could be so high from such an event that they may not be able to be cleaned up to existing standards such as the drinking water contamination levels,” says Maryland-based Nuclear Information and Resource Service. “Thus, EPA would permit unacceptably high radiation risks at each of the stages after nuclear disaster without even suggesting any steps to prevent or minimize the potential disasters.”
Depending on the radionuclide, the increased limit eclipse’s EPA’s long-established levels. Those limits were created in the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980 (CERCLA).
Various draft PAG exposure scenarios utilizing the EPA’s own numbers show fatal cancers at levels hundreds to thousands of times higher than with CERCLA at Superfund cleanup sites across the country.
EPA says that their PAG does not affect Superfund sites across the country. But what the PAG does do, albeit in a non-binding advisory fashion, is create vastly loosened limits for domestic nuclear meltdowns and radiation waste accidents including during transportation. “Mobile Chernobyls” as anti-nuclear activists call them, would be exempt from strict radiation limits.
So would any number of private industry nuclear emergencies including pharmaceutical fires. First responders from firefighters to police and National Guard will use the EPA’s PAG extreme radiation limits to gauge the risk to its own personnel. They in turn will use these life-threatening levels to advise the public.
There is more info on this plant somewhere... I lost it.
http://www.fukuleaks.org/web/?p=11422 As We Predicted; Typhoon Causes Landslide At Monju Nuclear Reactor September 16th, 2013 | Add a Comment Groupings of nuclear reactors in Fukui prefecture, Japan are at high risk for landslides. In our research into the risks of the Oi nuclear plant we found that landslides posed a considerable risk to that plant’s ability to operate and respond to a disaster. Tsuruga and Monju nuclear plants have similar terrain. High steep hills with typically one road in and out of the plant create a bottle neck. One landslide blocking that road means no access to the nuclear plant. Protesters were able to exploit this flaw last year and prevented any entry to the Oi nuclear plant. Officials had to send in the needed workers and regulators to restart the plant by boat. That was only possible due to good weather and only involved sending in a handful of personnel. This is what happened at the Monju reactor today. Typhoon #18 that passed over Honshu in the last 24 hours caused a landslide at Monju. Access to the plant has been blocked and the automated reactor data system lost transmission function. Now add such a landslide and blocked access to a nuclear plant with an accident at the plant. Equipment and staff can not enter the plant. Instant disaster. The one road into the Oi nuclear plant Monju reactor terrain
MORE AT LINK: http://www.globalresearch.ca/the-real-fukushima-danger-failure-of-fuel-pools-could-trigger-worldwide-radiation/5349850
The REAL Fukushima Danger: Failure of Fuel Pools Could Trigger Worldwide Nuclear Radiation By Washington's Blog Global Research, September 14, 2013 Washington's Blog Region: Asia Theme: Environment
The fact that the Fukushima reactors have been leaking huge amounts of radioactive water ever since the 2011 earthquake is certainly newsworthy. As are the facts that:
Tepco doesn’t know how to stop the leaks
Scientists have no idea where the cores of the nuclear reactors are
Radiation could hit Korea, China and the West Coast of North America fairly hard
But the real problem is that the idiots who caused this mess are probably about to cause a much bigger problem. Specifically, the greatest short-term threat to humanity is from the fuel pools at Fukushima. If one of the pools collapsed or caught fire, it could have severe adverse impacts not only on Japan … but the rest of the world, including the United States. Indeed, a Senator called it a national security concern for the U.S.:
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The radiation caused by the failure of the spent fuel pools in the event of another earthquake could reach the West Coast within days. That absolutely makes the safe containment and protection of this spent fuel a security issue for the United States.
Nuclear expert Arnie Gundersen and physician Helen Caldicott have both said that people should evacuate the Northern Hemisphere if one of the Fukushima fuel pools collapses. Gundersen said:
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Move south of the equator if that ever happened, I think that’s probably the lesson there.
Former U.N. adviser Akio Matsumura calls removing the radioactive materials from the Fukushima fuel pools “an issue of human survival”. So the stakes in decommissioning the fuel pools are high, indeed.
Published: May 27, 2011. By Springer http://www.springer.com
Ionizing radiation is not without danger to human populations. Indeed, exposure to nuclear radiation leads to an increase in male births relative to female births, according to a new study by Hagen Scherb and Kristina Voigt from the Helmholtz Zentrum München. Their work shows that radiation from atomic bomb testing before the Partial Test Ban Treaty in 1963, the Chernobyl accident, and from living near nuclear facilities, has had a long-term negative effect on the ratio of male to female human births (sex odds). Their work is published in the June issue of Springer's journal, Environmental Science and Pollution Research.
Ionizing radiation from nuclear activity is known to have mutagenic properties and is therefore likely to have detrimental reproductive effects. It is thought that it may cause men to father more sons and mothers to give birth to more girls. Scherb and Voigt look at the long-term effects of radiation exposure on sex odds - a unique genetic indicator that may reveal differences in seemingly normal as well as adverse pregnancy outcomes between maternal exposure and paternal exposure. In particular, they focus on sex odds data with respect to global atmospheric atomic bomb test fallout in Western Europe and the US, fallout due to nuclear accidents in the whole of Europe, and radioactive releases from nuclear facilities under normal operating conditions in Switzerland and Germany.
Their analyses show a significant gender gap in all three cases:
Increases in male births relative to female births in Europe and the US between 1964-1975 are a likely consequence of the globally emitted and dispersed atmospheric atomic bomb test fallout, prior to the test ban in 1963, that affected large human populations overall after a certain delay.
There was a significant jump of sex odds in Europe in the year 1987 following Chernobyl, whereas no such similar effect was seen in the US, which was less exposed to the consequences of the catastrophe.
Among populations living in the proximity of nuclear facilities (within 35km or 22 miles), the sex odds also increased significantly in both Germany and Switzerland during the running periods of those facilities.
Taken together these findings show a long-term, dose-dependent impact of radiation exposure on human sex odds, proving cause and effect. What is less clear is whether this increase in male births relative to female births is the result of a reduced frequency of female births or an increased number of male births. The authors estimate that the deficit of births and the number of stillborn or impaired children after the global releases of ionizing radiation amount to several millions globally.
Scherb and Voigt conclude: "Our results contribute to disproving the established and prevailing belief that radiation-induced hereditary effects have yet to be detected in human populations. We find strong evidence of an enhanced impairment of humankind's genetic pool by artificial ionizing radiation."
Reference Scherb H & Voigt K (2011). The human sex odds at birth after the atmospheric atomic bomb tests, after Chernobyl, and in the vicinity of nuclear facilities. Environmental Science and Pollution Research; DOI 10.1007/s11356-011-0462-z
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Radiation affects much more than that. This video from 2003 will rip your heart out. I saw it about 6 or 7 years ago. It's probably worse over in Russia now than it was then. This is just a sample of what Fukushima could become X10.
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Monju is a breeder reactor. Mostly de-fueled and SUPPOSEDLY in cold shutdown for 2 or 3 years now. The landslides severed the fiber optic line transmitting data from the plant to Tokyo.
Supposedly all's well but they've got a bridge they'd like to sell down the coast.
Fukushima on the other hand is a forgone conclusion. WHEN not IF
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Subject: if the rods get too close to each other, they can still fire up again Wed Sep 18, 2013 9:33 am
ENENews.com – Energy News « BBC: Fukushima plant in “unprecedented crisis” and it’s getting worse, says Japan nuclear official Chairman of Tepco Panel: “Future surprises” are in store at Fukushima plant — Everyone should be prepared for that (VIDEO) » Gundersen: They’ve admitted that all the boron has disintegrated in between spent fuel at Fukushima — It can cause a nuclear chain reaction if rods get too close together in pool (AUDIO)
Published: September 17th, 2013 at 10:06 am ET By ENENews Email Article Email Article 34 comments
Title: Fukushima with Arnie Gundersen Source: KZYX’s Renewable Energy Hour Hosts: Doug Livingston and Jeff Oldham Date: Sept. 9, 2013
At 23:15 in
Arnie Gundersen, Chief Engineer at Fairewinds Energy Education:
Tokyo Electric has admitted that the boron between these fuel cells — there’s a boron wafer in between the fuel to prevent something called an inadvertent criticality, you can have a nuclear chain reaction in the fuel pool, and that’s not a good thing — but they’ve admitted that all the boron has disintegrated.
So the only thing preventing a chain reaction from occurring […] in the fuel racks themselves, is the fact they put all sorts of boron in the water.
But if the rods get too close to each other, they can still fire up again and create a chain reaction in the nuclear fuel pool.
Full broadcast here
Published: September 17th, 2013 at 10:06 am ET By ENENews Email Article Email Article 34 comments
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"They’ve admitted that all the boron has disintegrated in between spent fuel at Fukushima — It can cause a nuclear chain reaction if rods get too close together in pool"
That's why they've been injecting boron into their cooling water for 2 and a half years now.
edit to add: not trying to be sarcastic
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Fukushima : France rushes 95 tonnes of boron to Japan
PARIS, March 17, 2011 (AFP) - France on Thursday will send a plane carrying 95 tonnes of boron, an element that dampens radiation, to help Japan tackle the crisis at the Fukushima power plant, Energy and Industry Minister Eric Besson said. A first plane carrying 95 tonnes of boron was leaving early Thursday, Besson told France 2 television. He did not specify whether the plane was carrying boron, an element that absorbs neutrons, in powder or liquid form. Besson said that France had offered the boron on Saturday, the day after Japan's biggest earthquake on record struck but “either they didn't think it was useful or they didn't have the time to reply.”Japanese military helicopters were on Thursday dumping tonnes of water onto the Fukushima plant in a bid to cover nuclear fuel rods stored in a deep tank. Water levels in the pool have fallen to dangerous levels through evaporation, exposing the fuel rods to the risk of a temperature rise that could cause them to catch fire.
Amazon.com: Joe Glotz’s nuclear radiation detector By Matt On September 18, 2013 · In EMP, Nuclear
What if you slept through a nuclear war? You live a couple of hours from a big city. If all the big cities in the US get obliterated one night, then how would you know? You might wake up at around 6:00AM and notice that nothing worked, but have no clue as to what has happened. Daylight hits and you can see massive amounts of smoke and dust high in the air. Finally, you get a clue that something big has happened. In the mean time, you just got a fatal dose of radiation.
It would help a lot if you had a radiation detector that was also EMP shielded. That’s where NukAlert comes in. This is an inexpensive radiation detector that will let you know if you are in danger from radiation exposure. Also, it can withstand an EMP attack. However, Joe Glotz gave us his review of the NukAlert that causes some concern. See the review below and the response from the manufacturer.
Bought one of these as a gift. The recipient, a physicist, tested it using a number of known sources. Despite the fact that it clicks reassuringly it simply does not alert on sources up to 1 R/hr. Could this be a scam? Users should verify that theirs works before relying on it for protection from nuclear accident…
[Response from NukAlert]
Last edited by the author on Mar 31, 2013 1:10:02 PM PDT Shane M. Connor says:
At higher dangerous levels it responds immediately and at lower levels it takes a couple minutes, as detailed in tech brief on nukalert.com…
“The response time required for the NukAlert™ to begin alarming and achieve its final alarm indication is an inverse function of the radiation intensity. The response is also exponential. For example it may take 1 minute to reach 63% of the final alarm reading, another minute to reach 86%, another minute to reach 95%, etc. In a 1R/hr field the unit should begin chirping in less than 1 minute, and reach the 4 chirp final response level expected of at 1R/hr within 5 minutes. Though this seems like a long time, the user has an indication of the hazard fairly quickly and the total absorbed dose is less than 0.1R. The response is a bit slower with weaker fields and faster with stronger fields. The NukAlert™ is about twice as sensitive to the midrange gamma energies expected in a nuclear fallout situation than it is to low energy X-rays (below 70KVp), or high energy gamma (above 1 MeV). The printed calibration label defines the approximate response to 660 KeV gamma photons from Cesium 137. The unit function may be easily verified by radiation from a dental x-ray machine. Position the unit as if it were a bite wing film and set the machine for a typical molar bite wing exposure.”
Your physicist might need to of only exposed the NukAlert for a little longer at the lower intensities to have seen it perform as advertised.
Disclosure; We are the manufacturer of the NukAlert.
You can buy it here if interested: Amazon.com: NukAlert™ nuclear radiation detector / monitor (keychain attachable) alarm: Sports & Outdoors
Amazon.com: Joe Glotz’s review of NukAlert™ nuclear radiation detector …
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Everything I pray you never need can be found here:
http://www.ki4u.com/products1.php
They're stuff seems pretty good quality wise. I have a friend who is a radiologist who did a bit of testing and assures me its decent stuff. Stickers and triage card work very well. (progressively darkened while left in/near the radiography machine)
Everything's fine sir, won't hurt a bit, lay down right here while I leave the room to get behind the lead wall with the doctor.
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May also be a good time to stock up on Potassium Iodide, we are buying a decent amount and sending to family...they may think we all crazy now, but if it all goes down they'll be glad to have it.
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Exhibiting signs of structural failure numerous places. Crane failure, fractures appearing in steel cross member bracings, workers reporting severe foundation cracking, radiation rapidly increasing, and the steam rate is increasing meaning more solid cooled fuel converting to molten corium and escaping the building. I'm worried another large blob of corium will make it just below the foundation, overheat, cause a 'corium quake' and the whole site will suffer liquefaction.
Its about time to start poking this turkey with the thermometer because its almost cooked.
I wonder what the world's reaction will be because everyone else knows good and well Japan, as well as the US is ignoring the situation. Those are GE reactors mind you. Instead of flying 100 reactor certified scientists/operators to assist they FLEW IN 100 LAWYERS to Tokyo.
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May also be a good time to stock up on Potassium Iodide, we are buying a decent amount and sending to family...they may think we all crazy now, but if it all goes down they'll be glad to have it.
"Japanese authorities ignored US calls to contain contaminated water at the stricken Fukushima power plant in 2008, officials told media. The revelation comes as the Japanese battle to stem radioactive water leaks flooding into the sea from the facility."
Notice anything? I've asked for clarification. I'll post if/when I receive it. The site has had some serious historical issues, but nothing that would precipitate slipping something like THAT in the discussion.
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Here are some easy reading points listed in previously linked articles:
#1 :Mix 2 cups of Epsom salt, 1 cup of sea salt (not regular salt) , 1 cup baking soda and 1 cup of sesame oil , & 2 tablespoons of ginger with hot water in standard bathtub. Soak for 20 minutes and pat dry
An antioxidant compound called anthocyanin, found in wild blueberries, is shown to protect against radiation damage and slow down cellular aging
selenium, Siberian Ginseng, and medicinal mushrooms
For radiation protection via antioxidants, take vitamins A, C, E, and the trace mineral selenium. Vitamin E and selenium work synergistically to protect cells against radiation by increasing levels of glutathione, glutathione peroxidase, and catalase
Cat’s Claw (Uncaria tomentosa)
Quercetin, a flavonoid found in onions and citrus, which is a powerful antioxidant with DNA protective effects(Quercetin also found in many sports supplements. Lance Armstrong once claimed it was nearly as good as steroids & he should know)
Green tea polyphenols and resveratrol
chlorella
Fruit and vegetable juices are the cleansers, energizers, builders, and regenerators of the human system,” they say. Try a combination of kale, spinach, carrot, cucumber and a bit or ginger and parsley.
Exercise: It gets the heart pumping, which circulates blood, moving toxins out of the body. It also encourages perspiration, which decreases toxins, and makes you thirsty, so you’ll drink more water.
Contrast Therapy Shower: Dr. Nancy Steely, a licensed Naturopathic Physician, recommends this shower to increase circulation and detoxify the body: Take a hot shower for 1-2 minutes, then turn the hot water down (or off) and stand under the cold water for 10-20 seconds. Follow this with 1-2 minutes of hot water, then another 10-20 seconds of cold water. Repeat once more, ending with cold water, and step out and dry vigorously.
supplements:
http://www.iherb.com/p/19197
http://www.iherb.com/p/29330
Products obtainable via Steve Quayle's linked partner or whatever the appropriate term:
http://www.purestcolloids.com/mesoiridium.php
http://www.purestcolloids.com/mesozinc.php
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Twenty some nm from the plant. It was audible and visible on the cameras.
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Subject: Warnings the worst is yet to come at Fukushima — Deep underneath nuclear plant a massive pool of contamination is believed to be heading toward Pacific Ocean Fri Sep 20, 2013 10:14 am
TV: Warnings the worst is yet to come at Fukushima — Deep underneath nuclear plant a massive pool of contamination is believed to be heading toward Pacific Ocean (VIDEO)
Published: September 20th, 2013 at 9:09 am ET By ENENews
MARK WILLACY, REPORTER: Atsunao Marui is one of Japan’s top groundwater scientists and a member of a panel set up by TEPCO and the Government to try to find ways of managing Fukushima’s growing reservoir of radioactive water. He says putting the nuclear plant on this stretch of coast in the first place was inviting disaster.
ATSUNAO MARUI, GROUNDWATER SCIENTIST(voiceover translation): A river used to flow right where the turbine and reactor buildings are now standing, so the groundwater is flowing very fast through there and it’s spreading the contamination. The company should have known this could happen.
WILLACY: But there are warnings the worst is yet to come because it’s believed that deep beneath the nuclear plant is a massive underground pool of contaminated water which is slowly making its way towards the sea.
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Rose jogged my memory that we'd never discussed this in the Fukushima thread.
Bq, or the measure of radiation is short for Becquerel; allegedly named after Antoine Becquerel (later chose to go by Henri). Howard Stanton Levey, a very bad man and founder of the 'church' of satan, CHOSE the name Anton/Antoine when he renamed himself. Its funny how both 'satanists' and musloids rename themselves after finding satan. Its also ironic that the autocorrect just capitalized 'satanist' until I inserted the ' '.
Anyway, according to Enoch the 9th Watcher, who taught the stars, was named Baraqel.
Bq is much like 'nuclear'. For whatever reason nuke-you-luhrr rolls off the tongue easily, nuke-lee-uhrr does not. Bq is the same way, its more often pronounced bear-uh-kel than beck-uhrr-L.
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1. To confuse and hide data from men such as yourself and many others. You have an established reputation and knowledge base. Change the data and benchmarks and people like you are much less likely to spend the time and energy to wrap your arms around what's transpiring. The half-life of this $tuff is basically forever in biological terms so you'll run out of energy LONG before it will.
2. To pay homage to the aforementioned 'watcher' in exchange for the tech (knowledge). Tit for Tat.
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I'm still dealing with Roentgens. Don't even understand why they had to go and change it anyway. Roentgens always worked just fine.
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Subject: Re: Fukushima - epa change forthcoming Sat Sep 21, 2013 8:10 am
WOWSERS. While we were sleeping....
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Subject: Humankind’s Most Dangerous Moment: Fukushima Fuel Pool at Unit 4. “This is an Issue of Human Survival.” Mon Sep 23, 2013 11:26 am
Humankind’s Most Dangerous Moment: Fukushima Fuel Pool at Unit 4. “This is an Issue of Human Survival.”
The world community must now take charge at Fukushima By Harvey Wasserman Global Research, September 20, 2013
We are now within two months of what may be humankind’s most dangerous moment since the Cuban Missile Crisis.
There is no excuse for not acting. All the resources our species can muster must be focussed on the fuel pool at Fukushima Unit 4.
Fukushima’s owner, Tokyo Electric (Tepco), says that within as few as 60 days it may begin trying to remove more than 1300 spent fuel rods from a badly damaged pool perched 100 feet in the air. The pool rests on a badly damaged building that is tilting, sinking and could easily come down in the next earthquake, if not on its own.
Some 400 tons of fuel in that pool could spew out more than 15,000 times as much radiation as was released at Hiroshima.
The one thing certain about this crisis is that Tepco does not have the scientific, engineering or financial resources to handle it. Nor does the Japanese government. The situation demands a coordinated worldwide effort of the best scientists and engineers our species can muster.
Why is this so serious?
We already know that thousands of tons of heavily contaminated water are pouring through the Fukushima site, carrying a devil’s brew of long-lived poisonous isotopes into the Pacific. Tuna irradiated with fallout traceable to Fukushima have already been caught off the coast of California. We can expect far worse.
Tepco continues to pour more water onto the proximate site of three melted reactor cores it must somehow keep cool.Steam plumes indicate fission may still be going on somewhere underground. But nobody knows exactly where those cores actually are.
Much of that irradiated water now sits in roughly a thousand huge but fragile tanks that have been quickly assembled and strewn around the site. Many are already leaking. All could shatter in the next earthquake, releasing thousands of tons of permanent poisons into the Pacific.
The water flowing through the site is also undermining the remnant structures at Fukushima, including the one supporting the fuel pool at Unit Four.
More than 6,000 fuel assemblies now sit in a common pool just 50 meters from Unit Four. Some contain plutonium. The pool has no containment over it. It’s vulnerable to loss of coolant, the collapse of a nearby building, another earthquake, another tsunami and more.
Overall, more than 11,000 fuel assemblies are scattered around the Fukushima site. According to long-time expert and former Department of Energy official Robert Alvarez, there is more than 85 times as much lethal cesium on site as was released at Chernobyl.
Radioactive hot spots continue to be found around Japan. There are indications of heightened rates of thyroid damage among local children.
The immediate bottom line is that those fuel rods must somehow come safely out of the Unit Four fuel pool as soon as possible.
Just prior to the 3/11/11 earthquake and tsunami that shattered the Fukushima site, the core of Unit Four was removed for routine maintenance and refueling. Like some two dozen reactors in the US and too many more around the world, the General Electric-designed pool into which that core now sits is 100 feet in the air.
Spent fuel must somehow be kept under water. It’s clad in zirconium alloy which will spontaneously ignite when exposed to air. Long used in flash bulbs for cameras, zirconium burns with an extremely bright hot flame.
Each uncovered rod emits enough radiation to kill someone standing nearby in a matter of minutes. A conflagration could force all personnel to flee the site and render electronic machinery unworkable.
According to Arnie Gundersen, a nuclear engineer with forty years in an industry for which he once manufactured fuel rods, the ones in the Unit 4 core are bent, damaged and embrittled to the point of crumbling. Cameras have shown troubling quantities of debris in the fuel pool, which itself is damaged.
The engineering and scientific barriers to emptying the Unit Four fuel pool are unique and daunting, says Gundersen. But it must be done to 100% perfection.
Should the attempt fail, the rods could be exposed to air and catch fire, releasing horrific quantities of radiation into the atmosphere. The pool could come crashing to the ground, dumping the rods together into a pile that could fission and possibly explode. The resulting radioactive cloud would threaten the health and safety of all us.
Chernobyl’s first 1986 fallout reached California within ten days. Fukushima’s in 2011 arrived in less than a week. A new fuel fire at Unit 4 would pour out a continuous stream of lethal radioactive poisons for centuries.
Former Ambassador Mitsuhei Murata says full-scale releases from Fukushima “would destroy the world environment and our civilization. This is not rocket science, nor does it connect to the pugilistic debate over nuclear power plants. This is an issue of human survival.”
Neither Tokyo Electric nor the government of Japan can go this alone. There is no excuse for deploying anything less than a coordinated team of the planet’s best scientists and engineers.
We have two months or less to act.
For now, we are petitioning the United Nations and President Obama to mobilize the global scientific and engineering community to take charge at Fukushima and the job of moving these fuel rods to safety.
You can sign the petition at: http://www.nukefree.org/crisis-fukushima-4-petition-un-us-global-response
If you have a better idea, please follow it. But do something and do it now.
The clock is ticking. The hand of global nuclear disaster is painfully close to midnight.Harvey Wasserman is Senior Editor of the Columbus Free Press and Free Press. He edits Nuke Free.
For now, we are petitioning the United Nations and President Obama to mobilize the global scientific and engineering community to take charge at Fukushima and the job of moving these fuel rods to safety.
Subject: Re: Fukushima - epa change forthcoming 
Fri Sep 06, 2013 3:37 pm
PHOTO: Nuclear Regulation Authority members inspect contaminated water tanks at the Fukushima nuclear power plant. (AFP: Nuclear regulation authority)
As Typhoon Man-Yi crashed into Japan on Monday with heavy winds and rain, the owners of the Fukushima nuclear power plant were forced to hurriedly pump rising levels of stored radioactive water into the ocean in order to fend off the threat of a further disaster.
