Tepco says conditons in units 2, 3 likely as bad as unit 1. Radiation in Unit 1 at 1 Sv/Hr in second floor. Reactor likely breached in several places. Cooling in unit 1 "Impossible"
(You keep me hanging by)
Hanging by a thread
(You keep me hanging by)
Leaving me for dead
(You keep me hanging by)
I heard it when you said
(You keep me hanging by)
Keep him hanging by a thread
keep on reading to learn things from the guy who was banned from the
Japan Nuclear Liveblog for daring to have independent opinions.
I have been publishing heavily on this topic and was invited to be an editor
for that group, and then one day after publishing an independent diary
i was banned from the group without explanation. Don't trust the JN Liveblog
group to tell you the truth in a timely manner.
oh and while i'm here, I should say there have been some awesome diarists on this subject (FOYI has done a good job, Fishoutofwater, Joieau,adept2u). There have also
been some amazing clowns.
When I was a child, I watched this movie on late night TV. It was a wonderful
and there was this great scene where they are tapping a pressure gauge, and all of a sudden it pegs to the top.
well I thought of that scene when I read about the Fukushima reactor gauges were
recalibrated and they realized the water level in Unit 1 was dramatically lower
then they had thought, maybe it was even zero.
well it turned out the the water level couldn't be zero, because the bottom couple meters
appear to be full of molten fuel rods and assembly racks.
That level would be higher except it appears the corium has eaten some holesin the bottom of reactor and is leaking out.
Tokyo Electric Power Co., the operator of the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, revealed Thursday that holes had been created by melted nuclear fuel at the bottom of the No. 1 reactor's pressure vessel.
The company said it has found multiple holes adding up to several centimeters in welded piping.
now the Nukebaggers have spent weeks denying that the Reactors had melted fuel, that there were leaks in the reactors or that containment was breached.
It's quite amusing watching them now come up with contortions on how TEPCO must be wrong and things must be much better then TEPCO says.
It's kind of sad to watch cultists deal with the death of their God.
I seem to recall one of the more severe cultists kbman argue that the reactors couldn't be breached After all the radiation levels weren't very high and the reactor levels were still holding.
oh well, speaking of radiation levels.
http://mainichi.jp/...
Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry on July 11 on the second floor of Unit 1 nuclear reactor Hukushima first TEPCO announced that it has measured high levels of radioactive material exceeding 1000 mSv per hour.
I can't wait till the NeoNukers explain that that isn't high radiation.
Oh and BTW, that wasn't 1 Sv, it was offscale.
well, racs 2 and 3 are likely in the same shape. I'm wondering why TEPCO
stopped the denial game. I wonder if the workers started complaining, or if
they just gave up??
http://ex-skf.blogspot.com/...
About the water gauges for the Reactors 2 and 3:
"They are probably in the same condition as that of the Reactor 1. The numbers the gauges are currently showing are not very trustworthy. We need to monitor carefully with other parameters like pressure."
Weak points in the RPV and Containment Vessel:
"The RPV has more than 100 small pipes running through the bottom. Any one of them could have been damaged. We cannot completely deny that the [melted] fuel itself damaged the RPV. The Containment Vessel also has pipes, and it is possible that they got damaged when the pressure rose or when there was a hydrogen explosion."
To confirm, TEPCO does not deny that the fuels have all melted and went down?
"We don't deny that. How much of the fuels have melted we cannot say for certain, but our understanding is that they melted, and didn't retain the original shapes, and moved downward."
"We don't deny that part of the melted fuels may have damaged the RPV and escaped the RPV."
well the radiation levels inside unit 3 appear to be rising.
http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/...
According to plant operator Tokyo Electric Power Co., the remote-controlled PackBot robot on Tuesday found radiation levels in the northwestern section of the building of 49 to 120 millisieverts per hour, which would pose a threat to human workers.
Time must be spent, therefore, removing or sealing up the radiation-contaminated debris in the building, before TEPCO starts work to stabilize the damaged reactors.
When similar measurements were conducted around doors in the southern section of the building on April 17, the radiation levels were 28 to 57 millisieverts per hour.
well don't worry, it's still stable....
As the temperature in the pressure vessel remains stable at 100 C to 120 C, the situation is unlikely to get worse, TEPCO said.
now the plus side about these radiation levels is nobody is going to mind about this.
http://ex-skf.blogspot.com/...
According to Asahi Shinbun (in Japanese; 1:25AM JST 5/10/2011), TEPCO has started to mix "hydrazine" (N2H4) with the water that is being poured into the Spent Fuel Pools in Reactors 3 and 4 at Fukushima I Nuke Plant.
Toxic, nerve poisoning, mean stuff. But who is going to notice in this environment.
Apparently it's a corrosion control measure for sealed systems, but when the system is this busted, I doubt it will help.
but TEPCO has brought back the mummy and even has a picture. It's not as good as but it's almost as good.
thats because cooling Rac 1 is IMPOSSIBLE
http://enenews.com/...
“A meltdown of the fuel makes cooling very difficult,” says nuclear expert Nobuyuki Mizuno.
When a japanese says difficult they mean impossible....
gunderson has a good take on this weeks events.
But nuclear expert Arnie Gundersen says that the containment vessels for reactors 1, 2 and 3 are all leaking.
However, Gundersen points out, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission assumes that containment vessels cannot leak and there is a "zero probability of containment leakage". U.S.. nuclear laws are based around that obviously false assumption.
h/t zero hedge for the above.
http://www.tepco.co.jp/...
this link has proof of recriticality. On May 2, the Iodine level was below measurement and then a week later it's up 11000 Bcq....
US Pressure leads to preemptive closure of Hamoaka Nuke Plant.
http://ex-skf.blogspot.com/...
Shigeharu Aoyama, former journalist and a current member of Japan's Nuclear Safety Commission who went in and took the ground-level video of Fukushima I Nuke Plant on April 22 and caused consternation at Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency, appeared on Asahi TV on the morning of May 8 (Japan Time) and revealed that Prime Minister Naoto Kan requested that Chubu Electric Power Company shut down Hamaoka Nuke Plant because of a strong pressure from the United States since early April.
So much for Kan's words, that he was requesting the shutdown for the "safety and security of the Japanese citizens". (See my previous post on Hamaoka.)
The interest of the US, alleges Aoyama, is the safety of its base in Yokosuka, home to the US 7th Fleet, which is downwind from Hamaoka.
now watch the Obama White House Totally trash vermont for refusing to extend the license of Vermont Yankee.
Oh and the Japanese are dumping Nuclear power, 70% of their reactors are offline
and may not be back on for a long time
http://www.jaif.or.jp/...
●35 Japanese reactors are soon to be out of line
Japan is shutting down so many nuclear reactors because of the earthquake and
other reasons that only about a third of its 54 reactors will be operating by late
May.
The earthquake and tsunami on March 11th has led to the suspension of
operations at 14 reactors, including those at the crippled Fukushima Daiichi plant.
19 other reactors are currently offline. They are currently undergoing regular
inspections or plan to be inspected soon.
Later this week Chubu Electric Power Company will shut down 2 of its reactors
at the Hamaoka plant. The move follows a government request to do so, due to
concerns about the plant's earthquake readiness.
All told, 35, or about two-thirds, of Japan's commercial reactors will have been
shut down by the end of May.
During the next few months, 5 more reactors will have to be shut down ahead o
http://www.jaif.or.jp/...
Jaif did something interesting here. They've published a letter from an evacuee.
He sounds pissed.
5. Personalities of nuclear people are challenged
Nobody of nuclear community is visible; those of electric power companies, nuclear
vendors, research institutes and government agencies controlling nuclear powers. Under the
pretext of concentrating on terminating the accidents, they don’t show up before the local
nuclear refugees, they don’t supply visible supports to the refugees. It is not a good thing at all
for the nuclear community. To the local people, nuclear people might look extremely
cold-hearted It should be not too late to take visible actions even one month after the
accidents. There may be some individuals or organizations who collects donations or
contribute supporting materials, but not visible.
Jaif has a pretty amazing falout map here
http://www.jaif.or.jp/...
i'ts 2 weeks old, let's see what's going on in a this weeks "Disaster at Daichi".
http://www.gengikyo.jp/...
Oh look they've updated the Unit 1 Reactor Water level. What does it say?
"Beneath the scale".... Um, Is that the sound of "Sullivanst"s heart breaking?