A is for Atom, A is for Atom, Meltdown foretold in 1964,What the radiation means, Gunderson on the implications for operating reactors, Reactor 1 went into total meltdown in 225 minutes, ECCS failed within 10 minutes before Tsunami, Japanese Diet "Pressure to hold back data", Protesters storm Education Ministry, Japanese release Iodine 131 deposit maps of Honshu. Who says kids need thyroid Glands? Gamma photos of Unit 3. Radioactive Sewage in Tokyo. Lethal Radiation outside Reactor 3, Asian PMs "Eat" Radioactive food of Fukushima.
Japanese Professor "No known strategy to solve crisis", Japanese reactor falls apart when shutdown. Mutant Bunny, Radiation spikes at Unit 1
I study nuclear science
I love my classes
I got a crazy teacher, he wears dark glasses
Things are going great, and they're only getting better
I'm doing all right, getting good grades
The future's so bright, I gotta wear shades
I've got a job waiting for my graduation
Fifty thou a year -- buys a lot of beer
Things are going great, and they're only getting better
I'm doing all right, getting good grades
The future's so bright, I gotta wear shades
Well I'm heavenly blessed and worldly wise
I'm a peeping-tom techie with x-ray eyes
Things are going great, and they're only getting better
I'm doing all right, getting good grades
The future's so bright, I gotta wear shades
I study nuclear science
I love my classes
I got a crazy teacher, he wears dark glasses
Things are going great, and they're only getting better
I'm doing all right, getting good grades
The future's so bright, I gotta wear shades
I gotta wear shades, I gotta wear shades
Blowin' up the lab,
Blowin' the professor,
Torn between two evils,
I always pick the lesser.
GE Propganda, with out comment.
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I can't make this embed but seriuosly follow the link above
and watch the movie......
And in 1971 the Atomic Energy Commission did a series of tests of Emergency Core Cooling systems. Accidents were simulated. In each case the emergency systems worked - but the water failed to fill the core. Often being forced out under pressure.
"We discovered that our theoretical calculations didn't have a strong correlation with reality. But we just couldn't admit to the public that all these safety systems we told you about might not do any good"
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Scientists say that something the size of a submarine could actually reliably hold in the worst possible disaster, but once scaled up to the size of Fukushima, if they could not be kept full of water, the fuel would melt, and eat through the container resulting in the original “China Syndrome”. Of course people neglect that the real bad thing that happens when it melts down is that it produces all sorts of nasty fission products that contaminate rainwater, fish, seaweek, milk and vegetables all over the local region and detectable all over the freaking planet. Nobody had seen buildings reduced to skeletons of rubble by mere hydrogen explosions, or figured on the possibility of prompt critical explosion which seem a better explanation of the unit 3 wreckage. Scientists work off a blackboard, but these BWRs were designed long before computers allowed detailed simulations, and even they can’t predict things like somebody using a candle that burned up all of the electrical connections at one plant.
This guy has all the interpretation of the Unit 3 pictures here I don’t agree with everything he says, but he has some good insights, and certainly more information than TEPCO who just said the roof was blown off. Hell, nearly half the service floor was freakingly blown away and collapsed and guts spilled out of the northwest corner. He’s sure that some sort of explosion has blown away not only the concrete manhole covers, but also the yellow cap, and the metal pressure cooker cap, which means the whole dang melted pot of fuel is OPEN TO THE !$#@% AIR. Somebody just sent me a comment that he thinks he can recogize the big yellow doorknob shape of the cap against the rubble on the nw side, I can see something yellow from a closer shot, but somebody on site could certainly take a closer look
if you look at the Houseoffoust links, i think we see shattered fuel assemblies.
http://www.houseoffoust.com/...
these are some very cool anlysis of the Reactor 3.
http://www.falloutphilippines.blogspot.com/
For Gamma, the device detects x-rays down to 10 keV through end window, or 40 keV through case. Calibration is 1000 CPM = 1 mR Cs-137 per hour (indicated in the picture above). So for example, if we were measuring cpm with this particular unit, we will be able to establish a range of absorbed dose readings based on what was mentioned in the article. Most geiger counters are calibrated similarly, thus these people are receiving:
1500 cpm = 1.5 milliREM per hour. That is 15 microSv/hr, or 131 milliSv/year.
10,000 cpm = 10 milliREM per hour. That equals 100 microSv/hr, or 876 milliSv/year.
Some of these people will break 1 Sievert a year if readings are calculated from just part of the body and/or do not take all isotopes into account.
How's that "nobody has exceeded 250 milliSievert" claim doing, Tepco? Many of these guys most assuredly have, or will exceed that dose very soon now.
http://falloutphilippines.blogspot.com/...
About half the residents living in parts of Fukushima Prefecture where an evacuation order is in place have still not left one week before the government-set deadline runs out.
The Implications of the Fukushima Accident on the World's Operating Reactors from Fairewinds Associates on Vimeo.
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he emergency core cooling system (ECCS) fails;
50 minutes later: reactor core starts to melt;
1 hour 20 minutes later: control rods and other pipes inside the RPV start to melt;
3 hours 20 minutes later: most of the melted jumble ("corium") drops to the bottom of RPV;
4 hours 20 minutes later: temperature at the bottom of the RPV reaches 1,642 degrees Celsius, damaging the RPV stainless steel lining [melting point of stainless steel is 1,510 degrees Celsius].
It is not clear from the TEPCO's log on the day exactly when the emergency core cooling system failed. After the earthquake on March 11 at 2:46PM JST, the ECCS for the Reactor 1 started to operate at 2:52PM JST, but failed only after 10 minutes. And that was before the tsunami arrived at about 3:30PM JST. Attempts were made to restart the ECCS until 1:48AM JST on March 12, when the pump that feeds water to the ECCS broke. (From the summary at Yomiuri Shinbun, 5/16/2011.)
So the IAEA knew the meltdown had happened and sat on this.
So all those Obnoxious shills screaming about how IAEA didn't say anything
and therefore Nathguy was some Scumbag well, that makes you just
partners in a conspiracy.
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In the testimony in the Japan's Upper House Government Oversight Committee, Hiroaki Koide of Kyoto University said there was an outside pressure on him and his colleagues not to release the survey data including the radiation data on March 15.
He talks straight.
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angry and concerned parents and citizens are swarming the Ministry of Education and demand that the government withdraw the 20 millisievert/year radiation (external only) limit for children. The Minister is hiding.
They are holding a meeting outside the Ministry. Each time some punk of a bureaucrat utters something, he is being shouted down by angry protesters, demanding the Ministry retract 20 millisievert/year.
"Why can't you understand? What can't you understand?" they are shouting at the bureaucrat.
I said japanese society is breaking down, and we are seeing it.
Public demonstrations, besieging the minister,,,,
http://www.mext.go.jp/...
The WSpeedi data is out.... So why do kids in Chiba need throids, anyways.
http://www.tepco.co.jp/...
very cool Gamma pics of the reactor guts...
http://ex-skf.blogspot.com/...
According to the Tokyo Metropolitan government, 170,000 becquerels per kilogram radiation was detected in the sewage slag sample taken on March 25 at Tobu Sludge Plant, a sewage treatment facility in Koto-ku. The samples taken at two additional facilities also showed radiation over 100,000 becquerels per kilogram. The slag has already been recycled into cement and other construction materials.
so, this can be declared utterly safe.
Just ask the Shills and angry types here. http://www.dailykos.com/...
http://www.tepco.co.jp/...
this is the contamination map at the reactors....
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Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao and Korean President Lee Myung-bak had to go along with Kan, visit Fukushima, and do the obligatory "It's so delicious it is safe" performance by eating cherries and cucumbers grown in Fukushima to counter "baseless rumors" that the food may be contaminated with radioactive materials. (Radiation is a rumor, and safety is a religion in Japan among TPTB, in case you haven't noticed.)
I kind of doubt they actually ate local produce.
It's just Kabuki.
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drogen explosion inside the reactor caused by the melted fuel seems to have been avoided.
I believe the Reactor Pressure Vessel has a large hole, not the small holes that TEPCO says.
TEPCO cites the pressure and the temperature data as the reasons to believe the melted fuel still stays inside the RPV. However, I wonder if the pressure and the temperature data of the Reactor 1 is accurate. After all, the data on the water level was completely wrong.
That much water has leaked (4,000 tons in the reactor building basement) and yet TEPCO says there's still pressure inside the RPV. It is impossible, given the structure of the reactor.
There is no definite data as to whether there is any water in the Containment Vessel. Considering the reactor building basement is flooded with water, I think it is possible that the melted fuel already damaged the Containment Vessel.
Outside the Containment Vessel, what's left as containment is the concrete foundation of the building.
In order to have a reactor in "cold shutdown", you need to have the RPV intact so that the cooling water can circulate. No point in talking about cold shutdown when we don't even know whether the fuel is still inside the reactor.
We're in the uncharted territory that we enter for the first time ever since the human race started to use nuclear power.
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Chubu Electric Power Company released the one-page announcement (in Japanese) with colorful diagrams and photos of the condenser unit of its Reactor 5, where 500 tons of seawater entered the Reactor Pressure Vessel the other day when the reactor was being shut down.
"Multiple" small-diameter (3 centimeters) pipes out of "about 21,000" that carry seawater to cool the steam that drives the turbine broke, probably having been hit by the end cap of the 20-centimeter diameter pipe for recirculating the water.
mutant bunny
http://enenews.com/...
radiation spikes at Unit 1. 200 Sv/hr. that's lethal in 2 minutes or so.
Take me to that fantasyland, where everyone is perfect,
Take me to that fantasyland, where no one else can hurt me
Take me to that fantasyland, where we can end this journey,
Where we can end this journey.
Take me to that fantasyland, where everyone is whole,
Take me to that fantasyland, where everyone is full
Take me to that fantasyland, where they are in control,
Where they are in control.
Can we build it up just to burn it down,
Cover up and put it in the ground
Let us build it up and let us burn it down,
Cover up and put it in the ground
Watch us build it up and watch us burn it down
Cover up and put it in the ground
We will build it up and we will burn it down
Cover up and leave it in the ground.