[Note: Added the Caldicott video at the end]
Last week i wrote and said a restart of fission reactions in Unit 4 spent pool meant this event should be properly classified as a level 8 Event. Various pedantic drones went on that this was impossible because INES only went to 7.
http://en.wikipedia.org/...
The scale is intended to be logarithmic, similar to the moment magnitude scale that is used to describe the comparative magnitude of earthquakes. Each increasing level represents an accident approximately ten times more severe than the previous level. Compared to earthquakes, where the event intensity can be quantitatively evaluated, the level of severity of a man-made disaster, such as a nuclear accident, is more subject to interpretation. Because of the difficulty of interpreting, the INES level of an incident is assigned well after the incident occurs. Therefore, the scale has a very limited ability to assist in disaster-aid deployment.
So please, pedantic types, hold your tongues. When this is all over, if we survive,
it may well be a level 9 or 10 incident...The Scales will add levels to add Nation killing
or planetary magnitude. I just hope that it doesn't go to Level 11.
Now on to the Details..
ZeroHedge Reported out the latest...
1) TEPCO after 37 days found a Helicopter drone and got detailed imagery
of units 3 and 4 up on the web.
I guess it took this long because the Drone Operators had all gone Galt.
now here is a cartoon of what we are seeing..
Now whats the first thing we see in this video....
Remember those lines we were told that Unit 4 had burned?
http://www.businessweek.com/...
/radiation-at-japanese-nuclear-power-plant-recedes-after-blast.html
Japan informed the International Atomic Energy Agency about the explosion at the No. 2 reactor and reported a fire at the No. 4 unit’s spent fuel pond that released radioactivity directly into the atmosphere, the IAEA said in a statement. “The Japanese authorities are saying that there is a possibility that the fire was caused by a hydrogen explosion,” the agency said.
I see no fire just blast damage..
Then that big hole at the very beginning?
and at ten seconds the brief look at the holes on the left side? Looks like that's one whole pool shattered.
Without a good medium scale photo I can't tell, but it looks like a blast right into one of the cooling ponds.
see the things that look like Angel Hair Pasta, or spaghetti?
I suspect those are fuel rods.
Look for Rebar, the Conduit, then the finer looking all twisty stuff. Not a lot, but,
oh boy.
See the Orange Dome, that's the Reactor cap that was pulled off and
sitting on a containment cap that is on the fueling floor. That should give you a sense of where the fuel deck is,
and all the damage below that? Is damage to the fuel pools, the
secondary containment, and probably primary.
They focus in i think to get a look at the fueling deck, and try to decide if that is going to collapse.
Now Given Pool 4 had a hydrogen explosion, and it tore all that up, Racs 1,2 and 3
are just as bad.
So for all the Apologists who sat there and ranted that there is no way the
Containment was breached, well, Take a look at Reality.
it appears to me that one half of the fuel pool in rac 4 is breached and
the other half is holding some water and steaming.
Here is a brief flyover of Reactor 3 also. The Pools look completely jammed with
debris.
Notice the size of the gas pipes in the alley? Everything at a reactor is big.
So it's not a thing you can just McGyver up.
See all the Debris in the alley between the buildings? That's how you normally get around. You can't get repair teams in until all that is cleaned up.
I can't tell if the small buildings you see in the second shot are support gear or the control rooms. If they are control rooms, they are buried in radioactive debris.
now according to IDG news service
sorry, one truck and one excavator to clean up all that debris?
I don't think you can clean all that up with less that 100 trucks...
and running under remote control it's all slow speed, laggy, behaviour.
Now in the rats fleeing the ship news...
http://news.yahoo.com/...
TOKYO (Reuters) – A Morgan Stanley property fund failed to make $3.3 billion in debt payments by a deadline on Friday, handing over the keys to a central Tokyo office building to Blackstone (BX.N) and other investors, the largest repayment failure of its kind in Japan.
The $4.2 billion MSREF V real estate fund missed its April 15 deadline to repay 278 billion yen($3.3 billion) worth of debt packaged in commercial mortgage-backed securities on the 32-storey Shinagawa Grand Central Tower, a property which has seen its value plunge, two people involved in the transaction said.
This is the largest repayment failure of debt packaged in CMBS in Japan, according to analysts and industry experts, bigger than the 112 billion yen that real estate investor K.K. daVinci Holdings failed to pay on the Pacific Century Place office building.
MSREF V bought the Shinagawa property for 140 billion yen in 2004 from Mitsubishi Corp (8058.T) and Mitsubishi Motors (7211.T). The building now houses Microsoft's Japan offices among other tenants.
Morgan Stanley repackaged the loans into 125 billion yen worth of CMBS in 2005, according to a website for Morgan Stanley.
Taking advantage of a run-up in property prices, MSREF V refinanced its debt on the Shinagawa property in 2007 with new debt worth 278 billion yen, twice the value of its purchase and likely yielding a tidy profit for the fund.
The refinanced debt was sold in six different tranches by Morgan Stanley to investors.
http://www.nuc.berkeley.edu/...
The above link is to the UCB milk monitoring project. Yes the levels are low, but the trend is not in the good direction.
http://enenews.com/...
The Korea Institute of Nuclear Safety (KINS) said radioactive iodine and cesium were found in rainwater collected in the early morning at a checkpoint on the island. The concentration level of iodine-131 was 2.02 becquerels per liter (Bq/l), that of cesium-137, 0.538 Bq/l, and that of cesium-134, 0.333 Bq/l. …
Following the news that minuscule radioactive substances were detected on Jeju, people in all parts of the country carried umbrellas to work or school even though the rainfall was light.
Parents had their children not only use umbrellas but also wear raincoats, rubber boots and even masks. Some of them gave their children a ride to school, with streets near schools congested.
In Gyeonggi Province, about 130 pre-, elementary and middle schools were closed after the regional educational office allowed school heads to close them if they deemed it necessary. More than 40 others shortened school hours. …
what was the radiation levels in Berkeley a week earlier?
odine-131 level in rainwater sample taken on the roof of Etcheverry Hall on UC Berkeley campus, March 23, 2011 from 9:06-18:00 PDT
20.1 Becquerel per liter (Bq/L)
Um,,,,,, I have no words.
http://enenews.com/...
RADIATION levels around Japan’s stricken nuclear plant soared after another earthquake jolted the country yesterday.
Engineers fear the 5.9 quake may have caused fresh leaks at Fukushima Dai-ichi…
Levels of radioactivity rose sharply in seawater near the plant. It happened shortly after the Tokyo Electric Power Company had beefed up safety systems. …
Okay, 5.9 quakes are shaking high level radiation out of the plants, that's just bad.
It says to me the plants are now in a declining mechanical condition.
Now Don't worry about that Yellow Rain, it's not radioactive, even if right after
Chernobyl we had yellow rain
http://enenews.com/...