when i saw this headline
http://enenews.com/...
Japan admits daily radioactive release from Fukushima at 154 trillion Becquerels, many times higher than previously announced — Nuclear commission blames calculation error
woah, Nelly. These are people who prize accuracy, discipline, hard work, academic rigor,
intelligence, school work.... That's like a headline that says
"Swiss readjust global time standard, admit losing track of 300 years"
http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/...
Radioactive material was being released into the atmosphere from the plant at an estimated rate of 154 terabecquerels per day as of April 5, according to data released by the Cabinet Office's Nuclear Safety Commission on Saturday.
The NSC previously estimated radiation leakage on April 5 at "less than 1 terabecquerel per hour."
off by a 100X? on the low side?
This is a nation with
http://www.bc.edu/...
The study found that Singapore, the Republic of Korea, Chinese Taipei, Hong Kong and Japan had the highest average achievement in eighth-grade mathematics. Chinese Taipei and Singapore had the highest average performance in science, closely followed by Hungary, Japan, and the Republic of Korea.
Lots of Engineers, scientists, mathematicians, Long confucian culture of learning.
So this really startled me...
The total amount of radioactive material discharged from the plant from March 11 to early April was estimated between 370,000 and 630,000 terabecquerels, according to government sources.
The commission, however, said the figures were estimates only, "with a considerable margin of error." Radiation levels around the six-reactor complex have been slowly falling, it said.
um, if they are off this much lets as a thought experiment call it 63 Million Tera Becquerels
that sure doesn't sound good. a couple billion curies?
I don't think the Japanese government slipped 2 decimal places by accident.
I think they are lying... Of course that means they need to have something big to lie about, such as...
http://enenews.com/...
The operator of the damaged Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant says that concrete debris emitting a high level of radiation has been found near the Number 3 reactor.
Tokyo Electric Power Company, or TEPCO, says its workers detected radioactivity of 900 millisieverts per hour being emitted from a 30-by-30 centimeter concrete fragment, 5 centimeters thick, on Wednesday. …
Now this I think is absolute proof that either the spent fuel pools at Rac 3 were blown
sky high or the reactor at Unit 3 burst. Now given Rac 3 is reporting pressure and temperature, i believe the former is more likely.
1 SV/Hour is really dangerous, that's lethal in 3 hours, so, only fuel rods have that.
So a chunk of fuel rods must have gotten smashed into that, which seems to argue
that the fuel rod was moving at high velocity.
So how does a chunk of fuel rod get thrown in a high velocity arc up?
A explosion in the fuel deck would tend to push it downwards, into the plant site.
http://laaska.wordpress.com/...
but if you follow the link above, it's a low res pic, but the high rad debris is kind of far away.
but think about it, an explosion from above would push debris in a fan from straight down to probably 30 degree down angle. Stuff doesn't fly very far when hit that way.
Now how do you throw debris up from that pool?
Have an explosion from below the pool which is in the secondary structure, or
worse have an explosion from within the primary containment or the reactor itself.
That would loft pool contents upwards and also explain the degree of damage
we see.
I suspect there was an explosion on Deck 3 or 4 that blew the pool contents out of the
structure.
now if the Japanese government wanted to tell the truth they wouldn't be doing this.
http://www.zerohedge.com/...
Now the Japanese government has moved to crack down on independent reportage and criticism of the government’s policies in the wake of the disaster by deciding what citizens may or may not talk about in public. A new project team has been created by the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communication, the National Police Agency, and METI to combat “rumors” deemed harmful to Japanese security in the wake of the Fukushima disaster.
The government charges that the damage caused by earthquakes and by the nuclear accident are being magnified by irresponsible rumors, and the government must take action for the sake of the public good. The project team has begun to send “letters of request” to such organizations as telephone companies, internet providers, cable television stations, and others, demanding that they “take adequate measures based on the guidelines in response to illegal information. ”The measures include erasing any information from internet sites that the authorities deem harmful to public order and morality.
You know that didn't work in Tunisia or in Egypt, if the Japanese Gov wants to start
a full bore crackdown in the middle of a major crisis, well, people just may snap.
BTW, folow that zerohedge story to APJ, they really crucify the Japanese commercial media.