If i've noticed something unusual is the almost total silence on Fukushima
from the Right wing noise machine. It's almost as if they are terrified to discuss this.
It's been a major Media blackout except when a newsstory breaks out but look at silly sites like Redstate (20 lots of positive spin), National Review (20-30 mostly positive spin), rushlimbaugh.com (0), glennbeck.com (2), I"m sure there is more
but I hate the bilge, so, i just poke around occasionally in them.
So why the supreme silence from the Right? This should be a story of "Yellow Peril",
"Imminent Doom", "Bad Government", " Noble Heros"....
But Meanwhile
Tokuhiro Report, Workers enter unit 3, Pics from Unit 2
Takeda visit to Fukushima, Gundersons Anatomy of a tragedy, Plutonium fallout expected of USA, TEPCO made misleading statements says Top Professor.Unit 6 Turbines flooding with Radiation, Failure of Unit 6 cooling now imminent
workers with Radiation Poisoning.No Dosimeters for staff. Unit 2 steaming.
Unit 3 may explode from Hydrogen. "The scale of the accident was beyond my
Imagination"
Hello darkness, my old friend
I've come to talk with you again
Because a vision softly creeping
Left its seeds while I was sleeping
And the vision that was planted in my brain
Still remains
Within the sound of silence
In restless dreams I walked alone
Narrow streets of cobblestone
'Neath the halo of a street lamp
I turned my collar to the cold and damp
When my eyes were stabbed by the flash of a neon light
That split the night
And touched the sound of silence
And in the naked light I saw
Ten thousand people, maybe more
People talking without speaking
People hearing without listening
People writing songs that voices never share
And no one dared
Disturb the sound of silence
"Fools", said I, "You do not know
Silence like a cancer grows
Hear my words that I might teach you
Take my arms that I might reach you"
But my words, like silent raindrops fell
And echoed
In the wells of silence
And the people bowed and prayed
To the neon god they made
And the sign flashed out its warning
In the words that it was forming
And the sign said, "The words of the prophets are written on the subway walls
And tenement halls"
And whispered in the sounds of silence
I would ordinarily post this tomorrow but something is up with Unit 6,
and I want it on the radars. If they lose cooling in unit 6 it's anywhere from
a few hours to a day or so for it to go into meltdown.
http://www.hse.gov.uk/...
H/T to one of my commenters who spotted the above, it's the Tokuhiro report
it's a goldmine of info including some decent diagrams of the reactors.
If we know the reactors are melted down and the corium is on the floor of the
basements, then we have to determine if we can run water in and let it run
through the filter stacks as steam, or should we open the CVs and
send cranes down to pick up corium.
http://ex-skf.blogspot.com/...
Workers are in UNit 3, and radiaton is pretty bad. 170 mSV/Hr?
Ichk.
http://ex-skf.blogspot.com/...
Pics of Unit 2, really pretty bad, poor lighting, lack of detail. but it appears the damage is limited. Less damage then we see in Unit 1.
http://takedanet.com/...
110 517 journal of science "Fukushima courage" and "collective begging"
May 16, 2011, I've tried to talk with people going in Fukushima, Fukushima Prefecture. And we met so many good Japanese.
Some people sent to live in despair, but who consistently have had to bear the anxiety among them desperately. And the brightness is not lost.
I was prepared to be showered with insults, welcomed me warmly.
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Fukushima man "not the right thing by the government. TEPCO not come clean even leave the yard of dirty, bad company
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Now the government and bureaucrats, Hiroshi Azuma, NHK is clear, "a collection of beggars" ... instead of sweating with his life, only to be pulled out skilled population beggars purse money from other people's mouths ..., is also clearly seen but through the prism of Kono Hukushima .
I like this Dr Takeda. Talking about how warm the people in Fukushima are in spite of their desperate situation... Slamming the government and TEPCO.. Daring to stand out.
http://www.fairewinds.com/...
Gunderson did this in April as Anatomy of a tragedy, maybe it should be updated
for the current true data.....
http://enenews.com/...
The most terrifying fact is that the Japanese power plants are using ‘dirty’ fuel, which most countries have rejected and banned. Needless to say that the Americans built them. Since the Earth is moving Counterclockwise most of the fall-out will drop on U.S., unless very strong winds take it somewhere else. [...]
http://www.bloomberg.com/...
"TEPCO has made misleading statements over the crisis"about when it will stabilize its nuclear reactors crippled by the March 11 earthquake and tsunami, said Tetsuo Ito, head of the Atomic Energy Research Institute at Kinki University in western Japan.
“It’s highly likely No. 2 and No. 3 reactors are worse than thought,” Ito said. “Tepco devised the first (road map) before fully grasping the situation inside the reactor buildings; a scientist wouldn’t do such a thing.”
Ito has headed the institute, which started running Japan’s first university-based nuclear reactor in 1961, for more than five years. He has spent 35 years in nuclear engineering research.
I previously diaried about the breakup of the Japanese consensus, well, it's really happening now.
http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/...
The large amount of groundwater at the Fukushima plant had been released into the sea from ditches so that it would not weaken the strength of the reactor building or flow into reactor buildings. Due to radioactive materials released in the wake of the nuclear accident, however, this underground water has been contaminated and it has not been possible to drain it as before.
In the turbine building of the No. 6 reactor, for example, contaminated groundwater has seeped in and accumulated to a depth of up to 2 meters. If water flows into a reactor building, the emergency power system to cool the reactor may stop operating. Pumping started on May 1, and 1,700 tons of water were transferred to a makeshift tank and other facilities by Tuesday. To store water contaminated with low-level radioactive materials, TEPCO must build tanks to store about 16,000 tons of water for the coming month alone.
Get this straight. Unit 6 is now 1-2 meters away from flooding and shutting down.
We started seeing water in Units 5 and 6 and radiation leaks mentioned
on 5/16 http://www.dailykos.com/... but now 3 days later we are at 2 meters of
water in the basement of Bldg 6. Which was just barely on the radar this last week.
My great concern was always that the crisis at 1-4 would spread to units 5,6, we had
seen prior incidents where their pools got close to boiling. If they boil
expect them to follow unit 4 down the rat hole.
How you maintain anything with Units 5,6 on fire, I don't know. If they go prompt
critical it's worse.
I hate to say I told you so, but i've been shouting for weeks that they needed to
rip apart units 5,6,7 and do whatever it took to get them shut out.
because if they had them cleaned up, the problems at 1-4 wouldn't cascade.
Instead, it's been dithering and Silence...
http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/...
early two months after the start of the crisis at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant, only 10 percent of workers there had been tested for internal radiation exposure caused by inhalation or ingestion of radioactive substances, due to a shortage of testing equipment available for them.
My measured value [of radioactive exposure] exceeded the standard value by a double-digit factor. That's never happened before," said a plant worker in his 20s, recalling the time he saw the results of a test he took outside Fukushima Prefecture in early May.
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While a normal internal radiation level would range from several hundred cpm to 1,000 cpm, he was told his level was 30,000 cpm.
http://www3.nhk.or.jp/...
The utility says the workers measured levels of radiation in the air as they walked around the containment vessel, and came up with readings ranging from 50 millisieverts per hour to less than 10.
The workers found three pools of water on the floor, and saw water dropping down from above in some places.
The presence of so much water is apparently due to the condensation of steam rising from the spent fuel storage pool on the upper floor.
So unit 2 is near boiling to do this?
http://www3.nhk.or.jp/...
Radiation may make it "Difficult" to inject nitrogen into unit 2.
What the japanese mean is it's totally F&*%ing impossible
even with a kamikaze team... So, that means, Unit 3 is now at high risk
for another Hydrogen explosion. But where? The fuel deck blew itself away?
A explosion in the RPV or CV?
http://spectrum.ieee.org/...
Futami: The scale of the Fukushima Dai-1 accident was far beyond my imagination. When I was superintendent, I could not have imagined that all electricity including battery power for units 1 through 4 would be completely lost at the same time, and would not be restored for more than 9 days. (On 20 March, a temporary power line was connected to the power center of unit 2 for the first time after the accident. On 22 March, lighting for unit 3's main control room was restored.)
At first, I thought that the diesel generator for each reactor automatically started, so I was sure that they could bring the plant to a cold shut down, although there would be many difficulties. When I watched TV reports of the huge tsunami attacking the coast of the Tohoku area, I thought that major equipment like the condensate water pumps and the residual heat removal sea water pumps, which are on the ground lower than 10 meters above the sea level, must be damaged. That sent a chill down my spine. However I could not imagine that both the diesel generators and the power centers in the turbine buildings were completely covered with seawater by a tsunami that was over 14 meters high.
utami: There are two serious concerns. The first is the highly contaminated water that is leaking in large amounts. I think we should never discharge highly contaminated water to the ocean, because there is no border in seawater.
The second concern is the strength of spent fuel pools’ reinforced concrete. Usually we have to keep the temperature inside the spent fuel pools under 65 degrees Celsius or so. A high temperature decreases the strength of reinforced concrete. Also the hydrogen explosions may have damaged the integrity of the concrete structures of the spent fuel pools. I’m worried about that.
If the spent fuel pools collapse, large amount of radioactive materials in the spent fuel will be released into the air, and a large amount of radioactive water will be released at the same time. So we have to put our best efforts to keep the spent fuel pools intact.
Interesting. Futami raises the point that as the temperature rises the
concrete weakens. I didn't know that. If the pools let go at Unit 5 or 6
due to this mechanism, well, it's just goodnight Tokyo,if the wind is south.