Post Fukushima. Where Now for Nuclear Power?

[walker 0]

Hi all

Reuters now running the story too.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/03/28/japan-idUSL3E7ES2ND20110328

TEPCO are still trying to spin it as nothing to be concerned about, the same as they did right from the start, lying bunch of scumbags.

If you have shares in the nuke industry say bye bye to your cash, it just blew out the window in Fukushima.

http://www.businessweek.com/news/2011-03-28/tokyo-electric-finds-plutonium-in-soil-near-fukushima-plant.html

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/uranium-stocks-slide-on-renewed-radiation-fears/article1959858/

http://www.tradingroom.com.au/apps/view_breaking_news_article.ac?page=/data/news_research/published/2011/3/87/catf_110328_200500_1150.html

http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5g5oLdG_mcvKt0Tywo0PXH9kouBaA?docId=CNG.39ebf3bd02420c4338a9e5c840744bd8.c1

The Political ramifications are also becoming clear with German Chancellor Angela Merkel's conservatives loosing a key state seat to the Green Party.

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The Japanese prime minister is also expected to loose power.

http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Asia-Pacific/2011/0328/What-Japanese-think-of-PM-Kan-s-response-to-the-crisis

In the UK and US political parties are backing away from Nuclear power like its radioactive.

As Highly Radioactive water at 1,000 millisieverts an hour, has now been found leaking out of the plant

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-pacific-12881015

The future of Nuclear Power in Europe is now in doubt.

http://en.rian.ru/international_affairs/20110328/163246971.html

walker

Edited March 28, 2011 by walker

[Dwarden 1124]

stock cost of our nuclear program has jumped up :)

time to build all 8 pre-planed reactors (2+2 in existing plants and 2+2 new plants) , each 1400 to 1600MW

the export to Germany-short-of-electricity is going be quite profitable and what they don't but we export to Austria :)

{this fake-eco thinking means higher cost of energies, fuels and food etc.}

[pooroldspike 128]

Every nuclear "accident" that there's ever been, has been caused by human error and lack of simple commonsense.

For example Chernobyl where the operators disabled the safety systems to run tests (duh); Three Mile Island where they forgot how to read their dials properly; and now Fukushima where the designers forgot to make things earthquake/tsunami-proof..

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CHERNOBYL: LAND of the WOLVES-

http://www.thefewgoodmen.com/thefgmforum/showthread.php?826-Land-of-the-Wolves

Edited March 29, 2011 by PoorOldSpike

[walker 0]

Hi all

In a desperate attempt to stem his falling popularity rating Japan's Premier Naoto Kan has gone green, dayglow green I think.

Mar 29 2011 1:53PM

Japan PM urges clean energy push

Japan's Premier Naoto Kan said Tuesday the country must push alternative energy sources as it recovers from its quake and tsunami disaster and struggles to contain a nuclear emergency.

"Taking this as a lesson, we have to lead the world in clean energy, such as solar and biomass, and make it a major pillar of a new Japan," the centre-left leader told a parliamentary committee.

His top spokesman, Yukio Edano, later said that the use of clean energy sources would likely be a key feature of a reconstruction plan for the northeastern region where entire towns were swept away on March 11.

"In overcoming the devastation and creating a future-oriented vision, we are looking into the possibility of promoting and pushing more for clean energy," Edano was quoted as saying by Kyodo News agency.

A massive 14m tsunami sparked by the seabed quake hit the coastal Fukushima nuclear plant northeast of Tokyo, which has since emitted radiation into the air and sea, sparking international concern.

Resource-poor Japan, highly dependent on Middle Eastern oil, meets about one third of its energy needs with nuclear power, but its high-tech companies are also world leaders in many environmental and energy-saving technologies...

http://www.thenewage.co.za/13793-1020-53-Japan_PM_urges_clean_energy_push

As always follow the link to the original article in full

Meanwhile in the US it has been admitted that Power Blackouts at Nuclear Power plants there would cause exactly the same kind of problems as we are seeing at Fukushima.

http://www.naplesnews.com/news/2011/mar/29/long-blackouts-pose-risk-us-nuclear-reactors/

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I have got to say that actions at the plant are looking increasingly desperate and amateurish.

http://www.smh.com.au/world/highly-radioactive-water-threatens-fukushima-20110329-1ceoh.html

Clearly those involved in the Nuclear Power industry here in the west have not made thorough enough planning for emergencies in Nuclear Power stations. Little or no equipment is available to do the jobs that are needed and those trying to deal with it are cobling together Heath Robinson affairs to try to fix things.

For the most advanced country in the west to be reduced to such means shows how every other Western nation would react.

Of course things have not been helped by those within the Nuclear Power Business deliberately downplaying and cutting costs.

IMHO opinion 50% of all share profits from all Nuclear Power businesses should be sequestered and put in two things:

1) Equipment and facilities for an international Nuclear Power emergency responce team. With the ability to take over a plant and conscript the managing directors as biobots.

2) Paying those who are adversely affected by the FEZ around 200,000 people and rising who have had to or are in the process of leaving their homes and businesses forever.

Kind Regards walker

Edited March 29, 2011 by walker

[walker 0]

Hi all

Reports are coming in that at least one of the Reactors is in Full Meltdown and has actualy burned through the reactor containment and the concrete floor below much the same as happened at Chernobyl. Now all they can do is hope that like at Chernobyl they can put enough sand and boron in to halt it.

http://www.morningstaronline.co.uk/index.php/news/content/view/full/102851

Reports coming are that it may be reactor No. 3 that is in meltdown.

http://www.marketoracle.co.uk/Article27229.html

The prospect has been there since the Plutonium was discovered. If so then the expectations of a "Chernobyl on steroids" event inherent in the Fukushima design have increased considerably.

http://hawaiinewsdaily.com/2011/03/when-the-fukushima-meltdown-hits-groundwater/

Meanwhile a spokesman for GEC the makers of the Fukushima reactors is saying it wont be as bad as Chernobyl

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/mar/29/japan-lost-race-save-nuclear-reactor

Walker

Edited March 29, 2011 by walker

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sup guys, i higly suggest nuclear power :wink :wink

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[walker 0]

Hi all

On the verge of Chernobyl on Steroids

Most analysts are now saying this is already a level 7 Severe Accident comparable to Chernobyl

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Twenty Five miles from the Plant; levels of cesium 137 are higher than the level at which land was abandoned at Chernobyl. At other sites they are said to be twice the limit that the soviets felt were unacceptable.

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/31/world/asia/31japan.html?_r=2&partner=rss&emc=rss

World famous physicist Dr. Michio Kaku says that if radiation levels continue to rise as they are doing and drive away those dousing the plants with water then we will be looking at "three raging meltdowns under way at Fukushima...leading to a tragedy far beyond that of Chernobyl, creating permanent dead zones in Japan."

http://naturalnews.tv/v.asp?v=604AB3FA803FF3647DF6E34EC5E8C8A0

Fears of Recriticality

IAEA Chiefs have expressed fears of a Recriticality accident

http://ecocentric.blogs.time.com/2011/03/30/has-fukushimas-reactor-no-1-gone-critical/

http://www.vancouversun.com/news/High+radiation+outside+Japan+exclusion+zone+IAEA/4529544/story.html

Recriticality at the plant could instantly kill those working there.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticality_accident

The IAEA has also asked Japan to increase the size of the FEZ further after radiation levels as far as 40km away from the plant were found to be above the level at which people are supposed to be evacuated.

http://www.monstersandcritics.com/news/asiapacific/news/article_1629733.php/IAEA-says-Japan-should-consider-further-evacuations

http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2011/03/31/3178263.htm

And in a sign that it may ask for more powers to take over Nuclear incidents the IAEA has requested a planned meeting be escalated to a high level nuclear safety meeting about Fukushima.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/03/30/japan-nuclear-iaea-idUSLDE72T1S720110330

Something since confirmed by French President Sarkozy

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/japan/8419020/Nicolas-Sarkozy-calls-for-global-nuclear-standards-on-visit-to-Japan.html

There has also been a massive rise in radiation levels out at sea.

http://calgary.ctv.ca/servlet/an/local/CTVNews/20110330/japan-nuclear-radiation-110330/20110330/?hub=CalgaryHome

While other souces are saying data shows the SCRAM may not have worked

http://blogs.nature.com/news/thegreatbeyond/2011/04/fukushima_update_did_nuclear_c.html

Sarcophagus Plan

The Four nuclear reactors involved are to be shut down, then put under a shroud before finally being entombed in concrete.

http://www.citytv.com/toronto/citynews/news/international/article/122007--officials-set-to-shut-down-four-reactors-at-quake-ravaged-fukushima-plant

They are now discussing what kind of Sarcophagus they will put over the four reactors.

http://www.abc.net.au/worldtoday/content/2011/s3175469.htm

While trying desperately to spin that this is not like Chernobyl; as the article in Nature, linked in IMHO section of this post, points out. I have to say I kind of agree with them; only one reactor failed at Chernobyl. Here 3 reactors failed; one of which was Plutonium fueled, and an over full fuel store was allowed to overheat toward criticallity; that last is the most terrifying.

A tale of contrasts

The bosses

The board of TEPCO are demanding a tax payer buyout of the company to help them keep their jobs.

http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/dy/national/T110329003462.htm

The President of TEPCO is hiding under the covers of his expensive hospital bed:

http://www.hindustantimes.com/President-of-Fukushima-N-plant-operator-hospitalised/Article1-679280.aspx

The Public

Those still within the no go or house arrest zone outside the FEZ are starving:

http://mdn.mainichi.jp/mdnnews/news/20110401p2g00m0dm038000c.html

Meanwhile the evacuees from the expanding FEZ are being turned away from hospitals and evacuation centers.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/japan/8416302/Japan-nuclear-crisis-evacuees-turned-away-from-emergency-shelters.html

While the bodies of those who died in the Tsunami are left to rot because of radiation fears:

http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=news&cd=2&ved=0CC4QqQIwAQ&url=http%3A%2F%2Fchannel6newsonline.com%2F2011%2F03%2Fup-to-1000-bodies-left-untouched-due-to-radiation-in-japan%2F&ei=aKSUTd3HJouz8QOPyMQX&usg=AFQjCNEfCFDFYTMUqV8eS_dczxx6Y_e0-g&sig2=nIo692i9e24v8rFVQ3DKLQ

The Workers

And the workers fighting the disaster have not all been issued with Dosimeters

http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/nn20110401x1.html

many of them are expected to die within weeks

http://www.foxnews.com/world/2011/03/31/japans-nuclear-rescuers-inevitable-die-weeks/

and are treated in their last days like slaves.

http://www.aolnews.com/2011/03/31/emails-from-fukushima-reveal-trauma-of-japans-nuclear-workers/

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A Nuclear Power industry in decline

The reality is that the cost of this event has wiped out the value of TEPCO shares as it would any other Nuclear Power company

http://www.businessweek.com/news/2011-03-30/japan-weighs-entombing-nuclear-plant-iaea-sees-criticality-.html

Many nuclear power plant builders are having clients back out of developments.

http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/dy/national/T110401004670.htm

So now TEPCO are demanding the government bailout that is de rigour for modern western "capitalism" (sic should read communism,) of welfare for the wealthy.

Germany, as a result, has decided to scrap many of its aging Nuclear Plants

http://www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,,14957745,00.html

Several other western nations are expected to follow suit. Unless the Industry can find a long term solution for the too unstable to put back in reactor fuel, that is referred to in marketing speak as "Spent fuel", the industry is doomed.

The effect on Nuclear Power Shares

As a result the future for the Nuclear power business looks decidedly down beat. Siemens and Areva shares have lost a fifth of their value and still declining:

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-03-15/siemens-nuclear-venture-s-value-one-fifth-lower-than-expected.html

While Clean Energy stocks are on a steady rise.

http://money.msn.com/top-stocks/post.aspx?post=6bf35fd3-54fb-4db1-8486-df6dffa5fb2e

Why spent fuel is dangerous

Criticality, what happens in a reactor, iradiates the fuel and is known to increase the instability and power of nuclear fuel and is the reason why fuel rods become unusable "Irradiated fuel". The marketing department call these fuel rods "spent" to disguise their danger. The reality is that "Irradiated Fuel" becomes more dangerous and unpredictable, an example of the effects of criticality on nuclear fuel is the increased explosive power shown in the so called: DEMON CORE.

The reason "Irradiated Fuel" becomes more unstable and powerful is that the process of criticality in the reactor irradiates the fuel, this changes/transmutes atoms within the "Irradiated Fuel" and also induces complex chemical changes at the nano level to take place in the structure of the "Irradiated Fuel" allowing more and more fissionable atoms to get closer together, which is bad.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spent_nuclear_fuel

Thus pockets of highly reactive transuranic and other suburanic radioisotopes , like plutonium are created within the "Irradiated Fuel" making what was once a homogeneous predictable substance, into an increasingly diverse and unpredictable mess of radionuclide's all with fissionable qualities that increase the longer the fuel is in the reactor.

To use an analogy it is bit like having sweaty dynamite stored in a fuel air bomb then turning up the heat.

Naturally enough the reactor operators don't want this "Irradiated Fuel" in the reactors so they take it out, but they also do not want the public to be afraid of it as they hope that the tax payer will pick up the tab for storing it, which will be for an awful on long time; so the marketing department came up with the idea of calling it "Spent fuel!" Which does not sound so dangerous and makes it easier to fool the majority of tax payers, the politicians who are too dumb get fooled too and those with a science education who play along get support from the industry, while those who wont play nice get the shit kicked out of them by lobbyists and mercenary pseudo scientists.

Of course all that they were doing is hoping the problem would go away but physics ain't like that it just ignores you and does what it does, so eventually it was bound to bite them in the ass.

IMHO

My fear is that there are increasing signs that we are looking at a "China Syndrome" style full meltdown. The indications are that one or more of the reactors is burning its way down through the soil and rock below the plant, has hit the groundwater (for which there is now evidense: )

http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/breaking-news/radioactive-groundwater-below-nuclear-plant/story-e6frf7jx-1226031723826

The suspicion is that the groundwater is then flowing into the sea and that that, is the cause of the massive increase in radiation we are now seeing in the sea.

http://www.nature.com/news/2011/110330/full/471549a.html

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I hope I am wrong but I am not the only one fearing this is the case

http://www.thefirstpost.co.uk/77065,news-comment,news-politics,expert-fears-full-nuclear-meltdown-at-fukushima-reactor-2

Though TEPCO who released the data has once again been chastised for missreading it.

http://blogs.nature.com/news/thegreatbeyond/2011/04/fukushima_update_more_radiatio.html

Thus increasing the suspicion that they are for the second time pulling the marketing trick of releasing catastrophic data as a marketing ploy in order to reduce public concern. It is a common marketing trick where say, you know the price of fuel is about to go up by 100%, so you say it is going to go up by 1000%, then when it goes up by 100% you then say it is not as bad as was expected. It is called managing peoples expectations. All the stupid people fail to see the trick.

An industry that does not understand Nuclear Power risks.

Overall the actions of TEPCO being more concerned with marketing and share prices paint a picture of a nuclear industry that is understands Nuclear power about as well as a 3 year old child playing with matches next to an open canister of propane. And given TEPCO's obvious reluctance to come clean and to take the actions needed to prevent this disaster in the first place:

http://www.fairwarning.org/2011/03/utility-engineer-warned-of-tsunami-threat-at-japanese-nuclear-plant/

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And that they even held off on vital emergency actions in order to protect their investments:

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704608504576207912642629904.html?mod=WSJ_WSJ_News_BlogsModule

Plus the fact that we now know that TEPCO's disaster plan vastly underestimated what a disaster in a Nuclear power plant actually involved and this shows the attitude to risk through out the Nuclear Power industry.

http://www.marketwatch.com/video/asset/news-hub-fukushimas-safety-plan-wasnt-safe-2011-03-31/F2950B9C-944A-42E0-BB7C-376A0F0AD3BB#!F2950B9C-944A-42E0-BB7C-376A0F0AD3BB

It is obvious that many who ascribe to themselves the status of supposed nuclear experts, just do not cut the mustard.

I feel I am on solid ground when I say that those in charge of the response need a good kick up the arse!

It is time to move all the fuel rods!

As I keep saying the danger here; is the massive amount of nuclear fuel rods at this plant, like most others in the west, which gives this accident the potential of Chernobyl on steroids.

http://www.thenation.com/article/159234/fukushimas-spent-fuel-rods-pose-grave-danger

Like most other reactors in the West, at Fukushima; to use an analogy, you have the equivalent of a 1,000,000 oil tankers parked in front of a refinery; a refinery that is now on fire.

It is imperative that those fuel rods are moved NOW!

Walker

Edited April 1, 2011 by walker

[walker 0]

Hi all

High res photographs of Fukushima Disaster released:

http://pinktentacle.com/2011/04/high-resolution-photos-of-fukushima-daiichi/

US Secretary of Energy and winner of the 1997 Nobel Prize for Physics Dr. Steven Chu has stated that 70% of the cores of reactors No.1 and No.2 at Fukushima are damaged but of far more concern is Reactor No.3 which is emmiting high levels of radiation.

http://edition.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/asiapcf/04/02/japan.nuclear.status/

Kind Regards walker

Edited April 4, 2011 by walker

[walker 0]

Hi all

TEPCO has too much highly radioactive water to store so it has decided to just dump it into the Pacific.

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-japan-nuclear-20110405,0,2631891.story

Radioactive blight on Pacific fisheries

The effect on Pacific fisheries: from Japanese Sushi, to Pacific Prawns and the Alaskan Crab catch is likely to dwarf what happened to the Gulf fisheries after the Gulf oil spill.

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-03-24/japanese-swap-fish-for-burgers-soy-milk-on-radiation-contamination-fears.html

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-03-30/sushi-purchases-from-japan-canceled-amid-concerns-about-radiation-leakage.html

http://www.voanews.com/english/news/asia/east-pacific/Radiation-Fears-Sink-Seafood-Sales-in-South-Korea--118975419.html

http://www.adn.com/2011/03/22/1769350/worst-case-scenario-japan-reactor.html

Satelite images

Satelite images of Fukushima just after the Tsunami and after the explosions including fires at the reactors.

http://www.digitalglobe.com/downloads/DG_Analysis_Japan_Daiichi_Reactor_March2011.pdf

Radiation levels

Radiation both in the plant and beyond the exclusion zone continues to rise:

Radiation in the plant is still rising and radioactive water at the plant is now 10,000 times the legal limit:

http://www.thirdage.com/news/fukushima-radiation-leak-continues_4-4-2011

Radiation beyond exclusion zone rising

http://www.smh.com.au/environment/radiation-rising-beyond-exclusion-zone-20110331-1cnh1.html

Causing increasing calls to expand the FEZ again and to ban food stuffs from an increasing area.

http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/world/japanese-quake-rising-radiation-stirs-concern-about-food-safety-evacuations-118974149.html

Radiation is expected to continue leaking from the site for months at the very least.

http://mdn.mainichi.jp/mdnnews/news/20110404p2a00m0na001000c.html

TEPCO's dearth of information as well its inaccuracy and unreliability and the censoring of data from the Japanese National Radiation monitoring stations:

http://www.bousai.ne.jp/eng/

despite increasingly loud requests for information from the international community, has caused an increasing reliance on the UN and Greenpeace for reliable radiation monitoring information.

Both the IAEA and Greenpeace are sending additional monitoring teams to Japan.

http://www.agi.it/english-version/world/elenco-notizie/201104041204-cro-ren1034-japan_second_greenpeace_team_of_experts_to_fukushima

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The dispossessed

Meanwhile as TEPCO's board demand more welfare for the the wealthy in the form of a state bailout, the future of thousands of dispossessed Japanese evacuees looks bleak:

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-04-04/fukushima-radiation-evacuees-left-guessing-from-shelters-about-future-life.html

Where now the nuclear future?

The future of Nuclear Power has now entered a 'nuclear ice age'

http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Japan/MD05Dh01.html

With many countries expected to halt nuclear plant building projects and not renew licenses amid massive reviews and investigations that could mire the industry for decades.

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-04-04/fukushima-forces-nuclear-regulators-into-unprecedented-review.html

Kind Regards walker

Edited April 4, 2011 by walker

[Iroquois Pliskin 0]

OFUNATO, Japan — Japan on Monday started to dump more than 10,000 tons of low-level radioactive water into the Pacific as part of emergency operations to stabilise its crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant.

http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5ggyupIN_Ze6koDuHMohzwqIYmRxw?docId=CNG.98b7a7289c5c98959af0fb3b42941e01.1d1

That is Level 7 de facto. Atomic energy will be brought under the control of Western powers with new standartisation concepts and review - the death of atomic energy in second World countries, unless they play by our rules.

[walker 0]

Hi all

TEPCO has anounced finding radioactivity in water at 5 Million times the legal level:

http://www.publicbroadcasting.net/wxxi/news.newsmain/article/0/0/1784679/World/Japan's.nuclear.plant.operator.finds.highly

Given TEPCO's lack of professionalism in the past, I would like this data verified by the IAEA and Greenpeace.

Meanwhile TEPCO has offered people it has dispossessed the yen equivalent of 12 Dollars per head, about the cost of a card and cheap box of chocolates, for an accedent that has cost them their homes and livelihoods:

http://www.allvoices.com/contributed-news/8688126-tepco-offers-apology-money-12-bucks-a-head

Shocked walker

Edited April 5, 2011 by walker

[Iroquois Pliskin 0]

Hi all

TEPCO has anounced finding radioactivity in water at 5 Million times the legal level:

http://www.publicbroadcasting.net/wxxi/news.newsmain/article/0/0/1784679/World/Japan's.nuclear.plant.operator.finds.highly

Given TEPCO's lack of professionalism in the past, I would like this data verified by the IAEA and Greenpeace.

Meanwhile TEPCO has offered people it has dispossessed the yen equivalent of 12 Dollars per head, about the cost of a card and cheap box of chocolates, for an accedent that has cost them their homes and livelihoods:

http://www.allvoices.com/contributed-news/8688126-tepco-offers-apology-money-12-bucks-a-head

Shocked walker

I call their bluff, there's a water sample at 136.8 million times the legal limit at one of the outlets: http://forum.janeysnews.com/viewtopic.php?f=10&t=956&start=180#p23471

[walker 0]

Hi Iroquois Pliskin

Ah I see, so that is the source.

I just sucked in the lot. 126 documents so far. And 65 Monitoring documents including the mobile car radiation detection.

Zipped up and sent.

Interesting to compare the public press releases and other stuff.

I wonder what the journalists will make of it.

Kind Regards walker

Edited April 5, 2011 by walker

[Iroquois Pliskin 0]

Doesn't matter what they make out of Iodine-131 levels, you are not getting even the 0.01% of the truth associated with the release of water with radioactive nuclides. Where is Strotium, Cesium even?

Where is the spectrum analysis of soil for trans-uraniums, further tests for plutonium isotopes? Could it be that they are either lying to everyone, or they can't take the proper samples, since the radiation at the site is so high, their industrial dosimeters can't pick it up.

[walker 0]

Hi all

Files from Fukushima Radiation monitoring in english.

http://www.filedropper.com/fukushima

Mirror

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=QBU8GO2Q

Kind Regards walker

Edited April 5, 2011 by walker

[Iroquois Pliskin 0]

Thanks, useful to have all of it in one archive. Keep in mind that, "Density limit in the air to workers engaged in tasks associated with radiation (Bq/cm3)" could be interpreted any way one likes. That legal limit could be related to reactor circulations systems, the condenser & the like, for water.

That's fraud, but it could stand in court.

[walker 0]

Hi all

Files from Fukushima Monitoring in Japanese

http://www.filedropper.com/fukushimajapanesemonitoring

Mirror

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=BXI37W3H

Kind Regards walker

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Hi all

Ultra High Levels of radiation continue to be measured by TEPCO.

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Continuing evidense of prompt critical events at Fukushima.

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Kind regards walker

Edited April 5, 2011 by walker

[Iroquois Pliskin 0]

U.S. Sees Array of New Threats at Japan’s Nuclear Plant

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/06/world/asia/06nuclear.html?partner=rss&emc=rss

United States government engineers sent to help with the crisis in Japan are warning that the troubled nuclear plant there is facing a wide array of fresh threats that could persist indefinitely, and that in some cases are expected to increase as a result of the very measures being taken to keep the plant stable, according to a confidential assessment prepared by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission

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The document, which was obtained by The New York Times, provides a more detailed technical assessment than Japanese officials have provided of the conundrum facing the Japanese as they struggle to prevent more fuel from melting at the Fukushima Daiichi plant. But it appears to rely largely on data shared with American experts by the Japanese.

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The document also suggests that fragments or particles of nuclear fuel from spent fuel pools above the reactors were blown “up to one mile from the units,†and that pieces of highly radioactive material fell between two units and had to be “bulldozed over,†presumably to protect workers at the site. The ejection of nuclear material, which may have occurred during one of the earlier hydrogen explosions, may indicate more extensive damage to the extremely radioactive pools than previously disclosed.

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The steps recommended by the nuclear commission include injecting nitrogen, an inert gas, into the containment structures in an attempt to purge them of hydrogen and oxygen, which could combine to produce explosions. The document also recommends that engineers continue adding boron to cooling water to help prevent the cores from restarting the nuclear reaction, a process known as criticality.

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The document was prepared for the commission’s Reactor Safety Team, which is assisting the Japanese government and the Tokyo Electric Power Company, which owns the plant.

The bold part is confirmed by thermal imagery from March 20th of Reactor unit 3 & 2. More possible later updates on this, here - http://forum.janeysnews.com/viewtopic.php?f=10&t=1068#p23675

[Dwarden 1124]

TEPCO radiation monitoring values, N daily

http://www.tepco.co.jp/en/nu/monitoring/index-e.html

combined NISA, Tepco and PO measurements of radiation

http://fleep.com/earthquake/

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[Iroquois Pliskin 0]

U.S. Sees Array of New Threats at Japan’s Nuclear Plant

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/06/world/asia/06nuclear.html?partner=rss&emc=rss

The bold part is confirmed by thermal imagery from March 20th of Reactor unit 3 & 2. More possible later updates on this, here - http://forum.janeysnews.com/viewtopic.php?f=10&t=1068#p23675

This is probably the NRC report mentioned in NYT article: http://fukushimafaq.wikispaces.com/file/view/rst+assessment+26march11.pdf

http://forum.janeysnews.com/viewtopic.php?f=10&t=1068&p=23847#p23847

Get to work, troops, and find me those flying fuel rods. :D

[walker 0]

Hi all

The question is has Reactor No.2 melted down "China Sydrome" style all the way through the reactor containment?

The radiation in groundwater and at sea would certainly support that analysis.

Kind Regards walker

[Iroquois Pliskin 0]

Most definitely. I've had the same conclusion a week ago based on NISA-JAIF reports.

[Rhodite 3]

I have to admit what angers me the most is the attitude of TEPCO and there board members.. their track record as a business is appaulling is anyone really shocked this has happened? and by that I mean greed over safety, saving face over saving lives..

It is VERY clear at least to me decisions have been made that are clearly financially motivated..

Will they ever be held to account..? I certainly hope so..

Do they care? clearly not.. except to save their own reputation..

Corporate greed with the highest possible negative consequences.. and it depresses me to think they will likely get away with it..

[walker 0]

Hi all

There we have it:

ASSESSMENT:

Given the amount of decay heat in the fuel in the pool, it is likely that in the days immediately following the accident, the fuel was partially uncovered. The lack of cooling resulted in zirc water reaction and a release of hydrogen. The hydrogen exploded and damaged secondary containment. The zirc water reaction could have continued, resulting in a major source term release.

Fuel particulates may have been ejected from the pool (based on information of neutron emitters found up to 1 mile from the units, and very high dose rate material that had to be bulldozed over between Units 3 and 4. It is also possible the material could have come from Unit 3).

http://fukushimafaq.wikispaces.com/file/view/rst+assessment+26march11.pdf

What I have always said was one of the plethora of risks from the way in which, we in the west, store the "Too iradiated and unstable to remain the reactor" fuel rods that the nuclear industry marketing department call "spent" to hide how dangerous they are.

Storing these unstable fuel rods in the open as they do through out the west is why Fukashima is on the verge of "Chernobyl on Steroids"

And the plane fact is that this is true of western nations nuclear power industry.

Those Fuel Rods at Fukushima have to moved now!

Regards walker

Edited April 7, 2011 by walker

[Iroquois Pliskin 0]

Can't be moved, unworkable environment, even for robotics. And yes, at the very least the assemblies in SNF of Unit 3 blew sky-High.