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DigitalGlobe's Satellite Imagery Analysis Of Fukushima
As actual (not to mention credible) news out of Fukushima and Japan slow to a trickle, potentially due to the recent imposition of Article 15 by the Japanese government (an emergency regulatory clause that allows the senior levels of the
Japanese government to stop other Japanese government agencies from
communicating with the public and news media) which bans nuclear regulatory and protection agencies, from issuing any statements
about the nuclear crisis situation in Japan, the only objective information may soon be flyby analysis by third party satellite companies which do not have skin in the game. Below we present the most recent analysis conducted by imaging company Digitalglobe on the destruction in Fukushima. We hope to be able to update with it with photos showing the explosion/fire at Reactors 2 and 4, as well as get a status update on reactors 5 and 6 which according to recent reports are now also losing cooling capacity (and at least this is far more useful than using satellite imagery to count cars at your local CostCo to gain a trading advantage over your grandma)
h/t Louise
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Not trying to assuage anyone's fear - just trying to make sense of what we're all seeing. Since posing those questions I've followed some of the other links posted and the impression I get from them is that they were indeed using those attic ponds not just for servicing the reactors but for long term storage of spent fuel rods. Not good.
and we also have this info about the mox (plutonium-added) fuel in # 3 and two "other" reactors in the country but not at this site: MOX fuel rods used in Japanese Nuclear Reactor present multiple dangers
we need data: what is in the cores 1-6? what is/was stored where 1-6. where is the the temp data for 1-6? types and amounts of core fuel. types and AMOUNTS of waste. how much was where, when? they have all this shit. the info is extremely embarassing to the japanese pols, nuclear "scientists" and people, too. not to mention the collusion of GE, the french mox supplier, AREVA, and who knows how many spooks, goobermint agents, lawyers, and fuking neo-cons, too probably. wait till we find out what paul wolfowitch and dickless cheney did!
good focus. really. stay on point! now go sink yer teeth into that leg and let's see who cries out, ok? attack!
Fuck I can't do it. I had a big long diatribe, but I can't do it. Not right now.
Just understand that unless you've been there, you can't understand the pressure at normally operating nuclear facilities let alone the current event. I have a great deal of respect for any individual remaining on that site trying to resolve this event given the impossible mission they undertake.
I would only advise against drawing conclusions based on simplified diagrams.
Marley, agree - the plant operators and responders working to contain this are heroes and the psychological pressure must be unimaginable.
Oh oh...VXX now rising...for almost three hours. Not because of Rads, mind you. No, but because XIV went restricted today...off the open. I did not notice this until too late to act today, but as I have been telling you guys...buy the VXX...as the price dislocation between these futures notes and spot is huge.
The Vix does not need to go anywhere for this simple idea to work.
On with cracking roofs, central planning clamp downs on news orgs, radioactive fires, and so on.
GE will take bath for the MK1 Reactor design
agreed...GE "We bring good lies to nuclear meltdowns"
The link below is a ppt from TEPCO and shows some pictures and stats on the pools.
found from a nice article on the pools at
An excellent summary of the situation from a commenter on one an NPR report:
"The major difference between a thing that might go wrong, and a thing that cannot possibly go wrong, is that when a thing that cannot possibly go wrong goes wrong it usually turns out to be impossible to get at or repair"
Anyone have a facility layout showing where each plants transformers are located?
@ Horatio
A repost
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"Sorry for the delay in getting back to you"
Not a problem Horatio.
I was watching some local politics.
I just wanted a sanity check.
If I get this. This is what it means. It is rather like the Richter Scale.
Where 2 is double 1. And 3 is double 2.
Which is to say an exponential crisis.
I am astounded, again, that this is not public.
I am also astounded that this thread has not picked up on it.
Other than your good self.
I will repost this.
But I just can't get over the fact. And it is a fact. That no one here wants to contemplate that the roofs of all of those buildings were full to the gills with radiating rods.
Why is this not an issue.
Why are people concentrating on Building 4?"
LW, my reply to your earlier comment offers a possible explanation.
Thank you.
Didn't see it.
Will go back.
Thank you.
Read it and responded in full.
Ended with this.
"I’m sorry.
Thank you for your explanation.
My fear is not assuaged."
When Japan rebuilds this facility they will redesign it with an eye towards.............economy. The units will be stacked one on top of the other with storage for spent fuel rods sandwiched in between. The design will be referred to as the "super double plus nuclear power hotel".
read this!
MOX fuel rods used in Japanese Nuclear Reactor present multiple dangers
this is part of it: One reason proponents of MOX reactor fuel support its use is because, once the fuel is burned in a reactor, it is so hot that terrorists would not be able to steal a fuel assembly.
so is this:
Lawless, who worked at the DOE’s Savannah River Site and first exposed massive contamination there in the early 1980s, says MOX being used as a way of controlling weapons proliferation is a myth: “You will decrease the amount of plutonium minutely but you will increase the amount of waste inside the fuel rod greatly into something that is very contaminated for a long period of time and they think is that it would be too deadly to handle for a terrorist…This is not necessarily following the best scientific plan or the best engineering decision; this is more a political decision, the MOX.”
let's get the data on what is there, how many hundreds of tons of nuke waste, if that is the scale, or thousands of tons. how much plutonium. how long ago it melted. where it's probably headed now. little thingz can sometimes mean a lot. time is of the essence or the fuking goobermints wouldn't be so quiet and wouldn't have sent so many styooopid disinfo trolls during banking, white house office staff, and Pentagon day shift hours. get it?
This talk reminds me of Peter Sellers in DR Strange Love, MY fuherer I can walk!!!
Seriously buy LTBR This company has a better safer type of reactor core than previous, and it has been rising in price steadily since this accident. A question for any expert, what happens to all the irradiated fluids and metals, valves trucks, pipes wire cement, soil, does it all have to be picked up put in sealed containers and buried under mountain somewhere or dumped into the sea (just kidding about dumping into the sea).
British Foreign & Commonwealth Office recmmends against all non essential travel to Tokyo and north eastern Japan.
http://www.travelsradiate.com/asia/japan/fukushima-ken/fukushima-shi/211...