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Fukushima Reactor 1 Fuel Rods Fully Exposed, Reactor 4 In Danger Of Collapsing
Remember Fukushima? The exploded nuclear power plant that everyone was talking about two months ago and now the media has imposed a complete blackout on, because out of print/page views, means out of radioactive spewage, right? Wrong. According to the latest update from a now government funded TEPCO, "fuel
rods are fully exposed in the No. 1 reactor at its stricken
Fukushima Dai-Ichi nuclear plant, setting back the utility’s
plan to resolve the crisis. The water level is 1 meter (3.3 feet) below the base of the fuel assembly, Junichi Matsumoto, a general manager at the utility known as Tepco, told reporters at a briefing in Tokyo. Melted fuel has dropped to the bottom of the pressure vessel and is still being cooled, Matsumoto said. The company doesn’t know how long the rods have been exposed, he said." And apparently even more skeptics are emerging: "“I’ve been saying from the beginning the water tomb plan won’t work,” said Tadashi Narabayashi, a professor of nuclear engineering at Hokkaido University. “Tepco must work on a water circulation cooling system as soon as possible. They’ve been going round and round in circles and now realize this is what they need to do.” And the kicker: "It’s unlikely the situation has worsened with the discovery the rods are exposed because they’ve probably been out of the water since shortly after the crisis started, Narabayashi said." Which means that the situtation has indeed been dire from the very beginning, that TEPCO and the government have been lying, that radiation has been spewing, and that prevalent radiation is likely far higher than most have conceived. Pretty much as was predicted on Zero Hedge long ago.
And indicating that things are even worse, is the following report from Russia Today (courtesy of The Intel Hub) that Reactor 4 may be on the verge of collapse:
Nuclear experts on Russia Today reported Tuesday that their is a real danger of a complete collapse of Fukushima nuclear reactor 4.
Japan has announced that the building is leaning and that they are taking measures to reinforce the structure in order to prevent a collapse that would scatter nuclear rods from the spent fuel pool on the ground around the plant.
The flyover video analysis and images captured from the TBS live HD cam show little remains of the building except a burnt out skeleton.
The silver lining to the mushroom cloud: according to Douche Bank this is all very positive for Japanese GDP, which just may be emitting a few extra roentgens for the next 15 thousand years. Period. End of story.
As usual, here is the current and projected radiation emission, via ZAMG:
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What's a Fukushima? Is it a new reality show or something?
Tyler-
It's not a "media blackout" it's a "transparency exercise"
http://www.youtube.com/user/dutchsinse
This guy dug out the radiation charts made by The Norsk Institute (made the one above in article) that they haven't published. They can be found here.
http://zardoz.nilu.no/~flexpart/fpinteractive/plots/?C=M;O=D
Looks really bad.
That guy on the youtube link is dwight from the office. Never the less, i'm going to get iodine today.
Zardoz huh? That was pretty interesting information...
if the worlds largest oil "spill" in history can be fixed in 4 months and forgot about in less than a year then surley nukushima is under control.... you hear we got osama?
"we" got osama, or is it obama?
You got terminal ignorance.
The ultimate political calculation is that what you don't know won't hurt them, so your ignorance is their continuation of the status quo, ie: their power is not diminished by your radiation-shortened life. Suddenly a quantity of freeze-dried storage food looks good for youngsters' dinner right now. Little ones are the people most needing protection from long-lived radiation particles.
Last night NHK news was all about the disaster. Two months in. Rather clinical, almost distasteful tone as they calmly discussed the complete failure of regulatory oversight, the turning over of whistleblowers to TEPCO by the government in past instances, the newly discovered 'seepage' of super-radioactive water into the ocean, the bulldozing of playground soil in Fukushima Prefecture with no plan on where to put it....
...oh and the PARTY for foreign supporters and contributors at which the revellers were given bags and bags of NE Japan produce, sake etc....
Noticed that ZH hasn't been posting much of late regarding the ongoing catastrophe.
Glad to see it in the articles as it's the single most important issue in the world today, imho.
I'm baffled as to why they won't entomb the damned things in cement mixed with borax, Ukraine-style. I mean, WTF, will it just end up being handled like the Centralia, Pa. mine fire???
Love Canal...
considering that within a year every single japanese nuclear facility sheeple-worker will be dead, in short yes....let the bitch burn, and hope people don't talk about it.
you don't realize how large they are. someone commenting on zh posted links to nice graphics right after the disaster started that showed (to scale) what it would take to entomb the facility. this was done by overlaying the giant pyramid at giza, egypt. It would take two such pyramids to cover the reactor buildings. that's a lot of irradiated slave labor.
I'm thinking of mega-trains/cranes with lead shielding, guys zipped in and out in 15-minute work shifts, pressurized cement spraying, something, anything. If the industrious, brave, disciplined, and clever Japanese can't come up with a solution for the problem of ruptured/burning spent fuel ponds, humanity needs to take a serious think-through of worst-case scenarios. These sorts of ponds are located throughout the industrialized world, so does no power + physical disruption = Atomic Mt. Etna? The B.S. is mutating by the minute, and TPTB refuse to engage with reality.
Be baffled no more.
Chernobyl had no "depleted fuel" storage. Nor any depleted fuel.
Fukyoushima has hundreds of times more radioactive (heat & radiation producing) fuel on the site than Chernobyl. Think 100 Chernobyls. And, where are the half million clean-up workers?
All so cleverly balanced in its' huge tonnage in a "pool" right on top of the reactor. The japanese don't like to let wunnerful space like that go to "waste"
So now they are enjoying the benefits of "efficient use of the space on top of the reactors."
I wonder if 'Blinkey' is tasty?
Jesus H...does anyone know if carbon filtration actually gets radioactive iodine, ceasium, etc. out of your water? If not, does anything get it out?
Nothing can really take radiation out of irradiated water, but your bone marrow can absorb it like the dickens.
Nope. Not even the best .2 um ceramic filters with activated carbon inserts will filter out ALL individual atoms. Remember, it's the individual atoms of I-133 and Cs-137 (and other nuclides) which are hot. Since they are so small, they will pass right through any kind of mechanical filtration. Activated carbon will get some heavy metals, but not all. My understanding is that not even RO will filter it since the membrane pores are still too large.
I read that because these radionuclides are more like a gas that carbon will absorb a lot of it. Carbon, ion exchange and RO allegedly get most of it out but who knows. I guess we'll all find out later in life.
Don't fret too much about it, hell, any of us could be run over by an 18-wheeler tomorrow.
Your right.
Get yourself a whole-house carbon filter, a salt based ion exchange water softener, and a Reverse Osmosis drinking water system and you will be better protected than 99.9% of the people on the planet.
Just don't breathe and you will be okey-dokey.
The only factor which removes radiation is time.
Carbon filtration won't do too much to remove iodine and cesium from water. If your carbon filter has lead adsorber in it, there may be a reduction but I can't imagine that the efficiency would be that high. Ion exchange resins won't work that well either because the amount of iodine and cesium in water would be trumped by water hardness (magnesium and calcium) that will be there in much larger amounts.
I am guessing that passing water through a bank of ion exchange tanks, and a reverse osmosis membrane followed by distillation would do a good job.
No way to get it out of the water. I'm lucky as I'm on a 375 deep well on my property but.... it doesn't matter because it is in the food chain. Even if you wash all your veggies it is getting into the soil and then built into the plants and also getting into all meat via their food, air and water. Farmed animals, wild game, everything. Since we are the apex predator we will be the apex accumulators. Unless you have an underground bunker with a few hundred years of food then...
distilling removes all impurities
No, since the radiation "sticks" to the water vapor/steam as it goes up the distillation column.
The water isn't radioactive--we aren't talking about heavy water here, or anything like that. We are talking about radioactive salts in the water. Distillation removes salts. Thus, it removes radioactivity in the form of iodine, cesium, etc.
I am a chemist.
This from Wikipedia (*ducking tomatoes*).... there's other crap in water exposed to radiation, and I don't think that there's any quick fixes for it. IMHO, the lucky ones in an all-out nuclear war are the vaporized ones, of which I hope to be one (if it comes down to that). The "survivors" in the Northern Hemisphere will suffer agonizing, drawn-out deaths.
Water subjected to ionizing radiation forms free radicals of hydrogen and hydroxyl, which can recombine to form gaseous hydrogen, oxygen, hydrogen peroxide, hydroxyl radicals, and peroxide radicals. In living organisms, which are composed mostly of water, majority of the damage is caused by the reactive oxygen species, free radicals produced from water. The free radicals attack the biomolecules forming structures within the cells, causing oxidative stress (a cumulative damage which may be significant enough to cause the cell death, or may cause DNA damage possibly leading to cancer).
As it happens, I'm actually one of the best people in the world to talk to about that, as the technology I work with creates localized high concentrations of reactive oxygen species (ROS) on surfaces to prevent bacteria and other microorganisms from attaching, and creates localized fields of ROS around target cells when used as a drug.
The short answer is that if the water tastes fine and doesn't burn your tongue, the ROS concentration isn't high enough to do any damage. Further, it would take a MASSIVE dose of radiation to make that much. Like, drinking the water they flushed though the reactor core amounts of radiation. Further, those species won't make it through a distillation column either.
To expound, once they get into your body, the peroxides are killed almost instantly by catalase. The only thing left would be hydroxyl radical, which is a problem, but again, dangerous amounts would damage your tongue and burn on the way down, and would probably make you throw up. For a comparison, put a little 3% H2O2 on your tongue. It tastes awful.
Also, ROS don't really cause DNA damage to the extent that by the time the DNA is exposed, they have made a big hole in the membrane, killing the cell. Mutated DNA won't survive long enough to reproduce in most cases (all that I can think of).
Whew, okay, one less ratfuck to worry about. But the food, Doctor, what about the food?
Well, the food is fucked.
:(
damn! this is why i read zh everyday. actual informed comments, rather than the usual name calling flame wars
But where do the salts go? I'm only joking, you are correct about distillation, but you gotta clean the distillation chamber because there is going to be some radioactive scale in there.
Your description is far more precise/better than my "sticking" concept, glad to have scientific minds on here.
Twenty years will "get it out" (mostly).
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"Jesus H...does anyone know if carbon filtration actually gets radioactive iodine, ceasium, etc. out of your water? If not, does anything get it out?"
Reverese osmosis is your best bet for filtration. I just changed out the filters and RO membrane in my Everpure system and they were $300.00.
1986, chernobyl #4. they are still working on it. new encasement. shutting down #'s 1,2,3 now, and may take decaded to complete the decommissioning. they have no idea what to do with all the spent fuel rods! golly gee, i hope someone really smart figures that angle out, soon, don't you?
fuk_u is, for now, beyond human scale. the japanese have been talking, especially with the french engineers, and the putzmeisters are who knows where?
the tsunami took out the cooling systems & back-ups, but the 9.0 quake almost certainly cracked the cooling pools for the spent fuel in #1 & #4. the de-cladding of these exposed spent rods may have resulted in very high temperatures inside #4, especially, with the extra core-load of freshly spent fuel recently added, before the building exploded out the top of the structure.
maybe they'll figure out how to start with some abatement in the next few months.
sick fucking bastards.
This is the way the world ends
This is the way the world ends
This is the way the world ends
Not with a bang but a whimper.
At least Japan still has the SUKI (tm) RELIGION, with over two million members.
Just get into your radioactive suits and go to school kids, nothing to worry about. And for you Americans, we have entertained you with the Royal wedding, ding dong the witch is dead and now the break up of the Terminator, so eat your California radioactive produce and STFU. What else do you want? Fact of the matter is the situation in Fukushima has only continued to get worse. The ground water contamination has spread waaaaaaay beyond the evacuation zone and the facility has been spewing leathal doses of radiation 24/7 since the accident occured. The coverage completely stopped the day after the Nikkei capitulated and forced the BOJ to invest over a trillion yen to save their economy. Much of the radiation has been diverted into the ocean, out of sight out of mind. Just like every other cover-up going on right now, they feel it's better to hide the problem in its present form and deal with it later. Just wait a few more weeks when the spring rains and the Easterly winds start bringing more of the radiation inland. If you thought the silence was deafening now, just wait until then, you will be able to hear a pin drop anywhere on the radioactive Island. Just remember the Nuclear industry and the markets out way any health risks to lemmings, so as people start dropping like flies, they will be celebrating and investing in cremation related services and continue to assure the public that even though this is beyond a category 7 nuclear disaster, everything is still ok.
You can't cremate radioactive bodies. It just spreads the contamination further, into the atmosphere.
http://www.fairewinds.com/updates
I watched this yesterday, it takes a while but it is staggering. Considering the +2000 nuclear tests over the last 70 years, how much more or less radiation is fukushima capable of releasing?
http://wwww.sott.net/articles/show/224502-A-Time-Lapse-Map-of-Every-Nuclear-Explosion-Since-1945
thank you for being an objective voice of reason. See my above point on the Marshall islands tests. Many of the later US and Soviet tests were subterranean, but early on they popped candles at altitude and surface burst level both. Big bombs, hydrogen (fission/fusion) weapons, 10 magnitudes larger than Hiro or Naga and 1000's of times more fissile material than this reactor.
What were the outputs of long life emitters from these tests... some of which plumed all across the midwest and even into the eastern seaboard? Does anyone have an idea of the scale as compared to Fukushima?
LFMayor, while your thanks are appreciated they are underserved, i am no voice of reason! i'm so far down the rabbit hole i don't know which way is up! but I came across and interesting statment to the tune of: do not seek to confirm your opinion, seek to refute it. so i am looking for a way to refute my opinion that fukushima will fuk_us on a grand scale!
Fuku who?
Oh I remember now. They're part of the nuke industry that selects world leaders for us:
Google iaea ElBaradei
and you will see from the nuke industry's own website that from 1997 to 2009 ElBaradei served as Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), an intergovernmental organization that is part of the UN. He is also one of two puppets the nuke industry will make president of Egypt.
http://infowars.com/egyptian-revolution-globalists-own-both-horses-in-tw...
Nuke industry cronies puppeted into Presidential seats? ...great news!!
A combination of carbon filtration/ ion exchange and Reverse osmosis will remove a substantial % of conatmination but a setup needed to remove 99+% is probably unrealistic for an individual. You would need a complex industrial setup to do it and constant monitoring.
One catch of courseis that if you are filtering out radionuclei, the filters and media would need to be changed MUCH more often then is standard, to prevent secondary contamination being geenrated wihtin the system
- A chemical engineer who has designed water purification systems in my past life.
'pop' goes the usual bubble of BS from the BBC (British Bullshit Corporation) who wheeled out an 'expert' (inept corrupt crone) 2 weeks ago to say how "effectively the authorities" were dealing with 'Fukingshambles'
..."effective" as in not a bloody clue what to do and up shit creek without a paddle (paddle being any effective nuclear safety equipment to put a lid on this boiling toxic stew)
the usual public-private calamity clowns would be hilarious if it weren't so serious ...the winds are blowing radioactivity from centre right up to northern Japan... shouldn't need a microwave in half of Japan for the next 30 years now!!!
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- simple denial - deny the reality of the unpleasant fact altogether
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- projection - admit both the fact and seriousness but deny responsibility.
Thank goodness for all those licenses, regulations, ministries and bureaus to protect utility monopolies, er... I mean to ensure the safety of The Public.
How would we ever survive without those?
Hey,the gubberment said,"It's only a tiny leak."
What tipped me off a day or two after all this began, when the Japanese gov was telling their people," 'taint nothing" I noticed just about every embassy and major EU company was telling their people to get out NOW....as in, get on the next plane.
That told me somethin was rotten in the State of Denmark..so to speak.
As a note to critical thinking:
#1 Reactor has likely been like this since early days, so the damage has already been done. And judging by the data, "it could be worse". Yes, you'll get some dose in the USA, but hey - Europe is still testing wild boar, reindeer & sheep [Germany / Sweden / UK respectively] before allowing them to be consumed, so you'll fit right in.
#3 / 4 have been spouting steam clouds intermittently, and leaching fall out into the ocean pretty much since cooling via water was started. I've not seen data on ocean currents, but I'm thinking to test Thai seafood [#1 source of farmed shrimp / prawns for Europe in particular] and not touching anything caught in the pacific for a while.
#4 Falling over (or sinking into the sea) is your actual panic zone: if that goes, all bets are off.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WlBiLNN1NhQ
It is amazing how the media just lies not only Zerohedge called this but Alexjones call it...
GE owns either NBC or CBS, can't remember which (see: http://www.freepress.net/ownership/chart/main for details). GE designed the reactors. do you think they'll be discussing what a horror show this is?
don't know if this was posted here or if it is a valid info site but just a gander says this may be true.
http://blog.alexanderhiggins.com/2011/05/09/mislabeled-xenon-nuclear-radiation-fallout-forecast-map-shows-massive-cloud-22502/
is this real?
Media Ignores Fukushima FireKurt Nimmo
Prison Planet.com
Sunday, May 8, 2011
Image captures of video footage from the Fukushima nuclear plant appear to show a fire. According to Alexander Higgins and other bloggers, the Japanese shut down the webcam after the images below appeared on the internet. Lucas White Field Hixson posted the images last night, according to Higgins. There is also an animation of the images posted on YouTube.
Fukushima is now almost entirely off the corporate media radar screen. If the photos below are accurate, the situation at the plant is out of control and still emitting dangerous levels of radiation. There is no mention of the fire or a possible explosion at the plant by the corporate media.
http://www.prisonplanet.com/media-ignores-fukushima-fire.html
Nimmo was a good political analyst when I read him several years ago, haven't read him in a long time.
Alexander Higgins reports quite a bit of ACCURATE information, however he does toss up stories that are unvetted however WHO IN MSM is doing any vetting? I will tell you this the government and the MSM are one and the same, and you should be CONCERNED, indeed AFRAID.
This is the WORST disaster in the earth's recent history. One would have to go back to alleged prehistoric dinosaur wipeouts for anything similar.
I just sent the following email to every local TV news anchor, reporter and meteorologist I could locate in my area and suggest all others do the same.
We need to take the initiative on this and since our elected federal officials and national media seem to think this is not newsworthy, then maybe the locals can handle it better.
Feel free to copy/paste for your own use
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Dear local editors, anchors, meteorologists and reporters,
I am not a crackpot or a nut-case, just a concerned local (Irondequoit) citizen and would like to know why your networks have ceased all coverage of the Fukushima nuclear disaster in Japan.
Is this a directive from the networks or the government? As far as I can tell, the situation over there continues to worsen daily and the after-effects are not well-known (except what we know from Chernobyl, though this is worse).
Years ago, I stopped writing to national news organizations as they mostly ignore emails and have their own boxed-in agenda, so I am asking local anchors, weathermen and reporters to do what the national media will not and inform the public of what is really happening in Japan.
Here is a link from a story today:
http://www.zerohedge.com/article/fukushima-reactor-1-fuel-rods-fully-exp...
Please take a look AND read the comments. Some of the commenters have valid questions and opinions.
There is much more information being disseminated on the internet, and some of it is rather alarming, such as the EPA shutting down their monitoring stations nationwide.
I am only asking that some of you take a serious look at this and ask yourself why there is no coverage of this ongoing international news event.
If any of you feel the urge to respond to me personally, I would appreciate that and would keep any communication confidential.
I can tell you that, as a former newspaper publisher (Downtown Magazine, circa 1982-89), I would be covering this on a regular basis. There is no argument that Fukushima constitutes a newsworthy event. Are we, as a nation, being purposely kept from the truth? Is the media even independent anymore?
I urge you to look into this matter with all due concern.
Thank you,
the reactor failed... japan will face unreasonable consequences... the US should take a good hard look at itself
March 12th Obama should have DEMANDED that the reactors were entombed Chernobyl style. He didn't he went off to Brazil and started a war with Libya. The consequences of letting the situation deteriorate in those crucial first hours have yet to be seen, but will be tragic.
Watch the 1959 film ON THE BEACH stars Gregory Peck, Anthony Perkins, Ava Gardner, Fred Astaire.
TEPCO admits other two reactor cores have also probably melted down like reactor unit 1 core.
http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/05/12/japan-nuclear-reactor-idUSL3E7...
What many here see coming to this country is true, but how many will be around in good health to deal with it is the question to ask.
We already see the well laid plans of Agenda 21 being played out in the continued contamination of the entire northern hemisphere from the radiation of the Fukushima Event. The population control agenda at work now and more proof they do not care about the environment or their precious Gia.
What most do not know is that besides this disaster in Japan, there have been high doses of radiation being leaked by reactors all over the world long before the Fukushima Event. Hushed up by Govt Electric (GE).
Time allows the accumulations to continue. How many people noticed that the readings on the EPA RADNET map graphs were showing far greater amounts of radiation in the months before the Japan earthquake? As far back as February there were readings approaching 1,000 CPM of gross beta amounts? The radiation leaks are all planed well to slowly eliminate as many as possible world wide so there is little resistance from healthy beings. Now, the EPA records are being covered up.
All the gold, bullets, and canned tuna will not save you unless you have been living in one of the many underground cities for the last year or live in the southern hemisphere which is also being contaminated little by little.
The continued radioactive contamination that is being allowed by the UN and their supposed nuklear watch dog agency that is supposed to protect the people of the world is doing just exactly the opposite by aiding and abetting the other agencies like the EPA, FDA, and NRC to cover up the continuing and accumulating radiation in the whole northern hemisphere. Everyone who breaths and eats is being affected.
And all the while they keep the mass mind distracted into a thousand other directions. Mainly towards the pursuits of money and things that most consider valuable. Divide and conquer are the tools of the same bunch that has brought you all the slow implementation of Agenda 21 and radiation poisoning.
Also, for those who think the sheeple of the USA will do anything but cower in fear, or feel that there will be a great uprising to save the day, please read the book by the good Dr Begich called "EARTH RISING: The Revolution, Toward a Thousand Years of Peace." This book lists the patents and descriptions of some of the "Non-lethal" and "lethal" riot control apparatus the govt has up it's sleeve ready to use on the populace when the chinga hits the fan. Still, the American can be an unpredictable animal and only a short amount of time remains for all this to manifest or not.
Change is the only constant in the universe and there are plenty of paths to peace and salvation. Necessity is the mother of invention and time tells all things.
Is prudence preparation never-the-less?
I'm a bit confused about these maps showing loads of radioactivity dumped on the US. Anyone can buy a geiger counter and check if the level of radioactivity in their area is rising, but I don't see many people posting readings. I would have expected loads of ordinary citizens in the US and Japan to have been checking readings and making lots of noise if the readings were high. I understand about cumulative doses and that there can still be a hazard even if background count rises only slightly but even so...
I don't know. There's obviously lots of really nasty stuff being thrown out of those reactors (the UK got a big dose when Chernobyl blew up and Fukushima seems much worse) and therefore it must be near certain that severe contamination has occurred and will continue for months at least.
I just don't understand why there isn't solid, concrete evidence in the US - some citizens and scientists must be interested in this? People chase tornados, where are the radiation-chasers?
there is a post on the first page of comments with links to several sites that aggregate individuals' geiger count results
"control information to keep people from panic".
... translation ...
"control information to prevent people from making rational decisions and taking rational actions".
Freaking criminals. All the executives and government regulators need to be sent in to clean this mess up. By withholding information they are killing people. Let these scumbags suffer the consequences of their actions.
I notice the ZAMG animation is suddenly looking a lot more 'reasonable', the dissipation/dilution seems to be occurring faster in these later animation runs, compared to the earliest ones. They at least look plausible now, rather than a hand of God smiting the whole northern hemisphere. They also don't seem to be presuming the leak was all going into the stratosphere anymore, which is good, because its unlikely more than a small fraction of it ever did. It's mostly gone into the North Pacific water column, and its microscopic critters and bait fish and is currently migrating into the higher predators (er ... BTW ... that would be us).
But don't worry, EPA has it covered and they are totally credible and serving your best interests, so rest in peace ... er, I meant ... er, ... be at ease ... I mean ... um, ... be cool ... yeah ... that's it ... be cool fools ... and think nice double-think thoughts. YES WE CAN!
But seriously, that leaning No.4 looks like it either structurally 'parallelogrammed', or the foundation was actually on unconsolidated sediments (!) that liquefied due to interstitial water in pore spaces vibrating in the sediment, turning it into slurry, that then resets as a solid after the shaking stops.
In which case this movement most likely occurred during the main initial shock ... i.e. it would have happened before the Tsunami actually hit the reactors, and well before any explosions. Get it?
If that occurred it means you built it in totally the wrong place, in totally the wrong way ... but we already know this, I suppose.
(however it is possible that the sea water inundation and then immediate strong aftershock swarms is what did it, over several successive shocks)
I’m going to presume TEPCO is not suicidal enough to build a nuclear reactor foundation on unconsolidated and semi-saturated marine sediments, in one of the world’s most seismically active 'Benioff' fracture zones … simply because I refuse to believe a structural or Geo-technical engineer, nor construction planner would EVER let this take place (ok … I’m grasping at faint hopes here).
But I can’t escape the strong suspicion that an actual total structural 'parallelogramming' of a modern concrete reactor building must necessarily be physically specified to be totally impossible. Which leaves liquifaction as the explanation for the whole-building tilting.
Either way gravity is not nice to cracked and shattered stress cracked hot concrete structures, especially those full of hot corrosive leaking water.
This thing keeps getting more complicated and ugly with time, and it's VERY likely they are still going to get big after-shocks in that general area.
As for the fuel pool images and video. I suspect we're seeing these from right after they have been topped up, giving the public the impression they're more under control, and much cooler than they really are, 75% of the time.
I bet we subsequently find out that it isn't actually, ... 'being cool' ... as is being presented to the proles. If they will hide the radiation levels in air, water, milk and fish, they will hide and misrepresent ANYTHING to make it look a lot less worse than it clearly is.
And if they don't the Japanese 'market' could swann dive ... so it's in all other Foreign Govt's interests to play along ... as anything is preferrable to a financial crisis!
Be cool fool.
Liquafaction baby. It's why so many buildings fell down during the recent earthquake in Christchurch NZ. Reason enough not too build a nuclear plant on sandy sediment right next to the ocean.
Watch this guy using a wheelbarrow to demonstrate how this sort of sediment turns to liquid when shaken.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1KqlAMWMjOE
Another thing; I notice the rising temperature data for the reheating No.3 was last updated on 11th of May.
http://atmc.jp/plant/temperature/?n=3
They seem to have withheld further updates ... to keep us cool fools.
But they said, "It's only a tiny f*ck'n leak!" God darn it!
Actaully, the moving graph showing the leaking radiation is very good. It shows how Japanese get coated with radiation not once, but twice as hte stuff blows back over the entire northern section of the country. I guess the Japanese are pretty passive...or beaten down to protest. Did GE build this nuclear plant? Or was it a French company?
Sad stuff...very sad.
It is just plain despicable in regards to the way this issue is being covered up. People should rail the NILU people for criminally covering up of the truth like the rest of the supposed protection organizations are doing. The EPA/FDA/NRC/UN ect.
It is pretty dang bad when you cannot even get a simple fallout projection map that is accurate and up to date. Check this out:
Radiation “Storm” Continues as Data is Suppressedhttp://globalcooperative.wordpress.com/2011/05/12/radiation-storm-contin...
There can be no doubt that the big distractions are being orchestrated to take the light off this huge ONGOING subject that does affect us ALL!
Follow the link to read the open letter sent to NILU regarding their suspension of Fukushima Radiation Emission reports. This is a serious development that concerned readers should be aware of:
http://redpillfactory.blogspot.com/2011/05/norsk-institutt-for-luftforsk...