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It's Official: "Nuclear Fuel Has Melted Through Base Of Fukushima Plant" ... "Far Worse than a Core Meltdown"
The Telegraph reports today:
The
nuclear fuel in three of the reactors at the Fukushima Dai-Ichi nuclear
plant has melted through the base of the pressure vessels and is
pooling in the outer containment vessels, according to a report by the
Japanese government.
The findings of the report, which has
been given to the International Atomic Energy Agency, were revealed
by the Yomiuri newspaper, which described a "melt-through" as being
"far worse than a core meltdown" and "the worst possibility in a
nuclear accident."
***
The pressure vessel of the No. 1
reactor is now believed to have suffered damage just five hours
after the March 11 earthquake and tsunami, contrary to an estimation
released by Tepco, which estimated the failure at 15 hours later.
Melt-downs of the fuel in the No. 2 and No. 3 reactors followed over
the following days with the molten fuel collecting at the bottom of
the pressure vessels before burning through and into the external
steel containment vessels.
***
"The recovery effort
at the plant is likely to be more difficult as they will not be able
to use their previous plan to contain the fuel," Yoshiaki Oka, a
professor of nuclear science at Tokyo's Waseda University told The
Daily Telegraph."So it may take longer and be more difficult, but it is something they have to do.
Other portions of the Telegraph article underplay the severity of the crisis, such as:
The fuel appears to be stable at present as it is being cooled by water
pumped into the vessels, although it will complicate the emergency
recovery plan put forward by the government.
***
But
we now know that this happened at the very beginning of the accident,
so I see no particular additional affects on human health, he said.
Alexander Higgins notes:
The
Telegraph report once again echoes statement from TEPCO that the fuel
at the plant is now being cooled and that plant is stable. However, we
have heard the same exact statements from TEPCO day after day for
almost three months now. We heard it when there was no meltdown. and an
were assured the rods were stable so the risk of meltdown was little to
none. The media printed the statements.
When we were told that
there was only a partial nuclear meltdown under way and there is no
comparison between Fukushima and Chernobyl. Again, TEPCO and the media
told use there was no danger because the fuel rods were stable and
being cooled.
Then were found out this was in fact a level 7
incident on par with Chernobyl and were reassured the plant and fuel
rods were stable.
Then they reveal a full meltdown occurred at 3
reactors, and the media again reported the fuel rods were stable and
being cooled.
Now even with news that the nuclear lava inside the
reactor has melted through the base of 3 reactors they once again
print the same lies again that the cool rods are being effectively
cooled and are in stable condition? Should we believe them this time
after 3 months of lies?
The media is also still reporting that
there is no risk to human health in Japan. What a joke. Does anyone
seriously believe these lies?
Indeed, as NHK reported Saturday:
The
operator of the damaged Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant says steam was
observed coming out of the floor of the No.1 reactor building, and
extremely high radiation was detected in the vicinity.***
TEPCO
said it found that steam was rising from a crevice in the floor, and
that extremely high radiation of 3,000 to 4,000 millisieverts per hour
was measured around the area. The radiation is believed to be the highest detected in the air at the plant.TEPCO says the
steam is likely coming from water at a temperature of 50 degrees
Celsius that has accumulated in the basement of the reactor building.
</blockquote>And Japan Times reports today:<blockquote>
The
government should consider evacuating children and pregnant women from a
wider area around the Fukushima No. 1 power plant because radiation
levels remain high even outside the 20-km no-go zone, Kumi Naidoo,
executive director of Greenpeace International, said Thursday in Tokyo.Naidoo's
team of radiology experts found hot spots that had a maximum hourly
reading of 45 microsieverts of radiation alongside a school zone.***
During
the news conference, Jan Beranek, an expert on radiology from
Greenpeace International who joined Naidoo's trip to Fukushima,
recommended that the government widen the evacuation zone to at least 60
or 70 km from the power plant.He said there were parks and public spaces where the level of radiation activity hit 9 microsieverts per hour.
Even
some nursery schools that have already undergone a decontamination
process had a relatively high reading of 0.5 microsievert per hour, he
said. That would translate into an annual exposure of 5 millisieverts,
which was the evacuation threshold for Chernobyl, Beranek said.The
government recommends a maximum intake of 1 millisievert a year during
normal times, but raises that to 20 millisieverts in times of a nuclear
accident.Beranek recommended that people in Fukushima residing
in areas with high levels of radiation wear masks and remain inside
their homes.Radiation from some kinds of particles "is not
something that goes away in weeks or months," he said, explaining that
some chemical elements can be absorbed into organs and bones.While
expressing concern that the level of decontamination "hasn't been
adequate" in Fukushima, Naidoo also said he fears that people there
haven't received sufficient information from the central government.Pointing
out that many children living near areas with high levels of radiation
are playing outdoors without proper masks, he criticized the government
for being "too slow" in explaining the risks of exposure.
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It is actually getting to the point now where the whole society is getting infected with this mentality. It shows up in who gets promoted and who gets shafted on the job. It shows up in an increasing lack of respect that people show for each other. Maybe I'm too sensitive to this, but perhaps others could confirm this. I'm convinced that attitudes from the top always percolate downward into the rest of society over time. Everyone is getting corrupted by these attitudes--that it's ok to lie, cheat and stab people in the back to get ahead. That's called "being a winner".
seeing the same phonmenon, not only with judges and elected officials but with clients and regular folk. Orwellian maybe, the more we see this told and practiced by authority, the more we accept it, the more we model it. Scares the shit out of me.
quote of the year
and from John Q Public to boot
Wow, 41 junks, I only got a measly 10 on #1356476, I'm jealous :)
Jamail, D. (2011, April 19). BP anniversary: Toxicity, suffering and death. Al Jazeera
http://english.aljazeera.net/indepth/features/2011/04/20114161153981347.html
Also
dead dolphins
http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/03/25/us-dolphins-gulf-idUSTRE72O3JO20110325
LA state has 417 confirmed reports of people ill from oil spill
http://www.alternet.org/environment/150637/mystery_illnesses_plague_louisiana_oil_spill_crews/
Reese,
Oh, there's a lot of the Gulf screwed.
There is a 2-3" tick oil sludge coating the Gulf floor over a huge area.
Nothing will live there, for as long as anyone here lives, and likely far after we're all gone.
I don't doubt that, and it sucks. I just felt like jabbing hysterical G.W. I mean look at the guy here who thinks both Korea's, most of China and Russia are goners. I'm just hoping for some dead Japanese fish at this point. You can buy a fucking scientist to say whatever you want them to. The truth seems entirely illusive these days.
You know, Bobby boy, even in remote Canadian wilderness lakes it isn't safe to eat more than a couple of fish meals a week. That's from all the mercury and other nasty shit that falls everywhere from burning coal. So it's not really funny that the oceans are now a toxic waste dump.
GW is at least keeping up the awareness. It is not hysterical at all. It's very measured given the scope and cover up attempts. The media and govs would like nothing more than to have everyone forget after the 5 minute news cycle turns back to celebrity gossip. They are essentially the paid shills here.
BTW, some of your stuff is funny... I liked the whole bitterness thing.
Well said, bravo everyone - its been good banter.
I know Reese, isn't it great to poke fun at human tragedy? The Japanese sure appreciate it. They also love your observation that an independent scientist is just as suspicious as a government and industry spokesmodel.
In my experience serious guy, people like you who declare themselves atop the moral high ground are usually the biggest scum-bags in the real world. So please go sell your pristine morality to someone else...
"Pristine" is the wrong package for morality. How about corrupted or hypocritical? If you were just trying to be sarcastic or use humor to deflect stress I apologize. I am certainly guilty of that vice. This shit is just starting to get to me. The last thing I claim is the moral high ground. That said, as the shit hits the fan, all any of us is a little humanity.
Mutant Trolls Bitchez
People,
this shit is likely going down and like the weather, we can't control it. Either have some fun on the way down or fuck off and wait in fear of your impending doom whilst clutching your metal trinkets.
Not against metal (got some), definitely against human suffering (got some)...but gd, better to laugh than cry.
just another ecological warmup for boy models
Idiot.
Don't be so hard on yourself. Maybe Global Warming, I mean Climate Change will work out for you. A fan of pussy French economists can dream. Now if only those fucking polar bears would disappear already...
Reese Bobby - another climate-change denying moron. Keep drinking that Koch Brothers Kool-Aid boy. Follow the money if you want to understand where idiots like Reese get their denialist talking points from.
Plumpfucker - The climate change blather was an attempt by the Big Banks to control the power industry while creating a massively profitable carbon credit trading market. It didn't work. Deal with it.
Plumplechook
Funny how money always runs toward those cherry picked for defamation.
The side that walks with God never has tainted money funneled to various troughs.
Mote meet beam.
I see you are a troll ignoramus rather than a mere idiot.
The Fukushima triple melt through has nothing to do with global warming except in the addled mind of a status quo cheerleading troll.
That is it! The Fukishima triple melt- three Kobe patties served steaming hot with teriyaki sauce and a bowl of rice noodle rods.
Slather on the Strontium wasabi (my, my -- SPICY!!)
Only broke people talk like you. Sorry things didn't work out for you. The bitterness thing is probably your best route now...we agree on that.
LOL! +1
In honor of my getting junked, (no hard feelings George):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tceH2RS6V5I
Hey! You can junk yourself!
i dont know if i liked you before! but i love you now bobby!!!!
fuck those homo, pussy fags who junked you! they are all boy prostitute dick sucking, meth luving, conservative republicans who want the koch bros to tea bag them!
JW n FL
The voice of experience eh?
What have I done? Not me crazy guy! I saw Showboat on Broadway! I don't drive an American car! I have a duck gun that reduces recoil! Noooo................. Pleaseeee..............................
Once it gets to the water table, it's goodbye Japan, both Koreas, large part of China and Russia.
Don't tell me these things. Not now man.
When it reaches the water table it will either be an immediate explosion from contacting the oxygen from the water or just a short trip through the well drained sand or gravel, I'm assuming the plant is set on, and directly out to sea. Otherwise these big balls of lava can simply keep penetrating the earth's crust until it enters the fault line directly beneath the plant and weeeee, that'll be some fun for the whole world.
I am surprised this has not already happened after nearly three months...Where is mother earth now in Japan...it must be sparkling like at Tchernobyl all over the island!
What happened to the "circus tent" cover-up plan? I thought they were just going to bag it and tag it. Guess they forgot about the meltDOWN part.
"The media is also still reporting that there is no risk to human health in Japan. What a joke. Does anyone seriously believe these lies?"
Ignorance and denial, not belief.
If this isn't a tacit admission that everyone there has been as fucked as possible from the start, maybe I need to stop reading.
American business people are traveling to Tokyo like nothing ever happened. I know that. I don't know how smart that is...
radiation is transitory
2 weeks 2 days ...
It was funny. Go buy yourself a sense of humor. Feel free to post my time here.
+1
or a sarcasm detector
It made me smile.
GW try to find out about this "we now believe XYZ happened 5 hours after....".
This is an attempt to deflect response responsibility for not doing the right thing 1-15 weeks after this all happened. Is called a cover up
What a thin-skinned crybaby dipshit dumbass you are (G)utless (W)imp.
Whatsamatta GW, aren't newbs allowed to snark on your posts?
Or is it just a "no snark allowed" this is serious business reaction?
Either way, I'd say you're a bit touchy. In this case snark serves as a form of gallows humor, and newbs... well they're just newbs.
No harm, no foul, I'd say.
imo the whole thing of how long you've been here is absurd. the comments stand or fall on their own merits. indeed the "radiation is transitory" can be read straight or as satire on the tptb telling the rest all is well.
If you need a sarc tag to understand that, then...
I don't get it.
Between the trolling by numbers and pointing out the old-schoolers who have a new handle and reprimanding them for a valid opinion, GW you really cheapen your contributions here.
They are all valued and very good consolidations of available information but you really should relax about comments posted here. You risk the path of Cognitive Dissonance who will snipe at anyone remotely critical of his endless essays. Needless to say, I don't read his stuff any more.
This is good information. Present it and get out of the way. Please.
My two cents.
Orly
Well said orly.
i'm the same with CD. He is on this site for his own ego-trip.
Thanks.