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Japan Finally Admits TOTAL Meltdown at 3 Nuclear Reactors Within Hours of Earthquake ... And More Than DOUBLES Estimate of Radiation Released After Accident
For months, Tepco and Japanese officials refused to admit that there had been any meltdowns at Fukushima.
Then they said there were meltdowns at reactors 1, 2 and 3 ... but they might have only been partial meltdowns.
Finally, today, they admitted the obvious: there were total meltdowns at all 3 reactors. As CNN reports:
Japan's
Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant experienced full meltdowns at
three reactors in the wake of an earthquake and tsunami in March, the
country's Nuclear Emergency Response Headquarters said Monday.
The
nuclear group's new evaluation, released Monday, goes further than
previous statements in describing the extent of the damage caused by an
earthquake and tsunami on March 11.
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Reactors 1, 2 and 3 experienced a full meltdown, it said.
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But
Tokyo Electric [on May 24th] released a second possible scenario for
reactors 2 and 3, one that estimated a full meltdown did not occur. In
that scenario, the company estimated the fuel rods may have broken but
may not have completely melted.
***
Temperature data showed
the two reactors had cooled substantially in the more than two months
since the incident, Tokyo Electric said in May.
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Tokyo
Electric avoided using the term "meltdown," and says it was keeping
the remnants of the core cool. But U.S. experts interviewed by CNN
after the company's announcement in May said that while it may have
been containing the situation, the damage had already been done.
"On
the basis of what they showed, if there's not fuel left in the core, I
don't know what it is other than a complete meltdown," said Gary Was, a
University of Michigan nuclear engineering professor and CNN
consultant. And given the damage reported at the other units, "It's
hard to imagine the scenarios can differ that much for those reactors."
As the Japan Times reports today, the Japanese Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency has "more than doubled its estimate of the radioactive material ejected into
the air in the early days of the Fukushima nuclear crisis".
Japan Times also notes
that plutonium has been found in soil outside of the nuclear complex -
about 1.7 kilometers from the front gate of Fukushima. However, the
plutonium probably came from the so-called "hydrogen explosions", which
hopefully won't happen again. (However, nuclear expert Arnie Gundersen believes that at least some of the explosions were caused by nuclear reactions in the fuel pools.)
While it is tempting to believe that the worst of the crisis is over, some of the reactors are more radioactive than ever, and nuclear chain reactions may still be occurring.
And it's not just the reactors themselves.
Remember that - when the spent fuel rods stored onsite within the reactor buildings are included - the amount of radioactive fuel at Fukushima dwarfs Chernobyl.
For background, see this.
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Thanks GW. The whole pumping incident was a big charade or these dumb shits thought they were really cooling something. I'm sure they have rooms full of gages telling them Danger Will Robinson. Temperature reading had to be off the charts. White Hot Baby!
Thanks for your work GW.
Is there such a thing as "manufacturing normalcy bias"? The MSM waits almost three months to tell the public what many already knew. At this point, the incident is ancient history for vast majority of the people, who remain fast asleep. They've already largely forgotten about the incident, as there were no immediate and direct repurcussions on their lives.
Thanks, GW.
Reminds me of "revised figures." Yup, I'd say it's the manufacture of illusory normalcy, all right.
All governments are incapable of telling the truth, it is in their DNA. I belive the earless rabbit more than the gubmint. Thanks for your strong work GW.
PUD
He's only been here 5 weeks 3 days.
Give him a chance to get the hang of it.
Maybe it's Captain Faggard himself.
on Mon, 06/06/2011 - 14:08
#1343848
"Everything you say is suspect. Every word that comes out of your mouth is like a turd falling into my drink." -Bill Hicks
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either you are a Dis-Information Plant! or you are just so stupid that you sound like one!
It's a basement dweller, been here 5 weeks.
I logged in just to junk you.
On another note: Keep posting GW.
HA HA HA HA me too!
Then drink up shit for brains!
How did Zetetic get his coment removed? Now I'm junked because folks think I'm trashing GW. Here's Zetetic's commment:
by Zetetic
on Mon, 06/06/2011 - 14:08
#1343848
"Everything you say is suspect. Every word that comes out of your mouth is like a turd falling into my drink." -Bill Hicks
you will never be thirsty here.....
TITCR
+1, sir.
Thanks for keeping us updated on Fukushima, keep postin GW.
Don't forget that the MO of the authorities so far has been to paint this picture as being much better than reality.
So, with these new admissions does it mean that the authorities are finally coming clean, or does it really mean that the problem is actually even worse than they are admitting?
Follow this string of logic here:
First, check out this video that show radioactive steam being released from somewhere in the guts of Unit 1:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=diFpPx4ie5A
It appears that this steam may be coming up from the basement of reactor 1. Remember that steam means water is boiling.
If this is indeed the source of the steam then consider that we know the basement is flooded with millions of gallons of water.
Now ask yourself, what in this situation could make millions of gallons of water boil?
Could it be that the nuclear fuel has fallen into the basement, acheived criticality, and is now heating all that water?
TPOG
However you slice it, for withholding information these bastards at TEPCO will be responsible for the cancers and premature deaths of tens of thousdands of children.
Not to mention billions of rabbit ears.
Damn, you beat me to it.