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NHK Reports Fukushima Reactor 1 Is Melting Down
Following up on earlier reports that the fuel rods in reactor 1 were truly exposed, NHK now reports another speculation from long ago, finally confirmed by official sources, namely that the reactor is now melting down. NHK reports that "Tokyo Electric Power Company says the No.1 reactor at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant is believed to be in a state of "meltdown". The utility company said on Thursday that most of the fuel rods are likely to have melted and fallen to the bottom of the reactor. Earlier in the day, it found that the coolant water in the reactor is at a level which would completely expose nuclear fuel rods if they were in their normal position." And from Reuters: "The finding makes it likely that at one point in the immediate wake of the disaster the 4-meter-high stack of uranium-rich rods at the core of the reactor had been entirely exposed to the air." Had been, or are? At this rate of admissions (we claimed precisely this happened in March) the next thing we might get a confirmation of from official sources is that there is actual recriticality going on. Which, of course, will be used by the market as another excuse to BTFD, as under central planning everyone lives happily ever after. Oh, and in the meantime, if we recall correctly, the cores of reactors 2 and 3 have also melted down. But Bernanke will just kiss them and make them better.
And more:
The company believes the melted fuel has cooled down, judging from the reactor's surface temperature.
But it suspects the meltdown created a hole or holes in the bottom of the reactor causing water to leak into the containment vessel.
It also suspects the water is leaking into the reactor building.
The company is planning to fully fill the containment vessel with water by increasing the amount injected.
The company says, however, it must review the plan in light of the latest finding.
And this from Reuters:
One of the reactors at Japan's crippled Fukushima nuclear power plant has a hole in its main vessel following a meltdown of fuel rods, leading to a leakage of radioactive water, its operator said on Thursday.
The disclosure by Tokyo Electric Power Co (TEPCO) is the latest indication that the disaster was worse than previously disclosed, making it more difficult to stabilize the plant.
Workers at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant have been pumping water into at least three of the six reactors on the site to bring their nuclear fuel rods to a "cold shutdown" state by January.
But after repairing a gauge in the No. 1 reactor earlier this week, TEPCO discovered that the water level in the pressure vessel that contains its uranium fuel rods had dropped about 5 meters (16 ft) below the targeted level to cover the fuel under normal operating conditions.
"There must be a large leak," Junichi Matsumoto, a general manager at the utility told a news conference.
"The fuel pellets likely melted and fell, and in the process may have damaged...the pressure vessel itself and created a hole," he added.
The finding makes it likely that at one point in the immediate wake of the disaster the 4-meter-high stack of uranium-rich rods at the core of the reactor had been entirely exposed to the air, he said. Boiling water reactors like those at Fukushima rely on water as both a coolant and a barrier to radiation.
U.S. nuclear experts said that the company may have to build a concrete wall around the unit because of the breach, and that this could now take years.
"If it is assumed the fuel did melt through the reactor, then the most likely solution is to encapsulate the entire unit. This may include constructing a concrete wall around the unit and building a protective cover over it," W. Gene Corley, senior vice president of CTL Group in Skokie, Illinois, said on Thursday.
"Because of the high radiation that would be present if this has happened, the construction will take many months and may stretch into years," Corley said.
Arnie Gundersen, Chief Engineer at Fairewinds Associate, who many have called an insane crackpot, has gotten the recognition he deserves:
TEPCO should consider digging a trench around reactors 1-3 all the way down to the bedrock, which is about 50 feet below the surface, said Arnie Gundersen, Chief Engineer at Fairewinds Associates Inc of Burlington, Vermont, who once worked on reactors of similar design to the Fukushima plant.
He said this should be filled with zeolite, which can absorb radioactive cesium to stop more poisons from leaking into the groundwater around the plant.
The truth is that the situation is getting worse, not better, with each passing day:
"TEPCO seems to be going backwards in getting the situation under control and things may well be slowly eroding with all the units having problems," said Tom Clements with Friends of the Earth, a U.S.-based environmental group.
"At this point, TEPCO still finds itself in unchartered waters and is not able to carry out any plan to get the situation under control," he said.
Matsumoto said the utility would study whether to increase the amount of water it was injecting to overcome the leak and raise the level of water covering the fuel, at the risk of allowing more radioactive water to leak out of the facility.
Nearly 10,400 tonnes of water has been pumped into the reactor so far, but it is unclear where the leaked water has been going. The high radiation levels makes it difficult for workers to check the site, Matsumoto said.
Brilliant: and all the newly pumped water is about to seep either into the groundwater or the ocean.
As usual, we urge any Japanese readers who live in proximity to the reactor to study the immediate plume dispersion forecast:
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Nothing in the NY Times, the Guardian, or any other MSM about this. So I therefore conclude that it ain't happening. Everything at Fukushima under control exactly as the authorities told us almost two months ago. Operation extension cord worked a treat dontcha know.
So will everyone PLEASE move along now - nothing to see here at all.
/sarc off
Fukushima melts down this week, the Treasury market the next one ;)
If you're still hanging out in Tokyo, you've a death wish.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_GieK_55uyY
I would gladly pay you tuesday, for a hamburger today
Unit 731
Can somebody tell me if these three reactors on this video feed have been belching steam like that for a long time or just the last day or two. Considering the press releases today, three reactors belching and one of the buildings sorta starting to melt, I'm wondering if the've pulled out their people.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FptmoVcgpqg
It's been a couple months now.
All three have been putting out steam like that since 3-11?
Essentially, yes. It's now coming from the reactors instead of the cooling stacks.
I'm confused about what I'm confused about and I think I need to sleep now.
Just go to www.enenews.com and scroll their archives.
They all started and stopped steaming at the same time, guessing their spent fuel pool spraying schedule is synced up.
No, it's a constant release of boiled off water occurring constantly. It all appears at the same time because the condtions (cold air) are the same.
It's been going on for a long time. It's most evident in early morning hours like right now because of the colder temperatures. Also, it's not steam. It's condensation.
Tyler how baked in is this news for global markets? I am curious because I was under the impression that actual productivity has been replaced by how fast the fiats can fly off the Hewlett Packard.
Also I want to note that I am writing a new Econ. textbook to replace the Micro/Macro Paul Krugman voodoo I was force fed at university. Luckily for future students it is only one page long. In 2011 I am confident to say that my new revised edition will put to rest all economic question/debate/theory & formulas.
Page 1
What we historically new as an "economy" determined by supply and demand / free markets amongst sovereign nations and individuals with capital ( You know that archaic word that equates to savings in lieu of consumption somewhere down the line) is no longer applicable.
The entire economy due in no small part to a technology known as counterfeiting now allows all supposed lost productivity to be replaced in the event of catastrophe by magic pieces of paper and promises. The good news for the citizens of the world is that you can ALL put down your sickles and head to your recliner to enjoy MTV reality pregnant teen mom broadcasting and whatever physical or innovative work if lost will be replaced by our magic cotten with fancier (And harder to counterfeit) pieces of paper.
Basically citizens of the world.."No Work Today".. all crop growing, oil production, refining, manufacturing and technological advancement to even ditch digging will have their gaps filled by paper. I assure you this will all work out AWESOMELY.
WW3 thermonuclear world exchange has already been priced into the DOW by now Im sure.
But, but, but Karl Douchefuckinger said everything was a okay and that anyone who doubted him would be banned from Market Douchefuck Ticker.com (did one of Karl's alias accounts junk me, hahahahah)
Wait till that molten mass of uraniam and other radioactive elements hits the water table...
Can you say Corium, little bitches.
Corium (nuclear reactor) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation, search "LFCM" redirects here. For the airport, see List of airports by ICAO code: L.The Three Mile Island reactor 2 after the meltdown.
Corium, also called fuel containing material (FCM) or lava-like fuel containing material (LFCM), is a lava-like molten mixture of portions of nuclear reactor core, formed during a nuclear meltdown, the most severe class of a nuclear reactor accident. It consists of nuclear fuel, control rods, structural materials from the affected parts of the reactor, products of their chemical reaction with air, water and steam, and, in case the reactor vessel is breached, molten concrete from the floor of the reactor room.
As I recall Denninger only stated the obvious. That the radiation from Fukushima would not pose a health hazard to people on the West Coast or Hawaii.
Obviously that was true otherwise the Japanese would have had to evacuate Honshu! There is serious problem at Fukushima but let's not make it into more than it is.
kd sez no problem and he is uber-smart, like Jeopardy! smart. ;)
that douche is a douche
first he unpinned the Fukuthread in the not so breaking saying its not the "in-News" anymore
today he pinned it back into breaking because of "NEW" hahahaha development of melting nukefuel
and then threatened to ban people from speculating... Hail my fuhrer.. LOL
They wasted so much time obfuscating that now there may not be time to do what they need to do. I think alot of that water is soaking into the ground and going into the water table and the ocean. In those videos that have been put out, we see steam (which is from the water in the spent fuel rod pools boiling off and also dark smoke from the pools that have no water in them). The reactors may have already burned through the housing, and as one person put it is burning on the ground in the basement of the reactor.
....and from the basement to the earth, and from the earth to the water table, and from the water who knows what other than a hydrogen explosion of some magnitude.
There was recently a 5.3 magnitude earthquake centered in Fukushima, I've been questioning whether the sensors detected an earthquake, or something more sinister.
The Pacific ring of fire is certainly becoming more active lately. The steady flow of aftershocks that are still rocking Japan have made the region appear as an amorphous black blob on this EQ chart.
http://www.oe-files.de/gmaps/eqmashup.html
Regardless of the outcome at Fukushima, things don't appear to be exactly normal from a geology/seismology perspective.
I think alot of that water is soaking into the ground and going into the water table and
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Wouldn't you figure the highly vaunted, much cited and over-wrought water table 'soil and overlying sand' is just about saturated by now?
What do you suppose the flow rate is now, under saturated conditions -
Hydrologically speaking that is?
Every few days the news contains a snippet about highly radioactive water being pumped out of the basements of reactors 5 and 6....located over 500 meters north of the distressed reactors.
You reckon it's teleporting over there? If not, how is it getting there?
#4 is now the "leaning tower of pisa" ... due to soil liquefaction beneath it ... beyond belief.
Or is there a subterranean hydrogen bubble forming that is floating the entire #4 structure?!
I'm doubtful that liquefaction is the cause. That building has been blown to smithereens and the damage appears to have affected areas much deeper than #3's explosion did. #3 really blew its top but #4 appears to have sustained more damage to the structure below the Spent Fuel Pool.
Just the water and spent fuel represents a lot of weight even before you consider the weight of the pool itself...all sitting suspended a couple of stories high on top of cracked and weakened supports.
If liquefaction during the quake were the problem I'm guessing the building would have shown some signs of cracking right after the quake but as I recall it looked pretty normal right up to the morning of the 15th. Well...whatever the morning after the explosion was. I think the explosion was the night of the 14th ..too lazy to check :).
We first heard of plans to reinforce the bottom of the fuel pool a week or two ago so we know the weight has been a concern for awhile.
One big problem is they are blind. They 'think' the fuel is being cooled because the temperature in the reactor is lower than one would find if there was a blob of molten fuel at the bottom of the reactor. OTOH if most of the molten fuel oozed out when it melted a hole in the bottom of the reactor then the temperature inside the pressure vessel would also be lower than expected.
What would James Altucher say about this?
Dear Prime Minsiter Kan:
The American people would like to volunteer Lloyd, Jaime, Timmay, Banana Ben et al to come over and clean up the minor mess at the F-D plant. They will gladly work without safety equipment and pay, since the American people have already paid and covered their asses many times over. If you are interested please pick up the red courtesy phone, and the operator will connect you.
Sincerely
The American People
You forgot to mention that the US's most famous new combat hero, Teleprompter-in-chief, will lead the troops to "kill Fuku".
p.s. if more are needed we can fulfill your needs with our "elected leaders" as they have now been elected to assist you in the containment and cleanup.
Their only luck is that wind is dispersing radioactivity into the Pacific. Under unfavorable weather most of Japan could have been (and might still be) wiped out of human presence for a few centuries.
Yeah they dont give a shit about the rest of us.
:sigh: +1 they so don't give a care about the ocean or the usa that I hope the wind blows toward Tokyo every day.
Looks like they were smarter than we thought in locating their nuclear reactors. Are they all on the east coast? I would love to see a map of jap nucular reactors.
No, they surround the island. They just closed the plant that was the greatest threat to Tokyo.
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-05-12/chubu-to-start-shutting-hamaoka...
http://www.radiationnetwork.com/RadiationNetwork.htm
All the nuke plants are shown around the world.
England, France and Germany have a lot in a small area.
This will be bullish for Margin Hikes.
Look on the bright side, the world was nearly nuked to death in 1983 were it not for a Russian radar station operator realising that the "incomming" was due to crap built Russian satalites not working properly.
Treat every year extra as a BONUS!!!
When this first happened i posted they should dig down to bedrock snd encircle it with a huge casson or however you spell it then cover that shit up.
Now those dildoheads are finally listening to the troll. Dammit get that shit covered up. You japs dont care about any race but your own. You are contaminating the fucking planet.
Entombment isn't an option until the fuel is removed or so spread out that no portion of it can get much hotter than your kitchen toaster. Never has been an option up to this point. Lots and lots of near impossible work to complete before it can be considered in the future.
They entombed chernobyl.
Build a casson around it dug down to the bedrock and pour several feet of boron and sand on it first.
chernobyl was different.
The core's open exposure allowed them to pour in sand, lead, and boron, which melted and permitted the core to mobilize downward out of the reactor, spread out and cool.
The remains of that lava is all throughout the piping of the building and whatnot, like frozen glass.
This is not the situation in Fukushima Dai 1. Chernobyl also did not have massive SFPs containing multiple core equivalents in the plant.
Yes, they did. And they had direct access to the interior of the reactor from the air because the reactor had no containment and the reactor itself was blown wide open.
They were able to dump sand, lead and boron directly onto the molten material, which then melted into the corium, diluting it and allowing it to cool and solidify.
THEN they entombed it.
Good luck getting the hot materials in these reactors cooled down that way. And however it's done, it must be done before you can start pumping concrete in on top of it.
+ Exactly.
GOldman Sachs and JPM needs to send thier bankers to clean up this mess. Start loading the fukcing boats and drop them off. Japan needs help and what better way to show USA's support is start shipping bankers and Tellers. Let the fucking games begin. USA is not far behing in radioactive shitz. O I forgot Americans are too busy with their IPAD and Lindsey Lohan crap. Fuck the sheeples.
This is 'new-s?'
Soooo last month. Whats going on with Charlie these days?
Wake me up when Building 4 collapses.
It's been lies from day one.
Would that be 3 or 4?
Which had more blast damage?
(The ans would be "3".)
Catch up on your reading Trav. Reactor 4's building is the one rumoured to be undergoing a slow-motion collapse at the moment.
Reactor 4's building is the one rumoured to be undergoing a slow-motion collapse at the moment.
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Bzzzzt!
Fail.
Would you like to try answering the question again?
(He who believes in rumors and has no mind for remembering details.)
IF ANYTHING, a portion of #4's remaining roof trusses may fall due to one collapsing column on that one end ... but, you didn't cite that.
http://www.zerohedge.com/article/fukushima-reactor-1-fuel-rods-fully-exp...
Do you need me to chew your food as well?
Hmmm ... a building #3 damage denier ... never met one of those before ...
I'll say it again for the hard of comprehending:
Which had more blast damage? #3 or #4?
Stormdrain, tell us which pic in the link below BEST shows bldg #4 leaning:
http://cryptome.org/eyeball/daiichi-npp15/daiichi-photos15.htm
I have not denied that building 3 is badly damaged. I simply corrected your misunderstanding about which building is rumoured to be in danger of collapse. But, it's difficult when you seem unable to comprehend what is written in pretty plain english.
And Trav, I couldn't possibly tell if any one of those buildings is leaning just by looking at a picture someone else took. If you think you can tell whether or not they aren't leaning just by looking at a picture you are mistaken.
If you had a stationary camera and took a series of pictures over time you could tell whether there was any shift or not....naked eye wouldn't do it and looking at a picture certainly won't do it.
Ident.
Clearly, #4 is a "leaning tower of pisa" ...
Notice that I addressed him as "Trav", on purpose, in two different posts in that exchange. Since neither Ident7777 nor Trav777 rushed in to correct me...I think I just confirmed my longstanding suspicion that they are one and the same person :).
Busted :)
Pucker time folks, if even this edamame bean of truth has been allowed, the fuckage must be epic.
Mere weeks ago all hope was pinned on a power cable, to spraying water, to releasing "the most detailed pictures yet!, to..........letdown.
Any word on the fukush 50? ....at the very least aren't they news worthy?
Fukushima Fifty was yet another myth, turns out they mostly hire subcontractors with little or know training like the 3 guys who were walking around in radioactive water wearing street shoes.
Alliteration is more compelling than truth, or `why I hate the press`.
This is bullish for the environment.
Miyagi is pretty screwed
http://falloutphilippines.blogspot.com/2011/05/daily-life-in-miyagi-pref...
Man what is wrong with the Japanese? They stupidly give away all their household wealth to their @#$%ing govt through JPB purchases, and now they're going to die of cancer cuase the same @#$%ing govt tells them everything is ay ayt?
Hey Japanese!!! Wakie wakie!! Rise and shine. Time to start Q U E S T I O N I N G your authorities.
Buy Silver! Insist on Radiation Testing!! Your're government doesnt give a @#$% about you. You are their faceless statistics.
Some friends of mine living in Japan have started an information page:
http://www.nuclear-codex.org/doku.php
It will be updated with links to the scientific publications (for those that like to reference information), the scope is to inform in a brief way, so citizens can reach their own conclusions.
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A friend of my girlfriend wants to go to Japan on a holliday now. She figured that since Justin Bieber is going there and there's not much warnings in the MSM, it's safe. She doesn't know what a Geiger Counter is, or what a brain tumor feels like. But, incidentally, I don't either.
I was this ** close to encourage her to go, but she's a sweet girl, and the world needs dumb sweet girls too... Man, I get so tired of this coma that people seem to live in. If I'd be able to choose my own path, and put myself out of harm's way, I wouldn't mind. But now, we're dependent on our fellow sheep for our collective survival.
Government here is building a new ABWR. The lessons learned in Japan have not deterred them to select this particular type, and they're ignoring a majority in popular opinion against it. "Stay the Course".......
It will not end well.
Japan, the land of retribution!
This all started on March 16th....and the Japan Gubberment said,"but it's a tiny leak."
Now look! Next we will be seeing 100 foot green reptiles crawling out of the Sea.....5 foot watermellons, and children with even lower IQs then we have now!
Tokyo Electric Company official comments of the situation:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4EYlXay0njE
Mark my words. They will never, repeat never get this fucking disaster cleaned up (e.g., under control). The best they'll be able to do is entomb the whole mess in massive amounts of concrete. They will probably design some once-through cooling scheme using ocean water in (at the plant) but the outflow will need to be repeatedly loaded on dedicated tankers and dumped 500 miles off the coast (because it will be a stinking radioactive soup.
This can be the only solution. They will kill thousands of workers trying to "clean-up" this radioactive cesspool and still not make any headway. The health and technological barriers are insurmountable.
Sorry folks, everyone thinks technology can "fix" everything but it can't. This is the best they will be able to do and the sooner they figure it out the better.
I don't want to be a Debbie Downer, but you do know that the island of Honshu is right in hurricane alley. A major hurricane making landfall near the reactors might level them in their damaged condition and many hurricanes spawn tornadoes which are great little radioactive dust spreaders.
We might look back and remember May as being one of the "better" months for the Fukushima disaster.
I agree. It won't be possible to entomb and control it.
1. they've build the plants too close to each other. an entombment will therefore have to be huge, and because of the location on the coastline, susceptable to hurricanes and tsunamis. This earthquake won't be the last.
2. an entombment will not stop the contamination of leaking out through the bottom, it's already reached ground water and is spreading across the province. (also upstream, since groundwater does that)
3. they'll have to cool it down first, you can't poor concrete on hot cores. in Chernobyl the russians were lucky, the reactor had no vessel and this allowed the sand to fuse with the uranium core lava, thus stopping the recritical, and cooling the core down. This could in Japan take years, especially now there's been core breaches.
Are the First responders still alive?
HOW can I donate? That is a slow death. HERO's they are!
What kinda jacked up world do we live in when 3 or 4 or 6 nuclear reactors melting down doesnt event warrant a mention on the nightly news?
A fucking sad , sick and wretched one. The Great Cleanse is coming though. Going to be a lot of collateral damage unfortunately. We have ourselves to blame. The Hubris of post WW2 society must exceed that of the late Roman era. Checks and balances.
GANDALF: Look to my coming at first light on the fifth day. At dawn, look to the east.
return of the (west) men savior
erh wait a sec isnt gandalf a.k.a Obama??
i know there's gandalf the grey.. white.. gandalf the black?? huh
The MSM will only mention it in a decades time when there are little eight legged 5 eyed Japanese wandering the streets.
... and to the meltdown; with infertility for all.
Oh crap. I've actually tried to limit my access to real news as it seems to have a correlation with alcohol intake.
Edit: Positive that is .....
...but, but, it's all good for stocks and that's the main thing <sarc>off
The Japanese have to work out which reactors and fuel pools and reprocessing sites in Japan are seriously vulnerable to natural and accidental actions, and therefore genuinely dangerous, and then work out which of these can be engineered back to relative 'safety'. And the ones that can't be have to be permanently switched off. That process has started, but it's going to take a long time and Japan is going to have bad power continuity for many years to come as a result.
Which might actually be viable, if Japan were not easily the most indebted country on Earth, as a proportion of GDP and was not reliant on imported minerals and energy, (sans a self-fueling plutonium breeder-reactor program which turned out to be deformed and still-birthed).
Don’t know about you but I do not believe in MMT theory fantasies.
The reality remains that if they want a gigantic global export economy in Japan they need an economically and technically viable nuclear energy program. And that isn't going to be tenable, as Fukushima continues to show the horrible environmental flaws and dangers of the current ‘cheap nuclear power’ approaches (which are not cheap at all).
I'm in South Korea...I would love to know where I can get permanent access to that radiation fallout map...anyone got a URL? Would be much appreciated...
http://www.zamg.ac.at/aktuell/index.php?artikel=ZAMG_2011-03-15GMT08:26&seite=1
Japan Wind Map
http://www.weatheronline.co.uk/weather/news/fukushima?LANG=en&VAR=niluja...
(use the loop feature)
Thank you.
CCJ charts looks like more bad news gonan come out of Japan.
It's all fun and games until a reactor, or two, or three, or four, melt(s) down.
And that apparently has now happened.
Nasty shit on the horizon, and by no means limited to Honshu, men.
On a long enough time line, the radioactivity of materials, some of which have incredibly long half-lives, and are now belching from Fuk-U-Up-Shima, will directly and adversely hundreds of millions of people up, to some degree or another.
Honshu is toast and the forecast for Tokyo grows epically more ominous by the day. Big swaths of the population in China, Korea, Taiwan and Singapore, in addition to Japan, should be shitting jade bricks right about now.
Hedge accordingly.
I'm going long on Zeolite.
news from sunday, may 8, 2011: http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/nn20110508x1.html
news today, may 13, 2011: http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/05/12/us-japan-nuclear-reactor-idUST...
what a sick joke, eh?
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!
I took this picture of Fukushima last night, so before this story broke.
Check the vapour cloud in middle of the plant. Not what you want to see hanging over a nuclear reactor I would wager...
http://yfrog.com/h331711830j
Unless I am mistaken of course and it is just cold and that is a guards breath or something...
This story will again be forgotten, and not even this site will report on the strange absence of any news on it, within 1 week.
check this out for more bad news .... can you believe the reference to ZARDOZ ... is it dark humour or subtle warning?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=haMePBnkJhY&feature=uploademail
here is the link to the images
http://zardoz.nilu.no/~flexpart/fpinteractive/plots/?C=M;O=D
I'd nearly forgotten about those carcinogenic radioisotopes that persist in the environment for thousands of years ... I mean, there's been the royal wedding, and the assassination of bin Laden and all ... isn't it funny how the human mind works? :)
Thanks for your characteristically excellent journalism in speaking the truth about real events.
Could you just remind me about Fukushima every few weeks for the next couple of thousand years please?
"There must be a large leak," Do ya think? This took a freaking scientist to figure out? WTF?
Well, it looks like they're edging toward admitting the problems with the radioactive water on site. More info in this article than I've seen on the topic anywhere 'til now:
http://www.asahi.com/english/TKY201105120189.html
Quite a few admissions I've never seen before in that report. More glowing sand lances coming soon...
Still an inadequate sense of urgency among the international and Japanese 'experts' who have shown themselves incapable of operating at a military-style pace of expanded thinking and rapid decision making.
The Areva contract was supposed to be 'the plan' for the water. Highly doubtful but it let them stop talking about it for a little while. The 'odor eater' sheets of 'special material' were supposed to be 'the plan' for the main structures and the air contamination. Also highly doubtful.
Now the situation on the ground is deteriorating further, remember that water and gravity are very strong forces of entropy, which will tend to, hmmmm, simplify complex systems.
So time, which they apparently thought was on their side because the decay heat will slowly moderate, is actually not on their side, because the systems can collapse faster than the decay heat can cool.
IMHO we never ever heard anything from the international community in terms of significant, 'crazy' engineering discussions that would be commensurate to the scale of the disaster at hand. This means that the desire to not embarrass TEPCO (big business) simply outweighs other considerations of public health, environment, etc.
A water decontamination contract and giant fabric softener sheets. O......K........then.
I won't forget your earlier description of this mess as a gutshot wound to a whole country.
Like in the westerns where the side kick gets gut shot and his pals all assure him it'll be ok while looking at each other and shaking their heads.
I'll be ok, Josey, I just need to rest a while.
So, this isn't news and as I recall, some radiation monitoring stations and testing in the US and elsewhere have stopped reporting. I assume the reason is to avoid alarming the population because there is no solution. The radioactive particles will keep wafting over the planet and there isn't anything anyone can do about it so why frighten the people. God. It's 9:30 am where I am. Is it too early to start drinking?
does anyone know what's the deal w/ ex-skf.blogspot?
Yesterday he had two long translations of the latest TEPCO presser (which included the not so encouraging news that TEPCO couldn't deny the possibility that temp readings at the bottom of the RPV on #1 were so low because the core was not at the bottom anymore), but today (Friday 13th) those latest articles have gone AWOL.
Google blogs has been down and posts were lost and had to be reposted. I could not access my blog for almost 2 days total.
got it, thanks
on Fri, 05/13/2011 - 14:26
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Google blogs has been down and posts were lost and had to be reposted. I could not access my blog for almost 2 days total.
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Google is controling the word count, cloud.. negativity!
and it would seem.. some good info as well!
Google is team "Populace Management" on the "Inter-Webs!" BITCHEZ!!!
does Japan need to borrow a fucking garden hose and a water pump?
the ocean is not a mile a-fucking-way!
How hard is it? to keep water on the fucking rods? how stupid does someone need to be to Not be able to keep water on the fucking rods?
how many slant eyed fucking morons does it take to blow up the world? is this pay back? what we need to do is fucking nuke that site to seal in whatever there is! and fuck them! for not being able to get pumps and garen hose to the site.
call it a natural thinning of the herd, based on them being beyond fucking stupid!
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...
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...
Sorry if this has already been posted...but I think it says a lot..why is the Government of Japan still allowing the fuckers who made this mess to be in charge of the clean-up (if indeed any clean up is even possible - which I doubt)
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2011/05/17/3219477.htm?section=justin