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TEPCO Releases First Robot-Captured Video From Inside Reactors 2 And 3
Now that TEPCO has finally procured some iRobots (with about a one month delay) with freaking webcams attached to their heads it has released the following stunning footage from inside Reactors 3 and 2, showing the situation in the only reactor which has plutonium as well as one of the reactors to have experienced an explosion. While we doubt the validity of the data, according to IDG the radioactivity level in Reactor 3 is 57 millisieverts/hour. In reactor 2 the radioactivity is disclosed as being too high for workers to enter.
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Hmmm, can't really trust these guys at all anymore. Meanwhile, looks like JP Morgan just hammered the price of Silver.
http://silverliberationarmy.blogspot.com/
JPM will lose. Soon.
The skull and cross bones that appear at 0:28 in the lower right tell you all you need to know.
HOLY MOLY!!! RADIATION IN REACTOR 2 ASTRONOMICAL! HUMAN BREAST MILK TAINTED WITH IODINE 137!!
http://fiatsfire.blogspot.com/2011/04/piigs-really-do-fly-greek-debt.html
ANARCHY BREAKS OUT IN GREECE! THE SHIT IS HITTING THE FAN NOW! SILVER AT $45.80!!!
Paging TRAV7777
Paging TRAV777
We need your Nuclear Sock Puppet Expertise stat.
He drank the radioactive rainwater and is now in a coma..... i knew that when radiation was found in human breast milk it was as bad a chernobyl and getting worse because of its location!!! GAME OVER FOLKS!
by trav7777
on Tue, 03/15/2011 - 22:58
#1058848
when the fuck did I ever say all was well?
I simply said stop being fucking hysterical and stop the paranoia.
Shit is most certainly not all well...the most negative outcome now revolves around spent fuel. As it boils off its water pool, it becomes exposed and this DRAMATICALLY increases the amount of radiation at the plant complex, making it impossible for humans to work there.
They simply have to keep this shit underwater to have a prayer here. Absent that, they have to allow all cores to meltdown and all fuel rods to melt down (which will actually help disperse heat) but prevent a zirconium fire at ALL costs.
A major fire or explosion will place core elements airborne, which is starts to get into the Chernobyl range of outcomes
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flag as junk (8)
http://www.zerohedge.com/article/nhk-shows-live-coverage-smoke-billowing...
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Given this is what he really said, what's with the on-going character-assasination and trolling BS?
That's the position Trav7777 stated 4 days after this nuclear emergency started.
There were actually quite few people who stated similar things before him, and he was in fact correct, in most regards, throughout this.
'Sushi' was aother zh-er who got it spot-on, almost immediately that the reactors blew.
The content of what trav actually said, in the wake of that, is substantially different from the perception people now troll-out about it based on how he said it.
And in that resect, he did indeed screw the pooch.
But that's another matter entirely - so quit the rediculous trolling and BS-athon.
wow
Wow nothing. The radiation counter was strapped to Robot A, no telemetry, so the camera on Robot B was pointed at it to "read" the display. Hokey fucking bullshit par excellence. Human workers had to open doors for robots to enter electrical rooms, not reactor floors - to do what? - Public Relations Photo Op sightseeing.
Wow nothing. The radiation counter was strapped to Robot A, no telemetry,
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There may be a market here for mission specific equpment here; obviously, they are going for 'light and cheap' here using COTS (commercial of-the-shelf) gear ad hoc'd ...
lol...several dozen
Could that be 10 or 20? As in 10 or 20 dozen sieverts.
sieverts? that's not about the NGas, is it??? LOL!
i watched arnie, yest, and he thinks #3 is not too raging outa control. maybe they could start the entombment there, fairly soon...??? who knows???
what the hell happened to the putzmeisters? stuttgart wants to be paid in gold to ship? france decided to use them against moQ in libya? what has the UN done, now?
They are in Wisconsin, and the union leaders want overtime and more bene's before they ship them.
The Yomiuri Shimbun
The Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency has reported to a Cabinet Office safety panel that nuclear fuel pellets in the Nos. 1 to 3 reactors at the quake-hit Fukushima power station are believed to have partially melted.
The report was the first time the agency, an organ of the Economy, Trade and Industry Ministry, has acknowledged that nuclear fuel has melted at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant.
Hidehiko Nishiyama, a spokesman for the agency, told a press conference Monday about the agency's report to the Nuclear Safety Commission. The agency had previously only described the nuclear fuel as having been at least 3 percent "damaged."
According to Nishiyama, damage to reactors can be described in three phases of increasing severity. In the first phase of initial damage to a reactor's core, the metallic casing surrounding the fuel pellets are damaged but the pellets remain intact. The second phase involves some melting of nuclear fuel. In the third phase, what is known as a meltdown, all the fuel pellets melt and accumulate at the bottom of the containment vessel.
The agency said it now believes the fuel pallets have melted because of the high levels of radiation detected at the Nos. 2 and 3 reactors. Melting fuel pellets also likely led to a hydrogen explosion at the No. 1 reactor, Nishiyama said.
Tokyo Electric Power Co., the operator of the crippled plant, has said the cores of the Nos. 1 to 3 reactors have been damaged by 25 percent to 70 percent. But the agency emphasized that these figures are only estimates.
"We can't say for sure about how much has melted until the rods are actually taken out," Nishiyama said.
(Apr. 20, 2011)http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/dy/national/T110419004267.htm
iRobot rules
Sorry if I don't share your enthusiasm, but the 'Packbot' I've seen on the capture struck me as particularly weak, slow and unadvanced. A radio-controlled kid toy could have done the same thing.
Is this the best the US can do in 2011?
The scary part is it is better than Japan can do in 2011.
Bomb disposal robots = made to be blown up = cheap.
Or in this case made to be disposed of and left in the building when they get radioactive and the batteries run down.
seriously. an Iphone camera is better, what is that a VHS recorder from 1977?
but no, thats not the best the US can do, Boston Dynamics is: http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=Boston+Dynamics&aq=f
and they're pretty damn awesome.
seriously. an Iphone camera is better, what is that a VHS recorder from 1977?
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A screen shot by a camera off a laptop LCD screen.
Didn't watch the video? Was explained by a talking head ...
The robots in these videos have 6' articulating arms that get the cameras up at normal human height. Running two robots is smart since the second robot can help the operator of the lead robot avoid trouble. It makes sense not to waste time integrating the data-streams from the rad sensors when they can just read them with cameras. A kid's RC car could flip on the first ceiling tile. Then you'd get a neat angled view of the floor while it spun it's little wheels in the air. Of course an RC car would be disposable, so perhaps you do have a point.
5 trillion dollars pales in comparison to the long term human damage that will occur over a century or two. maybe even 500 trillion pales.
We will not get a look at "the best the US can do".
http://www3.nhk.or.jp/daily/english/20_06.html
Robots face difficulties at Fukushima plant
Tokyo Electric Power Company says radioactive debris and high humidity are hampering the investigation by robots at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant.
The company began using remote-controlled robots to explore the first three reactor buildings on Sunday and Monday.
At the Number 2 reactor building, the robot's camera lens was instantly clouded by high humidity.
TEPCO officials think that the steam is coming from the damaged section of the reactor's suppression pool.
But they have not found a way to resolve the problem as the steam could be highly toxic.
COULD be highly toxic? Well no shit sherlock, it's leaking straight out of the reactor. These guys never admit anything!
DENY DENY DENY.... LIE LIE LIE... thats all they do. The end of them is near. Mad max world is coming because of their lies.
And what they still haven't admitted is Reactor 2 is still dry and melting, containment is breached and they have no fucking clue what to do about it.
Correct. Every drop of water they pump into 2 immediately leaks out loaded with radionuclides.
No ASIMO?
Awesome-O 3000
Maybe the Japanese will start making robots that actually do something useful now.
In my book mixing and serving a martini is quite useful!
What about the robot that can play the violin? At least someone very bright thought of covering string catastrophes if the need arises.
Arnie Gundersen discusses the current condition of the reactors:
http://fairewinds.com/content/gundersen-discusses-current-condition-reac...
This totally vindicates Tyler's "Uncontrolled, Open Air Fission Process" in unit 4 post on 4/13. Some doubted fission was occuring in the unit 4 pool and probably owe Tyler an apology at this point (hopefully in the form of a Fukushima plant water "Kanpai" with Mr. Kan). If you are not an expert, stop trying to act like one (MSimon, I am looking at you).
This totally vindicates Tyler's "Uncontrolled, Open Air Fission Process"
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Sure does; absent a 'moderator' even?
Moderator = water?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neutron_moderator:
Right; now you've got it ...
50 mSv my ass.
Yeah, but when they get that high voltage line brought in and hooked up they'll be able to get the cooling pumps back on line and all will be fixed.....right? Oops, sorry about that. I'm reading from a 3 week old company media playbook.
Hey, who's got the latest bullshit propaganda handy?
A citizen’s group concerned about the impact on mothers and babies of the radioactive leaks from a crippled nuclear power plant in Fukushima Prefecture said Wednesday that small amounts of radioactive iodine have been found in the breast milk of four women living east or northeast of Tokyo.
Of the samples provided by the four women, the breast milk of the mother of an 8-month-old baby in Kashiwa, Chiba Prefecture, contained the highest level of 36.3 becquerels [27 picoCuries = 1 becquerel] of radioactive iodine per kilogram, but no radioactive cesium was found, the group said. …
http://english.kyodonews.jp/news/2011/04/86719.html
No worries...it's a small amount, from a small leak. This will be wrapped up in a jiffy.
Could you be more specific? Is it milk from the breast(s) or radiation from the reactors that's leaking?
same diff, no diff
lol
Now I get it. There is radioactive milk leaking from the breast(s) and Tepco will start pumping tomorrow.
Roger that bob. Roger that.
Do you have any feedback from the mother or have her breasts been deemed a national security matter, thus they are no longer her breasts or her concern? Any word on when these hazardous waste dumps will be removed and will the mother be fined or jailed for unsafe storage of radioactive material?
I'm hearing reports that the leaking breasts in question are Lynn Tiltons.
As long as you promise not to cum in her mouth (and she believes it) the situation should be resolved in the next 9 months.
phew
BTW where's Trav7777 to update us on this latest video?
My name is trav7777. I am a survivor living in New York City. I am broadcasting on all AM frequencies. I will be at the South Street Seaport Cyber Cigar Coffee Bar everyday at mid-day, when the sun is highest in the sky. If any moonbats are out there... if any NWO pigeon watchers are out there... I can provide food, I can provide shelter, I can provide security. If there's anybody out there... anybody... please. You are not alone.
it's nice to be popular.
the world hasn't ended yet...everyone in Tokyo is not "dead or evacuated," and it's like 3+ weeks since that prediction.
remember! once the leaky radioactive breast milk is pumped, it must be poured into the sea!
I never made that prediction. But ok, I wouldn't want to argue with someone so popular.
Uhh, yeah, because the water is back on, punk.
You need to learn to stop mischaracterizing people's comments. It's habits like that that have everyone mocking you in all of these threads.
the water was never OFF, Claven! And there was no berlin airlift of bottles either.
Being mocked by cretins is hardly worth worrying over
From Al-Jazeera:
Japan mulls 'caution zones' around Fukushima
Caution Zones = ++good!
Check this out CD
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G6Q7VfWdgEg
Can I use my iPhone4? :>)
Sorry, the Iphone which I did try does not have a 15 sec. exposure capability. The Iphone does not have a shutter, the ccd is turned on and off. There is a nice histogram for pixel count available in a firmware hack. I wasn't able to find a raw pixel data file to run or a hack to install. The video was shot with an Iphone the day the reactors blew up. When I saw cesium 137 in the air ( I use this source) I knew they had uncontrolled fission.
What happens if radiation strikes the CCD device inside the camera? Does it create artifacts in the stored image? Does it damage the CCD?
I thought iRobot was an Alan Parsons album...meanwhile they are irradiating us. It's getting surreal. Forget Gold. Get LSD
Roomba to clean up the waste?
I think they need Gort - Klaatu Barada Nikto ASAP!
I strongly recommend that Gort and Klaatu should not be invited to Earth until we, err, clean things up a bit. You know how emotional robots are.
Watched this interview last night when it was live. Listen to this man closely as he stumbles through. It seems this interview was longer and some of it may have been edited.
http://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/english/movie/feature201104201804.html
The cleanup will be slow and tedious. Anyone thinking this will be resolved in a jiffy is full of shit. And while it goes on, there will be continued release of radioactive material. It may come to the point when humans will not be able to get near the damaged units due to high radiation and contamination.
http://www.asahi.com/english/TKY201104190193.html
It will never be resolved. People will die from this by the thousands. Hundreds of years from now it will be an unresolved problem but in a few weeks the media will move on and everyone will forget about it except for the poor suckers who live near it. They will get a quick cheap patch up job and a pat on the back from the government and then, the hell with them.
And the lying and obfuscation with be thick making it damn near impossible to tell what is going on there and here.
Is one Cesium 137 Model too scary? Then substitute it for another! Hopefully, no one will notice…until they do notice.
http://enenews.com/secret-radiation-forecast-shows-larger-cesium-137-cloud-north-america-video
Don’t like the “safe”radiation limits established? Just raise them! And continue the “happy talk”.
http://ex-skf.blogspot.com/2011/04/fukushima-i-nuke-plant-government.html
Did they catch you lying or bribing the mainstream press and you don’t like what the independent press is saying? Threaten censorship! And erase the information from websites.
http://japanfocus.org/-Makiko-Segawa/3516
Dude it is already past that point,
too bad this ain't russia like country and they can just send 600,000 to their slow death, shoveling rad with blue jeans on, into wheelbarrows. J/k
Clean up is not a viable option. They get to create an island of cement large and viscous enough to survive the next shocks, for 24K years. 4D
So that's where Trav7777 has been hiding the last few weeks. See, no dangerous radiation there. He looks fit as a fiddle.
bitch, I haven't been hiding...
but it's good to see that I'm always on your mind...
That's Mr. Bitch to you.......Douchebag. With love and kisses.
In the living memory of others ... priceless ...
CD, to funny!
Cog, WTF are you doing?
You're just acting like a troll, and adding nothing of value, quit it.
You may not 'like' him/it, but stick to the facts and contents huh, I'm sick of this sort of shit in every thread/post, and now you're just fanning this crap?
What they need is a giant robot that can pick up a nuclear core and then blast off into outer space, like in Robot Jox.
Paging Gigantor™ or the Voltron Force™ -- to Japan, stat!
Nobody cares. Stocks are roaring higher as the tech sector is en fuego. Earnings reports are absolutely glowing!
Nice glowing reference.....ouch
Yeah, they should have this resolved in 6 to 9 months...
Also, Tokyo with its population larger than New York City won't be significantly impacted by this. Nor will people in China, Korea, Canada or everywhere else, for that matter.
The groundwater, tapwater, air, rain - all good.
A few laborers in there to clean the place up and pour a few bottles of this into each containment vessel and everything will be right as rain:
Bar's Leaks PLT-11 11oz. Heavy Duty Radiator Stop Leak6 to 9 months means 2 years.
guess the world is accepting that our vast oceans can dissipate 1 huge nuclear catastrophy with measured casualties and the more localized higher frequency casualites are the problem of the host country.....of which the areas the exposure will affect most intensely are already physically ravaged and ten of thousands have already perished by what can be seen.
or the US can contribute a half a trillion dollars (my estimation) to clean this thing up as safely and quickly as possible.....with state of the art technologies and expensive equipment (i.e. nasa space suits). the $$$ cost to reduce exposure is too high.
The groundwater ...
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'The groundwater' - it's always the damned 'groundwater' ...
Sort of sad to think these robots might never leave the plant.
RIP good 'bots.
Yes I'm pretty sure this was a one way ticket.
I want to know which human will wipe the fog and dirt from the camera lens after iRobot has been radiated?
If the concrete pumpers they shipped to the Fukushima site will never return to civilization because they will have been too radiated how is anyone supposed to handle these robots between missions?
They designed the robot to have so many capabilities. Too bad they didn't think of including a windshield wiper.
Damn skippy! I got a plastic pair of clown glasses with wipers on them. cost $2.99. Even have a plastic clown flower that can squirt water on those reactors. But then it looks like they have enough clowns running the show already...
Should be easy enough to slip these on the iRobot. Of course then the iRobot will be too embarrased to ever come back out of the reactor building. It's a one shot deal folks. :>)
Too bad they didn't think of including a windshield wiper.
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I think the only COTS gear suitable for 100% RH (relative humidity) operation (think: Steam Bath) might be under-water rated as well ... certainly bomb disposal robots are not 100% RH rated ...
It would be a little tough to design a 'wiper' system for a CMOS sensor when your entire robot is not hermetically sealed.
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The one from the MOX plant in S. Carolina has remote-controls, as probably does the similiar one from Sacramento, and maybe the 2 others from S. Vietnam.
These 4 pumpers weren't loaned or leased: they were sold, never to return, and the previous owners presumably have orders in for new replacements from Putzmeister USA/Wisc., or from Germany.
If it's humidity and not droplets, just heat up the optical surfaces to above the dew point. Presto, no condensation.
Uranium kicks ass!
Silver is trash.
iRobot is impressive ....how about iRetards in iGovt and iTepco go to iJail ...when does iJustice start?
No problem; the prototypes already exist - in the form of the iRS ...
well.... iNever
Well look at this...
And my earlier comment about 10-20 dozens of sieverts was spot on and I was just being facetious
http://enenews.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/No1chartDose.jpg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ITrXVJMKeQ&feature=share
Dr. Helen Caldicott, a renowned anti-nuclear activist, describes what really happened at Fukushima and tells us all we might as well kiss our asses good bye.
She also mentions the depleted uranium that the coalition of the willing is using in mesopotamia. Birth defects are through the roof around Falujah.
Perhaps the plan to cull 90% of the population is a long term one.
She also mentions the depleted uranium ...
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Lumping that in with Fukushima - makes the WHOLE report 'credible' ... and agenda driven ...
Perhaps you will find the paper published in a medical journal to be more credible:
http://www.mdpi.com/1660-4601/8/1/89/
Here is the Guardian reporting on the increase in birth defects.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/nov/13/falluja-cancer-children-birth-defects
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/nov/13/falluja-cancer-children-birth-defects
Not sure why lumping the use of depleted uranium in Iraq to the Fukushima disaster a problem. Both are examples of sources of radiation.
Perhaps you will find the paper published in a medical journal to be more credible:
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That's not my argument; my point is, address one issue at a time rather than ride every hobby horse in your stable ... like activists are prone to do ... at some point one starts to look like an alarmist nut. Some ppl don't buy into the DU 'story'.
I understand your point, but got a chuckle out of hearing someone on zerohedge concerned about someone else being called an alarmist nut.
It seems to me that's a bit like Evil Knievel telling Travis Pastrana to tone himself down.
One issue? That's exactly what she did. The issue is internal radioactive contamination.
The rest of your life will be spent in an effort to avoid it.
... and the hobby horse she road in on ...
Depleted uranium (DU) is uranium primarily composed of the isotope uranium-238 (U-238).
Natural uranium is about 99.27% U-238, 0.72% U-235, and 0.0055% U-234. U-235 is used for fission in nuclear reactors and nuclear weapons. Uranium is enriched in U-235 by separating the isotopes by mass.
The byproduct of enrichment, called depleted uranium or DU, contains less than one third as much U-235 and U-234 as natural uranium.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Depleted_uranium
Well, you really don't want to hang around 'natural uranium' much either.
Why did it take so long to get a robot inside? You';d think TEPCO would have tried that a while ago.
Video of the operators going in was never released? Or made in the first place?
it took so long to get the robot inside because there was no Plan A or Plan B, so they got a fire engine in, then a Heli' and now a robot ....we're still waiting for an effective solution rather than pissing on the problem and looking at the problem
..any similarity between the Jap Govt, Tepco, the Nuclear Industry and Ronald McDonald after 7 bottles of Vodka is pure coincidence
it took so long to get the robot inside because there was no Plan A or Plan B, so they got a ...
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In dispute is when entry was first made; trained Health Physics personnel can watch a suitable rad meter and determine limits of exposure, and we simply don't know what sort of 'quick trips' were made into the buildings by personnel prior to the present exploration with robots ...
Default presumption none.
Without having been on the ground, working with personnel on scene, or debriefed with said personnel afterwards, how do you make such a definitive statement? Are you TEPCO affiliated?
Too bad this didn'y happen in China. They would be all over the news bragging about using everything from Walmart to clean up the mess!
Cheap shot ... (get it?) 'Cheap' shot.
Have you bought your house in the southern hemisphere yet?
Better get down there before countries start denying entry to radioactive material carriers.
There Is Still Time . . . Brother.
"TEPCO Releases First Robot-Captured Video From Inside Reactors 2 And 3"
So Japan has captured 2 robots inside the nuke plant and video tapes the release one of them? I got to start actually reading these stories...
Oh, did I mention that there is nothing to see here and everything is under control?
Ha Ha
I've read all the headlines and nobody ever, EXCEPT YOU, has claimed that.
You idiots make me laugh...a lot
Are those robots usable now that they've been exposed to that radiation or do they become radioactive and unusable?
the robots are now radioactive but 'passed' to work processing Japans 'glowing' food supply
Maybe after a long enough exposure (And culling deaths) humans will develope a need for radiation like they have a need for vitamin C. Then we will dispose of nuke waste by putting it in the water supply just like fluorides...
Hi Kids
It's a beautiful day in the neighborhood, a beautiful day for a neighbor...would you be, could you be...MY NEIGHBOR! (just ignore the radiation...)
Hey kids, can you say MELTDOWN...HOW ABOUT MELTFUCKINGDOWN?
Mister Rogers will bet every fucking PM in his grubby little hands that this whole neighborhood will meltdown in the next two weeks...bbbbyyyyyeeee
Summary of Calidcott's comments about Fukushima
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ITrXVJMKeQ&feature=share
There have been 3 hydrogen explosions
2 cooling pools are dry and burning because the casing for pellets burns when exposed to air
Each cooling pool has 10 to 20 times as much radiation as in the reactors
In each reactor core is 1000 times as much long lived radiation as produced by the Hiroshima bomb
1 millionth of gram of Plutonium will give you cancer if inhaled
There are 250 kilograms of Plutonium in each reactor (only 2.5 kilograms needed to make a bomb)
Plutonium is escaping into the atmosphere
Peacenik -
Helen Mary Caldicott (born 7 August 1938) is an Australian physician, author, and anti-nuclear advocate who has founded several associations dedicated to opposing the use of depleted uranium munitions, nuclear weapons, nuclear weapons proliferation, war and military action in general.
in 1980, she founded the Women's Action for Nuclear Disarmament (WAND) in the United States, which was later renamed Women's Action for New Directions. It is a group dedicated to reducing or redirecting government spending away from nuclear energy use towards what the group perceives as unmet social issues.
During her time in the United States from 1977 to 1986, Caldicott was involved with Physicians for Social Responsibility (founded originally in 1961), an organization of 23,000 doctors committed to educating others on what they claimed were the dangers of nuclear energy. She also worked abroad to establish similar groups that focused on education about what she said were risks of nuclear energy, nuclear weapons and nuclear war. One such international group (International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War) was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1985. She herself received the Humanist of the Year award from the American Humanist Association in 1982.
Summary of Calidcott's comments about Fukushima
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ITrXVJMKeQ&feature=share
There have been 3 hydrogen explosions
2 cooling pools are dry and burning because the casing for pellets burns when exposed to air
Each cooling pool has 10 to 20 times as much radiation as in the reactors
In each reactor core is 1000 times as much long lived radiation as produced by the Hiroshima bomb
1 millionth of gram of Plutonium will give you cancer if inhaled
There are 250 kilograms of Plutonium in each reactor (only 2.5 kilograms needed to make a bomb)
Plutonium is escaping into the atmosphere
Helen Mary Caldicott (born 7 August 1938) is an Australian physician, author, and anti-nuclear advocate who has founded several associations dedicated to opposing the use of depleted uranium munitions, nuclear weapons, nuclear weapons proliferation, war and military action in general.
ad hominem?
She has most of the facts right. Pu was released or sprayed by hydrogen explosions (esp. Unit #3 with its 1000-ft vertical column of black ash and falling debris).
She has most of the facts right.
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That means, she has some of the facts wrong.
Which facts are wrong, one wonders ... the core, critical facts? Or, tangential facts?
BTW, #3 did have a 1000' vertical ascension of a 'black cloud', we all saw it, the composition unknown, and from which obvious debris fell back to earth.
Have you come up with which facts she has wrong yet?
I would not trust her numbers, given her explicitly stated agenda, motives and desired outcome unless I had the chance to audit them 100%.
You, I suppose, might give them a cursory overview then 'buy off' (rubber stamp/approve) them? But then, I am not a greenie nor do I tend to rubber stamp the work of others which might be suspect ... it must be proven, verified and documented.
Perhaps if TEPCO and the Japanese government could be trusted to tell us what's actually going on, we'd have a better idea of which facts she has wrong (if any).
Speaking of Physicians for Social Responsibility (of which Helen is a member):
"Useful Idiots: How Liberals Got It Wrong in the Cold War and Still Blame America First"
http://books.google.com/books?id=CQaepQzEzCQC&pg=PA141&lpg=PA141&dq=%22P...
(Briefly) examining the synopsis, and other internet discussions concerning that book, Helen Caldicott appears not to be mentioned in it.
Is this an attempt to damn by association?
Impressive.
It becomes CLEAR that because robots are used in Space Exploration and by the Military, that they must be skillfully engineered, tested, and function without failure (lens fog not included).
Nuclear power plants, on the other hand, can be built on the beach and work till they fail. Then they are handy to fix cause they are not out in space or in combat conditions.
This is a tribute to man’s engineering skills. Yes we can.
They made sure not to show us the video of the camera pointed at the radiation detector.
They also didn't show us the part where Charlton Heston finds what is left of the Statue of Liberty. ;-).
Now THAT is funny!
also not...
cos that scene scared the beejeezus out of me when I was a wee lass...
duplicate.
Monday night, Tepco said it detected high radioactivity coming from the spent fuel pool of the No. 2 unit, indicating that either the fuel rods in the pool were damaged or steam containing radioactive materials that rose from the reactor dissolved in the pool water.
Some 160,000 becquerels per cubic cm of cesium-134, 150,000 becquerels of cesium-137 and 4,100 becquerels of radioactive iodine-131 were detected in a water sample extracted from the storing pool on Saturday.
http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/nn20110419x1.html
Nuke workers at risk of overwork death
http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/nn20110421a1.html
Ya, thats it 'overwork'. Now we know what killed all those first responders at Chernobyl, they just worked too hard. Geez, take a break guys.
If these guys start dropping off and they blame it on 'overwork', that would be beyond dishonour. The old saying death before dishonour would have a new meaning. Hey. it could be Tepco's new slogan... ya
Ahh the gentle art of Karoshi
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kar%C5%8Dshi