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They've Found the Missing Fukushima Nuclear Cores ... Scattered All Over Japan
We reported in May 2011 that authorities knew – within days or weeks – that all 3 active Fukushima nuclear reactors had melted down, but covered up that fact for months.
The next month, we reported that Fukushima’s reactors had actually suffered something much worse: nuclear melt-throughs, where the nuclear fuel melted through the containment vessels and into the ground. At the time, this was described as:
The worst possibility in a nuclear accident.
But now, it turns out that some of the Fukushima reactors have suffered even a more extreme type of damage: melt-OUTS.
By way of background, we’ve noted periodically that scientists have no idea where the cores of the nuclear reactors are.
And that highly radioactive black “dirt” has been found all over Japan.
It turns out that the highly radioactive black substances are likely remnants of the core.
The Journals Environmental Science & Technology and Journal of Environmental Radioactivity both found (hat tip EneNews) that the highly radioactive black substances match fuel from the core of the Fukushima reactors.
The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission agrees.
Indeed, “hot particles” with extremely high levels of radiation – 7 billion, 40 billion , and even 40 billion billion Bq/kg – have been found all over the Fukushima region, and hundreds of miles away … in Tokyo.
Let’s put this in perspective. The Atlantic notes:
Japanese regulations required nuclear waste with 100 or more bq/kg of Cesium to be monitored and disposed of in specialized containers.
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The new government limit for material headed for landfills is 8000 bq/kg, 80 times the pre-Fukushima limit.
So the hottest hot particle found so far is 5 million billion times greater than the current government limits of what can be put in a landfill.
In other words, the core of at least one of the Fukushima reactors has finally been found … scattered all over Japan.
How did material from the cores get dispersed so far? Remember, there was a huge explosion at reactor number 1 , and an even bigger explosion at reactor number 3.
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Like I said before, how long before they cancel the Olympics?
Cancellation is bad news and lets the genie out of the bottle. Look for the Olympics to be moved elsewhere on some pretext or other.
Can't we just blame this all on the weather?
Or maybe right wing domestic terrorists?
I mean really.....
A war with China might do the trick for that one
Shithead Abe is doing his best to get an occidental woar started. Just need to time it closer to the Olympics though they are so prideful he would probbably insist on having it in Tokyo hell or high water.
You think the Japanese are behind the Ukraine situation? That's a new conspiracy.
Occidental = Western
Oriental = Eastern
The word play was lost in the translation apparently was meant moar in line with an Japan vs China happening (a)occidentally over something seemly unrelated to deflect away from regional problems like Fukushima.
Japan has always been a vassal state to the empire since the end of WWII, no sabre rattling happens without implicit consent from the empire on their part against China and such in the region.
"Look for the Olympics to be moved elsewhere on some pretext or other."
Maybe they get out of it claiming economic hardship, you know, just kind of "fake it!" </sarc>
That Olympic torch will glow under its own luminance for 10,000 years. Yay Japan!
Didn't Obama just visit Japan and had some green ice cream? Everybody thought it was green tea, but...
Look on the bright side. At least it will take the heat off the drug cheats. The only thing they'll be testing for is radiation...hmmm...put me down for twenty on the Incredible Hulk winning the shot putt.
Japan won't have to worry about an ageing population very soon... there won't be any old people!
You mean young people.
You mean there will be no people left at all - young or old!
Is that why the Japanese are financing a mini Japan on India's East Coast and want to build an inudustrial corridor from Delhi to Mumbai. Are the Japanese elites planning on fleeing? Inquiring minds want to know!
Shouldn't they have already left?
Yes. I see "them" in Nicaraqua for sure. But I am a visitor too...for now.
Elites are always planning on fleeing, that's what they do!
Elites are always planning on fleecing, that's what they do!
Fixed it for you.
The BOJ is hitting the QE button, passing the ¥ to the price fixing Corps, who are now buying like crack addicts every where exCept japan.
Most of the normal citizens don't really know or care, IMO, how fucked they really are.
YOU mean 'people'.
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But we now know that exposure to radiation is a healthy natural process...
And we also know that human have no affect on the environment.
It's all in your head ... Animals, insects and plants are only harmed by radiation because they don't smile </sarc>
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Immunotherapy
Death.
Make that "the hottest hot material", rather than "the hottest hot particle" (which does not make sense when talking about Bq/kg)
BTW, if this news is true, it raises questions about the reactor explosions. Not sure a hydrogen explosion would pulverize and eject the cores, though it is not an easy analysis to make.
http://nukeprofessional.blogspot.com/2013/12/fukushima-was-nuclear-explo...
Fukushima WAS a Nuclear Explosion, Here Is The Proof...
The only way that the tens of tons of uranium and plutonium shown by US EPA air samples could occur was if the explosion came from within the reactor vessel, and/or spent fuel pool. So clearly the explosion was a nuclear type of explosion from within. Nuclear promoters have long stated that nuclear plants can't blow up in a nuclear explosion. We know this to be a lie. In fact Chicago's own Argonne National Lab has video from back in the day when it was "cool" to perform open air tests to blow up reactors to prove the nuclear chain reaction can blow up the reactors. The special type of Nuclear Explosion is called a "prompt moderated criticality".
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A blast from a "hydrogen explosion" would come from a wide area where hydrogen would be, Hydrogen is the lightest element, so it would float up and fill the reactor building from the top down. If it truly was a hydrogen explosion, and it wasn't, then the blast would come from the top down. The fuels would be compressed into their deep containments, not launched thousands of feet into the air as did occur.
I am going to stop calling these things reactor vessels, and instead call them "Radiation Canons"
Here is the Argonne National Lab proof of concept
(see website for youtube video)
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And just for good measure, here is the video of Radiation Canon 3 exploding. Note the huge chunk of steel/concrete that was launched upward, and the apex, it falls off to the left.
(see website for youtube video)
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Engineering support for the Energy Required to create the Explosive Effect at Reactor 3 (from a reader)
Yes it was a nuclear explosion. We did the math here on March 31, 2011 and showed in the Fukushima Mega-thread that a nuclear detonation occurred.
How much energy is required to raise both the refueling crane and reactor vessel cover to a height of 450 feet?
It would require 10,968,750 horse power (HP); by assuming the height of the hydrogen vent tower to be 150 feet, the reactor containment vessel top appears to have gone two and one-half times higher or 450 feet; The top of the reactor vessel weighs 2000 tons. It requires 12.1875 HP to raise one ton in one second.
So we needed 10,968,750 HP to raise 2000 tons 450 feet in one second.
1 HP = 0.000641615568281 tons of TNT or we have 7037.7 tons of TNT.
7 kilotons of TNT just to lift the top of the containment vessel off
You have further force required to raise the refueling crane to that same 450 feet of height.
It was instantly obvious to any observer with a rudimentary knowledge of Physics that this was an explosion possessing force that could in no way be the result of a steam explosion.
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There is more information in the article concerning Plutonium and Uranium found in the atmosphere and how it can be linked to Fukushima because these things all have a unique signature to them.
You are being silly. Worse, you cloth your ignorance with pseudo-scientific drivel.
The explosion didn't occur until steam was released from the containment building. High temperature hydrogen and oxygen will spontaneously explode when released into the air.
The reactor materials in the fuel rods are below 4% purity. The lowest purity for a nuclear bomb was 85% and it was a fizzle yield.
Concrete many feet thick is pretty good at shrugging off damage unless it is confined, such as in a shaped charge.
An interesting movie about this effect is "Dam Busters." The British military wanted to bust the dams supplying electricity to German war machine during WWII. Regular thousand pound bombs only did cosmetic damage. They needed a very large, special bomb which needed to be placed at the base of the dam where the explosion would act against the water to put the force into the concrete. Pressure always tries to escape through the easiest means, so it blows sheet metal, rather than concrete, into the air.
I was sure the day #3 went up it was nuclear, and the core not the pool like Gunderson thinks. Look at the video! That shit went straight up, like it came out of a cannon, 1500 feet in the air, yet it didn't split the spent fuel pool open. Well, what sort of a structure is there on site that could jettison that much material straight up yet protect the spent fuel pool right beside it?
I am telling yay, there has never been any need to look for or cool reactor #3. Maybe some or much of the material is still there, but I am pretty sure a good portion of it got shot straight up controlled by the containment rather than every direction like a normal explosion, or number 1 and 4. Explosions don't vector unless they are contained.
Should read: Explosions don't scalar unless they're contained. By definition, they have magnitude.
Should read: Explosions don't scalar unless they're contained. By definition, they have magnitude.
should read: Explosions don't scalar unless their contained. By definition, they have magnitude.
Might have been a steam explosion: 1. The Reactor vessel boils off all of the water surrounding the corum and all of the water ends up in the basement. The Corum overheads and melts through the reactor. The red hot corum splashs into the water in the basement and immediately flashs into steam causing a steam explosion.
I'm pretty sure that a hydrogen explosion would NOT scatter intact cores, but the hydrogen here probably came from overheated cores exposed to air and sputtering who knows what all over the place, and the hydrogen might blast the sputter all over creation.
But then, we might wait for a little more detail and confirmation on the report. Unfortunately I don't really doubt it, but there's hardly enough information to do a real analysis.
If this indeed happened to the cores, why are they still cooling the reactors with ungodly amounts of water each day? They're getting steam so something very hot is underground. Maybe part of the core material got pulverized into particulate form and thats what theyre finding, but it seems reasonable that bigger fragments of the core would've been thrown off and discovered throughout fukushima by now, clocking ungodly amounts of seiverts/hr, and to my knowledge that hasnt happened yet.
Because:
(1) Without massive amounts of water, the spent fuel pools would all melt down; and
(2) Some of the cores may still be there, although by now they are way UNDER the reactor...
Exactly George, thanks for the good work you do. Would be happy to collaborate with you on science type work related to analysis of these accidents, or report your articles at my site
Nuke Professional (anti nuke)
http://nukeprofessional.blogspot.com/p/uranium-aerosolized-into-atmosphe...
aside from the spent fuel pools. Im referring to water used to cool the activity under ground, the same water their having trouble storing. Point is the cores didnt just vaporize like a friggin dandelion nor did they disappear like this post implies, they are deep underground, but who is brave enough to go digging to get visual confirmation?
You're not asking the questions GW's confirmation bias prefers.
I don't even accept his assertion the corium isn't just sitting within the foundation.
His fuku articles are hysterical recycled echo-chamber.
i googled "fukushima best case scenario" and there wasn't one until the second page where a guy writing in forbes says the worst case scenario is what happened but that no one will be killed (if we ever know, he says). it's coming up on the article's first birthday. maybe merits a reread?
http://www.forbes.com/sites/timworstall/2013/06/01/the-fukushima-nuclear...
Yeah Jeff, nice read, I'm obviously getting very jaded with the constant scream of 'catastrophe' about every other thing, and there's continually nothing much going on. It's occurring all over, a constant hysteria on most topics, sense-of-disproportionate concern and sense-of-proportion virtually absent. Runaway fear driving fear-mongering with paranoia sprinkled on top.
It's something I noticed decades ago about the human mind, it amplifies whatever we think about and any thing we think about constantly, then becomes our entire perception of a narrowed reality. For the neo-fundamentalist it's a wacko god's good-book and the 'great tribulation' gig, for the marketeer it's the way the right advertising can amplify a product in the mind in order to manufacture a demand and buyers of thoroughly useless 'stuff'. For doomers in general it's the hit that comes from the pet uber 'problem' being bought into greater imaginary focus and detail by collective stimulus to much worry over scenarios.
All contrived and presenting as 'real' and or extremely 'important' or terribly 'significant', when reality itself is thoroughly indifferent to whatever the mind is thus over amplifying.
Yeah, I don't think all is well, and yeah there are bad people doing bad things, and yeah some trends are in fact terminal, at some point, but I'm hardly going to fall apart or give in to completely ditching a sense-of-proportion about such things, or ignore the moderating fact that countervailing trends are equally or even more prevalent, in almost all things, as well. Which has a habit of making the sure catastrophe actually disappear, in short order.
I also find it helps when you don't care if you live or die, at any moment, because once your 'there', all this blather-hype falls into its proper place, very easily. As a wild generalization, such amplified sprays of the mind are not the slightest bit important, framed from that perspective. :-)
You've described where I've come around to pretty well. In about 2006 I realized something was very, very wrong. I remember at the beginning of 2007 in one of those "predictions for the coming year" posts I left a comment to the effect that that year was going to suck balls before it was done. I wasn't far off.
But since 2006 I've been in one state of hysteria or other, at least internally, without stop. Well, it's not all bad...I'm prepped MUCH better than I was, and a lot better than most people. But I'm also tired, I nearly got divorced, I've wasted uncountable hours on blogs preaching doom and gloom to no good effect and I'm ready for a modification to my life.
I don't want to ditch the whole awareness/prepping thing entirely, though it is still possible that nothing major-league bad will happen in my immediate neighborhood. I've seen all the articles purporting to prove mathematically that everything has to go to shit, but I've also seen similar articles predict disaster by dates certain time and again, and NONE of those has panned out. Yet there are a whole flock of black swans out there just rearing to take flight. What to do?
As I said, I'm tired. I'm reaching middle-middle-age. I've done the big city thing. I've spent weeks on business and pleasure in New York, California, Europe, Asia and elsewhere. I've built systems that are used today by thousands of users including perhaps some readers here. I've done the career thing and I'm ready to turn the page.
I'm saving up to buy a place on a lake in MN in the north woods. I'm gonna prep that place to the rafters. When it's ready, I'm going fishing with my young daughter, and maybe write a novel. Take down a deer each November if I can. Watch an occasional Vikings game. Help out a neighbor once in awhile and maybe do a little work with the local Boy Scout troop. Work a job, but not a particularly demanding one.
Wake me when the world ends.
Mostly, it is the damage which we humans do to each other: wars, depressions, regulations, the trashing of currencies, tyrannical governments and genocides. In order to have a proper catastrophe, requires the involvement of a government.
I have been trying to get the GW sheeple to question his posts. Nice to see others asking the questions. I get down votes all the time. Who cares?
I strive for Down votes
This is the most psychologically acute comment I've seen on ZH. Actually, what you say goes a long way toward explaining why people always seem to have ideological blinders on as well, whether they be left or right. How to counteract this tendency is the real issue, whether it relates to Fukashima, global warming, conspiracies, fear of elites or groups such as Freemasons or Jews. Tunnel vision plays a big role in all these issues. I think the first requirement to not fall into this trap is to have enough humility to admit you are ignorant. Secondly, it is important to be open to all of these ideas, whether distasteful or not, to get "inside" the the ideology being promoted so that you will have a better basis for either accepting it, rejecting it, or perhaps accepting a part of it. The hardest thing to recognize are the ideological blinders themselves. It is especially important now to deal with this issue for each individual, as blind acceptance of ideology, which "feels good" and is self-reinforcing, will lead us into Armageddon.
The idea of openness of mind seems right and smart and agreeable, conceptually, if we in fact aspire to noble intelligence, but from experience I've come to the view that we're not well set up nor disposed to do it, nor too motivated in practice to do it voluntarily. It seems like a task, something we focus to 'do'. i.e. not our natural rest-state. But if you paid me to do it I might do it routinely and most people probably would make an effort to listen and consider, if you paid them or rewarded them.
There's a gap between recognition and doing. The self-discipline of people to act benevolently is likewise not well developed or established in us. It's a bit like arguing for morality and finding little of it, or warning of the wages of sin and the need to resist 'temptation', then secretly fornicating like bunnies.
The ideal and outcome varies considerably.
And will-power is an even greater 'task' for us, and further away from our natural state of mind, so doesn't last, except by beating ourselves up with things like guilt. If a reward is not perceived to exist, or to be attainable, the will-power to persist with the 'task' of openness fades, as the natural tendency reasserts its general disinterest in continued openness.
So I come to the view that this is not how we really are. We prefer not to listen, we prefer to not to give heed to others, we prefer to indulge biases, and view narrowly, and thus become chronically distorted.
The nature of this natural preference is that we take more pleasure in that for some reason, than in the seeming 'task' of being 'open' to all.
So the humility of admitting to being ignorant (which you mentioned as requisite) is not enough if we don't also somehow take more pleasure in being open than pleasure in being closed.
And we take it poorly when it's pointed out that we do in fact take pleasure in narrower closed views, especially if we believed that we are actually the opposite to that, but it's made clear to us that we aren't as open as we had asserted to ourselves.
So openness would have to be its own reward, but is having everything in the mind challenged, 'pleasurable' and rewarding?
We protect ourselves from the source of that disturbance and threat, by going into a mental shell, and defend the mind from there.
Five year olds remain open, but they have not been mentally shocked yet, so do not know to protect and brace themselves, mentally, from the needling and confronting of the mind, via the conflict between idea and fact.
So the narrowing is thus protective mechanism and it's perceived as (relatively) a more pleasurable or at least internally agreeable or less disturbing way to be.
So shock, from idea verses fact conflict, leads to a protective narrowing reaction, like a hermit-crab protecting its soft parts, so a closing of the mind follows.
It's a natural mechanism and implication of the thoughts being exposed to harsh difference that damages thought, and thus the mind is disturbed and distressed.
Now if you don't value any thought, at all, and are prepared to abandon everything you think or say at the drop of a hat, with no reservations (which is kind of frowned on and considered mad) then there's no need to protect the mind and the pleasure of its openness is the pleasure in demolishing what we had thought that we knew and what we once imagined was 'real' or 'correct'.
Which is not just pleasurable, but a very welcome relief. :D