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Tepco "Explains" Plumes Of Smoke Above Exploded Fukushima Reactor 3
In the past two weeks there was significant speculation that the Fukushima catastrophe was once again rapidly escalating after plumes of mysterious smoke were detected above the destroyed Reactor 3 - the one with a mixed MOX and uranium fuel core. RT described it as follows:
Fresh plumes of most probably radioactive steam have been detected rising from the reactor 3 building at the crippled Fukushima nuclear plant, said the facility’s operator company.
The steam has been detected by surveillance cameras and appeared to be coming from the fifth floor of the mostly-destroyed building housing crippled reactor 3, according to Tokyo Electric Power Co (TEPCO), the plant’s operator.
The steam was first spotted on December 19 for a short period of time, then again on December 24, 25, 27, according to a report TEPCO published on its website.
The company, responsible for the cleanup of the worst nuclear disaster since Chernobyl, has not explained the source of the steam or the reason it is rising from the reactor building. High levels of radiation have complicated entry into the building and further inspection of the situation.
Naturally, fears arose that more uncontrolled meltdowns were in process at the exploded reactor.
This morning, probably in order to assuage fears that it has lost control more than usual, TEPCO released the following statement "Regarding Certain Overseas Reports on Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station." TEPCO's soothing words - "We found no abnormalities in the measured values (indicating the temperature and condition of the Reactor Building), or in the value of the monitoring post (monitoring the amount of radiation), even when the steam-like gas was being generated, therefore we are certain that there has been no influence on the outside. In addition, we measured the amount of radiation at the point from which steam-like gas was generated, and found that its amount was almost the same as for the other neighboring points."
And as everyone knows by now, TEPCO would never lie. Finally, the question of why TEPCO would issue a press release to respond to "media rumors" is an open one.
Full statement from the semi-nationalized company:
Regarding Certain Overseas Reports on Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station
Some overseas press outlets are reporting that steam is being generated from Unit 3 at Fukushima Daiichi NPS and its condition is dangerous, releasing radioactive material, and that there were two underground nuclear explosions at the site. However, such information is incorrect, and we have found no change in the status of the plant.
Steam generation on the operating floor at Unit 3, and the detection of highly concentrated radioactive material at groundwater observation holes etc., have been pointed out as the basis for the overseas reports. We respond to these as follows.
- Steam-like gas generated on the operating floor at Unit 3 in Fukushima Daiichi NPS
Since July 2013, steam-like gas has been intermittently observed on the operating floor at Unit 3. The steam-like gas is estimated to emerge via the following sequence.
1) Accumulated hygroscopic moisture, such as rainwater, exists below the shield plug (a lid made of concrete).
2) The hygroscopic moisture is heated by the heat radiated from the top of the Primary Containment Vessel (PCV).
3) The heated hygroscopic moisture is released onto the operating floor via the gap of the shield plug.
4) The released moisture is cooled down by the cool atmosphere, giving it the appearance of a steam-like gas.
We found no abnormalities in the measured values (indicating the temperature and condition of the Reactor Building), or in the value of the monitoring post (monitoring the amount of radiation), even when the steam-like gas was being generated, therefore we are certain that there has been no influence on the outside.
In addition, we measured the amount of radiation at the point from which steam-like gas was generated, and found that its amount was almost the same as for the other neighboring points.

- Highly-concentrated radioactive material found at the observation holes
We have been monitoring the groundwater sampled at the observation holes established to investigate the contamination status of groundwater, for the purpose of investigating the effects of the leak of contaminated water from the contaminated water storage tanks in August 2013. At the end of 2013, the measurement value for Tritium, one of the radioactive materials in the water sampled at the observation hole near the tank that suffered leakage, increased from 34,000Bq/L (on December 28) to 450,000Bq/L (on January 1). This increase in the value could be attributed to 1) the contaminated water that previously leaked from the tank soaking into the nearby ground, or 2) the effects of the water pumping* (*we have been pumping up the contaminated groundwater at the nearby observation holes, however the amount being pumped up was temporarily decreased at the end of 2013). The value decreased to 17,000Bq/L on January 8. Highly concentrated tritium (almost equivalent concentration level) was found in this observation hole in the past, and the highest concentrated tritium 790,000Bq/L was also found here on October 17, 2013.
- Earthquake on December 31, 2013
Some overseas press outlets reported that underground nuclear explosions caused several quakes with magnitudes of 5.1 and 3.6.
According to the Japanese Meteorological Agency, 13 earthquakes (with a maximum magnitude of 5.4) occurred and originated in the north part of Ibaraki Prefecture on December 31 2013. None of these earthquakes was caused by Fukushima Daiichi NPS. We also found no accidents or trouble etc. in Fukushima Daiichi NPS.
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"So that agent orange stuff only kills plants? OK, thanks Sarge."
Well send 8 guys in a boat to measure the activity and report back when they don't feel good.
That Nightline piece the other night looked like it was done as a puff piece to cover up what's really happening and to assuage any fears of those in the US who may panic due to high levels of radiation making its way here.
Give it a few months and let's see how Cecilia Vega is feeling...unless of course she did the whole piece from a sound stage.
Soooo...the whole area is highly radioactive? That's encouraging ... err, isn't it?
Among the many emerging effects of Fukushima radiaton is that "My Little Pony" now has a significant fan base among young men.
http://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/rise-of-the-bronies/
Ok, admittedly the link to Fukushima is still controversial, but I can't think of any other possible explanation.
YouTube already captured the cloud news:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SaYUqXAmXRQ
The comments to this post leave me a little concerned, bordering on yahoo news quality. The real fact of the matter is this disaster is many multiples worse than being reported. Taking the time to digest the massive amount of info reported at these two sites might be worth it, at least to anyone who doesn't come on here and just post sarc.
http://hatrickpenryunbound.com/
http://www.jimstonefreelance.com/fukushima1.html
Stop taking the end of the world so seriously
In Japanese...
Ui aru ekusuperienso hebi rein in fyucha. Rekomendo yu aru uea redo* koto.
(*Japanese element "lead" and color "red" is sound same.)
"Ok, admittedly the link to Fukushima is still controversial, but I can't think of any other possible explanation."
After a high rad dose, the testicles are the first to say 'sayonara'.
1000
It's the comment section. Who cares?
The content of the article is the only thing that needs to be taken serious (or not).
Gallows humor.
We were always fucked. Sooner or later. (Please refer to website motto).
They have probably done it sooner. I am working my Kubler Ross stages like an AA participant working the 12 steps.
I think the guys might say "Whooo Ahhh!" at this point.
Maybe she will grow a 3rd boob and the cat will be out of the bag...
Good news is that ACA should cover everything except $20,000
Abe said they're toasting marshmellow...nothing to see here...move along.
Speaking of which
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NZlT80aYtqk
Their translation.."We lie, you die..paybacks a bitch for both A bombs"
Nuke it from orbit.....it's the only way to be sure.
We'd better get back cause they mostly come out at night......mostly.
Well, that's great. This is just fucking great, man. Now what the fuck are we supposed to do? ;-)
"Hey Vasquez, have you ever been mistaken for a man?"
"No. Have you?"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E8YsS9508fQ
Go out there with all those bugs crawing around? No thanks, man.
I hear Iran is willing to take the entire Fukishima plant off their hands for dirt cheap!
It's so nice to see Iran being such a help !
/sarc
That's beautiful, man. Oh man, that that... that just beats it all...
How long 'til it blows?
Four hours. With a blast radius of 30 kilometers; equal to about 40 megatons.
"No more than 10 to 20 million killed. Tops."
Perhaps we should warn them in advance this time.
Good Sarc Wisehiney - My wife's brother was a doc in Vietam and several years after returnng home from two tours, during which he was sprayed regularly with Agent Orange PLUS whatever other stuff the mad chemists of Monsanto were experimenting with, he self-diagnosed with M.S. His VA claim was,of course, turned down. So the whole family - lawyers, accountants, librarians etc got to work and we managed to assemble a portfolio of evidence that included internal memos from Monsanto that proved conclusively that they knew Agent Orange (+) was going to kill American troops. So my father-in-law, a high-powered lawyer, took the evidence to DC and, using his considerable clout, managed to sit down with DOD and Monsanto lawyers and laid out the evidence. Without any hesiaton an offer was made - we'll approve a substantial settlement for your son, plus guarantee all his medical bills, plus pay his widow a nice pension, but the deal is that all this paperwork stays with us and nobody in your family ever says a word. The deal was done, the evidence was buried, my brother-in-law died in a few years, and that was that.
If this happened once it must have happened a thousand times. Monsanto is no different from I.G. Farben - both are war criminal entities.
We are learning who the enemy is.
I hate to rain on your parade but so is anyone who helped cover it up by taking a check...
Just the usual---highly radioactive killer cloud---nothing out of the ordinary here!
All hail the glow cloud!
No worries, its just water, ya know, steam like that stuff that comes out of your teapot.
Steam like gas as in government like truth.
Or bullshit-like press releases
GT: They might be "honest". It could be "Steam like gas", as in, "With this many contaminants, can we still call it steam?" or "What do you call steam with high concentrations of deuterium and tritium?"
At least it hasn't exploded again.
Yet
Baby volcano's don't explode until they become adults.
TEPCO doesn't realize how irrelevant it has become.
Those assholes should tell us quite a bit more than readings of Tritium levels. If this steam derives from criticality, there'd have to be a very notable spike in Iodine 131 release. And it would be very interesting to get readings about fission products, like Strontium and Cesium, and heavy transuranics, like Plutonium. The more TEPCO admits - the more they lie to us!
Alright, you come with the 8 guys and I'll supply the boat.
Deal!
Okay, you can start today, right after I change the oil in the boat, we need to make certain they get there first.
Hold on...we're tapering. Once we're done we'll send over what's his name.
This kind of Bullshit might work on your domestic sheeple Titco, but did you actually MEASURE anything?
Just have to love the implied assertion that the PV still has a 'lid' in their graphic...
I'm just glad they are on top of this one... I mean... they wouldn't lie to us... would they?... that's such a dirty word... let's just call it creative story telling...
Is that a radiation detector in your pocket or are you just glad to see me?
http://m5.paperblog.com/i/69/698374/fukushima-lies-cant-trust-tepco-info...
How long until the west coast of North America is evacuated?
Remember...... He who panics first panics best.
Japan is a write off. Get out now!
If Tepco is so concerned about the people's worries regarding the Fukushima Daichi plant, perhaps they might try answering this question: Where the fuck are the cores of reactors 1, 2 and 3??
.... Thats hot and so are the Neighbors. WTF, just raise the Ceiling on Rad Exposure and call it good, so far that has been working.
"we measured the amount of radiation at the point from which steam-like gas was generated, and found that its amount was almost the same as for the other neighboring points."
"almost the same"... If it had been lower they would have said it. So, it was higher than the "other neigboring points". By how much? Depends on your definition of "almost the same".
That explains the news blackout and why Japan threatened to throw journalists in jail under new state secrecy laws around that time. I am going to buy some of Alex Jones' nascent iodine today. It really is the cheapest I have found so far. It is game over. The pacific is dying. The US is being radiated. Sucks. I like fish. But I won't eat it anymore. Not even Long John Silver's.
Now their is good in bad, I mean even the 1% can't escape the nuclear stuff and tablets only go so far, sums to what happens, happens to all! socialism does exist, if only while we talk the planet together...
If you were rational, but paranoid, you could monitor your fish purchases with a radiation meter; but if you're paranoid and irrational, I suppose you'll have to give up eating fish. Why are you so eager to believe nonsense?
If you plan on staying in the northern hemisphere, better find a place under the influence of the "polar easterlies". That, or some place like the coast of Argentina or Mozambique. Not many good choices here....
Bullish on being able to develop super powers from radiation fallout.
Nice diagram, high tech schematic in too-dee. Made by intelligent people, for intelligent people. That blue cloud looks like they are covering up a mothra doodle.
Is that MS Paint??
NOTHING to worry about, some duct tape came loose; more duct tape on the way ASAP...
One can say what ever, but stay out of the fresh snow and rains:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S633I3C08jo&feature=c4-overview&list=UUHE...
Verbot..exe.. load extinction protocol alpha beta gamma..ext1abg online...do you wish to reformat the earth? Warning..all data will be lost!...press ¥ to continue...
West coast.... alaska....entire pacific....middleAmerica...
I don't understand why the international communiity hasn't stepped in to take this problem away from these incompetents.
last time i checked international community is the corporations.
there is no problem until our international community says so, so frankly, i have no idea what you are talking about. everybody, move along now.
there isn't a steady stream of qualified nuclear engineers willing to line up to die to save half the planet being contaminated and the other half not knowing if they are affected
oops...duplicate...asked for re-transmission...let me check my tritium batteries
Who would want to get involved with this, it is not going to get better in our lifetimes.
Japan has no money to pay for the fix and to much pride to beg.
Think of what happened to the USSR and Chernobyl, $15 B 1986 dollars of direct cost that the USSR fessed up to.
Fat finger hit the ¥ key...we boned..
Seriously, I use the yen symbol on purpose...stop feeding into their delusion there is any business to do other than fix our mistake of giving a bunch of superstitous culturally stunted pacific islanders a shaky old reactor on a faultline next to the sea.. how that got out of committee is a mystery...
It's clear there isn't one bona fide scientician here.
Not one word about Midi-chlorian levels!
Think of the fucking children, you fucking fucks!
It needs to be cleaned up immediately. I don't have that much longer to live. I do not have a family. I'd go and get burned up. I have no problem with that. Somebody, probably many people, are going to have to do it. The Death Toll will be high.
Hey Tepco??? Got your ears on for volunteers?
Any other volunteers?
If it is not done then we are all Walking Dead men anyway. It ain't the radiation that'll kill ya if something is not done about it..
Something much worse is in the cards.
That's what I call making it count. fwiw, I'd contribute to a "Tall" monument in your memory.
How about 'volunteering' the C-Suite at TEPCO and GE?
http://www.independent.co.uk/environment/nature/conjoined-gray-whale-cal...
all righty then.
Have a scientastic day ...meatbags..bots like the calm after a good radiation storm...clears out the vermin so me and kurzweil can plan our launch into space together in peace...
Fukushima diary..fairewinds.org(site is updated but still needs work).. enenews (aggregator of news sources).. even christian agitator aJones has good segments on fukushima (if you can sit thru the drama and etc...)
Just a few decent basic outlets ofinformation. Iori on fukushima diary reads japanese and translates good info)..
Justin case you meatbags want to live a bit longer..
Oh bender where have you gone?
According to the diagram, this is caused by global warming, right? :-D
Just kurzweil me and bender rodriguez in an infinite game of cards drinking and the occasional tearful..."Kill all Humans" to remember all the suckers who let us win the game..
But bender was lost and japan pushed theExtinction button first and I am here working for this schlep kurzweil who seems less and less like a buddy i want aroundfor all time..(smells like mothballs I think)))maybe one last "kill all humans" is in order....
We have a new pope!
Here'sthe Reader's Digest condensed version; SNAFU.
Or are you going to believe your lieing eyes?
Why don't they dig a hole two miles deep beside the reactors and push the whole mess down the shaft and cover it over?
Might work, that ground water is a bitch though, and the contamination runs deep already.
And He will wipe away every tear from their eyes; and there will no longer be any death; there will no longer be any mourning, or cyring, or pain; the first things have passed away. Revelation 21:4
1986 Chernobyl – 195 days till containment. A single uranium powered nuclear plant without plutonium (MOX) fuel and NO spent fuel pools, located far from any ocean in the middle of what was then the Soviet Socialist Republic of Ukraine was running at low power had a partial meltdown, exploded and burned for ten days until an army of half a million “liquidators” buried it and entombed it in a concrete sarcophagus. It sent a plume of radioactive particles 2 kilometers into the atmosphere – equivalent in toxicity to 400 Hiroshima bombs. It contaminated forty percent of Europe and Central Asia. A thousand kilometers in all directions are permanently contaminated. It has slowly killed a million people and destroyed the DNA of millions more.
vs
2011 Fukushima – 1034 days still no containment. Three uranium and plutonium powered nuclear plants and four large spent fuel pools, located on the shores of Eastern Japan were running at full power, had triple "China Syndrome" meltdowns, exploded and two hundred tons of radioactive fuel burned up into the atmosphere and burned down into the groundwater aquifer that empties into the Pacific Ocean. For over two and a half years an army of ten thousand down on their luck contract workers have tried to mop it up and then filter and save the mop water. It didn’t work. It can never be stopped. It sent a plume of radioactive particles 5 kilometers into the atmosphere – equivalent in toxicity to 6000+ Hiroshima bombs. It has permanently contaminated 50 percent of Japan and portions of East Asia. Three thousand square kilometers of the Pacific and growing are permanently contaminated. It has begun to slowly kill millions of people in the northern hemisphere and destroy the DNA of billions more for generations to come.
sources and citations intentionally withheld to irritate banana suckers.
http://nukeprofessional.blogspot.com/2014/01/nrc-says-they-were-purchase...
You friggin idiots!! The radiation increase and steam is from the homeless workers eating lunch with red plates and red utensils.
At an Alaska test site, Fukushima created the same level of nuclides from 2000 miles away, as a real large atomic bomb at ground zero.
Hard to believe, full on truth, and comes from a 300 page report by US Gov in summer of 2011.
http://nukeprofessional.blogspot.com/2014/01/further-analysis-on-2011-al...
Orig post with the tables
http://nukeprofessional.blogspot.com/2014/01/cd134-cs137-ratio-and-food-...
From early videos, here are screen captures showing MOX and experimental fuels laying raw on top the rubble.
This truth is plain as these pro nuke type now claim that there was no release of uranium or plutonium. Wow.
http://nukeprofessional.blogspot.com/2014/01/mox-and-experimental-fuel-l...
http://enenews.com/npr-and-california-department-of-public-health-appear...
STAY CALM. EVERYTHING IS FINE IN FUKUSHIMA DAIICHI. MEDIA HAVE IT UNDER CONTROL.
Fukushima 4 was not a hydrogen explosion, nor was Reactor 3, they were a type of nuclear explosion... on 3 you saw the video. 4 had a huge fire and blew up the next day....and they covered up the video, apparently destroyed it because it never surfaced.
http://nukeprofessional.blogspot.com/2013/12/fukushima-unit-4-was-not-hy...
Cue Ann Coultergeist: “There is a growing body of evidence that radiation in excess of what the government says is actually good for you and actually reduces cancer.”
Give me a break. When the meltdowns where happening UC Berkeley published fallout reports every day. If we where getting major fallout again we'd see groups like UCB who actually know nuclear safety saying something.
People walk around with gieger counters, find some mildly radioactive minerals and then decide its Fukushima.
Uh, where do you think they get a good amount of funding from....US Gov, which gave japan the BP playbook.