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Caught On Camera: Fire At Fukushima?
We are by no means experts at identifying instances of fire caught on camera under low illumination conditions, but the following compressed 3 minute video from the official Tepco YouTube feed (where 1 second of the clip represents 20 seconds in real time) showing the Fukushima nuclear power plant between 8:00pm and 9:00 pm last night, and particularly the segment 1:16 into the clip and continuing for about 30 seconds (or about 6 minutes in the real world), certainly looks disturbing.
That said, we are confident Tepco has a canned and ready for dissemination explanation which soothes away fears that in addition to free gamma rays, the Fukushima sarcophagus is now also in the flambe a la carte business.
We can't wait to hear it.
h/t pressure studios
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I ain't goin' in there.
Jim Stone Freelance has the goods on this 'disaster'.
<-my name
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But seriously, I think NSA did video injection to make use afraid of the Russian China deal.
Japanese Boy Scouts roast radioactive marshmallows? ;-)
Looney
That used to be a HD camera.
Relax folks, it's just fog and car lights.
There is no immediate danger to human health.
The subprime crisis is under control...do not worry ! ;>)
is that the northern lights reflecting off of the ice wall?
Proof that deuterium and tritium are combustable. The ultimate confirmation is always whether the video feed gets scrubbed or segments disappear because of hard disk errors or some such.
For those of you who want to follow the Reactor 4 spent fuel pool rod removal process you can get all the information/disinformation at the Tepco link here...
http://www.tepco.co.jp/en/decommision/index-e.html
They are just past the half way point if you still find them a credible source of information. That is very good news if it is true which of course it probably isn't.
Huh... some of that looked kinda greenish to me. Anybody else know what that means? No, it's not good, kiddies, but should not be unanticipated.
Y'all know, Karma is for real.
Remember those old Godzilla movies?
Huh...
The resolution of that camera is so poor it's impossible to tell what the hell we're looking at. It looks like banks of fog, to me.
Nuclear hellfire from the depths of the inferno..
What’s the big deal?..
It’s not like it’s a damnation fix from a criminal banker.
They are burning the bodies of all the workers that died trying to do cleanup around there.
Godzilla?
"History shows again and again,
How nature points out the folly of men"
Relax is just the fog ... of war!
Cool handle Svayambhu.
Generally....
http://aadivaahan.wordpress.com/2011/09/05/water-branding-and-thoughts/
Water is the KEY....
And fukushima is spreadign through the waters. It is the long bomb, the bomb that keeps on bursting...every day a little more...
BigJim I thought it was fog at first, too. But I went and checked the next hour of tape and it clears up about 1:00 into it. My experience with fog doesn't track with that. That said, I've spent many hours looking at those cams and STILL am never sure what I'm looking at. I can tell you that the orientation is at the far south of the plant near Unit 4. So if it is fog, it is coming from the right direction- the sea.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e5Jamn7j8F4
Not to mention Clusterium and Fuckium
You gonna get a BIG supLise on energy diverLsion day, you Japonese dog !
Someone posted this on ZH, Nuclear Emergency Tracking Center , it's worth following:
http://netc.com/
http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/05/18/us-balkans-flood-idUSBREA4H04B...
www.nytimes.com/2014/05/20/world/europe/flood-danger-persists-in-serbia-...
Watch Serbia.
What's left to burn?
Depends which way the wind is blowing that day. Radiation is equal opportunity if they don't pull the rods from those the reactors that are down river.
http://earth.nullschool.net/#current/wind/surface/level/overlay=temp/ort...
just to clarify, but those power plants at risk from the serbia flooding are all coal-fired. NOT nuclear.
Anyone got an answer to where Europe has been dumping their Nuclear waste in Serbia?
During the mid- to late-1990s, scientists from the Vinca Institute of Nuclear Sciences, one of Yugoslavia's main nuclear research facilities, began expressing concern about the safety of almost 50 kilograms of fresh nuclear fuel containing highly enriched uranium (HEU) and 2.5 tons of spent fuel that were stored at Vinca. [2] In August 2002, a multinational team of public, private, and international entities organized a successful operation to transport 48 kg of 80%-enriched uraniumfrom Vinca to the Russian Institute of Atomic Reactors in Dmitrovgrad, Russia. The Government of the Republic of Serbia and the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), in cooperation with theUnited States, the European Commission, and other partners, are currently implementing the Vinca Institute Nuclear Decommissioning (VIND) Program. The VIND Program is the IAEA's largest technical cooperation effort, and involves the removal of spent fuel, improved management of radioactive waste stored at Vinca, and decommissioning of the RA research reactor. The removal of spent fuel and construction of radioactive waste management facilities were completed in 2010. In July 2009, during the IAEA Director General's visit, Serbia signed an Additional Protocol to its safeguards agreement.
The promises of men aren't worth much to anyone as a currency right now...at all.
You know google exists right? And the only people more worthless at keeping a secret other than the local gossip queen is the governments of the world that can't seem to get their shit together to hide classified information that seemly leaks like a sieve. Why bother having intelligence agencies at all when it's all publicly posted in referential science documentation. OH yeah...intelligence agencies AREN'T QUALIFIED TO HANDLE SCIENCE INFORMATION! That much is very obvious.
http://www.sztaki.hu/~nacsa/Paks/Image1.gif
http://petrolog.typepad.com/photos/blog_illustrations/EU_CO2_emission_so...
See those big red blobs? CO2 output is a great way to find where a Nuke plant is. Because A coal plant leaves a different CO signature than a nuclear plant. So whatever information you think you have, best be asking some more questions of the people you think are telling you the truth.
So let's keep an eye on Serbia shall we?
that, i was not aware of...
yes, let's keep an eye on serbia ;-)
I recommend this all-volunteer real-time radiation network. No lying .gov agencies involved and you can see the data to make informed decisions.
http://www.radiationnetwork.com/
Thanks! I noticed that Utah and Nevada seem to be a bit short of monitoring stations...I guess after they nuked the shit out them they're not worth monitoring.
I have had flip phones that took better video than that. What's the fucking point? We can barely tell if the shit going up in flames. It's Japan for fuck sake! There has to be some kind of gadget you can nail to wall that provides better video.
Watching that video was like seeing Jesus in my toast.
Watch this one then.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xrp5yLLh3Dc
Yes, maybe even just a nail itself.
"Swamp gas from a weather balloon was trapped in a thermal pocket and reflected the light from Venus."
There is no housing bubble!
swamp gas..
Light from Venus reflected off a weather balloon and obscured through fog.
pods
It looks like rain in an 8 bit videogame.
GE supplied Japan with the top-notch CCTV.
Just a little nuclear burn control, to get rid of the excess plutonium. No big deal, please move on.
Already in the air, soil and water near you.
Remember, last week their last water purification installation failled.
Strange that no other country has even send help he?
Remember BP? the world was on top of it.
It's a lost cause and our children will hate us for it.
Fuck, I hate us for it.
Yeah it's unfortunate that the jet stream passes right over there on its way to N. America.
Well, at least the ground level air-flow on the video was inland.
"Oh, no! There goes Tokyo!"
Godzirra!
Agreed...when can we dispell the myth of the Japanesse as a competent, responsible people. The only thing these retards care about is 'saving face' as they pollute the ENTIRE FUCKING WORLD!!!
Can some adults please step in and take control of this situation?!!?!?!?!?!?!?
"Vladimir Putin is busy right now. May I take a message?"
Agree, let's drop the old 'Japanese Honor and Quality' stereotype - if it ever was true, it sure as hell isn't true anymore.
Wait a minute Dude, these GE NUKE plants are part of the Marshall Plan that was forced down the Japs throats after WW2.
23 of the tragically flawed GE MK 1's were stuffed down our throats as well.
http://www.cnn.com/2012/02/17/us/us-nuclear-reactor-concerns/
Don't live downwind from these suckers when the grid drops out.
http://www.nrc.gov/reactors/operating/map-power-reactors.html
Too bad they didnt apply their sigma quality concepts to their nuclear power plants
No hate for me. Obama already told the world the I didn't build it.
Relax. Things were slow on this site so Tyler photoshopped another crisis du jour.
Please do not worry
Wait til you see the mutated lizard that comes from all the radio activity...GODZILLA!!!
I kept waiting for him to appear.
NOTE TO SELF: avoid tired, overused, glib, stale references to Godzilla.
Is it just me or is the timing funny? The new Godzilla film was just released over the weekend. Perhaps this is just the studios way of hyping the release and inflating the box office over the coming Memorial Day weekend.
/s in case you think I'm serious.
Is that filmed underwater?
Wait.....I thought those little assholes are supposed to make *good* cameras?
If you go in there, you'd better dress out. Imagine having to do that in the control room.
http://youtu.be/P5cCaeYBJPU
It's just burning off the creosote. It is good for the environment. I promise.
I'VE HEARD gozilla actually eats radioactivity and it makes him stronger....
I'm just saying... that beast is getting pretty powerfull right now...
YEAH! Where is Godzilla when you need that mutha? At any rate I'm sure a mini-godzilla is going to evolve from this heavily irradiated site.
Would love to see Banzai's depiction of Barack Obozilla.
Send him to DC, please.
Can't wait for the Tokyo Olympics in 2020!
The first ever 'glowing' "Green Olympics"...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZVJInwekSl4
Oh no there goes Tokyo!
They should use this as their olympic flame, FukuFlame burns for millions of years.
Oh please....
Those Japanese are the once who invented the tamagoshi!!!
So why doubt that they'll solve this one to?!?!?
...
sushi anyone?
green tea anyone?
They have a new event...
The 3 Legged Race...
Dude, that was like two years ago.
No it's something else. the Russians know of an accidental reaction called the "Elephants foot" from Chernobyl. They also produced a bunch of papers as it relates to "what if" scenarios. One of those 'what if' scenarios was what if the elephants foot managed to fall into a volcano or live magma.
Uranium Waste Volcano.
Is the Elephant Foot and the Cameltoe the same thing? ;-)
Looney
No, Elephant Foot is found only on the Hildebeast.
If you see it approaching ... RUN!
dup
uhh...I wouldn't lick the Chernobyl elephant foot?
It's like a cameltoe, but rarely seen in the wild. Usually attached to a monster with stretch pants waddling through the Walmart.
Got proof?
http://www.breitbart.com/Breitbart-TV/2014/05/01/Dude-This-Is-Like-Two-Y...
I think I just had a Max Headroom flashback.
Everybody's a com...com...comedian. Comedian.
It stops being funny when your skin starts peeling off.
Or for those of us in North America when the jet stream drops off all those nice little plutonium particles into peoples lungs.
I think I saw bigfoot running through the flames!
No I checked and she was in DC at the time of this video.
Maybe someone was grilling the 3-headed fish.
Yum!
the Japanese should take a cue from Homer Simpson and grow some tomacco...
And don't forget the super tall invisible plants that no one else can see.
Also LONG tomacco!
Fog, and a passing car with it's high beams on.
I'm sure that's what I saw. I didn't see any radiation either.
Besides, how can you build up any resistance if you're not exposed. I mean really - Med Skool 101.
I think Tepco gave the all clear for the entire prefecture so who wouldn't go straight to the saltwater ingress/egress for a little bonfire and a s'more?
Clearly swamp gas with light from Venus reflecting off of it.
hmmm.. looks like my son's pixelated minecraft game...fucking creepers setting shit on fire with lava.This is version 2.0 "nuclear edition"
Little bit older story from March but should inspire confidence that they have it under control.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-03-10/plan-to-send-residents-back-to-fuk...
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At the risk of losing his job if his identity is revealed, a man who worked at TEPCO's Fukushima plant for more than 20 years says the situation at the reactor is not under control and no-one knows how to fix the problem.
"There are too many systems and they all have problems," he said.
"For example, too many water tanks with too many lines - it's very difficult to operate. It's made worse because all the experienced workers have reached their radiation limits, so TEPCO has to rely on staff that don't know the site and who aren't trained."
...
Cue the A now B- Team theme song.
"It's made worse because all the experienced workers have reached their radiation limits..."
Explains workforce participation drop in Japan... US is still a mystery...
Relax. Do you see or hear Fukushima Abe losing any sleep over this ? Its all contained. Team Obama can always send some technicians over for roasting. Nothing to worry about./sarc
Maybe time to send in the "crowns"?
Just a controlled burn. Kind of like California
Bah. Everything rages in California.
I'm guessing either swamp gas or Godzilla
Wait - there's a difference?
But in the new normal only 1 thing matters.
http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/international/business/fukushim...
TOKYO: The operator of Japan's crippled Fukushima nuclear plant said today it booked a USD 4.3 billion annual net profit owing to an electricity rate hike and a massive government bailout following the 2011 disaster.
Tokyo Electric Power (TEPCO) was teetering on the brink as cleanup and compensation costs stoked huge losses and threatened to collapse the sprawling utility until Tokyo stepped with a multi-billion dollar rescue.
The company at the centre of the worst nuclear accident in a generation said it earned 438.65 billion yen (USD 4.3 billion) in the fiscal year to March, compared with a net loss of 685.3 billion yen in the same period a year earlier.
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And not to be outdone by US
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Sales rose 11.0 per cent to 6.63 trillion yen, it said. The company's results got a boost from a rate hike, and helped offset a decline in the amount of electricity TEPCO sold owing to warmer-than-usual winter weather, it said.
It also booked a special gain of 1.8 trillion yen based on funds the company received from a government-backed bailout fund as well as asset sales.
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Bullish!
TBTF. The cancer is everywhere.
I'm wondering when its going to start showing up.
Please do not worry. Japanese answer for everything.
Toss in the illluminati and build a pyramid on top.
If it were a fire for 6 minutes, there would be more damage.
I'd suspect it was an equipment hazard light running.
The japanese are screwed, but I don't think this is the problem.
If it were a fire for 6 minutes, there would be more damage.
I'd suspect it was an equipment hazard light running.
The japanese are screwed, but I don't think this is the problem.
"The japanese are screwed,"
Yeah, their camera work sucks!
I guess that is why they take so many pictures. Law of large numbers implies some of them might be descent.
Is this Japan's version of IMAX?
Gojira!!!
They're covering it up!!!
ENE will be all over this tomorrow.
http://enenews.com/
So far nothing but will keep checking.
Japanese real estate on fire again?
If they ever do a reboot of X-Files, they can add that to the intro with Government Denies Knowledge floating over it.
They have higher resolution cameras at fuckin Kroger,...and this is/was a state of the art nuclear facility?
ROFLMAO
Remember when Japanese cameras were the best in the world ?
Makes one wonder if they cannot spring an extra 50 bucks for a real camera and not one made in 1980 - what else have they scrimped on?
Seems the whole company is run on a 'Fuck it!' basis where only the bottom line - and bonuses! - matter.
Their annual report should read:
"With much apology we killed the planet, but please not to worry; 400 billion Yen profit was made."
"and this is/was a state of the art nuclear facility?"
Yup. Relax. Tepco is merely flaring off some excess plutonium or something. It has been analysed and found to be safe and does not pose a health hazard./sarc
the cameras are fine, it's the film getting over exposed by massive radiation.
if they used film it would be black from radiation exposure.
I think if someone tried to wipe the lens they'd be dead in the morning.
Illicit marshmallow roast.
Don't tell the global warming croud - they'll be more worried about the carbon emissions from last nights fire than billions of rads of radiation spewed out over the past 3 years
Fukushima Reasons Not to Clean and Entomb
1) Provides cover for other leaks
2) Provides cover for use of "Depleted" Uranium Projectiles by military
3) Advances Neomalthusian population death.
4) Secures income streams from cancer tech and treatment, bio-med
5) Provides poplulation opression and control through low level continuous terror
6) Provides "Coupe de Grace" opportunity for destroying Japan and USA ie bombing site to aerialize radiation
Godzilla's fault.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ORSvf8eVa0g
I hope it wasn't a fuel rod spontaneously combusting.
I bet it was the container vessel used to transport the rods as they are removing. BOOOOM, opps fat finger drop.
Can you say, no one is ever going to that place again.
Heavy frog
Isn't it obvious - haven't you guys watched any of those Japanese sci-fi movies from the 60's?? The plot - a Japanese nuclear accident opens up a giant hole in the earth and disturbs an otherwise sleeping Godzilla. Godzilla wakes up and starts to climb out of the hole - breathing fire! Tepco says the reactor is safe, right? So it must be Gozilla working his way up to the surface.
An Oligarch here an Oligarch there try to keep me in a plastic cage
But they don't realize it's so easy to break
But sometimes I get a ha
Feel Fukushima kind of runnin' hot
That's when I've got to move before I get caught
Hey that's why, listen to me baby, you can't hold me down
I don't want to be tied down
I gotta be free
Owh!
I said
Stone free to do what I please
Stone free to ride the breeze
Stone free I can't stay
Got to got to got to get away
Yeah ow!
Jimi Hendlix?
Shinzo's nuclear powered money printer threw a rod.
No , it just glows when it's run at over 100% capacity , perfectly normal operation.
looks like a set from an old and original japanese godzilla flick with dubbed english
rodan and godzilla squaring off soon - on the set of nuke plant - oh noooooooooooo!!!!!
Olympic Flame. Just light the torch and get out quickly.
Seriously it is a very foggy night and there are probably dozens of red lights ablaze all over that facility warning hazards and such.
Maybe someone was backing up their SUV and hit the breaks or some other red light source.
Sadly we will be having these same urban myth discussions many eons from now, Eloi, Morlock, Mutants, Forbidden Zones.
No fear it's just a little global warming.... GO SHOPPING!!
Please Do Not Worry.
You will be dead from Cancer long before you find out.
Now - Move Along.
Merely a cloudbuster making rain. Like a yo-yo that glows in the dark: what makes it special makes it dangerous. So just bury it and forget.
Swamp gas
Damn! Great minds think alike!
TEPCO statement: "Just a biig 'o fish-fry by some employees. Nothing to see here."
Its Godzilla.
If actual lighting occurs and strikes the facility (not heat lighting) then it is Mothra.
http://nukeprofessional.blogspot.com/2014/05/the-radiation-still-to-go-i...
The Radiation Still to go into WIPP can Contaminate the Entire PlanetI did some calculation to "bring it home" —just the amount of "low level" waste they want to still put into WIPP, is enough to, if spread evenly among all humans, animals, fish, plankton, plants of all sorts, to bring the entire world up to 70 Bq/lb.
And animals at 30 Bq/lb start having severe health problems
Note that even thought the Remote Handled Waste is only 4% of the waste by volume, it is 3/7th of the total radioactivity.
Per the former WIPP lab manager, James Conca, they have stuff in WIPP way hotter than anything at Hanford, 7 Curies per liter. That is enough to bring 1,000,000,000 Costco size chickens up to 200 Bq/lb.
Again, severe damage is done to animals at 30 Bq/lb. You can't sell any animals over 100 Bq/lb as food even though they are being "diluted" by other food.
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Why would anyone put nuclear waste into metal containers, and then stash them in a corrosive salt environment? WTF? Haven't they ever seen a 7 year old car up in the northeastern US ?
fwiw, my source for the fuki-u news is:
http://ex-skf.blogspot.com/
he's been doing it from march '011.
:)