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Fukushima May Be At Risk Of Imminent "Hydrogen Explosion"
Containers holding contaminated water at the crippled Fukushima nuclear power plant are at risk of hydrogen explosions, The Telegraph reports, with 10% of them found to be leaking. The discovery was reported to the Nuclear Regulation Authority (NRA), which raised concerns surrounding the potential hazards of accumulated hydrogen building up in the containers warning that "a spark caused by static electricity could cause a container to explode." TEPCO officials reassuringly note that they "think the possibility of an occurrence of hydrogen explosion from these storage facilities is extremely low, since there is no fire origin, or anything that generates static electricity nearby," but this is the same company that a recent IAEA report blasted for "failing to implement adequate safeguards at Fukushima – despite being aware of the tsunami risk."
Leaking containers at Japan’s embattled Fukushima nuclear power plant are at risk of possible hydrogen explosions, experts have claimed. As The Telegraph reports,
Almost 10 per cent of recently inspected containers holding contaminated water at the nuclear plant in northeast Japan were found to be leaking radioactive water.
The leakages, discovered during inspections by Tokyo Electric Power Co (Tepco), the operators of the plant, were thought to be caused by a build-up of hydrogen and other gases due to radiation contamination.
The discovery was reported to the Nuclear Regulation Authority (NRA), which raised concerns surrounding the potential hazards of accumulated hydrogen building up in the containers.
“If the concentration level is high, a spark caused by static electricity could cause a container to explode,” one NRA official told the Asahi Shimbun.
Tepco officials made the discovery while inspecting 278 of the plant’s 1,307 containers and found that 26 – close to ten per cent - had a leakage or overspill from their lids.
It is believed that gases had accumulated in the sediment at the base of the containers, prompting the volume of the liquid to expand and resulting in the overflow.
However, officials at Tepco stated that the risk of an explosion was believed to be minimal, with a series of measures being undertaken as a matter of urgency to resolve the faulty storage containers.
The operators also emphasised that there was no sign of radioactive water escaping beyond the confines of the concrete structures that encase the leaking containers.
“We think the possibility of an occurrence of hydrogen explosion from these storage facilities is extremely low, since there is no fire origin, or anything that generates static electricity nearby,” Mayumi Yoshida, a spokeswoman for Tepco, told the Telegraph.
Outlining measures to fix the problem, she added: “For temporary measures, we have been removing the leaked water, installing absorption materials, monitoring by patrol, keeping water level inside those facilities lower than set and keeping equipment which may generate fire away.
“In the long term, we’re going to lower the water level of current facilities so as to prevent further leakages.”
But this reassurance rings a little hollow given the recent report finding TEPCO at fault (as RT reports)...
The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) said in a report that TEPCO failed to implement adequate safeguards at Fukushima – despite being aware of the tsunami risk. The document was obtained by Kyodo news agency on Monday.
According to the 240-page report, several analyses carried out between 2007 and 2009 predicted the possibility of an 8.3-magnitude earthquake on the coast of Fukushima, which could result in the plant being hit by a tsunami of around 15 meters.
However, TEPCO and Japanese authorities delayed responding to the predictions, feeling that "further studies and investigations were needed.”
"TEPCO did not take interim compensatory measures in response to these increased estimates of tsunami height, nor did NISA require TEPCO to act promptly on these results," reads the text.
The report, prepared by 180 experts from 42 countries, will be presented at the annual IAEA meeting in September, if approved by its board of directors in June.
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Soooo... The Hindenburg, but with some glowing dust added in? Sure will be pretty....
Hopefully no one has their birthday party there. Taking a balloon, rubbing it on your head to stick it to yourself could blow the whole place to smithereens. How about lightning? Do they have that in Japan??
I guess they dont have thunderstorms in Japan ?
Not according to the Capitalists.
We're all a little confused about that these days. Seems the capitalists (not workers) who put their money to work controlling the system are not really Capitalists. Capitalists are the idealized creatures levitating within a truly free market. roflmao. Apparently, they would hold themselves back. Or their competitors would in some way. Surely money couldn't become a problem that way, could it? Not in Real Capitalism, of course.
Gotta love that Utopian fantasy. Unless you're one of the folks it's killing, of course.
Hope there were not any GE personel on the advisory board, would they even had known what to do to correct it rather than just saying a 45 foot wall of water could flood the back up generators, the same can be said of our reactors today, and that's only one quick fault, the other shows over time in the form of an engine fire, sound familiar?
Socks and a hallway of carpet. You can become the spark of a party. You have to meter in Global Climate humidity.
Drag a fat ass out of a car without touching the car. See how long you can hold this energy while pumping gas into the auto. In the old days, kaboom.
"IAEA report blasted for "failing to implement adequate safeguards at Fukushima"
Whooda thought that locating your backup generators in a sub-basement where there is a flood risk would be an adequate safeguard ?
If it's not by design then you could not really even make that shit up.
sort of like baylor medical center in houston locating their back-up generators in a sub-basement.
oh wait, every hospital in houston did that.
that is until a simple tropical storm named claudette decided to drop an estimated 43 inches of water in a 24 hour time period. still a US record.
flatline. and then we learned.
BLEWkushima!
With their track record odds are they will have a spark
"No chance of that."
-- TEPCO spokesman Timmy Jeethner
Hoof Arted?
Thank God..
Maybe then this will be put on the worlds priority list
good luck with that
I was beginning to think we would make it thru the day without a Fuku-Doom article.
When should we consider it doom? when its on the 6oclock news...everyday?
Billions of dna chains, from plankton up to human, being irreparably damaged by the minute, and according to you its best not to talk about it?
Go ahead and quote me on that assertion. You can't.
Deal with reality human, and quit foisting your pressupositions on everyone who you think isn't in lockstep with you.
Don't worry, you can sleep soundly at night with this knowledge: Mutation is the Key to Evolution.. ,
Yes, but some of natures experiments go terribly wrong. Nature doesn't care about that. There'll be pinheads galore if Hiroshima and Nagasaki are any example.
Thought this was contained like the 2008 subprime disaster and is yesterday's news. Just like Greece.
How long can the liberal media keep this quiet and pretend all is fixed?
Who wrote the insurance policy? How much stands for total payout? Who gets paid? What are the names on beneficiary?
Simple questions.
Very low possibility? Yeah - they thought there was very low possibility of the whole plant ending up as it is too. WTF is wrong with all these 'experts'?!?
Most "experts," in any field, don't exist to determine the best thing to do. They exist to prove that what those in power want to do is the best thing to do.
They're gamblers so sometimes they get bit in the ass by Murphy's law or one of its many corollaries. Beliving the likelihood of any such incident to be very small they bet it wouldn't happen in their collective lifetimes. We're well past due for such a bite ourselves. Don't forget, Diablo Canyon Power plant is located less than a mile from the Shoreline fault and less than 3 miles from another fault. The San Andreas isn't far either. Its been retrofittedc to withstand a 7.5 magnitude quake. I sleep better at night knowing the chance of an earthquake of greater magnitude is very small.
Chicken Little must be having an imagination explosion........
Relax....TEPCO has it all under control.
/sarc
The junkies have moved into the area setting up a tent city. The fumes give a higher and longer buzz than smack and it's Flee.
These are experts in insurance fraud.
Nuclear fusion would be a responsible and smart way to generate power.
The fact that the monkeys with razor blades on the third planet are using nuclear fission demonstrates their lack of wisdom.
Now we have radiation percolating throughout the food chain in the northern hemisphere and there's no way to stop it.
Enjoy.
Well said, it will go over most slave inflicted heads. The question, who is getting the new contract. GE? Lockheed Martin claims they have a new technology.
Nuclear fusion?
Since when?
Fusion vs Fission. It occurred during 2014. Google it.
Reminds me of Beta vs VHS war. I honestly can't say which is better. It's another pissing match. I believe someone has offered Japan a sweet deal. They just need to remove old plant before new one can be built.
"Lockheed Martin claims they have a new technology."
Lockheed Martin has forward looking statements to keep the funding flowing.
http://www.forbes.com/sites/amorylovins/2015/01/16/even-if-lockheed-has-...
"Lockheed Martin claims they have a new technology."
The same people who brought you the F35. The fighter that can't fight.
Welcome to la-la land.
Nuclear fusion would be a responsible and smart if there were a cost effective way of doing it. There isn't, yet. The closest I've seen projected is still four to five years away.
Nuclear Fission can be safe, but not run by crony capitalists aided by governmental regulatory agencies. They are so corrupt. We need free market nuclear power if we want safe nuclear.
Hysteria is not a solution. Most of the radiation in your environment is natural, like the potassium -40 in that banana you just eat.
The background radiation in America is not increasing, even though there may be isolated pockets of increased radiation. People have lived in locations with three to six times normal background without harm. The amount of radioactive isotopes from Fukushima is vanishingly small.
This would be scarry if it weren't going to plan.
"TEPCO officials reassuringly note that they "think the possibility of an occurrence of hydrogen explosion from these storage facilities is extremely low, since there is no fire origin, or anything that generates static electricity nearby..."
"We're not lying this time. We swear, again."
Liberty is a demand. Tyranny is submission.
Larry Silverstein is on his burnt satellite phone telling Japanese businessman to pull it.
http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=p34XrI2Fm6I
It’s been over two months since I posted the below comment on ZH and nothing really changed since then except another failure of some robotic toy. So here I go for those who missed it.
Over 4 years passed since Fukushima disaster and latest “Science” report only confirms worst fears.
Quick recapitulation of situation:
Two of four reactors suffered complete melt down, one partial meltdown and fourth which was not operational at that time still has big spent fuel problem which cannot be removed, posing threat of explosion if another disaster hits.
In four years what they accomplished was merely pouring water on cores of melted reactors and pumping it into hundreds of storage tanks build in the vicinity of NPP while having no clue what to do with it. Attempts to decontaminate it failed.
The vessel containments of melted down reactors have failed. They developed concrete cracks as well damage of pressure piping during disaster and in aftermath. Through those fissures some of nuclear fuel and highly contaminated water’s pouring into ground water system. The fact of bridging containment vessel (prelude to China syndrome) alone leads to horrifying conclusions that the problem is unfixable at all, short of currently impossible task of removing all melted nuclear fuel from vessel and/or wherever it went. The truth that anyone involved in mitigation of this disaster wouldn’t even utter.
On the top of it after four years TEPCO does not have good account of state of melted down reactors or complete list of damages, since supposedly world leading powerhouse robotics nation cannot produce one dammed good robot that would work in such extreme conditions. Several attempts to deploy robots have been proven complete failure.
It is shocking but they simply do not know what to do. They are in loss, confusion and panic. There is neither plan, nor technology invented yet to tackle the problem. In desperation thousand retired workers indebted to Japanese mafia are being sent there into these reactors, for two minutes each, to senselessly die on orders of Japanese Oligarchs. It is that bad.
Since rate of process of removing radiation from highly contaminated water is many times lower that rate of pumping newly contaminated water into new, freshly built storage tanks, the whole effort is hopeless from engineering point of view. All this is just Sisyphus work, which lead to nowhere since they have to keep pumping water to cool and moderate fission material inside leaky damaged reactors so they will not blow up again. Now many those tanks are also leaking profusely back to ground water adding to chaos. All the contaminated water leaked from reactor vessels and storage tanks ends up in the ocean continually bleeding radiation and all frantic attempts of preventive measures such as “ice wall” utterly failed.
Japanese MSM media, in 1984 style propaganda of changing past to control present, covers up gruesome reality of the Fukushima situation with its human implications, not to mention ignores severe problems with remaining 100 aging Japanese nuclear reactors put offline after 03/11/2011. The official talk about Fukushima NPP decommission process planned for about four decades supposedly already started is a cruel fairy tale in context of utterly hopeless situation on the ground. The apparent inertia and indifference of the government, busy destroying Japanese economy with QE, cannot be explained in any other way than deliberated criminal, genocidal act against Japanese nation and world community unless you believe in fairy tales.
For Japanese failed policies regarding Fukushima and wider historical context:
https://contrarianopinion.wordpress.com/2015/02/20/japan-miracle-that-wasnt/
Situation at some US nuclear power plants and decommission efforts:
https://sostratusworks.wordpress.com/2015/01/01/devils-good-intentions/
and propaganda lies about renewable and nuclear energy, an excerpt from
https://sostratusworks.wordpress.com/2015/02/11/engineering-renewable-delusions/
about fallacy of the concept of peaceful application of nuclear power.
The Nuclear power however, is neither clean nor sustainable and is simply a cruel hoax, masquerading as power generating technology. There is no such a thing as peaceful or civilian nuclear power. Little history. When in early fifties nuclear weapons race between US and Soviets and later China was in its apex a problem aroused of running huge operation of producing nuclear weapons in total secrecy. The issue was necessity of running secretly many nuclear reactors fueled with over 99% of U238 and less than 1% of isotope U235 which after controlled fission burning produced 3-4% of isotope U235 ready for subsequent enrichment in order to produce nuclear weapon grade fuel. Another problem was that further enrichment of uranium U235 and Plutonium Pu239 isotopes required enormous amounts of electricity, for running of hundreds of thousands mechanical centrifuges 24/7 affecting whole national power system with variety effects that were not easy to conceal.
To the rescue came bunch propagandists from Pentagon or W.H. and devised peaceful use of nuclear energy mantra, brilliantly conceived method of hiding massive nuclear war preparation effort as a benign service to humanity as proclaimed by president Eisenhower as early as in 1953. As a result first so-called US Civilian Nuclear Power Plant was born in Shippingport, Pennsylvania in 1957, with moderate redesign of original military nuclear reactor and adding steam turbine and electric power generators. Even deadly adversaries of US in Soviet Union did not openly attack Eisenhower, by calling him liar and hypocrite in editorial of “PRAVDA” newspaper as they usually did but instead they were uncannily receptive to supposed “peace” overtures. They must have understood the point and figured out that they can also use this propaganda ploy to keep readying to nuclear confrontation while utilizing previously useless steam to light up half of Siberia, all in the name of world peace. No need to go on.
Ignoring inherited environmental dangers and flaws in basic concepts of design, nuclear power plants were never meant for civilian use for one reason alone. Namely complete lack of any technology enabling utilization of deadly, lasting up to billion years, nuclear waste for any further civilian use and fairy tales about new breeder reactor technologies do not change anything in that matter. The Fukushima NPP disaster is prime example of deadly results of reckless design based more on war contingencies than consideration for civilian lives, combined with complete criminal incompetence of private operator focused solely on profit. The medium term effects are starting to show up in form of 6000% increase in cancer cases in Fukushima prefecture while authorities call area safe.
http://deepseanews.com/2014/01/all-the-best-scientifically-verified-info...
So I question the 1-? and then it comes to mind. The negative feeling of just being informed of being infected with cancer.
So that explains that.
Your good work is warranted. +++++
"It's been over 4 years...."
Yes, and yet I clearly remember the Japanese PM telling his people [and the world] "It's only a tiny leak."
I'm tired of hearing about "experts" as though that means anything. How about, Fukushima is still a major problem for Japan "morons" say.
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A hydrogen explosion would take care of the problem real fast and furious. Do they have lightening strikes in Japan; I understand that lightening has plenty of fire-power. The CIA's HAARPing is more likely to strike and they can blame China or Russia.
WARNING: searching internet for anything relating to J.o.e V.i.a.l.l.s may cause you problems, proceed with caution.
SECRET 1945 OSS Nuclear Earthquake On Japan: View-to-A-Kill 4REAL
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7l9iRvLoh1E
Since this secret paper was written, the modern-day CIA has had sixty years to get its nuclear numbers right - just in time for the shattering war crime against South and South-East Asia which murdered more than 300,000 people on December 26, 2004.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ROyTkix0bn4
james gandolfini before he was whacked said to me
tony donte ever ever trust the rabbi even when day are offering cheap security deals.
i said come on tony sorry james magna bsp supplied the technology fo der the jap nukem industry provided security on the titanic the hindenburg and the ears of the son of john paul getty.
thats a pretty impressive portfolio in anyones satanic book.
tony said tony i'm just tellin yer they will fuck you up good.
and look what day did cocksuckers nuked the hole fuckin planet dem kosher magna bsp guys dancin good.
me i takin my lugols iodine and hopen dis saturn cern machine can use der negative neutrinos captured from operation ice cube and project icarus at gran sasso italy
and use dem neutrino suckers to create another plutonium radiation free clean
dimension space
split temporal realities what you will if you get my drifts
whatever
did i tell you james was at gran sasso when he was whacked but dats another story
Rogue electric eel.
Obama's Job Czar is Jeff Immelt. Jeff Immelt is the CEO of G.E.. The tax attorney for G.E. is named Peter Lanza. Newtonian pyshics involve 9/11 and most people are afraid of a fat fuck with a gun wearing an IRS badge.
I am afraid of the people we built a tax code around.
Does no one else feel a great sadness, witnessing the end of what was once a proud and beautiful nation?
" a proud and beautiful nation"
Are you kidding me? A racist militaristic nation that still won't own up to its atrocities in WWII? Are you even slightly aware of the history of the Japanese empire?
The borderline-psychotic levels of denial about Fuck-u-shima fit right in.
The doctors involved in the horrific Unit 731 went back into elite society as though nothing had happened:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unit_731
Denial and brutality made artforms. Welcome to Japan, you can keep it. Keep snorting the faerie dust.
Pasted : Instead of being tried for war crimes, the researchers involved in Unit 731 were given immunity in exchange for their data on human experimentation.[8] Some were arrested by Soviet forces and tried at the Khabarovsk War Crime Trials in 1949. Americans did not try the researchers so that the information and experience gained in bio-weapons could be co-opted into the U.S. biological warfare program.[9] On 6 May 1947, Douglas MacArthur, as Supreme Commander of the Allied Forces, wrote to Washington that "additional data, possibly some statements from Ishii probably can be obtained by informing Japanese involved that information will be retained in intelligence channels and will not be employed as 'War Crimes' evidence."[10] Victim accounts were then largely ignored or dismissed in the West as Communist propaganda.[11]
This shit happens when you manufacture deep-space radiation in our heretofore protected biosphere...
It is always worth looking at the bits of information on Zheleznogorsk, formerly Krasnoyarsk-26 or Combine 815 and the other Closed Cities in Siberia for an insight into the harmless effects of radiation.
Minimal. Only a slight chance of an extinction level event. Had me worried for a moment.
What's to worry about? Fukushima already blew up once before. We lived. Watch the very cool video here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zGhOW3DLlow
No! Wait! It blew up TWICE already. Here's the second one:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vbBk0Y6cQZQ
So in Tepco language the whole SOB is about to blow but don't worry it's just another hydrogen explosion.
Ok, I'm dumb and only did enough chemistry to get me through first year uni because I hated it. Plus I hated Checmistry West (the building) it stunk.
Why would cesium laced water all of a sudden separate into O2 and H? Water has a VERY strong molecular bond.
Doing this with electricity is VERY energy consuming so how is it that this water is "sponatneously" just doing this?
Can someone in the know let us all in on it?
Cheers,
Squid
Will the truth ever get out? http://www.jimstonefreelance.com/fukushima1.html
hm i did not know water is an explosive material