Steam Event - Something Very Wrong at Fukushima

There is a heavy steam event taking place at Fukshima reactor building 4 at this very moment!

The livecam closest to the reactor building 4 is the only one that display the steam event taking place. The JNN livecam is currently offline showing a "green screen" and the Futaba traffic cam is not picking up anything. And the other livecam showing reactor buildings 1 and 2 does not pick up anything but a little bit of the ongoing radioactive releases.

The forecast for the next few days and weeks for people living in the Northern Hemisphere will be radioactive rain with a tad of sunshine and airborne radiation.  

And remember scientists say one medium banana packs about 422 milligrams of potassium, about 11 percent of the 4,700 milligrams adults should aim to get daily. So don't go eating any bananas this week, the added potassium could kill you! That will be all for today's radioactive news.

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Fukushima Tropical STORM - Typhoon Alert Man-yi

Typhoon Man-yi Fukushima Alert

The strong tropical storm Man-yi is expected to approach Japan's northeastern Fukushima Prefecture on Monday but already we are seeing heavy rain and winds at the Fukushima Plant. And we are following this event live here at the chat.

I have added another livecam to the show and if you also turn on the TBS JNN livecam stream you will get the audio of the wind blowing and heavy rain. The new Futaba livecam is showing us the situation outside Fukushima. You can see the powerlines going to the Fukushima plant when the camera is facing away from the intersection.

And already we see how the trees are blowing. There have been cars going by from time to time. I guess this is either workers or personel in the area trying to keep the water out of certain areas. There have been reports of that they have been increasing patrols to make sure contaminated water does not overflow in the heavy rain.

At Sep. 15, 2013 - Updated 20:16 UTC they said

Tokyo Electric Power Company workers have placed weights on large cranes used to move debris around the reactor building to keep them from being toppled by strong winds.

They also attached ropes to outdoor piping and pumps that are used to inject water into the reactors.

The operators are strengthening patrols to prevent rain from entering and overflowing the basement of turbine buildings and the underground tunnel where highly contaminated water has accumulated.


   
They found water overflowing from a fence around storage tanks near the Number 4 reactor on Sunday afternoon. TEPCO officials are inspecting the leaked water to determine if it's contaminated.

The workers are dismantling a wastewater tank from which highly radioactive water is suspected to have leaked last month.

TEPCO says it plan to continue the work on Monday, but may decide to stop if the weather worsens.

Fukushima Unit 4 Welding Work Shown

Hi folks,

Unit 4 workers welding illustration

Some of you who have been keeping an eye on Fukushima and the Live Cam they have, might have noticed that yesterday Tepco changed the angle of the camera. It's now located at the opposite side from where it was before with reactor unit 4 closest in view to the camera instead of unit 1.

 I've been busy with other things lately so I didn't notice the work that was going on top of reactor unit 4. FC pointed out in the chat that there was flashes going on in the bottom right corner of the screen, and sure enough when I looked at the live cam there was even workers moving around there.

Here you can see an ILLUSTRATION showing the location where the welding work is being done on top of reactor unit 4. The actual flashes where much smaller than this illustration shows but the scale of the workers to the right is about the same.

I figure the flashes was caused by the workers welding some beams, that's what it looks like to me. I tell you they better weld in some support because that 60 Ton "cover" they put in place a month ago on top of the fuel pool to an already damaged structure is not going to help the building situation.

I'm sure you already have read about what happens when that fuel pool hits the ground in the event of an bigger earthquake. The contamination released would equate to some 800-1000 nuclear weapons going off all at once.

And I hope those workers where wearing gas masks because that steel is contaminated with all kinds of radioactive particles, welding always cause smoke and people doing it for a living need regular health checkups to check their lungs.. Add radiation to that smoke and it is not going to turn out good for the workers later on.

Now the camera angle like I told you earlier is different now from what it was when the livecam  first was put into place 2011. But we can still see all the reactor units and cranes working on the site. To explain the map, Unit 4 is in the right corner of the screen and we can see part of Unit 1 way back with Unit 2 blocking most of the view (Unit 1 is the white reactor unit because of the tent they put up).

I hope this Fukushima update have shed some light on the recent developments on site.

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Hi folks,

You are not going to believe what happened today 2011-09-11. I was watching the livecam like I usually do from time to time. Not like I'm glued to the monitor hehe.. Anyhow I put a message on the chat that there seems to be some steam coming out from the "pit" now and didn't think more about it than that.

Steam coming from the reactor units? Yes for you that have not been following what's going on at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Plant this might come as a surprise. But I can assure you that there have been burning, explosions, flashes, smoking, lightning.. You name it, going on at the Fukushima plant for months now.

Well the trick that TEPCO have done to keep things quiet is to block out the live feed to the camera. There is a 20 min or so delay in the feed. But the most important thing they have done is that at night they turn of the color. At first glance at the screen someone would not really notice because at night, colors don't show very well.

But there is a switch done at around 19:00 and 04:50 every day when they turn the feed to black and white and then back to color. And it can be clearly seen on many of my post here and if you watch the videos you will also see what else they do to the feed.

But guess what TEPCO did today. They forgot (or someone, probably got fired) to turn the cam to black and white How about that. And to show you how the feed SHOLUD LOOK like at night, here is a slideshow with pictures taken from the webcam during the evening and night.

YOUTUBE: 2011.09.12 01:00-02:00 / ふくいちライブカメラ (Live Fukushima Nuclear Plant Cam)

What TEPCO have done recently is they have put up what appears to be a work light that is pointed to the number 1 reactor unit. I would guess the reason being because they are now building tents for the reactors. And the framework got done today for reactor unit number 1 also.



The funny thing is at 4:00 at night someone apparently found out what was going on with the feed and quickly turned the cam to black and white again.. Breathe a sigh of relief.. Maybe no one noticed .. Ohh I did. SAY CHEESE!