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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Two Years of Fukushima Boiling [Todays Pictures]

Well it's happening again, massive amounts of steam / fog covering the reactor buildings at Fukushima. Good thing there are people in the chat that brings it to attention when it happens. I took the opportunity to take some pictures of the boiling reactor buildings.

I also looked at some old pictures I had taken two years ago in August 2011 and if we have a look at those pictures things have not really changed at all. Sure there might be less fires and spectacular lightning going on now, probably due to the fact that the melted reactor fuel corium have now gone very deep underground. But there still is the steam events taking place on a regular basis over at Fukushima.

This is an old video from 2011.08.04 showing some of the events going on. Notice how Tepco turn the camera to black and white at the 1 minute mark to hide away the things taking place. It really starts to pick up at about 1:40 min into the video.

I have to say that anyone who claim the contamination taking place (about 400 tons of radioactive water per day into the Pacific Ocean) that comes directly from molten nuclear fuel corium in contact with groundwater that say somehow it is "diluted and safe" is a MADMAN!

68 Ton Nuclear Fuel Likely Melted at Reactor Unit

Fukushima Corium Eroding Concrete China Syndrome

Some already know we have a China Syndrome on our hands, but actually we got 6 reactor units in trouble so in reality the Fukushima Disaster have brought us China Syndrome x6 with 3 reactor units that have confirmed meltdowns. Before going into the story we need to look at the facts. Because when dealing with TEPCO they never give out anything that could hurt them. This is based on the countless of reports and analysis that have been done over the months since the beginning of the disaster. They have always downplayed and sugarcoated the disaster. We all remember the "hydrogen explosions" in the beginning and that "nothing was wrong with the reactors stories" that came out then.

Well now we know better and it has been confirmed that we have 3 full meltdowns with another 3 that are in question among experts and people that have a better understanding of the situation.
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And if you don't think the media is downplaying the situation have a look at this crap done by the BBC.
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With that said the analysis that was made a few days ago where they discuss the possibility that the molten nuclear fuel (Corium) have melted it's way through the pressure vessel (in all reactors) and is now sitting on the bottom of the containment eroding the concrete.

Not actual picture, because no human would be able to approach an 

68 Ton Blob of 3000 C hot Corium and live to tell the story.

Now they have come out with that there is likely 68 Tons of the nuclear fuel that is eroding the concrete in reactor unit number 1. But hang on how much nuclear fuel was actually stored at reactor unit 1?

It is estimated that all reactor units contain less than 100 Tons of nuclear fuel and reactor unit 1 had another 50 Tons of Spent Nuclear Fuel stored in the building. So what does this mean?

Well the analysis said that in Unit 2 and Unit 3 it is estimated that 63% and 57% of the nuclear fuel have already melted out of the pressure vessel also resting on the concrete below eroding it's way down.

What this means is that all reactor units must have somewhere around 60 Tons of Nuclear Fuel that is eroding it's way down into the concrete. And if we have a look at the Spent Nuclear Fuel situation at the reactor buildings this figure is much larger.

The spent nuclear fuel:
Reactor Building 1: 50 tons
Reactor Building 2: 81 tons
Reactor Building 3: 88 tons Uranium / Plutonium (UO2/MOX)
Reactor Building 4: 135 tons
Reactor Building 5: 142 tons
Reactor Building 6: 151 tons

The total amount of molten nuclear fuel that have collected in the buildings into Corium blobs melting their way down into the earth is not really known, because in the explosions the nuclear fuel was thrown outside and scattered around the plant and if I'm not mistaken they have found Nuclear Fuel several miles away from the plant.

Much of this was cleaned up in the weeks and months after the accident by workers at the plant. What they did was make in into piles and burn it. Remember there was a lot of fires and steam / smoke going on at the plant at one time.

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All N-fuel may have fallen to outer vessel / TEPCO: Up to 68 tons likely melted in No. 1 reactor, eroding concrete of containment unit
https://www.yomiuri.co.jp/dy/national/T111201006092.htm
The Yomiuri Shimbun

Almost all the nuclear fuel inside the No. 1 reactor of the crippled Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant has melted, damaging the pressure vessel and eroding the concrete bottom of the containment vessel by up to 65 centimeters, the plant's operator has found.

Tokyo Electric Power Co. released its latest analysis Wednesday on the cores of the plant's Nos. 1 to 3 reactors, based on temperature, water levels and other data. TEPCO said the fuel inside the reactors has melted to various degrees following the March 11 earthquake and tsunami.

The No. 2 reactor's fuel is up to 57 percent melted, while that of the No. 3 reactor is up to 63 percent melted, TEPCO's analysis has shown.

TEPCO has made the latest analysis to judge to what degree the fuel has cooled, as well as to ascertain if it can achieve its year-end target of a cold shutdown of the reactors, as stipulated in the timetable the utility company and the government have compiled to bring the nuclear crisis under control.

Following the March 11 earthquake and tsunami, water injection at the No. 1 reactor was suspended for about 14 hours, resulting in damage more serious than in the Nos. 2 and 3 reactors, which had water injection suspended for six to seven hours, according to TEPCO.

The nuclear fuel at the No. 1 reactor melted as its temperature reached nearly 3,000 C at one time, TEPCO estimated. In the No. 1 reactor, TEPCO believes, almost all of the about 68 tons of fuel melted. This has not only seriously damaged the bottom of the steel pressure vessel enough to create holes, but the fuel has also fallen to the concrete bottom of the containment vessel, eroding it by up to 65 centimeters.

Only 37 centimeters of concrete remains between the fuel and the vessel's outermost steel wall in the most damaged area, TEPCO said.

Without water, the No. 1 reactor's fuel temperature was more than high enough to have melted everything inside the pressure vessel, not only the fuel itself but also the fuel control rods, the utility said.

TEPCO currently maintains a steady supply of water to the three reactors, enabling the No. 1 reactor to always have about 40 centimeters of cool water at the bottom of the containment vessel, enough to cover the melted fuel, according to the utility.

Both the government and the utility said the three reactors are experiencing no problems in maintaining cooling functions.

However, the melted fuel likely will be a major hurdle in removing fuel from the troubled reactors in the decommissioning process, which is expected to take more than 30 years.
(Dec. 2, 2011)

Leaking Reactor Unit 3 at Fukushima And Collapsed Crane

Chief Nuclear Engineer Arnie Gundersen from Fairewinds talks about some newly released photographs from Tokyo Electric. These pictures show that it wasn’t a hydrogen explosion that occurred at reactor unit 3 at all. The initial explosion was from the fuel pool, throwing fuel fragments (plutonium) out in the open. We also get to see an older video that show steam leaking from the containment (nuclear reactor unit).

Transcribed:

Hi, I am Arnie Gundersen from Fairewinds, I like to talk to you today about some new photographs that were just recently released by Tokyo Electric. First is the cover surrounding Fukushima unit 1, is almost installed. Now that does not mean that it is air tight, but it’s better than what was there before. What they’ll do with that cover once completely installed is that they’ll take the gases that are being created inside the nuclear reactor, they’ll run them through filters and then up the stack. So it does not eliminate all of the radiation but it does capture it and send it up the stack to a much higher elevation. But the liquid radiation is not being trapped by this barrier, it’s a start and it’s a good start but they are not there yet.

More importantly TEPCO just released some pictures of unit 3 which are worth taking a look at, now to back up a little bit. You recall that as the accident began back in March and April we dissected some videos of the explosion in unit 1 and compared it to the explosion in unit 2. I’ll show you those right now, and they are quick, the first one blows outward. And then unit 3 on the other hand, after an initial spark and initial flame front on the south side blows upward. Unit 3 is much more dramatic and much more powerful than unit 1.

OK now Tokyo Electric has released a new photograph. The first photograph is taken from behind the building. So you are still looking out toward the ocean, at a slightly different camera angle. The fuel pool is on the south side which is the right of this picture. Look in the center of the building, first off the roof has collapsed and there is a large kind of a gray structure in there. That’s the trolley for the overhead crane in the middle of the building. That crane is used to lift heavy components like the nuclear reactor head, and it is also used to lift shield plugs that go over top of the nuclear reactor, before it starts up after every refueling. So the crane has collapsed but it’s in the center of the building.

Now the next picture, we will pick up right at that crane again, that centers it in the building, and the right side is the south side toward the fuel pool. The center still has the roof girder over it now the roof is gone but the girders are still in place. Roof collapsed almost straight down on that crane but look over toward the fuel pool now. When you look at the fuel pool there is no roof left, as a matter of a fact one of the major structural beams is cracked in half. I think that shows what I have been saying since April, that the explosion occurred over the fuel pool initially.

That’s where the dramatic energy was released over the fuel pool. Now the industries position is that this is just another hydrogen detonation, in fact it’s not. If it were hydrogen gas that entire building would be uniformly distributed with hydrogen. And the explosion would have just started and moved slowly from one end of the building to the other, but it would have been uniform. This picture clearly shows that the reaction was not uniform and that it started over the fuel pool. Now related to the fuel pool of course is the fact that the rubble has now fallen into the pool. And you can see that it’s obviously disrupted, it will be very hard to determine the exact cause to that fuel pool explosion. I still believe that it was a prompted moderated nuclear criticality, only time will tell, but it’s a theory that counts for the explosion on that side of the building, counts for the energy release on that side of the building and the fact that there is no roof there anymore. It also accounts for the fact that fuel fragments were found near the building and bulldozed under and fuel fragments were found as far as a mile and a half away. The only way that can happen is if the nuclear reactor fuel that’s stored in that pool, were pushed upward by an explosion. That can’t happen with an hydrogen explosion but it’s quite possible with an inverted criticality like I postulated.

The last thing I wanted to talk about today is a reanalysis of an old Tokyo Electric video, in light of this new photograph. Now this video is taken 15-16 days after the accident, and you’ll see a large amount of steam coming out of the floor. This is in unit 3, and above it is that girder for the traveling crane. That means that this steam is in the middle of the building, not over the fuel pool. The fuel pool would not steam like that, the fuel pool would be much more gentle almost like a lake with fog over it. But this steam is being pushed out and it’s occurring in the middle of the building. What that tells me is, that the containment underneath that crane has been damaged. The containment is leaking, there is now way that amount of steam could be getting out, where it not for the fact that the containment is leaking. Since then we have continually seen steam coming out of unit 3 in the center. But I think we got two things going on here. I think we had an explosion that occurred on the south side over the fuel pool. And I think there is an damaged containment, I don’t believe that they were a simultaneous event. But I think it’s important to recognize just how seriously damaged unit 3 really is.

I’ll keep you informed as the situation develops thank you.

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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!

Radiation Expert Possibility That Nuclear Fuel Has Fallen

Hiroaki Koide of the radiation metrology and nuclear safety expert at Kyoto University's Research Reactor Institute now admit that there is a possibility that the nuclear fuel have fallen into the ground at the Fukushima Daiichi Nulcear Power Plant. This story came out earlier today and finally an expert have come out with this.

This story further confirms what we all have been speculating these past months. I have added pictures that also confirm what Hiroaki Koide is saying.

Original Story https://mdn.mainichi.jp/perspectives/news/20110909p2a00m0na016000c.html

Radiation expert says outcome of nuke crisis hard to predict, warns of further dangers

Hiroaki Koide, an assistant professor at Kyoto University's Research Reactor Institute. (Mainichi)

As a radiation metrology and nuclear safety expert at Kyoto University's Research Reactor Institute, Hiroaki Koide has been critical of how the government and Tokyo Electric Power Co. (TEPCO) have handled the nuclear disaster at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant. Below, he shares what he thinks may happen in the coming weeks, months and years.

The nuclear disaster is ongoing. Immediately after the crisis first began to unfold, I thought that we'd see a definitive outcome within a week. However, with radioactive materials yet to be contained, we've remained in the unsettling state of not knowing how things are going to turn out.

Without accurate information about what's happening inside the reactors, there's a need to consider various scenarios. At present, I believe that there is a possibility that massive amounts of radioactive materials will be released into the environment again.

At the No. 1 reactor, there's a chance that melted fuel has burned through the bottom of the pressure vessel, the containment vessel and the floor of the reactor building, and has sunk into the ground. From there, radioactive materials may be seeping into the ocean and groundwater.

The use of water to cool down the reactors immediately after the crisis first began resulted in 110,000 cubic meters of radiation-tainted water. Some of that water is probably leaking through the cracks in the concrete reactor buildings produced by the March 11 quake. Contaminated water was found flowing through cracks near an intake canal, but I think that's just the tip of the iceberg. I believe that contaminated water is still leaking underground, where we can't see it. Because of this, I believe immediate action must be taken to build underground water barriers that would close off the nuclear power plant to the outside world and prevent radioactive materials from spreading. The important thing is to stop any further diffusion of radioactive materials.

The government and plant operator TEPCO are trumpeting the operation of the circulation cooling system, as if it marks a successful resolution to the disaster. However, radiation continues to leak from the reactors. The longer the circulation cooling system keeps running, the more radioactive waste it will accumulate. It isn't really leading us in the direction we need to go.

It's doubtful that there's even a need to keep pouring water into the No.1 reactor, where nuclear fuel is suspected to have burned through the pressure vessel. Meanwhile, it is necessary to keep cooling the No. 2 and 3 reactors, which are believed to still contain some fuel, but the cooling system itself is unstable. If the fuel were to become overheated again and melt, coming into contact with water and trigger a steam explosion, more radioactive materials will be released.

TEPCO says it is aiming to bring the No. 1, 2 and 3 reactors to cold shutdown by January 2012. Cold shutdown, however, entails bringing the temperature of sound nuclear fuel in pressure vessels below 100 degrees Celsius. It would be one thing to aim for this in April, when the government had yet to confirm that a meltdown had indeed taken place. But what is the point of "aiming for cold shutdown" now, when we know that fuel is no longer sound?

In the days ahead, the storage of enormous quantities of radiation-contaminated waste, including tainted mud resulting from the decontamination process, will become a major problem. Because the responsibility for spreading nuclear materials into the environment lies with TEPCO, it makes sense to bring all the radioactive waste to TEPCO headquarters in Tokyo.

Since that's not possible, the waste should be taken to the grounds of the nuclear power plant. If the plant is not large enough to accommodate all the waste, then a location close to the plant will also have to be designated as a nuclear graveyard. However, no one should take advantage of the chaos and force Fukushima to host interim radioactive waste repositories for spent fuel from other nuclear power plants.

Recovering the melted nuclear fuel is another huge challenge. I can't even imagine how that could be done. When the Three Mile Island accident took place in 1972, the melted nuclear fuel had stayed within the pressure vessel, making defueling possible. With Fukushima, however, there is a possibility that nuclear fuel has fallen into the ground, in which case it will take 10 or 20 years to recover it. We are now head to head with a situation that mankind has never faced before.

(Mainichi Japan) September 9, 2011

Spectacular Burning Steam Daiichi Reactor Units

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Typhoon Talas has slammed into western Japan, bringing heavy rains and fierce winds. Talas made landfall Saturday on the island of Shikoku and is slowly moving north. The Japan Meteorological Agency has issued a warning that the heavy rains and strong winds could lead to flooding and landslides.

There have been some spectacular lights going on these past hours at the Fukushima Daiichi Reactor Units. The interesting thing is that this time we can see the "fire" starting on the live cam picture slideshow that I made.

I have a theory why we see this now. I could be way off so don't take my word for this. Anyhow there have been reports, really strong once coming in that the Corium (molten reactor core blob) have gone through the containment, and is now found it's way below the reactor units. With the earthquakes making deep cracks all over the nuclear plant, there are those that think that some of this steam we can see is caused by groundwater coming into contact with the Corium. Now this steam along with lights and flashes that have been seen comes and goes. It's interesting to see that these last days there have been a lot of rain coming down from the Typhoon Talas. So I'm going to go out on a limb here and state that because of the Typhoon the groundwater level have either risen or the cracks have been filled with rainwater and in turn water have come into contact with the Corium making the spectacular lights that we see at the plant this time.

VIDEO: 2011.09.02 18:00-19:00 / ふくいちライブカメラ (Live Fukushima Nuclear Plant Cam)

And like clockwork TEPCO turns the live cam black and white.

One thing that you might also want to have a look at, is in the beginning of things. The colors go from the shade of gray to more of a blue color. This could be caused by the weather and the light fading, but I have a theory about that as well. And it's called the Cherenkov effect. Pavel Cerenkov discovered this in 1934, while he studied the effects of radioactive substances on liquids. Pavel observed a faint blue glow in water close to a radioactive substance. This blue glow can be seen in fuel pools also. Now I'm NOT sure this is the case but it does look like things are starting to go blue.

Keep in mind that the blue glow in the fuel pool only show a tiny amount of the Cherenkov radiation because the rods are keept stored and under control. Again don't take my word for this, just throwing it out there so to speak.

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Russia Today News show with Thom Harmann "The Big Picture" reporting on the media blackout. This is a very interesting video to watch because it will give you more insight into the Fukushima disaster. I have been writing a lot about the steam and smoke coming out of the reactor units lately. And this video do give some good pointers.

One email that they show from a worker at the Fukushima plant confirms what we have seen.
"A lot of cracks came up in the ground, massive steam is coming up from there. It's too smoggy here, can't see a thing. It seems like nuclear reaction is happening underground. Now we are evacuating. Watch out for the direction of wind." Unidentified Fukushima Plant Employee.

This is no ordinary fog we see. People don't evacuate because of fog. Workers at Fukushima ARE reporting massive amounts steam coming up from the cracks.

With Thom Hartmann in the studio is Paul Gunter, Reactor Oversight Project, Beyond Nuclear. The things that they talk about, like if the corium (melted nuclear lava) where to hit the water table. It would split the water into Oxygen and Hydrogen and would cause another Hydrogen expolsion underground. Just like what they were worried about in Chernobyl.



The movie trailer at the end of this video, the hit movie The China Syndrome with Jane Fonda is a nice touch to the video. I think people forget to easily, when the media is not reporting it makes it that more easy to forget. Think about it, name 5 disaster that happend recently.Well there have been far more, but for starters.. give it a try.

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North Anna Nuclear Powe Plant reactor units that shuts down after the facility lost power after the 5.9 earthquake that struck Virginia are now venting steam. The facility went to backup power after the earthquake and 1 of the 4 diesel generators that supply backup power failed.

The North Anna Nuclear plant is built to handle earthquakes and the 5.9 earthquake did not exceed the stated maximum capacity (5.9-6.1) of the construction this time.

The diesels have enough fuel to run continously for 3 days. And with batteries only would give a minimum of 4 hours. And off course there is always the possibility to fill up the diesels and charge the batteries so the treath of meltdown is not that great at this moment.

There are two “loops” of steam/water in a nuke plant. One is “hot” meaning it comes in contact with the core and is radioactive. This is heated by the core and goes to a heat exchanger, usually under pressure so it is not boiling or steam. That heat exchanger connects to the other loop of water that gets its heat from the heat exchanger. This is usually transported to the turbins as steam, turning the turbines and those turn the generators. After the generators it goes to another heat exchanger that condenses it back to water and the second loop continues. There is a third heat exchanger loop usually that extracts the residual heat from the second loop helping to condense the steam.

When the plant shuts down and the generator turbines are “free wheeling” there is still heat in the core or “hot” water system that has to be removed through the heat exchanger and the second loop. The second loop is not pushing the turbines, so the heat removal is not efficient enough to cool the second loop. Steam is looping too fast to let the heat exchangers work efficiently. Therefore the second loop has to vent the system as steam to get enough cooling. The second loop is not radioactive unless there is a leak in the system.

Amanda Reidelbach [an emergency management spokeswoman for Louisa County] said the plant was venting steam but there was no release of radioactive material.

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Arnie Gundersen came out with a new video yesterday. People have been talking a lot about the smoke and steam that comes out from cracks at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Plant. Like today if you were to look at the live cam you would notice that the fog / steam around the reactors are so thick that the reactor units are not even seen on the cam.

The talk going around is that the nuclear core have melted through the containment and is now in contact with the groundwater, causing the smoke and steam that we see. Russia Today asked Mr. Gundersen to comment on this and he declined. Because to him there isn't good solid engineering data to make any conclusive remarks on the situation, Gundersen says he don't think there is enough data to either support or refute it. And I would probably do the same if I where in his position at this point.

Gundersen goes on to talk about much more important issues, like the finding of radioactive Sulfur-35 in the atmosphere in California. The finding have been confirmed but why there was radioactive Sulfur-35 have been left out. It turns out that when saltwater is radiated with neutrons it turns into Sulfur-35. What this means is that a nuclear chain reaction is still going on to some extent and continue to contaminate the surronding environment and upper atmosphere with large doses of radioactivity. TEPCO on the other hand have stated that it's reactors have been shutdown. But this can't be the case if Sulfur-35 is found in the air.

New Data Supports Previous Fairewinds Analysis, as Contamination Spreads in Japan and Worldwide
from Fairewinds Associates on Vimeo.

This is the text from Fairewinds site.

Newly released neutron data from three University of California San Diego scientists confirms Fairewinds' April analysis that the nuclear core at Fukushima Daiichi turned on and off after TEPCO claimed its reactors had been shutdown. This periodic nuclear chain reaction (inadvertent criticality) continued to contaminate the surrounding environment and upper atmosphere with large doses of radioactivity.

In a second area of concern, Fairewinds disagrees the NRC's latest report claiming that all Fukushima spent fuel pools had no problems following the earthquake. In a new revelation, the NRC claims that the plutonium found more than 1 mile offsite actually came from inside the nuclear reactors. If such a statement were true, it indicates that the nuclear power plant containments failed and were breached with debris landing far from the power plants themselves. Such a failure of the containment system certainly necessitates a complete review of all US reactor containment design and industry assurances that containments will hold in radioactivity in the event of a nuclear accident. The evidence Fairewinds reviewed to date continues to support its April analysis that the detonation in the Unit 3 Spent Fuel pool was the cause of plutonium found off site.

Third, the burning of radioactive materials (building materials, trees, lawn grass, rice straw) by the Japanese government will cause radioactive Cesium to spread even further into areas within Japan that have been previously clean, and across the Pacific Ocean to North America.

And finally, the Japanese government has yet to grasp the severity of the contamination within Japan, and therefore has not developed a coherent plan mitigate the accident and remediate the environment. Without a cohesive plan to deal with this ongoing problem of large scale radioactive contamination, the radioactivity will continue to spread throughout Japan and around the globe further exacerbating the problem and raising costs astronomically.

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You can read the news below but I want to share something with you first. The earthquake that hit August 19, 2011 14:36 Local Time can be seen here on the live cam of the Fukushima reactor units. Around 1:46 min into the video we see  the whole camera shake from the earthquake. Because the 1 hour video is compressed to 3 min the earthquake goes by quick on cam. However I read a very interesting thing from Sickputer on enenews. He noted that since the earthquake the whole plant was very quiet. And this is true. There have not been any "burning" going on. Or the normal fog / steam coming from the reactors. It's been quiet. Very quite.

To me this confirms some of the things that we have been seeing on the live cam. That TEPCO is indeed burning the radioactive material on site. But because of the earthquake the work with burning the radioactive material have come to a halt. For the moment it's quiet, I guess we only have to wait and see if they continue to burn the nuclear waste.

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https://www.sacbee.com/2011/08/19/3848023/strong-earthquake-hits-north-eastern.html

Published: Friday, Aug. 19, 2011 - 1:00 am

TOKYO - A magnitude-6.8 earthquake jolted north-eastern Japan on Friday and a tsunami warning was issued, the Meteorological Agency said.

The warning was issued for the coastal areas in the prefectures of Fukushima and Miyagi.

No immediate casualties or damage were reported.

The quake occurred at 2:36 pm (0536GMT) with its epicenter off Fukushima prefecture at a depth of 20 kilometers, the agency said.

No immediate new damage was found at the damaged Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station, public broadcaster NHK said, citing operator Tokyo Electric Power Company.

The same region was hit by a magnitude-9.0 quake and tsunami on March 11, causing damage to the plant, which has been leaking radioactive material ever since.

Tokyo Radioactivity Higher Than Chernobyl

Earlier related posts:

☢ Massive Amounts of Steam Video Aug 14 2011 During Daytime at Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Reactors ☢

☢ The Reason Behind the Fog at Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Reactors ☢

Christopher Busby visiting professor at the University of Ulster’s school of biomedical sciences and scientific secretary of the European Committee on Radiation Risk talks to RT about the saftey of the reactors. Due to the fact the Fukushima units were in meltdown before the tsunami hit.

Prof. Christopher Busby goes on to say "There’s a very, very high level of contamination even as far south as Tokyo. For example, we found one sample in Tokyo that had levels of radioactivity higher than levels inside the Chernobyl exclusion zone. a Very serious matter."

☢ Tokyo Radioactivity Extreme Sample Higher Than Chernobyl Exclusion Zone ☢

RT: Now in Japan the government and the plants operator TEPCO have come under heavy criticism from many quarters for the reliability of the information they have been releasing about this disaster. Do you think that we now know the true extent of this crisis?

Prof. Christopher Busby: No, I know that we don't, because I have actually visited there and I have taken quite sufisticated radiation measuring equipment. And I have been able to satisfy myself that the concentrations of radionuclides on ground even as far as 100 and more kilometers away from the plant are very much higher than they have been saying. 

And indeed some measurements that I have been making on airfilters from vehicles from as far away as Tokyo show that the concentrations of caesium 137 for example in these filters is more than 1000 times higher in terms of air concentration than the air concentration that the peak of the weapons fallout in 1963. So we are talking about serious, serious levels of radioactive nuclides. And the problem is that this is effectively being ignored by the authorities concentrating on the external dose rates. So they say, so long as the external dose rate is not more than so many Micro Sieverts Per Hour or whatever it happens to be, everybody is going to be safe.

In some sense they are comparing it with natural background radiation. But actually it can not be compared with natural background radiation. There a very high levels of contamination even as far south as Tokyo. For example, we found one sample in Tokyo that had levels of radioactivity higher than levels inside the Chernobyl exclusion zone. It's a very serious matter.

RT:  So professor Busby how serious are these new cracks to the structure of the Fukushima plant. Should we be alarmed?

Prof. Christopher Busby: Well the fact that steam coming out, and we know from measurements made in California that the steam contains the Isotope Sulfur 35. This Isotope is associated with neutron radiation of chlorine and so what we got here is a cituation were you got fission taking place, an enormous neutron concentration, neutron flux and seawater. And effectively we are producing very large quantities of radionuclides all the time and they havn't been able to deal with that. I was told by somebody who had heard this from a TEPCO official who was talking to the prime minister of Japan who said that the releases from the plant now in the order of 10 to the power of 13 becquerels every hour. So (laugh) we are talking about something that is absolutley ongoing and it's just being ignored. It's not being adequipley reported by the authorities in Japan or in the International Atomic Energy Agency

RT:  M'kay more in time, Christopher Busby scientific secretary of the European Committee on Radiation Risk, many thanks for speaking to us this evening.

Radioactive Steam Escaping - The Ground is Cracking ☢

UPDATE Prof. Christopher Busby:
☢ Tokyo Radioactivity Extreme Sample Higher Than Chernobyl Exclusion Zone ☢
Earlier posts:
☢ Massive Amounts of Steam Video Aug 14 2011 During Daytime at Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Reactors ☢

☢ The Reason Behind the Fog at Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Reactors ☢

RT: https://rt.com/news/fukushima-doomed-reactor-plant/

Workers at Japan's Fukushima plant say the ground under the facility is cracking and radioactive steam is escaping through the fissures. They also say pipes and at least one reactor were seriously damaged before the tsunami hit the area in March.

The allegations raise concerns that the facility was doomed even before the earthquake triggered the disaster. Problems with deteriorating pipes at the plant had been reported for years. The cooling system failed to stop reactors going into meltdown after it was hit by the 40-metre-high waves. The plant has been leaking radioactive material ever since, despite efforts to clean it up.

Robert Jacobs of the Hiroshima Peace Institute says that the evidence calls into question Japan's nuclear safety.

“There’s certainly a great deal of evidence that appears to suggest that the first reactor, reactor number one, was melting down by the time the tsunami hit,” he told RT. “So, if that’s the case that the reactor was melting down as a result of the earthquake, and not as a result of the tsunami, a nine-point earthquake is something that has the potential to happen throughout Japan, and that would put the reliability and the design safety of all of these reactors in question,” he said.

Reports of decreasing levels of radiation at the facility, Dr. Jacobs went on to explain, are no reason for optimism. It is more likely to mean that the radioactive material is moving away, making its way through the building structures:

“When you have a fragile structure that’s already suffered a great deal of damage and when you have continual aftershocks at the level of six-point, or there’s been some even higher, what we have now is we have the radioactive core that has melted down into the basement, into the bottom of the containment vessel of these reactors, and if the radiation level is going down, where it’s been monitored inside the buildings, and if the water pressure is going down, and the temperature is going down, it’s not that the radiation is just suddenly going away, it means that the radioactive material, the melted core, is simply moving further away from where it’s been measured,” he explained.

The scientist also pointed out that earthquakes are never single events, even when they occur at a high level, and engineers who designed the Fukushima power plant failed to take this into account.

“We are seeing now that these reactors were not safe for earthquakes, let alone for tsunamis,” Robert Jacobs concluded.

Massive Amounts of Steam Video During Daytime at Fukushima

UPDATE Prof. Christopher Busby:
☢ Tokyo Radioactivity Extreme Sample Higher Than Chernobyl Exclusion Zone ☢
UPDATE RT NEWS:
☢ Radioactive Steam Escaping - The Ground at Fukushima Facility is Cracking ☢
I did a post earlier about this

☢ The Reason Behind the Fog at Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Reactors ☢

11:30 Local Daytime on August 14 2011 the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Reactors Units were again engulfed in fog. What makes this video special is it's during daytime. So we really get so see the steam coming out from the reactor units this time.

The crane is at work and in the beginnig of the video we can clearly see the crane working. By the end of the video though, the crane has almost disappeared in steam. There have been that same flashing light going on these last couple of days also, so this could also mean that this is the Common Spent Fuel Storage Facility that's blowing steam. Then by the end of the day there were some more steam going out at 18:00.

2011.08.14 11:00-12:00 / ふくいちライブカメラ (Live Fukushima Nuclear Plant Cam)
End of the day VIDEO
2011.08.14 18:00-19:00 / ふくいちライブカメラ (Live Fukushima Nuclear Plant Cam)

Strange Fire at Fukushima Plant UPDATE 2 ☢

New UPDATE 3 of this post:
☢ Strange Fires at Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant Aug. 6 2011 ☢ UPDATE 3 ☢
Other wierd things happening:
☢ Cigar-shaped Object Over Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Reactors on Aug. 9 2011 ☢

I have done some investigating on the Strange Lights / Fires going on at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Reactors. Trying to pinpoint the location at the plant where from the strange lights are coming from.

From my earlier posts you can watch the videos of the fire and smoke captured on the live cam Aug. 6 2011.
☢ Fire and Smoke at Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant Aug. 6 2011 ☢ UPDATE ☢

The pictures I got from the video shows something going on. This was Aug. 6 2011. At about 19:00 Local Time. The exact same event also took place at the exact same time on Aug. 4. 2011. And also today there is a glow coming from the area at night. This is followed by a thick fog at morning hours that make the reactors disappear. And like always like clockwork the image goes black and white, a few seconds after 19:00. But before it did, we can clearly see something what looks like a fire is starting.

The question is where is this. Well I used Google Earth to try and get a better view of the area. Not sure where the live cam is placed but I think the angle is pretty much the same.

The red drawn is where the towers are on the map. And from what is seen on the live cam the circle show us the area from where the fire is coming. I put in some yellow lines where the light would come from and cast a shadow on the reactor buildings. Notice that there is a mountain / hill before the area. This would mean the light from the fire captured by the live cam would not be as bright. And could mean that the fire is much bigger than what is shown.

If we have a look at the map of what buildings are in the area of the fire we see that behind the hill is the Common Spent Fuel Storage Facility. I can only draw the conclusion from the images seen and video of the fires and smoke that there are some serious problems at Fukushima right now. All the fog / mist that comes and goes also would indicate that they are trying to cool the fuel rods and don't have much luck with it.

I also wonder when they are reporting.
"The No. 3 reactor is consuming nearly three times the coolant water that the No. 1 and No. 2 reactors are taking to cool down their fuel rods, as a considerable amount is missing the target."

"The amount of water pumped in daily to maintain the temperatures at these levels is about 216 tons for the No. 3 reactor, as opposed to 84 tons for the No. 2 reactor, which is about the same size and contains roughly the same number of fuel rods, and 91 tons for the No. 1 reactor, which is smaller."

What if this missing water is used to cool the Common Spent Fuel Storage Facility? If so by the looks of it there would be some 100 tons of radioactive steam going up into the air daily. 

Fire and Smoke at Fukushima Plant UPDATE ☢

UPDATE 2 Location of the Fire with google earth:
☢ Strange Fire at Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant Aug. 6 2011 ☢ UPDATE 2 ☢

Following up on my earlier post about the ☢ Strange Lights Flicker at Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant Aug. 6 2011 ☢

There seems to be something going on at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant. FrankSnapp on the chat showed a video from Aug. 4 2011 the live cam show some strange things happening.Youtube Video 2011.08.04 19:00-20:00 / ふくいちライブカメラ (Live Fukushima Nuclear Plant Cam)

What's going on there? Did the spent fuel pool dry up and catch fire? Now it seems to me that the people in charge of the live cam turned it to black and white about 55 sec into the video. Probably to keep down the dramatic effects going on. There are clearly massive amounts of smoke / steam coming from the Fukushima reactors or spent fuel storage pool.

And today Aug. 6 2011 19:00 Local time, the exact same TIME 19:00 and the exact same thing happend. The strange lights I saw was the aftermath of the event it seems. We clearly see on the photos that something is burning. And the funny thing is the split second after that last image about 50 sec into the video the live cam goes black and white again. 


What we see after that is only white glowig and flashes going on. But still, something is very wrong at the Fukushima Daiichi Reactors. Or it could also be the Common Spent Fuel Storage Facility if you have a look at the map of the Fukushima Daiichi power plant below and how the camera is angled.

Youtube Video 2011.08.06 19:00-20:00 / ふくいちライブカメラ (Live Fukushima Nuclear Plant Cam)

Here are the links to the live cam videos starting from 20:00 Local Time. 

Youtube Video 2011.08.06 20:00-21:00 / ふくいちライブカメラ (Live Fukushima Nuclear Plant Cam)

Watch at 1:45 min into this video 22:00-23:00 how a very strong light appears.

Youtube Video 2011.08.06 22:00-23:00 / ふくいちライブカメラ (Live Fukushima Nuclear Plant Cam)

Youtube Video 2011.08.06 23:00-00:00 / ふくいちライブカメラ (Live Fukushima Nuclear Plant Cam)

Youtube Video 2011.08.07 00:00-01:00 / ふくいちライブカメラ (Live Fukushima Nuclear Plant Cam)

Watch 20 seconds into this video between 01:00-02:00 how a very strong flash occures and then at 50 seconds it's like it's lights out. Everything dies down. From now on it's just the strange flashes you see.

Youtube Video 2011.08.07 01:00-02:00 / ふくいちライブカメラ (Live Fukushima Nuclear Plant Cam)

Youtube Video 2011.08.07 02:00-03:00 / ふくいちライブカメラ (Live Fukushima Nuclear Plant Cam)

Youtube Video 2011.08.07 03:00-04:00 / ふくいちライブカメラ (Live Fukushima Nuclear Plant Cam)