Fukushima

[jdodson]

@mad scientist

Awesome video. Looks like it was from the late 80's? Wonder if Galen is still alive and what has happened since then. I dont know if hes telling the truth but he seems sincere to me. Not to mention it would make perfect sense.

Clean nuclear radiation would NEVER be allowed. Even if it were real.

[Allen Burgess]

Flying Containment Dome.

Check this article out from June 26th, 2011:


An idea for a containment dome | The Japan Times Online

[blackchisel97]

An executive from a Tokyo Electric Power Co. subcontractor tried to force its workers at the crisis-hit Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant to cover their radiation monitoring meters with plates made of lead in an apparent attempt to underreport radiation exposure, sources close to the matter said Saturday.

The executive in his 50s, who works for a company based in Fukushima Prefecture, told around 10 plant workers to attach the plates to the alarm pocket dosimeters that the utility known as TEPCO had provided them with to monitor their radiation exposure, the sources said. The ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare has started investigating the matter.

The workers were hired for about four months through last March to wrap pipes at a water treatment facility with heat insulators.
Source - Kyodo News.Source - Asahi Shimbun.

NHK WORLD: In a telephone inquiry by his boss on Saturday, the executive reportedly explained that he made 9 workers use lead covers once. He said he did so after he was frightened by an alarm that warned of a sudden rise in radiation while he was inspecting the plant. He told the president that he was sorry.

Reuters: A Tokyo Electric Power spokesman told Reuters on Saturday the company was aware from a separate contractor that Build-Up made the lead shields, but that they were never used at the nuclear plant.

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[mbrownn]

This is shocking

[blackchisel97]

BBC News - 'Severe abnormalities' found in Fukushima butterflies

Potassium iodide tablets being distributed in Pa. - Businessweek

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[blackchisel97]

Reuters provides a list:For example, fuel pools in the United States store an average of ten times more radioactive fuel than stored at Fukushima, and have virtually no safety features.



Brunswick experienced a reactor coolant system leak last year

Surry has recently been plagued by problems with the coolant system, valves and damage from a tornado

North Anna leaked tritium last year after an earthquake shook the plant and shifted around a gigantic radioactive storage cask

Calvert Cliffs was knocked offline by the last hurricane

Salem has been riddled with problems with security, turbines problems and other issues.

Hope CreekPeach Bottom purportedly has a defective design and has been plagued by various problems

Limerick has suffered electrical and other issues

Three Mile Island suffered another leak in the cooling system last month

Susquehanna has been hit with one problem after another

Oyster Creek has been plagued with electrical and other problems

Indian Point vulnerability is shown by the fact that it was shut down due to warm seawater

PilgrimSeabrook has had problems with corrosion, computers and a host of other issues

Vermont Yankee

[mbrownn]

Keep us updated if anything happens.

[blackchisel97]

Alert:There is NO backup diesel generator for the spent fuel pool at Oyster Creek, which means there is no way to cool spent fuel pool when power is out. All nuclear fuel is in pool. Non in the reactor.the company could use water from the fire hose to cool the spent-fuel pool if necessary. [...] - Does this sounds familiar?

UPDATE: Reuters: Just 6 more inches of water could submerge NJ nuclear plant's pump to cool spent fuel pool -- 25 hours to boiling without more coolant.

UPDATE: NBC: Water continues to rise in area near New Jersey nuclear plant under flood emergency.



Reuters, 2:53a ET:

[Exelon spokesman David Tillman] said another Exelon reactor at the Limerick facility in Pennsylvania was reduced to 91 percent power after Sandy caused a problem with the condenser.

AP, 4:26a ET:

[mbrownn]

Not good, lets hope they get it under control

[blackchisel97]

Not good, lets hope they get it under control

Reuters: [...] a further rise to 7 feet could submerge the service water pump motor that is used to cool the water in the spent fuel pool.

The spokesman said the company could use water from a fire hose to cool the pool if necessary. The used uranium rods in the pool could cause the water to boil within 25 hours without additional coolant; in an extreme scenario the rods could overheat, risking the eventual release of radiation.

Now 5 Nuke Plants with Problems from SandyMore Nuclear Plants Affected:

[blackchisel97]

one more thing...



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[blackchisel97]

(atmospheric steam dump)

[blackchisel97]

[...] The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission requires the company to issue an alert when flood waters rise to a certain level, but the NRC has said the plant remained in a safe condition during the worst of the storm.

[...] Exelon said the plant lost off-site power during the storm and switched on two locomotive-sized backup diesel generators. The company said power was restored Wednesday and it is investigating the cause of the power loss.



A huge fire was burning Wednesday morning in a New Jersey shore town that was hit hard by Hurricane Sandy.

Flames were burning all over the cut-off barrier island of Mantoloking. There was a large cluster of flames and smaller fires spread out from it, with some flames shooting directly out of the sand.

Authorities believed a gas main may have exploded and quickly spread across the island. The small town, which sits between the Atlantic Ocean and Barnegat Bay, suffered severe damage during the storm.

Several homes were destroyed and continued to burn. It was unclear if the homes were destroyed by the fire or explosion or before it.

Firefighters could not reach the blaze due to storm damage on the roads leading to Mantoloking from the mainland.

There are also ruptured gas lines several miles to the south of Oyster Creek: Ruptured gas lines in areas near New Jersey's Oyster Creek nuclear plant -- ABC: Concern town could be set ablaze, reporter smells oil.

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[mbrownn]

[...] The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission requires the company to issue an alert when flood waters rise to a certain level, but the NRC has said the plant remained in a safe condition during the worst of the storm.

Bovine excrement. Obviously the Nuclear Regulatory Commission has degrees in agricultural mammary. How can the plant be in a "safe" condition when the main cooling system has lost its primary power supply? Its a coverup.

[blackchisel97]

Tepco has been injecting nitrogen gas into suppression chamber of reactor1 since 10/23/2012.

To avoid the risk of explosion, Tepco is to inject nitrogen gas to suppression chamber of reactor1 for a month)
However, the hydrogen gas concentration in PCV1 had been increasing from 10/23 to 10/30/2012.
The highest reading was 1.47 vol% (System A) and 1.48 vol% (System B) of 10/30/2012, which are 7 times much as 10/23/2012.

They are sill measuring Krypton in reactor1 to suggest fissioning is still on-going, and melted fuel must be still somewhere in reactor1, 2, and 3.
All they can do is just to keep giving water. No solution. Nobody can grab the fuel out. The coolant system is so provisional, it will have more and more problems and it may take many years to decommission the plant.
At this moment, billions of Bq of radiation is still leaking to the environment every single day. Even without explosion, leaked radiation will be accumulated in human body.

Nuclear industry publishes coffee table book featuring images of butterflies at nuke plants

The Hindu : Arts / Books : Beautiful and harmless in nuclear plants

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