What happened at Rac 4? Is it a simple story, or an ugly truth. Don't read this if you dislike the ugly truth. Don't Read this if you prefer to keep your head in the sand.
Don't read this if you love Media Whores on TV. Don't read this if you are thin skinned.
The Story we've been told is very simple. Earthquake, Tsunami, Tragic loss of power,
runaway heat in Rac 1, then 3, leads to H2 explosion on fuel deck and lather rinse repeat...
Terrible but, understandable....
what if there is an uglier story there.
Way uglier...
So ugly, that everyone is lying or deluded about the numbers, the scenario, the math, the physics,
and the Shills likeMeg Shilling
and the Japanese Government
The IAEA, TheIndustry People.
Everyone.
Look at Reactor 4
Click through because the preview is clipped...
now look at it next to Reactor 3
Now look at all 4 reactors.
Now look back at Rac 4.
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Look at Reactor 1
see debris thrown far away? that's detonation, high velocity shock came in and
threw stuff a long way away from the reactor body.
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The order of explosions was Rac 1, Rac 3, Rac 4...
So, Let's make some assumptions.
See that big banged in side on Rac 4 nearest Rac 3? How could that Happen?
Big old shock wave out of Rac 3, caves in that corner, pushes is down, crushes and
rips all the concrete panels, caves in part of the ceiling,,, Rips maybe a 200' long
20' gap in the wall?
way bigger then that little gap they opened in Rac 2 to prevent explosions.
Little old panel gap in rac 2 keeps boiling Hydrogen from building up and detonating in the fuel deck, but that big rip didn't?
What if something else happened?
And seriously....
This is your last opportunity to bail out. Because if you don't like the truth,
you will probably never sleep well again.
What if what happened in Rac 4 wasn't a H2 Explosion?
Okay, So then what? Mr Smarter then All these Nuclear Scientists?
Look at the picture...
Is that consistent with an explosion? Supersonic wind, High Dynamic Pressure?
Or does it remind you of a slow expansion like a Jiffy Pop Popcorn
See the panels look like they expanded, and formed wedges to crack their frames?
The Roof could have lifted up a little and fried and crackled and came down in a shower of debris?
See how the panels are all real close to the structure, and the big columns are all up?
Thermal shock occurs when a thermal gradient causes different parts of an object to expand by different amounts. This differential expansion can be understood in terms of stress or of strain, equivalently. At some point, this stress overcomes the strength of the material, causing a crack to form. If nothing stops this crack from propagating through the material, it will cause the object's structure to fail.
Kind of like this highway section
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/...
http://boingboing.net/...
Chief Cabinet Secretary Edano followed the Prime Minister, and said a fourth reactor at the damaged nuclear plant is now on fire, with even more radiation released.
Do you see Fire damage on Unit 4? And what was there to burn other then the fuel rods?
And would a chemical fire (Burning zirconium, burning steel) be hot enough to cook off those panels and not leave fire and flame streaks everywhere?
http://rules-of-thumb.com/...
like in this hotel fire.
So what gets hot, What Burns without leaving smoke and carbon residue?
[EDIT: If it was a hydraulic oil fire, where is the carbon residue? Oil fires burn
smoky, and would leave stains and smudges. Burning steel would catch all the exposed steel.
http://www.photographymojo.com/...
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http://english.kyodonews.jp/...
URGENT: Spraying boracic acid eyed to prevent recriticality at No. 4 reactor
TOKYO, March 16, Kyodo
Tokyo Electric Power Co. said Wednesday it is considering spraying boracic acid by helicopter to prevent spent nuclear fuel rods from reaching criticality again, restarting a chain reaction, at the troubled No. 4 reactor of its quake-hit Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant.
''The possibility of recriticality is not zero,'' TEPCO said as it announced the envisaged step against a possible fall in water levels in a pool storing the rods that would leave them exposed.
What if it had?
What if Unlike Racs 1 and 3, Rac 4, with all that messy dirty, used fuel fresh out of rac,
had actually gone Critical?
What is a critical reaction like in a dry fuel pool? That's some pretty crazy physics to model, but a big wave of radiation flashes out, hits all that concrete, and "Microwaves" it.
The thin panels heat up and begin expanding and they crack like wedges.
Like we see.
The Big gash in the roof doesn't matter all it does is cause the heating beams to
flow inwards a bit.
The Flat cement roof, starts frying and cooking, and cracking and begins falling inwards,
letting more radiation out into the sky, changing the configuration.
meanwhile you get heat in the dry pools, the rods begin melting and burn their way inside the building and the reaction goes out...
little mini dirty bomb.
Weapon of Mass Destruction.
Nuclear Squib.
http://www.thefirstpost.co.uk/...
http://news.scotsman.com/...
But the MoD manual argues that the standard single-point design may not be enough to prevent "popcorning" – a disastrous chain reaction of explosions that could occur as a result of warheads being stacked closely together.
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A sudden strike is likely to disturb the spherical implosion pattern, leading to a nuclear squib -- a glorified meltdown essentially which, whilst hardly pleasant for the surrounding area, would not be a nuclear explosion. However, there would be the possibility that the resulting massive neutron production would send one or more of the adjacent devices critical --
some several seconds of Neutrons, Gamma, Beta, Alpha just frying the secondary
containment with a gigawatt or energy until the panels all pop out or crackle and fall apart? How long does that take a second or two? So the interiors are way above the concrete spall temps but the outsides are still cool enough to hold paint.
a nuclear Fizzle
http://www.physicsforums.com/...
a case where a chain reaction is initiated, but the fissionables blow apart before the reaction can run to completion.
or a neutron bomb...
http://www.manuelsweb.com/...
now what are the odds, that a melting fuel pool can form into a nuetron bomb?
I'd say 1EE-06....
Of course, what were the odds according to the calculus of losing Grid power, station power from at least 3 reactors, 8 diesel generators and the batteries failing in 60 minutes? I think the Nuke boys would have said fewer then the grains of sand in the universe....
Nope... It's about 1:10,000
Yet, look at what we see, and look at the radiation levels now in reactor 4.
http://www.zerohedge.com/...
4250 millisieverts per hour.
In the containment area.
Does that mean somehow molten fuel has worked it's way down there either burning
through the torus or burning down into the drywell?
But does that mean TEPCO, NISA and the Japanese Government have lied about
the unthinkable?
Does it mean the odds are pretty good for that occurring in Racs 1,2,3,5,6
and even in Rac 4 again?
Does that mean that the odds are much higher then we think even in our reactors?
Is the shell damage on Unit 4 in any way consistent with an explosion and fire?
or have we built poorly contained nuclear weapons near every city in the world?
[and if any witches, or people with bad teeth read this far, it was the only jiffy pop
video i could find... Take your complaints up with youtube and General mills]
[And as for the Industry people? Shame on you. Shame on All of you.
That none of you could see this possibility of recriticality? That failure of a
spent fuel pool could cause that? That the Fuel pools weren't protected as heavily
as the reactors? All of you who could have done these calculations?
So, if this thing has flashed, and started a china syndrome, from that pool.
Shame on you, because you knew or should have known.
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No wonder the denials have been so harsh and furious that anything was going wrong.