Tepco trying to prevent Recriticality in Rac 3, Cesium leaking out of Rac 5, TEPCO planning announcement of Unit 2,3 Meltdown, Moody cuts TEPCO credit rating, TEPCO Sims show Unit 1 at 2800C within 16 hours of accident, Full meltdown in 3. High cesium found in Tokyo in April, Private testing finds Plutonium 30K from Fukushima, Japanese Society Disintegrating, Tepco Concealed Rad data from workers during start of crisis.
You Just Keep Me Hanging On,
You Just Keep Me Hanging On.
You're Going To Reap Just What You Sow,
You're Going To Reap Just What You Sow,
You're Going To Reap Just What You Sow,
You're Going To Reap Just What You Sow...
The Following Diary contains thoughts that may be politically incorrect, if you
suffer from excessive sensitivity, blame yourself if you read any further.
The Japanese value conformity and unity, it's sort of this
"The Nail that sticks up gets hammered down"
Group dynamics
Everyone is part of some group and the group comes first. Inside this group, everyone has more or less the same understanding and the same attitudes. As the saying goes, 'The nail that sticks up will be hammered down'.
Can't say, won't say
The Japanese are trained throughout their lives to read each others' minds. This means it is not necessary to have or to express an opinion. In fact for a Japanese woman to be called opinionated is worse than being called ugly. And an exact translation of the word 'opinionated' does not even exist. To call a man 'decisive' is just as bad.
way back at the beginning of the crisis, i saw a funny news story.
http://english.kyodonews.jp/...
http://www.equityhelpdesk.com/...
An unemployed man from Tokyo was arrested Friday after allegedly intruding by car into the Fukushima Daini nuclear power plant premises, near the radiation-leaking Fukushima Daiichi plant in Fukushima Prefecture, police said.
Hikaru Watanabe, 25, from Shinjuku Ward, allegedly broke through the western gate of the Daini plant around 1:10 p.m. Thursday, before driving inside its premises for about 10 minutes, the plants' operator Tokyo Electric Power Co. said, adding that no one was injured in the incident.
Watanabe was arrested on suspicion of unlawful entry and property destruction, the local police said, adding that he admitted to the allegations.
A 25-year-old man arrested for driving into Fukushima Daini nuclear plant, smashing the gate. Says he wanted to "stand out": RTRS
Comparisons to a self-immolating fruit vendor in Tunisia need not apply.
of course it turned out later that
http://www.asahi.com/...
Tokyo Electric Power Co. concealed data showing spikes in radiation levels at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant in March, one day before a hydrogen explosion injured seven workers.
The Asahi Shimbun obtained a 100-page internal TEPCO report containing minute-to-minute data on radiation levels at the plant as well as pressure and water levels inside the No. 3 reactor from March 11 to April 30.
The data has never been released by the company that operates the stricken plant.
The unpublished information shows that at 1:17 p.m. on March 13, 300 millisieverts of radiation per hour was detected inside a double-entry door at the No. 3 reactor building. At 2:31 p.m., the radiation level was measured at 300 millisieverts or higher per hour to the north of the door
http://jbpress.ismedia.jp/...
May 11th, Kanagawa Prefecture, exceeds the standards of government activity from tea plantation had been planted in the city of Minamiashigara (Cs) has been detected. In addition, food manufacturers surveyed have their own, from more than 50 km away paddy soil Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, a high radiation was detected from the difference between numerical digits government has announced.
PRIVATE testing finds higher radiation then the government has announced and
then it's announced publically.
and as I diaried Here and ,
「政府の発表は間違い。燃料棒は全部溶け落ちてしまっていると思う」
The government announcement is wrong. I think all the fuel rods have been melted down.
「水棺などといってモタモタしてないで、炉心を早く冷やすことに一心になれ」
Don't bother with water entombment. Focus on cooling the core as soon as possible.
we saw the chief adviser to Kan
resign
A senior nuclear adviser to Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan has resigned, criticizing the government for ignoring his advice on radiation limits and not doing enough to deal with the crisis at the Fukushima nuclear power plant.
http://ex-skf.blogspot.com/...
Professor Kunihiko Takeda of Chubu University is a nuclear scientist known these days as one of the "nuclear sceptics" in Japan (he has been a "global warming sceptic", too), though he was a proponent of nuclear energy until mid 2000s when the government loosened the safety standards.
He has been highly critical of the government response to the Fukushima crises - Fukushima I Nuke Plant and radioactive contamination of air, water, soil, and ocean.
He's particularly angry, as any decent human being would, about the Japanese government's strange, bureaucratic willingness and insistence on exposing small children to the high level of radiation (20 millisieverts/year).
Here's his blog post on May 14 on the topic. I don't know and I haven't checked the factual basis for his comments, and the opinion expressed is his. (It's my quick translation, not necessarily literal. the original Japanese post is here.)
http://takedanet.com/...
(I highly recommend reading his blog post, the google translation is hysterical.
He sounds like me. Saying Bloody hell, and calling people names. I would love this
guy)
Kindergartens, primary schools turned into the places to receive radiation
I am calling out to teachers again.
Do you think your job is to teach children according to the daily curriculum?
Your duty is not "to teach according to the daily curriculum" but to educate children in the true sense of the word and help them grow healthy. And first and foremost in today's Fukushima, Kanto, and Miyagi, your duty is to protect children from radiation exposure.
Wake up!!
Pay attention not to the provisional instruction from the Ministry of Education but to the law (that says 1 millisievert per year, and children are 3 times as sensitive to radiation as adults). You are in the position to protect children's health.
School lunch:
I hear that they use "cabbage, bean sprouts, cucumber, asparagus and beef from Fukushima" in school lunch in Yokohama City [in Kanagawa Prefecture].
What are they thinking?
It is good to help farmers in Fukushima, but that does not mean children should be forced to eat "contaminated vegetables". There should be other ways to help farmers.
People in charge of school lunch would say "it is safe", but that simply means "it is under the safety limit". If there is a bunch of spinach grown in Fukushima, and another bunch grown in Akita displayed side by side in a supermarket, would a mother pick Fukushima spinach?
Adults can choose what they eat, but children cannot. People in charge of school lunch should protect children like mothers would.
The Japanese place great, hell Enormous value on order, agreement, consistency.
Having a break between industry and academia and government and individuals?
That's ordinary around here, but, it's chaos to Japan.
leaks to the media, dissent, acts of protest....
Anarchy....It's anarchy to them.
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/...
check out the above link, it's the Tepco analysis of how long Rac 1 lasted.
3 Hours, less then 180 minutes and it was in meltdown.
So an hour for the diesel generators to run out of gas, an hour for the batteries to crash, and an hour for the boiloff. So much for all those BS systems. SLCCS,
HPPI, RCIC, 60 minutes from blackout to boiled dry. Look at the peak temp,
2800 C
2617 Molybdenum Mo 42
2996 Tantalum Ta 73
3045 Osmium Os 76
3180 Rhenium Re 75
3410 Tungsten W 74
3500 Carbon C 6
Mendelevium Md 101
Rutherfordium Rf 104
Dubnium Db 105
Seaborgium Sg 106
Bohrium Bh 107
Hassium Hs 108
Meitnerium Mt 109
Darmstadtium Ds 110
Roentgenium Rg 111
Read more: http://www.lenntech.com/...
I added the melting points of metals just so you have a reference.
Only Tantalum, Osmium, Rhenium, Tungsten and Carbon plus a few
unstable elements can survive that.
So all that shouting from the Industry Apologists (You know who you are),
that the reactor was doing just fine? Yeah. What I can't figure out is how
it didn't burn the bottom of the reactor out.
Filed under a quarter late and a trillion short, Moody's just cut TEPCO's
bond rating to Ba2. Ba2? A year ago they were AA2 which was
Moody judges obligations rated Aa to be high quality, with "very low credit risk",[8] but "their susceptibility to long-term risks appears somewhat greater".[9] (AA+, AA and AA- in S&P)
now they are Baa2 and Baa3 which is
Moody judges obligations rated Baa to be "moderate credit risk".[8] They are considered medium-grade and as such "protective elements may be lacking or may be characteristically unreliable".[9]
Somebody at Moody's wake up. TEPCO has been a zombie for weeks.
Oh, yeah and for the pedantic literalists, that's a metaphorical term
not a actual statement of the dead walking.
http://www.tepco.co.jp/...
THE ABOVE LINK IS PRETTY AMAZING<
TEPCO RELEASED ALMOST EVERYTHING FROM THE FIRST 72 HOURS
OF THE ACCIDENT. IT"S WAY TOO BIG TO INCLUDE, BUT FEEL FREE TO
DUMPSTER DIVE IT ALL. it's actually the sort of thing i'd love to analyze
but it's really hard to read.
http://ex-skf.blogspot.com/...
TEPCO also finally admitted that Units 2 and 3 also had a meltdown. Ex-SKF has
a very good take on it.
Fun to see the spin by one of the MSM in Japan. Now they are all saying core meltdown, complete core meltdown, we knew from the beginning, we knew in March. It's hysterically comical.
Particularly hilarious is Haruki Madarame, who now basically says "we knew that", while he was the one who told the PM on March 12, "Don't worry, the nuclear reactor doesn't break."
Yes, there were nuclear experts and independent journalists in Japan and around the world who said it was a meltdown, and they were attacked by the government and the MSM like Asahi as "fear-mongering". I thought so too, after reading the entries on wiki on Three Mile Island, Chernobyl, and corium, among others.
But it isn't true until the official, government-approved sources say so, and it is now, after more than 2 months: complete core meltdown in all three operating Reactors at Fukushima I.
What's next? Recriticality, maybe, announced in two months or so?
I really like this guy SKF, awesome source. I was tracking his work for weeks,
but, hey, I'm just some angry crank....
ell, this last bit is highly questionable. Other reports say that the emergency core cooling system stopped working even before the tsunami hit, and that a very high level of radiation was detected at the reactor building of Reactor 1 on the night of March 11, too high unless the RPV and the Containment Vessel were breached by the earthquake, not by tsunami. (On these, later.)
it would be interesting if the Racs failed due to the quake. Because the spin
from the nukenuts was The racs were fine, it was the tsunami that busted the
diesel generators.
http://www3.nhk.or.jp/...
Tokyo Electric Power Company says it measured 200 becquerels of cesium-134 per cubic centimeter on Sunday morning near the water intake of the No. 3 reactor. The level was higher than on the previous day, when it was 2,300 times the legal limit.
220 becquerels of cesium-137 per cubic centimeter was also detected. At 2,400 times the legal limit, the level exceeded the one found the day before.
On Wednesday, highly radioactive water was found leaking into the ocean from a pit located near the water intake of the No. 3 reactor. 32,000 times the legal limit of cesium-134 was detected there.
TEPCO also reported 2,100 times the legal limit of radioactive iodine was found in seawater near the water intake of the No. 2 reactor. Three points among four research areas along the shoreline also exceeded the legal limit. And 1.7 times the legal limit of Cesium was found close to drainage gates near the No. 5 and No. 6 reactors.
What is going on at Unit 5? is there a leak out of the reactor, down to the turbine building? is this cesium coming out of the groundwater?(My personal opinion)
Is this a leak out of the fuel pools at unit 5?
http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/...
the reactor cooling water, on a dissolved boric acid to absorb neutrons, the same day to the reactor announced that the injection began
why would TEPCO be injecting Boron into units 1,2 and 3?
THe reaction should have been killed a long time ago, unless......
well, let's see I diaried on that in
http://www.dailykos.com/...
well that's enough bad news for today.
When the damage is done
and there is no place to run
and all you can do is hideaway