Hey yo, I heard that you died
Fuck that, it's time to get live
Dead bodies let's all take a ride
Lean to the left and slide (the headless boogie)
Hey yo, I heard that you died
Fuck that, it's time to get live
Dead bodies let's all take a ride
Lean to the left and slide (the headless boogie)
Another Day, Another Status Update.
Unit 4 leaning over, Iodine 131 levels in Unit 3 at 1,000,000 times normal. Ground Water contaminated. Deafening Silence .Strontium not measured. Temp spike in Unit 3. Video of Unit 3 Fuel Pool.
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The Adults can discuss the update
Tepco released video of the sample test at the Unit 3 Fuel Pool. It's above,
the test results show Iodine at 1EE6 times normal background.
Today is May 11, the Tsunami was March 11 or 72 days ago. That's 9 Half lives for
I-131, and, given The fuel pools in Unit 3 are composed of Old fuel from the
last refueling excercise which was some 2 years back, we are looking at either
Fresh new Iodine or iodine driven in to the pool on the March 13 explosion.
If it was driven into the Pool, that meant Iodine was at over 1EE9 times normal
background. The water has been getting pumped at about 75 tons per day since the explosion, so that's 75 M(*3)/day. The Fuel pool looks to be around 10x10x10M
so figure it's 1000 M*3 so figure maybe 1 water changes a week.
Maybe the pool is a lot bigger, so let's just figure 1 water change a fortnight.
Now it took about a week to get the fire hoses and that rolling, so figure maybe 4 water changes since the accident.
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Seems awful implausible that the Iodine Level was a 8000 times higher
back then.
Seems awfully implausible that this level of Iodine has been raining in from Unit 4
which has been in shutdown since November.
However I am sure the Apologists, shills and other such bottom feeders will come up
with some other theory, while still arguing that the containments on 1,2 and 3 are still fine.
Now I have in Other Diaries Argued for Recriticality in Units 4 and Unit 3.
http://www.dailykos.com/...
http://www.dailykos.com/...
http://www.dailykos.com/...
http://www.dailykos.com/...
and the various shills, bottom feeders, lowlifes and apologists came out and
argued that it can't possibly be true. So Expect a rehash of these arguments
as
(Riff Raff) I've got to keep control.
I remember doing the Time Warp.
Drinking those moments when
The blackness would hit me.
(Riff Raff & Magenta) And the void would be calling.
(Guests) Let's do the Time Warp again.
Let's do the Time Warp again.
(Narrator) It's just a jump to the left.
(Guests) And then a step to the right.
Russia Today: Gundersen First to Say Fukushima Worse than Chernobyl from Fairewinds Associates on Vimeo.
So a little flashback in Time where Arnie Gunderson said Fukushima would be
worse then Chernobyl...
April 26th was the 25th anniversary of the Chernobyl accident. Six weeks ago, when Gundersen first appeared on Russia Today, he said that Fukushima would be "Chernobyl on steroids". Japanese authorities are now admitting Chernobyl-level releases as the plant continues to leak radioactive gases and liquids.
and the Japanese response was to Raise the official acceptable levels of radiation
exposure.
http://www.greenpeace.org/...
Greenpeace condemns move to raise radiation exposure levels for Japanese children
Press release - April 22, 2011
Tokyo, Japan, 22 April, 2011 – Greenpeace today called on the Japanese government to drop plans to raise the official limits of radiation exposure for children in Fukushima Prefecture, 20 milliSievert per year (1) – the same level as nuclear power plant workers, and twenty times the internationally recognised annual allowable dose for adults.
The international environmental organisation has also asked the governments of nations including Germany, Thailand, Philippines, Indonesia, Canada, Greece, India, France and Italy (2), to raise the issue with Japan.
“It is utterly outrageous to raise the exposure levels for children to twenty times the maximum limit for adults. The Japanese government cannot simply increase safety limits for the sake political convenience or to give the impression of normality”, said Junichi Sato, Greenpeace Japan Executive Director. “One of the lessons learned from Chernobyl was that children are far more vulnerable to the effects of radiation, and the Fukushima nuclear crisis will expose them to much higher risks of developing radiation related diseases due to contamination (3)”.
Fukushima Groundwater Contamination Worst in Nuclear History from Fairewinds Associates on Vimeo.
"We were very lucky that the wind blew in a manner that pushed contamination out to sea, even though this created a large ocean event....
The explosion in Unit 3 appears to be a violent explosion in the fuel pool
radioactive water at the basement of the turbine building in Unit 5 and 6 argues for
groundwater contamination at the site.
Radioactive Sewer Sludge is being reported outside the exclusion zone.
Now i'm not a 100% sure on Arnie's last one. The turbines have radioactive water in them and perhaps those turbines are just leaking. Maybe the apologists can come
up with a theory for what's causing radioactive water in the basement of 5 and 6 Turbines.
Me I'm with Arnie that Unit 3 has gone recritical.
http://www.youtube.com/...
The link above is fuel pool 4. Now it's a lot cleaner then Unit 3, which is something
i wouldn't expect.
Pool 3 is just littered with trash and debris.
Pool 4 is clean, real clean.
I may have to rethink the radioactive Fryer theory, because that should litter
debris inwards. Unless it so toasted the cement roof that it turned to sand.
http://www.youtube.com/...
A Deafening Silence. TEPCO wishes to avoid panic.
Unit 4 is leaning and a shoring repair is being attempted.
http://nuclearstreet.com/...
Plans also call for installing 30 steel pillars beneath the spent fuel tank at unit 4, which was badly damaged by an earlier fire and hydrogen explosion. By the end of July, a wall 3 to 6 feet thick will then be built around them, the newspaper reported.
That so isn't going to work.
http://www.jaif.or.jp/...
Now various apologists have been claiming this can't be a very bad
accident, because there is no evidence of Strontium contamination...
Until now, the government has not checked strontium levels regularly or in wide
areas as it's not easy to distinguish from other radioactive materials and takes
time and labor to measure
Yeah, the Japanese government with 200% Debt to GDP and a major crisis,
can't spare the scratch to measure strontium releases.
Of course, neither is our government
not that there is anything to measure in Unit 3
http://enenews.com/...
Tokyo Electric reported a sharp rise in temperature at the nearby Reactor 3. It was at 202 degrees Celcius early Sunday, up 40 degrees in less than a day”
temperature spikes and High Iodine levels argue for recriticality.
Normal Iodine-131 level in a spent fuel pool is .01 Becquerel per cubic centimeter or less -Wall Street Journal, April 14, 2011
Iodine-131 can only come from nuclear fission, and because it has a short life, it disappears after about 80 days. In other words, the presence of iodine-131 suggests that the spent fuel has started its own chain reaction without any human intervention. -Arnold Gundersen, speaking about No. 4 spent fuel pool on April 15, 2011
Previous Highs fo Iodine-131:
No. 2 Spent Fuel Pool: 4,100 becquerels per cubic centimeter -April 19
No. 4 Spent Fuel Pool: 220 becquerels per cubic centimeter -April 14
High levels of Iodine in pool 3 much higher then what we see in Pools 2 and 4
really makes the case that Unit 3 is experiencing criticality....