Fukushima: Interesting 2014 JAEA document on hunting for the missing corium

10 02 2017

Japan jaea_dropscientists knew in 2014 that the fuel had gone outside the primary containment as shown in this JAEA paper – Status of the Reactor Core – JAEA  May, 2014

original –
http://www.jaea.go.jp/english/publication/graph_JAEA/graph_JAEA_03.pdf
alt. link –
http://www.scribd.com/document/338930910/Fukushima-Dai-ichi-JAEA-Report

STATUS OF THE FUEL DEBRIS – Page 5

They knew the fuel was outside the reactor pressure vessel and eating through the primary containment vessel without surveying the core yet.

Page 7 shows where they wanted to look for the melted-through fuel, outside the container ON THE FLOOR. But they hadn’t even invented the radiation-proof scope to do it yet.

All indications are they had a China Syndrome event at Fukushima right away and the fuel quickly went through the floor, the ground and met the sea poisoning the Pacific Ocean.

As Lucas W. Hixon notes in Nuclear Meltdown: Releasing radiation and containing the truth, “Within the first 24 hours, after the Unit 1 reactor building exploded on the morning of March 12th, TEPCO was aware that at least 50% of one of three cores at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant was damaged within hours of the accident and notified the government of the ongoing meltdown – but did not acknowledge that a meltdown had occurred to the public until May 2011, long after the melted nuclear fuel escaped from the damaged reactors into the containment vessels.”

Our earlier article – Is This a Picture of CORIUM Burning at Fukushima Daiichi?

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Dr. Leuren Moret has written extensively about Japan’s deceptive description of its nuclear “research” and facilities.

MOXfireShe says, “The Japanese elite planned the whole thing with the US (PM of Japan met with Pres. Reagan to allow MOX into Japan).  Reagan was a TV spokesman for GE/Westinghouse) at least 40 years before Fukushima happened. ”

From FUKUSHIMA:  IMPACT OF FALLOUT ON OCEANS, PART 2: A DEVIL’S PACT  
TEPCO, “BIG SCIENCE”, POLITICIANS, INDUSTRIALISTS… AND BANKERS :

Pre-WWII Austrian Engineer Clandestinely Sets up A-Bomb Template for Japan, U.S., and Soviet Union: Fritz J. Hansgirg, an Austrian engineer, developed a method to mass produce heavy water for the Japanese atomic bomb project, and a method to mass produce high purity magnesium to extract uranium from Monazite, a uranium ore mined in North Korea. “

♦  leurenmoret.info

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Take a look at these 2011 articles from Nuke Pro’s blog:

  Nuke Pro

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Nuke apologists, promoters and atomic weapons scientists:

We know who you are.

We know what you did.

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Yoichi Shimatsu

“… the principle of international law set by the highest Tribunal in postwar history ruled that scientists who participate in genocidal programs must be meted out capital punishment. To repeat emphatically, for the education of plaintiffs Cullen and Buesseler, researchers implicated in mass murder deserve to be executed, according to the unanimous decision at the Nuremberg Doctors Trial.”

How Can Nuclear Scientist Academics Media Apologist Sleep At Night?

Woods Hole Erases Fukushima Pacific Contamination Data

Mass Mortality among Rocky Shore Invertebrates across 100 km of Northeastern Pacific Coastline- Peer Reviewed Article





Japan Evacuating Now

31 03 2011

Everything’s fine, just fine . . .

from – http://donnadevane.posterous.com/youtube-japan-evacuating-now-nuclear-meltdown





NHK: Extreme radiation detected at No.2 reactor

27 03 2011

Tokyo Electric Power Company says it has detected radioactive materials 10-million-times normal levels in water at the No.2 reactor complex of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant.

The plant operator, known as TEPCO, says it measured 2.9-billion becquerels of radiation per one cubic centimeter of water from the basement of the turbine building attached to the Number 2 reactor.

The level of contamination is about 1,000 times that of the leaked water already found in the basements of the Number 1 and 3 reactor turbine buildings.

The company says the latest reading is 10-million times the usual radioactivity of water circulating within a normally operating reactor.
TEPCO says the radioactive materials include 2.9-billion becquerels of iodine-134, 13-million becquerels of iodine-131, and 2.3-million becquerels each for cesium 134 and 137.

These substances are emitted during nuclear fission inside a reactor core.

The company says the extremely contaminated water may stem from damaged fuel in the reactor, and are trying to determine how the leakage occurred.

University of Tokyo graduate school professor Naoto Sekimura says the leak may come from the suppression chamber of the Number 2 reactor, which is known to be damaged. The chamber is designed to contain overflows of radioactive substances from the reactor.

Sunday, March 27, 2011 13:44 +0900 (JST)               http://www3.nhk.or.jp/daily/english/27_12.html

NOW THEY CLAIM IT’S ALL A MISTAKE  (um hmm)

Japan: Huge radiation spike at nuke was a mistake

The claim is that because the reading was so high it must all be a mistake.

Um hmm.

But it seems the radiation is so high they all had to evacuate (again!) so it seems true that Soaring radioactivity deals blow to Japan’s plant rescue.  Also TOPEC has not been reassuring with their radiation level figures. This report today

Radioactivity at the surface of the puddle at the No. 3 unit was 400 millisieverts per hour as of Thursday, still far below the more than 1,000 millisieverts per hour detected at the puddle of the No. 2 reactor’s turbine building.

Tokyo Electric was not able to confirm how much the actual amount of radiation was at the No. 2 reactor because the radioactivity level was too high for workers to continue measuring.

Nothing says safety like workers fleeing the crime scene!

UPDATE

Clusterfuck, TOPEC President Masataka Shimizu, getting the boot soon as he wrecked the company’s market value.     http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-03-27/tepco-chief-pressured-to-quit-after-costing-holders-26-billion.html

And the San Fransisco Chronicle reports

TOPEC was warned 2 years ago

about risk of tsunami damage (!!!).

Japan’s nuclear regulators and the operator of the crippled Fukushima reactors were warned that a tsunami could overwhelm the plant’s defenses and failed to recognize the threat.

The Trade Ministry dismissed evidence two years ago from geologists that the power station’s stretch of coast was overdue for a giant wave, minutes from a government committee show. Tokyo Electric Power Co. engineers also didn’t heed lessons from the 2004 tsunami off Indonesia that swamped a reactor 2,000 kilometers (1,200 miles) away in India, even as they advised the nuclear industry on coping with the dangers. . .

. . . . Japan has suffered 195 tsunamis since 400, according to Japan’s Central Research Institute of Electric Power Industry, which produced a report on tsunami threats to nuclear plants on the opposite coast to Dai-Ichi in July 2008. Three in the past three decades had waves of more than 10 meters.

A 7.6-magnitude quake in 1896 off the east coast of Japan created waves as high as 38 meters, while an 8.6- magnitude temblor in 1933 led to a surge as high as 29 meters, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. . . .
(more)

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/g/a/2011/03/26/bloomberg1376-LIJQHN0UQVI901-1A6ARN6J6AG8L2BBJ3CI28SA9U.DTL

Japanese can go around official radiation stats by reporting their own figures.  From CBS – Crowdsourcing Japan radiation readings





Fukushima Reactor 1 Breached, Leaking Radiation

25 03 2011

While TEPCO officials minimize the 6 nuke reactors without confirming there is anything intact to even hold water around red hot exposed fuel rods worldwide reports of deterioration send off alarms. ABC says Dangerous Breach Feared at Japanese Nuke Plant and the Irish Times headlines Nuclear reactor core breach feared.

The “cooling” water is highly radioactive and it doesn’t seem to be doing much cooling. More like CONTAMINATING.

THREAT LEVEL IS 6

The reactor 3 is leaking and they raised the event level to 6 today (!!!)

You can follow the radioactive plume here – http://www.zamg.ac.at/aktuell/index.php?seite=1&artikel=ZAMG_2011-03-19GMT18:50

MORE:

Radiation from Fukushima exceeds Three Mile Island

With the Fukushima plant continuing to release radiation, there is the danger that the contaminated land will be unusable for many years. . .

http://www.asahi.com/english/TKY201103250204.html

Radiation Level At Fukushima Reactor No. 2 At Its Highest Level Recorded So Far, Neutron Beam Observed 13 Times

. . . . TEPCO, the operator of the nuclear plant, said the neutron beam measured about 1.5 kilometers southwest of the plant’s No. 1 and 2 reactors over three days from March 13 and is equivalent to 0.01 to 0.02 microsieverts per hour and that this is not a dangerous level.

The utility firm said it will measure uranium and plutonium, which could emit a neutron beam, as well. . .

http://www.zerohedge.com/article/japan-nuclear-agency-radiation-level-fukushima-reactor-no-2-its-highest-level-recorded-so-fa

Fukushima Reactor No. 3 suffers likely core breach, now leaking water at 10,000 times normal radiation levels

http://www.naturalhealths.info/2011/03/fukushima-reactor-no-3-suffers-likely-core-breach-now-leaking-water-at-10000-times-normal-radiation-levels/

Euan Mearns’ blog has some updated technical details. Fukushima Dai-ichi status and slow burning issues

An analysis [7 min. podcast] of the situation by David Biello, associate editor for Environment and Energy for Scientific American… has a link here http://www.thetakeaway.org/2011/mar/17/fukushima-and-fallout/