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
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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. . .
Fukushima Reactor No. 3 suffers likely core breach, now leaking water at 10,000 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/
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