Published by: NRC
Published date: Nov 29, 2011
Description: An NRC reactor expert explains nuclear power and the March events at the Fukushima site in Japan [Emphasis Added]
Frederick (Rick) Hasselberg is a reactor engineer and incident response coordinator in NRC’s Office of Nuclear Security and Incident Response (NSIR). (SOURCE)
[...] With core melt down and containment failure, Fukushima Units 1, 2 and 3 were unable to prevent the uncontrolled release of radioactive material and hydrogen gas from the primary containments to the secondary containments.
In the secondary containments, hydrogen concentrations reached flammable and then (in the cases of Units 1 and 3) explosive concentrations. In Unit 2, hydrogen ignited before it could reach an explosive mixture but it burned continuously for several days.
The events at Fukushima Daiichi were tragic. On the International Nuclear Event Scale, the Fukushima accident rates as a seven – a major accident – based on the amount of radioactive material released to the environment. [...]
Tracking The Latest At The Fukushima Nuclear Plant, NPR, March 16, 2011:
Reactor No.2: A hydrogen explosion on March 15 damaged the reactor building and the pressure suppression chamber, causing the pressure inside the containment vessel to fluctuate. White smoke has been a regular occurrence from Reactor 2
Japan official: small amount of white smoke still at reactors, Reuters, March 22, 2011:
There was still a small amount of white smoke at the stricken Daiichi nuclear plant’s No. 2 reactor [...] the deputy-director general of Japan’s Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency, said on Tuesday.
…DEVELOPING…
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Alright. I’d say the NRC’s “incident response coordinator” should re-read his job description – a response more than 9 months after the beginning of an “incident” is sort of lame.
And the “Japan official” says there was still some smoke on March 22? Maybe he should watch again closely the video of June 10 – a blind man could see the whole site covered in smoke.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dxzBKBKPLRg&feature=related
This is beyond ridiculous
Is this their way of saying, Opp’s !?
Governments relied on their early reports !
See my post in the other thread. #3 SFP is burning continuously right now!
INCREDIBLE
EVERYONE NEEDS TO LOOK http://enenews.com/forum-fukushima-webcam-discussion-thread-dec-14-2011-present/comment-page-1#comment-172000
SMOKE at R3 = no cold shutdown. Just looking at the smoke..it has to be hotter than 100 degrees..what kind of measurements is TEPCO taking? And where? well..I could be very unscientific and offer a suggestion as to the location.
Where the spent fuel pool was is on fire and burning hard – 100 foot tall flames – billowing smoke in the sky.
SFP fell down recently – fuel is burning openly.
at least the “gentleman” wears an appropriate colored shirt.
Shut them down. Clean them up. End the Nuke High Priesthood.
Start the caretakers.
Waterwheels everywhere. End centralized control of humanity.
10-4 good buddy
we’re shutting them off…no wait, thats wrong, we’re going to decommission them.
You know, these people don’t like being told what to do…I know, I wait on them…we going to need some muscle.
But first, I need a mint julep…can I get you one?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-tgyN8tTZk
The nrc is nothing but a alot of hot radioative wind.
DEC 19 To Respect Japan’s Judgment on Fukushima N-Plant Conditions: IAEA Chief
http://jen.jiji.com/jc/i?g=eco&k=2011121900814
You’ve got to be kidding us?
DEC 19 Fukushima and the Future Nightmare (A must read!)
Posted on December 19, 2011 by Rachel Cohen
http://fromthetrenchesworldreport.com/fukushima-and-the-future-nightmare/8117
2nd Link:
“I believe this plant is still pumping out death at a rate that would scare the hell out of us if we knew the truth. I know the radiation must be spread throughout the Pacific Ocean in riding on the currents. And I have to believe that considering the fact that birds eat fish and carnivorous animals eat birds, both of which defecate in the waters and on the land, the radiation to a degree must literally be everywhere.
But then again, like I said, I guess it is a little hard to worry about radiation that will only start killing in ten or fifteen years when the prospect of starving to death in the cold is the reality of the day.
Fukushima is just too big to be shoved to the back burner. No matter the difficulties we are facing today, ignoring Fukushima is a big mistake that we very well may not live to regret.
(MY COMMENT WAITING MOD – directed her to HP and Enenews)
http://www.taiwannews.com.tw/etn/news_content.php?id=1791793
230 tons of radioactive sewage found yesterday in Daiichi tunnel at processing center.
Paul Langley just posted this:
A Fukushima wordpress blog
December 19, 2011
http://aristoman.wordpress.com/
aristoman writes: “I am a foreigner living in Japan almost 12 years. I am living in Sendai. The city was hit by earthquake, and ocean side by tsunami. My family life was affected by nuclear crises. I have two beautiful daughters and I care for their future. The public information are mild in Japan to prevent any panic of nation or Tohoku region. Yet we are facing one of the worst and longest nuclear disasters ever. My home is 100 Km from Fukushima, and I care to face reality.”
Is artistoman a member here? The name sounds familar. Anyway…I’m leaving a comment directing him to HP and HERE.
(sorry my memory is bad)
“test”
Alert ? it was 8 months ago.
Do not have to be so dramatic…
Just looked at the TBS/JNN view – #3 still has a raging inferno going on.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rmiq5CtF3N0
Blow it up to full screen and look just to the right of the tower in the middle. Orange flames reaching halfway to the height of the 250 foot tall wreckage
Perhaps the largest industrial fire I’ve ever seen live. The long camera shot removes your sense of scale.
I vote flames. If not, the orange is something very very strange and NEW. It jumps up and down.
NEW TWEET
Dec. 19, 2011, 11:00 a.m. EST
Medical Journal Article: 14,000 U.S. Deaths Tied to Fukushima Reactor Disaster Fallout
http://www.marketwatch.com/story/medical-journal-article-14000-us-deaths-tied-to-fukushima-reactor-disaster-fallout-2011-12-19
Congratulations to Joe and Dr. Sherman! I thought this wasn’t coming out till January.
http://www.radiation.org/
14,000 in the first 14 weeks according to the article. It’s now been 9 months. I bet the number is more than triple that .
I wonder if this will wake any of the “there hasn’t been a single death attributed to the nuke disaster” crowd up from their dreamworld.
9 MONTHS = 126,000 deaths
No that’s wrong. Whatever.
I had it up to 49,000 two weeks ago. The CDC mortality data has gotten gnarly, though.
Glad it’s you and not me keeping track.
Math. lol!
That number will continue to rise and will never go down. Radiation is eternal. The website this study is posted on has another article about strontium in baby teeth. I read there that PA has very high incidences of certain cancers. This I knew from living here. I am starting a plan to “Make Radiation Visible.” I want to get rad signs made up and placed anywhere there is a dosage of .5 mSv/h. All I need is the geiger counter and signs with posts.
*ALERT* Everyone send UR resume’ to the NRC because the entire place needs a flushing
This guy says, “We are learning from TMI, Chernobyl and Fuku how to make Nuke power safer.”
Not fucking possible……SHUT THEM ALL DOWN NOW !!!
9 months after the fact? Gestation period of nuke accident reporting = Human gestation period. Must be some pretty wild birth defect/infant death issues about to rear their ugly heads!
How much more learning do they need? How many “lessons” are left till we can declare it safe? Everything wrong in this world is right and everything evil is good. What’s safe is bad and what’s not possible is.
Spin within the spin:
“The events at Fukushima Daiichi were tragic.” (past tense)
“…the Fukushima accident rates as a seven – a major accident” (the highest possible category in their system)
… implicitly… but it’s all over now… we fought and won… good news… cold shutdown… more nukes needed… new, safe, shiny nukes for all.
Why does TEPCO and the Japanese Gov’t want to declare it’s Fukushima disaster Stable and more importantly, what do they hope to accomplish by doing it now; Is it a trail balloon?
A. If the people “swallow” this Nuclear Baloney (NB) then TEPCO and their other Gov’t Leaders get to keep their jobs and march onward toward a nuclear future while the Nuclear refugees are “encouraged” to return to their Fukushima homes; letting history be the judge of whether or not this was the RIGHT decision.
B. The people of Japan reject the concept of a “cold shut down” in which case TEPCO, in time, gets nationalized and Japan develops a 20 year plan to replace it’s reactors with solar of all flavors!
C. The people of Japan are insulted by what TEPCO and their Gov’t is saying and take to the streets to DEMAND immediate change. TEPCO and their Government overseers are both swept away in order to placate the people of Japan. The Nuclear Refugees get settlements and the area around Fukushima is closed to all but scientific personal for the foreseeable future. Japan’s PM pledges to “race” Germany toward New Japanese developed Solar and being Nuclear within FIVE years…
The Japanese people are now at a cross roads that will define both their future,their children’s future and possibly the future of Nuclear Power on Earth!
What will they now do:
…Bow to TEPCO?
…Accept their Leaders vow to do better?
…Or Demand much less Nuclear ASAP?
This is a decision that only the Japanese People can make;
… I hope they make US proud of them!
I hope so too Captain Dave, I hope so too.