Title: Heroic risks of struggle to clean up Fukushima
Source: The Irish Times
Author: DAVID McNEILL in Fukushima
Date: Feb 21, 2012
[...] Thousands of men worked through last year’s summer heat of over 30 degrees in this protective gear, struggling to clear debris from the quake and tsunami and bring water to the reactors. “They were dropping like flies in the heat,” said one worker who spoke anonymously. “But they just had to keep going. They had no choice because no one else could do it.”
“The worst time was when the radiation was 250 Milisieverts (per year – the maximum, temporary government limit) and we couldn’t find people to do the work,” explains Kazuhiro Sakamoto, an onsite subcontractor. “We could only work in two-minute busts, when we were extracting cesium from contaminated water.” [...]
Read the report here
See also: Journalist: Almost every day a worker would keel over with heat exhaustion and be carried out
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Yes they're dropping from the "heat." Exposed reactor cores tend to be a bit on the warm side…
If this wasn't so freaking sad, it would be comical in an insane way. Just saying.
With only a few exceptions…
The entire human species has just flown over the Cuckoo's Nest!
Oooops…forgot to renew our passports! On the to do list tomorrow. This keystone cops thing is starting to make me depressed.
As each new report comes in about the failure to control the out of control, our fingernails break as they scrape one by one off the edge of the precipice.
To admit they can not control it is an acceptable failure now. But ego & greed will make them continue to risk more lives pretending that they are controlling the reactors.
~"TEPCO began constant monitoring of noble gas in the PCV of Reactor 2 on February 19th, as they were decreasing the amount of water from the core spray system. Even though a nuclear reactor is not in a critical state, smaller amounts of nuclear fission continually “spark” in various locations in the melted fuel, and while this does continually release radiation, it is spontaneous, erratic, combated by the constant stream of water into the containment vessel, and not sustained like during normal operations of a nuclear reactor. The amount of spontaneous fission occurring is steady, which allows noble gases released from nuclear fission to be detected and provide operators an indication of the state of the melted materials."
"On Monday February 20th, TEPCO found that an error message was displayed on the monitor for the noble gas (B system) of the gas control system of the Unit 2 Primary Containment Vessel and then could not check some of the parameters in the B system in the Main Anti-Earthquake Building."
http://enformable.com/2012/02/problems-shut-down-fukushima-unit-2-noble-gas-detection-system-and-spent-fuel-cooling-systems/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Enformable+%28Enformable%29
Jan 19, 2012 Video of Inside Fukushima I (Daiichi) Reactor 2 Containment Vessel
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=crQRqIEfK4k#!
On the topic of reactor 2:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NblPs5QD2GU&feature=plcp&context=C36d8087UDOEgsToPDskLbpLaA3WR9qzDiXhC4h3Fg
It is reposted from the webcamera discussion thread.Watcha@ posted the link, and the video is done on the 20 of february by 454541919@
Interesting quotation, MaidenHeaven. It seems Orwellian to me:
"continual" is "spontaneous" and "erratic" and "not sustained".
"spontaneous" is "steady".
The article contains more such oddities, for example: "The boric materials do not quench…."
I have no idea what that article's message really is, no matter how often I reread it.
Enformable has this, which I find even more disturbing:
"In the evening of February 18, an alarm sounded in the backup Unit 2 spent fuel pool cooling system indicating that there was a large water flow difference at the gateway of primary system pump; the desalting facility and the system shutdown. The desalination equipment has been restarted and work continues to remove radioactive materials from the spent fuel pool, but there is no word on when the spent fuel pool issues will be resolved."
It starts to talk about cooling sfp2 and then goes nowhere. Also what does "remove radiactive materials" mean?
More obfuscation.
TSUNAMI The Japanese GAVE the world this word! Why? Why? Why? would you then build a Nuclear Power Plant 200ft from the ocean????
Because they do not think about the future. Basically, the Japanese think just in the past and present tense. This explains why kids are a part of a clinical study.
I think you are starting to wake up. Yes that is true, because they were not thinking about the future only about today. The U.S. did the the exact same thing when they built the first reactors as a source for energy. Think about that because it does not make any sense. The greatest gift that mankind has been given is it's children and to not think about they're future seems a bit odd. The U.S. let these short term reactors burn for nearly 15yrs and had yet to come up with a solution as to the disposal of the waste. Not very smart thing to do is it.
Where did this ideology of thinking only of today come from. After all in reality NOTHING would even get done if that is really what we were doing. I mean why build the Hoover Damn if you are only thinking about today. Why build the Golden Gate Bridge if you are only thinking about today, and yet here we have all these countries building the most toxic and deadly form of energy production and NOT THINKING ABOUT THE FUTURE! Something is not right. Most loving married couples number one desire is to build a future for their offspring, not destroy it. They think of ways AROUND known dangers in their decisions to acquire new energy sources, you would think that is the case at least.
When you begin to peel back the layers of bad decision after bad decision then you begin to see that there has to be another reason for our behavior. The only conclusion that I have come up with for this destructive behavior is mind control. Mind control on a massive scale, global if you will. When did it start and by whom. I have my opinion as to who, when and why but just like Columbo I'm not ready to give it away just yet without more investigation.
I think it is a global problem. When you build a nuclear reactor near the ocean in an eartquake prone land, it is greedy stupidity, and what is it to store piles of waste for the next generations?! And when everybody in power is silent, when the air and oceans are poisoned, what is it?! It is about life, not about power and profit…
Does an ongoing clinical study not includes the possibility of a coming future?
Only three groups have gov supported dosismeters:apes,"wildschweine", and childrens until 20 years.
thats pretty pervert.
like they had tested @ october the radio-damage by the nearly population with post sended questionnaires.
extrem clever,
like it would be a fckng driving license testing.
pardon,
i'm wrong.
license testings are not possible to make it @ home…(and send it back months later)…
now are the results posted to the public and ouh wondering, the population in the hotspot-towns is not over the limits.
It's all about GREED, boys & girls. It's not about anything else.
You don't want to let the PR blab confuse/mislead you…
I recognise the article's author, David McNeill, as having had several articles in the Independent on the same subject, and subject of unrelenting troll attacks in the comment section (Disqus) by such as zwitterion2 and ArbuthnotWorsthorn.
zwit self reports as someone with nuke qualifications, no working experience, and a desire to get back in the industry. He also self reports as having a deep hatred of McNeill.
Worsthorn appears to be a general purpose troll once having said elsewhere, "Our second child died so we just got on with it and had another", followed by even more tosh.
I am happy to see McNeill appear in another medium which apparently thank goodness lacks a comments area for waiting trolls.
Just this for the moment
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Well, the article does in fact appear in the Indie today. A large number of nuclear doubters are commenting as is someone called a_no_n who is probably an a_no_n coward masquerading as the previous anonymous coward called zwitterion2.
I need to research the "devil coal" and "radioactive Cornwall" arguments as these seem to be favourite heavyweight BS dump themes. If I get some sense on these, as well as the techniques used by these folks
http://www.don-lindsay-archive.org/skeptic/arguments.html
then I will try to feed it back here. Meanwhile heartfelt thanks to all those fighting it out there
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