Published: July 26th, 2012 at 6:37 pm ET
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Title: Tunnel eyed to probe fault at nuke plant
Source: Jiji
Date: July 27, 2012
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In a fresh development adding to local worries, Chubu Electric Power Co. said Wednesday that many parts of reactor 5 at its Hamaoka nuclear power station in Shizuoka Prefecture have been confirmed corroded.
The corrosion was apparently caused by the seawater that was found to have flowed into the reactor in May last year during work to halt the plant, Chubu Electric told a meeting with experts hosted by the NISA.
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Chubu Electric said corrosion affects the equipment that raises and lowers the control rods, which moderate the chain reaction in the core.
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the poorly protected site could suffer the same quake-tsunami double-punch that knocked out Tokyo Electric Power Co.’s Fukushima No. 1 power plant in March 2011.
Some 400 tons of seawater are believed to have flowed into the reactor because 43 narrow tubes in a steam condenser were broken, and 5 tons of the total apparently reached the pressure vessel.
In addition, tubes in a different condenser have been deformed, apparently because of corrosion, the firm said.
Chubu Electric will carry out the probes until December before announcing full details. The industry ministry’s agency said it will take years before it can tell prospects for the reactor.
Published: July 26th, 2012 at 6:37 pm ET
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Wondering how much radioactive water flowed out the other way into the ocean ?
$$%% , These plants should all be shut down !!
Now I'm mad !!
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Cindy,
15 units throughout Japan…
… This is JUST one.
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Only if we believe the government's total of 15 'damaged' NPPs.
Out of a countrywide total of 54 NPPs.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_power_in_Japan
And they told the truth when?
For a reference, Japan is just under the size of California. Can you imaging 54 NPPs in California? All of them far past their operating failure point? With the wind blowing east?
No wonder they lie. It's bad.
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Here are some pictures of badly corroded pipes at Hamaoka R5.
http://portirland.blogspot.co.uk/2012/07/hamaoka-genpatsu-hairo.html
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Is the damage to the pipes which allowed ingress of saltwater due to EARTHQUAKE? Not a surprise. What is a surprise is that more Japanese nuclear plants are not reported as damaged…Yet. At least this is being reported, a year later, but reported.
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We somehow know that 14 plants were seriously damaged, but details have been non-existant, now they fess up a little.
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Yes. "Chubu Electric will carry out the probes until December before announcing full details. The industry ministry’s agency said it will take years before it can tell prospects for the reactor."
Is this another one that is too radioactive to approach? I get the impression that this is only the beginning of the story, given that it has taken about a year and a half to start to "probe" a seawater leak.
By the way, the full story in Japan Times covers two problem plants: the one that Admin highlighted for us above and another one built on an earthquake fault. As stock and jec say, the details keep accumulating that there are many more nuke problems than those at Fukushima.
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I have no doubt that all 15 that we know of continue to spew radiation into the air & or sea.
http://enenews.com/must-see-report-introduced-by-top-govt-official-hosono-actually-other-reactors-are-all-in-considerably-severe-condition-besides-fukushima-daiichi-14-reactors-total-dai-ni-onagawa-tokai
Oct 12, 2011 In the table below, capacities are shown in megawatts. "P" represents a planned
regular inspection shutdown and "U" an unplanned shutdown.
http://af.reuters.com/article/energyOilNews/idAFL3E7L41DL20111012
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Hunting the Radioactive Beasts of Chernobyl
Lets see…. If Chernobyl has mutant animals running around, and Fukushima is much worse, I wonder what the future holds for Japan?
http://youtu.be/INAlUGn0RYg
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A slow and painful decline back into 2nd and then 3rd world status. Japan, your sun is setting.
[ Cool Japan ?]
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"The corrosion was apparently caused by the seawater that was found to have flowed into the reactor in May last year during work to halt the plant…"
Seawater flowed into the reactor in May of 2011 as a result by workers doing work to HALT the plant…
… Now what are they doing trying to HALT a NPP after an EQ by pooring in seawater unless it was in a melt situ, ALSO?
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Exactly. Broken fresh water pipes, so emergency salt-water cooling.
Dominoes, Max1, dominoes.
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Yes Max, first thought that came to my mind.
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it may take years for th eministry to determine damage but it will only take a week for them to recertifyt he plant to restart.
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How does it work? TEPCO gives prospective employees an IQ test, and if the flunk it they are hired?
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This is how it works.
It's not the IQ test. It depends if they are married a daughter of someone higher up within TEPCO, connection etc, also other important criteria, if they are good at b*llsh****** and lying which are essential skills if you want to work for TEPCO. 1+1 must produce 5 and not 2. Welcome to wonderland where everything is upsidedown.
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Doesn't matter if sea water flowed in or out. Nuclear technology failed. And every woman, child, and man needs to research (just a few clicks on your laptop), to know why you'll be dying of cancer.
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Oh, I don't know. Heart disease is a real threat, as the rad sickness attacks your heart muscle. More and more children are dying of heart disease after 3/11. Lots of old folks, too, but we're in the range anyway. Old folks don't smile enough.
One or the other. A real coin flip. Thanks, GE.
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And now Mycoplasma Pneumonia rates skyrocketing:
http://idsc.nih.go.jp/idwr/kanja/weeklygraph/18myco-e.html
Look carefully at the above chart, and the rates after 3/11.
H/t to whoever found this. It'll be in the US shortly, through airport hubs:
Below is a very good photo:
http://www.redorbit.com/media/uploads/2012/07/health-072412-001b.jpg
And the article:
http://www.infectioncontroltoday.com/news/2012/07/new-model-of-disease-contagion-ranks-us-airports-in-terms-of-their-spreading-influence.aspx
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if so many reactors were damaged and lots of amazing unbelievably things have happened to so many reactors , it's all the more reason to suspect software sabotage across the board, ala Jim Stone's thesis. this is conjectural on my part, but it makes more sense this way. either way, we are not being told the truth.
we will see, maybe.
either these things can't take relatively small quakes (and we have been lied to about the magnitude of the quake), or a sufficiently large quake (that should flatten everything 100km radius) did not cause commensurate damage to the rest of the country. take your pick.
it seems that the procedures I have just taken to flush my cars radiator after fixing with bogup to repair a minor head gasket leak have not been followed at multiple NPPs. that is unbelievable.
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Pierre typed these pixels of light:
"either these things can't take relatively small quakes (and we have been lied to about the magnitude of the quake), or a sufficiently large quake (that should flatten everything 100km radius) did not cause commensurate damage to the rest of the country. take your pick."
SP: oh I think it was a very large quake. It moved Japan laterally eight feet and sent multiple tsunami waves up to 70 feet tall and traveling at the speed of a Boeing 747 jetliner (600 mph). Looks pretty deadly to me:
http://www.buzzfeed.com/mjs538/japan-tsunami-at-full-height-from-the-ground-level?s=mobile
If this earthquake had been a 10.0 Japan might be upside down across the east coast of China. I never underestimate the strength of Mother Earth. She will be here long after the reign of mankind.
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/ correction flatten everything 1000km (I'll give you 200km allowing for the oceanic origin)
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At what point does this situation become serious enough for control to move from the company level to the governmental and from a domestic issue to an international one? It is obvious that these fools at TEPCO are now and have probably always been out of their depth.
We spend trillions taking out a laughable dictator in the middle east because he might get his hands on enough n-material to make a dirty bomb, but when one of our allies of convenience, Japan, spews a 100 times the rads into the global atmosphere we do nothing. I think Fukushima should be put under the control of the UN peacekeepers and all decisions should be moved up to the international level. This way they can utilize the global experts and the global resources to minimize this disaster. Also, this will allow the collection of data for the an international criminal proceeding against all responsible.
[ Cool Japan ?]
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I believe that the US is calling all the shots in Japan and has been since 311.
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The US has been calling the shots in Japan since 1945.
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1:48 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RTrSTJ5a_wo&feature=related
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There should have been an international team responding to Fuku on March 11, 2011.
Also, there is a Japanese law saying that an independent team of scientists is required to be at the scene of a nuclear disaster. This law has been ignored.
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What next, wake up, get a gripe, give us a break, tell us the truth, we can take it or can we, we have a right, don't deny it, just do it, you know it's right, don't make me fight for my rights, you will lose or we all will perish.
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Wanting to know the truth damages their profit.
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If visionary leaders and the creative minds of the world had gotten together and worked to harness the power of the sun that comes down freely, then we would not be now witnessing our own possible extinction event. We have few of those visionary leaders willing to buck tptb status quo.
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Nuclear is not so much about power as it is about weapons
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and rotting barrels with waste..
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The irony here is that the creation of the main ingredient in those weapons has resulted in the extinction of the human race.
Other than the two bombs in Japan during WWII, the possibility of limited theater nukes being used in Afghanistan, and somewhat extensive nuclear weapon testing, there has never been a wholesale use of nuclear weapons. Maybe MAD does work.
But the destruction of the plutonium manufacturing facilities (NPPs) in one small corner of the world has doomed us all.
Just nuts.
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