Published: November 28th, 2011 at 8:35 pm ET
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#Fukushima I Nuke Plant Reactor 2: Temperature Gauges Go Haywire, EX-SKF, Nov. 29, 2011:
Some of the temperature gauges for the Reactor 2 Suppression Chamber and the Containment Vessel seem to be malfunctioning.
In each case, only one gauge out of several seems to be affected. Cause unknown, according to TEPCO. Countermeasures: closer monitoring of gauges. [...]
Some terminal feeling at Fuku-I, where all they could do is to monitor the gauges.
TEPCO’s press handout on November 28 (English);Excerpts from EX-SKF’s breakdown of the handout:
Gas temperature of Suppression Chamber of Unit 2
・11/26 17:00, read 52.7℃, but at 11:00 pm on the day we confirmed that it read “Overscaled” (digital recorder).
・11/27 5:00, it read 102.6℃. Though the readings were not stable, as there were no significant changes or variations in the temperatures of the same types of 2 thermometers and the pool water in Suppression Chamber, we have been investigating the causes for this event [...]
Temperature inside the Primary Containment Vessel (Drywell) of Unit 2 (base line temperature of the air conditioning unit, local cooling equipment)
・11/27 5:00, read 78.2℃・11/27 6:50, it was confirmed that it read approximately 84 , increasing in a staircase pattern. [...]
Later we inspected the instrument but got no data indicating malfunction, and the readings after the inspection are not different from those before [...]
Published: November 28th, 2011 at 8:35 pm ET
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Congress’s 2012 National Defense Budget…. check out pages 676-680 to see the fucking absurdly huge amounts of money going to nuclear research and nuclear facilities….. What are they doing with all that $$$??
http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/BILLS-112s1867pcs/pdf/BILLS-112s1867pcs.pdf
http://www.gpo.gov
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Pardon my french…
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That’s kind of an insult to swearing don’t you think? j/k
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No worries about the french, in fact, you took the words right out of my mouth. Shouldn’t it be titled,
“Congress’s National Destruction Budget” ?
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More on nuclear weapons:
The New York Times: The Bloated Nuclear Weapons Budget
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/30/opinion/sunday/the-bloated-nuclear-weapons-budget.html?nl=todaysheadlines&emc=tha211
and
http://majiasblog.blogspot.com/2011/10/geopolitics-and-silence-on-fukushima.html
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When the temperature gauges go nuts it means they cannot read levels exceeding capacity. The lower readings are not wrong, however the signs of instability in temperature do not indicate the situation is safe. If the reactor is fluctuating temperature it could also indicate there are pockets of high radiation that are setting the gauges off. Perhaps the pumps are to blame? If the water that is being removed is changing the temperature that could explain the changing levels. TEPCO needs to find out why this is happening before the whole gig blows up.
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Gb– Koodnt this also be indicative of recriticality?? I mean the flux in temperature is very similar to the breathing of sporadic nuke fission.
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Historical graphs of units 1-3 at Fukushima Daiichi, updated daily
Including temperatures, pressure readings and radiation levels for all data points collected by TEPCO. I posted this before but in case you missed it I re-posted. Graphs dated up to the 28th, and again not reliable information coming from TEPCO.
http://www.houseoffoust.com/reactors/graphs.html
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Ooops 29th.
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CB These are incredible graphs! Wonderful work.
What is your assessment of the situation with the units?
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Majia, same as yours, and everyone else that knows. I’m glad to be here you all.
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More exactly unknown, and unpredictable. Exception being educated guesses of the real experts here. But experts are limited by handicapped
unreliable information. Use common sense, and a high abundance of caution as this worse case scenario unfolds, using all available means of any information believed to be partly accurate. One can paint a picture of past, present and future events. Your thoughts count, and I rely on everyones contribution, large or small.
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National Defense Authorization Act H.R.1540/S.1867. They vote on it tomorrow.
http://poorrichards-blog.blogspot.com/2011/11/indefinite-domestic-military-detentions.html
Things are about to get scary.
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No joke. Call your congress people and tell everyone you know to do the same. If not, the next terrorist is YOU.
contact congress http://www.conservativeusa.org/mega-cong.htm
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We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.–That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, –That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.
Isn’t it time yet?
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I wrote them several days ago. This is the most dangerous piece of legislation I have ever seen. Ask your Senators to vote for the Udall Amendment.
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NoVictimNoFraudNoCrime,
Humm, something wrote as that could be declared terroristic by the powers that be !
: D
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You’re so right. I’m probably on a watch list for posting this.
Thomas Jefferson would be all trussed-up and water-boarded in Guantanamo under the “Patriot Act” and our “Homeland Security”.
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