Exposed: Radiation “streaming into atmosphere” after No.4 pool boiled dry in fire – UK Paper

Published: March 18th, 2011 at 8:54 am ET
By
Email Article Email Article
3 comments


Exposed: Nuclear fuel rods inside wrecked Japan reactor as experts predict radioactive plume could reach U.S. TODAY, Daily Mail,  March 18, 2011 at 8:09 am EST:

These pictures show overheating fuel rods exposed to the elements through a huge hole in the wall of a reactor building at the destroyed Fukushima nuclear plant.

Radiation is streaming into the atmosphere from the used uranium rods at reactor number four, after a 45ft deep storage pool designed to keep them stable boiled dry in a fire. …

The latest pictures show a whole wall missing from the building housing reactor number four. Inside, a green crane normally used to move spent fuel rods into the storage pool can be seen. Underneath the crane, but not seen in the picture, is the 45ft deep spent fuel storage pool which has boiled dry. …

Published: March 18th, 2011 at 8:54 am ET
By
Email Article Email Article
3 comments

Related Posts

  1. Fukushima 50 Special: Unit 4 pool “had boiled dry, raising the spectre of a nuclear fission chain reaction” — Feared nearby nuclear plant would be evacuated March 5, 2013
  2. Nuclear engineer: Enormous amount of plutonium at No. 4 spent fuel pool in danger of catching fire; Pool is cracked and leaking (VIDEO) April 13, 2011
  3. Spent fuel pool No. 4 water level drops to 1/3 capacity — High levels of radiation released after ‘equipment’ in pool was exposed June 20, 2011
  4. Gundersen soon after 3/11: Photo shows nuclear fuel is exposed to air at Fukushima Unit 4 fuel pool — Clean path for plutonium to escape offsite (VIDEO) February 23, 2013
  5. NHK: Fear that “partial meltdown” might have occurred in Spent Fuel Pool No. 4 last March February 9, 2012

3 comments to Exposed: Radiation “streaming into atmosphere” after No.4 pool boiled dry in fire – UK Paper

  • xdrfox

    When An ill Wind Blows From Afar! (Like from Japan, Iran or North Korea!)
    Surviving Radioactive Fallout & Radiation Contamination
    By Shane Connor
    March 12th, 2011
    http://www.ki4u.com/illwind.htm


    Report Comment

  • mikael

    The windpattens are quite stable and people should take ceare of them selfs, because the ongoing fallout will only cumulate, and every reading is just more to the allready contaminated soil. Dont forgett that.

    Second the Great oceanic water ways(like the atospheric jet streams) is also a major player in this senario, and sofar no studies is been published, exept exream radiaton readings right outside Fukoshima. This is also something that will be a significand problem.

    They can hide it for now, but as the catasrophe evolves, the fallout evolves, the consecvences will eventualy emerge.
    Soner or later.
    It will.


    Report Comment

  • mister twister

    Tepco is criminally insane to allow this plant in full melt and criticality to stay open to the environment. When it ends it will be obvious they should have entombed the site under a mountain of sand right from the start. If the wind changes again Tokyo will be dirty bombed again with yellow rain from the fissions going on. Stupidest mess I have ever seen. Bury this thing now or it will bury Japan.


    Report Comment