@jec I think it's just nightfall on the cr*ppy resolution. I watched the blue turn to black, lol. The TBScam is such a load of ……..(fill in your chosen adjective.} It's making sure we don't see what's happening to R4 The recent picture from the inside of it makes it look such a nicer place than the outside looks, so I can't really believe them.
And thanks ADMIN for putting the avatars back – doing the happy dance now.
Scattershooting…Many hours of video cameras offline and missing video archives the past 48 hours…One day they will not come back online…forever. But Tepco will tell us things are fine.
You better keep an ear to the news from the few independent sources and don't rely on the government plant webcams to give you a final warning that things have become an ELE.
shame that I am not as switched on as you Nuckelchen, I am sure that I saw a sudden discharge from one of the windows one time, where I thought WTH? Now there is no record of it anymore. It looked like a sudden small pressure wave. Thank you Nuckelchen for recording as much as you do.
Pretty cool Nuck… Day of the Evil Crow returns. Freaky looking… The whole Fuku mess reminds me of 28 Days Later when Frank gets a drop of blood in his eye from the infected zombie crow.
@ maja:
quake and tsunamie time was not at eigth o'clock,
but maybe a sign for the time of the electric-power-systems break down on 11/3.
i think that clocks in big offices are connect to the basic power system, means that they would becomes everytime e-power.
also when the rooms haven't any more e-power the clock will still running and first stoping when the e-power at all will be lost.
or it will be just a stupid batterie clock with a cheapy china imported batterie, typical tepco.
loel.
have a look on the backwall of the pool from reactor nr 4.
and please have look how much space the water have to climb.
yeah! http://youtu.be/4fOF6hBLGOY
So glad to see your face again Nuck.
I love these videos you are putting up and watch them all.
Carry on the excellent work.
Left you and all a link above in the comment lines to some of my pics…
all the technology in Japan and they cannot manage to put up a few clear web cams for 4 directions… it is bad will, nothing more. unless they can admit to the radiation being that high that it is impossible to get a clear picture…
Yep…Hot!….watch near Unit 4..on both right and left of work light..
At 2:45–2:46.. emissions can be seen coming from that area.
Then an increase in Unit three.
Yep again, 2 distinct dark smoke clouds from R4 first. Unit 2 and 3 looked very hot ahead of the large cloud (after the first two puffs) coming from R3 or R4 at 1:00 am. How long has it been since the officials visited the R4 swimming pool for spent fuel? I can't take my eyes off that reactor without it draining all water and catching on fire! They must have gone to great lengths to keep water in R4 sfp for the recent visit from officials. I maintain it's R4 that's smoking but I could be wrong. If I get a chance this afternoon, I'll post the 1, 2 puffs from R4. Check 'yer jetstreams folks. This does not look like the usual 'white steam' considered 'business as usual' in daily nuclear operations. How much more can Fukushima take? Everyone's dying. Can't anyone DO SOMETHING?
Call Senator Wyden's office in Washington. 202 224 5244. If he doesn't know about the last 3 hours Tepco archives or live views tell him. I think it's R3 maybe after one of the water lines blew but looks critical again to me. His staff very obliging and thanked him for courage to speak out.
Have watched this plant for awhile but my hands shaking now as I type.
You have every right to be shaking. Nukelchen, in the past has put up videos that make me shake inside out. This is just another of many scary, scary images. Can't imagine what Tepco is doing. Maybe it's the coriums acting up, or broken pipes as some have said. No matter wtf it is, it is not good, not good at all. Are they messing with the SFP? Yes they are…
Please, let us continue to be kind, one to another, for we are each of us together in our pain! Scorn Tepco!
I am glad to have found this website and folks who see .. tho I am sorry to have found it bc of the ugliness and arrogance [corporate, gov, regulatory greed and irresonsibilty and lack of foresight that created massive SFPs in the first place] ..
Sigh .. and still Fukushitty seems to be blowing apart, at least in the last archive up .. after so many hours today.
Also, did anyone notice what looks like an orange/red flame near the bottom left corner of Reactor #1? Even though the night view camera (both in late night 4/30 video as well as early morning 5/30 video) looks like it is in black and white, there is that flame-like color next to reactor 1. Has this video been altered or else why can I see color there but only greyscale tones elsewhere?
The video feed is being manipulated as we speak. I fear something bad is going on there…duh, ok, something new like a fire, well that's been taken. Bad goings on and they don't want us to see. They are bluring the image on the live Tepco cam. WTF are they doing? Is this how it will happen? With no warning from anyone, but…
I hope this will be just another Drill.
Can you still see the blue sky upper right? I thought it could be fog. Moving in from the ocean, seems browner or more dense like smoke. It was proceeded by the steaming event earlier.
Yeah, it was a gradual clearing. You could faintly see the clouds thru the "whatever" haze until eventually everything cleared out. Might have been smoke and then they turned on the "fog" machines?? Only thing missing was the "sparkles"!
Wow! That's looking real bad. You can see the smoke/steam moving/blowing right to left. Looks especially bad behind the buildings. It didn't look like this an hour ago….
Yes KONDY Tepco is fogging up the place. It is the oddest fog I've ever seen…living along the North Coast of California, born in the Sacramento Valley, I know fog. I'm thinking theres something brewing at the Fukushitty complex. Problem I have is, if this was the SFP burning or falling to the ground, how would we know. Tepco is allowed to obscure our view from afar. Are they going to come on the air and tell the world that the pool is empty or has colapsed? Are they going to tell all of us to bend over and kiss our behinds goodbye? Or are they going to let it happen as it has, only letting those in the know, know, leaving us all to suffer?
Really weird! 'Smoke' from the right and then right after that 'fog' from the sea. I saw that several times. Don't know what to make of it. I saw the pinkish colour also.
IMHO…Tepco lacks the skills to "fog" the buildings. This is simply another corium hydrovolcanic event (aka China Syndrome). TacomaG had it pegged 12 months ago. The only reason they have achieved "cold shutdown" (which in my opinion means they have prevented a total island dirty bomb blast) is by feed and bleed of billions of gallons of water which has cycled into the ocean as toxic water. Stop the feed for three to five days and the whole complex will explode as a massive dirty bomb. That is what will happen if the rod assemblies in Unit 4 drop to the ground or lose total integrity of the damaged cooling pond.
Yes…spread the word… Moving pictures are worth a million words:
Danger Will Robinson! May Day madness at Fukushambles! Advance it to 2:00 minutes into the 3 minute time lapse.
Well, it's pretty clear they've been expecting corium to exit the cliff for awhile now. That's what the concrete was supposed to help "catch." Maybe one of the flows finally made it? Think Hawaii whenever one of the flows of lava from the volcano hits the sea. Big time fog…
This fog, of course, would be a lot deadlier, and wouldn't necessarily 'cool' once it hit the lagoon.
They wouldn't be doing any "dumping" of "hot" materials (i.e. spent fuel rods, highly irradiated water they've been storing) into the ocean near the plant under the cloak of darkness, would they?
Could possibly also account for sudden bursts of "fog-like" activity coming from the shore? (Though from what others here have said, this latest activity seemed to instead be coming from #4 or the Common Spent Fuel pool? Not sure…)
Please again consider calling Senator Wyden's office 202 224 5244. I have called twice today .. reminded his staff there that he expressed GRAVE concern about further deterioration of the plant. And is the only one who has done so.
Express your concerns about this event; give them UTube Fuku1live/long archive info and give them live links perhaps.
I also called my own state's senator and left same message and called a major west coast newspaper .. "please investigate b4 too late. At least have some staffer watch the videos/live feed available." Dropped Wyden's name and synopsis of his presser.
I personally can't believe Tepco didn't delete or shorten the archive vids. Maybe they ran for the hills and only autofeed at work.
The 8am fuku1live archive shows 2 (I think) bunnies or cats scurrying out of the fields as if in front of a forest fire. Also birds.
I have preciously expressed my opinion on what Tepco does to the video archives but let me voice again. I started following Fuku1 on You Tube after they declared cold shutdown. I didn't know the archives existed unt then. Something tickered a vid on my newsfeed to Fuku.
It fascinated me; and I watched daily. There were fires every night which I couldn't believe were not reported. I wrote to news agencies; how the eff can this be cold shutdown when there are dancing fires every night. I studied and came to conclusion these were open air inceration "controlled" burns. When I found this site I found other watchers had come to same conclusion. Even tho dangerous and most likely illegal, Tepco made no attempt to hide them. There were not enough hits for them to worry about I think.
I googled fuku1live; orig. was listed as female who actually made comments on the vids. Recently g'd again and can't find the fairly extensive web history.
I did notice there were times and shortened archive vids.
I watched one particularly weird vid where a shower of sparkles burst up and flowed to tepcam. I signed out to see what weather was at Fuku .. raining?? Current weather was listed as clear. When I checked You Tube again that particular 3min fuku archive vid had 30 seconds of sparkles cut out.
So 1 .. IMO Fuku1 is not a live user anymore .. it is autofed mostly. It happened to me twice now that the full 3 min version is online and uploaded then just cut.
2 .. IMO I don't think they mess much with doctoring vids .. they either don't post them at all or cut them short when necessary. Just as deceptive and much easier.
Nuckelchen is going to have fun when sees el gato run down the catwork at the beginning of the 8:00 feed.
On a more somber note.. The cycling China Syndromes on May 1 have been extensive. Lots of hot radiation and it bursting out in a very wide and long pattern. Could be very bad for the survival of human workers at Daiichi. And if they get knocked out of defensive action the whole island will be a massive blowout and the Honshu inhabitants can kiss their ass goodbye.
@ pure water,
Pls consider calling Senator Wyden 202 224 5244. I know from your avator here you are current on the news here and know about his press release re the GRAVE situation at Fuku and concern for further deterioration of the plant.
No .. this isn't cold shutdown. All of us here fear in our hearts this is recriticality of .. well I think R3 and water lines crossing near second tower (far right hot spot). Also hot spot behind R2. Whatever .. it is a BIG warning .. not good .. not good.
Even if that's not your view of what's blowing up .. please call his staff and express your concerns. Like everything in politics .. greater strength in numbers
If anyone has an idea of someone else in power who could effect more immediate change, let me/us know.
I will pester them as much as I have this thread .. wyden's office .. et al.
Time for idle talk about ugly Fukushitty over .. do something now. The next criticality could be the last one.
i'll admit i've probably done very little. my only excuse is that i'm in Oz, so we don't have many 'feet on the ground' for this issue.
i've looked at ways I can help. the one immediate way, which i've mentioned on this blog, is donations.
So animal activist and anti-nuke blogs get my money.
I've just spotted the donate button on this website, don't know why i missed it before. so there will another donation in the next 24 hours.
if you like I can list my donations.
Maybe admin could create a thread for recording donations to third party organisations. I've suggested before that we all donate to an organisation at once, that may get their attention – money bomb a support group.
A phone call to wyden is free probably to you on your cell. Or think of someone with some power to move now .. if you agree it's probably time to move. I will call them too.
I am not from the USA. But you are right about the obligations of those who know. And you are right I have not done enough. The formal ways did not work for me. I wrote to AVAAZ 2 letters. They did not answer, but later they made a petition for the evacuation of children from Fukushima. You know the result. I just tell people what I know and what I see. Watching here and sharing what you see can inform people for the dangerous moments. Put it togeter with the winds and precipitation, and you have some idea when to stay indoors. I am lucky to meet more and more understanding from people around me, but it is because we had a good portion of Chernobyl`s rain, and the cancer rates, cardiovascular problems, infertility, etc. is easily seen on everyday basis. So, it works better for me. I refocused my attention more on biology, herbs and way of life, but some recent events made me expect unpleasant things, so I still find time to watch. And read the posts, too.
@irradiatedinbako..
Ok..I've been up hours watching the reactors..and YES..hours posting appropriate links here and elsewhere. (like many of us do)
Pontificator?..what ever.
I'm tired and a bit grouchy..
So..let us know who YOU called and what you did.
Know ene site is not conducive to reply .. unless you check back every five minutes. There's no notification that someone has answered.
Scroll back .. but I will synopse for you.
I have called Sen Wyden's office twice today to encourage his staff to consider archives .. and urgently get msg to him that perhaps the criticality he warned about was indeed GRAVE and possibly near .. today could be last warning.
I think I have posted here four times today his phone number and encouraged watchers who expressed similar unease to call his office.
I called my state senator who would be sympathatic to environmental issues and gave her staff same message. (I have called our other state senator several times in past .. can't even get someone to answer phone and take message so opted to do tomorrow to accommodate my work schedule) ..
Called a major west coast newspaper .. went thru long hold and rigarmorle to get to a least a live person's voice mail urging urgency; dropped Wyden's name even tho I had already emailed a link to his presser as news tip to them before .. also 4 other major newspapers.
This paper did carry the radioactive poisoning of CA kelp .. I sent that link to them too .. but can't take any credit .. just happy they reported ..
I don't really consider that very impressive .. or *majorly* time consuming but like I said .. hope you guys whoop my ass! sorry u r tired and grouchy .. but thanks for askiing back.
Woah…it looks like a big steam or smoke event that culminates at 1:47:34 with an emergency alarm light going off at the top of that tall post in the center of the screen.
The alarm light seems to reflect on the metal on the ground below in several locations? Or at least I hope its the light reflection and not some kind of neutron beam…
Anyone see that and have some idea of what it might be?
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TBS/JNN works now. Camera turned to the right, blue haze in the screen.
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TBS/JNN is down again.
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@jec I think it's just nightfall on the cr*ppy resolution. I watched the blue turn to black, lol. The TBScam is such a load of ……..(fill in your chosen adjective.} It's making sure we don't see what's happening to R4
The recent picture from the inside of it makes it look such a nicer place than the outside looks, so I can't really believe them.
And thanks ADMIN for putting the avatars back – doing the happy dance now.
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Scattershooting…Many hours of video cameras offline and missing video archives the past 48 hours…One day they will not come back online…forever. But Tepco will tell us things are fine.
You better keep an ear to the news from the few independent sources and don't rely on the government plant webcams to give you a final warning that things have become an ELE.
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i want my fukuTV
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a small sunday-cake from me.
4545… found that here:
http://youtu.be/mnhmYLVLb7k
remembers me on that here:
vimeo.com/29394825
some non-youtube flybys:
http://vimeo.com/40282324
http://vimeo.com/40282325
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shame that I am not as switched on as you Nuckelchen, I am sure that I saw a sudden discharge from one of the windows one time, where I thought WTH? Now there is no record of it anymore. It looked like a sudden small pressure wave. Thank you Nuckelchen for recording as much as you do.
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Pretty cool Nuck… Day of the Evil Crow returns. Freaky looking… The whole Fuku mess reminds me of 28 Days Later when Frank gets a drop of blood in his eye from the infected zombie crow.
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@ admin: thanks for bringing back my cat on web
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@ maja:
quake and tsunamie time was not at eigth o'clock,
but maybe a sign for the time of the electric-power-systems break down on 11/3.
i think that clocks in big offices are connect to the basic power system, means that they would becomes everytime e-power.
also when the rooms haven't any more e-power the clock will still running and first stoping when the e-power at all will be lost.
or it will be just a stupid batterie clock with a cheapy china imported batterie, typical tepco.
loel.
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have a look on the backwall of the pool from reactor nr 4.
and please have look how much space the water have to climb.
yeah!
http://youtu.be/4fOF6hBLGOY
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So glad to see your face again Nuck.
I love these videos you are putting up and watch them all.
Carry on the excellent work.
Left you and all a link above in the comment lines to some of my pics…
Continue friend to post ….
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And so the bird flew out of the window on reactor 1?
Wow…
And the white plastic wall appears to be bowing under the weight of the water pushing it…not good at all Nuck…
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welcome on board
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It is going smoky again.And TBS.
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all the technology in Japan and they cannot manage to put up a few clear web cams for 4 directions… it is bad will, nothing more. unless they can admit to the radiation being that high that it is impossible to get a clear picture…
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TBS camera showing extreamly hazy view and tepco`s just a black screen now.
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it boils???
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Blowout/steam event @ R2 area – @2.40in 00:00-01:00 01.05.2012
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qpjVJdDZQBo&list=UUDu1KkkwuzybKx6MXQgGHuw&index=1&feature=plcp
Yep, it's hot!!
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Looks more like #3 to me.
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Yep…Hot!….watch near Unit 4..on both right and left of work light..
At 2:45–2:46.. emissions can be seen coming from that area.
Then an increase in Unit three.
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Yep again, 2 distinct dark smoke clouds from R4 first. Unit 2 and 3 looked very hot ahead of the large cloud (after the first two puffs) coming from R3 or R4 at 1:00 am. How long has it been since the officials visited the R4 swimming pool for spent fuel? I can't take my eyes off that reactor without it draining all water and catching on fire! They must have gone to great lengths to keep water in R4 sfp for the recent visit from officials. I maintain it's R4 that's smoking but I could be wrong. If I get a chance this afternoon, I'll post the 1, 2 puffs from R4. Check 'yer jetstreams folks. This does not look like the usual 'white steam' considered 'business as usual' in daily nuclear operations. How much more can Fukushima take? Everyone's dying. Can't anyone DO SOMETHING?
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Can you imagine how bad it would be if the plant wasn't in cold shutdown? (/sarcasm)
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Kind of looked like flames (?) immediately to the right of the big light.
When the light was turned off, blurring occurred in the same area.
The building in the background (4?) occasionally seems to have a 'halo' of light before being blurred out…
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Call Senator Wyden's office in Washington. 202 224 5244. If he doesn't know about the last 3 hours Tepco archives or live views tell him. I think it's R3 maybe after one of the water lines blew but looks critical again to me. His staff very obliging and thanked him for courage to speak out.
Have watched this plant for awhile but my hands shaking now as I type.
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SAnd hope someone saving feed .. surprised Tepco hasn't edited it out already.
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You have every right to be shaking. Nukelchen, in the past has put up videos that make me shake inside out. This is just another of many scary, scary images. Can't imagine what Tepco is doing. Maybe it's the coriums acting up, or broken pipes as some have said. No matter wtf it is, it is not good, not good at all. Are they messing with the SFP? Yes they are…
Please, let us continue to be kind, one to another, for we are each of us together in our pain! Scorn Tepco!
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@ Tumrgrwer,
I am glad to have found this website and folks who see .. tho I am sorry to have found it bc of the ugliness and arrogance [corporate, gov, regulatory greed and irresonsibilty and lack of foresight that created massive SFPs in the first place] ..
Sigh .. and still Fukushitty seems to be blowing apart, at least in the last archive up .. after so many hours today.
Kindness ..
Yes thanks.
Bako
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I cannot save feed but I've been taking lots of screen shots.
Clearly something is wrong at the plant.
Notice that the steamy/smokey stuff rising from the area of 3 or 4 is in the foreground of the clouds in the background…
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Also, did anyone notice what looks like an orange/red flame near the bottom left corner of Reactor #1? Even though the night view camera (both in late night 4/30 video as well as early morning 5/30 video) looks like it is in black and white, there is that flame-like color next to reactor 1. Has this video been altered or else why can I see color there but only greyscale tones elsewhere?
Strange..
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Steam/smoke-a-thon in progress. It obscured all the buildings. It started near #3.
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Indeed very smokey up there!
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The video feed is being manipulated as we speak. I fear something bad is going on there…duh, ok, something new like a fire, well that's been taken. Bad goings on and they don't want us to see. They are bluring the image on the live Tepco cam. WTF are they doing? Is this how it will happen? With no warning from anyone, but…
I hope this will be just another Drill.
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I agree Tumrgrwer. The light pole is clear as day but everything else is toast?
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Can you still see the blue sky upper right? I thought it could be fog. Moving in from the ocean, seems browner or more dense like smoke. It was proceeded by the steaming event earlier.
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It's starting to clear out? I think this was smoke, not fog or steam. It had a brownish tint to it. This is bizzare….
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I agree that it did have a brownish tint to it.
did you actually see it clear out?
I didn't look at the cam for 5-10 minutes and when I looked again it had cleared altogether…
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Yeah, it was a gradual clearing. You could faintly see the clouds thru the "whatever" haze until eventually everything cleared out. Might have been smoke and then they turned on the "fog" machines?? Only thing missing was the "sparkles"!
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Wow! That's looking real bad. You can see the smoke/steam moving/blowing right to left. Looks especially bad behind the buildings. It didn't look like this an hour ago….
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It has gotten a lot worse just in the last 10 minutes!
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Looks like a great disappearing act….
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May 1 6:11 webcam time stamp
Steam event magically resolved.
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Wow, magic…how did they do that? (as if they'd tell us…)
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And smokey/misty again.
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Timelapse posted of 0500 to 0600 01.05.2012:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WDxI4xG2VSg&list=UUDu1KkkwuzybKx6MXQgGHuw&index=1&feature=plcp
OMG, that looks really scarey. How the heck can that be controlled?(Rhetorical question!!).
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Excellent capture
Let us make it viral!
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Are they "fogging" it up to hide the smoke we saw earlier? Funny how it stops right at the light pole….
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Yes KONDY Tepco is fogging up the place. It is the oddest fog I've ever seen…living along the North Coast of California, born in the Sacramento Valley, I know fog. I'm thinking theres something brewing at the Fukushitty complex. Problem I have is, if this was the SFP burning or falling to the ground, how would we know. Tepco is allowed to obscure our view from afar. Are they going to come on the air and tell the world that the pool is empty or has colapsed? Are they going to tell all of us to bend over and kiss our behinds goodbye? Or are they going to let it happen as it has, only letting those in the know, know, leaving us all to suffer?
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Pink fog on the left???
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i see the pink fog also
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Uh..oh.. cesium
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Really weird! 'Smoke' from the right and then right after that 'fog' from the sea. I saw that several times. Don't know what to make of it. I saw the pinkish colour also.
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IMHO…Tepco lacks the skills to "fog" the buildings. This is simply another corium hydrovolcanic event (aka China Syndrome). TacomaG had it pegged 12 months ago. The only reason they have achieved "cold shutdown" (which in my opinion means they have prevented a total island dirty bomb blast) is by feed and bleed of billions of gallons of water which has cycled into the ocean as toxic water. Stop the feed for three to five days and the whole complex will explode as a massive dirty bomb. That is what will happen if the rod assemblies in Unit 4 drop to the ground or lose total integrity of the damaged cooling pond.
Yes…spread the word… Moving pictures are worth a million words:
Danger Will Robinson! May Day madness at Fukushambles! Advance it to 2:00 minutes into the 3 minute time lapse.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WDxI4xG2VSg&feature=youtube_gdata_player
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..at 2:16 involvement of the CSFP area can be seen.
From about 2:00 on involvement of the other reactors can be seen..as well.
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The fact that there is off-shore involvement is not good.
IMHO.
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Well, it's pretty clear they've been expecting corium to exit the cliff for awhile now. That's what the concrete was supposed to help "catch." Maybe one of the flows finally made it? Think Hawaii whenever one of the flows of lava from the volcano hits the sea. Big time fog…
This fog, of course, would be a lot deadlier, and wouldn't necessarily 'cool' once it hit the lagoon.
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Just a thought:
They wouldn't be doing any "dumping" of "hot" materials (i.e. spent fuel rods, highly irradiated water they've been storing) into the ocean near the plant under the cloak of darkness, would they?
Could possibly also account for sudden bursts of "fog-like" activity coming from the shore? (Though from what others here have said, this latest activity seemed to instead be coming from #4 or the Common Spent Fuel pool? Not sure…)
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This is the worst I've seen it in a long time.
This is very bad news.
I'm really concerned.
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Please again consider calling Senator Wyden's office 202 224 5244. I have called twice today .. reminded his staff there that he expressed GRAVE concern about further deterioration of the plant. And is the only one who has done so.
Express your concerns about this event; give them UTube Fuku1live/long archive info and give them live links perhaps.
I also called my own state's senator and left same message and called a major west coast newspaper .. "please investigate b4 too late. At least have some staffer watch the videos/live feed available." Dropped Wyden's name and synopsis of his presser.
I personally can't believe Tepco didn't delete or shorten the archive vids. Maybe they ran for the hills and only autofeed at work.
The 8am fuku1live archive shows 2 (I think) bunnies or cats scurrying out of the fields as if in front of a forest fire. Also birds.
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Any live watchers able to check in .. is it still very ugly?
Peace,
Bako
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Important Question
Does anyone know whether the steam/smoke clearing at around 6:00 on the webcam was real?
Or, did Tepco insert a previously recorded segment once the steam/smoke swamped the screen?
This is critical to knowing how bad things are at plant…
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@Majia,
I have preciously expressed my opinion on what Tepco does to the video archives but let me voice again. I started following Fuku1 on You Tube after they declared cold shutdown. I didn't know the archives existed unt then. Something tickered a vid on my newsfeed to Fuku.
It fascinated me; and I watched daily. There were fires every night which I couldn't believe were not reported. I wrote to news agencies; how the eff can this be cold shutdown when there are dancing fires every night. I studied and came to conclusion these were open air inceration "controlled" burns. When I found this site I found other watchers had come to same conclusion. Even tho dangerous and most likely illegal, Tepco made no attempt to hide them. There were not enough hits for them to worry about I think.
I googled fuku1live; orig. was listed as female who actually made comments on the vids. Recently g'd again and can't find the fairly extensive web history.
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I did notice there were times and shortened archive vids.
I watched one particularly weird vid where a shower of sparkles burst up and flowed to tepcam. I signed out to see what weather was at Fuku .. raining?? Current weather was listed as clear. When I checked You Tube again that particular 3min fuku archive vid had 30 seconds of sparkles cut out.
So 1 .. IMO Fuku1 is not a live user anymore .. it is autofed mostly. It happened to me twice now that the full 3 min version is online and uploaded then just cut.
2 .. IMO I don't think they mess much with doctoring vids .. they either don't post them at all or cut them short when necessary. Just as deceptive and much easier.
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And yes .. thankful to the works of Nuckelchen and 4545 for preserving those missing moments when they can.
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it all looks quiet there (on the surface) at this time of writing, on live cam.
I just reviewed that youtube clip .. that's not fog – that's scary shyte.
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Thanks Richard .. thanks [Higher Power] .. archive 9A shows cranes at work with some lifting.
Agree .. it's so not fog. But it is a very serious warning.
Alert .. alert .. we all know the next time could be the last time.
Sigh .. need my walk and battery going red.
Peace,
Bako
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Nuckelchen is going to have fun when sees el gato run down the catwork at the beginning of the 8:00 feed.
On a more somber note.. The cycling China Syndromes on May 1 have been extensive. Lots of hot radiation and it bursting out in a very wide and long pattern. Could be very bad for the survival of human workers at Daiichi. And if they get knocked out of defensive action the whole island will be a massive blowout and the Honshu inhabitants can kiss their ass goodbye.
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Once more .. Senator Wyden 202 224 5244.
Phone boots me off everything while charging so .. later watchers.
Peace and my prayers that tonight isn't the night.
Bako
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Cold shut down? Really?
45… did this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OQbT_a6b9As&feature=plcp
Great job from the watchers here too!
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@ pure water,
Pls consider calling Senator Wyden 202 224 5244. I know from your avator here you are current on the news here and know about his press release re the GRAVE situation at Fuku and concern for further deterioration of the plant.
No .. this isn't cold shutdown. All of us here fear in our hearts this is recriticality of .. well I think R3 and water lines crossing near second tower (far right hot spot). Also hot spot behind R2. Whatever .. it is a BIG warning .. not good .. not good.
Even if that's not your view of what's blowing up .. please call his staff and express your concerns. Like everything in politics .. greater strength in numbers
If anyone has an idea of someone else in power who could effect more immediate change, let me/us know.
I will pester them as much as I have this thread .. wyden's office .. et al.
Time for idle talk about ugly Fukushitty over .. do something now. The next criticality could be the last one.
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I hope I piss some lazy ass pontificators who just consider Ene a social hall to bitch and show off and whine.
If you haven't watched Fuku archives etc suggest you do. I think plant going critical again.
Challenge the hand wringers to watch last 24 hour archives mentioned above.
If not scary to you .. carry on with your normal conversations. Do nothing.
If scary, call someone .. let us know who you called, what you did.
Besides just biz as usual ..
The next criticality at Fuku could be the last .. inevitable?? Or can you get off your jawing here to TRY something proactive?
Don't give a sh*t about making friends here actually altho I am friendly .. long past that in other unpopular rounds of ACTIVISM.
Post the last time you did something besides share links.
Challenge .. hope you guys whoop my ass.
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a good challenge there bako…
i'll admit i've probably done very little. my only excuse is that i'm in Oz, so we don't have many 'feet on the ground' for this issue.
i've looked at ways I can help. the one immediate way, which i've mentioned on this blog, is donations.
So animal activist and anti-nuke blogs get my money.
I've just spotted the donate button on this website, don't know why i missed it before. so there will another donation in the next 24 hours.
if you like I can list my donations.
Maybe admin could create a thread for recording donations to third party organisations. I've suggested before that we all donate to an organisation at once, that may get their attention – money bomb a support group.
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Hi again Richard.
Donations are a good thing surely.
A phone call to wyden is free probably to you on your cell. Or think of someone with some power to move now .. if you agree it's probably time to move. I will call them too.
Senator wyden 202 224 5244.
Peace,
Bako
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I am not from the USA. But you are right about the obligations of those who know. And you are right I have not done enough. The formal ways did not work for me. I wrote to AVAAZ 2 letters. They did not answer, but later they made a petition for the evacuation of children from Fukushima. You know the result. I just tell people what I know and what I see. Watching here and sharing what you see can inform people for the dangerous moments. Put it togeter with the winds and precipitation, and you have some idea when to stay indoors. I am lucky to meet more and more understanding from people around me, but it is because we had a good portion of Chernobyl`s rain, and the cancer rates, cardiovascular problems, infertility, etc. is easily seen on everyday basis. So, it works better for me. I refocused my attention more on biology, herbs and way of life, but some recent events made me expect unpleasant things, so I still find time to watch. And read the posts, too.
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@irradiatedinbako..
Ok..I've been up hours watching the reactors..and YES..hours posting appropriate links here and elsewhere. (like many of us do)
Pontificator?..what ever.
I'm tired and a bit grouchy..
So..let us know who YOU called and what you did.
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@ Heart
Know ene site is not conducive to reply .. unless you check back every five minutes. There's no notification that someone has answered.
Scroll back .. but I will synopse for you.
I have called Sen Wyden's office twice today to encourage his staff to consider archives .. and urgently get msg to him that perhaps the criticality he warned about was indeed GRAVE and possibly near .. today could be last warning.
I think I have posted here four times today his phone number and encouraged watchers who expressed similar unease to call his office.
I called my state senator who would be sympathatic to environmental issues and gave her staff same message. (I have called our other state senator several times in past .. can't even get someone to answer phone and take message so opted to do tomorrow to accommodate my work schedule) ..
Called a major west coast newspaper .. went thru long hold and rigarmorle to get to a least a live person's voice mail urging urgency; dropped Wyden's name even tho I had already emailed a link to his presser as news tip to them before .. also 4 other major newspapers.
This paper did carry the radioactive poisoning of CA kelp .. I sent that link to them too .. but can't take any credit .. just happy they reported ..
I don't really consider that very impressive .. or *majorly* time consuming but like I said .. hope you guys whoop my ass!
sorry u r tired and grouchy .. but thanks for askiing back.
Who better to…
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@irradiatedinbako
Once in awhile "I can still stop the clock"
See comment 7.
http://www.adventure-journal.com/2012/04/fukushimas-radiation-shows-up-on-california-coast/
PS.typos and all..shows authenticity. LOL
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Thanks Heart.
I am a little confused tho even as I now you are nice caring person who has worked hard to collect vast knowledge base.
Fuku was especially scary and shitty last 24 hours. Who else could/would we call not to educate but to say we don't think there is anymore time ..
But to say we think that plant is failing again now? There might not be another chance.
(And I know many ene readers already thinks it's done.)
I listed my ideas. Appreciate the hard work you have already put in here ..
Got any others?
Peace and rest,
Bako
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Fukushima looks very bad again this morning.
I am having a hard time reconciling the PR spin with the deteriorating conditions at the plant.
It is clear that "authorities" will LIE about the radiation even when mortality rates jump significantly
I am so outraged and disgusted.
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Unit 1…glowing like a rainbow delight.
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Heavy smoke again.
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And I saw a bird in a slow near the ground flight escaping from the vegetation between the towers.Or at least I saw it firt there.
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What I was watching:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h2gbSs4sdKI&list=UUDu1KkkwuzybKx6MXQgGHuw&index=1&feature=plcp
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And then this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E7maUeDr-MY&list=UUDu1KkkwuzybKx6MXQgGHuw&index=1&feature=plcp
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Woah…it looks like a big steam or smoke event that culminates at 1:47:34 with an emergency alarm light going off at the top of that tall post in the center of the screen.
The alarm light seems to reflect on the metal on the ground below in several locations? Or at least I hope its the light reflection and not some kind of neutron beam…
Anyone see that and have some idea of what it might be?
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I think it is from vehicle headlights?
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