Published: July 19th, 2012 at 10:58 pm ET
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July 19, 2012 tweets translated by Fukushima Diary:
It took 2 days to take out the fuel assemblies from 7/18 to 7/19. I heard the radiation level was 2~3 mSv/h on surface of fuel assemblies. It is not so different from what I expected. They decontaminated them only by rinsing and wiping, but it could be lower if they decontaminated them more carefully.
200 ~ 300mREM/hr is quite high. The radiation level of normal new fuel assembly is only 1/100 of that ?
According to Tepco’s official announcement, it was 50μSv/h after decontamination. It was 2mSv/h just after taken out. The reason why the radiation level was so high is they were cutting shroud on DSP side before 311, highly radioactive chips can be attached. I don’t think they are activated.
See also:
- TEPCO: Nuclear fuel rods in No. 4 spent fuel pool are "confirmed to be damaged" -- First time damage revealed at any pool
- Iodine-131 in No. 4 spent fuel pool at 22,000 times above normal
Published: July 19th, 2012 at 10:58 pm ET
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Seriously, "groundwat er", think, pacific ocean, tides, twice daily......
sending...
The French blog which is devoted to the consequences of Fukushima,
http://fukushima.over-blog.fr/
has now published an English version of its article introducing the international petition for the U.N. secretary general to take action on the massive dangers of Fukushima.
Please add your signature if you haven't already done so, and don't allow authorities to claim the crisis is over.
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Thx, again, TepcoSievert.
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The reason why the radiation level was so high is because #4 spent fuel rods overheated after 3/11 and burned, releasing massive amounts of radiation about the same time as #3 reactor blew sky high and #2 spent fuel pool boiled dry!
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1367571/Japanese-tsunami-earthquake-U-S-fears-nuclear-fuel-rods-exposed.html
Never let the nuclear lesson of Fukushima dim and vanish.
It can happen anywhere…
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Jebus,
"The reason why the radiation level was so high is because #4 spent fuel rods overheated after 3/11 and burned, releasing massive amounts of radiation about the same time as #3 reactor blew sky high and #2 spent fuel pool boiled dry!"
My thoughts, too!
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March 16, 2011 I’ve been advised by the Protective Measures Team that the following assumptions were made in RASCAL:
Unit #2: 33% core damage and containment leakage
Unit #3: damage to the spent fuel pool, 50% of fuel melted
Unit #4: spent fuel pool leaked and all of the fuel melted
Jim, would you please communicate to Cheryl Rogers that we are not able to share this information outside of the NRC at this time?
http://enformable.com/2012/07/march-16th-2011-the-rascal-inputs-withheld-from-states-please-do-not-share-this-information-outside-of-nrc/
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The US seems to think R4 Spent Fuel Pool melted too.
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That is what happened.
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If it had melted, it would be much, much cooler. Melted fuel can no longer easily fission.
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Vic, unfortunately that isn't correct. melted fuel can reconfigure (pool up) and go critical (ie start a sustained or even accelerating chain reaction). this is what many believe happened in the Unit 3 pool, causing the massive explosion. it certainly was not a hydrogen explosion.
once it melts there is little that can be done to cool it due to the lower surface area to mass ratio of a blob compared to long thin rods.
Best Regards,
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Decontaminate fuel rods? How do you do that??
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Throw them in the ocean.
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+1
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I think it's the new non radioactive radiation. Dissolvable in water. Not like the old days at all. It all changed when you were sleeping, you remember that, don't you. It's ok, no, you're not in another dimension it just takes a little while for the Kool aid to settle. It can still be a little disturbing, but with a happy smile like this
, see that was easy, you can be okay now. Run along, go out in the sun and play. Play away. Tra la la la la.
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Richard, thanks, I needed a good laugh.
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I think I'll go find my friend Robot. He is very funny, especially when he waves his arms and says, "Danger, Will Robinson! Danger! Warning!" Tra la, tra la la la. Dee-dum, dee-dee, dee dum-dum.
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Oh, darn, there's something missing here ….
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im sorry, but i just kept laughing .. my friday night is at the doorstep …
1:44 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jIptM8ABEnY&feature=fvwrel
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A thinly veiled reference to:
http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/world/gulf/wahhabi.htm
???
Very funny. The guy's very politically incorrect but he's right on. I wonder what his spoof on nuclear energy would be like?
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Non-radioactive radiation sources:
http://www.uio.no/studier/emner/matnat/fys/FYS-KJM4710/v06/undervisningsmateriale/Non-radioactive.pdf
Why do non-radioactive substances become radioactive when placed near a radium compound?
http://wiki.answers.com/Q/Why_do_non-radioactive_substances_become_radioactive_when_placed_near_a_radium_compound#ixzz21AYPIoyz
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Thanks blsckbuddha, and I thought I was making that shit up
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heavy wash cycle double spin with bleach.
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With heavy water.
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imperative that you think happy thoughts during the process, or it will not work.
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Lol
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And don't forget your 20 Mule Team Borax.
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they are tough from death valley
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Especially the wild camels escaped from the mining operations. No kidding.
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yes
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Not just 'happy' thoughts but "VERY happy thoughts"…..
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smiley bomb
1:10 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ONHF60dqgkM
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Important to remember reports like this one, from April, 2011. (I didn't see this until today.)
Hmmn, just as I suspected. In what condition are the SFP's at #1, #2, and #3?
Time to begin to ask the answers to the unspoken issues….
"Radiation at No. 2 spent fuel pool millions of times above normal & thousands of times higher than troubled No. 4 pool" from April, 2011, Enenews.com
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Have been posting here for about a year and still can barely get my mind wrapped around this, it's so bad. From time to time I go back and review older articles, and am still astonished at the upleasant details I re-discover or remember.
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unpleasant that is
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Dear HoTaters,
Someone has said it so well, 'My inconceivable meter keeps needing recalibrating.'
Aloha and Mahalo ENENews.
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And, the point of "cleaning" the fuel rods is to better check the condition of the cladding? Anyone know for certain? Not a spoof, but would actually know the reason?
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the are probably worried about a couple of things:
1) the cladding is so rotted from the sea water that the rods will fall apart when lifted out of the water and the fuel pellets will scatter on the ground
2)that the seawater has reacted with cladding in some way chemically that will then damage the rods in the common fuel pool, where they are planning to move them.
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Cleaning the fresh fuel from 4 because they want to sell it to newly restarted reactors. Anything for a dollar.
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I have a pretty good radiation preparation page and checklist to make a combo shelter in place / heavy to go boxes. Check it out
http://nukeprofessional.blogspot.com/p/radiation-preparation-resources.html
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Thank you Stock
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there are two scenarios as i see it for why the surface radiation on a new fuel assembly is high.
1) Older used fuel assemblies in pool 4 burned and spread fuel particles all over the new ones.
2) The rainout of isotopes from the explosions of units 1-3 contaminated pool 4.
now I don't buy off on scenario 2, because the whole site would look this way then. No reason for it to concentrate in pool 4.
now it's possible we just have leaking fuel bundles in pool 4, but, the way to tell is if we had an isotope spectrum from pool 4. if it's heavy on uranium, its' fuel, if it's heavy on short particles it's rainout.
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the way I see it, its probably disolved volitiles from the spent fuel from this scenario:
the pool boiled down causing the zircaloy cladding to burn up, which volitized the Cs137/134 and some others from the fuel pellets.
these volitized elements would react with the sea water that was being pumped in and form salts such as CsOH, CsCl, etc. which would be highly radioactive.
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Gottagetoffthegrid
It looks as if Tepco may be relocating the spent fuel pools into the ocean.
I wonder whether the immediate reaction between the hot remnants of fuel and the ocean water might produce more of those buckyballs discussed previously as transporting uranium further than it would have otherwise gone.
http://www.enviroreporter.com/2012/02/beta-watch/all/1/
Is this a realistic concern?
Second, this possibility of rods being placed in ocean made me wonder about the percentage of total global precipitation that is from ocean evaporation.
I found one model here: http://www.whycos.org/fck_editor/upload/File/Pacific-HYCOS/GW_course/Litterature/Groundwater%20occurrence%20and%20flow.pdf
Disastrous!
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