Published: September 5th, 2011 at 12:54 pm ET
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Strange flash in Fukushima Nuclear plant, fuku1live, September 5, 2011 at 4:00 am in Japan:
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kaUI4Ujzze0
h/t Anonymous tip
Published: September 5th, 2011 at 12:54 pm ET
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I could be reading the pixels wrong; but it looks like a series of explosions, not a fire flaring up alone. To me, it looks as if our view of whatever is happening there is only correct up to the point of the highest part of the flash and then whatever ejecta and smoke is produced from that location in our view is digitally manipulated imagery. At one point I saw some sort of blow-out above the flash that, though obscured by the manipulation (my assumption) of the digital image, was similar to the R1 “hydrogen” explosion of March 12, in its velocity of ejection above the bright area. slow mo but particularly the zoomed in version shows this if you look closely.
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How many of the “untouchables” (both Japanese and foreign workers at FukuDai) are dying and gravely injured working harder than ever to cover TEPCOs ass (liabiity, face, whatever) in this bumbling FUBAR super mess? One of things this particular aspect of Fukushima, employee injuries and deaths, reminds me of is the fake numbers from the Pentagon about the numbers of U.S. meat puppets (enlisted people, “meat puppet” is how the leaderships look at them whatever acting to the contrary on their part, however Oscar worthy) killed in Iraq, for example, since the March 17, 2003 U.S. invasion and ongoing full-military occupation of that sovereign state. We’re not even counting our likely 120,000+ mercenaries here in these numbers which would cycle the actual death, in combat or otherwise, also upward. I think the U.S. MSM is still saying around 5K or 6K have been killed, if that many, which is hilarious, as for the numbers of U.S. enlisted troops circulated, such a number wouldn’t even represent the number of those who would die of natural causes between 2003 and 2011. I think Newsweek, in reference to the numbers of Iraqi civilians killed by the U.S. during the same period was saying 50,000 total in late 2005 or 2006, even though John’s Hopkins and the U.K. Medical Journal the Lancet were in thorough and realistic scientific extrapolation analyses were both saying on the order of well over 500,000 civilians were killed by the U.S. by that time with upward, but still conservative, estimates of civilian casualties being in the 1 million plus range. How many do we think the U.S. has murdered there since 2006? The same especial care to minimize dead and injured numbers is being viciously and soullessly clung to with Fukushima by the billionaire croney nuke industry and government scumbags.
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Hi Pallas, I posted something similar Aug 22. The strange explosions (on picture and video) where at reactor unit 1 that time.
http://radioactivechat.blogspot.com/2011/08/intense-fire-and-smoke-at-fukushima.html
Also check out my newest post “Fukushima spectacular Fire..” /JD
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I think I’ve seen flashes before in that area on the webcam too. Does anyone know the layout of the place well enough to know what’s in that area?
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Common Spent Fuel Building or +10km = Fukushima Daiini.
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The last time we saw the Common Spent Fuel Pool on the live cam was on June 4:
Common Spent Fuel Pool
http://www.youtube.com/fuku1live#p/u/1628/DJphU2AiJm0
Time Lapse for June 4.
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It is on the far right.
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MAP OF FUKUSHIMA COMPOUND
http://bravenewclimate.files.wordpress.com/2011/03/fukushima_daiichi_map_plan.jpg
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Fukushima I Site Buildings:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/39/Fukushima_I_Nuclear_Powerplant_site_close-up_%28wotext%29.PNG
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Map showing camera angle under TEPCO live cam
http://www.tepco.co.jp/nu/f1-np/camera/index-j.html
Comparing maps, it is the Centralized Radiation Waste Treatment Facility.
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Here is another map:
http://www.spiegel.de/flash/flash-25592.html
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Here is a better picture from before the Mar. 11 earthquake
http://www.houseoffoust.com/fukushima/tepco_pics/fuku_plantpic1.jpg
[Tiitle: A newer plant picture of 1-4 with the cloud paint job.]
This picture is from:
Fukushima Daiichi Visual Tour, including switching station, both before and after:
http://www.houseoffoust.com/fukushima/phototour.html
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First picture when scroll down of Fukushima Daiichi with all 6 reactors and other buildings, aerial shot:
Japan Nuclear Power Plants: Eyeball
http://cryptome.org/eyeball/japan-npp/japan-npp.htm
Good Aerial photo:
http://www.infiniteunknown.net/2011/03/20/japan-nuclear-meltdown-total-information-blackout-on-fukushima-unit-4-reactor/
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Pallas– but it looks like a series of explosions, not a fire flaring up alone.
Yes does LOOK like that but is more likely just recriticalities bubbling up from the landfill they used to level out the rock bed under the Nuke plant…The pulse or strobe effect is induced by the Corium which is so freakin hot at this point its tossin off Gamma Rays of Mega Death Belching out Pure Plutonium as daughter products. If this isnt hell on earth folks its pretty dam close- Hey I no lets keep running all the other plants why we wait to see what happens with this ELE shall we…?
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I see headlights.
In the slow motion segment it looks like a vehicle going over a hill and flashing the camera as it does.
This seems to fit because there appears to be two of the lights, they are diagonally spaced and they seem to be connected.
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Also, the lights appear to be projected. They seem to rise and fall.
I think it’s two vehicles, one turning left and one turning right at the same moment where they “flash” the camera.
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I think you’re right. Headlights and there is probably more than one vehicle.
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Although that does sound right, if you watch over videos you’ll notice that there is usually a fire in that area
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I think it’s coming from the common spent fuel pool vs the fire? on Sept. 2nd http://youtu.be/nTEIn_sSlCw
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The flashes aren’t at the Daiichi plant. They are a long way off.
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A comment to video suggests Dai-ni. There was 4.5 quake about that time.
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Dear Bob: that is incorrect. The flashes, and I won’t be disuaded from this are either wherever incineration or wherever the CSFP is at the FukuDai site.
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this is from fukushima daiichi, this is from the webcam there, so obviously it’s from daiichi, and it looks like lights of some sort, but who knows.
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OK, months ago, a NIGHT photo of the plant taken at a distance was published here or FOSL before webmaster made this site, .. I downloaded it to my putter and blew it up about x4, one could see clearly pieces of the explosions laying in the woods south of the plant, Blue light large and some small ones, I think it is possible that this is the same area and may be re-critical now !
I still have the photo here, I will go find the URL so as anyone can lQQk for themselves. I have told this a number of times on the treads here !
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Dear Xdr: I agree with your analysis.
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If U email it to me I can host it here: http://74.63.54.250/hb/Oscar/
It is an area on a gaming server used for screenshots we have taken of a few particular hackers. I have full access to it and could put UR file there and provide a link.
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Can email it eo you, but I do not have copyright on it !
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on the site it is a day then night photo rotating cycle ! I captured the night part to get a better lQQk when it came out on enenews !
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hay xdrfox did you already post this rense vid giving the place to check on West Coast for local rad info ? vid of radio show.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=We50AVrTMk8
website : http://www.enviroreporter.com
Right at the end, they give a geiger counter reading (noise) from St. Louis again and man, it is out of the imagination.
St. Louis info found at porter blog..
I don’t have the web address but you may find it at http://www.rense.com or I might have missed it in the vid.
Anyone on West Coast or W. Canada should keep up with the local info there. For the life of me, I don’t understand why St. Louis gets such heavy doses? for months now.
Please pass this info along to anyone on W. Coast. He states that the plastic covering over dried sea weed actually takes the # down, but in a controlled envirnment, without the plastic cover they got higher readings.
The vid from last night that showed the fire/flash was a cincher for me. No way that could be ‘confused’ with headlights ,….
even that super Toyota!
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I posted the link a day or two after it hit the web, both, later Rense spoke of them on his radio show, He visits this site also, posted once if it was really him ?
I think he post under another name now ! Who ? lol
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Possible photo of the “ethereal blue flash” here.
http://enenews.com/ethereal-blue-flash-may-occur-during-localized-criticality-bloomberg
Fukushima Workers Threatened by Heat Bursts; Sea Radiation Rises, Bloomberg, March 31, 2011 at 2:04 am EDT:
You will need to take a still pic with a capture software while it is in dark night then blow it up to see the chunks of blue below the visible on in photo !
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Yes foxy exactly- recriticalities are burpin and slurpin in the cracks around the buildings rivers of LAVA are spewin out “Invisible Snakes” of Ultra DEATH
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All I can say is that they look like explosive events. Will we ever find out? Probably not.
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I saw Nuckelchens rendering of this last night.. Multiple explosions and black smoke cloud visible if you examine it closely. Some of the dirty dealings going on in the incineration area. This event was not lights… But if you think radioactive steam is fog and explosions are truck lights…we all speculate here.
I agree to disagree.
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It’s ‘controlled’ burning of nuclear waste / material.. there are more video’s of this with much larger fire.
We will filter this later with our lungs..
Good luck
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Genocide is the short definition of what that is then
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If you look at the wind map of japan then you can see that the wind (almost always) blows the nuclear waste out to the sea (wind comes from left) and so heading to the USA and then to Europa..
http://www.weather-report.jp/com/home/kishomap/fusoku/japan.html
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re: “it’s ‘controlled’ burning of nuclear waste / material”
But isn’t the incineration done inside more or less closed containers? This looks like it is totally open with fire/energy/light/heat/whatever bursting out freely.
Are they really simply burning stuff “in the open”?
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They have that giant crane with a 140-meter arm and it can lift 750 tons. And we have seen the little cranes scurrying back and forth like ants in the area right of reactor 4.
My guess…they have been piling up hot debris shot out of Unit 3 and other units and placing it in that common area.
Remember at Chernobyl after they got the Unit 4 fire out they began using the liquidators to hustle in wheelbarrow loads of hot debris preparatory to encasing it in a concrete dome.
The reactors at Daiichi are not good candidates to do the same thing so they are forced to pile it up by the sea. Maybe even some of the bigger chunks they flipped into the sea.
So they are nursing with water cannons those open piles and incinerating smaller pieces and the cesium sludge…not fun work. Nuclear fires in the piles are a common event and the least of their worries…the fission events are what they are really scared of…and one or all of the coriums blowing a China Syndrome and killing all of them.
Some of the workers don’t know that maybe at first, but I’m sure they get educated fast by the oldtimers. They know they are kamikaze workers.
If we could get an interview with our Fuku man on the catwalk we could blow the lid off the Tepco secrecy…and it will happen eventually.
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Can they just pile up radioactive debris? I remember an interview in which Arnie Gundersen was talking about a plan to dump water into the spent fuel pools and he said something to the effect that the rods had to remain a certain distance from each other, and if they bent closer together under the weight of the water that could trigger a criticality/nuclear chain reaction (I don’t know if I have the terminology right), but the point seemed to be that if too much radioactive material gets too close together in a certain amount of space, it can be very dangerous/explosive–so wouldn’t piling it up be creating conditions where criticality is apt to happen?
(It was the March 15 interview with John King)
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4:30 first smoke then fire lights up
http://www.youtube.com/user/fuku1long#p/u/12/ttY7Q8qe-2k
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It can be the spent fuel storage. TEPCO said that they had a problem with the storage at the reactor 4 leaking. As they always hide something bigger with what they are saying, why not the adjacent common fuel storage? There was a good analysis of this topic in Radioactive live chat. On the other hand it is possible to be the melting fuel from the reactor 3 or the methan burning from the theory of this guy from Finland. I personally respect people who do things practically and will not dismiss his theory. It has a strong point with the mystery of reactor 4 blowing. I do not support the idea of incinerator placed in front of the camera.TEPCO`S skills are in hiding. Any way the burning truth comes out, even not explained for now. It will be some day, because it burns and kills.
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The Common Spent Fuel Pool is to the right of the camera view. Can’t see it on the live cam. This is more like the Centralized Waste Radiation Facility where they incinerate waste radiation.
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Any chance it could just be lightning on the horizon? Weren’t they due for some bad weather?
Hope still trying to spring eternal . . .
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No, after watching it a few more times, it really does look more like an explosion.
Hope’s spring is utterly worn down. . .
How many days until this latest fallout reaches us in the U.S.?
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About 2 weeks on normal conditions ..
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I thought it only took about five days to reach us back in March (officially March 18th, though there were reports that stuff was being detected by the 16th and 17th). Are the weather/wind/jet stream conditions different at this time of year than they were in the spring–i.e., in terms of how quickly and in what direction they will carry stuff?
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Well as i see the normal wind speed over sea is about 15mph and from Japan To USA coast is about 5000 miles. When wind gets faster then yes it will only take some day’s. It depends also on its flow direction so not only the speed. I think five day’s is not an average and thereby fast.. I think..
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Yes…the jetstream models I have seen at Stormsurf show substantially lower speeds compared to the spring.
As for the lower altitude (and much slower) winds below the jetstream remember that materials lofted in those winds have little resistance from wave tops and they will carry well…probably at an average speed of 15 to 25 miles per hour. So 8 to 10 days for landfall in North America from emissions leaving Fukushima Daiichi.
Some of those winds may roll eastward from Japan and down the North American coastline from Alaska and Canada and discharge heavier elements there before flowing into the central sections of America.
However…the Pacific wind directions are changing this time of year for low and high altitudes and look at the swirling winds now headed in toward Japan:
A swirling clockwise push in the Pacific…relatively low speed:
http://www.stormsurfing.com/cgi/display.cgi?a=npac_height
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If it gets to the Jet stream will have it here in 5 to 7 days !
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Ok, lets agree on five days with (very) fast wind up to two weeks with normal (slow) wind.
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According to this latest radiation dispersion map, the radiation didn’t take long at all to reach the U.S. :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yuUYUJwNmag&feature=player_embedded
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Also, you can check out Japan’s wind direction here:
http://www.wunderground.com/maps/as/jp/WindSpeed.html
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I know that radiation map but that is a simulation i believe. If it would be correct then the wind speed would have an average of 70Mph.. and that is pretty fast..
http://sprintars.riam.kyushu-u.ac.jp/FKS2011/press110622.mov (original wind map as in above youtube video)
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I am quite certain they are either the headlights of a new Toyota (that have a funny way of going from 400 lumens to 4 million lumens from time to time) or a driver of a new Toyota whose body glows now and then at about 8,000 lumens.
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now that’s funny !! lol
a bit of humor now and again is very useful for the soul. vents out the horror, imo.
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Hm, i think the video from nuckelchenblogde on 29.8. offers some insight…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yHSZVC9dvYg
It gives detailed view of the area right from no.4 and they seem to be building storage for radioactive materials.
It also gives a good explanation to questions in my articles
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How long it takes for us to get get depends on whether the residue from the explosion is dispersed high enough to get into the trade winds. Then it only takes two to three days to reach us. After the second explosion in March, (reactor 3) two and a half days later, my son went jogging outside without a shirt and came back confused why his skin was bright red except where his shorts were. The redness didn’t go away for a couple of days, and he had shortness of breathe. This is a kid that can run miles normally with no problems.
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Good point about the speed of the trade winds (jetstream prevailing towards North America)…I saw some post with a link here yesterday where they metioned a speed of 50 miles per hour for the March reactor explosion to reach North America. That is baloney. Much faster
Your account with your son validates my own experience. I awoke with a bad bloody nose at 6 AM March 16 in Texas…distance 6215 miles from Fukushima Daiichi. About 48 hours after the blast.
The explosion at Reactor 3 occurred at 11:15 JST on March 14, 2011. Texas time is 14 hours behind so it was in the Sunday evening of March 13 Texas time when Reactor 3 blew up. The supersonic speed of the blast sent massive radiation into the jetstream altitude (30,000 feet).
Storm surf data from that week is here:
http://www.stormsurf.com/page2/forecast/forecast/031511.html
Quote: “On Tuesday (3/15) the jetstream continued flowing flat from Japan over the dateline and into the US West Coast near Cape Mendocino solid with 190 kt winds over Japan and 160 kts winds carving out a bit of a trough off California providing decent support for gale development there…”
SP: 190 knots equals: 218 MPH
160 knots equals: 184 MPH
Even if the jetstream dipped down to 150 miles per hour that means it was a little over 41 hours when the front edge arrived in central United States in the late night hours of March 15.
The front edge of this massive toxic cloud arrived in Canada and the west coast earlier. Tacoma, Washington is 4654 miles from Fukushima and the MOX fuel cloud reached there within 31 hours or about late morning of Tuesday, March 15. Check all your first reports of nosebleeds and other medical distresses from those time frames.
I also do not believe the recent steam/hydrogen explosion theory advanced recently despite the wow factor of their reactor lids graphics. It was a nuclear blast in speed and if you have seen the simulations comparing it side by side with a nuclear bomb mushroom then there should be little doubt. Tepco probably has the isotopes data to prove this nuclear explosion, but their credibility and incompetence makes their data and records always suspect.
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Kinda makes you wonder who the experts were, when obama had insisted that the radiation wouldn’t make it here…
Thats just basic math…
Probably the same experts that concluded the plutonium was a steady 0 bequerals, for the last five months…
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It turns out that Edano (the government spokesman) was notified by fax that a meltdown had occurred late on March 11. So one or more reactors were already spitting out crud on the day of the earthquake. That means everything started before the time assumed by the atmospheric models.
And yeah, it is pretty clear that the explosion in #3 was nuclear, probably triggered by a hydrogen or steam explosion.
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Definitely someone with a torch looking for his dog!
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Maybe it’s Diogenes with his lantern looking for an honest man; if so, he’s certainly not going to find one at a TEPCO plant.
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If there were another explosion (or series of explosions) at the plant, wouldn’t SOMEBODY in the Japanese media (or someone like the ex-skf person) report a story about it? Explosions can’t simply be hidden/denied because they are loud and people notice. Haven’t there been any news reports about additional explosions down there?
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Maybe Tepco is getting better at cellphone detection…brought in some new yakuza strong guys…but it won’t last…somebody is going to get out and spill the beans.
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