Published: July 7th, 2012 at 4:45 pm ET
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Excerpt from page 243 of the Fukushima Nuclear Accident Independent Investigation Commission report translated by Fukushima Diary:
Indication of off-site monitoring post[...]
From those monitoring data above, recriticality can’t be clearly proven, but it is obvious that radiation was massively bursted from reactor1 around 3/15, 16 and 21. The spike of radiation from 3/15 to 3/17/2011 is probably because of the damage of suppression chamber and dry well at reactor2 and also the venting and hydrogen explosion of reactor3. There is a possibility that the spike from 3/21 ~ 22/2011 is because of the second meltdown of reactor3.
Published: July 7th, 2012 at 4:45 pm ET
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We won't have these problems once we abolish this horrid technology. Must be done.
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Holy Shit!: Horrid News – Nuclear Power Returns to Japan!
Nuclear power returns to Japan amid scathing report
Updated 11:13 p.m., Thursday, July 5, 2012
http://www.sfgate.com/world/article/Nuclear-power-returns-to-Japan-amid-scathing-3687357.php
Japan returns to nuclear power after shutdown prompted by Fukushima disaster
3 days ago
http://worldnews.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/07/04/12568246-japan-returns-to-nuclear-power-after-shutdown-prompted-by-fukushima-disaster?lite
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It irks me when they say it is the worst atomic crisis since Chernobyl. To me, it seems that they are implying it is equal to, or less than Chernobyl.
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Yes, they are trying to make it sound less severe than Chernobyl… They also give the impression that the disaster has ended when they compare to Chernobyl. The crisis is NOT OVER and Japan and the world are balanced on a tightrope without a net until all the fuel is removed (30 years if we are VERY lucky and nothing goes wrong).
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Hi TheBigPicture
I'm not sure they know how to kill these plants once they have built them.
Let's put down the big bang theory for a moment before we create another problem and work on this disaster please.
~END NUCLEAR POWER~
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Can a MOX reactor meltdown more than once? Ugh! With plutonium all over Japan and beyond, this seems to be very likely.
When was this report published? I see that there is no translation. How long have they known or at least hypothesized about this possibility? Here we go again. Withholding information that the People have every right to know.
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Yes, the fuel is not consumed during reaction, it only changes form with many of the other daughter products also capable of reaction.
Another issue with reactions is that many techniques are used to get a reaction but not to go out of control. One technique is to control how densely the fuel pellets are from eachother. In a meltdown, the fuel may all be melted in a common pool where such a large mass is together that reactions may continue to occur as long as fissionable material is there. Reactions are like pinball but with 10^30 pinballs changing isotopes through over 30 different urananiums, thoriums, radiums…. Even seven isotopes of water are formed and we only have names for three.
Some of the daughter products are more able to sustain a chain reaction than plutonium and uranium and as the reactions continue it is more likely that these materials will accumulate.
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MOX fuel from reactor 3 is still releasing aerosolized plutonium, uranium, etc., everyday, uncontrolled, on-going, into the lungs of infants nearby, phytoplankton in the ocean, etc.
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How many more meltdowns will it take before they close down all the Nuclear Plants?
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Gotta love this type of full disclosure they give people, after over a year!!!!
Oh yea by the way we had other melt downs, but don't worry we were in a safe area, even though you weren't..Just smile be happy.
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BTW..That was a sarc comment and there is no such thing as total full disclosure, at any time.
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Total disclosure is expressly forbidden by non proliferation treaty.
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It is sad we must look for clues here and there to understand what TEPCO clearly knows. There has been on site and probably off site monitoring of radioactivity since day one of the accident. TEPCO knows from this monitoring what isotopes have been emitted, and most likely knows which reactor has been emitting them.
With this information, and the identification of short lived isotopes that only occur during fission, they know which reactors have gone critical again. My guess is that the blobs of fuel in units 1-3 have melted, reconfigured and become critical many times since 3-11. Too bad TEPCO just can not stop the spin and be truthful.
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Hi chrisk9
Yes I agree, it is sad. Without full knowledge of the situation how can the genius of the world come up with anything that would solve this disaster problem?
Are they busy with trying to figure the heads and tails of this, instead of trying to come up with a solution?
Go figure this out with your hands tied behind your back, won't get the job done. They all need full disclosure to do their job in finding a solution.
We all need full disclosure who knows who could figure this out, it could have even been a student.
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