Published: February 7th, 2012 at 4:11 pm ET
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Title: Reactor 2 may be over 90℃
Source: Fukushima Diary
Date: Feb 7, 2012
Tweets by a Japanese independent journalist translated by Fukushima Diary
@sayakaiurani (Translation)
What ? I heard that reactor 2 is 95℃. Are they still saying it’s 70℃ ? People inside of Tepco is pressed to say it’s already 95.
@sayakaiurani (Translation)
The heat gauge is not enough, and it has error of 20℃, so they assume the temperature from the amount of smoke as well. but the gauge is actually showing over 85℃, and lot of smoke is coming up. They therefore seem to judge it’s over 95℃.
@sayakaiurani (Translation)
The problem is, the data is not published to the people. However, because a lot of people are wanting to know that, they shouldn’t publish the data maybe. but we have the right to know. It’s difficult.
Read the report here
The highest temperature in recent weeks is 72.2°C according to Tepco.
Published: February 7th, 2012 at 4:11 pm ET
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Sh*ts going down….
Again
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Worse. This is just a shell game distraction from the real problems in reac 3 and sfp 4. And probably the never mentioned common sfp.
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“You can bet that their feeding us one slice of bread at a time even though they know how bad the whole loaf is” A sure quote for my grave may I say (Quite subtible given the situation)
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If they say look right, the problem is on the left. A massive Russian Doll of hidden layers and incredulous efforts to disinform. It must cost a few trill to keep things quiet each day.
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I think Tacoma was right about the air tonight…. the crap hanging here all day was nasty fog. Now at end of day thicker like smog – and heavy as hell. Somethings happened west of Vancouver Island. My animals even are pissy.
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the “temperature” is 2nd range.how high is the radiation of the steam?????
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Steam from reactor means lots of radiation from same reactor.
Not a good sign as any criticality is now caused by fast neutrons. Situation could spiral rapidly out of control.
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I went over this in detail back in November:
“make … the comparison between the observed Fukushima physical conditions and management approaches compared to those @ Chernobyl.
I thought for a long time that the claims of follow-on criticality and ‘super-powerful explosion’ in meltdown situation was far-fetched. Energy in destroyed power reactor cores is decay heat. Both ground and concrete absorb neutrons and core material is diluted. How can (Soviet nuclear weapons designer Vassili) Nesterenko possibly be right?
The set of conditions I have described here would be sufficient to create @ Fukushima the runaway scenario that Nesterenko described including — in a general sense — the destructive yield, which for Chernobyl reactor complex as a whole would have been /equivalent/ to 3-5 megatons.
What to watch for is more heat/steam at the plant and announced increases in these fission products. (Hydrogen and Xenon, Krypton isotopes.)
The result is an explosion under the reactor.
http://www.economic-undertow.com/2011/11/07/non-battle-of-fukushima/
The Japanese may have frittered away their chance to save their country.
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Wow Steve I cant thank you enough for posting this. I must have missed this before but its everything most of us have been trying to say is happening. You really need to post some of the graphics somehow… if you want to of course. I’ve bookmarked the link for near future reference!
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http://www.economic-undertow.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/Reactor-view-5.jpg
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http://www.economic-undertow.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/Reactor-fast-neutrons-3.jpg
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http://www.economic-undertow.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/Reactor-fast-neutrons-2.jpg
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I agree, this diagram explains to me what i could not understand before which was “how can pressure build up to get an explosion in ground water”????
If the slag is solidifying on top of the corium, then it all makes sense.
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Anthony, in saying that, if the corium divides does not stay in one mass, some may go more to the right and some more the left, then that would mean the corium dilutes itself on the way down until the criticality is in turn diluted.
For this scenario to be “case book”, it needs to be undivided and in one mass all the way down.
I also think of a snail that leaves a trail. Some of the coriums mass will always be left behind until it is no longer able maintain a mass required to proceed.
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So, if the boiling temperature of Uranium is reached in the middle of the HC hypothetical corium, the fuel can assemble itself into a configuration that can (once again) throw itself apart into a different configuration. Question is, how hot is the HC (hypothetical corium)? Many experts believe that heat is pulled away from the mass faster than it is being produced K < 1. Any hypothical division of the corium would mean a better chance of K staying < 1. The model that is demonstrated fails to consider previous corium shells that get left behind when they can no longer hold the weight of the molten mass and the relocation happens beneath it. That shell or crust may have different elemental properties as it moves from one location to another. Perhaps the crust will get thicker the deeper the HC travels. We remember seeing #3 explode. That fuel will never assemble into a configuration that can form a CM. Spent fuel? Who knows? There were reason the scientific community rejected the idea of using Pu in reactors. There are a few unknowns that if known, one can make a better prediction.
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The following 5 illustrations are from:
Fukushima – The Non-Battle of Fukushima …
http://www.economic-undertow.com/2011/11/07/non-battle-of-fukushima/
http://www.economic-undertow.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/Reactor-fast-neutrons-13.jpg
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http://www.economic-undertow.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/Reactor-Update-11.png
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I just listened to Bill Deagle and Jeff Rense on Rense radio, 2/7/11 @ 6 p.m. Hawaii time.
They said – I have to agree – that SPF pool WILL fall, sometime in the next year, probably less; when that happens, all of Japan and the West Coast of No. America will be rendered uninhabitable! (and Hawaii where I live)
Of course other areas will be seriously affected too, as winds carry the radio-nuclides all over, certainly around the No. Hemisphere and to a lesser extent, but still considerable, into the So. Hemisphere.
The spent fuel rods are just super toxic and there are a lot of them in that SFP.
This is looking extremely serious. Like TEOTWAKI.
Another subject is Hanford in Washington State on the Columbia River. The situation in the waste storage tanks as described in what I heard today (here on ene.news) sounds like what happened in Russia years ago that caused them to back off of nuclear power. I wish I could remember the details but it was I think waste plutonium was stored (just in ditches, as I recall) and ended up in a huge explosion.
Huge amounts of plutonium are stored at Hanford in deteriorating tanks, and the waste needs to be stirred/mixed or it is in danger of having a hydrogen explosion.
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