Published: June 25th, 2012 at 6:13 pm ET
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Tilted walls found at Fukushima No.4 reactor
NHK
Jun. 25, 2012 at 5:28p ET
Tokyo Electric Power Company has announced the No. 4 reactor at Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant has tilted walls caused by a hydrogen explosion in March last year.
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TEPCO first found the tilted walls last month. A further investigation found the damage in various parts of the structure’s west and south side.
The most extreme tilt was on the 3rd floor, where the wall was found to be leaning 4.6 centimeters.
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Tepco on the ‘Tilted Walls’
- TEPCO says its quake resistance is not affected
- Spokesmen said the tilts are all within legal limits, and the walls’ strength satisfies standards
- TEPCO stresses that building is safe, as the tilts were found in outer walls
1. We have confirmed that the building has not tilted by measuring the distance between the water surface of the spent fuel pool and the floor surface of the building.
See also: Report: Maximum bulge in No. 4 reactor building 40% larger than previously stated in Tepco data
Published: June 25th, 2012 at 6:13 pm ET
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"Tepco last month"
"1. We have confirmed that the building has not tilted by measuring the distance between the water surface of the spent fuel pool and the floor surface of the building."
OK – They measure the distance between 2 horizontal surfaces to find vertical deflection. Is that crazy or am I missing something?
That's not even mentioning that perhaps tilting walls might have been a possibility well within reasonable chance, something they might have wanted to investigate sufficiently to determine whether or not it had occurred sooner than a year later.
They don't say this is a new development. They say the tilt was caused by last years explosion.
They say a lot of things. Some may even be true.
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One of the truths:
Hydrogen explosion was only the detonator, which caused the normal nuclear explosionin in pool
Talking about Critical is a placeholder topic
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Meh. Nothing they say is true, last year or at any time thereafter right up until now. You can add at least a factor of ten to all their contamination/release figures, and that's way conservative – they've been off by ten times a factor of ten. Regularly. Who are we gonna trust about 'tilted' walls, TEPCO the Certifiable Pathological Liars or our not-lying eyes?
Honestly, why they're still in charge is a complete mystery even though nobody else in Japan (or anywhere else) with any nuclear experience is any more trustworthy. But why they're still allowed to say anything at all that isn't automatically KNOWN to be a lie has got to be the mystery of the millennium! So far…
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So called stable for now, leaning, tilted walls, damage in various parts of structure’s west and south side building, that's holding dangerous world changing radiation.
What part of this makes anyone feel safe, warm, and fuzzy?
END NUCLEAR POWER
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WindSolarPlease:
nice to see you around.
Warm and fuzzy ?
heck I'm breaking a sweat
as I grow hair
on new parts that erupt
from my mutated body
with cells corrupt!
Some of these growths
just can't be hid,
soon I'll need a
straightjacket made for a squid !
It's so crazy -
good for GDP
as I order tailor-made
clothes just for me !
OK ! Buy stocks !
Who makes tranquilizers ?
We'll all need apparel
in eight different sizes !
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We've (the royal weave, of course) been missing you. I was asking around a month or so ago why you'd disappeared. My life seems more bearable with regular doses of or-well'ian doggerel and nukelchen'ian catterel.
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YES!
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That last comment probably should have started with something like, or-well: nice to see yourselfness around., but you probably understood who I was referring to.
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mark_eric hello!
haha! dogs and cats, an animal theme…
I was going bats from this nuke-ish bad dream,
rubber chicken talking-heads in the Media,
snakes in suits and their lies expedient,
chimp-sized smiley-face all-is-well fakers,
see, hear and speak no real threat monkees,
mutt-faced running dog lackeys and flunkies,
and besides I ran out of rhymes that were spunky
as I became a bit of a doom-porn junkie
all the time feeling I was going to spew chunky,
but me and or-well still endure and
we're not about to stop flinging manure
when time permits and the mood strikes and
we'll never retreat from the anti-nuke fight,
tho lately we've been forging nails
to crucify those who still hunt whales.
Thank you for your kind words.
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Missed you or well…
glad you are back
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+ a million!
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Hi or-well
Thank you, good to see you also. I agree our cells must be going crazy. I have things I didn't before also. Since Fukushima Disaster I feel like I have aged years.
When you're done with the straight jacket pass it down here
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Or-well…GREAT TO SEE YOU BACK! Your posts remind me that there is hope and creativity in even the darkest nooks…thanks! And thanks to all you ENEcontributors…for you knowledge, opinions, guesswork, links, interest, humanity, hope…and lot's more. This is a tough journey, which would be much much tougher without the feeling of 'engaged community' that I feel I'm part of here…
Last night mainstream media in Australia finally covered what's been discussed here for months, and it's my opinion that indeed, SFP4 is being championed as the 'possible disaster'(read: no real disaster yet). http://www.abc.net.au/7.30/content/2012/s3532725.htm
No mention of the 'black dust' in Tokyo, no mention of SFPs around the world holding (not containing) around 250,000 tonnes of spent fuel with nowhere to go (see Micheal Masden's amazing film: Into Eternity – Onkalo), no mention of approx plutonium 10% of U3 core aerosolised (6.5-10 tonnes?)and floating around in the planets jetstream and lungs…
..and thanks admin, for your invaluable work.
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I echo omniverslings thanks to this community.
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@om – i have to give credit to smh as well.. they did do a large cover of SPF4. (we did send some emails to them refering to enenews.com, maybe it helped).
http://enenews.com/forum-general-discussion-thread-nuclear-issues-23-31-2012/comment-page-3#comment-257138
"Radioactive waste at Fukushima threatens second nuclear catastrophe"
Hiroko Tabuchi, Matthew Wald
May 28, 2012.
Sydney Morning Herald
http://www.smh.com.au/environment/radioactive-waste-at-fukushima-threatens-second-nuclear-catastrophe-20120527-1zcxu.html
"What passes for normal at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant today would have caused shudders among even the most sanguine of experts before an earthquake and tsunami set off the world's second most serious nuclear crisis after Chernobyl.
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Safe, warm, and fuzzy? …can't get that from (( any )) nuclear plant, because they all leak radiation.
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Too funny, water will always lay level no matter how tilted the vessel its in is tipped, … what a bunch of stooges !!
Try take a level and lay it on the edge of the pool, then check the wall touching it at a right angle…
DUH !!!
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Maybe I misunderstood, they seem to be using the water as a level to check the foundation, not the other way around as i had thought …
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no cindy, i don't think you misunderstood. the logic of the people in charge defies reasoning. They have used the last year or so to obfuscate the entire scope of the drama.
tepco.jap.gov have reinforced my belief that they cannot be trusted. it's in concrete for some time now.
it start in the first few days of this disaster and as the lies continued to flow from their mouths the more i realised we would never be told the full story by them or msm. no wonder we've migrated to enenews.com
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unbelievable. I and many others have been noting the tilt of number 4 for over a year now… why does it take till now for this news to come out ?
crazy.. and they're blind, and rather slow.
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…..and here come the admissions. So, the walls ARE tilted….
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they've figured out a way to deal with it, rip the walls down.
last time i looked number 4 looked like the colosseum. there's not much of the original building left. (well, for walls that is).
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Remember, there's still 3 more stories below that last standing wall. The SFP is on the third floor….
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wait, it was on the fourth floor??
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Tilted walls, bulging concrete wall, jerry rigged posts, have I missed anything? Livin' on a prayer.
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Hi moonshellblue
Since you brought up Livin on a Prayer by Bon Jovi..good song
Thought you would like to read some lyrics of : Papa can you hear me sung by Barbra Streisand.
She is also such a good singer.
Funny how old songs relate to things now.
Papa, can you hear me?
Papa, can you see me?
Papa can you find me in the night?
Papa are you near me?
Papa, can you hear me?
Papa, can you help me not be frightened?
Looking at the skies I seem to see
A million eyes which ones are yours?
Where are you now that yesterday
Has waved goodbye
And closed its doors?
The night is so much darker;
The wind is so much colder;
Can all the words in all the books
Help me to face what lies ahead?
The trees are so much taller
And I feel so much smaller;
The moon is twice as lonely
And the stars are half as bright…
Papa, how I love you…
Papa, how I need you.
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while you're all going poetic
have you seen my new protest song here …
"Turn back the Nuclear Tide" – a protest song
3:25 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PUION74pB4I&feature=plcp
http://enenews.com/forum-general-discussion-thread-nuclear-issues-june-2012/comment-page-7#comment-264264
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You're talented Richard..Would like nothing better than Quote: We're gonna stop this nuclear reaction
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hopefully a full stop is what we're all aiming for here, and what we will achieve. thanks for your feedback too.
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I feel warm and fuzzy but smell something bad it's blowing in the CA winds,
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tepco is blowing into west coast beaches and they stink.
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Liars thieves and murderers. only the almighty can save them now
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i'm going to guess you're a fan of mighty mouse then ..
0:36 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BdIev12fCPs
cos he's the almightiest around here
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4.6 centimeters = 46 mm = 1.81 inches
Same EXACT number of the wall measurement from prior article.
hmmm…???
See 'Bulging Wall' article:
http://enenews.com/bulge-in-no-4-reactor-building-40-larger-than-previously-reported-in-tepco-data/comment-page-1#comment-264925
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So, what they are saying that the #4 building has went from a square to a parallelogram. Maybe their algebra is just different than ours…
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Yeah… Deal is, their PHYSICS is different. Well, nuke physics is sure different from everybody else's. Guess that's why nukes are hardly ever invited to real physics functions. Nobody likes them, including physicists.
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the only safe is the one they put their money in that seems to mean more to them than all of life on earth.
the only thing warm is the cold shutdown. no, its not cold, its not shutdown but it sounds better to describe as a warm cold shutdown.
the only thing fuzzy is TEPCO announcements.
and taking a very optimistic view on humanities potential to tackle a problem, if they mean it,, the only thing we are running out of is time.
lawyers, guns and money, and a geiger counter, get me out of here.
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Abc Australia prime time report by Mark Willacy on Fukushima spent fuel pool 4.
http://www.abc.net.au/7.30/content/2012/s3532725.htm
Also reported about contaminated fish caught off the coast of Fukushima and California on Prime time news report Abc Australia 25/06/12
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Might be a good idea for us all to give positive feedback to Abc Australia to encourage more reporting of this …
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Hello,TEPCO..can't you just eyeball it?!
It doesn't take too much to see..the walls are tilted.
Within safety standards…?
Lies..liars..murderers.
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What walls?
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Heh.
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Hi NoNukes
I think they mean the walls on the bottom. You are right, there is a big gap and there are only bars that you can see through on top.
We are all in a fine mess.
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I am afraid the walls will become floors any minute.
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Hi Flapdoodle
Lets' hope that won't happen, but it looks like it could any time.
Their plan so far to me looks like:
Don't acknowledge how bad this is
Cover it up so you can't see it
Incase it, put a lid over it
Sounds like the Gulf Disaster.
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LOOKS BAD!!!
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looks like there knocking off the top floors above the spent fuel pool right on tbs/jnn cam
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"Spokesmen said the tilts are all within legal limits …"
That says it all.
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Alles: "TEPCO first found the tilted walls last month." Is that May 2012? Good work guys. At this rate, you may discover homo-un-sapiens has gone extinct 500K years after the event.
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