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Blackout at Fukushima Daiichi — Cooling at fuel pools stopped
March 18, 2013 report from Kyodo News with summary translation by Fukushima Diary:
Updates as available here
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Time to call in the USS Ronald Reagan for the trick with the watercooling choppers. :p
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I suspect the USS Ronald Reagan is out keeping the world safe for corporate America, probably its last suicide mission given the level of contamination.
I can't see how you can "decontaminate" an entire aircraft carrier.
(It was last seen by about 400 wellwishers a couple of weeks ago sailing out of Bremerton, so probably on its way towards Korea).
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I hear the sound of something hitting the fan.
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I won't believe a word of this until TEPCO denies it. THEN it's as good as gold.
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Not good. Very bad.
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All of the govt. radiation monitoring posts in Ibaraki are down right now or as they say "offline for maintenance".
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SFPs should be OK for a couple of weeks.
Nothing left in Reactor1,2,&3 to keep cool.
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"TEPCO data shows that the Unit 4 spent fuel pool was at the highest temperature at the time of the outage, but has a margin of about four days before the temperatures would be expected to reach levels of concern. The contaminated water treatment system was also knocked out by the power failure."
http://enformable.com/2013/03/power-outage-at-fukushima-daiichi-halts-spent-fuel-pool-cooling-at-multiple-units/
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I'm bothered by Enformable using a picture of the facility BEFORE the accident. Everything looks normal in the picture. The true picture of the reactors makes anyone raise an eyebrow. This is propaganda, folks.
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PUN: "Tepco data shows…" Tepco says? This is no pun and no fun. Four days to more, greater, additional meltdown! Hey Tepclowns, It's never stopped.
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SPF #3 shouldn't be a problem. Check out all the extra heat dispersion objects they have in that pool:
http://enformable.com/2013/02/tepco-releases-video-footage-of-fukushima-daiichi-reactor-3-spent-fuel-pool/
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Heat generation from the fuel rods is less now than it was two years ago. They have more than four days in which to reestablish cooling water flow.
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I agree. This is propaganda. It's a trap to see if they can pull anti-nuclear people into a panic mode, alarming people over nothing. They probably have the ability to restore power any time they want so they can say "SEE! No problem. Everything is under control" and make the nuclear alarmists seem unbalanced.
We should keep the focus on the ten million people living in high contaminated areas. How is their health? What's going on with them? What symptoms are they experiencing? That's where our focus should be now, not on the spent fuel pools.
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I seriously doubt that Kyodo News, NHK, AP, etc., are all involved in, as you said:
"a trap to see if they call pull anti-nuclear people into a panic mode" and to make "nuclear alarmists seem unbalanced."
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Everything is a filter.
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Huh?
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"The officials said it will take about 4 days for the hottest pool to exceed 65 degrees — the firm's limit."
http://www3.nhk.or.jp/daily/english/society.html
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TEPCO Webcam showing some of the big spotlights off.
What other systems are knocked out?
Why did the power fail?
They did have a strong earthquake yesterday.
Maybe they should have installed a solar panel array system and some windmills as backup over the last two years.
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Ha!
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Need a solar/wind plant to pump water for next 50 years.
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Isn't it ironic? It's a black fly in your Chardonnay…
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It's a death-row pardon 2 minutes too late…
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Funny that the blackout has also blacked out US media attention as well…Well, I guess 'funny' is not the best choice of words
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Bite your tongue captndano.
They do have more important things to do you know:
Lindsay Lohan accepts plea deal with rehab
By Alan Duke, CNN
updated 3:35 PM EDT, Mon March 18, 2013
http://www.cnn.com/2013/03/18/showbiz/lindsay-lohan/index.html
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And of course this:
ENERGY | 3/18/2013 @ 12:20AM |1,050 views
Fukushima — Fear Is Still the Killer
http://www.forbes.com/fdc/welcome_mjx.shtml
"I am in the other group. Those of us who are sad at the destruction wrought by the tsunami and angry at the horrible over-reaction to Fukushima that has hurt more people than the radiation ever will. The tsunami killed over 20,000 people and destroyed almost a million lives. The threat of radiation is a phantom that distracts the world and keeps the people of Japan terrorized with no foreseeable end."
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And then there are all those celebs with baby bumps! Ya care?
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I know this is off topic but still…
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn23285-plutonium-tests-offer-hope-for-dark-space-missions.html
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Thanks for the link–great article.
By all means, let's spend $100 million+ to create 1.5kg of plutonium per year so we can "conduct certain important types of planetary missions"! How about cleaning up the Fukushima plutonium & extracting it from that?
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From the video on NHK:
– workers are scrambling to fix it
– they discovered a problem with electric supply unit
– they don't know how to fix this problem
http://www3.nhk.or.jp/daily/english/20130319_01.
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