Published: September 20th, 2011 at 6:41 am ET
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Groundwater Flowing Into Fukushima Nuclear Plant, Kyodo, September 20, 2011:
Tokyo Electric Power Co. said Tuesday it suspects that 200 to 500 tons a day of groundwater might be flowing through pits and wall cracks into reactor and turbine buildings at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant crippled by the March 11 earthquake and tsunami. [...]
Published: September 20th, 2011 at 6:41 am ET
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…and more water from above to follow.
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Typhoon approaching Fuku (quite directly this time
http://www.jma.go.jp/en/typh/111524.html
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Deliberate HAARP attack planned?
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I seriously doubt it. Japan has their own HAARP facility to change the course of the typhoon.
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“Nuked Underground Base Causing Massive Sinkhole In Virginia?”
anne, here’s another article on the crazy conspiracy nuking of underground military bases (reported as an earthquake and which could be true for all we know!).
http://beforeitsnews.com/story/1113/527/Nuked_Underground_Base_Causing_Massive_Sinkhole_In_Virginia.html
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isn’t the actual and bigger prob the other way around – that corium penetrates into the groundwater which causes explosions and more fission?
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That’s what I’m thinking, but it may also be an indication that there is now a two-way flow – from corium to groundwater – all mixed up together.
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Fukushima Diary explained it quite well today; the water coming in from below, either groundwater or seawater, is almost being siphoned upwards by the pumping system they have installed to pump water out of the basements. Perhaps more water is coming out than they are pouring into the reactor shells? Is that how they know some water or other is coming in from down below? I don’t think corium can mix with groundwater, I think any neutron reactions are slowed by water; intermittent criticalities can still occur in the core, because the water only reaches the outside of the blob. This is what I understood to be the case, anyway. Clearly at least one core (1 or 3? or both?) is experiencing intermittent criticalities, therefore the mass of the corium is dense enough and in the right shape to allow the self-sustaining nuclear reaction to occasionally pick up again. This is what we will probably be seeing periodically for the indefinite future.
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They just don’t have any control or access inside the buildings because they are so deadly with radioactivity hence the terms like “suspect”:
“Tokyo Electric Power Co. said Tuesday it suspects that 200 to 500 tons a day of groundwater…”
So what kind of Tepco “army” of workers do they have? A few token walking dead workers in the trenches by Unit 1 buckling on the tent panels, a few crane and bulldozer operators (dead men driving) and the kamikaze water filter employees (dead men for sure). Working their 3 hour workday. Maybe 150 workers at best actually doing what requires an 800,000 strong (or more) “real Kamikaze” army. That is what is going to be the final damning indictment when the whole place blows to hell taking Japan back to the Dark Ages.
Too few, too little, and too late. Nobody in the world can help Japan now in their downward spiral. It’s past time to point fingers at fear mongers because they were right all along.
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~THIS~
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Keep Saying “No”! Sometimes civilizations have been known to respond quickly to external military threats and save themselves, but this is an internal threat caused by a company linked with Japanese national pride. It would take more than 60,0000 on the streets of Tokyo to actually respond quickly and appropriately to the MOX and other coriums’ melt-through. It would take millions.
TEPCOJAPAN INC will lie as long as they can, but the time will come when they can no longer lie; the consequences will be too dire. Let us keep working to raise public awareness between now and then, and long after then, for as long as we can. Keep saying “no” as loudly as you can, in as many places as you can, in as many ways as you can, even though you know the tiger will devour us all eventually. No matter. Accept that and go on. Keep saying “no.”
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I guess those 500 tons of highly radioactive water then flow out into the ocean as that is the path of least resistance.
It’s the dilution solution.
Eventually all the nuclear fuel will be “dissolved” – put into suspension – and flow into the sea.
It’s a Fukusall dilution solution.
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That’s exactly what they’re doing…with consequences beyond what they are willing to allow themselves to believe.
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And remember recent earthquakes. For the first time tepco admits that there was some damage. At the same time nuclear specialists discuss, I do not know what – a local forum in Japan and an international one in Austria discuss something. They should have done this 6 months earlier and their proper place now is there – in Fukushima, working. At least they claim radiation is not so dangerous.
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cant stand to hear those groundwater contact explosion all the time, the buildings are directly next to the ocean, the working reactors core is under or directly next to sealevel, the containment and the SFP is flushed with tons of water daily, there are cracks and pipes everywhere.
it may be hot, but i really doubt that it was not in contact with water in the last six months.
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I’m too tired to work out where this one is going, but judging from past experience something bad will be announced soon and they’ll blame it on this somehow, pointing to the nature of the probem as ‘earthquake damage’.
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500 tones per day? That isn’t ground water, that is the ocean. Fukushima dropped up to 8′ due to the big EQ. This means the water table rose, and any active rods that went through the basement floor, are bubbling away around 10′ down. The ocean water is keeping them there. jmo
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Tell the President clean energy is wanted. More government investment in solar and wind, other renewables. Clean and safe. http://signon.org/sign/increase-government-support.fb1?source=c.fb&r_by=548645
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they are pumping in 30 * 3 reactors daily…. and have trouble cleanning it. now they admit fivefold amount just swapping through the basements. and not a word that these watersystems are strictly separated, and who would believe that in a earthquake- and explosions-rocked plant. big f*ck. and still a meter shows activity like inside a working reactor. they didnt even looked by now and that in japan that has robot departments at every corner. so they really dont want to know it seems.
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30 tons water * 3 reactors
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the longer it lasts the cheaper the cleanup will be. a bargain on our shoulders, again
sometimes “ups i did it again” is not enough
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and only as i have spoken against conspiracy theories, i luv them as food for more thoughts, just a remark : the explosions done by tepco to open flooding channels. maybe not all but one more or less ….. I am pretty sure that japanese mythology knows about the sea not forgetting anything.
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Can anyone access more of the story above? I am just short of the 9,450 yen needed for a six-month subscription to Nikkei….. thank you!
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What about the video @ fuku diary
where the melt is bubbling under water? and cooks
has anyone here seen it? is it real ?
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