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Large burst of steam rising from Reactor No. 4 (VIDEO)

Published: June 2nd, 2011 at 12:37 pm ET
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TBS TEPCO Livecam Simulcast LARGE SMOKE EVENT ON BOTH FEEDS 6 2 2011 9 34 44 AM [CST], June 2, 2011:

Starts at 1:50 in

h/t Lucas Whitefield Hixson

Published: June 2nd, 2011 at 12:37 pm ET
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182 comments to Large burst of steam rising from Reactor No. 4 (VIDEO)

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  • Jill M. Clarkson
    June 2, 2011 at 4:40 pm

    Domo,……you may be onto something,…Taco may be Jack’s alter ego,…now there’s a theory with some traction.


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  • Jill M. Clarkson
    June 2, 2011 at 4:51 pm

    Oh Anna, Anna, Anna,…shit’s gonna be SOOOO deep by September 26th,..that ALL our heads are gonna spin my friend!


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  • Anthony
    June 2, 2011 at 5:36 pm

    TEPCO Reports Explosion at Fukushima Nuclear Plant: Did the Reactor 4 Fuel Pool Collapse?
    May 31, 2011
    By Tom Burnett

    http://hawaiinewsdaily.com/2011/05/tepco-reports-explosion-at-fukushima-nuclear-plant-did-the-reactor-4-fuel-pool-collapse/


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  • majia
    June 2, 2011 at 6:00 pm

    CHECK THE CAMERA NOW (6:59 ON WEBCAM)

    MASSIVE SMOKE OR STEAM!


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    • Major Domo
      June 2, 2011 at 6:19 pm

      OMG! Have you never seen fog before?
      Do you have fogphobia?

      I think I have just coined an appropriate new term that is unique to this discssion forum.

      fog·pho·bi·a:
      Noun: Extreme or irrational fear of Doom, presented by Fukushima streaming cams

      Despite the fog, yes there is a typical amount of steam currently rising from Unit 4. Doesn’t mean I like it anymore than you.


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      • majia
        June 2, 2011 at 8:08 pm

        I’ve been watching the cam off and on all day while writing my 4th book (i’m not an idiot). And, I don’t have fogophobia…

        The releases earlier today were not fog. Consequently, I am suspicious about what I’m seeing now as a result of the previous oddities.


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  • WindorSolarPlease
    June 2, 2011 at 6:28 pm

    Simple Facts:

    Fact..Oceans are great reservoirs of water, that fall on the land as rain.

    Fact..Radiation has been detected in rain water

    Fact.. Rain water goes into the ground

    Fact..People and animals eat from what is grown and drink from what is in the ground.

    Fact..Radiation is blowing in, and has been detected in US and other Countries

    Fact..Information has been restricted

    Fact..People, Air, Food, Water, and Oceans are getting radiated with each layer of radiation.

    How can this not effect us?
    To what degree, time will tell.

    Keep your eye on the Lord, trusting him

    These are challenging times.
    Be prepared, don’t worry, don’t be scared, live life, and enjoy it.

    Nuclear Power is to Great of a Risk, to me that is a Fact


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  • Dory
    June 2, 2011 at 6:49 pm

    Four minutes ago (7:43) you could hardly make out anything anymore for all the steam. Has there been a comparable amount of of it any time recently?


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    • majia
      June 2, 2011 at 7:54 pm

      There has been some very large emissions today. I’ve been posting what I’ve seen on my blog. I saw a flash of light and then smoke at 1:52 and then at 6:59 june 3 and then again at 7:55.

      Now I cannot tell if what I’m seeing at 8:52 is fog or steam or smoke.

      I can tell you that the earlier substances were NOT fog. I grew up in the SF Bay Area and I know “not” fog when I see it.

      However the stuff right now is hard to interpret (at 8:52).

      we better hope it is fog…


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  • jamie
    June 2, 2011 at 7:25 pm

    I’m not as much of a doomsdayer as Tacoma, but I will say one thing.

    That plutonium dioxide that comes out of the MOX fuel is not normal plutonium that can be ingested and expelled by the body.

    It is much, much more deadly. Tacoma is correct when he says there is enough of it in Fukushima to kill everyone on earth. More than enough.

    The only question is how far that stuff has traveled from the plant. Thus far I’ve been unable to get a straight answer from anyone, because they simply won’t admit it’s been released – but we all know it has.

    I guess I’ve resigned to the fact that if it has gotten all the way to me in North America, then it will eventually go everywhere else – so either it’s not that bad, or we are all in for a few bad years and then we die.

    Fact is, nobody gets out alive – no matter how much money or power you have, mother nature holds the ultimate trump card.


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  • jump-ball
    June 2, 2011 at 7:50 pm

    Fog now blocking view of south and middle towers (from 18:40 thru current 18:51).

    After something blows it will resemble this view.


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  • majia
    June 2, 2011 at 8:00 pm

    are you sure this is fog? I would not ordinarily be so suspicious but there have been so many releases today that I am not confident this stuff, which is strangely nowhere near the camera yet, is fog…


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    • blackmoon
      June 2, 2011 at 8:08 pm

      I wish it were fog. Reactors 2 and 4 have been smoking like chimneys. This seem like dense smoke.


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      • SteveMT
        June 2, 2011 at 8:16 pm

        Fog? Sudden super-dense fog obscuring everything. I hope that is fog.

        They need an infra-red camera. Granted, that weather conditions right on the coast can get this bad. But would you think that they would have planned for this contingency when infra-red became available?


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    • Major Domo
      June 2, 2011 at 8:13 pm

      Yes, I’m sure this is fog. They have it in Japan too. You are seeing it now. It is moving slowly, South to North across the plant. Believe it or not.


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      • blackmoon
        June 2, 2011 at 8:18 pm

        If you look at the foreground in the camera on the right, there is no fog there. It only seems to surround the reactors.


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        • Major Domo
          June 2, 2011 at 8:20 pm

          Which camera?


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        • Major Domo
          June 2, 2011 at 8:47 pm

          The mountain cam view is completely obscurred by fog right now, so you must be referring to the one at the plant.

          Sure, you have distance in the picture. The further you look into the distance in foggy conditions, the more the moisture in the air is multiplied to obscure the view. Obviously, you will see the immediate near area, because there’s less distance, and less fog to look through, so it appears clearer in the foreground. If the fog was thicker, you’d see less distance. And if the fog was thick enough, you’d see nothing.

          And that…

          …NO WAIT, GIANT EXPLOSIONS!!! GO LOOK RIGHT NOW! NUMBER FOUR JUST WENT FOR A HUGE SHIT AND RIGHT NOW, 3 OF THE 4 REACTOR BUILDINGS ARE ON FIRE, AND HAVE BEEN COMPLETELY DEMOLISHED!!! THICK BLACK SMOKE RISING OVER THE WHOLE SITE. OMG, I WAS WRONG! HOLY SHIT! WE’RE ALL GONNA DIE! WE’RE ALL DEAD!

          …or not.

          Sorry, not trying to give you a hard time. Just saying, it’s fog. Made you look.


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  • blackmoon
    June 2, 2011 at 8:19 pm

    I hope I’m wrong!!!


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  • jump-ball
    June 2, 2011 at 8:35 pm

    Whatever this steam-fog is, it started at 8:38 blocking view of the south tower, then slowly moved north covering the middle tower, then the north tower and finally the reactors.

    Then the dog taking R&R in the foreground (rest and radiation) disappeared.

    Reactor 1 came back into partial view at 9:04 and the camera shook left-right for a minute with apparently no wind.

    Odd that the fog stopped for 40 minutes just short of the lightpole.

    90 minutes more ’til darkness, then the daylight view returns around 3am pacific.

    After the real explosion occurs, I expect the view to resemble this: bleak.


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  • jump-ball
    June 2, 2011 at 8:41 pm

    ALERT: 6.3 earthquake off Honshu at 5:04 pacific: THAT was the camera shake I noted above at 9:04 Fuku time.

    Amazing what can be pieced together, but if you’re not looking for it, you won’t see it happen.


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  • jump-ball
    June 2, 2011 at 8:51 pm

    Here’s the USGS asian map:

    http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/recenteqsww/Maps/region/Asia.php

    And there are more coming. My email is set to receive USGS world quakes of 6.5 plus, and I expect more mail during the EQ window from new moon yesterday to perigee 6-12 and for a few days after, as pacific tides exceed 7 feet from 6-12 to 6-15.


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  • jump-ball
    June 2, 2011 at 9:15 pm

    The Tepco camera appears to be mounted on some kind of pole (as opposed to a tripod), acting like the P-Wave quake detector I have secured to a stud in the wall of my home near the San Andreas CA fault: it is what’s called an “inverted pendulum”.

    I think my observation of the camera shake coinciding exactly with the USGS recent 6.3 Honshu earthquake time at 00:05 UTC indicates that a temporarily shaking camera view is acting as an excellent detector of quakes over 6.0, and viewers should go quickly to USGS at http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/recenteqsww/Quakes/quakes_big.php to confirm (or exclude) a local quake as the cause of the camera shake, and post quickly for the rest of us to see.

    USGS can take several minutes, usually not more than 5, to post the data.


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  • Genuine call for factual information about Tokyo
    June 2, 2011 at 11:56 pm

    I live in Tokyo with our family. I read enenews as well as all Japanese newspapers and many foreign newspapers too. I want to know if anyone has links to reputable documentaries or interviews that I could watch in order to assess our risk in staying here just until 2012 when we will leave.

    Please only post high quality information, not Joe Bloggs screaming into a youtube video that the end is nigh. I would really appreciate genuine, thoughtful responses.


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    • jamie
      June 3, 2011 at 7:19 am

      There are no facts. Not here, not anywhere else. Those who hold the facts are keeping them away from all of us who don’t.

      The only facts we have here are fuzzy webcam shots from long distances. Webcams that easily could be much clearer, and that tend to go dark or foggy whenever something significant happens.

      The only conclusion you can make is whatever the facts are – they are negative enough that some despicable people are willing to spend a great deal of effort covering them up to you.

      If I had a family in Tokyo, I personally would have left before now – even at very great financial loss. There are three reasons to leave:

      1. Every day you and your family are accumulating some radiation. It may not be a lethal accumulation yet(probably isn’t), but you cannot tell, and no one is telling you.

      2. The economic situation in Tokyo and Japan is likely to decline pretty rapidly. Of course this is the reason for the cover up, but whether the decline is shallow or steep, it will continue, and it will get more and more difficult to live there.

      3. This one is perhaps the most compelling. You do not want to get caught up in a panic evacuation of Tokyo. The day that all 30 million people decide to leave will be the most dangerous day of your life. That’s the day that all of them have abandoned their future, and people will get ruthless, food and water will all be gone, and there will not even be enough transportation. Other countries will be asked not to take people in – because the government officials will quickly realize their population is leaving.

      I suggest you don’t believe me. Do your own research. Especially look at those who have the knowledge and money right now and what they are doing. Where is the Emporer and senior government officials? Where are the senior Tepco executives – and more importantly – where are their families? Have they left Tokyo? My bet is they have.


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  • majia
    June 3, 2011 at 12:28 am

    Chris Busby’s work might be helpful. I think the problem is that it is difficult to get good information in Japan about actual contamination levels in water, soil, and air.

    So, my suggestion would be to focus on those reports published here and elsewhere on actual data and then analyze the significance of the data in relation to the following links
    http://www.llrc.org/
    check out the report at the ‘new risk model’ tab

    If you are not familiar with this site, I think it could be very helpful
    http://ex-skf.blogspot.com/

    Best Wishes for you and your family…


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  • Genuine call for factual information about Tokyo
    June 3, 2011 at 1:28 am

    Thank you very much Majia! I will read it on the way home on the train. That is very kind of you.


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  • from tokyo
    June 3, 2011 at 2:46 am

    some japanese inet users have uploaded screencaps of the steam/fog/smoke/whatever >.<

    http://matome.naver.jp/m/odai/2130707096544060701/2130707137644069603


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  • from tokyo
    June 3, 2011 at 2:49 am

    a friend of mine who’s measuring air radiation every day said today was 0.14uSv in Tokyo… these days it was always about 0.08〜0.09 under 0.1…


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    • Anthony
      June 3, 2011 at 2:59 am

      If you are still undecided From Tokyo, you can always go on a vacation and see if you want to go back….. it would be a happy ending (or beginning) in your story for us to learn you took off to safety. You know we are going to wear you down in time….


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  • AustralianCannonball
    June 3, 2011 at 8:33 am

    I posted this same link on 3 articles as my aim is to expose what is happening at Fukushima. This is my 3rd June 2011 video. Thanks.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1zBIjDpWN1Y


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  • Jill M. Clarkson
    June 3, 2011 at 8:58 am

    That was good AustralianCannonball–Thanks!
    I agree with you in that SOMEHOW, I believe that the MOX mess is in the seawater, soil, air, and streaming it’s way all around the globe,…northern Hemi first,….

    I, like you, think it can be slowed, stopped, or at least redirected somewhat–mitigated?? But, 50+ years on this planet has taught me that there is no solution to a problem unless and until one ADMITS there is a problem. (And asks for help if powerless, etc,….) I do not know if that is even possible with the Japanese?


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  • bluerthanblu
    June 3, 2011 at 12:37 pm

    Please check this out folks. This is the cam behind reactor number one. Unless someone is running around the area off to the right of the plant (in bushes?) with lights (ya, right), I’ve noticed in the last half hour several bright flashes of light in the lower right of the screen. Suddenly the top section of that lower right ‘hill” lit up brightly in several fan shapes coming from the ground! What the ‘ell is going on I wonder. I’m getting a not good feeling that the plant ground water is soo contaminated that the whole area is heating up. I don’t know how far from reactor 5 problem is the camera. We seem to be on track with Tacomagroove’s schedule for ‘lift off’ so far, eh? Anyone see these lights and know who/what they are? The fanned out ones in two layers on the hill look quite scary. Hope it doesn’t do that again soon. (I’ve got it, it’s the spirit of Raddy walking around the plant.)

    http://www.tepco.co.jp/nu/f1-np/camera/index-j.html


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  • bluerthanblu
    June 3, 2011 at 12:42 pm

    I had an after thought, maybe these are earthquake lights? Oh, Nooooooo. Seems to me there was brush on the lower right outside the plant, so the lights aren’t showing up next to the reactors but on the hillside. Ok, probably making a fool outta myself and men in white suits will show up there when it gets light.


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  • bluerthanblu
    June 3, 2011 at 1:01 pm

    There appears to be a drone flying around checking things out. The light in the lower mid-right corner is similar except it appears and reappears in several places within a triangle that stretches to the plant, or between the walkway and the plant. Besides the tiered ‘fans’ of light that flashed to illuminate the top of what looks like a hillside (in sections like balcony seats, in two curved layers), there was a strip of light that flashed for a second above the walkway all the way to the right at an angle. Very odd indeed, especially with what makes the camera look like an oil emulsion on the lens! It’s June 4, 1:58am on the cam label. Maybe it’s some sort of equipment that is malfunctioning but I remember that area as outside the plant proper, in the bushes. The light flashes off entirely and does move higher up and lower down to the left intermittently. Guess we’ll find out soon enough.


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