Published: October 31st, 2011 at 6:29 am ET
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- Japanese professor: Melted fuel has gone through containers and is on concrete foundations sinking into ground below, as far as I can tell -- Underground dam was being prepared, but TEPCO resisting
- Mainichi: "The melted nuclear fuel is sinking toward water under the ground"
- TV: Workers say ground under Fukushima plant is cracking and radioactive steam is coming up -- Melted core may be moving out of building (VIDEO)
- Japan Journalist: Gov't source says "I've heard about the steam coming out from the ground, and I am concerned" -- "Some kind of reaction may be occurring underground" writes plant worker
- Japan nuke expert: Melted fuel rods estimated to be 12 meters underground Reactors No. 1-3 -- To be 100 feet deep in a year (AUDIO)
- "It's Official: Fukushima Was Hit With a Full-Blown Nuclear Meltdown" -- Pool of radioactive lava could be melting its way out
- Reactor No. 1 core had total meltdown and uranium fuel may be outside containment building -- Nuclear reaction could have restarted
- Time.com: China Syndrome "might just have happened at Fukushima" -- Molten fuel may have "melted through everything into the earth"
- Film foretold Fukushima meltdown -- If reactors could not be kept full of water, fuel would eat through container resulting in "China Syndrome" (VIDEO)
- Fukushima plant "seems to be going through a limited version of the China syndrome"
- "It was even worse than the worst imagination of the media" -- Radiation now "leaking through cracks in the containment and melted holes" after total meltdown (CNN VIDEO)
- More serious than a meltdown -- Japan Gov't now raising possibility that fuel had a "melt through" at all 3 reactors
- Gov't report suggests situation "far worse" than meltdown -- It "is the worst possibility in a nuclear accident"
- "Nuclear fuel has melted through base of Fukushima plant" -Telegraph
- Worse than a 'melt through' - a 'melt out'? -- See Graphic
- Report: Undated animation shows Japan gov't nuke experts must have known Fukushima was a melt-through (VIDEO)
- Experts: Melt-through scenario means even higher radiation readings to come -- Likely many more reports of deadly radiation in future
- TEPCO trying to stop 'leaking radioactive material' from reaching water underground -- Barrier may be complete by 2014
- Report: Gov't paper shows melt-out at Fukushima was predicted on day of quake
- Dr. Koide: Massive amounts of radioactivity may again be released from Fukushima -- Mentions "steam explosion" after melted fuel hits water
- Gundersen's Latest: 60 holes in bottom of Fukushima-type reactors make core melt-through easier -- Fuel only had to get through a thin pipe, not inches of steel (VIDEO)
- Yomiuri on China Syndrome: Gov't secretly figured out how far the melted fuel would burn through reactor pedestals -- "Worst-possible scenario"
- Nuclear Expert Discusses 'Melt-Through' at NRC Meeting: I believe melted nuclear core leaked out of Fukushima reactors onto floor (VIDEO)
- NRC Chairman discusses 'Core on the Floor': It's possible that severely damaged melted nuclear fuel has migrated outside reactor vessel (VIDEO)
- Japan lawmaker: Plutonium certainly went deep within basement of Reactor No. 3 -- Anyone’s guess where it's at now
Published: October 31st, 2011 at 6:29 am ET
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Nicely done admin!
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“Minsk, 320 km away, would have been razed and Europe rendered uninhabitable. Tokyo, the world’s most populated city, is only 250 km from the Fukushima meltdowns.”
Much biger pronlem then Chernobyl
3 in meltdown, Fuel pools and a whole lot more fuel, and still poluting, plus that fuel storage that burned in March !
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I am sure I posted an article about a month ago that plans to build this were canceled ! Should be in one of the weekly FORUM: Discussion Threads !
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Hi xdrfox, I think Tepco cancelled the wall towards the landside of the compound, but agreed to try to shield the ocean side. They said the main direction of the flow would be towards the sea, not inland…..
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October 27, 2011
TEPCO won’t build retaining wall to stop radioactive water seeping into ground water
http://mdn.mainichi.jp/mdnnews/national/news/20111027p2a00m0na009000c.html
“The utility, however, will construct an ocean-side retaining wall to prevent contaminated water from leaking into the sea, starting on Oct. 28.
TEPCO had initially planned to build a land-side retaining wall (an underground dam) as well, thereby surrounding all four sides of the reactor buildings and turbine buildings of the No. 1 through No. 4 reactors at the plant, in order to prevent highly radioactive water from coming into contact with the ground water.
However, the utility concluded that such a plan would be “ineffective” on the grounds that the ground water in the area flows only downward into the ocean as the area’s terrain is seaward-dipping and building a U-shaped retaining wall on the land side would make no point in preventing contaminated water from leaking into the ocean.
The utility also said a land-side retaining wall would lower the ground water level around the reactor and turbine buildings, raising the risk of contaminated water leaking from those buildings. In addition, the utility said, the construction of such a wall would require the removal or relocation of existing facilities surrounding the buildings.”
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It is utterly ridiculus to believe that wall will stop the contaminated water from reaching the sea.
Sure it may stop “groundwater”, but what about underground water.
How far is it to sea level? That island is a fractured mess.
The underground water that is below sea level ebbs and flows with the pressures of the tides of the ocean.
It will go wherever the underground pressures send it.
A fools folly at best. An idiots nightmare at its worst.
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They remind me of some CALTRANS workers out here in LaLa land. They lean on their shovels WHENEVER they think no one is watching. They work when they’re being scrutinized.
Tepco is being scrutinized, obviously, huh?!
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An explosion as this magnitude may well create a tsunami that would also take out the coast of other countries, RIGHT ?
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5 megatons will not incinerate tokyo but can kill every1 outside with radiation if winds blow in the big city direction.
not even trains with 1000 cars can move enough people far enough, specially because its all electric driven and if such a kill cloud appears all other power plants will stop due to lack of people and themselves create a bigger cloud, fuck I didn’t buy the boat yet. well I’ll have to steal 1 in a marina near me…
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Good job Admin. Quite a list here.
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So if a melt through is pretty much a certainty when these accidents occur, shouldn’t we demand that reactors be built on platforms that cannot be penetrated by a melting core. Probably not possible, but then again, I never said I actually wanted the reactors built…
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“shouldn’t we demand that reactors be built on platforms that cannot be penetrated by a melting core”
But that would cost plant operators money. Besides, I believe Arnie Gundersen has said that in the NRCs models of accidents that can occur, they assume no more that 1% fuel damage is likely to occur.
Well, if I’m remembering that correctly, that model has obviously been proven 100% wrong by Fuku–it seems to me it calls into question all of the NRCs other models as well (i.e., their estimates of risk, the evacuation plans, etc.)
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My question every time I see that clip from The Battle of Chernobyl is why aren’t the Japanese taking this scenario seriously. Several sources have suggested that the reactor #1 fuel (at least) has probably melted down into the ground underneath. Why no effort to block, as the Soviets did?
Moreover, the Soviets according to this clip had made preparations to evacuate people as far away as Kiev (which I believe was farther away from Cherno than Tokyo is from Fuku). The Japanese seem to be entirely ignoring the possibility of such a secondary explosion–but how much of Asia would be devastated by such a blast? And imagine how much fallout would result from it, considering all of the spent fuel on site and the fact that the fuel of all three reactors is probably out of its containment.
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I know,…idealistic of me,…but I think other Counties are about to ‘step in’. Just like my ‘stupid rat’ analogy,…the water is rising,…we ALL see ‘it’ now,….other County’s ‘accord of silence’ (nuclear),…is having a MELTDOWN!
Like the kid who jumps off of the tracks at the last moment in a game of CHICKEN,….these surrounding Countries WILL FLINCH-IMO
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+1 for helping me hear that awesome dialogue.
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