Published: May 11th, 2011 at 9:36 am ET
|
Chain Reactions Reignited At Fukushima After Tsunami, Says New Study, MIT’s Technology Review, May 9, 2011:
Radioactive byproducts indicate that nuclear chain reactions must have been burning at the damaged nuclear reactors long after the disaster unfolded
[...] The question on many people’s minds is whether the hot nuclear fuel then melted allowing a critical mass of molten fuel to form, allowing chain reactions to restart.
Today, Tetsuo Matsui at the University of Tokyo, says the limited data from Fukushima indicates that nuclear chain reactions must have reignited at Fuksuhima up to 12 days after the accident. [...]
“The data of the water samples from the unit-4 cooling pool and from the sub-drain near the unit-2 reactor show anomaly which may indicate, if they are correct, that some of these fission products were produced by chain nuclear reactions reignited after the earthquake,” he says.
These chain reactions must have occurred a significant time after the accident. “It would be difficult to understand the observed anomaly near the unit-2 reactor without assuming that a significant amount of fission products were produced at least 10 – 15 days after X-day,” says Matsui. [...]
Published: May 11th, 2011 at 9:36 am ET
|
sending...
Uh, gee, Arnie told us that weeks ago. Nice of you guys to catch up. But testing? We don’t need no stinking testing. Heck, we ARE the test. Think of us humans as particles on a radiation film badge called America.
Report Comment
Might have been burning? So what is going on now? what is burning now?
Nuclear fission is NOW.. you MIT morons!
Report Comment
Trickle down data du jour. Go figure.
Report Comment
hello Afu,
April 19, 2011
http://enenews.com/tepco-data-suggest-that-fission-is-ongoing-despite-the-reactor-shutdowns-this-is-bad-news
Report Comment
We have to make Plutonium 238..
http://www.ne.doe.gov/pdfFiles/Final_Startup_Plan_for_Plutonium238.pdf
The morons in science are busy.
Report Comment
I think the Japanese monitor outside data particularily American data. I’ve noticed if something is stated in the US in the media/online that in days or weeks it will be repeated by the Japanese. The idea of spraying seawater by hose and helicopter as a temporary fix was first suggested by analysts in the US, sure enough days later the Japanese do it. Arnie Gunderson said weeks ago fission was occuring at unit four. There are more examples along with all the “miscalculated data” have led me to believe the Japanese even those in the nuclear field don’t know what they are doing.
Report Comment
There are other better explanations why Japanese announcements may sometimes seem here to follow external press:
1) if you dont know Japanese, hard to know directly what is being said there;
2) for their own internal, public, social, political reasons the Japanese authorities may hold disclosing information until external foreign expose allows their internal announcement.
More likely no one anywhere sees any practical solution. The Japanese are in a tough place.
Like many they now know too late what they see about nuclear power costs and dangers.
Report Comment
I think it is easy to call shots from the sidelines like we are! I imagine the stress must be literally “through the roof“ in Japan at the moment and some of the truths must be frightening to face head on.
Report Comment
So, the spf rods at reactor 3 and possibly other reactors are a molten mass at the bottom, in pockets where boron cannot reach or encrusted with salt and just churning away slowly. Is this considered a creep rupture which is causing criticality. Hmm, what a mess.
Report Comment
Creep rupture…brought on by creeps…yep
Report Comment
mit are a bunch of filthy corporate science whores…selling lies for a job or a research grant.
a quote from mit stooge Prof. Lester
“The radiation-induced fatality associated with Fukushima may turn out to be zero.
another clownish quote from mit bozo Josef Oehmen.
“Why I Am Not Worried” About Fukushima..
my favorite is from George Monbiot of the once great but now pointless corporate tart the guardian newspaper.mombiot quote
Why Fukushima made me stop worrying and love nuclear power..
when death comes i hope it takes these people first.
Report Comment
Right the f**k on. monBlot in particular needs to head up the school trip.what a smirking douche bag.
Report Comment
mit nuclear engineering professor Michael Golay,
said that the reporting about events at Japan’s nuclear reactors has not been anything like the “media feeding frenzy and misinformation” that he said accompanied the accidents at Three Mile Island and Chernobyl : )
Asked about the health consequences of the radiation releases so far from the plants, Jacquelyn Yanch, a specialist in radiation’s health effects and senior lecturer, said that in Tokyo, radiation had reached 20 times background levels (produced by natural sources such as rock and sunlight) for a short period, and in other prefectures as much as 30 to 40 times background. But to put that in perspective, she said, it would take several days of exposure at such levels to equal the exposure from a single chest X-ray.
it all makes sense now,i believe that the great mit engineers stated that building 7 new york,
collapsed at free fall speed into it’s own footprint from minor fire damage.
they must be right as all of these beautiful great minds work for mit.
Report Comment
I will always believe the 10,000,000 times allowable levels announcement was actually a true press release retracted when Japan realized the force of the announcement carried for the world. I just can`t picture the release making it all the way out if it was actually wrong… not with how “control freaky“ Japan is being about information.
Report Comment
why even believe that 10,000,000 times statement.
i think you have to double or treble it with those liars.
i met some happy tourists from japan a 10 days ago,having a great time in london.
i asked them about fukishima and they looked at me like i was an idiot,when i tried to talk about the crap coming out from the government.
the attitude still seems to be that they can trust the japanese government to look after and protect the people.
it will be interesting to see how and what the reaction will be, when the people figure out the government has been more interested in protecting japan corporation than japan the people.
Report Comment
16:21 ET Louisiana gates open
US army engineers have opened floodgates in Louisiana that will inundate up to three million acres of land in a bid to protect large cities along the Mississippi River…
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-13401894
Report Comment