Published: April 8th, 2012 at 11:41 pm ET
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Title: Fukushima Unit 3 Fuel Pool, Did it Explode?
Source: Goddard’s Journal
Date: Apr 8, 2012
For a more in-depth explanation of Goddard’s theory see: Fukushima Unit 3 Steam-Explosion Theory
Watch all nine segments of Goddard’s Journal on Reactor No. 3
Published: April 8th, 2012 at 11:41 pm ET
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I am not sure whether it was reactor 3 or fuel pool, or both.
But I do know they blew up real good, and they left evidence in the air, many tens of tons of uranium and plutonium in order to create the high levels measures in not just Hawaii, but Guam, Saipan, California.
The pool inventory is here – 90 tons
http://nukeprofessional.blogspot.com/2012/04/inventory-of-what-used-to-be-at.html
The largest chunk of concrete which went flying up 1000 feet sure makes sense that was the reactor cap. So in Goddards I looked hard and he put some type of circle there to supposedly resemble where the cap would be if still there, but I don't see any cap.
Bottom line, we been poisoned and nukes are too dangerous.
My evidence — EPA Data and a simple volume and density calc.
http://nukeprofessional.blogspot.com/p/uranium-aerosolized-into-atmosphere.html
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s@h, i had assumed so, too, especially with Arnie's belief that reactor 3 had a nuclear detonation. But i'm open to new facts and information, also. Maybe the SFP 4's heating and cracking of the cladding on the fuel rods accounts for the high levels put out. Yet, face-on videos suggest that the top two floors of reactor 3 are gone. Maybe most of it fell in rather than blew completely out, though clearly some fuel rods and parts of the building ended up in the parking lot. I think an earlier video by Goddard shows what he thinks is the heat outline of the reactor 3 fuel cap in place, but, hey, maybe that's simply the circular opening of the reactor. Like you, i don't see the actual cap either. Goddard assumed that the heat images of low levels of heat escaping around the cap were just that, heat escaping because, as he thought, the cap had been jarred and loosened. Made sense. But, what if the relatively low heat being imaged accounted for the guts of the reactor being emptied during a reactor explosion, and, thus, lower levels of heat being generated given the decreased amount of remaining fuel? That remaining fuel would more likely be slammed against the walls up the throat of the reactor, given the violence of the detonation, giving off a circular heat signature, i.e., a heated outside ring with a hollow, cooler center, rather than a full, filled in circle heat signature of a reactor full of heating fuel. The thing could have emptied while blasting past the…
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I'm gonna stick to what I said long ago.
With the heating of the core in #3, and the drop in water level, Tepco was injecting cool seawater into #3 at that time, we all witnessed the largest waterhammer event ever recorded on video.
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there is a SFP 3?
lol
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What really happened at Fukushima? via A Green Road Blog
http://agreenroad.blogspot.com/2012/02/what-really-happened-at-fukushima.html
How Dangerous Is 400-600 Pounds Of Plutonium Nano Particle Dust Liberated By Fukushima? Via A Green Road Blog http://agreenroad.blogspot.com/2012/03/how-dangerous-is-400-600-pounds-of.html
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Ace Hoffman, anti-nuke activist who is particularly focused on SONGS, tweeted this:
"If a single collapsed spent fuel pool in Japan can cause an "extinction level event" globally, WHY ON EARTH would anyone make 1 gram more?"
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Fukushima; Pacific Ocean Catastrophe Confirmed; via A Green Road Blog
http://agreenroad.blogspot.com/2012/04/fukushima-pacific-ocean-catastrophe.html
Fukushima Leaking Radioactive Water Into Ocean Plume; via A Green Road Blog
http://agreenroad.blogspot.com/2012/04/fukushima-leaking-radioactive-water.html
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Yes… It still has remnants… Kind of a sprayed on wall effect.
Amazing how just a little coating left behind can make the ruined building just downright hostile to carbon life form! And who knows where the remnants of the hot fuel in the suppression chamber is located. It may have left a Thallium Teflon reminder behind down lower also.
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Kinda like when sheet hits the blades of a fan, huh!
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Off topic, but since not all of us go to the Off Topic Discussion, I'm reposting this.
My enenews friend Jebus wrote the words to this song and I put it to music this weekend and want to share it with enenewsers.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T0rDQL–9DE&feature=youtu.be
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nice one poordaddy!
thanks for the hard work!
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NICE! Added to collection at
Anti-Nuclear Music/Songs; via A Green Road Blog
http://agreenroad.blogspot.com/2012/03/anti-nuclear-music-and-songs-around.html
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Excellent!
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Thanks as always PoorDaddy,…..love seeing you all up and down the right column on Youtube!
Yes,….won't SOMEBODY please tell me,…"When WILL this nightmare be over"?
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Hi Jill……
Pessimistic of me, but I'm afraid it will be over and over before its OVER.
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Sounds probable. Who bloody knows, one thing for sure is something when kaboooom, and it wasn't someones undies.
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It was TEPCO's 'dirty diaper'! They are still trying to hide the ka-ka that flew FAR and WIDE!!!!
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TEPCO has the fallout data along with US fly over and satellite data to answer the question if it was a quasi nuclear event at Unit 3.
There are 2 caps, which would be a reactor cap and above that a containment cap, besides a concrete sectional loose fitting plug to floor level (many of the sections surely are seen airborne in the mushroom cloud).
If the containment cap left the building during the explosion then the nearby building with a cutout in it's roof sure resembles the shape of an ejected cap falling sideways through the roof.
That would leave the main beam laying over/on the reactor cap, shown in the videos venting steam from the sides.
Unit 3 pool holds water and debris but not much else as most fuel assemblies were vaporizing leading to enough hydrogen for ignition then initiating the chain of events.
A couple of thousand degrees of heat created by fuel rods without cooling water must have had the reactor itself glowing red with melting fuel burning through the bottom of the reactor into the containment floor then onward into the suppression doughnut full of water for a steam explosion, among other possible types of explosions.
Not included in the videos is the sound (track) which people claimed explosion(s) were heard miles and miles away. 3 or 4 massive explosions, one after another, during the event and maybe the sound of the falling beam.
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and still no update from tepco for 3 days now… probably means no immediate danger (sarcastic mode)
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Was there ever any doubt? Use your brain, instead of being told what to think. We all saw rods from the pool being blown sky high.
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Pressure exists on nuclear reactor fuel and we don't see it normally exploding. Pressure from a hydrogen explosion would never be able to cause the amount of successfull fissions to create a atomic blast imho. I can see how it could possibly rearrange the geometry of the molten fuel, but the fuel would rearrange by other forces like gravity. Liquid fuel, gravity, boiling elements, and replacement from distilling actions can contribute to a CM of Pu to form somewhere in the geometry of the mass. Can hydrogen add to that reconfiguration? Perhaps.
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http://www.economic-undertow.com/2011/03/30/meltdown-mania-part-deux/
Notice the dryer pool is and has been empty since the blast.
Walls and floor of the SPF are over a meter thick, the dryer pool is much less. Steam seen venting from biological shield plugs at top of the reactor core and dryer pool gates. When the reactor is serviced the gates are removed along with the shield plugs and containment dome. The pressure vessel head and steam dryer are shifted underwater to the dryer pool so the core can be accessed (these are radioactive). Spent fuel is not placed into the dryer pool.
The flange at top of containment and dryer pool gaskets and shield plugs are the weak area of the containment.
It also seems likely that there was little water in the containment in unit 3 (as has proven to be the case in unit 2). Steam pressure within containment would have forced water into suppression pool area by way of downcomer vents.
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He lost me when he said "it stands to reason". Never say that.
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Did Fukushima Unit 3 Fuel Pool Explode?
Does a bear shit in the woods?
Is the Pope catholic?
Oh Lordy,…are 'we' back to THIS?
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Asahi Flyover: No spent fuel pool seen in Reactor No. 3 — SFP ‘must’ be in center of screen, however we can’t see any of it (VIDEO)
http://enenews.com/developing-asahi-flyover-spent-fuel-pool-reactor-3-sfp-be-center-screen-video
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https://wwws.whitehouse.gov/petitions/%21/petition/commission-fukushima-international-scientific-advisory-team-save-spent-fuel-pool-4-and-stop/Y9mVpJWH?utm_source=wh.gov&utm_medium=shorturl&utm_campaign=shorturl
this is a petition to save sfp4 and to stop fukushima.
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And so in about five or six years..the petition will be under consideration for discussion. Meanwhile, we are going to have a lot of radiation all over the world.
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Why the blast seems to be reentered the contaiment?
Should SP3 originated the hydrogen explosion, and second when supression chamber broke the original SFP3 blast seems to get indoors?
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Where's James2, he has been saying this for a year (at least what is in the first two videos). We miss you James2!
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He banned me from commenting on the above video after I questioned his hypothesis. Not impressed.
I then logged in under another username and posted this;
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You've jumped all over my use of the term "boiling dry", in retrospect that terminology is technically incorrect, but it was simply my way of emphasising the lack of water in the pool, which is relevant given the subsequent decline in emissions following the addition of more water.
In fact, given closer inspection of the aerial footage it's quite apparent that what's obscuring the girders you highlight is feint black smoke rising from the pool itself (and not steam from the pool or containment as I originally thought).
And that would suggest there being little or no water in the pool, meaning the spent fuel was smouldering or potentially even ablaze.
That's a much more feasible hypothesis than your insinuation in the video that the girders are concealed by water.
That is what I'd call "silly".
Although damaged, "data shows reactor containment intact at Unit 3";
watch?v=l0T1-WHbUds
More footage of someone who knows what he's talking about;
watch?v=qCkgdCMgcBg
The containment was somewhat damaged by the explosion at Unit 3 but it remains intact – that is irrefutable, and it's as good as irrefutable that the blast occurred above or in the spent fuel pool and not in the immediate vicinity of the reactor containment.
This would explain the lack of water in the pool, the…
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…decline in emissions from Unit 3 following the hosing of the pool.
The girders you speak of were never "covered", they were simply obscured.
You're sinking into conspiracy now, and your credibility is going with it.
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He then immediately blocked me and then deleted my comments.
I was, and I remain, absolutely astonished he'd resort to that. Pathetic.
His reasoning doesn't bear scrutiny, and he effectively conceded that right there.
No longer a fan.
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At last some interest on the third reactor building.
When I first saw images a year ago, I understood this was much more than a hydrogen explosion.
Images showed concrete pillars leaning towards the building on the outside. When I tried to estimate the size of these pillars, they must have been abt. 4 times 4 ft. and steel infroced.
The size of this explosion was far greater than the other. (I read the blast was so strong, it was felt 40 km away (25 miles).
Images also shows the impact on building no. 4. Along the roof it has a curve inwards on that side facing no. 3 reactor. And even the whole no. 4 building started leaning from the blast. And these are really strong constructions.
Then I started to look for the reactor vessel or the reactor containment housing. About a third of the building was gone, so I thought the reactor containment would be visible. All the upper deck was gone. But I could not find it. And I wonder if it is still there or not?
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