Published: June 2nd, 2012 at 5:33 pm ET
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Fukushima Daiichi NPS Unit 2 PCV Temperatures
Tepco
May 31, 2012
Thermometers malfunctioning at No.2 reactor
NHK
Jun. 2, 2012
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more than half of the thermometers at the Number 2 reactor are not working.
[Tepco] says it will [...] install new thermometers to start measuring temperatures again by late July.
An increasing number of cases of thermometers malfunctioning have been reported since the beginning of the year.
The utility said on Friday that 23 of the 41 thermometers are malfunctioning. The number is one more than that reported 2 months ago.
TEPCO says high humidity inside the reactor could be a factor.
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A TEPCO official says thermometers are essential in understanding whether the reactor is in a state of cold shutdown.
Published: June 2nd, 2012 at 5:33 pm ET
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Maybe a core meltdown ,is more like it!!!
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; Cold Shutdown in Unit 2?
The bombastic lies keep on coming!
Calling UFO–beam these jokers up please!
No one else stopping them.
Now they want to continue re=processing Plutonium.
(headline in Stars and Stripes)
A TEPCO official says thermometers are essential in understanding whether the reactor is in a state of cold shutdown.
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Lets all sing a song, while we WAIT, Wait, wait, for someone to bring in new probes.
Probing is hard to do… especially for a hot reactor type, that may be giving birth to all kinds of babies… That takes a special kinda doc.
Ah, forget about the probing. That is way tooooo boring. Let's just sing songs and watch some more dance contests.
Anti-Nuclear Music/Songs; via A Green Road Blog
http://agreenroad.blogspot.com/2012/03/anti-nuclear-music-and-songs-around.html
(Sarcasm)
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In July? What's the hurry? Make it September. 2014.
(snark off)
Seriously, my head just keeps exploding with the deceit and incompetence, emanating from Japan. The game plan seems to be continue to procrastinate, delay, obscure until we are all too sick to rise up, flush them out of their prepared hideaways, and guillotine these bastards that have poisoned the world.
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1) It's not a Japanese-only problem. Far from it. Think GE, AREVA, IAEA and the like.
2) As a French death penalty-abolition-generation citizen, (I was 20 in 1981)I won't go for the guillotine. Indeed, they're poor bastards who have totally lost it. It being respect for life and its wonders.
Here's an alternative to the guillotine. Less gory, way funnier.
Once coralled, (no easy task, but well, impossible is not French) let them be confined to some dry and cold area with no servants, no web(s, no utilities, just seeds, shelters and some discount food but nobody but themselves, monitored and broadcast 24/7, reality-tv like.
Could be fun sometimes. No?
3) Remember, they have lost it but most of all, they have failed. They know it because as you express so aptly, the deceit and incompetence are in plain sight and the 99% are waking up one by one.
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elibi I will go along with your plan with a slight change…Broadcast them cleaning up Fukushima & other contaminated sites around the world. Since they KNOW the true dangers..they will experience what those they hire do to do that work. Lets have them contributing something actually useful to society & show them that they have to take responsibility for what they created.
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let them eat cake
yellow cake
.
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Radiation effecting more than thermometers.
The change, or “Mass Awakening to Fukushima” as I like to call it, began a week ago when Stanford University released its bluefin tuna radiation test results and lo and behold, it was radioactive. In fact, every single fish they tested showed contamination from Fukushima. And they were all caught off the coast in California.
This is because just 2 weeks after the Fukushima disaster, North American kelp was already showing contamination. And so were the salmon being tested by the Canadians. Radiation works fast, due to bio accumulation, and bio magnification. And it gets stronger as it moves up the food chain.
In fact, in the 60′s Russia detonated the largest bomb ever, the 100 megaton Tsar Bombe, or “King of Bombs.” Without getting overly technical, the yield of this bomb was actually reduced by 97% due to the addition of lead for its second and third stages, to reduce fallout potential across the northern hemisphere. Still, within a week, researchers in the US found radioactive iodine in the thyroids of mammals in the US, before it was even detected in water or plants. Yes, it happens that quickly.
http://endthelie.com/2012/06/02/byog-bring-your-own-geiger-counter-and-hazmat-gear/#axzz1wfoRgldD
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Excellent article, well written. One way to help share this & other info is to use the Occupy Facebook pages. Simply limit the number of posts to 4 a day, to avoid getting banned from posting for 2 weeks. Google or use Facebook search to find links. Check for recent posts to see if the page is active & if there is no option to create a new post, add to a comment on an article.
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tepco do you really need a thermometer? I'll tell you how hot it is. Go in there and your dead in 13 seconds. Please test this and let me know what you find. Do it on bring a friend to work day though. This way no one misses out. Thanks
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"Temps rising again"… "Pesky broken thermometers"…
"Replace them"… "The 12 cent ones made in China will do"…
"No, too good… We need those for all our sick babies"…
"We have a shipment of thermometers made by aboriginal peoples of Borneo"… "No, send those to the US"… "Restamp as "made in China?""… "Of course!"…
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Re: Thermometers – Temperatures are rising again, so like US radiation monitors, they must stop the readings to hide the facts. As for the quality… nothing remains intact let alone functional when being bombarded by neutrons. At the very least it's entropy multiplied exponentially, at the most it's vaporization of whatever is in their way. FACT of basic physics
Re: Stalling and nothing being done. Nothing is being done, because nothing can be done, the technology simply does not exist. Neither robot nor human can withstand the reactor environments long enough to do anything functional. Opinion/fact? – via one article stating similar, one article stating complete meltdown of reactor # 2, and basic physics, but can't say for sure fact due to the lack of factual 'official' information.
Re: From government to TEPCO, they all need trials for crimes against humanity.
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Article at Zerohedge about Fukushima, with links to several other stories.
http://www.zerohedge.com/contributed/2012-06-01/previously-secret-1955-government-report-concluded-ocean-may-not-adequately-d
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CaptD just posted this one Sharp! Amazing stuff in this one:
Breaking – Exclusive:
Japan Attack, German Terror-Intel Group Complicit | Veterans Today
http://www.veteranstoday.com/?p=209288
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Whoopie go here and read the comments about halfway down about the story you posted.
http://enenews.com/facing-nuclear-winter-japan-ring-fire-live-long-enough-winter
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High humidity blamed… I thought the reactor was built to boil water?
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Damn right, I also so I thought …
Tepco has us mostly fools.
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Have a look at this video of Tepco workers trying to decontaminate the entrance to unit 2 as a pre-condition to replace the thermometers (also feat. on Ex-SKF):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nX_17XqHHhI&feature=player_embedded#!
If the video was in black & white and the workers had less sophisiticated masks, I would've thought this is from a Chernobyl documentary.
Decontamination? Not much has changed since 1986, methinks.
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the reactor melted down and is missing. the 60 tons of fuel is missing. a thermometer is malfunctioning, a thermometer is malfunctioning.
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Man you just gotta love 'Corporatese' and they way they twist meanings
First they tell us "No immediate risk" (But nothing about the risk 20 years down the road) … and now they call steam caused by Reactor Core Meltdown heat "high humidity" ….
Gee ya don't think it might have something to do with the mere 60 cm of water that OBVIOUSLY doesn't cover the core and it's boiling it off creating steam that's destroying the gauges????
High Humidity ….. sheesh how Orwellian ….
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