Published: July 20th, 2012 at 3:01 pm ET
|
Follow-up to: Tepco: No 'major' deformation or corrosion seen so far in removed fuel assemblies (VIDEO)
Interview with Nuclear Engineer Chris Harris
Nutrimedical Report
July 20, 2012
At ~26:45 in
Chris Harris, former licensed Senior Reactor Operator and engineer: … the reason why they are trying to pull [the fuel assemblies] out right now is because they don’t know what it would look like. There’s debris in that pool. And that’s one of the questions they’re trying to answer: Is the new fuel damaged?
New fuel damage is bad for a lot of reasons.
It’s highly reactive — it’s possible — it’s easier to go critical on that than it is to go critical on spent fuel.
Published: July 20th, 2012 at 3:01 pm ET
|
sending...
Wouldn't it have been better to have a look 15 months ago?
Report Comment
The thing they're not mentioning is that the new fuel assemblies are the only ones they can remove right now.
You've seen the pictures with all the people observing the removal near the crane, and the shots of people scrubbing the newly pulled assemblies?
Had it been a used, irradiated assembly, all of those people would have received a lethal dose within seconds.
They're going to have to build some sort of water shielding contraption to remove the irradiated assemblies.
Report Comment
Wreedles: They have built a fuel transport container to move fuel out of SFP4. See page 13:
http://www.tepco.co.jp/en/nu/fukushima-np/f1/images/f12np-gaiyou_e_4.pdf
Report Comment
Thanks for the link Phillip, there is so much information in the survey maps that I want to go through slowly. The one thing that stands out are the dose rates around unit #3. Something bad is happening there that is causing increased dose rates for quite a distance.
Report Comment
Good point.. but I think they will NOT, NEVER, EVER make that distinction public..
They WILL report that you can hold this stuff in your hands, put in dishwashers, scrub it with brillo pads and handle it safely, but NEVER talking about the difference between new, old and melted fuel rods.
The Art of Deception: The Cult of Nuclearists, Uranium Weapons and Fraudulent Science; via A Green Road Blog
http://agreenroad.blogspot.com/2012/03/primer-in-art-of-deception-cult-of.html
IAEA, WHO, NRC And Others; A Web Of Deception? via A Green Road Blog
http://agreenroad.blogspot.com/2012/05/iaea-who-and-others-web-of-deception.html
Report Comment
Correct! And had it been a damaged assembly, "all of those people would have received a lethal dose within second."..as well as a lot of innocent people in the nearby area..Fukushima City and so on…This is not a project to try and simplify and 'save face' on..Just Saying..
Report Comment
[quote=Feliks]Nice look at the animation:
http://www.javys.sk/en/nuclear-facilities/interim-spent-fuel-storage/interim-spent-fuel-storage
Andrew[/quote]
And my animation, showing what you can do in 4 Fourth swimming pool in Fukushimie.
You need to build a new building, to the basement of the reactor building to insert with three new reactors, only to store the fuel. They manage any guarantees when possible earthquakes.After filling all the water also will be a guarantee of the & span settlement.
[img]http://www.new4stroke.com/nuclear.gif[/img]
Andrew
Report Comment
I would bet my last dollar that this is another YEPCO lie. I think the SFP was lost and they were trying to cover the nuclear poo with the Red Dragon.
Report Comment
Nuclear fuel that hasn’t been loaded into the reactor and bombarded with neutrons is pretty benign stuff. Unirradiated uranium gives off an occasional alpha particle (the nucleus of a helium atom) which can’t even really escape the bundle. Wearing gloves and regular clothes is more than adequate protection. This fuel is designed such that it can’t start spontaneously fissioning. It requires both a source of neutrons and some water to get the whole thing going, one without the other won’t start the chain reaction.
Report Comment