Published: October 26th, 2012 at 8:33 pm ET
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(Follow-up to: Fukushima fire nearly twice as big as originally reported -- Photo of firefighters extinguishing blaze)
Interview with Nuclear Engineer Chris Harris
Nutrimedical Report
Oct. 25, 2012
Chris Harris, former licensed Senior Reactor Operator and engineer:
A couple of things jumped out at me right away [...]
That area has been cordoned off and is not an area where people would normally congregate.
So in other words, it’s probably not done by the story that we’re hearing, a cigarette fire or something like that.
You’d have to really go out of your way and really want to go there.
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Published: October 26th, 2012 at 8:33 pm ET
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This news entry is very skinny on substance… Some guy says it's unlikely to have been cigarette fire? No juicy conspiracy theory, no nothing?
I have to say I have hard time coming up with a convincing conspiracy theory for the fire either, but it does seem there are a few odd leads. Most notably the thick black smoke that seemed to be covering Unit 4 at the same time; 1+2 ultrahigh voltage switchyard and the Unit 4 hillside are opposite ends of the complex, there's no chance the smoke could've made it's way there, and little chance they were directly related. Did they just stick fire to some wet grass to cover for a fire elsewhere?
But in the news itself they say "no welding was taking place as had occurred in previous fires", sounds like it would be easy enough for them just to say "Oh right, we were welding together some makeshift tool or support there, a spark must've escaped" if that is as common occurrence as they imply.
The other oddity to me is that the smoke was clearly visible on the other web-cam for up to 45 minutes before a worker on patrol supposedly noticed it. If the smoke was that obvious on the cam, I can't imagine nobody on the site noticing it – and a group of workers were even lifted high up in the air where they could've likely seen even the fire at just that time! This would certainly fit on with them letting it burn on purpose, but again why so complicated, why not just say it was another welding accident?
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blimey -this just jumped out at me
More than a Dozen Nuclear Plants Near Hurricane Sandy’s Path Brace for Impact
Page added on October 27, 2012
“We will station inspectors at the sites if we know they could be directly impacted.”
NRC – people you can trust!/sarc
list of reactors in danger here
http://nuclear-news.net/2012/10/27/more-than-a-dozen-nuclear-plants-near-hurricane-sandys-path-brace-for-impact/
as we can trust the NRC as much as we trust TEPGUV as much as we trust the IAEA…
take a leaf out of the japanese citizenry, better get yer giegers going!
peace to all those on the eastern seaboard and those downwind,, northern europe in fact..
unless the wind is circulating inland
blimey again!
ive got you and me all in my prayers tonight
take care!
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Saying a piece of fuel rod with plutonium in it that blew out from the Unit 3 explosion heated up enough to start grass on fire, that would make more sense than wondering around in circles and saying they are not sure what happened but no one has died of radiation poisoning yet.
This post at Fuku' Diary is very alarming.
http://fukushima-diary.com/2012/10/fukushima-coolant-water-comes-directly-to-underground-water-boron-detected-from-underground-water-in-iwaki/
"…On 10/25/2012, Fukushima prefectural board of education announced 6.9 mg/L of boron was detected from the underground water in Iwaki city Fukushima. The safety limit is 1 mg/L…"
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Those firefighters are lucky that those things that jumped out at them, did not bite them.
Luckily, all of the wild radioactive animals have been defanged, so even if they jump at you, all they can do is gum you to death, from the inside out.
Thanks go to the wonderful people at FUKU for all of these radioactive gum bears
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Meanwhile, probably in a town near you, or maybe even in the town you are living in, life goes on, radioactively….
Uranium Mining Legacy; Toxic Waste For 1,000,000 Years; via A Green Road
http://agreenroad.blogspot.com/2012/03/uranium-mining-legacy-toxic-waste-for.html
Radioactive Toxic Waste Found In Drinking Water Globally (James Beck MD); via A Green Road
http://agreenroad.blogspot.com/2012/10/radioactive-toxic-waste-sold-as.html
Got radioactivity?
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I think the corium although deep underground has had time to heat the ground. Corium is at somewhere around 3000 degC I believe. The temperature at the surface is say around 60 – 70 degF-too lasy to convert. A large temperature differential will cause heat to flow. Heat is analagous to current-through variable. Temperature is analagous to voltage-across variable. Resistance is analagous to conductivity. Unless the heat at the surface is carried away in large amounts, the corium temperature over time will try to stabilize at some higher temperature than the atmosphere.
On top of all of this, the steam belching out of the ground is superheated and is around 1000 degF. So I see after almost two years the ground may be getting very hot. Like standing on a hot volano.
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Speaking of fire has anyone seen this video is it criticality at spent fuel pool 4 or something else http://youtu.be/KgEvNHsPgpU
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Yes.
The light-flash was spotted some time ago and I have been observing it regularly.
The flash is consistent.
See Forum: Web Cam
October 16, 2012 at 11:51 am ·
http://enenews.com/forum-fukushima-webcam-discussion-thread-june-30-2012-present/comment-page-20#comment-295938
October 25, 2012 at 1:20 pm ·
http://enenews.com/forum-fukushima-webcam-discussion-thread-june-30-2012-present/comment-page-21#comment-298374
"Something hot under the rubble?"
"Maybe somethings 'fizzling'?"
It's NOT some guy with a flashlight that's for sure.
I think there's something HOT there… very hot!
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Criticality? I don't know what to make of the flashes but I don't think it's a good sign that's for sure. Thanks ChasAha.
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I think if we knew the temperature of the ground, we might be able to approximately determine the depth of the corium.
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