Published: January 8th, 2012 at 8:41 am ET
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Fukushima Diary translates a Jan. 8 update by sickened Fukushima author Emiko Numauchi
Reactor 4 : Spent fuel pool was boiling without water after 1/1/2012
Emiko Numauchi
Information from an actual Fukushima worker [...] according to her post
- After the earthquake of 1/1/2012, the pipe of spent fuel pool for reactor 4 was broken
- Pool completely lost its water
- Pool was boiling without water
- [The worker said:] Sooner or later, the truth will have to to be widely
known. Believe it or not, you will only regret. Wear a mask at least.(SOURCE)
But the fallout of this plant, write and solve it heard the information from the workers.
Broken pipe in the cooling pool of Unit 4 that the earthquake of January 1 so the state is now boiling.
Let me get the help and words he heard “Come out of hiding information is later overwhelmed anyway, I believe I believe in free will, I’ll only regret it later.
How to put a mask The Serve.
For more information about Numauchi, see: Emiko Numauchi of Minami Soma, aka “Numayu”, Speaks Up, May Testify in the Japan’s Diet About Her Health Problems
See also:
- Report: Huge, mysterious spike in cesium fallout after New Year's quake (CHART)
- Cesium levels rise sharply in Fukushima after New Year's quake -- Chiba too
- Report: Tepco sends "emergency" mail about Reactor 4 -- Water level decreasing at 5 times normal rate in tank near spent fuel pool -- Link to New Year's quake unclear
- Powerful quake rocks Tokyo region on New Year's Day
Published: January 8th, 2012 at 8:41 am ET
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So where is the jet stream today, some of you folks may want to stay indoors until we find out if criticality has/is still ongoing !
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Makes sense. High CPM’s over parts of U.S. for past 2+ days — going on Radiation Network results, which may not be that sophisticated. But was very high over San Francisco for 2 days. Now mod. high with Philadelphia coming in with high readings. Jet stream had shifted northward on 1/7/11. (Actually split.)
Today it’s moving over Canada, the Midwest, and the U.S. East Coast. Jet stream will move back toward California and “mid-band” of U.S. on Monday night.
Here’s a link to forecast for the U.S.:
http://virga.sfsu.edu/scripts/jetstream_model_fcst.html
Here’s a link to all the global models by region:
http://virga.sfsu.edu/crws/jetstream.html
Note: analysis as well as forecasting models available. Still shots as well as animations available. You should be able to launch a page where you pick your region, then build the animation giving the variables you choose.
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CA gets hit with the jet stream on 1/1/12, then it will shift eastward across the Midwest, and toward the east. It appears it will extend southward into Florida, but will miss a few states up around Maine.
For others with good rad monitoring equipment, would you please check rad levels as often as possible and post your data?
Grazzi.
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Will do I’m in PA.
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“but will miss a few states up around Maine.”….yay
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HoTaters, we definately had fog and radiation in Midwest, I did not leave the house on Tuesday, as there was a VERY DISTINCT ODOR in the air; burnt rusty nail, open cut (iron) metallic, with a dash band-aid / iodine. Goofy description, but close to what others confirmed in the area.
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The EPA gamma graphs show that gamma range 2 is higher than all the other ranges for Philadelphia:
http://blog.alexanderhiggins.com/net2/Philadelphia-PA-Real-Time-US-Radiation-Monitoring-Graph.aspx
This corresponds to the 100-200 KeV range for isotopes. Likely candidates are Krypton-85m, Cerium-141 and 144, Technetium-99m, and Uranium-235.
http://www.csupomona.edu/~pbsiegel/bio431/genergies.html
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Need to re-check this 1st link in a couple of days, only goes to the 4th ! Look for a spike then !
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I’m guessing it’s the krypton, it’s a gas and moves faster than those other substances.
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Krypton, sure hope superman doesn’t get taken down, we may need him!
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Bobby1, I’d like to learn how to interpret the data when looking at the EPA gamma and beta ranges. Where can I find a good discussion on this?
Thanks!
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Grateful for the information. Thanks Bobby1.
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Phoenix had 700 cpm beta on friday.
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Phoenix is getting nailed at the 18,000 foot level… it seems that Phoenix is always getting nailed.
http://mag.ncep.noaa.gov/NCOMAGWEB/appcontroller?prevPage=Model&MainPage=index&image=&page=Param&cycle=01%2F08%2F2012+12UTC&rname=UPPER+AIR+PARMS&pname=500_vort_ht&pdesc=&model=GFS&area=NAMER&cat=MODEL+GUIDANCE&fcast=006&areaDesc=North+America+-+US+Canada+and+northern+Mexico&prevArea=NAMER&currKey=model&returnToModel=&imageSize=M
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Bobby1–Thanks for the map. It cleared up a bit yesterday and today but we are supposed to be nailed again tomorrow (mon) and my kids go back to school after their break…
I want to keep them home, but cannot.
It is torture and I understand a the pressure to conform that the Japanese people are under…
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700 CPM !!!!!!!
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700, Death to many !
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Tepco officially admitted the decreasing water level of the tank at reactor 4 was caused by the earthquake on 1/1/2012. (Source) Tepco states the water did not flow into the tank from water cooling system but flew into the container vessel in stead. However they still have not announced they managed to fixed the broken part of the reactor.” -Fukushima Diary
http://enenews.com/tepco-new-years-quake-caused-water-level-drop-tank-next-spent-fuel-pool-4
Report: Tepco sends “emergency” mail about Reactor 4 — Water level decreasing at 5 times normal rate in tank near spent fuel pool — Link to New Year’s quake unclear
http://enenews.com/report-tepco-sends-emergency-mail-about-reactor-4-water-level-decreasing-5-times-normal-rate-tank-spent-fuel-pool-link-powerful-new-years-quake-unclear
I think each quake has been cause more and more leakage to the fuel pool !
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Wasn’t there an article here of the rise in radiation after the quake on the 1st ! F P criticality or from steam !
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Found it :
http://eenews.com/report-huge-mysterious-spike-cesium-fallout-after-new-years-quake-chart
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Hence the mad scramble all over #4 as seen in the TBS/JNN camera.
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Once again no warning from TEPCO, the Japanese agencies that should be monitoring this, the government, the IAEA, the U.S. govt., the U.S. Nuclear Regulator Commission, the U.S. EPA.
All Useless!
Right now they are sending each other emails about what is happening and how much radiation is being released. They are commuicating with each other but not with the public. We will see the emails months later about how they could have warned us but didn’t!
Yes, where has the jet stream been taking all of this radiation?
Criminal! Corruption! Immoral! Sinful! Selfish! Oh the humanity!
Shame, Shame, Shame!
No apology will ever be enough.
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We all should have thought of this about a week ago. When cesium levels rise in Japan, obviously it’s going to move toward north America next.
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I did
My suggestion on simple things we can do to mitigate damage.
http://nukepimp.blogspot.com/2012/01/what-should-average-person-be-doing-now.html
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Its like TPTB have this blanket response of doing nothing even though we are being exposed to varying volumes of emissions we receive no warning variations at all. The emmission must have increased with the reported caeseum spike but we sure never got any update to the increased health risk of breathing this crap in.
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looks like vancouver to me.
http://www.wunderground.com/wundermap/?zoom=4&rad=0&wxsn=0&svr=0&cams=0&sat=0&riv=0&mm=1&mm.mdl=GFS&mm.type=SURPRE&mm.hour=0&mm.opa=100&m
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Thanks. Nice radar model, and when you use the slider on the right side, you can get the forecast for several days. Works well and easy to visualize.
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So Where is the assessment to quantify or explain the extent of increase in threat that is credible and does this change the game plan for the human in Tokyo or the cetacean in the pacific does the percentage and ratio of ionizing radiation to beta particle mean more than the life of my daughter in Seattle.Lastly should I seek answers from presidents physicists or propfetic seers?
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Where indeed. Wouldn’t we all like to see such an assesment for the entire northern hemisphere and world. The fact that it is not forthcoming can only mean it is ‘not good’…..
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May be best just to get a counter, if she wants to know the truth, she may not find it other sources !
We are really on our own here !
Looks as if the J S over North East US also !
Thx for that link xstatic, its movable to follow J S path !
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“Pool completely lost its water
Pool was boiling without water ”
Sure would like to see a better explanation than this of what was going on with SFP4. ‘Lost its water’ is easy enough to undestand, but ‘boiling without water’, what is meant by that exactly? Anyone care to hazard a guess?
I assume it means the water level fell to a point where the entire thing started to boil.
Were the spent fuel rods exposed to air? If so, for how long? Did any melt?
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If water was lost at rate reported on 1/1/12, it was due to go dry on 1/5/12 or 1/6/12. May have lost the water sooner. The video with all the emergency crews going in, and the video Nukelchen (sp?) posted showing possible fire, and smoke boiling up out of a pit in #4 was posted on 1/6/11, right? Emergency crews and fire trucks racing to the scene the same day. ‘Looks like it started boiling/went dry/burning on 1/6/12.
Of course we are surmising on the “evidence” we see from a distance, so who knows what’s really going on.
Water was being lost at rate of 1 meter every 12.6 hours or so. Ann reported 30 feet of water cover the SPF “under normal conditions.” So that meant no water in 4-5 days (or less) from 1/1/12.
Can we assume at this point the workers were unsuccessful in replacing the damaged cooling pipes? Looks like it.
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January 6, 2012 Fukushima Diary: MEXT quits fall-out report in weekends
http://fukushima-diary.com/2012/01/mext-quits-fall-out-report-in-weekends/
What great timing! (Not)
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As long as the pool is not damaged too bad they should be able to keep pumping water in with the boom truck hoses, but who knows they seem to be reacting at a 3 level, when we need them to be on their game at a 10 level.
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Hope they do not run out of pure water.
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StPaulScout,
Guess we will have to read between the steady half-truth and non admissions and fill it in as to if empty they must ave gotten hot enough to produce some nasties and if the smoke/steam video surface we can rest assured criticality happened !
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Wonder if the put nitrogen in the pool.
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This is a possibility, Yes !
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Probably Boron not Nitrogen
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What worries me is when the water flashes into steam it stops/impeded being a moderator for neutrons.
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If the pool lost it’s water, it would take no more than a couple hours for the pool to completely melt down.
That pool contains a full load of brand new fuel that was ready to go into Reactor #4 – which is the largest of 1-4. That pool also contained almost double the amount of spent fuel of any other of the Reactor building spent fuel pools. It also sits very close to the common spent fuel building.
WHILE IT IS MELTING DOWN IT IS RELEASING as much radiation as had been released in the first 8 months of the disaster.
Game’s over for Japan.
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Better than used fuel
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Its both used and new
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Sorry to say…I KINDA understand these farmers. I mean they obviously have no other choice than to try and stay. Thing is, the rice they grow will contaminate people. Horrible circle, deadly circle – around and around radiation will go.
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The Japanese have a very strong sense of duty toward others in their society, and their children, which is admirable. Under the circumstances, this sense of duty may work against them. What a dilemma!
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Duty toward others? Toward whom? Toward their own citizens, who are still not being adequately informed about dangers? Toward the children in Fukushima, who still have not been evacuated? Toward consumers, who are still not being given good information about food contamination? To the Japanese, Korean, and other Asian fisherman, whose fishing areas have been deliberately contaminated? To the rest of the northern hemisphere, starting with the US and Canada, who are also not informed when another big burst is sent in their direction?
I grant, there are isolated instances of duty/honor–the actual workers at Fuku-Daiichi, fathers sending children and wives away while continuing to work in the area, the monk who is allowing people to dump contaminated soil on his temple grounds.
But most of what this disaster has revealed is an utter indifference to the impact of Japan’s (TEPCO’s, the government’s, any farmers who knowingly sell contaminated foods) actions on other people–their own people as well as those in other nations.
I used to think Japan was a culture in which honor was taken seriously. This crisis has dispelled that myth. There is only a false honor–what they call “saving face” is really about covering one’s ass and diminishing one’s liability and costs.
They cannot control the radiological releases from the plant, but the decision not to inform the public–and the world–about on-going releases/spikes (and about the true nature of the threat–e.g., Pu, etc) in a timely way so that people can take precautions is a deliberate and immoral choice. There is no honor and no “sense of duty to others” here.
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AMEN!!!
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I understand your reasoning, but we’re talking about people having to overcome 1,000′s of years of societal and cultural conditioning. I’m not saying it’s rigtht or wrong, just what IS.
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What these poor people don’t understand is that there is no saving the land.
It’s lost.
There is no saving Japan, it’s lost . I’d say forever, but of course that’s not completely true – in the course of history, thousands of generations is effectively forever.
All you can do is save yourself from the immediate danger and go somewhere where the rest of your life will be easier than staying.
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Denial is a powerful thing.
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Did I see a video cam of smoke coming from unit 4 on the 1st shown later here ?!
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Yes, check at the radiation monitoring area. Nukcelchen posted a video there. (I’m not sure I’m spelling the name right.) Pretty controversial — there’s lots of debate about this.
Admin. also posted a link to “unusual activity seen around Unit 4″ or something like that in the title on 1/5/12 or so. Check the “other articles” for Japan/Fukushima.
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Actually, am not sure if the smoke was seen on 1/1/12 or not. Maybe someone else can chime in here.
The report on 1/1/12 was the water pipes (cooling) for SPF #4 were damaged, and there was concern about the ability to continue with cooling.
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X-Doc, here’s a link for you:
http://enenews.com/watch-workers-walk-on-top-of-reactor-no-4-other-interesting-activity-near-plant
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And another one:
http://enenews.com/tepco-new-years-quake-caused-water-level-drop-tank-next-spent-fuel-pool-4
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So the quake on the 1 gas made the water level drop twice a fast as before quake, this is their story and we can take it at face value right ? !
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gas = has, opp’s
Still looking for the smoke/steam vid around the 1st from #4 !
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“Unit 4 that the earthquake of January 1 so the state is now boiling.” = produces steam and isotopes released into the air !
Let me get the help and words he heard “Come out of hiding information is later overwhelmed anyway,” = truth was overwelming ?
“I believe I believe in free will, I’ll only regret it later.” = have to do these things for now,sorrow later ?
“How to put a mask The Serve.” = We Must Lie ?
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I’m sure this has been posted. It is a futuristic video called Blind.http://youtu.be/E2SgonaD4U0
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Thanks for the supply of meaningful links xdrfox.
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And yet another one on the status of the structure:
http://enenews.com/it’s-leaning-japan-nuclear-engineer-concerned-about-collapse-of-reactor-no-4-oxidation-must-have-weakened-building-material
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Thx for all the links HoTaters !
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You’re welcome. When the news is coming fast and furious like this, it can be hard to keep up.
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#3 reactor blew up and ejected most or all of its load into the air, according to NRC report.
#3 spent fuel pool blew up and ejected part or all of its load, according to Gunderson. See videos below to see how both happened.
Now we have #4 spent fuel pool melted down. It let loose a LOT of radiation, It has not blown up yet, but it may at any time..
ALSO, the other FUKU melted down or through reactors are STILL emitting radiation via ‘vent’ stacks high up into the air, where no one is measuring the radiation. No one seems to care where it goes or what it does when it gets there. No radiation meters are located downwind of FUKU, and there are no radiation meters on vent stacks at FUKU, if we are supposed to believe that
Based on above scenario, there have been ZERO official total radiation measurements… There has been ZERO scientific analysis of all radiation released, into water, groundwater, into air, including uranium and plutonium, based on the above REALITY, not the faux news releases that the corporate controlled press keeps putting out.
Destroyed Spent Fuel Pool SFP3 of Reactor Unit 3 at Fukushima
http://youtu.be/KugIrnThul0
WHERE IS FUKUSHIMA REACTOR 3?
http://youtu.be/0ZBYQ5opMLs
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Gday GreenRoad….What can i say but “crikey” i worry about the same kind of thing. Stay safe.
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NRC report is correct, Gunderson is incorrect.
#3 SFP is on fire now, and has been for awhile. See this video from Nuckelchen which clearly shows two fires burning in SFP3
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HANAVVpNvZk&feature=player_embedded
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Sorry, I do not see any fire.. I do believe the pictures in the video I posted. Did you watch it? It shows that the reactor and spent fuel pool is no longer there; Both should be in the top floors of the #3 building, but it is gone completely. Only the lower floors are left with holes where the reactor and spent fuel pool should be.
Maybe it was there earlier in the year when they took the video I posted, where there is water inside of it. It was still holding water at some point, but at this point, I surmise that the spent fuel pool and reactor is gone, and what is left is whatever was not blown up/out, or melted down, whichever theory you want to follow.
The fires you point at could happen with the above scenario. I agree that you see fire at the #3 building. That would make sense given the above scenario.
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Yes I watched your video.
And whoever narrates it has no idea what he’s talking about. The top two “sections of #3 that are blown completely away in that video were the wide open reactor room. The only thing in there was equipment to service the reactor. The reactor and the sfp were both below this level.
The video does not prove the reactor is “gone”. However it does clearly show the Spent fuel pool holding water and intact – even if it is filled with debris.
I believe the reactor itself was actually gone at this point, but the video proves nothing to that effect.
The pictures are good though.
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Either the #3 spent fuel pool exploded, or the #3 reactor exploded, or BOTH of them exploded, one after another. At LEAST ONE of them did go BOOM.
Take your choice. Since no one knows for sure, and no one in charge at Fukushima is talking, we are left to debate back and forth as arm chair quarterbacks, wondering, and guessing.
My take is that the yellow small pieces scattered all over in the video are evidence that the reactor is gone. (The reactor was made of yellow painted metal, right?) Since the spent fuel pool was ABOVE the reactor, my logic says that since I cannot see a reactor, that the spent fuel pool is also gone. (It should be visible ABOVE the reactor level)
Once the #3 reactor went boom, I believe the #3 spent fuel pool went along with it, in a rapid succession, due to the shock wave effect and compression of the melted fuel layers inside the pool.
Since I am a rank amateur, everyone can make fun of me for not knowing anything and prove me wrong. I am willing to go out on a limb and state that what I see, is what I believe. It could be that I am just a fool and know nothing..
On the other hand…. what difference does it make if I am correct? Either way, a TON of radiation was released that is NOT being counted at all.
None of the radiation release estimates I have seen count multiple spent fuel pools melting down either partially or totally either.
Bottom line, we are just debating HOW BIG this coverup is. Is it a coverup that only talks about .01%, 1%, 10%, or ??% of the total radiation, plutonium and uranium released into the air?
No one is combining radiation released into the air with ocean, groundwater, onsite tanks/filters, spent fuel pool releases, spraying on forests, etc…
Hopefully, we will be able to live long enough to get to the truth someday…
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Anyone feeling run down VIA Jet Stream passing overhead in the past month ! Of course you may have had to spend a bit of time outdoors !
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Yes I’m wiped out
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There was just a comment on the webcam thread that I hadn’t considered.
We now have pretty good evidence #4 is burning hard.
By rough calculations FUKU is emitting 15 Billion BTU’s per hour into the atmosphere.
That heat is going straight up into the atmosphere – high into the atmosphere – like a chimney.
And it’s carrying anything that’s left over from the burning right along with it.
Truly terrifying…
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Anyone remember the post about the high altitude satellite readings that mimic what happened right before the Category 9 earthquake hit?
Supposedly, this is being created by the vent stacks shooting high amounts of radiation from the multiple broken and leaking reactors way up into the stratosphere, deforming the energy field of the earth and causing these weird readings, and possibly affecting the weather globally.
It is good that radiation is reduced locally so workers can keep trying to save what is left.
It is bad that the radiation released DAILY, 24 HOURS A DAY, from here to eternity, is going around the world and will come down in the jet stream, with the rain, snow, fog, etc. There is no end in sight…
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Especially last week’s been exhausting. And unusually upset digestion.
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Well, now that you mention it ….
Yes, fatigued for two days (Friday and Saturday). CPM counts from Radiation network were high during those two days. Also nauseated at times. Haven’t had fatigue for several months, so was wondering what it was about. Chest felt kinda funky and had swollen lymph nodes under my chin. Yucky feeling in chest, the usual “nuke puke passing overhead” sensations!
Am near entrance to CA Central Valley, just inland from S.F. Bay.
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yes! i’m moving and just can’t find the energy.usually my batteries are charged and i can’t barely sit down. not this week though.all these precautions my family and i take and it seems for nothing.got hit on new years pretty bad (for ne ohio) and since then no one has any energy.
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Interesting video that does NOT show the explosions and MASSIVE releases of radiation, but does illustrate in a very dramatic fashion what the radiation release looks like. Remember, this is STILL HAPPENING. It has NOT STOPPED, despite all of the faux news that FUKU is in ‘cold shutdown’…
Any comments on the second reactor being shown at the end of the video, also releasing radiation, on other side of Japan?
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ELE !
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Interesting, from this map of NPP’s in Japan, it looks like Ohi NPP…
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Only 3 left operating out of all 54 nuke plants as of this week..
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I remember tepco saying that they could not completely fill the #4 spent fuel pool, because of its structural integridy, meaning that they filled it just enough to safely cover the rods, not covered to the usual 30 feet …
The pool would have collapsed from the normal weight loads
So if water was leaking fast, they had a lot less room for error, and less time than normal before the top of the rods became exposed…
so the math you guys did was based on the 30 feet under, not 5 feet or whatever miniums they used …
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Cindy, The structure is getting weaker by the day, if the do not build on-site a new tank all is for not !
Any concrete/steel trucks seen going to plant lately !
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One more good earthquake should do it …
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Any concrete/steel trucks seen going to plant lately !
They have to build new fuel pools and store these in a better stable condition !
It is the ONLY thing to do to avoid more catastrophe !
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They need about 12 feet water to keep the radiation from being deadly to a worker above it.
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Oh, lovely, just lovely ….
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They should fill the entire structure from the bottom up with boron sand.
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I still wonder why they didn’t do this months ago!
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It’s possible they are now doing that with #3.
It looks like one of the cranes is spraying something black over the SFP3 in the JNN cam view – but I can’t tell really because the spacing is odd. In the 2d cam view it looks like it’s spraying over #3, but when you consider 3 dimensions, it doesn’t seem right. Strange…
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On Fukushima Diary there are pictures of the flying crane by Reactor 1 now. The crane stopped touching the ground in 2012 …. Nothing surprises me anymore – the question is now what’s real on the Tepco camera – not what is fake.
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alexa,
Or looped, really taken from anouther day or night !
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The red bottom part of the crane is still there. The white part is not really missing : due to far heavier video compression, it is mixed with the white of the wall.
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Press Releases
Press Release (Jan 08,2012)
Plant Status of Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station (as of 3:00 pm, January
*The updates are underlined
All 6 units of Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station have been shut down.
Unit 1 (Shut down)
-Explosive sound and white smoke were confirmed after the big quake
occurred at 3:36 pm on March 12, 2011. It was assumed to be hydrogen
explosion.
-At 3:37 pm on March 25, 2011, we started injecting freshwater to the
reactor and are now injecting fresh water by a motor driven pump powered
by the off-site transmission line.
-At 10:11 am on December 10, 2011, in addition to water injection from
water feeding system, we started water injection from piping of core
spray system to the reactor.
Current water injection volume is approx. 4.6 m3/h from the reactor feed
water system and approx. 1.9 m3/h from the core spray system.
-At 1:31 am on April 7, 2011, we commenced injection of nitrogen gas into
Primary Containment Vessel.
-At 11:22 am on August 10, 2011, we started cyclic cooling for the water
in the spent fuel pool by an alternative cooling equipment of the Fuel
Pool Cooling and Filtering System.
-On October 28, 2011, we completed installation of the cover for the
Reactor Building in order to contain dispersion of radioactive substances.
-At 4:04 pm on November 30, 2011, we started operation to inject nitrogen
into the reactor pressure vessel.
-At 6:00 pm on December 19, 2011, a full-scale operation of the PCV gas
management system started.
Unit 2 (Shut down)
-At approximately 6:00 am on March 15, 2011, an abnormal noise began
emanating from nearby Pressure Suppression Chamber and the pressure
within the chamber decreased.
-At 10:10 am on March 26, 2011, we started injecting freshwater to the
reactor and are now injecting fresh water by a motor driven pump powered
by the off-site transmission line.
-At 2:59 pm on September 14, 2011, in addition to…
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Sorry about the last post just wanted to post Unit 4 Status as of 01/08/12
Unit 4 (Outage due to regular inspection)
-At around 6 am on March 15, 2011, we confirmed the explosive sound and
the sustained damage around the 5th floor rooftop area of Reactor
Building.
-At 12:44 pm on July 31, 2011, we started cyclic cooling for the water in
the spent fuel pool by an alternative cooling equipment of the Fuel Pool
Cooling and Filtering System.
-At around 1:00 pm on January 8, at circulating cooling system for spent
fuel pool of unit 4, we found water leakage from 4 points of cooling pipe
of air fin cooler (System B) when we tried to conduct scheduled switching
of air fin cooler (From System A to System B). Currently, we are
investigating the cause of the leakage. Leaked water is purified water
(pure water)* and is not contained radioactive materials. Now we secluded
the air fin cooler from the system to prevent the spread of water leakage.
In addition, the cooling of spent fuel pool has no problem because we are
currently using air fin cooler (System A) to cool spent fuel pool.
* Purified water (pure water): The water from Sakashita dam
-At 10:58 am on November 29, 2011, in order to decrease more salinity, we
installed Ion exchange equipment and started the operation of such
equipment.
-At this moment, we don’t think there is any reactor coolant leakage
inside the primary containment vessel.
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Ha! they report that there is no reactor coolant leakage inside the primary containment vessel on #4?????
There was no fuel in #4. The cap wasn’t on…
They must think people are really stupid…
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What does this sentence mean?
“Pool was boiling without water”
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Most like translation, of boiling when low on water !
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Spent Fuel Pool #4 Links
On the morning of Tue March 15, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) released a statement warning that the Japanese authorities had reported a fire in spent fuel pool #4.
Japanese authorities also today informed the IAEA at 03:50 UTC that the spent fuel storage pond at the Unit 4 reactor of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant was on fire and radioactivity was being released directly into the atmosphere.
At the time of these reports, dose rates of up to 400 millisievert per hour were reported at the site. Japanese authorities stated that the the fire in the pool was caused by a hydrogen explosion. (http://www.iaea.org/press/?p=1248)
The fuel pool fire was reportedly extinguished later on March 15 (IAEA http://www.iaea.org/press/p=1252).
However, Jim Riccio, a nuclear expert for Greenpeace, reported on March 16 to The Guardian that the spent fuel pool at unit 4 was still boiling: “The spent fuel pool in unit 4 is boiling, and once that starts you can’t stop it… The threat is that if you boil off the water, the metal cladding on the fuel rods that is exposed to the air, and is volatile, will catch fire. That will propel the radiation even further” (cited in Goldenberg, 2011 3/16).
On March 19, The Los Angeles Times reported that spent fuel pool #4, which contained the reactor core for unit 4, was cracked and leaking, and in danger of overheating (Maugh, 2011). The report that a fire occurred at spent fuel pool #4 was later confirmed in an IAEA report (IAEA “Japanese Earthquake,” 2011), although the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Committee subsequently tried to deny it in June (Daly, 2011).
On June 20th Tepco reported that the water in spent fuel pool #4 was down by two-thirds as of June 11th and that radiation levels were so high workers could not approach the pool (“Tepco Injects” http://www3.nhk.or.jp/daily/english/20_03.html).
The pool at Unit #4 was not the only one to have problems. The Guardian reported…
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The pool at Unit #4 was not the only one to have problems. The Guardian reported on March 16 that a fire had broken out in the #3 spent fuel pool (Goldenberg http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2011/mar/16/japan-nuclear-fire-fuel-pools-radiation?INTCMP=ILCNETTXT3487).
I’VE ALSO ASSEMBLED SOME LINKS HERE
http://majiasblog.blogspot.com/2012/01/on-spent-fuel-pool-4.html
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missing cite for Goldenberg
Goldenberg, Suzanne. “Japan Nuclear Crisis: Fire in fuel pools ‘would raise radiation exposure’. The guardian (2011, March 16): .http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2011/mar/16/japan-nuclear-fire-fuel-pools-radiation?INTCMP=ILCNETTXT3487
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Wednesday 16 March 2011
“Tokyo Electric Power (Tepco) confirmed a fire in Fukushima Daiichi’s No 4 reactor on Tuesday, following an explosion that damaged the structure housing the massive concrete pools storing fuel rods used in the reactor. A further fire broke out at the No 3 reactor on Wednesday, where a fuel storage pool had overheated and may have let off radioactive steam….”
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2011/mar/16/japan-nuclear-fire-fuel-pools-radiation?INTCMP=ILCNETTXT3487
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Anne, Good Fine!
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that is, FIND!
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Hey when the world is burning down, don’t sweat the small stuff LOL
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Oh my God,
how can you believe this Women but not Tepco?
Her Report is Gossip and nothing else!
We can see the Leak which create all this
small trouble here:
http://www.tepco.co.jp/en/nu/fukushima-np/images/handouts_120108_02-e.pdf
In the case the SFP start to be without Water
we would see a multiple Spike of all kind
of Radiations!
And this Women would be already death
like everyone else in Miami-Soma!
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I would believe what the White Rabbit says right now, before I would believe Tepco…
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I would not mention God & Tepco in the same sentence. Maybe Devil & Tepco will be a more accurate association. Who is your God?
On what basis are you saying the woman’s statements are not correct? Are you sitting next to Reactor 3 and 4 at Fukushima right now?
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We did see spike on radiation,
Are you for real Human?
But I wonder your motivations, of course TEPCO lies through their teeth, there is no need to even visit that issue anymore.
Death wont come that quick.
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hi human
you have a point when you say that local citizen monitors, acro (who are on the ground teaching ) and safecast are monitoring the situation!
if all the individuals were conspiring and the were getting long slow intense peaks or long duration highly contaminated gases, they wouldnt hang around! anyone with a half decent geiger can tell if its that sort of situation.. apart from hotspots, which there is clear multiple evidence by these same citizen monitors!
so i tend to side with your cautionary position here and am left wondering where the isotopes may have gone if there was a release! ive been careful to avoid this subject as its not what i concentrate on, but have been keeping a watchful eye on nucks excellent work and the great comments, posits and speculations!
in the event of something seriously going on you will definately hear it on the cam thread! and i respect everyones efforts to that end… i hate censorship too!
as i said the first news of something bad wil be from nuck and the crew! the second news will be from you, safecast and acro with a plethora of silent activists groups feady to hit you tube etc and i wouldnt be surprised if evacuation plans for such an event hasnt been drawn up by the local citizenary and activist groups (of which i believe there are many..
human is our man on the spot.. and i support him for that.. i support and respect anyone who is on the front line!! especially the children.. as you already might have guessed!!
love you all here! jusy felt i should say something on this aspect of the situation..
stage 1 …. nuck the tireless and the gang
stage 2…… human and a few thousand others (front line troops!!)
stage 3 errr havent got to that yet but it involves breaking the speedlimit allthe way to norway.about 1800 kilometers. spare bike ready and waiting, 1 clean pair of underwear (just in case) and a couple bits. peace
we have to develop some basis for trust, even with different opinions
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Fukushima Diary is posting new earthquakes near Fukushima on a near-daily basis. They are all in the 4.0-4.5 range.
Could it be that the leakage of the corium and/or radioactive water from the damaged plants is actually triggering the quakes?
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Is it just me, or does a certain regular on enenews do a delicate balancing act of always partially acknowledging the damaging radiation from Fukushima, but also always giving Tepco the benefit of the doubt, but never crossing over into full pro nuke shilldom?
I’m all for honest debate, but there is no debating these nuclear time bombs. We must strive towards shutting all of them down worldwide, as soon as possible, as in yesterday. The planet can not take too much more abuse (and it’s very possible we’ve already passed a tipping point).
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It’s okay NoHoBear, Most people here do understand the human condition and everyone is entitled to their opinions.
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It seemed humanely obvious to me.
And
Shut them all down!
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