Published: February 1st, 2012 at 8:22 pm ET
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Title: Major new leak at Japan’s nuclear plant – Kyodo
Source: Reuters
Reporting by Mark Bendeich; Editing by Kavita Chandran
Date: Feb 1, 2012 5:46pm ET
More than 8 tonnes of water have leaked from Japan’s stricken nuclear power plant after a frozen pipe burst inside a reactor buiding [sic] [...]
Kyodo, quoting [Tepco], said the water had leaked from the No.4 reactor when a pipe “dropped off” [...]
“The total amount of leakage from the reactor was initially estimated to be 6 litres, but the utility revised the figure later Wednesday, adding that the leakage appears to have started at around 5 p.m. (0800 GMT) Monday,” Kyodo said.
“The utility plans to check whether there are similar cases in the other crippled reactors,” it added.
Read the report here
- Kyodo: Pipe connected to Reactor No. 4 drops off -- 1,000 times more radioactive water leaked than first reported
- Kyodo: Leaking water at Reactor No. 4 "in contact with fuel in spent fuel tank" -- May be from cold weather OR explosions
- Tepco sends emergency email to journalists: Leakage at Reactor No. 4 -- "They assume the water is from the well of the reactor"
Published: February 1st, 2012 at 8:22 pm ET
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The problem is not water in #4 – the problem is giant SFP explosions in #3.
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Exactly!
http://www.greenmedinfo.com/blog/plutonium-fukushima-made-it-around-planet
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http://www.reddit.com/r/askscience/comments/p6737/the_last_10_eggs_ive_cracked_open_were_all_double/
Any takers:
The last 10 eggs I’ve cracked opened were all double yolked. What causes double yolks, and why am I getting so many?
Question asked on reddit. Today…
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I have been finding between 1 and 2 dead doves every morning since November. None show any sign of trauma; most look like they are asleep om the ground.
I am in the SE corner of New Mexico. Has anyone else heard of this happening?
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Birdflu?
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Hi Flapdoodle,
I haven’t been finding dead doves here, but there have been lots of other dead birds around. Found a little sparrow dead in my backyrard the other day.
Every time I take my dog for a walk at a nearby reservoir, I find remains of small white birds. Usually there are 20 or more of them dead. All that is left is the wings.
I don’t recall seeing this last year. Most of the baby birds from a family of birds in my yard died last year. They were never able to learn to fly.
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BTW, the reservoir is on a flyway. Lots of birds overwinter there, or stop on their migration route. There are lots of ducks, geese, and swans, plus egrets, herons, and several other species.
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Simply put, 2 yolks are released from the ovaries at the same time , and are encased in the same shell…
Normally it takes a hen 24 to 26 hours to make and lay an egg.They lay an egg a day until it becomes too late in the day and they skip a day, sometimes when they start back up 2 yolks will be released at once , happens all the time …
She needs 14 to 16 hours of bright daylight to make eggs. In winter time, it is more common to have double yolk eggs. I have 2 hens out of 60 that regurarly lay double eggs. As hens age they can happen more often. They lay fewer, yet larger eggs after the first year .
Normally in commercial production, hens are kept laying for 72 weeks, then it’s off to the slaughter house, and new young pullets will replace the spent hens …. (they start to lay at 4 to 6 months, and become hens at 9 months)they lay well for 12 to 16 months, then they molt and stop for a month to 2 … this is why they are replaced, expensive to feed birds that aren’t laying, especially when 1 bird can eat 1/3 of a pound of food a day ….
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NEW MAIN on San Onofre: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/02/01/radiation-leak-san-onofre_n_1247658.html
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The rash of Unusual Events and frozen pipes seems to be landing en masse as the shills put out a February 1st offensive online, claiming everything is hunky dory worldwide on every site that will allow such tripe to be posted. Nero played the lyre sweetly as Rome burned.
The NRC and UNSCEAR are giving the shills lots of ammo for the assault.
Why didn’t the IAEA open a permanent office in Fukushima if it’s so %*#^°°$!!! safe?
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Dosdos: I don’t know if you saw my comment earlier in response to your links for shill articles, but the worst is found here:
http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/01/31/us-japan-fukushima-health-idUSTRE80U1AS20120131
The article is an outrage and illustrates propaganda at its most obvious
http://majiasblog.blogspot.com/2012/02/propaganda-reuters-and-fukushima.html
It must be really bad for the liars to trot out such poor quality propaganda; they must be desperate…
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I read the reuters crap, then read your critique. I agree, but also noticed the UN guy always specifies his “Japanese colleague, or Japanese expert or Japanese authority” stated this stuff. This covers the UN’s ass and lays the issue for a later date firmly in the lap of Japan. Diabolical.
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The “I am not a shill” zwitterion2 burst back onto the independent uk after “someone” posted his “I am not a shill” cv as a comment on a realistically critical David MacNeill article.
His mode of operation is to snap and slap at short posts and treat long thoughtful posts with a huge burst of wind. Refuses to out his real name due to “death threats” which were just suggestions from infuriated anti nukists to go help at the fuxu site.
As said “non shill” confessed in a post that he had been educated in the industry and though not working there hopes one day to get a paid job this confession has produced food for further questions about his credibility.
Time short but will keep on the case and may post back here if possible.
Their cases seem to run on repetition. This habit might be useful to work on.
The “death from fossil fuel” is a favourite ploy. For this I tend to use the stopped for speeding analogy where the police fail to stop an even faster speeder, you cannot rely on in court on that fact when your own case comes up.
Also the breeder reactor programme which will mop up all future nuclear waste, for this you have to point out not only that the structural and process risks are inherently huge and unmanageable, but this is “the technology of the future – always has been and always will be”.
Hope this helps
Love
M
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Thanks, Misitu. When I Google “zwitterion2″ from my Canadian location, I get about 3940 hits. Some seem to be about the person you describe. Some of them appear to link that nickname with a real name. It may or may not be the same person – I have no way of knowing.
He certainly seems to have left a trail at the Guardian:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/discussion/user/Zwitterion2
Try some searches if you haven’t yet done so and if you think it would be useful to help know your adversary better.
“zwitterion2″ is a fairly idiosyncratic user name, so perhaps it will be easy to trace “your” person’s trail on the Net if you can avoid getting bogged down in all the chemistry references.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zwitterion
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You have to wonder whats really going on. How can you estimate a 6 liter (approximately one and a half gallons ) leak and then revise that figure to 8 TONS ? Why no investigative reporting on that?
And why are pipes bursting due to freezing temperatures? These people are running a nuclear power plant surely they are more on the ball then that. I’m not on the internet enough to check up on suspected fires and such that James 2 and others talk about. I don’t agree or disagree I just don’t know.
But no doubt something more then what is being reported is going on. And quite frankly I would trust James 2 over reuters…..
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@Mark
“And quite frankly I would trust James 2 over reuters….. ”
Me too!
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That part of Japan in winter gets cold and they dont protect the temporary pipes from freezing? Thats pretty simple chemistry; water freezes below a certain temperature Kind of throws into doubt anything they say at this point. Not to say Tepco has any credibility left, just galling that they continue to be left in charge when they seem completely incompetent.
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all that salt water umped in originally should have some impact now
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@Replacant
Maybe those pipes are not freezing. Maybe they are melting?
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Good one, NoPrevarication. Looking at your quip in a different sense – frozen pipes don’t normally leak, even if they burst from the pressure of the ice expansion. The leakage doesn’t come until later, when the pipes thaw.
It would actually stop leaks (but also circulation) if the pipes froze and stayed frozen.
Perhaps they have had some freeze/thaw cycles though. I can’t tell whether the whole frozen-pipe-dream is one of their fairy tales or not. I keep thinking it might just be an excuse for them to spill liquid they have no room to store. Call me cynical.
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They’re trying to save money. Watch those yen closely, and the billions take care of themselves.
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apparently it was 16F overnight, how are the holding tanks and filter units?
if they are all shot, the leakage could be enormous when they melt.
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I think the reason for the change in total of water released is so high they knew the impact to the ocean & to the atmosphere. If we had real-time ocean & air data we will see the increase.
A Supervisor should be able direct unqualified workers to winterize the pipes. That is if the Supervisor is qualified & getting instructions from higher up. Communication was a major problem as the disaster unfolded. I wonder if it would be any better now.
I come here for honest news & believe anyone here over MSM.
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What happens if everything really freezes up ? All the cooling they are relying on would stop, No ?
What a Friking mess…
Gawd , you’d think that they weren’t running a nuclear power plant here , sounds like a bunch of kids managing a waterpark, or something..
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There were 8 tons of water leaked from R4 & all these pipes frozen or leaking. How could they keep the fuel cooled? And what don’t we know? I wonder if this deluge of reports are *meant to let us know it has melted down.
Kids running a lemonade stand would be more qualified.
I agree they should not be in charge. This is GENOCIDE~!~
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