Published: March 12th, 2012 at 1:47 am ET
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Title: The Prometheus Trap / 5 days in the Prime Minister’s Office
Source: AJW by The Asahi Shimbun
Author: HIDEAKI KIMURA
Date: March 09, 2012
[...] Footage of an explosion, with orange flashes of light emanating from the nuclear reactor building, was being shown over and over. Smoke billowed out and rose to the sky, while fragments of concrete from the damaged building littered the ground.
The images had been caught by monitor cameras set up by Fukushima Central Television in the mountains about 17 kilometers south-southwest of the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant.
A frowning Kan murmured, “The smoke. It’s black.” [...]
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Published: March 12th, 2012 at 1:47 am ET
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Two hydrogen explosions (probably one big hydrogen explosion that started on the north end and ran the length of the building, with a north and south exit point), followed by a bright flash on the top south side and then the tall column of black smoke that rose from the point of the flash.
I have no doubt that the hydrogen explosion triggered a detonation in the SFP. Nothing else makes any sense with the sequence of events.
I have seen people deny that there was spent MOX in the SFP, but it had been using MOX too long for there not to be MOX extracted during refueling.
A molten layer of uranium floating beneath the plutonium layer, the shock wave mixing the two layers together in a fraction of a second, critical excitation. KAPOW! The contents goes flying as if shot out of a mortar (1850 variety).
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Yep Ill buy that, but reactor 3 seems to be missing also.
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Hi Stock, I believe reactor 3 did not explode because the "well cap" is still covering the reactor, as seen in this video.
http://enenews.com/analysis-reactor-3-cap-appears-be-fractured-explosion-falling-crane-examined-possible-video
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Watched it several times, I don't see no well cap. Sure it might be there, but I see no evidence of it. The video is weird the way it kind of cycles over the same video back and forth to make you think there is more information there, than there really is, to mesmerize you. Sure the thermal imaging is kind of convincing…but where did that come from…the thermal imaging. I am a bit tin foiled up on that video. It looks a little too good, but without showing my the cap.
And if reactor 3 itself did not explode, what multi ton chunk of concrete went flying up 2000 feet? And what went flying sideways topping off the parapets of the turbine building, and what caused the walls of reactor 4 building to push inward…..just saying.
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A hydrogen explosion triggered a prompt criticality (small nuclear explosion) in the bottom of the spent fuel pool. What went flying was everthing in and above the SFP.
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Whether or not such a detonation occurred (I believe that it did), the details describing how should not be discussed here. Some people are bound not to discuss that type of detail and discussion could compromise our ability to participate in addressing how really severe a problem just having those materials in the environment is and block them from being able to help when it comes to the clean up.
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That makes no sense at all.
Don't discuss the bogeyman because someday we have to describe how bad the bogey is.
And beyond that…we may to pull him from under the bed…..just don't talk about him know…
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Downplay conditions to ensure the ability of sending workers in unaware?
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More like a psy-op to confuse, to make people think that somehow the way to act if you have the inside knowledge is not to discuss it, like you are in some secret club and you have a code of sworn secrecy….when if fact our job is to blow the lid off the information and spread it far and wide.
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It sounds like you are advocating "Let's cover it up". This site seems dedicated to busting the cover-up.
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What really happened?
http://agreenroad.blogspot.com/2012/02/what-really-happened-at-fukushima.html
Almost a year later, and no one knows FOR SURE.
It is odd that one year after the accident, no one seems to care what really happened. No calls for investigation, no demands for review of safety standards by regulators. No investigative journalists asking difficult questions of authorities or plant operators.
Just sound bites; cold shutdown, tourists returning, residents invited back, one year anniversary… sounds like party time.
Like everything is back to normal. NO accident happened. Just a minor incident.. 10% of Chernobyl is all… nothing to worry your pretty little heads about.
Just keep spending money; on doctors, dentists, drugs, cancer treatments, and long vacations in Fukushima.
And remember this; radiation is GOOD FOR YOU. Ann Coulter Says MORE Radiation Is Good For You, with no upper limits. Believe, believe, believe..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FXFUUGeV1DI
What color pill would you like? Blue or red?
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POSTED HERE AGROAD http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/03/11/japan-earthquake-radiation-fukushima_n_1336767.html?ref=green#comments
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As others before me have mentioned, any 'spent' nuclear fuel is MOX regardless of how it started, because the nuclear reaction creates plutonium 239 from uranium 238 due to the uranium 238 absorbing a neutron. (U238 + n => U239 => Np239 + ß => Pu239 + ß (leaving out the electron-associated antineutrinos that accompany beta emission)
There is no such thing as MOX Free Spent Fuel.
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You can say that again.
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Come on Enenews, what is this crap? Really want us to take interest in an organization of the very ones who are doing everything possible to cover up the truth. Story is about the redesign of a website and then at the VERY END OF THE STORY a comment is made about what the camera's recorded at the Daiichi plant when the explosion occurred,
A frowning Kan murmured, "The smoke. It's black."
This should be the beginning of the story not the END!
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What was the coarse of the conversation after this, what conclusion did they come to concerning the data from SPEEDI when joined with the facts about the explosion? Couldn't they have made the story about 6 days in the Prime Ministers Office?
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Are we reading the same story? The link is to a 35 page story, and the black smoke item is on the end of page 1, not the end of the story.
http://ajw.asahi.com/article/0311disaster/fukushima/AJ201203090078?page=2&imgIX=0
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Page 35 ends thus:
— Start of article excerpt
Ito remembers the exchange vividly to this day.
Ito: "If you withdraw from the Fukushima No. 1 plant, what's going to become of the reactors Nos. 1 through 4?"
Official: "We have no choice but to abandon them."
Ito: "What about the No. 5 and No. 6 reactors?"
Official: "They'll have to be abandoned, too. They will eventually become uncontrollable."
Ito: "What about the Fukushima No. 2 plant?"
Official: "We'll eventually have to abandon that, too."
However, an interim report by the government's investigation committee on the Fukushima nuclear accident concluded that the people at the prime minister's office had "misinterpreted" TEPCO's intentions concerning its considered withdrawal from the Fukushima No. 1 plant.
— End of article excerpt
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Amazing! Even at that early date they were contemplating abandoning both plants. I wonder how the spin-meisters were geared up for that.
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I'd guess "there is no immediate threat to the public."
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And:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zOthckEvROk&feature=youtube_gdata
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Yesterday on a tv program , prime minister said, there was 7 SFP…
Is it true?
or maybe a translation error was occurred?
If it's true … how much MOX there were?
Did it melt?
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there is a big common spent fuel pool that is not on top of the reactors.
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March 21 2011..A look at the black smoke coming from reactor 3
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yfnFFSv7uc4&feature=related
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I would like to know what prompted him to comment on the color of the smoke. Faced with that image, I would likely say "Bugger – we're done for now." Or if I was a clearer thinker I might have said "Send for my concubines, now". But I doubt if I would have commented on the color of the smoke UNLESS IT WAS SIGNIFICANT TO ME.
Had one of his experts primed him with "black, it's the pool, we're screwed" and "gray, it's only the reactor, we dodged a bullet there" or some such.
How about you readers? Were you motivated to consider the color of the smoke in that "Oppenheimer moment" ?
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Good question, ageezerofgiza. According to the article, he noticed that it was different from the previous "hydrogen explosion" white smoke. That seems plausible, but the article is a journalist's depiction of events, so who knows what really happened. The article goes out of its way to blame some bureaucrats and praise the (then) prime minister – perhaps appropriately, perhaps not. There's no way to tell.
Anyway, here's the relevant clip from the article:
"Prime Minister Kan was disturbed that black smoke was spewing out of the facility. It was definitely different from the white smoke he had seen two days before when a hydrogen buildup in the No. 1 reactor building caused an explosion."
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I think Kan's comment demonstrates that he, like any rational person, knew the Unit 3 explosion was very different than the Unit 1 hydrogen explosion. He knew "black" meant there was a large amount of bad stuff blasted high in the sky. He's not stupid like the deaf, dumb and blind reporters of the Mass Media.
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Perhaps InfoPest, but we don't actually know Kan's comments. The source of this story is a mass media reporter. This reporter was either close enough to hear Kan "murmur" and see him "frown" during an unscheduled real-time crisis-handling event, or has constructed such details, or is reporting hearsay. It is a reporter, not Kan, who tells us Kan "was disturbed" by the smoke color.
Whatever… after this period of intimate access, the media got no relevant access to the story for a year other than two structured bus tours of the Daiichi site.
So we're told.
It's certainly interesting stuff. The style contrasts strongly to the style of the recent NRC FOIA phone transcripts. One reads like a Hollywood script, the other is a transcription full of awkward human foibles and baffling gaps. They are what they are – but what are they? It's all still very murky to me. Meanwhile…
SHUT THEM ALL DOWN
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From The NRC docs.
Mr Lewis: "And there is a notable point.. 300 feet above Unit 3 there is a dose reading of 375 R per hour."
Pg.183-184
http://pbadupws.nrc.gov/docs/ML1205/ML12052A109.pdf
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That minor radiation reading was also covered by the 'official' pronouncements of 'no immediate harm' to the public… issued over and over again, while they delayed evacuation, and then slowly, ever so slowly starting moving a few people out, days after the whole plant melted down, as has been the case in all other nuclear disasters (way too late).
After all, how many people live 300 feet above the plant, or down wind in the ocean? No one.. So who cares if the air is melting from the high radiation amounts coming out of it? It is all safe, normal and non harmful.
So a few birds got fried by the 400 R while flying over the plant; but NO humans died. That is the important thing. No person was flying over the plant in an airplane while it happened, so we are all safe. Now let's get back to building a gajilllion more of these 'safe' plants.
(Satire)
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"….when if fact our job is to blow the lid off the information and spread it far and wide. "
A real treasure, that one! It helped me find my fire to do my part yet another day!!
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"The smoke, it's black…", meaning, it is burning uranium/plutonium.
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