Published: May 22nd, 2011 at 3:13 pm ET
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Tepco Plans New System to Cool Reactors, Wall Street Journal by Kosaku Narioka, May 22, 2011:
[...] The troubled utility, known as Tepco, said it plans to build a cooling system with water-circulation pumps and heat-exchange equipment by the end of May at the reactor No. 2 spent-fuel pool, by June at the reactors No. 1 and No. 3 pools, and it plans to have an even more advanced cooling system for the No. 4 reactor pool by July, Tepco official Junichi Matsumoto told a news conference in Tokyo on Sunday.
The reactor No. 4 spent-fuel pool generates more heat than the others, he said, because the rods that have remaining active life are in it. [...]
Mr. Matsumoto said vapor is still seen sometimes from the spent fuel pools at reactors No. 2, 3 and 4, depending on the weather and wind direction of the day. [...]
Published: May 22nd, 2011 at 3:13 pm ET
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Vapor makes clouds.
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Clouds make rain.
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Spent fuel pool heat …. hmmm. strange – i mentioned on this forum fairly recently and had also sent an email to A. G. / fairewinds on 5-1-2011 humbly suggesting the installation of heat exchangers – is this real or more soothing appeasement ???
this is recent:
http://www3.nhk.or.jp/daily/english/22_19.html
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Rain makes Beer.
Radiactive beer.
We’re screwed.
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…ummm, I meant Radi’O'active beer.
Comment spoiled due to typo. Damn.
I wish there was a way to edit comments on here. Oh well, I’ll go have a beer now.
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Oh no, message received, typo and all! Actually makes me want a nice cold one…. thanks!
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Actually, you just coined a good word:
radiactive
A “neologism” (as they are called). And, you save a byte or two omitting the O.
We’ll save that O for words like O’Bummer (or O’Barmy, if in England). He deserves both names right now. Arnie Gundersen should perhaps give him a call and set him straight.
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O’Blarny
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A lack of steam implies a lack of water to boil, since we know these reactors should remain extremely hot for a lengthy period.
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Annotated Video Of Fukushima Recovery Efforts From TEPCO
“ No time for comments – I need to get ready for my day job, but I thought this 13 minute video showing the recovery work at Fukushima was important enough to share immediately.
Original article
About Rod Adams Rod Adams gained his nuclear knowledge as a submarine engineer officer and as the founder of a company that tried to develop a market for small, modular reactors from 1993-1999. He began publishing Atomic Insights in 1995 and began producing The Atomic Show Podcast in 2005. “
http://theenergycollective.com/rodadams/57679/annotated-video-fukushima-recovery-efforts-tepco
** Caught my eye – inside look at the rescue workers efforts on video….. had to share!
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Scientific American Demands Perfection From Nuclear But Lets Coal, Gas, and Oil Off The Hook
“The editors of Scientific American published an op-ed titled Coming Clean about Nuclear Power: Regulators and industry have one precious moment to recapture the public’s trust that holds nuclear energy to an unobtainably high standard of guaranteed safety, absolutely secure operations, and complete transparency.
Now the toughest regulator in the federal government has to be even less understanding that there is no such thing as absolute safety, perfect people or failure proof machinery in order to “prove” itself to the critics.“
http://theenergycollective.com/rodadams/57803/scientific-american-editors-demand-perfection-nuclear-while-letting-competitors-selli?ref=node_related_posts
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Anthony – this caught my eye in the article “Nuclear power has a good safety record,” I just couldn’t read any more ….
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I hear that and give it no endorsement personally! Just think there`s value in knowing what `they`are up to. How can anyone say nuclear power is safe power with Fukushima puffing in the back and foreground is beyond my abilities with denial! If they can turn Fukushima into a happy ending, I will be the first to concede I was wrong about how unsafe it appears to be. I promise.
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adagio for strings, samuel barber, dont see that video if that music is playing, it’s too emotional I supose.
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How can anyone say nuclear power is safe….being handed a wad of cash. Every part of this “disaster” (could also be called negligence) can be traced back to someone willing to take any kind of risk with cash as the reward. Only little did we know we are all part of the risk equation without compensation, indeed we also had to pay for the energy we use.
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‘TEPCO acknowledges vapor’? Yes, only because we’re reporting it here first. Are they monitoring enenews.com? At this point, it would seem more reliable than their own sources. You’re welcome TEPCO!
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Yeah, maybe since everyone in the hemisphere has noticed strange new clouds in the sky!!! BTW, we had a meltdown in three reactors a couple months ago, pass the milk please.
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These clarifications are very important. People must not get the impression that the boys are just hanging out having a Sunday Barbecue – please forgive me this shameless sarcasm….. :-/
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Did anyone see an explanation for the massive cloud from Reactor No.4 on Saturday?
Massive Cloud from Reactor No.4
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Yeah, I happened to be watching live when that happened. But I think that was just fog rolling in quickly – I think I mentioned that in another thread somewhere. They also reference a flash of light, a ‘white blink of light’, just before it looked smoky. That blip lasted 1 frame, I think it was just an anomoly of the video compression. Didn’t strike me as anything explosive, or x-rays looming in the dark.
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I’d have to disagree Major, was also watching live feed at that time and initially noticed intermittant smoke plume from R4, building in size, with several (one massive) obscuration of the site which appeared to be emanating from R4 building.
Hard to be sure, but the timing was right, it was possible to predict the obscuration events by watching the initial smoke plume. When that settled down the events ceased.
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Plans,plans,plans. Doesn’t anyone DO anything anymore?
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