Published: January 20th, 2012 at 3:52 pm ET
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Title: Water falling like rain inside N-reactor
Source: The Daily Yomiuri
Date: Jan. 21, 2012
[...] Also, the water level inside the reactor was found to be lower than initially estimated. Although TEPCO believed water had collected to a height of 4.5 meters, the examination showed the water height was apparently less than four meters, as the surface of the water was not seen around the iron scaffolding set at a height of four meters.
As one reason why there was less water than TEPCO estimated, the company said the gauge that measures the location of the water’s surface did not work accurately.
However, the gauge placed 2.8 meters from the bottom of the vessel indicated a possibility there is water at that level, TEPCO sources said.
“It’s quite unlikely nuclear fuel was exposed, as liquid from condensation is dripping down,” a TEPCO official said.
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Published: January 20th, 2012 at 3:52 pm ET
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i am sure that most of us have unknowingly ingested some...
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Nice,… The melted fuel was probably not uncovered as it MAY be covered by ‘Dripping Water’…
Cold shtdown ? yeah right …
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I thought the reactor containments were being flooded with water to keep the fuel cool. Did they just fill it once? Could someone please inform me? lol
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Orwellian madness, I tell ya!
Hey I launched off of Admins calc and found out that 1 little pool could lace the human race to being 5% of the way to being Contaminated Meat.
http://nukepimp.blogspot.com/2012/01/world-population-is-5-of-way-to-being.html
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@stock: thanks for the flag. I’d have thought these projections to be on the conservative side. I’d also like to know if time-line projections can be extrapolated from what’s be revealed. My intuition is telling me that, within five years, it’s likely that a half – or more – of the global population will be contaminated. But that’s just my paranoia coming into play…
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Depends… on what you call “contaminated”. -.-
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nice avatar Centaur. And yes, you are correct in calling-out my free-wheeling words…
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Hi AFTERSHOCK!
Get me right, my words weren’t meant just as a “cool down” call. Your thoughts are basically right, that’s clear. And if you think it completely through, one sooner or later faces, that we all are in bull’s eye on this one like never before in radioactive history. Nuclear tests raised death levels dramatically all around the world, Chernobyl raised death levels dramatically all around the world. And Daiichi has the potential to (and is in a steady progress of) raising contamination levels worldwide to a completely new level. And furthermore to the already visible and countable effects, there will be aftershocks for generations from within the genes of mankind. All carefully medically researched in the past 50 years.
One has to face that all, when trying to feel the urge and unavoidability of fundamental and fast action – on site and also on worldwide energy ressource strategies – that keep decided minds going these days more than ever.
Greetings,
Centaur
PS: Your avatar looked like a blue tit, when i first saw it… like it.
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depends on what you call “paranoia”
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I seriously doubt that there is any water anywhere in the central containment structure except in the surrounding torus. The likelihood is remote that any water remains in the structure directly beneath the reactor with at least a 1′-3′ wide hole in the concrete bottom. The substrate is rapid drainage with R1-R4 being built on landfill and then on quite permeable bedrock.
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if the fuel has burned it’s way out of the building, then it is covered in water, the drinking water of Fukushima
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