Published: June 27th, 2011 at 10:16 am ET
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TEPCO halts water circulation due to leaks, NHK, June 27, 2011:
The operator of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant has suspended using decontaminated water as a coolant because of leaky pipes. [...]
[I]t halted the operation one and a half hours later after discovering water leaking from the pipes. [...]
TEPCO says it will repair the leaks and hopes to resume water circulation soon.
Published: June 27th, 2011 at 10:16 am ET
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Hahahahaha. My god this is becoming funny.
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Hello moonkai! Good to see you. Snark is GOOD FOR THE SOUL.
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Hi Whoopie. How are things? Hope all is well with you.
The thing with Japanese, is that they Can be actually be very good at one thing … But only once they master that “thing”over a long period of time . However, whenever things don’t go according to plan, it becomes a big “black hole”. TEPCO is completely lost. There is NO WAY they will succeed. Not a chance ! Not being mean, just being realistic. I have worked with them for a few years. Take them out of their comfort zone, and they are finished.
Crap I am on my phone. Is the plant smoking again bad ?
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Also, see below (http://enenews.com/tepco-halts-water-circulation-due-to-leaks/comment-page-1#comment-101043) for five consecutive posts giving the chronology of events relative to the “water purification system” (from June 8 to today).
I am getting tired of this story, hence the refresher for everyone on the “details” being reported (not that they mean anything, which is the point of the story).
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It is a very black comedy. Someone is having some fun with this.
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Q: How many nookyaler engineers does it take to change a light bulb?
A: Nobody can count that high.
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The light bulb is perfectly safe and poses no danger to human health. The light bulb will be vented nightly to reduce the humidity inside the room; used light bulbs will be thrown into the sea.
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oh, and the light bulb’s glow might cause some slight genetic damage, dry throat, and contaminated urine.
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Why do they need light bulbs????
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The Keystone Cops with the fate of the world hanging in the balance. I understand that pipes leak when they are involved in a 9.1 earthquake.
These failures would be much more tolerable in an evacuated environment.
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Japan moves ‘giant step’ toward resolving nuclear crisis
TOKYO – The operator of Japan’s Fukushima nuclear plant moved closer to ending its radiation crisis on Monday with the start of a system to cool damaged reactors that could also help avoid dumping highly contaminated water into the Pacific Ocean.
The move was hailed as “a giant step forward” by Goshi Hosono, an adviser to Prime Minister Naoto Kan.
http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/World/2011/06/27/18339651.html?cid=rssnewsworld
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Yes, it is pretty pathetic hailing this decontamination system as a giant step forward…I love how they discuss restoring stable cooling, but don’t explain how decontaminating water and pouring it back on top again like they are now is stable cooling.
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If the cores have completely melted and are burning thru the bottom of the secondary containment vessels, how will ‘restoring cooling to the cores’ do anything? There are no ‘cores’ left????
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CAM OPERATOR WAS (IS) ZOOMING IN AND OUT
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZIa6yble2gk&feature=player_embedded
PLANTS SMOKING
http://www.tepco.co.jp/nu/f1-np/camera/index-j.html
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It’s deja vu all over again.
How does this situation ever get better each time it occurs?
Now comes the group hope and prayers part that maybe the only reason for each of the previous temporary resolutions.
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Looks very bad now at cam!!!
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I am going to rent “1941″.
this is pure madness. Then, I am gonna watch “one flew over the cuckoos nest” …
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Here is a summary of news articles about the “water treatment system” (= “red herring” and “pressure relief valve” for the masses, while the irradiation of us all and the whole world continues unabated):
=> June 8: “TEPCO tests water purification system”
http://www3.nhk.or.jp/daily/english/08_16.html
Quote: “The company plans to start up the system on June 15th.”
Reality: The system is still not working as of today (June 27th).
=> June 12: “Water treatment system testing at Fukushima plant hits snag again”
http://www.japantoday.com/category/national/view/water-treatment-system-testing-at-fukushima-plant-hits-snag-again
Quote: “[TEPCO]’s preparations to begin testing a newly installed radioactive water treatment system … hit a snag again as the piping may be clogged”
Reality: Plenty of piping also has holes and a bunch of it is also completely destroyed. Does it matter that whatever piping remains is “clogged”?!
=> June 16: “Coordination holds key to successful nuclear plant water treatment”
http://mdn.mainichi.jp/mdnnews/news/20110616p2a00m0na013000c.html
Quote: “Japan is set to start operating a system to treat contaminated water … a project whose success depends on coordination among the five companies involved in the huge project.”
Reality: Given that TEPCO doesn’t have enough “coordination” to even write down names of workers getting irradiated while trying to fix their mess, this article suggests that the system is surely doomed to fail.
=> June 16: “TEPCO starts up water treatment system, but massive radioactive waste feared”
http://mdn.mainichi.jp/mdnnews/news/20110616p2a00m0na015000c.html
Quote: “The water treatment system is moving along as scheduled, although contaminated water leaked from a pipe,” Hidehiko Nishiyama, spokesman for the [NISA], told a news conference on June 15.
Reality: If the “scheduled” timeline for successful “water treatment” is “never” then yes, it is moving along just fine.
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=> June 17: “TEPCO starts cleaning highly radioactive water”
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english2010/world/2011-06/17/c_13936229.htm
Quote: “A key system to clean highly radioactive water started operation on Friday at the troubled Fukushima No.1 nuclear power plant, operator said.”
Reality: It may have run briefly, but not for long!
=> June 18: “Japan nuclear: Radiation halts water clean-up”
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-pacific-13819767
Quote: “Operators of Japan’s Fukushima nuclear plant have suspended an operation to clean contaminated water hours after it began due to a rapid rise in radiation.”
Reality: A “rapid rise in radiation” when dealing with the most radioactive water that might have ever existed on Earth? Who would’ve thunk that to happen?!
=> June 18: “Contaminated Water Treatment System May Not Re-Start for Another Week, as Trench Water Rises”
http://ex-skf.blogspot.com/2011/06/fukushima-i-nuke-plant-contaminated.html
Quote: “TEPCO halted the system due to higher than expected radiation level in the cesium absorption subsystem by Kurion … TEPCO hopes to investigate the cause and re-start the operation within a week.”
Reality: To “investigate” a situation where the answer is inhernetly obvious is only a side-show theatrics distraction for the masses, while the radioactive poisoning of the world continues without cease.
=> June 20: “Contaminated Water Processing at #Fukushima: The Water Was Simply Too ‘Hot’”
http://ex-skf.blogspot.com/2011/06/contaminated-water-processing-at.html
Quote: “TEPCO investigated the contaminated water treatment system that was halted and announced on June 20 that the problem was caused by the flow of the water that contained much more radioactive materials than expected.”
Reality: So, TEPCO, what WAS the “expected” amount of “radioactive materials” in this water that some estimate has as much radiation as the entirety released by Chernobyl into the atmosphere?!
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=> June 20: “Test of decontamination system continues”
http://www3.nhk.or.jp/daily/english/20_13.html
Quote: “The operator of the damaged Fukushima power plant is struggling to fix the problem that caused the suspension of a system to decontaminate highly radioactive wastewater.”
Reality: Yes, they are good at “struggling” and “hoping” and “scheduling” – though not so good at actually DOING anything.
=> June 21: “Key water treatment system halts temporarily at Fukushima plant”
http://mdn.mainichi.jp/mdnnews/news/20110621p2g00m0bu034000c.html
Quote: “[TEPCO] said a pump of a newly installed radioactive water treatment system … stopped automatically during its trial run early Tuesday morning, temporarily halting operation of the entire system.”
Reality: Ah, the ‘ol pump problems. Wonder if it might be due to all that naughty radioactivity again? You know, the incredible amounts of radioactivity not “expected” to be there at all?!
=> June 22: “Plant decontamination not working”
http://www3.nhk.or.jp/daily/english/22_28.html
Quote: “[TEPCO] is looking into why a system for decontaminating radioactive water … is not working as expected … The utility had said the system would begin full-scale operation in a couple of days.”
Reality: Once again, “a couple of days” would have made it June 24th at latest. It is now June 27th and the “system” is still not working.
=> June 22: “Contaminated Water Processing at Fukushima: Kurion’s System Achieved Less Than 1/20 of Hoped-For Performance”
http://ex-skf.blogspot.com/2011/06/contaminated-water-processing-at_22.html
Quote: “AREVA’s system fared better, achieving 40% of the hoped-for performance. The reason? The deadly combo of seawater and very high radioactive materials in it.”
Reality: Ah, more problems with the seawater and the radiation. Gee, when you pump more than 100,000 tons of seawater into multiple nuclear reactors in meltdown, whaddya expect?!
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=> June 24: “Contaminated Water Processing: AREVA Overachieved, Kurion Underachieved, But Full-Run Ready Next Week”
http://ex-skf.blogspot.com/2011/06/contaminated-water-processing-areva.html
Quote: “… making the entire system reduction at slightly over 1/100,000. Good enough to go, even though they had hoped for 1/1,000,000.”
Reality: So, it is definitely doing no better than 1/10th the “hoped for” reduction (oh, TEPCO, you “hopeful” hopeless fools). In any case, “full-run ready next week” they say. Well, there are a few days left still, so we will have to wait and see if “next week” turns out to be another con. Anyone care to place bets?
=> June 24: “Decontamination system meets performance target”
Quote: “The operator of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant says a trouble-hit system for decontaminating highly radioactive water at the facility is working as planned.”
Reality: Hang on! Isn’t it doing 1/10th what it was supposed to do? Ah, the ever-moving TEPCO “target” that is really only a way to keep everyone distracted and “hoping” that this completely out-of-control disaster might somehow “get better” and be “OK”!
=> June 25: “Resumption of decontamination system not in sight”
http://www3.nhk.or.jp/daily/english/24_35.html
Quote: “The operator of the troubled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant has still not resumed operations of a system to decontaminate highly radioactive water.”
Reality: Hey, wasn’t the “system” meeting the “performance target” only yesterday?! Yet today the resumption of the “system” is not in sight?! Do these people even read their own press releases from the day beforehand, such that they might notice the gross inconsistencies with the “information” (..cough.. BULLSHIT! ..cough..) that they are presenting? Guess not. That would take a little more smarts than in the whole of TEPCO it seems.
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Missed a link in the above:
=> June 24: “Decontamination system meets performance target”
http://www3.nhk.or.jp/daily/english/24_35.html
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=> June 27: “TEPCO halts water circulation due to leaks”
http://www3.nhk.or.jp/daily/english/27_31.html
Quote: “The operator of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant has suspended using decontaminated water as a coolant because of leaky pipes. … TEPCO has been attempting to run the decontamination system since June 14th.”
Reality: So, this article reveals that the “decontaminated water” (whatever this exactly means, in terms of remaining radiation levels in the water) cannot be used in any case, due to the “leaky pipes” (a “polite” way of saying that the piping is significantly destroyed).
=> June 27: “Japan moves ‘giant step’ toward resolving nuclear crisis”
Quote: “The operator of Japan’s Fukushima nuclear plant moved closer to ending its radiation crisis on Monday with the start of a system to cool damaged reactors that could also help avoid dumping highly contaminated water into the Pacific Ocean.
“The move was hailed as ‘a giant step forward’ by Goshi Hosono, an adviser to Prime Minister Naoto Kan.”
Reality: HANG ON!! This Reuters article talks about “the start of a system” yet the SAME DAY the NHK article says that TEPCO “halts water circulation”! Wow. Guess that one of these news agencies didn’t get the “memo” about what story to tell the sheeple today. Oops!
=> CONCLUSION: Any questions? I trust not.
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Another missed link in this one:
=> June 27: “Japan moves ‘giant step’ toward resolving nuclear crisis”
http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/World/2011/06/27/18339651.html
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that was good research savvy….shows just how they manipulate the timeline…..
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Look closely, see the earth moving, look how much the foreground and the plant move
Fukushima Daiichi Live Feed Video May 9th 2011 8:55 pm CST
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=eF0_YYLA-FA
Other flood-related TFRs were issued on June 13 for the Garrison Dam in Bismarck, North Dakota and on June 5 for rescue operations in Sioux City, SD.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=y3SHms0m9uQ
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the japanese government still find time for charity?? free (nearly free) sushi??
http://ex-skf.blogspot.com/2011/06/radiation-in-japan-government-wants-to.html#comments
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anyone notice nuclear news.net not posting this week??
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