Published: August 1st, 2012 at 1:12 am ET
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(Subscription Only) Title: TEPCO floats balloon plan to inspect reactor’s top floor
Source: AJW by The Asahi Shimbun
Date: July 31, 2012
[Tepco] plans to inspect the top floor of the No. 1 reactor building using a balloon equipped with cameras, possibly in early August.
The plan [...] is part of preparations for extracting nuclear fuel from a spent fuel storage pool on the top floor of the No. 1 reactor building.
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Inspection from above is difficult, because the No. 1 reactor building has been encased in a protective shield since October.
TEPCO plans to inspect the top floor of the building by floating a balloon equipped with four cameras through an opening in the ceiling that extends from the ground floor to the fifth floor.
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Published: August 1st, 2012 at 1:12 am ET
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I think it is more...
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this is just silly.
the balloon is free floating.
and they need controlled flight.
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mothers bring your sons, fathers bring your daughters,
it's balloons and clowns on display at the tepco circus.
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I suspect they intend to have a guidance system and live camera attached…
… I just want to know when the ferris wheel and go-cart track get set up.
TEPCO is one big circus…
… And it appears the Government play the clowns.
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Forget the rides Max1…I've been on this radiation ride to long…I just want the cotton candy.
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Cue music:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_B0CyOAO8y0
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and another one
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5akEgsZSfhg
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Dreamy. Love it!
Saw them live in Spokane, Wa. in '72… World's Fair.
Better live, by far.
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p.s.
Spokane, Wa. is considered a hot spot for radon gas.
http://www.spokesman.com/stories/2009/mar/08/a-silent-danger/
Washington Radon Information
http://wa-radon.info/WA_general.html
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@Max1,
The article about the houses built near uranium mines are quite obvious cases, but looking at the map shows many places with levels of radon above 4.0 pCi/l
http://www.radon.com/maps/
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You guys are funny. Good to start the day. Hey maybe later we can all get togather and fly a kite over #3 or sumpin.
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Well, hum…i suppose if they kept it tethered or added a little propeller on one end.
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Dog and ponies!
Clowns to the left, jokers to the right.
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Am I the only one who thinks this could be dangerous? I am picturing the balloon bursts and causes a very bad reaction. What are they blowing the balloon up with, something explosive?
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they havent launched this balloon before now??
shortage of balloons?
i had some in my draw all along.. they only had to ask!
note
run a long metal bar across the the top of the building , place camera on it on rollers, couple of bits of rad proof string and your good to go! could even have more than 1??
smoke and mirrors again…
imo
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arch,
They hustled so fast from March, 2011 to October, 2011 that no one ever mapped the reactor? Only 6 months…
Was it THAT hot or was TEPCO that asleep at the wheel, even AFTER the iceberg hit the ship, so to speak?
Smoke an mirrors…
… Oooh, a fun house.
There IS a reason the camera changed sides…
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And with the new camera angle it becomes apparent why Tepco is the biggest cheapskate in the history of nuclear accidents. The Russians had a 500,000 plus strong army at Chernobyl… Tepco has the Fukushima Five:
http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=0Z3dvQZQclQ
Check on the roof of Unit 4 the handful of brave souls about 20 seconds in. That's typically what we viewed at Fukushima the past 500 days.
Japanese goverment finances must be far worse than we had believed. Or more likely they know the capping of Fukushima is hopeless. They will just let it burn invisible radiation fumes forever.
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Whether the balloon will be filled with hydrogen or hot air???
Someone who is not camera-supplied to the construction of the metal ceiling to preview what is going on in the reactor should go to prison, because this is a shameful failure…
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TEPCO meets with the American experts, and this is what they came up with to save all life on the planet??? Send in the clowns, there's got to be clowns
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Tepco announces live web cam to be removed from location within hours at Fukushima Daiichi — New view near sludge storage facility planned. coincidence?
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Tepco is basically saying that the refueling floor is still too radioactively hot for any human to enter. There was no fire in that spent fuel pool, and we never heard that it was like unit #3 and blew the lid off the pressure vessel. So why are radiation levels so high? During normal operations there is little radiation on the refueling floor because there is really nothing there. The fuel in the pool is under water with no dose on the surface, and the reactor is buried under cement and steel.
My best guess is that the hydrogen explosion had to blow the lid off this reactor also. With radioactive gasses and particulates coming out of the reactor the cover was put on the building to limit the releases out onto the site. But as the cover kept in a lot of this radioactive material the refueling floor is so contaminated that it is no longer a place where humans can work or even walk through.
Find the answer why they put a cover on only this building and that will tell you the condition of this unit.
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Very good points!
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This whole fiasco is some sort of giant jigsaw puzzle. Tepco will not tell the truth or explain what is really going on so you need to get the information you can and try to make the pieces fit.
The fuel pools are still there as is most of the highly damaged reactors. When any of them fall down all the people of Japan will be running to the exits as quickly as possible-we will definitely know when that happens.
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Good points.
Keep in mind that the tent over Unit 1 already has a large, ragged whole in it:
http://cryptome.org/2012-info/daiichi-12-02-05/daiichi-12-02-05.htm
I've posted this link before and I'm looking for some feedback from others. There are many points of interest in these photos.
Concerning the Unit 1 tent, one of the pictures here shows some of the space between unit 1 and unit 2. Zoom in and you will see the large, ragged hole in the bottom panel. Looks to me like debris fell from the top, went down the side of the building, hit the floor and burst through the tent.
I have heard nothing from anyone on this, and everything from tepco seems to convey that the tent is in pristine condition and doing everything it was intended to do…
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I don't remember ever hearing about sfp 1. And now I'm wondering if it's because there's no water left in it. If that's the case, how does this compare to the nightmare everyone's been worried about with #4?
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I don't know, but we can probably assume that the bits they don't talk about are the bits that matter the most, based on their behavior patterns to date.
The issue of a tent over #1 has been odd from the start.
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excuse me????
there is NO TOP FLOOR LEFT after the explosion.neither top of reactor nor any spent fuel pool.
does someone have any explanation????
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step write up take a balloon ride see all the nice gases then after we can take a submarine ride through the spent fuel pool. what fun!
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Balloon ready…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YUX1DCP1_LY&feature=results_video&playnext=1&list=PLCD949C3ABAF939DA
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PS..sorry about the autoplay
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Go to "The 5th Dimension" with IneptCO… "Wouldn't You Like To Ride, In My Beautiful Balloon?" ugh.. More Highschool Science Fair experiments with the reactor. This would be funny if it wasn't so god awful.
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