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Oh God. Look at that shit. Oh the horror! Posted here but the Moderator has been very mean to me today: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/rep-bernie-sanders/stop-the-nuclear-industry_b_1427922.html?ref=homepage
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20% of the children in disaster area decreased weight | Fukushima Diary: http://bit.ly/HMAliT
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ANOTHER ONE FROM LORI
GAS http://fukushima-diary.com/2012/04/gas-observed-near-reactor-3/#.T4yuR_Bxj38.facebook
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Yeah look at that stuff. Take a good long look at the second video of pool 3. Do you notice anything missing.
The pool is there, the cases for the fuel rods are there… Hmmm whats missing ?????
There are no fuel rods in the pool or in the fuel rod holders. I guess that's what blew up…
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2 viseo shows beams bent upwards so the racks of fuel are inder and an exsplosion took place in the FP !
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hell, .. let me go turn on the lights ! Penny pincher !
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xoxo
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What? No pics of a perfect #3 reactor, in good shape and condition?
So tell us this; how does one get such a huge explosion, and still have an intact fuel pool, with intact fuel rods?
Show us the video of the crane coming over the #3 spent fuel pool and then lowering down into it, and you may get a few more votes; otherwise, sorry, no tikie.
Our staff still votes that this is a pic of some other fuel pool, or a common fuel pool, or a pool at another plant somewhere else entirely. The lie keeps getting bigger and bigger…
Remember that this company said there was only a teensy weensy hydrogen explosion here, 10% of Chernobyl radiation total, and no nuclear materials released AT ALL. Certainly no melt through, no dried out fuel pool, no criticality explosion. Certainly no corium blobs going into ground, NOPE.
Radioactive Smoke/Steam Coming Of Ground At Fukushima 2.28.2012; via A Green Road Blog
http://agreenroad.blogspot.com/2012/02/tokyo-alert-severe-radioactive-smoke.html
What really happened at Fukushima? via A Green Road Blog http://agreenroad.blogspot.com/2012/02/what-really-happened-at-fukushima.html
How Dangerous Is 400-600 Pounds Of Plutonium Nano Particle Dust Liberated By Fukushima? Via A Green Road Blog http://agreenroad.blogspot.com/2012/03/how-dangerous-is-400-600-pounds-of.html
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Oh yea, among other coverups and spin; we forgot about the 'cold shutdown' claim… Now they are inviting everyone back into high radiation zones, saying everything and everyone is safe and all is normal. Yea, let's all take a hot spa dip in the #3 spent fuel pool and sip some green tea grown around the plant, shall we?
Hot Particles (Fuel Fleas) From Fukushima Continue To Circulate Globally; via A Green Road Blog http://agreenroad.blogspot.com/2012/04/hot-particles-from-fukushima-continue.html
Is Fukushima really in cold shutdown? via A Green Road Blog
http://agreenroad.blogspot.com/2012/03/fukushima-is-it-really-in-cold-shutdown.html
Ex Fukushima Engineer Confesses; No Cold Shutdown, Warned of Tsunami 20 Yrs Ago
http://agreenroad.blogspot.com/2012/04/ex-fukushima-engineer-confesses-no-cold.html
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Our staff? Paid Staff?
Boy am I slow…lets see blog homepage…story about Hillary…click…Extremists Extremists Extremists…ok thats enough, might as well be listening to Alex Jones talk about the Globalists…sooo common.
Stupid, naive, calculating…who can say.
sfp 3, not sfp 3, who can say shots too tight period.
Notice the surface ripple?
Now I got to go, I'm not paid staff.
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good points yeoman… I could take my camcorder to my local scrap yard and orchestrate a similar set of clips in maybe 4 hours total 1 hour to shoot, 3 hours to edit.
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Daily Kos: Sen. Wyden Sounds The Alarm on Fukushima http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/04/16/1083883/-Sen-Wyden-Sounds-The-Alarm-on-Fukushima via @dailykos
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Doesn't look like he takes energy money:
http://www.opensecrets.org/politicians/summary.php?cid=N00007724&cycle=2012
Maybe he does care about his state, and the people in it. Not a word from AK, WA, HI or CA elected officials.
Enenews might want to start keeping track of which politicians are willing to speak some truth about this, and those that want to cover it up, so we know who to vote for. If it matters anymore.
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ty time. That's very very important! I like that and your idea of keeping track of all these Pols
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I find it interesting the CA governor declared a state of emergency here just before the first wave of radiation was due to hit on 3/18/11. (It actually probably got here on 3/14 or 3/15.) Why didn't the people living here (like me????) know anything about that?
And Pres. Obama said, "Nothing to be concerned about" in so many words. No need to take precautions.
Once this completely blows open, I'll find it interesting to see what kind of backpedaling and finger pointing the politicians do ….
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And this unfortunate quote from the article:
"He is making a push for the nations of the world to collaborate on this problem, Manhattan project style, to secure the nuclear material in SFP #4 at Fukushima before it's too late. "
Manhattan Project Style — yeah, just what we all wanted to hear. How reassuring. Unfortunate journalistic choice of words.
But thank God this Senator is DOING something. It is now apparent to everyone the Emperor has no clothes.
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"All my instincts, they return
and the grand facade so soon will burn …."
A quote from this Peter Gabriel song seems appropriate under the circumstances. The game is over, now the politicians and power brokers realize they have to play ball — or surely die.
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#Fukushima: WTH? As Ice Cap Melts, Militaries Vie For Arctic Edge http://huff.to/JpEHfE via @huffingtonpost
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IS THERE NOTHING THEY WONT RAPE?!?!? IS NOTHING SACRED??
YOKOSUKA, Japan — To the world's military leaders, the debate over climate change is long over. They are preparing for a new kind of Cold War in the Arctic, anticipating that rising temperatures there will open up a treasure trove of resources, long-dreamed-of sea lanes and a slew of potential conflicts.
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IT IS ACTIVE if you want to join in.
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Russia has already planted a flag on the seabed beneath the North Pole, to 'substantiate it's claim' to the resources there. See:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2007/aug/02/russia.arctic
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-drWfpNCRb4&feature=fvwk
Also building floating nuclear power stations to moor there to power the resource grab and process them. See:
http://grist.org/list/2011-06-15-russia-building-floating-nuclear-power-plants-to-unlock-arctic-o/
http://www.geekosystem.com/russia-to-build-floating-nuclear-power-plants/
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Maybe they can build a nuke plant there, and speed up the melting of the ice with the hot water coming out of the nuke plant. Might as well get it over with quickly, rather than stretch out the suffering.
Maybe we can sing Humpty Dumpty songs while #4 collapses?
Fukushima Reactor 4; Life Extinction Event If It Collapses; via A Green Road Blog
http://agreenroad.blogspot.com/2012/04/fukushima-reactor-4-life-extinction.html
12 reasons why all nuclear power plants must be shut down; via A Green Road Blog http://agreenroad.blogspot.com/2012/03/12-reasons-why-all-nuclear-power-plants.html
Super Solar Storm To Hit Earth In 2013 'Carrington Effect'; Year Long Power Outage? via A Green Road Blog http://agreenroad.blogspot.com/2012/03/super-solar-storm-predicted-to-hit-2013.html
American Indian Prophecy, Living As Soul on Earth; via A Green Road Blog
http://agreenroad.blogspot.com/2012/04/american-indian-prophecies-and-way-of.html
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Lots of empty slots in that video.
This footage convinces me that the explosion at #3 was the reactor. Most of the damage visible is impact of falling debris (including heavy machinery), not explosion or melting. Things beneath the debris would be far more chaotic if it had been the SFP going off.
And it makes sense. MOX had just been introduced a couple of fuel cycles ago, and very little MOX was in the SFP. Almost all of it was in the reactor, and it was operationally hot when the quake hit.
That leaves the question, was the hydrogen blast that triggered the nuclear detonation inside the reactor or outside containment? (Or both?)
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I think that is the basement that got flooded out. Are we to believe there is a sfp that holds water in unit 3 wreckage? Give me a break. The building blew to smitheenes. Everything (almost) blew thousands of feet into the air and rained down into the ocean and surrounding shorefront property. I can accept that the fuel that melted down under the rcv may have been your explosive event, but it has been over a year and I forget the details. Was it a chocolate factory or a npp? Oh yeah, a npp. Was there 30 times more fuel in the sfp than in the rpv? Are we to believe the fuel was cooking in the rpv for how long before it detonated?
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+ 100
Remember who we are dealing with here… This one is the worst of the worst of all of the reactors and spent fuel pools, and it now all of a sudden looks like it is among the best? Nice clean, cool, blue water, little fishies swimming around, just a little junk fell over from the sides into the pool. We will get that fixed in a jiffeee. Ooppssiee.
The Art of Deception: The Cult of Nuclearists, Uranium Weapons and Fraudulent Science; via A Green Road Blog
http://agreenroad.blogspot.com/2012/03/primer-in-art-of-deception-cult-of.html
yea, believe, believe, believe, only 10% of Chernobyl… all is safe. all is cold shutdown. All is normal. no mo wadiation. all gone. all better. Seee, we take pictures.
Total Fukushima Radiation Released Into Ocean, Air, Groundwater, Storage Tanks; via A Green Road Blog http://agreenroad.blogspot.com/2012/02/total-fukushima-radiation-released-into.html
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I believe it is the #3 SFP because of the loading crane, the rebar, and the steel beams. It looks very much like what glimpses I've seen from above.
If it was basement, it wouldn't be lit the way it is. Part of the ambient, that which lights the murky background, is indirect sunlight. You can tell by the filtered spectrum. And the racks are mostly intact, which they would be if the reactor was what detonated. There is only minimal visual access to the pool because of debris above limiting access to the pool's surface. I could go on and on, and they all add up.
You may choose not to believe, but I don't feel that TEPCO is clever enough to fabricate the many coherent clues that I've seen. I'm sold that it is #3 SFP.
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Imho, I think that there are no sfp's in 1,3, and 4. There is a sfp in 2, because that containment was fairly intacts before they built the tent. Any water pool in 1,3, and 4 must therefore be from the flooded basements. That piece of equipment may have been tossed 2 thousand feet in the air and came crashing back down to where it lay now. Imagine the force of impact.
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I thought it was established from the NRC transcripts that the #3 SFP was filled with spent MOX rods.
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In the shots that show the fuel racks, it looks like you can see handles for the fuel bundles in one of the rows. The other rows look empty–I don't know whether they were empty in the first place (I don't think the #3 pool was as full as the #4 pool). Maybe the presence of fuel bundle handles where they're supposed to be means that the explosion didn't blow the spent fuel out of the pool (or maybe it just means that it didn't blow ALL of it out of the pool). Are they constructed in such a way that the rods in some racks could be blow out, but the racks left intact and the bundles in the neighboring rack left intact? If not, then maybe the presence of the bundle handles means not as much spent fuel exploded out of # 3 as feared. Maybe it is an indication that the explosion really did occur in the reactor itself (as the NRC and Ian Goddard think), not the SFP (as Gundersen hypothesizes). I look forward to hearing AG's analysis of this video.
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You'd know better than me Iam. I might BE HERE but so much of this I STILL do not understand. That's why I ain't EVER LEAVING YOU GUYS. May INTELLIGENT MINDS PREVAIL…and I know you will.
CARRY ON FOLKS!
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Come on Arnie! Weigh in on this NEW news! Wish he WOULD post here sometime. Wouldn't that be a hoot?!?!
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VERY VERY ACTIVE http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/04/16/arctic-climate-change-military-activity_n_1427565.html?ref=tw
I'M GOING TO BED.
TIRED.
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#Fukushima Japan inside SFP #3 & returning residents to NO GO ZONE update…: http://youtu.be/IvJrhumaS3Y via @youtube
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My Tweet:#Fukushima: OMG! MILKY NAILS IT! "IF YOUR HAPPY CLAP YOUR F**KING HANDS!!" http://youtu.be/IvJrhumaS3Y via @youtube
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Come on folks, think about it… This cannot be good, not even remotely…
One of the very most dangerous things we know (or have learned) about
[spent fuel pools] looking like a freakin' trash bin with debris all about.
In a once circulating / pools of water looking like a clogged sink,
with no viable cooling, utterly choked of required circulation.
*not wanting to appear grumpy, but WTF?
Covered in "mudd" (inspecific crap…)
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When were these pictures taken?
Recent?…na…
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I am no pro or nuclear engineer or anything, but I have yet to see one video of a SFP that actually shows spent fuel.
There was one of sfp 4 a long time ago that seemed to show a number of fuel bundles. And one earlier of 3 that showed one possibly two handles at the top of the rack.
This string of videos shows nothing. I saw no spent fuel. There was one video that may have captured racks but they looked empty and I think I might have caught a glimpse of some handles.
There was hundreds of rods in this pool, pre explosion. Personally it matters little to me where the explosion occurred (only in the sense that if we knew that the EQ led to enough damage for cores to blow) nor does it matter what the pool looks like or if it is full of crap from the explosion. What matters to me is where the fuel is. These videos are useless, probably why they released them. It allows TEPCO and cohorts to yammer on about the status of the pools and cold shutdown and what not instead of facing the reality of explaining where the fuel is.
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I am just puzzled. Looking at this:
http://susanin.udm.ru/upload/iblock/48f/48fdf184680ebb596a7c135d329ff68a.jpg
I think the damage had come much lower at R3, than at R4. For comparison:
http://images.google.com/imgres?q=fukushima+pictures+2012&start=115&hl=en&biw=1024&bih=602&tbm=isch&tbnid=SHw23mxg18nECM:&imgrefurl=http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/43098520/ns/world_news-fukushima%3Fq%3DFukushima&docid=hwXjZKrmE5_cGM&imgurl=http://msnbcmedia.msn.com/i/reuters/2012-04-03t131611z_1_cbre83210v200_rtroptp_3_japan-tsunami.jpg&w=800&h=607&ei=HwuNT9mFCeml4gT5uuXdDw&zoom=1&iact=hc&vpx=725&vpy=246&dur=371&hovh=195&hovw=258&tx=183&ty=154&sig=117927276430265764869&page=7&tbnh=128&tbnw=166&ndsp=20&ved=1t:429,r:19,s:115,i:91
And A. Gundersen explanations based on other pictures:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Osv0_nVAANk&feature=related
Having in mind who is holding the cameras, I just compare, without conclusions.
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u guys seen the steam bubbles in the last video – coming out of the big concrete block w. the square tubes? So much about *spent* fuel – needless to say some of that stuff is still *cooking* despite of water .. now imagine another eq causing SPF 3 or 4 to drain ..
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pure water your comparision is not qualified because it shows, the demolition-works that has been done on unit 4. that's not caused by the explosion(s).
Unit 3, i guess lost 35% to 40% of it's construction. LVL 3 almost gone, LVL 4 gone, that's the location of the SFP.
If you compare the building height from Unit3&4, unit 3 is cutted at half. It's not possible that the SFP is intact. Even the containment vessel is gone in R3. The lid of R3 crashed into the building east to the reactor buildings and left a big hole in the rooftop.
So, i think that the video is not the real deal. I think it is SFP 1. Crane lays inside the pool because the ceiling crashed down. another hint – the crane. at units 3 explosion, the crane got ejected and landed elsewhere.
(sorry if it's grammatically incorrect. English is not my former language:)
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No endoscope for 1 and 3…radiation is too high
http://enenews.com/nhk-whitish-floating-matter-in-reactor-no-2-thought-to-be-rust-not-melted-fuel-no-endoscopy-for-reactors-no-1-or-3-video
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"The utility has no plans for endoscope surveys at the plant’s No. 1 and 3 reactors, due to high radiation levels."
from the post above..March 27 2012.
These photos aren't new..
I also don't believe that it is SFP 3.
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