Published: February 1st, 2012 at 1:24 am ET
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Title: Emergency mail from Tepco
Source: Fukushima Diary
Date: January 31st, 2012
Around 3:00 AM 2/1/2012, Tepco sent journalists an emergency email.
Japanese comedian / nuclear journalist tweeted it.
makomelo おしどり♀マコリーヌ
1/31/2012, 10:30PM, Tepco employee found water leakage from the test line of jet pump calculation rack located on the first floor of reactor 4. (SOURCE) [...]
From the result of the measurement, it was contaminated as 35.5 Bq/cm3 (= 35,500 Bq/L), they assume the water is from the well of the reactor. (Cf. The measurement data of the well of reactor was 39 Bq/cm3 on 12/8/2012.) (SOURCE) [...]
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See also: Report: 'Empty' Reactor No. 4 was actually filled with nuclear fuel
Published: February 1st, 2012 at 1:24 am ET
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now, WHY would there be water pumping around a reactor well if it HAS NO FUEL IN IT? I think we are being set up for big bad news.
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Excellent points. Never a dull day with these Fukushima bafoons.
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Can some refresh my memory, wasn’t one of the vessels installed even though it had a crack in it? or was that here in the US?
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No it was Fuku that crack——was discovered later, and then covered up as engineers quit their specialty high paying jobs. THAT MEANS SOMETHING
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No it was Fuku that crack——was discovered later, and then covered up as engineers quit their specialty high paying jobs. THAT MEANS SOMETHING.
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As compared to typical nuclear power plant accidents, an SFP accident is slow in its evolution. A loss of cooling situation could take days to evaporate the pool water and hours to heat-up to the point of burning. However, events such as a catastrophic earthquake or intentional sabotage can be very quick in evolution. Should water supply be resumed following such events, the consequence can be mitigated. But if fresh water rather than the required borated water is used, either by administrative error or intentional sabotage, reduction of pool boron concentration may cause a return to criticality
http://www.microsimtech.com/sfp/
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=cancer-drugs-affect-mouse-genomes
Genomic stability
Genome instability has intrigued Dubrova for more than a decade. Dubrova and his colleagues were studying the effects of radiation when, purely by chance, they decided to look at mutation rates in the offspring of exposed mice. “What we found was the biggest surprise of my life,” he says. The children had several times more mutations in their eggs and sperm than their radiation-treated parents. “The genomes were unstable, and we still don’t know why,” Dubrova says
I know why…. Do u know what this means?
Your 6reactor genocide machine, finely tuned for maximum death has eliminated japan FACT< and possibly canada and usa. Try to tell somebody that perceives themselves smarter than you something, they will wish death upon you. Bon appetite’ as every1 is smarter than me and ev1 wishes me death they fuk themselves en masse’
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And there is where the propaganda aimed at the not so critical thinking works. They cannot see what’s right in front of them. Propaganda is never aimed at the aware.
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Just published study or "Five week study on mice –without damage from Radiation…??!!" Guess they didn't read or consider Genomes:
"Genome instability has intrigued Dubrova for more than a decade. Dubrova and his colleagues were studying the effects of radiation when, purely by chance, they decided to look at mutation rates in the offspring of exposed mice. “What we found was the biggest surprise of my life,” he says. The children had several times more mutations in their eggs and sperm than their radiation-treated parents. “The genomes were unstable, and we still don’t know why,” Dubrova says"
What gives with the "make it so" radiation is always safe mentality ??? Darwin theory at its best. Wonder if the generators of the study have families in harms way of Fukushima. They need to hang their respective gonads in the fallout zones.
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reac 3 had crak on primary < twas repaired enough to make a nice bom
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Off topic but it seems Arnie Gunderson and Chris Busby have both been rather quiet recently. I wonder why that is?
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Hi Kintaman – I am the one from Chiba. Just wanted you to know that.
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Because they know how dire this accident is and that at this juncture nothing can be done. IMHO
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Exactly.
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Either they are on vacation, or have been told to zip it.
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ah..geeze..the very fact that TEPCO emailed journalists…let’s you know.. that lies are being told.
I was ..kinda..wondering about Gundersen and Busby too.
Ohhhhh..contaminated water …let’s talk corium and BELOW the reactor and SFP 4 burning…..
Maybe we should send TEPCo an email.
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PS…the word “assume” gets a person fired in this office…
To assume any factor in such a dangerous situation…is negligent…
CRIMINAL NEGLIGENCE.
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It used to be NO NEWS IS GOOD NEWS but not in this situation.
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Hi Whoopie!
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Hi Rooks. Good to see you. Sorry for all the bad news. Day in, day out
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You know there will never be good news about any of this and this is just the start. You do a great job with A4P asshole. I am waiting to find this person in person and hope an accident doesn’t happen.
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The very reason I went BACK to FUCK NUCLEAR. All these guys are sick. Corporate Egotistical Psychopaths
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I am turning in but will continue the battle tomorrow. Have a good day!
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Whoopie, your avatars make a good Doomsday Clock.
Gulp!
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Personally, I think the worst has already happened and we will just half-truths for years to come. This is Japan and Tepco rules Japan. The government told Tepco to go nuclear and they did so the think they are victims. Both are criminals but too stupid to know it.
All other countries: make sure your forces are ready to contain a nuclear mishap before you go nuclear. Planting bombs on your own soil is the biggest mistake a country can make.
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I hope this is not true, wow I can’t wrap my head around such an outrageous statement but it must be the truth as I don’t think Enenews would post such a story without verification but part of me is hoping they got the wrong info. Oh, TEPCO/ “Tiger got to eat, bird got to fly, man got to sit and wonder why,why, why.”
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“Japanese comedian / nuclear journalist” – that’s a phrase you don’t see every day! Seriously – that’s a very odd combination. Does it mean regular journalists won’t go near the story? Does it mean the story is funny in some context? Is it a cultural/translation thing? Does it matter?
Hmmm… maybe this is my way of going into denial about the implicatons of the story.
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The only journalist that are allowed around the mess, I fear, are military journalist as in war. But even then they seem to be out of harms way for the most part. Here, they would be in harms way and subject to massive exposure to dangerous radiation. If journalist were allowed there, the first thing would be to mount some real cameras in positions that can clearly see the junk yard.
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If you view this film-clip of contents of #4 pool… I direct your attention to the rack of 40 PU-239 ‘enrichment’ type rods sitting segregated in it. They have a pyramid-looking top to them, and are sitting in a special-made rack, and require a different bit to grab them, as they don’t have a handle like U-238 or MOX rods.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?NR=1&v=b-ZeWYFrBaI&feature=endscreen
40 sec. in shows close-view.
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using the reactor to do ‘enrichment’ is why #3 had the criticality ‘EVENT’ that it had, different from #’s 1 & 2.
#1 had just U-238 ‘standard’ rods bundles.
#2 Had U-238 & MOX rod bundles inside it.
#3 Had inner core of PU-239, ringed by moderation rods. (The long-ish rod segments that were to big/long to be urainium or even MOX rod segments… found all around plant & in remains of fuelpool of #3) around that ring was MOX rods, then more moderation, then lastly… the U-238 rod bundles. It is clear that it was doing erichment of P-239 back up to weapons grade specifications.
#4 was being retro-fitted to do the same as #3… if reactor core was loaded in prep to start? Does that mean there are even MORE P-239 ‘enrichment’ type rods present than cam-views have shown!?
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That's what I wondered! Do you believe this is what Mr. Gundersen was trying to point to earlier on too? I'm not sure if you saw it, but, in 2 of his videos and AFTER the mox was known, he said "no one was looking at that" regarding something with #3 but never elaborated.
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@pattieB, MOX comments are right on–more not less in the reactors. Our children will be the bill payers.
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TEPCO sitting on pins and needles. Something is up.
Sooooo….
Why haven’t we heard talk of a meltdown device from our nuclear industry? that is a peripheral hazard of being so desparate to have to ask crooks to provide people to work in a death zone.
Nuclear engineers think lesser humans work for free?
Check it.
Spent fuel pellets are waste in one person’s eyes and gold in others.
Japanese mob provides workers for Fk-1, probably have stolen several tons of spent fuel rods by now. Maybe they are using a North American dump as a meltdown test bed.
Pellets. Four bags of cement. A couple buckets of salvaged vermiculite insulation. Use a basket ball inside plastic tote box as a mold.
Pour the ‘refractory cement’ in around the basketball. Burn the ball out, then dump reactor pellets in. Fasten an oxyacetylene torch aimed at the pile of pellets.
Pellets form the spherical ‘geometry’ as they melt, start as a sub-critical mass and goes spontaneous criticality with the added heat; wouldn’t blow up, but melts rock under foot.
Noisy as it starts it’s journey through the moist top layers of soil. Smokes rats out of their burrows, too.
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PattieB,
I have obviously been resistant to believe that Fuel rods with a higher than 6% to 8% Pu ratio were present..
Although I know that PURE Pu rods do not exist, and cannot (Pu is a massive Alpha emmiter, and cannot be in close proximity), rods enriched to 18% are used to breed "weapons grade" Pu-239..
I have little doubt that is exactly what they were cooking, in a BWR..
All I can say is those are unlike any rods I have ever seen..
Obviously "special purpose" and needing a special grapple to pull them, which requires refitting the crane, and thus, must be a "big deal"..
Big scandal, no wonder the camera man did a quick "pan away" LOL…
Oops, nothing to see here, move along…
That opens up a bigger door…
Were they cooking 239 for themselves, or someone else..
Either is a huge issue…
Also, when the video was first released, I asked about a "light" projecting upwards, out of one of the cell racks..
Very obvious, yet no commentary..
Seemed important to me..
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30 ways the nuclear industry deceives everyone;
http://agreenroad.blogspot.com/2012/03/primer-in-art-of-deception-cult-of.html
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