Published: May 15th, 2011 at 5:56 pm ET
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Unit 3 boric acid injection, to prevent re-criticality is also the No. 1.2, Yomiuri Shimbun, May 15, 2011:
Google Translation
15 TEPCO, the world prevent the Second Coming of the Unit 3 reactor at Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station, the reactor cooling water, on a dissolved boric acid to absorb neutrons, the same day to the reactor announced that the injection began.
Will be the No. 1 and 2, take the same measures.
Critical re-continuous fission phenomenon again. 1 – Unit 3 reactor pressure vessel was initially injected in the history of water for cooling, TEPCO was seen as the salt will absorb neutrons. The boric acid is dissolved in water cooling, since instead of fresh water from seawater cooling down because it is seen that the salinity.
Meanwhile, the pressure vessel of Unit 3 are top of the soaring temperatures. TEPCO “There is a possibility that water is leaking irrigation pipe as a” pipe from the 12th to add another 12 tonnes of water filling the pipe with two per clock. Has increased from 14 to 15 tons per clock injection volume, temperature of the top 24 in no time at 5:00 am on July 15 rose 46.5 degrees, was 297 degrees. TEPCO said, “is still not going well injection” sees.
Translation by EX-SKF
TEPCO announced on May 15 that it started to use boric acid in the reactor cooling water for the Reactor 3 at Fukushima I Nuclear Power Plant to prevent recriticality from happening. [...]
[T]he temperature at the top of the Reactor 3 RPV has risen rapidly. TEPCO increased the amount of cooling water to 12 tons per hour on May 12 using two water feeding systems, then to 15 tons per hour on May 14. However, the temperature at the top of the RPV increased by 46.5 degrees Celsius in 24 hours to 297 degrees Celsius as of 5:00AM on May 15. TEPCO thinks there’s a problem with the pipes that feed water into the RPV.
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What so-called experts said that this was impossible? If they are saying this, it must already be occurring. Ugh!
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HOW many people hated science while in school?
I thought it was great.
ARE there any students… now?
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Ten lessons from Chernobyl and Fukushima
By David Krieger
Pmprojprogressive.Org
Here are 10 lessons from the Chernobyl nuclear disaster 25 years ago and the Fukushima disaster this year.
1. Nuclear power is a highly complex, expensive and dangerous way to boil water to create steam to turn turbines.
2. Accidents happen, and the worst-case scenario often turns out to be worse than imagined or planned for.
3. The nuclear industry and its experts cannot plan for every contingency or prevent every disaster.
4. Governments do not effectively regulate the nuclear industry to assure the safety of the public. Regulators of the nuclear industry often come from the nuclear industry itself and tend to be too close to it to regulate it effectively.
5. Hubris, complacency and high-level radiation are a deadly mix. Hubris on the part of the nuclear industry and its government regulators — along with complacency on the part of the public — has led to the creation of vast amounts of high-level radiation that must be guarded from release to the environment for tens of thousands of years.
6. The corporations that run the nuclear power plants are protected from catastrophic economic failure by government limits on liability. If the corporations that own nuclear power plants had to bear the burden of potential financial losses in the event of a catastrophic accident, they would not build the plants because they know the risks are unacceptable. It is only when government limits the liability, as the Price-Anderson Act does in the United States, that companies go ahead and build nuclear power plants. No other private industry is given such liability protection, which leaves the taxpayers on the hook.
7. Radiation releases from nuclear accidents cannot be contained in space and will not stop at national borders.
8. Radiation releases from nuclear accidents cannot be contained in time and will adversely affect countless future generations.
9. Nuclear energy — as well as nuclear weapons — and human beings cannot coexist without the risk of future catastrophes. The survivors of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki have long known that nuclear weapons and human beings cannot coexist. Fukushima, like Chernobyl before it, makes clear that human beings and nuclear power plants also cannot coexist.
10. The accidents at Fukushima and Chernobyl are a bracing reminder to phase out nuclear energy. We need to move as rapidly as possible to a global energy plan based upon conservation and various forms of renewable energy: solar cells, wind, geothermal, and energy that is extracted from the oceans and the tides and the currents.
Poet Maya Angelou once said, “History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage doesn’t need to be lived again.” We need the courage to abandon nuclear power. No one should have to experience the wrenching pain of another Chernobyl or another Fukushima.
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Hear, Hear.
Many thanks.
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which are some of the primary reasons that i wonder how the designs and implementations of nuclear power plants ever got off the drawing board. in any event a brand new day has dawned, the industrial revolution has finally destroyed the planet, the unthinkable has happened, the profit motive in combination with brash errant plain old vanilla human fallibility and i must say stupidity, hubris has now rules this planet
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Our DNA is one of the most valuable resources we have as a species.
We owe it to future generations to keep it undamaged.
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This comment is worth 10 articles in any OP ED of any MSM.
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10 to the power of 10
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“U.S. Nuclear Group Expects Four to Eight Reactors by 2020″
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-05-10/nuclear-group-expects-four-to-eight-reactors-by-2020-correct-.html
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Thank you
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Academic.
Do you have any inspired revelations or, personal insight, from that which you have quoted?
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Boric Acid on a nuclear meltdown?
Must have been the only thing left in their medicine cabinet.
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Indeed, Cassie. Korea is sending Japan more boric acid.
16/5/2011 2:31
S. Korea to send boric acid to Japan to cope with nuclear disaster
[Picture and update at link.]
South Korea will send boric acid to Japan to help cope with the possible nuclear crisis triggered by last week’s massive earthquake and tsunami, the South Korean Yonhap news agency said citing the country’s government.
Boric acid can slow down nuclear fission reactions and help contain radiation.
http://en.rian.ru/world/20110316/163033217.html
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At least they are doing something.
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Thanks Steve for the article.
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The third, and I hope the final retraction. This is dated 16/3/11. An error again from me. Sorry all.
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Thnx Steve
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Or,…put another way, “Man has dominated man to his own injury”. I’m just sayin’,…..
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money as debt is wretched cannibalism, indeed.
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it can only get worse, this is the time for people to make a critical re-examination of their lives, their diet and how they intend to prosper in the future, with this fukushima dai-ichi monster continuous spewing out harmful radiation and dangerous radionuclides, continuously out of control and continuously at our collective heels.
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Helicopters will be used again with this boric acid. No mention of drone choppers being used. I guess that they will be piloted.
Tokyo Electric may disperse boric acid over plant by helicopter
Tue Mar 15, 2011 11:38pm GMT
March 16 (Reuters) – Nuclear power plant operator Tokyo Electric Power said on Wednesday that it is considering dispersing boric acid, a fire retardant, over the Fukushima Daiichi plant’s No. 4 reactor from a helicopter.
http://af.reuters.com/article/energyOilNews/idAFLKE7DB01S20110315
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The date says MAR – 15th …
What ?
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Another Mistake. I apologize. Thanks for find that error. I missed March 15 vs. May 15. Disregard please.
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Not any longer, the helicopter use was attempted before they found a better methods to get the water mixture in. Some are used to fly it over there however.
A little over a week ago, three huge miltary cargo helicopters were seen headed towards Diablo Canyon in California, as were seen when local media there reported some being sent previously. This suggests that Diablo has also sent more. The French were also contributors the first time around. Boric Acid, which absorbs neutrons to suppress criticality is added to the cooling water which they are using in very large amounts. I do not know if their water recycling plans will allow recycling of the additive or if filtering will remove it.
The key thing is for fewer neutrons released by fuel to hit or be reflected back to fuel. Because plutonium gives off more neutrons than uranium 235 when struck by them, MOX fuel (a mixture of both) is harder to control. Unit 3 uses 6% MOX, a lower amount than some other plants use. Normal operation exposing uranium 238 (spent fuel) to neutrons converts some of that to plutonium, so some plutonium is present in all used fuel. (I’m not an expert, I’ve just been reading up on this)
Best of luck to them.
atomic education for children, 50′s style (fun)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T6UujimddEc
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ekx6gz_s5VM
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Well, at least now we know what those ‘specks’ were in the skies over the reactors in those PICS one of our “top sluths” found for us earlier!
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Those that don’t know will know
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these evil bastards have spent 6 weeks trying to save,first the infrastructure and the 100 billion dollars worth of plutonium and uranium.
now brutal Physics realities have made the project impossible so we will get the boric acid and Sarcophagus burial route.
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If there is a planet left, the people responsible for the problems
and lack of ethical response need to see some serious jail time.
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Yes, they will be responsible for the deaths of many many people
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Love the auto-translation:
“the world prevent the Second Coming”
Indeed! Maybe Judgment Day will be May 21 2011 after all! ( http://may212011.com ). Ha ha.
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I don’t believe in Anything !!
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not before my salary day. so it’s not going to happen
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near record or record cold temps in northern califorina today
low snow level
more like february
no yellow rain yet
but
theres monday and tuesday more rain and snow
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Winter comes early as Melbourne is hit by chilly blast
Sun May 15, 2011
http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/more-news/winter-comes-early-as-melbourne-is-hit-by-chilly-blast/story-fn7x8me2-1226055915903
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Lovely Melbourne! Beautiful city that I lived in years ago, though now on the US west coast and sadly in the path of radioactive fallout. Would love to be back down under soon – maybe a lot of us will end up in the southern hemisphere due to this disaster?!
There is certainly strange stuff going on with the weather – slight amounts of snow and ice in NorCal last night. Totally bizarre for this time of year at the altitude where I live. “Nuclear winter” starts to take on a whole new meaning – those damn radioactive particles now thick in the atmosphere are already evidently contributing to blocking the Sun’s energy getting to the surface (similar to volcanic ash). We could all be seeing some cooler global temperatures for a long time (who knows how long?!).
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Us too! We were there for that 10 year drought and bush fires. Loved it there. BLUE skies. Now, we are here. Just in time for the radioactivity and it sucks….just like we moved to Germany just in time for Chernobyl. : (
frick
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Can someone please find and post the link to the graph on the #3 reactor, for Temp, and pressure..
I can’t seem to locate where that went …
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Hi Cindy – it’s http://atmc.jp/plant/temperature/?n=3
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Thank you !!
Looks like it came down a bit..
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That chart was through 5/14 & I guess today’s temp. spike will be charted tomorrow?
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Oh, Yeah..
Will keep checking, good of you to point that out, was thinking it was better, that something was better… wishful thinking …(DUH)
I should know better , LOL
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After changing the report to English, I noticed it said the current temp was 154.9 degree Celsius = 310.82 degree Fahrenheit
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There was snow at the 2,500 foot level near Chico, Ca this morning. Absolutely February weather. ugggg
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Jill,
Do you live in/near Chico? I’m in Merlin, OR. Moved from Paradise 4 years ago….
Jim
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I live in the midwest and we have had non stop rain
for weeks now and very cool weather. Very unusual
for this time of year.
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HAARP is involved.
Intellicast radar is showing HAARP ring activity over Boise last night and today. Today over Utah. Yesterday over northern MI and southern eastern. One over southeast MI with a center a little above Detroit and the top half of Lake Erie and the lower half of Lake Huron and also includes Wyoming Canada and the top of Ohio. Then there is another one with a center at about Cortland NY and that one also pulls in NNE Pennsylvania. There are 2 HAARP rings in Washington which cover Seattle and north of it(this is a huge ring) and also there is one that has a center at about Spokane. There’s a ring at the border of CA and OR also. There could be others that I can’t see right now. There might be on that involves TN, Alabama and Georgia.
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I meant to say that “Today, there is one over the southeast MI …lakes…”
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if the strange weather continues thru the summer
months prepare for a very bad early winter
thinking back to when i was little ,ok, when there was open air testing
cal summers were overcast days,cirrus cover and hot
then early winter,,the storms were more intense than they have been in the last 30 or so years
there was a lot of b52,and other aircraft with spreading out contrails, that is not happening today,,sac and tac could put up a lot of aircraft
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ya, back in the day,,, lol
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remmber when the farmers tractor cut the cable between norad and the dewline
japan problem now,,and
stir in the rest of the worlds troubles
i dont think were going to make it this time
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Which is the cubicle with a little smoke and fires near the bottom? Then there seems to be the same on the rightmost one that’s blown up. Here’s the webcam: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FptmoVcgpqg&feature=youtu.be
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one of the higher rad counts on the west coast,,
is showing now
radation network
looks like the jet stream is doing the curly shuffle over the coast
well im done blogging here
let you folks fight over rad counts
smoke an stuff
to the phds and ceo good luck with your busted reactors,stretch of the word,busted piles of nuke shit
time to have fun,while you can
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where did you see that?
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Think he means http://www.radiationnetwork.com/
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There is alpha, beta, and gamma radiation and Geiger counters don’t pick up everything. Or, some do, and some don’t. I think the more expensive ones pick up alpha as well.
Generally they are used for detecting and measuring radioactivity that consists of low level beta particles and gamma-ray radiation.
http://www.gammascout.com/_include/articles/PrimerOnGeigerCounters.pdf
Numbers from:
http://www.radiationnetwork.com/
for Canada West Coast have been unusually normal for the last two months – compared with EURAD and other data [which is more detailed, or displayed differently, graphically].
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De jig is up, Mon…
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i) acetyl resveratrol
ii) biotivia bioforte
Time to zip up your biosuits & mosey on down to the local for a crate of Bulgarian Mavrud.
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Numerous studies have found that red wine protects against radiation exposure.
Italian Study
Italian researchers at the Catholic University and the National Research Council in Italy found that women who drank just one glass of red wine on days when they were to undergo radiation therapy for cancer had a 75% reduced rate of toxic effects from the radiation than women who didn’t drink wine.
University of Pittsburgh Studay
Researchers at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine found that resveratrol combined with acetyl alcohol given to mice before radiation exposure protected the cells from damage and reduced the chances of death.
University of Rochester Study
Researchers at the University of Rochester found that resveratrol makes cancer cells more susceptible to radiation treatment while at the same time protecting healthy cells from the effects of radiation.
Colorado State University Study
Researchers at Colorado State University found that resveratrol is a radioprotective agent. They orally adminstered resveratrol to mice two days prior to irradiation. The mice who received the resveratrol had a statistically significant reduction in total chromosome aberrations of the bone marrow cells compared to mice who did not receive resveratrol.
Bulgarian Advice
Many people in Russia and surrounding countries such as Bulgaria drank red wine after the Chernobyl disaster because it was believed to protect against radiation. Professor Donka Baykova of the Bulgarian Nutrition Association says that red wine protects against radiation and is more powerful than iodine in doing so. She also says that one study found that Bulgarian wines were especially protective against radiation.
http://www.healthdiaries.com/eatthis/red-wine-protects-against-radiation-exposure.html
Red Wine Protects You From Radiation
http://esciencenews.com/articles/2011/05/04/natural.protection.against.radiation
Wine alone does not contain therapeutic amounts of resveratrol. One must use a quality approved supplement for this purpose. The one used in most human clinical trials is biotivia bioforte. It has been shown to also improve cerebral function, and have chemo-protective effects agains the conditions associated with human aging
http://www.indianwineacademy.com/item_3_441.aspx
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Good info – hope you`re right!!!
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The paragraph at the end refuting the evidence seems to be an ad for Biotivia brand resveratrol, so might have to ignore.
Comparative dietary studies of french subjects would also be useful.
Now back to “the cure” – except this bottle is Argentinian, not Bulgarian …
Cheers
☺
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No, it’s actually true that the amount of resveratrol used in lab experiments is the equivalent of hundreds of bottles of red wine. I’ve been following it for the last few years. But red wine also has some other components that can be therapeutic in different ways.
Generally speaking the best prices I’ve seen on full-potency “alternative” biochemicals for health, longevity, etc are at the Life Extension Foundation site. They also put up some articles including one on radiation protection, that one might have been posted a year or two ago.
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WIND DIRECTIONS – JAPAN: FUKUSHIMA, TOKYOO
May 16 – 23, 2011
http://www.surf-forecast.com/maps/Japan/wind/12
Looks to be mostly blowing to the east, if you focus your eyes right around Fukushima.
I think winds are due for a major change starting in Summer? [need to confirm this]
- blowing towards the NorthWest
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-7Pf1VBW3jas/Ta_L8xrNygI/AAAAAAAAAPY/P2nU9V4zWtE/s1600/Capture.JPG
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ok
if you go to radiation network.com
and
crws jet stream map
at
squall.sfsu.edu/jetstream
you can follow the radiation moving
across usa
also try,, hurricane city,, web site
open,, cain talk
lot of weather heads there
lot of good info
radiation network is updated every minute
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record cold official now today an tonight for northern califorina
never been this cold in may befor,,ever
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It’s really not THAT bad, Hawkeye, down around freezing here.
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if you like to scare yourself,,:>
you can go here
cemp.dri.edu
desert research inst in nevada
stations around nv test site
you have to dig this part up your self
like they said stations went to max a few days after
fuku exploded
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ya,, sure
only lived in ca and nv for 62 years
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good luck everyone
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dont forget the nuke attack postion
bend over
spread your legs
an kiss your ass good bye
:>
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night
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I appreciate this website very much. It’s the ONLY one that I’ve found where any sort of pulling all updates together is going on. However, please people, be careful about the celcius/farenheit thing. Japan uses celsius. The temperature of reactor 3 was not 100F, but OVER 100C, which is way over the boiling point of water. Otherwise, kudos to the people keeping this site going.
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Thanks for the comment.
However, the title says that the temperature has risen 100F in 24 hrs. It does not say the temperature is 100F.
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Sounds like the situation is re(ally)-critical
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