Published: July 4th, 2012 at 1:11 pm ET
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Tepco May Scrap Fukushima Daini Plant
Wall Street Journal
By Mitsuru Obe
July 4, 2012
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Since the March 2011 disaster, Tepco has put repairs of Daini on the back burner. Only one unit—reactor 4—has its safety functions fully restored. Tepco expects it will take until March 2013 to complete permanent repairs to the other three units.
“Our current focus is to ensure that Unit 4 is kept in a stable condition and to provide permanent fixes to the three other units,” said plant manager Naohiro Masuda. “We will work hard so that people in Fukushima will once again be able to feel safe and secure living in the prefecture.”
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Fukushima Watch: At Fukushima Daini, It’s Safer Inside Than Outside
Wall Street Journal – Japan Real Time
By Mitsuru Obe
July 4, 2012, 10:51 PM JST
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Plant operator Tokyo Electric Power Co. took reporters inside one of Daini’s reactor buildings to observe its spent fuel pool and tour inside the primary containment vessel, a steel shell around the reactor.
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On the second level, around the containment vessel, radiation levels still hovered around 0.6 microsieverts per hour. But they shot up inside the containment vessel to 6 microsieverts per hour near the pipes and valves where steam from the reactor goes through, and to 160 microsieverts per hour at the bottom part of the vessel, called the pedestal, which is right under the reactor.
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Published: July 4th, 2012 at 1:11 pm ET
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as best as i can tell all 4 of the Daini units suffered major core damage but never melted down because they were able to restore emergency coolingwithin a few hours.
however, as best i can tell, TEPCO wrote off all 4 of the Daini reactors within 90 days and are just trying to keep them from completely failing
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Just what is a permanent repair?
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Scraping it all into the ocean.
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"…kept in a stable condition…"? So, this is what they consider stable?! I can only guess their idea of an unstable system is one where the core is smoldering in the bedrock?
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No AS, I believe (as I believe everything that TEPKILL announce) that is not an unstable system, but a 'cold shutdown condition'.
This morning my kettle had a 'cold shutdown condition', and then I made a very nice cup of steaming tea…see TEPKILL's version of a 'FUKUSTEAMER cold shutdown condition' in these 3rd July clips from nuckelchen:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sC9u4lAEh3k&feature=youtu.be
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ec72XwcxtU0&feature=youtu.be
Some speculation recently that this is not all 'fog from the ocean', but may also be coming from Daiini, or other steam machines (not the coriums and SFPs) that may be employed to disguise the true amount of watertable emmission. Any news or views on that?
Is anyone else experiencing a 'cold shutdown condition' on their heart, as this manifest corruption of our planet and species spirals further and further into the uncharted territory of ELE? Everything supposed to be 'kool', but seething, steaming lava under the surface?
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Coriums? Sporiums? Smoriums? I don't know. Only know it bodes no good.
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Oh, final solution.
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"Only one unit—reactor 4—has its safety functions fully restored".
Huh… I thought that over 50% percent of that structure was gone, just looking at a present day webcam view. How can anything be 'fully restored'. Have I missed something?
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doh, i did miss something, they are talking about daini. thanks for jolting me awake folks.
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The newly appointed chairman and president of Tokyo Electric Power Co. made their first visit to the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant
"We've caused an accident we can never undo," Kazuhiko Shimokobe told reporters …
"We must show to society concrete plans for decommissioning by achieving decontamination and compensation for disaster victims who are being tormented"
http://english.kyodonews.jp/news/2012/07/167608.html
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hmmm…i believe they are writing about Daini, not Daichi. Both plants may be within the Fukushima prefecture?
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VFO–"Both plants may be within the Fukushima prefecture…" For now, anyway. But for how much longer?
Fly me to the Moon, and let me play among the stars,
Let me know what life is like, on Jupiter and Mars,
In other words…..
Set me freeeee~~~~~~
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Did you pick up on the line one of Diana reactor did not say what one and radiation levels inside that one seem high to me in containment. It was not number 4 that for sure, anybody know if these are normal readings from containment on a operational reactor.
They are trying to keep 4 stable, is that a admission to a melt down at 4 and they are tring to keep under control, the other three are badly damaged.
How will the people of Fukushima ever fell safe, maybe in a couple of billion years
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weeman, good eye for detail, there. I paused on that one, too. believe there was a partial meltdown in progress or minutes from occurring that was eventually reported in the news about Daini, but, i don't recall the details of which reactor. They lost cooling there, too, but, were able to bring some of the generators back online and restart the cooling pumps before total meltdowns could occur. Very, very close.
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