Published: September 4th, 2012 at 7:21 pm ET
|
Title: Results of the Second Soundness Inspection of Unit 4 Reactor Building at Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station
Source: TOKYO ELECTRIC POWER COMPANY – Photos and Videos Library
Date: September 4, 2012
(5)West wall (Exterior wall)
Photo taken on August 22, 2012
We had fabricated a part of the photo in terms of physical protection. We replaced the photo of which the fabrication may be taken inappropriate.
Not much of an explanation. ‘Physical protection’ of what? Why does it need to be protected?
See also: Tepco edits 'photoshopped' image -- Removes original alteration (PHOTO)
Published: September 4th, 2012 at 7:21 pm ET
|
sending...
I worked as an archivist for a while. Policy was if one photo from a source proved to be fake, ALL photos from that source were discarded.
Report Comment
@Flapdoodle: don't think they're admitting that the photos are actually fake. They're attempting a circuitous route towards admitting they don't want these images going public. It's likely third-party analysis would reveal a major issue that they're unable to address.
If only they'd apply this aggressive damage control to the actual problems at these plants…
Report Comment
Ｅｘｃｅｌｌｅｎｔ point AFTERSHOCK… the fact that there has been little third party analysis is disturbing.
Yet, still, there is a corporation in charge of the worst disaster humankind has ever seen.
The world must stand up and demand the entrance of international help.
If they couldn't even think to prepare chemicals in the event of a failure at SFP4 what else have they not thought of to solve the problems faced?
TEPCO and the Japanese government or too incompetent.
We must start protesting at every Japanese consulate in the world, and demand they let in international help. With idiots working on the problem there is no hope… with the best minds in the world working on it we can solve the problem.
I am sick of reading comments from all the nihilists prowling on this site. Much can be done! We must stand united in solidarity with the Japanese people who are victims of this aggression against all humans.
The consulates are the weak point for the Japanese… they will be horrified and disgraced if there are multiple protests globally, demanding transparency and an international effort.
Report Comment
Dear MCBEKRL,
'We must start protesting at every Japanese consulate in the world, and demand they let in international help. With idiots working on the problem there is no hope… with the best minds in the world working on it we can solve the problem.'
Aounds like a plan to me! Here's a list
Aloha.
http://www.mofa.go.jp/about/emb_cons/protocol/a-h.html
Report Comment
oops …'Sounds'
Report Comment
Cont:
Worldwide locations:
http://www.mofa.go.jp/about/emb_cons/mofaserv.html
Aloha
Report Comment
Of course, they are saying that this photo is fake. They are admitting they falsified it. Tepco has admitted to falsifying data over decades, the public track record is there from the 1970s, at least.
They falsify it and then admit to it later, and then throw MOX fuel into a broken site because they falsified all the data on the broken pipes, etc. If there is a whistle blower, well, the Japanese government will likely turn over the name, read more about on the link below (one of the saddest parts is a quote from a construction worker saying in 2002, "we don't want a Chernobyl here").
"The New York Times – September 16, 2002
Safety Problems at Japanese Reactors Begin to Erode Public's Faith in Nuclear Power
The reports of safety lapses, fraudulent repairs and cover-ups at Japan's largest nuclear power company began with a trickle but have resounded into an industry nightmare.
The details, filled in over the last two weeks by one alarming report after another, show a potentially catastrophic pattern of cost-cutting along with 16 years of cover-ups of serious flaws, apparently in an effort to preserve public trust. The pattern includes the systematic falsification of inspection and repair records at 13 reactors at the company, Tokyo Electric, the world's largest private electrical utility."
http://archive.greenpeace.org/nuclear/bnfl/japan_nuke_excerpts.html#article7
Report Comment
On 3/11; 15-28 Nuclear Reactors/SFP’s In Japan Were Damaged, Not 3 or 4; via A Green Road http://agreenroad.blogspot.com/2012/03/14-nuclear-reactors-at-4-japan-sites.html
Fukushima; Today's Titantic and Costa Concordia; via A Green Road http://agreenroad.blogspot.com/2012/04/fukushima-todays-titantic-and-costa.html
Report Comment
@flapdoodle
The policy your speak of as an archiver says a lot.
Everything from TEPCO must be questioned. As so many here on ENENews have already been doing.
Don't let up ENENewsers!
Report Comment
"We had fabricated" = Fraud.
Report Comment
Thumbs up!! Fraud, indeed.
Report Comment
Fukushima is painful proof that the common man can never trust the governments and the politicians of the world.
Report Comment
Yep, they are the mafia and we are not part of the family just used for money taxes. I do think someday the common man will rise up, so to speak, I just hope I'm not around to see it. Anyway, Here is an interesting video concerning tidal power which I think would be perfect for Japan. http://youtu.be/_XBqbCjFhcc
Report Comment
The two of you are right, organized crime runs the world, from corporations to churches and government.
The humble citizen is nothing but a commodity to used, abused and misused.
Trust no one in authority and do everything you can to confront them and make their life painful.
Sorry moon, but hoping change doesn't happen on your watch is pathetic.
You see the problem, yet don't want to fix it. Why are you on enenews?
Report Comment
That weakness reminds me of the ones who want to pray. Prayer is the path of the inactive. It's for saying 'I have a problem. But someone else needs to fix it for me'.
Report Comment
lol this guy never quits
Report Comment
timebomb…I call it believing your thriving in over-confidence without realizing you're doing it~~~
Report Comment
Prayer is clearly different things to different people…..
I am "on" ENENews to learn, and to share my thoughts occasionally. What I learn here I share with everyone I know. I don't know what else to do at this point so I pray for an end to the madness.
Report Comment
Same here.
Report Comment
Path of the inactive huh? Speak for yourself perhaps?
Report Comment
Richard this also reminds me of people with obsessive compulsive disorder who cannot seem to accept the fact that there are people in this world who choose to direct energies and words to different purposes. This is what prayer is for some people. Accept it and move on.
Report Comment
Actually, for some people prayer might be, "I'm scurrying around doing all I can do but I sure could use some help! This is way beyond me!!"
Report Comment
Thanks Mr. Webster.
Report Comment
Judge not as our pain should unite us while my weakness strengthens your resolve. No Nukes
Report Comment
Thanks! I'm reminded of a great wise ole soul who used to take care of me.
"Laugh and the world laughs with you, weep and you weep alone".
~ Gram
We need friends and family. Birds of a feather flock together. ENENEWsSers!
Report Comment
@richard – you misread or chose to distort moonshellblues' comment.
", I just hope I'm not around to see it." is not the same as …"hoping change doesn't happen…" .
moonshellblue has, in the past, expressed hope for peaceful change through lawful means.
I know this because this poster has said so in response to rhymes I've posted that have expressed more of an agressive stance.
Why moonshellblue chooses to be here is his/her business IMO and she/he has every right to be here as he/she has not, to my knowledge, ever indulged in rudeness, personal attack or disparagement, as you have just done with "…hoping change doesn't happen on your watch is pathetic."
That's my opinion and you're free to disagree.
And by the way – I don't pray but claim the right to use religious terminology in verse anytime I wish.
Report Comment
Must be the hole that goes to China err south Atlantic ocean in this case.
Report Comment
LOL.
I dont know whats more sad here?
The dude who fabricated that area (i can do a much better job using MS paint LOL)
OR
The fact TEPFÜK is trying to hide an obviously destroyed part of R4 base.
So sad…
Report Comment
At the same time announcing **She`s alright!!! Don`t you worry!**
Our lives in their hands.
Report Comment
The Diet and Tepco are struggling to see who can approach statistically zero for citizen approval. I thought the Diet was neck and neck in that race, but Tepco wins the boobie prize by a few votes.
The credibility of Tepco management has sunk so low it might pass the coriums in the race to Hell.
Anybody who is working at Fukushima NPP has my vote of approval, but the Tokyo mucky mucks are just too callous for me. Calling them mere liars is an insult to the meaning of the word.
Report Comment
**it might pass the coriums**
Hilarious!
Report Comment
Report Comment
Like we haven't seen the blue prints of the plant…
Like we haven't figured out the loading bay was demolished…
Like we're stew-pid and TEPCO plays us like fools…
… TEPCO is the fool.
Report Comment
Dear TEPCO,
Your radiation has gone public…
… You might as well admit to the public you are poisoning, truth.
But all you have is half lies… COWARDS!!!! (!)
Report Comment
People's lives hang in the balance…
… And all TEPCO can do is shrug shoulder and edit photoes.
That the Japanese government condones this speaks volumes.
Report Comment
Conspiracy to coverup life threatening information from citizens.
Report Comment
Can to remove scrap metal from the reactor 3 can use these electromagnetic grippers?
Also for attaching various devices and cameras probably would be useful..
http://magnetix.com.pl/images/stories/produkty/eo-1.jpg
http://elektromagnesy.pl/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/chwytaki_okragle_1.jpg
Andrew
Report Comment
I wonder if "we fabricated a part of the photo" (really?) will lead to the next headline of truth from TEPCO.. "The corium is no longer in the building" (really?)
Report Comment
just wondering, does one need a high quality monitor when you can zoom in a high res photo on a low quality monitor.
that said, I am more pro than anti listening to Big Arnie (and Caldicott) in full
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6JUcRE7dYuQ
and having an open mind (hint to some reactionary posters here – I think i know when someone says they don't want to be around when the SHTF).
vigilant, slightly paranoid, not cynical or knowitall. and if in doubt, ask first. just manners surely.
Report Comment
For reference, here's what they removed from the faked photo.
http://everist.org/archives/Fukushima/Composite_shop.jpg
(Red lines and oval are my additions, to show the location of the portal.)
What the hell is so important about that portal?
Report Comment
My guess would be that it relates to the fuel rods.
Report Comment
Top pic looks like it has a pool of liquid at the base of the building. Look at the reflection of the corner of the wall in it.
Report Comment
Just In: TEPCO still sucks!
Report Comment
Huuwah! you nailed it
Nuke sucks, devote energy to removing nuke from our HOME PLANET
Report Comment
This photoshopped area is where a large external access tunnel is shown to be in all previous photos big enough to drive a truck or other machinery through. So, the tunnel is being erased from the publicly released images of the building now for some reason. Perhaps they are reconfiguring the tunnel or doorway to accommodate the transporting of fuel rods from SFP 4?
Report Comment
So no 'writing on the wall' there Vic…$20 and a can of pre-311 tuna for the best graffiti line (ps. F*ck TEPCO has already been done)..
Report Comment
It can't be anything to do with the fuel rods. Used fuel rods are so radioactive they have to be kept immersed in water at all times, to both shield the radiation and keep the rods cool. This is why TEPCO's plan for the unit 4 SFP is to built a whole new structure alongside to the Sth of unit 4, to extract the fuel rods from the SFP. If they'd figured out some way to remove the rods from #4 SFP sooner via this portal (to the whole world's great relief), they'd be boasting about it, not photoshopping it out of photos.
If I had to guess, I'd think maybe there's something *else* in the unit 4 building, that they want to remove secretly. So secretly that even hinting about it is forbidden. So secret, that even the people charged with hiding anything related don't know why, so they just do as they are told and perform half-arsed photoshop jobs on photos.
What could that be?
Maybe some of Japan's many tons of plutonium stockpile (or something else related to nuclear weapons) is stored in Fukushima unit 4?
A ground level truck access portal being made ready for removal of something, from a wrecked building supposedly containing nothing salvageable, would certainly start people wondering.
Report Comment
Could be unicorns and rainbow coloured butterfies that have secretly been prepared to fly out of the asses of TEPKILL executives at Press Conferences…
or a nuclear powered 'smile machine'…?
Report Comment
TEPCO fabricated part of the picture? Fabricated? Fabricated?
That is not what I call fabrication. Fabrication allows for the suspension of disbelief. A pigeon on a statue does a better job of fabricating.
I think TEPCO should say that they butchered the photo. Then they'd be honest.
Report Comment
In my opinion, fabricated means made up. That photo wasn't made up, part of it was covered up. So, no fabrication, just cover up and more lies.
Report Comment
They cannot be honest it is not in the plan. It would cost to much $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$
Report Comment
The ever cascading effects of the continuous increase in contamination will have ever increasing consequences. The alteration of official documents/photos is intentional, and could be considered a threat to public health and safety. Wheres the authorities who protect the citizens?
Report Comment
Explain please Quote:
terms of physical protection
Another poor excuse for deceiving the public and showing a picture that is a fraud in a catastrophic disaster at your plant.
Report Comment
Ahhh but they did respond…WHY?…with so many lies already out there, why did they respond & acknowledge this Fraud?
Report Comment
As others said… It's misdirection of something they want to hide. Maybe MOX, maybe another surprise. But it will be revealed in time. Too many cooks in the kitchen to not have one or more let some gossip slip.
Report Comment
Firstly, to Mods. Profanity or expletives should be allowed when they completely apply to the situation. In my opinion, it does.
Secondly, to Tepco. No shit?
Report Comment
It must be a distraction away from something larger around the corner?
Report Comment
Something is up norbu, maybe connected with TerraHertz's post above. Just very odd that they responded.
Report Comment
maybe tepco is not in charge at all. they want us to believe that they are.
Report Comment
I am having a moment of confusion. That's not what the picture says on the Tepco site. I am looking at it right now. It says:
(5)West wall (Exterior wall)
Photo taken on August 22, 2012
･We replaced the photo for physical protection of nuclear materials.
Are they saying that there is another possible catastrophic leak or source of radioactive dust/air exposure?
http://photo.tepco.co.jp/en/date/2012/201208-e/120830-03e.html
Report Comment
Yes, your absolutely right, they've changed the caption once again.
Now I'm certain that they/someone in/of TPTB is/are reading ENENews.
Someone brilliant in the ways of PR(Barnum?) said (paraphrasing) "You can fool all of the people some of the time, and some of the people all of the time, but you can never fool all of the people all of the time. " In this case TEPCO/TPTB, dance and twirl and spin around this any way you want, but this time, you cant fool ANY of the people. It's to late, you botched it.
I can't wait for the next nuancing of the basic message. "There is something here that we don't want you to see, because then you won't be smiling, and we all must be smiling!"
Report Comment
Tepco just come clean. Tell us the truth.
Report Comment
excellent french site Cen4 has great pick of R4 south wall.. "The crack is then just the floor of the first floor, the room of the torus is at zero, just below. The building's foundations are therefore approximately ten meters below the crack". Translated http://translate.google.com/translate?sl=fr&tl=en&js=n&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&layout=2&eotf=1&u=http%3A%2F%2Fgen4.fr%2F2012%2F09%2Ffukushima-photos-details-br4.html&act=url
Report Comment
Is there problem brewing at the R4? They've lost the electrical supply of R4 today at 04:25 JST and workers have been asked to wear full protective gear… I wonder why(..)
It affected the building inside and even radiation monitoring was stopped (probably hiding something) for a while apparently. The installation work of the radioactive waste tank and water decontamination equipment were both cancelled today. TEPCO says that the cooling water part is not affected (but they would say that, won't they…) Electricity isn't restored completely yet. This is from a video uploaded 5 hours ago.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zvJ2ilU2TGo#t=1m10s
Report Comment
…and they are saying Krypton-85 is increasing intermittedly at the R1 so could this be an indication of recriticality?
http://www.tepco.co.jp/nu/f1-np/press_f1/2012/pdfdata/j120904a-j.pdf
Report Comment
As long as no criticality markers like iodine-131 and xenon-135 appear, it's not a sign of recriticality.
Delayed increase and irregular release of krypton-85 are probably more a indication that petrified corium starts to become more and more porous, slowly crumbling and release the entrapped noble gases.
This degradation over time is normal long-term corium behavior, well observed at Chernobyl, too.
At the beginning like a petrified lava, it becomes more and more porous, like a sponge, to finally fall apart.
This process is accelerated by the constant watering and leaching, of course.
So don't worry, the noble gases becoming a major part of the gaseous releases is a normal process.
But it is actually very bad because of the eventual leaching and leaking into ground water.
Report Comment
@Atomfritz: brilliant analysis on your part. It's spot-on and illuminating how it describes the complex thermodynamics of these 'blobs'. Very cool…
Report Comment
Atomfritz: Are you saying that the decaying corium will yield 100% of its atomic cargo to be dispersed by wind and water? I have seen calculations on ENEnews that a 100% dispersal of Fuku-fuel from Reactor1,2,&3 would result in an ELE. Is it your opinion that an ELE will most certainly occur from the 3 Rogue Nuclear Reactors even if SFP4 is emptied before the Building falls?
Report Comment
In short term (our lifespan) probably not really an extinguishing event to higher level life forms, like humans.
But, to be honest, do you believe that the thousands of cores of spent fuel currently rotting in pools all over the world, but mainly in the US, can be contained?
It somewhat calms me that I am unable to believe a total release of that dirt would mean an end of all life on the world.
There are bacteria that still thrive at 60 sieverts/h, even worms that can sustain 4000 sieverts before they die.
So, maybe this will be the end of humankind generations later, but not to all life on earth. Maybe a later form of mankind does better than we?
Actually I have been thinking about this problem for some time, EX-SKF reminded me recently again about this topic, see my comment here: http://ex-skf.blogspot.com/2012/09/fukushima-i-nuke-plant-plankton-and.html?showComment=1346790106158#c6925095958524973459
Report Comment
FukUp black dust
Is it possible that these bacteria are same or related to the earliest cyanobacterial lifeforms on earth that sequestered radioactivity into the ores that are now mined to concentrate into fission products. Perhaps we are seeing a simple process of 're-emergence'. Like any opportunistic species, plenty maybe stimulating a population explosion, similar to algal bloom in a waterway with excess nutrient in it. Now that there is a massively increased 'food source', so there is a 'bloom' of the cyanobacteria that were only 'subsisting' all these millions of years.
Are we watching the 'repeat re-engineering' of the planet? After taking billions of years to sequester radiation and produce oxygen, thereby creating our atmosphere which protects us from space radiation, we have reintroduced acutely toxic radionuclides within our atmospheric defensive membrane? Human intelligence test = epic fail.
http://enenews.com/magazine-headline-radioactive-black-dust-striking-tokyo-metropolitan-area-ive-told-everywhere-city-reporter
http://enenews.com/hcr-mystery-black-radioactive-powder-detected-outside-school-local-official-posts-3-videos-of-black-substance-photo-videos
http://enenews.com/mystery-radioactive-black-substance-found-25km-from-fukushima-latest-measurement-over-95-%C2%B5svh-strong-alpha-emitter-detected-photos
Cont/
Report Comment
I believe this could be more likely than the fallout from incineration, or fallout flake from the steaming coriums of Units 1 and 2. Unless that is being very rapidly transformed into cyanobacterium 'nutrient'.
Radioactive black dust was also observed and measured at the British nuclear tests in Australia in the 1950s. Is it possible that this is a result of the MOX fuel in U3, which I understand is similar in composition to some early weapons test material? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x4ei_pypCF8
Total Radiation Released By Fukushima Daichi; Ocean, Air, On Site, Etc.
http://www.care2.com/c2c/share/detail/3069802
I've also read that the black substance is the oxide ashes formed when they make a cheap plutonium bomb that uses lots of uranium in proportion to Plutonium. You can see a reference to it here as the black substance rained down on Australia during the Maralinga tests. Go to about 13 minutes into the video and listen for about 1 1/2 minutes. You will be shocked. The out of control reactors in Fukushima (U3 at least) are burning cores made up of weapons mixes.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x4ei_pypCF8
Report Comment
PS. above that should read: Like any opportunistic species, 'plenty' (as in 'good supply')may be stimulating a population explosion, similar to algal bloom in a waterway with excess nutrient in it.
Report Comment
I think TEPCO were probably following some Japanese government regulation forbiding the showing of security measures put in place for nuclear materials. As usual TEPCO have made a totally kak-handed effort to do this which has made a suspicious public even more suspicious.
If you look at the door of one of the truck entrances I think some 'jobs worth' at a Japanese ministry would consider it security related. I just dont know why Tepco doesn't just put an obvious block over the 'security item' and say they can't show it, I'm sure there PR people would have told them to do this. Totally inept.
Report Comment
I think it's time to talk about SFP #3. Photoshopped pictures, say what. Where did they begin and are they going to stop? For some reason the truth never lies!!!
Report Comment
But… where does the weapons manafacturing factory which is below R4 come into all this? oops… have I said something I shouldn't have done?
Report Comment