Published: May 15th, 2011 at 7:57 am ET
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TEPCO: Years needed to remove damaged nuclear fuel, NHK, May 15, 2011:
The operator of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant says it may take a number of years to remove damaged nuclear fuel rods from the Number 1 reactor.
The Tokyo Electric Power Company announced on Saturday, that most of the fuel rods in the Number 1 reactor have melted and fallen to the bottom of the reactor where they are submerged in water.
TEPCO announced in April that it was aiming to get the reactor stabilized and cooled down in 6 to 9 months. However, no timeline has yet been proposed for the removal of the nuclear fuel.
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Published: May 15th, 2011 at 7:57 am ET
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Soooo…..years to complete an accurate audit of what just fell to the bottom and what got vaporized.
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That sounds to me like they’re still planning to be able to make these plants usable again someday. Unbelieveable…
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I think they announced some time ago the entire site would be retired.
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Sitting here quietly watching the live feed courtesy TBS/JNN…. night time but someone left the lights on so you can see occassional puffs of steam or smoke from the spent fuel pond in the remains of the R4 building.
I wouldn’t mess with explosives in my backyard shed, that wouldn’t be fair to my neighbours; not even if I was an explosives expert, which I’m not. I’m not a physicist either, but if I was the same thing applies only on a much larger scale. The whole world is your neighbour when dealing with fission, fusion, or the search for the ‘God particle’.
In the final list of those responsible for this sad situation, let’s not forget the physicists; their arrogance will finish us off if we don’t move to curb their enthusiasm for dangerous technologies.
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Yes, the locomotion is still spewing, Reactor 4 is the most active from my viewing and yesterday Reactor 1 was puffin’ away, albeit intermittently but consistently.
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I guess that is why they want to use polyester tents to cover them, Hmmm, perhaps they will charge admission to improve earnings. ;>}
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Audit..is someone in government counting on their “fingers and toes”.
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Wow Steven,..”the ‘God particle’”,….is it really that blantant? You just gave me greepy-chills–I only get those when I’m onto SOMETHING.
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God Particle..
Simple science.
https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Higgs_boson
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Hi Jill, yes just like the poor workers at Fuku we have more than one problem before us. I don’t want to get off-topic but if you’d like a quick intro to the LHC then check out this vid:
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oooops failed link insert – I’ll just post the link as-is:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rk8Vr00EBHA&feature=related
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A couple of questions.
1) how could those rods be submerged in water. How can water still be in liquid form with that kind of heat?
2) I know it’s extremely hot but why is this taking so dang long? Why not go in there with a couple of lead lined bulldozers and dig a giant hole next to these plants and just shove them in and bury them? Oh yeah, I think I heard something about a water table below. Or why not throw a heavy teflon blanket over the top of the rods then they can do the other work they need to do.
We should have never created something for which the potential worst case scenario is this bad.
I’ve always loved the rain. But I live in California and right now it’s raining. Who would have dreamt there would be a time when we need to fear it?
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We should have never created something for which the potential worst case scenario is this bad. Truly the bottom line huh?
Or it they created it anyways, it should be done AFTER PROOF that they CAN deal effectively with worst case scenarios.
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Translation :
This will get a lot worse, not better !
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right and thats the problem, worse and worse and no one even gets it that its bad. Just like the Gulf.
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This is the “official trusted” info most people that are actually looking for info will find….yesterdays IAEA Fukushima report. Shit, I could feel myself calming (dumbing) down as I read the comforting report. http://www.iaea.org/newscenter/news/tsunamiupdate01.html
Got a tip from my 86 yr. old Mom last night too. “Honey, turn on FOX. That nice John Stossel is talking about how safe nuclear power is. Just stop worrying about radiation. They say its as safe as riding on an airplane or eating a banana.”
enenews, thanks again for the sanity.
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Fox News. Yeah, right.
I noticed on our local Fox channel, that the back drop for the weather is blue with chemtrail swoops and smears. It is just another way to subliminally implant into our brains that these streaks and patterns in the sky are normal.
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xdrfox – appreciate your blog posts… yes. how could this NOT get worse. And no one even gets it that it that there is a problem. It is exactly like the Gulf.
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I think this has the gulf beat 10 to 1.
Forget bloodpressure, fuku the world’s real “silent” killer.
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Add hydrocarbons..and a dash of Corexit.
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CHAOS..the sheeple have no leader.
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whimbrel, Thx
We sure have made a mess anywhere we look !
Help to get the word out to them that have an ear !
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We are already as if radiation levels of WW III !
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SNOW in the Sacramento Valley between Sacramento and Redding at 2,500 feet. I can feel it in my throat from 10 minutes of unavoidable exposure.
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Yet another show of TEPCOs incompetence and/or lie. What.. is “bottom of the reactor”? Pressure vessel? Concrete embedment? Water table? Magma? Near China?
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They are hoping that When volcanic lava down there meets the nuclear fuel rod lava it will be neutralized.
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The thing concerning Japan to most right now, TEPCO I should say,…is how to get ‘our eyes’ off of those bloody reactors!
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psky and mark v
your both right on
yellow rain in n.cal 2 days ago
winter storm now in may
and they back filled a caldea
to build the foundation of the reactors on
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miss jill m
shes on too
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its going too get worse
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Just wait until typhoon season hits
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2 Tropical Disturbances this past week off coast there !
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“The Chernobyl disaster-the severe days”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nbCcutzXzYg
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Mein Frienden:
Is gut das eu haf kome herr fur Informazion uber der Reaktor kuputen in Japan. TEPCO haz tolden mi das Alles is in Ordenung! Eu alles kann goen bach zu sleepen.
SIEG TEPCO!
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What is the best guess at this point on how things will unfold?
Best case scenario?
Worst case scenario?
Japan and the rest of the world?
Thank you in advance. This is the best site.
No one else wants to talk about this crisis.
So strange, perhaps one of the most serious situations
to happen in my lifetime and I cannot get the facts, truth or
any discussion.
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Nobody knows Cassie,…we TRULY are in unprecedented waters!
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Thanks Jill.
Your answer is consistent with what I have been reading on the internet. Everyone is all over the map in terms of outcome.
The facts are that it is a very serious situation, we are being lied to,
and the truth being withheld. This does not add up to a good outcome.
Best case scenario is that Japan takes some major hits (if you can call that a good outcome). And the rest of the world has minor impact.
Worst case scenario is an extinction event?
It just seems that there is way too much radiation spewing over too long a period of time for this to have no impact like the authorities want us to believe.
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By best case scenario I mean the best we can hope for given the current facts. The best thing of course would be that no one has any impact.
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Of course Cassie,…I knew what you meant and I agree. I personally think that this IS an extinction event–but I PERSONALLY believe that some will be saved through some Higher Power.
I feel it. But, we have to go through “Rocky Horror Picture Show” first, right?
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Dear Jill:
I am so glad to have found someone thinking along the same lines as I am. I keep thinking that this is an extinction event. I thought this from the very beginning. And yes, a higher power is going to have to pull us out of the fire.
Cassie
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My intuition is saying the same thing.
I feel it too.
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Cool, loving heads WILL PREVAIL!
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Which cool loving heads are you referring to?
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Chaos,followed by riots,wreckage, and ruin…
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Chaos..damn…I hate chaos.
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But the sheeple don’t seem to mind…two months out and not a lick of organization.
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Cassie, Jill….
I hadn’t thought about it being an “extinction event” untill you mentioned it Chilling thought. And very possible. BRrrrrr
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Japan sticks to plan to shutter nuclear plant in 6 to 9 months
….. Washington has recommended that Americans stay at least 50 miles from the plant, but an updated travel alert Monday said it was safe for people to transit through that zone using a highway and rail line.
http://www2.tbo.com/news/nation-world/2011/may/17/T2NEWSO4-japan-sticks-to-plan-to-shutter-nuclear-p-ar-207898/
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