Published: November 29th, 2011 at 12:00 am ET
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TEPCO says no explosion occurred at No.2 reactor, NHK, November 29, 2011 (Emphasis Added):
[...] NHK has obtained Tokyo Electric Power Company’s interim report on the nuclear accident that was triggered by the earthquake and tsunami on March 11th. [...]
The company concluded in the report that there was no explosion at the No. 2 reactor, and that a blast at the No. 4 reactor was mistakenly believed to have occurred at the No. 2.
Later that day, pressure inside the No. 2 reactor vessel dropped sharply, and radiation levels near the plant’s main gate rose above 10 millisieverts per hour, then the highest level so far.
The interim report fails to specify how the leakage occurred at the containment vessel, just saying that gas in the vessel was somehow released into the air.
Watch video here.
Click to watch video (SOURCE: NHK)
Transcript Excerpts
NHK: “Investigators from TEPCO still can’t determine how radioactive substances were released and why“
NHK: “Workers reportedly heard any explosion near the containment vessel of the No. 2 reactor”
NHK: “Researchers believe No. 2 released the most radioactive materials of all reactors at the plant”
SOURCE: NHK
Shinichiro Kado, an associate professor at the University of Tokyo (SOURCE: “Expert urges probe of No.2 reactor leak”): “The containment vessel is the final fortress for keeping radioactive substances trapped inside the reactor. Its’ a cornerstone of the integrity of a nuclear plant. The breach of the containment vessel itself is extremely grave.”
NHK adds: “The spike in radiation levels following unspecified trouble at the No.2 reactor on March 15th was much more prominent than on March 12th or 14th, when explosions hit the No.1 and No.3 reactors.”
h/t TOJ
Was the spike had related to the similarly-timed “blast” at the spent fuel pool at Reactor No. 4? See: Top scientists refute Japan gov't: "Copious quantities" of radioactivity leaked from Spent Fuel Pool No. 4 -- A "significant part" of overall cesium release
At least the reactors had containment vessels, unlike the spent fuel pools…
Published: November 29th, 2011 at 12:00 am ET
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Number four on the related posts list sums up the importance of what the expert was saying about the graveness of a breached containment:
http://enenews.com/reactor-no-2-has-multiple-4-inch-holes-in-containment-vessel
Guess what. it breached. it breached more than once.
But as they say, nothing to worry about, I’m sure the radioactive releases have been and are no more than one would receive while sitting down to a dinner of ten trillion bananas.
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Thanks for the info
“extremely grave” = eating a banana on an airplane
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…after eating a bag of brazil nut snacks provided by the airline.
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If I’d been more awake, I’d have factored in planes, the cosmos and those oh-so-radioactive cellphones too. but then i’d have to bring in the fact that Salt is more dangerous to eat in mass doses than plutonium into it, and I don’t think any of us could keep a straight face the rest of the night…
the brazil nuts was brilliant though! we should mail that in as a suggestion =P
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And Anne Coulter is sitting beside you…..
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@Anthony +1. made me laugh at 4am.
thank you, that felt good!
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NHK: “Investigators from TEPCO still can’t determine how radioactive substances were released and why“
TEPCO unable to find their asses with a map and a flashlight…
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They are working hard to make it all go away.
“There is no spoon, there is no spoon, there was no explosion”
Try harder TEPCO!
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If TEPCO management’s brain’s were explosives-they wouldn’t even be able to blow their nose! As far as the “map & flashlight” are concerned-they found their asses,but their heads are stuck so far up in them that they can’t see the fire lights of Fukushima!! LOL! And furthermore-Brazil nuts are too good for ‘em!!TEPCO can eat the peanuts from my shit!!!(lol,sorry if it’s a bit tood graphic & descriptive so close to dinnertime!)
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Dinner in Tokyo anyone?:
Tokyo retains title as Michelin’s gourmet capital
By Junko Fujita
TOKYO | Tue Nov 29, 2011 6:17am EST
http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/11/29/uk-japan-michelin-idUSLNE7AS02020111129
Hold the rice, fish, spinach, bananas, nuts and green tea.
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Should hold your breath too, and hope your wore a N-95 mask on your flight over there, in the jet stream were you fly there is much higher contamination !
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It makes sense if there was no explosion of the building, the core melted out in one pile undisturbed went deeper in the ground and is now super extremely critical grave bad.
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That is exactly right! If they don’t know where it went because it left no visible scars TEPCO claims immunity by saying they can’t do anything about it. It’s true they can’t do anything and it is very bad. The symptoms of the walking dead are showing up and there are three cores on the loose headed towards a water table. They don’t know which one has dug itself the deepest hole and when a hydro volcanic reaction could happen. Soon I get to see how radiation affects the ice shelves of the Arctic.
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If it breached the containment vessel and went underground, it’s none of TEPCO’s business anymore. If radiation on a golf course belongs to the land owners, then there’s no law that stipulates that anything as far below the surface as the water table also belongs to the land owner. TEPCO lawyers are probably hard at work trying to figure this one out.
Maybe a big hydro-nuclear-volcanic explosion will solve their dilemma of having to contain a mess that can’t be contained as it is.
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Anyone have a spare one of those UFO provided thingamajingies that turns molten corium into chicken gravy?
I lost my converter device somewhere in Disneyworld, between Space Mountain and the water ride.
This would be a good time to try it out and see if it really works.
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When I see Brian Williams and Greenspan, known Illuminati and New World Order gurus, in the following companion video, I have to look at these videos and see a lot of NWO propaganda. We are never going to find the perfect society on this earth, because humans are not perfect. I see a propaganda which is preparing people to submit to the Illuminati. Whatever they say is just the opposite of what they are trying to bring about.
2012 – The Revolution Has Begun (1080p HD)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OT2DQ_d2cMw
When a video is embedded without the source,at least in this particular instance, there is an attempt to sway by means of emotion. One needs to look at the source to help discern the motive. The internet is a great propaganda tool as well as a place to find more information.
Thrive ~ What On Earth Will It Take? (Full HD Trailer)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qd7zClv5obw
THRIVE is an unconventional documentary premiering online on 11.11.11 at http://thrivemovement.com
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We will never find utopia on this earth:
Author: Miller, Alexander, 1908-1960
Title: The Christian significance of Karl Marx / by Alexander Miller
Publisher Info: New York : Macmillan, 1947, c1946
Subject: Communism and religion
Alexander “Lex” Miller (1908 – May 15, 1960) was a New Zealand Presbyterian minister, author, and Stanford University theologian. Violence towards black activists during the Montgomery Bus Boycott led Miller to question commitments to nonviolence as noted by Martin Luther King, Jr. himself in letter sent April 1957.
http://www.amazon.com/Alexander-Miller/e/B001KI7W6G
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I do not believe that if several people report hearing a strong blast sound, it could have been a mistake. Of course it depends on the place they were at the time when blast happened, and if the workers located at different points report one and the same, I would take their testimonies more seriously. It could be the sound of the cracking containment vessel on a large scale.
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We will probably never hear from those workers as they are more than likely dead? All good for TEPCO, no witness= no need to make up any new cover up!
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What is Hollywood waiting for? If it wasnt so damn real, hell despite the fact that its real, this would make one heLluva funny Godzillaesque Japanese sci fi B movie!!
If i’m forced to breathe this garbage in like we all are across the US this week i think i reserve the right to parody.
That’s right folks, we import our air straight from Japan thanks to the jet stream express delivery system!
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It’s not been made into a movie yet, but “The Prometheius Crisis” is a great book about a nuclear reactor meltdown. I read it about 20 years ago and ironically re-read it a few months before Fukushima.
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It was an inadvertently misplaced decimal point, sorry about that.
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On a plane, talking on a cell phone, then you notice someone has grabbed your banana. You turn around and find it’s Anne Coulter’s mouth around it.
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And the banana is emitting a pulsating glow.
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That would = 1 or 2 rads
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That’s what she said…
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I’d better jump topic’s here & put on my tinfoil hat & lead-lined underoo’s. The suggestion made depicting the first and best practical use of Ann Coulter’s mouth has my mind in the gutter & I’m getting way too far out there now!LOL, However,the idea of shoving anything in her mouth just to shut her up is worth the effort!lol!
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This reactor type has a catastrophic design flaw: The suppression pool (aka torus) is outside of the primary containment. It lies below the reactor vessel and is connected to it with several large pipes.
These interconnections are stressed extremely in an earthquake event. I am pretty sure that this is the point where R2 broke. Furthermore the pipes/torus provide a perfect exit point for the corium.
They never spoke about this flaw, maybe to protect General Electric.
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Remember when the workers said there is steam coming from the ground?
Look: The torus is in the ground next to the building:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a0/BWR_Mark_I_Containment%2C_diagram.png
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Thanks for sharing this here! It is important.
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I think you’re onto something here!-It makes perfect sense too. Maybe your very likely theory would also imply that it would make the inevitable & neccessary job of manually digging into the ground until hitting the corium a bit easier,or a better word to use might be to “simplify” locating the “blob” or whatever form it’s taken by then? The Chernobyl “blob” of corium is called “The Elephant’s Foot” due to the shape it assumed as it solidified. Considering the immensity of the “numerous” individual “blobs” of corium in this case-I wonder if it’ll assume the shapes of the rest of “The TEPCO Bros.and G.E.& Toshiba Circus” complete with The Big Top tent with animal shapes and/or perhaps it’s all “pooled” & creating “Mt.Fukushima”-a nuclear “volcano” destined to erupt again with even more devastating effect?!! Until you mentioned the Torus locations again,I’d been wondering if some of the fission events visible on the surface were perhaps the result of TEPCO’s bulldozing over the highly radioactive debris after the explosions which might’ve even consisted of entire fuel rod bundles that go critical from time to time. Now I’m thinking it implies much worse going on below the surface which I only hope that the worst of the events being underground are sparing us some of the harmful effect & spreading of elevated radiation levels!?? I’m also hoping that it buys us “victims” a little time while somebody grows a pair of balls & a brain capable of finally taking the initiative upon realizing that “somebody competent” & selfless will HAVE TO attack the problem up close & in person before it will cease to threaten EVERYONE regardless of where they try to hide!WELL-THOUGHT,LOGICAL & USEFUL POST!!Thanks tomb1! ~PEACE~
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TEPCO study on nuclear crisis stressed need to avoid flooding
http://mdn.mainichi.jp/mdnnews/news/20111129p2g00m0dm010000c.html
It wasn’t the earthquake, as many analysts claim, it was the tsunami. They’re at it again, protecting the industry from having to upgrade earthquake protection or permanently shutdown plants.
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Great work on the site Admin!
Just a thought: maybe time to each take a hair clipping (as Busby suggests in another video) and put it in an envelope for safekeeping.
Hard to operate in the midst of a global radiological disaster with industry-sponsored infoterrorism:
Busby Turns on his Attackers
http://youtu.be/-hwHfv1K_vA
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http://youtu.be/-hwHfv1K_vA
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Maybe like this:
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i love you busby!! otherwise deffinately no comment
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All problems have been announced and published on Enenews, my dear
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cool we got an enenews psychic.. just like the proper media!!
we could try this out maybe b and b??
do you do live readings kanes?.. if so discussion thread (link on right)
peace
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Lol
Can I ask non-Fuku questions as well?
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on the discussion thread.. think thats allowed!
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