Published: November 2nd, 2011 at 8:24 am ET
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Nov. 2 — According to TEPCO general manager Junichi Matsumoto, “There’s been no large-scale or sustained criticality.”
However, Bloomberg quotes an expert who isn’t as confident: “Melted fuel in the No. 2 reactor may have undergone a sustained process of nuclear fission or re-criticality.” -Tetsuo Ito, the head of Kinki University’s Atomic Energy Research Institute.
Published: November 2nd, 2011 at 8:24 am ET
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Good morning B&B,
These fission events have been all along, with 3 and maybe more and even off then on again the fission somewhere was occurring, isotopes were prof of this, like everything else, it wasn’t disclosed till the evidence that fission was accruing, but we here at enenews knew !
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Hey xdrfox, yes, you’re right. Nevertheless I find it quite scary to see the Tepcoclowns are admitting it now. If it wasn’t a big deal, they could’ve hidden it now like they did before.
I just wonder what’s next.
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Right on xdrfox, I am in a state of continuous astonishment that these people – even after all this time – are sticking with their ridiculous story and apparently hoping we, and the bad news, will simply go away. I have to admit here to a certain naivety, having believed that once the seriousness of the situation had sunk in they would ‘fess up’ and start doing something other than covering their own backsides.
Frankly I am sickened by them, by it all. They are pathetic, and the sad and frustrating thing is that the majority of people still believe their damnable lies.
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Me too Steven. Disbelief and shock. They are criminals and should be locked up. When is someone gonna take control of this situation? Never because there IS NO CONTROLLING THIS.
CBS and others are reporting the Fission. When will the rest of MSM do it? So far nothing at HP
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The Tepco officials need to cough it up.. then go hang themselves.
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In case you missed it Hole in 2?
Colbert http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=f9Vw1tEx9Tw
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CONFIRMED DUTCH SINSE
11/2/2011 — Confirmed — Fukushima reactor 2 in meltdown — Xenon detected
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0DbuuEm-XSk&feature=share
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I asked them on the facebook site of world nuclear news this is their response :
QUOTE (not my writing, not me, not my thoughts!)
” Our Japanese colleagues have helped us clear this up. It stems from translation error in Tepco’s English press release, which we have now alerted them to.
First, Tepco analysed gas samples from the containment vessel of unit 2 and: “It was found out that there was a possibility that short-half-life radionuclide (xenon 133, 135) was detected.” However, there have been no changes in temperature or pressure or data from monitoring posts. So, presence of xenon would be one indicator of fission, although the others are absent. Also, Tepco are not 100% they even detected xenon and obviously have to go back and check again.
Later in the same paragraph comes a translation error. Tepco say they began injecting boron because, “it was undeniable that fission reaction had occurred” which is clearly a contradiction of what they said about xenon a moment before. In this context the word undeniable is a mistake. In Japanese this word means undeniable either way – ie it cannot be proven either way, and both the presence and absence of fission are ‘undeniable’ possibilities.”
END OF QUOTE.
I want to swear out loud and shout rude things at them, yet I will persist in getting them to look at the truth.
Help me over on facebook please…….
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Oh my god! Not a facebook user otherwise I’d help. Off to check it out tho.
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Wait. You have a link?
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http://www.facebook.com/WorldNuclearNews
there are loads of these pro-nuke groups on facebook. Grrrrrrrr
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Oooo…here you go! HERO!
“ongoing….. please respond to me, this is in direct contradiction to the assertion that you made not so long ago……
Nov. 2, 3:27 am ET — “Tokyo Electric Power Co. detected signs of nuclear fission,” according to Bloomberg, “Raising the risk of more radiation leaks.”
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It’s now at Common Dreams
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2011/11/02-1?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter
Will Huffington be next? Doubt it.
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I sent it in to HP as a TIP, calmly asking that they report it. Tweets are going a hundred miles an hour – well, at least faster than most days. Current top headline Mittens. I suppose they WONT REPORT IT “not wanting to cause Panic”
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FUKUSHIMA TWEET PAGE I’ve never seen it have the LEAK TOP OF THE PAGE LIKE THIS It STAYS on top every refresh
Top news Xenon detected at Fukushima plant
http://twitter.com/#!/search/realtime/fukushima
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Love you all, we work together, we will shut them all down.
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Same to you Grace. I’m so proud of your determination on that facebook page. We’ve got a pro-nuker weighing in a HP. Michael Mann agrees it’s a “VALID CONCERN”. DUH!
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/09/30/japan-earthquake-2011-gov_n_989682.html
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