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Watch: Tepco releases footage of Reactor No. 3 from crane (VIDEOS)

Published: July 13th, 2012 at 3:53 pm ET
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July 13th, 2012 | Category: Audio/Video Clips, Reactor No. 3
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17 comments to Watch: Tepco releases footage of Reactor No. 3 from crane (VIDEOS)

  • Max1 Max1
    July 13, 2012 at 3:55 pm

    Thank you Admin.
    Do we have any readings from the operations room floor or just pics and vids at this time?


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    • NuNationsUnity
      July 13, 2012 at 4:10 pm

      Indeed, this site is active & provides an array of info with a good influx of personal opinions.

      Thanks to Admin, too.


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      • weeman
        July 13, 2012 at 5:05 pm

        Enenews is the best site I have found so far, you deserve more recognition and the highest civilian award off Japan, I saulate you.
        Everyday make one person aware of nuclear threat, yes threat that compromises the human race and much of its bio mass that exist on earth.
        If you are successful and that person follows suit we will win.

        Civil disobgence is the order, people of Japan refuse to pay your land tax,s untill they close all nuclear reactors, you will succeed. Hit them were it hurts in the pocket. They are vultures, who feed off the weak


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        • Max1 Max1
          July 13, 2012 at 5:13 pm

          weeman,
          I could say that many governments operate in contempt of humanity.


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          • weeman
            July 13, 2012 at 5:37 pm

            Welcome to the new renaissance and our motto is simple, we are not going to take it any more.

            My faith in democracy is fading, we may vote in a new leader every few years but the programs they have enacted can not be changed by a new leader and they no longer speak for the people, they cater to the rich ( 2 percent controls 98 of the money, not right )
            I am a socialist by nature, I believe in inherent rights that should be guaranteed life, liberty, education, health, old age pension, freedome from religious persecution, etc.

            But nuclear power threatens our first right life, therefore should be phased out ASAP.

            By the way their is a solar storm on its way, let's hope it is not very strong or we will loose every reactor in world, a solar storm has the potential to blow every transformer on earth to prices and then how will you cool reactors and that will be the end of us all happened in 1700's


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            • Max1 Max1
              July 13, 2012 at 5:41 pm

              "we may vote in a new leader every few years but …"

              We vote in puppets.


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            • Max1 Max1
              July 13, 2012 at 5:45 pm

              That solar storm, or any solar storm that can shut down the main grid…
              … Is this why NPP are plugged into the main? Sure back up generators, IF the work, only are designed to last 8-12 hours. Like that's enough time to restore main grid?
              HAhahahahahaha… we're dead.

              Kinda like how backup cooling of R4 SFP was also routed through the main… so that when the main had a short it too, fried the back ups?

              Why is this difficult for nuclear industry to figure out?


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              • ITSNOTABANANA
                July 13, 2012 at 7:31 pm

                Hi Max,
                Thank you for bringing up(sort of) a common misconception about the damage that is too be had by any massive solar storm…

                It is correct that the power grid would be "bye-bye" so to speak… say good bye, also to every device with electronic, or voltage-regulated circuitry… EVERYTHING

                Imagine the confusion a living organism would experience exposed to such a storm…

                Directly from these storms, Our very existence may be in jeopardy…


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            • HoTaters HoTaters
              July 14, 2012 at 12:03 am

              weeman, what happened in the 1700's?


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    • MoonlightEmpire MoonlightEmpire
      July 14, 2012 at 12:48 am

      Anyone else here think there's something fishy with these videos….?

      Yesterday, TEPCO released still pictures of unit 3. They revealed extensive damage, but nothing that the untrained eye could really work out (as far as technical matters go).

      Then today, they release these videos and each one begins with almost the exact same still-frame as each of the pictures did…

      This makes me think they already had this video…

      However…I'm willing to bet that a photoshop program could take those still images that were released yesterday and apply a "crane sway" effect for the short clip duration presented here. When I think of it that way, the swaying of the crane seems abnormal.

      For instance, that camera is swaying a LOT at times, and yet, it never sways very far at all from anything we saw in the still frames yesterday.

      Absolutely nothing has been gained from these clips that couldn't have been deduced from the pictures yesterday.

      I'd like to hear any other ideas. Further, if any of you know of computer programs that would give the "crane sway" effect, let it be known. If anyone knows how to pick apart the vid to see if it's be doctored, please do so.

      Lastly, if anyone with technical knowledge can give us any insight beyond what we currently where we currently are by describing in detail what we are seeing in the pictures and videos, then thank you in advance.

      Best to all here and elsewhere.


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  • Max1 Max1
    July 13, 2012 at 5:08 pm

    I will say this about these videos…

    These videos show the extent to which Secondary Containment that is designed to be a second line of defense to contaminating the immediate environment should the Primary Containment fail during an accident, FAILED in the Mark 1 design.

    The Situ at Fuku is proof that the Mark 1 reactor designs FAILED to contain an extreme, multiphase accident and to this date, BOTH Primary and Secondary have FAILED to do what they were designed to do.

    Yet, our leaders insist on using Mark 1 reactors.

    In the late 1970s, US Auto giant, Ford, halted production of the Ford Pinto because it was proven to be designed poorly. So poorly designed, people lost their lives in accidents because of the manufacturers faulty safety designs. But that was the late 1970s.

    Zoom ahead 30 years and FOUR pinto model nuclear reactors just blew up because of faulty manufacturer designs. Odd that they're left in use, producing energy WITH known and provable faulty containment systems to protect the public and rate payer from harm. At what point is it called willful negligence by nations that continue to insist on putting the kids in the back of the pinto?


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  • Andres Arce Andres Arce
    July 17, 2012 at 6:19 pm

    Is there any particular reason, by which the camera hasn't looked down into the SFP ?


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