For Mark (&Brawn Team): Link to article: (NYTimes):"U.S. Sees New Threats at Japan’s Nuclear Plant"

Submitted by Anonymous on Tue, 2011-04-05 18:54

Berkeley Radiological Air and Water Monitoring Forum

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/06/world/asia/06nuclear.html

This is what the NHK senior science editor is reporting on the live news feed on the hour saying basically that the risk is high that a new hydrogen blast is possible due to the water being pumped in as well as the possibility that it is backing up now that the leak is plugged (at least that is what it sounded like he was worried about, a hydrogen explosion bursting the core containment inside the reactor.

The experts must be talking about it as this artivle makes clear.
They are preparing for it.

So you guys should be prepared for it too as it means potentially much more releases (the article says particulates inside the fuel rods blew a mile up into the sky)

But read the artivle and on the hour watch the live (recorded) feed of the analyst at about 4-5 minutes after the hour during the news summary.

I have been glued to NHK for two weeks and they tend to reloop the main stories all night and have fresh news reports, like in the US, at 7 am and 7 pm their time as well as updates which get combined to run or rerun pertinent segments overnight.

btw they had an interview with a Fukushima inspector who said the rates are above measurable amounts and he was hiding his face and his voice was altered. Another segment showed a TEPKO spokesperson crying as he adressed the media over the dumping radionuclides into the ocean. It is fresh live or almost live primary data from people who are there and whose lives depend on it, literally. and its scary as hell.

Watch NHK on the hour to see the analyst. I think it will rerun at least several more times (although it is daytime there so they may not rerun it after their noon report which is in an hour.

I will watch it again.

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from the article

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Tue, 2011-04-05 19:15.

The document also suggests that fragments or particles of nuclear fuel from spent fuel pools above the reactors were blown “up to 1 mile from the units,” and that pieces of highly radioactive material fell between two of the units and had to be “bulldozed over,” presumably to protect workers at the site. The ejection of nuclear material, which may have occurred during one of the earlier hydrogen explosions, may indicate more extensive damage to the extremely radioactive pools than previously disclosed.

David A. Lochbaum, a nuclear engineer who worked on the kinds of General Electric reactors used in Japan and now directs the nuclear safety project at the Union of Concerned Scientists, said that the welter of problems revealed in the document at three separate reactors made a successful outcome even more uncertain.

“I thought they were, not out of the woods, but at least at the edge of the woods,” said Mr. Lochbaum, who was not involved in preparing the document. “This paints a very different picture, and suggests that things are a lot worse. They could still have more damage in a big way if some of these things don’t work out for them.”

Lather, rinse, repeat

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Tue, 2011-04-05 19:04.

How many times do you plan to post this? In how many threads?

Second paragraph of NY Times article:
"Among the new threats that were cited in the assessment, dated March 26.."

It's been 10 days since then. Hopefully that assessment has changed.

Nuclear experts familiar

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Tue, 2011-04-05 23:28.

Nuclear experts familiar with the assessment said that it was regularly updated but that over all, the March 26 version closely reflected current thinking.

quote from NYT

I posted it to be sure that the Brawn team had a chance to see

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Tue, 2011-04-05 19:22.

the NHK report asap (as it may not rerun more than once or twice).

This is a confidential report obtained by the NYTimes and reported on just about an hour ago and is being reported in Japan right now.

A Brawn team member asked for it on another thread but it was buried down thread so I reposted it here with added info.

It is interesting that just as the NHK report was being re-aired and the graphic was put up explaining the newly reported risk of NEW potential risks of Hydrogen explosions, they split off to a press conference with Edamo so the report was not aired in full. But it is clear that this is a newly reported risk to the public.

Prior to this only the US NRC and Japanese authorites knew about the report and the media JUST became aware of it: Fresh Hydrogen explosions!

we just need to be prepared. And I thought thought the BRAWN team, which asked for it, should have details handy and at at the top of the forum.

ok?

chill

I'm quite chilled. You - not

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Tue, 2011-04-05 19:31.

I'm quite chilled. You - not so much, it seems.
If indeed someone asked for it, a simple link to your previous post would suffice = check out the html tags below, it's not rocket science.

In addition, common sense suggests the Japanese knew about it. It was about the time they received fresh water from the US and started pumping that instead of sea water. There even was a half-hearted explanation for the water change at the time, which was pretty easy to see through. So, it's not news, not really. Hope that calms your nerves a bit, as well as your posting frequency.