Submitted by Red Mercury (not verified) on Mon, 2011-07-04 22:55.
1. A really lame bit of design that A. requires retiring or refitting as a corrosion did figure in the original 'built as' sheet metal do dad in the reactor B. they (the bargain temp TEPCO financial director) saved money just buying one and they shared it between reactors.
2. This is a model T. It may come with a hand crank or hand brake and its hot after forty years of service. It could have souvenir status, or could cost more than 1.49. Of course they (GE, because they forgot to include it in the final itemized invoice) saved money just buying one and they sharing it between reactors.
3. They were recharging a aircraft carriers cigarette lighter and/or warp core purple plutonium portal pinger and we are not going to be given those company trade secrets today.
Oh and there's the secret stash pool for the extra bits - forgot about that one.
Secret secret I got a secret. But I wouldn't build a civilian commercial power generating technology / industry on it.
Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Mon, 2011-06-20 03:00.
Tokyo Electric Power Company has been trying to reduce a high level of radiation discovered in the Number 4 reactor of the troubled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant.
The utility started to inject water into a pool on the top floor which was used for storing large equipment contaminated by radiation on Sunday.
The Number 4 reactor was shut down for a routine inspection when it was hit by the earthquake and the tsunami on March 11th.
Large hardware in the reactor was removed and was submerged in the pool to block the release of radiation.
Tokyo Electric Company discovered that the water level of the pool had dropped to about 1/3 of its capacity as of June 11th.
The machinery is thought to have been exposed and releasing high amounts of radiation.
The operator fears it could hamper restoration work in the Number 4 reactor.
TEPCO says the radiation level on the top floor is so high that workers cannot enter, but if the equipment is submerged again, the radiation level will decline enabling operations to restart.
Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Sun, 2011-06-19 22:01.
Meanwhile, a piece of highly radioactive equipment that was removed from a separate reactor before the disaster and stored under water may be emitting radiation air after becoming partly exposed, Tepco said Sunday.
Although radiation levels are not unusually high around unit 4, which had been suspended for regular inspections when the March 11 tsunami knocked out its cooling systems, the equipment in question is not specifically monitored and requires radiation precautions be taken when work is required at the site.
Reactor 4 was not loaded with fuel when the quake hit, but it did have spent fuel rods cooling in a storage pool above it. But since the pool can't be automatically cooled anymore, the still-hot rods are causing evaporation, which is drying up an adjacent pit. That pit contains a shroud that was used to adjust the flow of water inside the building. The 7.6-meter-deep pit contains just 2.5 meters of water, Tepco said, indicating that the hot part of the shroud, which was originally 6.8 meters high but was cut to fit in the pit, may be exposed to air.
Was this "highly radioactive equipment" really "removed from a separate reactor before the disaster and stored under water" after it was "6.8 meters high but was cut to fit in the pit" ?????
Or
Blown into the pit during one of the "hydrogen explosions" possibly damaged in one of the blasts???
Just throwin' that out there.
Don't worry I have plenty of tin foil and please, no more of those "Go home conspiracy theorist we don't like your kind around here" threads.
Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Mon, 2011-06-20 03:13.
Any experts know if there is a procedure for removing a highly radioactive piece of equipment from a reactor, cutting it to size, moving it to a different building, taking it upstairs to the attic and submerging it in the backup pool? Considering it's so radioactive now it's holding up work at THIS plant right now(didn't they raise the exposure allowed the workers).
Funny how they say this in the second article "Although radiation levels are not unusually high around unit 4"
yep pretty close to sea level probably about 8 CPM I reckon . /rantover
Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Sun, 2011-06-19 22:17.
I was wondering if there was another area that had water in it. And I was wondering how they could take their eye off of the actual SFP. There's a seperate equipment pool in the top of the building. It's #3 in this link:
Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Mon, 2011-06-20 00:58.
If they took their eye off the SFP for that long, it would lead me to believe they are more worried about staving off china syndrome. Or the SFP is a lost cause.
Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Sun, 2011-06-19 20:20.
This just keeps getting better, all but 1/3 of the water in the number 4 spf boiled into steam and the fuel rods (including the fresh ones from the reactor) were exposed to the atmosphere again for who knows how long and released who knows how much radiation.And they're still exposed???? Now its too hot to go anywhere near there. Did I miss anything?
How many jackaSses swore that it was just fog rolling in on the webcams?
You all owe everyone in the northern hemisphere an apology.
Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Mon, 2011-06-20 08:24.
Some time ago, there was an article on GlobalResearch.ca, that Unit 4 information may have been withheld from the public because it involved a Secret Weapons Program between the US military and Japanese government. Some have said this was the source of the plutonium leaks.
Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Sun, 2011-06-19 20:14.
Is this the spent fuel pool? Or did they store some other contaminated equipment in a pool? If they let the spent fuel pool go down to 1/3, they really dropping the ball.
It looks like there is another "storage pool". Hopefully that's what it is. Whatever equipment is in there seems pretty hot if it is boiling the water and if tepco is admitting "The machinery is thought to have been exposed and releasing high amounts of radiation."
It could be one of three things -
1. A really lame bit of design that A. requires retiring or refitting as a corrosion did figure in the original 'built as' sheet metal do dad in the reactor B. they (the bargain temp TEPCO financial director) saved money just buying one and they shared it between reactors.
2. This is a model T. It may come with a hand crank or hand brake and its hot after forty years of service. It could have souvenir status, or could cost more than 1.49. Of course they (GE, because they forgot to include it in the final itemized invoice) saved money just buying one and they sharing it between reactors.
3. They were recharging a aircraft carriers cigarette lighter and/or warp core purple plutonium portal pinger and we are not going to be given those company trade secrets today.
Oh and there's the secret stash pool for the extra bits - forgot about that one.
Secret secret I got a secret. But I wouldn't build a civilian commercial power generating technology / industry on it.
Can we send a bill to the shareholders of tepco?
OPs article
Tokyo Electric Power Company has been trying to reduce a high level of radiation discovered in the Number 4 reactor of the troubled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant.
The utility started to inject water into a pool on the top floor which was used for storing large equipment contaminated by radiation on Sunday.
The Number 4 reactor was shut down for a routine inspection when it was hit by the earthquake and the tsunami on March 11th.
Large hardware in the reactor was removed and was submerged in the pool to block the release of radiation.
Tokyo Electric Company discovered that the water level of the pool had dropped to about 1/3 of its capacity as of June 11th.
The machinery is thought to have been exposed and releasing high amounts of radiation.
The operator fears it could hamper restoration work in the Number 4 reactor.
TEPCO says the radiation level on the top floor is so high that workers cannot enter, but if the equipment is submerged again, the radiation level will decline enabling operations to restart.
Monday, June 20, 2011 05:53 +0900 (JST)
Meanwhile, a piece of highly
Meanwhile, a piece of highly radioactive equipment that was removed from a separate reactor before the disaster and stored under water may be emitting radiation air after becoming partly exposed, Tepco said Sunday.
Although radiation levels are not unusually high around unit 4, which had been suspended for regular inspections when the March 11 tsunami knocked out its cooling systems, the equipment in question is not specifically monitored and requires radiation precautions be taken when work is required at the site.
Reactor 4 was not loaded with fuel when the quake hit, but it did have spent fuel rods cooling in a storage pool above it. But since the pool can't be automatically cooled anymore, the still-hot rods are causing evaporation, which is drying up an adjacent pit. That pit contains a shroud that was used to adjust the flow of water inside the building. The 7.6-meter-deep pit contains just 2.5 meters of water, Tepco said, indicating that the hot part of the shroud, which was originally 6.8 meters high but was cut to fit in the pit, may be exposed to air.
http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/nn20110619x1.html
Is this the highly radioactive equipment??
http://cnic.jp/english/newsletter/nit92/nit92articles/nit92shroud.html
Was this "highly radioactive equipment" really "removed from a separate reactor before the disaster and stored under water" after it was "6.8 meters high but was cut to fit in the pit" ?????
Or
Blown into the pit during one of the "hydrogen explosions" possibly damaged in one of the blasts???
Just throwin' that out there.
Don't worry I have plenty of tin foil and please, no more of those "Go home conspiracy theorist we don't like your kind around here" threads.
Any experts know if there is
Any experts know if there is a procedure for removing a highly radioactive piece of equipment from a reactor, cutting it to size, moving it to a different building, taking it upstairs to the attic and submerging it in the backup pool? Considering it's so radioactive now it's holding up work at THIS plant right now(didn't they raise the exposure allowed the workers).
Funny how they say this in the second article "Although radiation levels are not unusually high around unit 4"
yep pretty close to sea level probably about 8 CPM I reckon . /rantover
"a piece of highly
"a piece of highly radioactive equipment that was removed from a separate reactor before the disaster and stored under water"
equipment = spent fuel rod.
They say it's a shroud
"That pit contains a shroud that was used to adjust the flow of water inside the building"
Well, that SOUNDS better
I was wondering if there was another area that had water in it. And I was wondering how they could take their eye off of the actual SFP. There's a seperate equipment pool in the top of the building. It's #3 in this link:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Reaktor.svg
If they took their eye off
If they took their eye off the SFP for that long, it would lead me to believe they are more worried about staving off china syndrome. Or the SFP is a lost cause.
This just keeps getting
This just keeps getting better, all but 1/3 of the water in the number 4 spf boiled into steam and the fuel rods (including the fresh ones from the reactor) were exposed to the atmosphere again for who knows how long and released who knows how much radiation.And they're still exposed???? Now its too hot to go anywhere near there. Did I miss anything?
How many jackaSses swore that it was just fog rolling in on the webcams?
You all owe everyone in the northern hemisphere an apology.
Unit 4 at Fukushima
Some time ago, there was an article on GlobalResearch.ca, that Unit 4 information may have been withheld from the public because it involved a Secret Weapons Program between the US military and Japanese government. Some have said this was the source of the plutonium leaks.
Very interesting!
Very interesting!
http://globalresearch.ca/inde
http://globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=24275
Secret Weapons Program Inside Fukushima Nuclear Plant?
Any idea what "equipment" they are talking about?
Is this the spent fuel pool? Or did they store some other contaminated equipment in a pool? If they let the spent fuel pool go down to 1/3, they really dropping the ball.
From this
From this diagram
http://www.bakkenoil.org/wp-content/plugins/wp-o-matic/cache/2ab98_cutaw...
It looks like there is another "storage pool". Hopefully that's what it is. Whatever equipment is in there seems pretty hot if it is boiling the water and if tepco is admitting "The machinery is thought to have been exposed and releasing high amounts of radiation."