Fukushima reactors 1-3 stabilized
Fukushima reactors 1-3 stabilized
The Japanese government and Tokyo Electric Power Company say they have stabilized the crippled reactors at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant.
But problems continue with the system for purifying contaminated water.
In a joint assessment, the government and TEPCO say they have completed the first step of a plan outlined in mid-April for a complete cold shutdown of the reactors. They say they completed the first step within the original 3-month deadline.
The assessment adds that reactors 1, 2 and 3 have been stably cooled down, and that nitrogen has been injected into their containment vessels to prevent hydrogen explosions.
Pools of spent nuclear fuel are also stable.
The government and TEPCO say radiation levels in the surrounding air and seawater have been declining, and the goal of reducing the amount of radiation leaking outside the plant has been achieved.
But the crisis is far from over. The assessment admits that contaminated water has leaked out of storage tanks, and that water level settings at its water purification facilities were incorrect.
Saturday, July 16, 2011 08:04 +0900 (JST)
http://www3.nhk.or.jp/daily/english/16_05.html
This is great news I figure the risk of more hydrogen explosions is over one note no mention that the reactor -s are ex vessel as has been reported...tdm
1 - 2 - 3 stabilized?
Fukushima nuclear reactors 1 - 2- 3 stabilized?
Plus sweet little folk ditty
Uploaded by MsMilkytheclown on Jul 15, 2011
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jKgEVGgYFT4&NR=1
Not bad (ms milky's song)
This is a little better. More folk, less F words.
http://www.youtube.com/user/PeteSeegerOfficial?blend=23&ob=5
F.Shima - F/U
;)
The female vocalist expresses an excellent engineering understanding of the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant Status. Plus, she has effectively summarized the ongoing challenges, in a fine singing voice.
No doubt she received high marks in her required 'Physics of Music' college courses.
The reality remains that some combination of core melt-downs, hydrogen explosions and or prompt criticality launched a bazillion tons of highly radioactive material into the lower Stratosphere. Reactor vessels 1, 2 & 3 are shattered to pieces. GE Mark-1 'containment' vessels 1, 2 & 3 are blown to smithereens. The Dry wall structures are totally hosed. The cement foundations have been funneling a highly radioactive witches brew into the local ground water table and the Northwest Pacific Ocean for months.
And yes, TEPCO & Japan CONTINUE to LIE about ... everything.
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Above video reference re"1 - 2- 3 stabilized?"
Complements of Angusmerlin
"Goshi Hosono, an adviser to
"Goshi Hosono, an adviser to Prime Minister Naoto Kan, praised the move as "a giant step forward" and told a news conference that the system is critical in two aspects.
"First, the system will solve the problem of contaminated water, which gave all sorts of worries to the world. Second, it will enable stable cooling of reactors," he said.
But an hour and a half later, it was stopped after workers found water leaking from hoses."
http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/06/27/us-japan-nuclear-idUSTRE75Q1EV...
Maybe not so stable yet after all.
That article is from 3 weeks
That article is from 3 weeks ago :(
Fukushima reactors stabilized?
Maybe the "Goshi Hosono, an adviser to Prime Minister Naoto Kan..." information is three weeks old. But, the radiation water filtration, purification system problems at Fukushima are continuing on... and on ... and on; and then on some more. The filtering system has simply been plagued with issues! Last I heard, the radioactive filtration system has been functioning at 20% below what had been predicted by Tepco. No one seems to know why.
Additionally, over this past month, in Fukushima reactor No. 1 drywell, temperatures on several occasions have sky rocketed. Tepco's response: the temperature gauge was broken, and the readings were false. Let's give Tepco the benefit of the doubt. Let's just say that the gauge was broken-- Then why oh why didn't Tepco immediately replace the broken temperature gauge on the first instance that the temperature zoomed up? Why did Tepco wait for over a month to say that the gauge was broken. Why wasn't the gauge fixed, as soon as it was realized it was broken. No matter how you look at it, this is bad!
For full article and graphs: “Just when I thought Fukushima I had stabilized, 266 Sieverts/hr reactor 1 dry well!” July 4th, 2011.
http://radiationnews.blogspot.com/2011_07_04_archive.html
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And, we should believe Tepco, when it now says that the reactors are cooled and stabilized?
Yes, I know the above article is one and a half weeks old. My point in referencing the above article (which relatively speaking is fairly recent), is that Tepco has a history of saying one thing, while entirely something else is actually going on. Add to this, the fact that the radiation water filtration keeps going on the blink in one way or the other. Keep in mind that Tepco says that radioactive water filtration/re-cycling is the keystone for stabilizing the nuclear reactors at Fukushima. But, it keeps breaking/having glitches.
We are supposed to believe Tepco that it actually has stabilized the reactors? Well, guess over time we all will see, one way or the other.
Great but literally
Great but literally unbelievable. Anyone who wanted to buy that bought it 4 months ago and turned their attention elsewhere, the rest of us want a factual basis for such optimism.
How on earth do they justify the statement that they are "stabilized?"
Jesus Christ. Some people
Jesus Christ. Some people just won't be satisfied until the world actually ends.
Here's what it means:
'Stable' cooling - regular, constant, predictable infusion of coolant in consistent quantities, effecting continual management of the reactors at stable temperatures and pressures - has been achieved.
Barring additional, unforeseen disasters or equipment failures, TEPCO should now be able to proceed with its efforts to 'shut down' the reactors. The three fueled reactors and spent fuel ponds are no longer in imminent danger of going out of control.
Next TEPCO will want to turn to the problem of leakage of contaminated water.
The crisis has passed, although there's much we still don't know. The future efforts will be largely forensic in nature as well as work to eventually dismantle the site and remediate affected land, oceans, and human and animal populations.
This will be my last post. Job well done to BRAWM. I think the time has come to close this board down, it's served its purpose and is now only an outlet for naysayers and conspiracy theorists and trolls.
So long.
progress
has been made. Much is left to do. Many things are LIKELY to go wrong to varying degrees as work continues that could release VAST amounts of isotopes simply because this re containment and remediation effort will be in uncharted waters for some time yet.
Stay tuned as we are learning at a phenomenal rate out of necessity.
Who said we have stopped evolving? In fact the mutations (that CAN lead to evolutionary changes) have just begun!
"Melt-out" is not "stable."
Corium outside of containment is a catastrophe, and calling it stable is absurd.
People like this should be
People like this should be stuffed in one of 500 nuclear reactors the world over.
Yup. LOL!
Yup. LOL!
All that hot air will spread
All that hot air will spread radiation like nobodys business.
Bye Bye, I thought your last
Bye Bye, I thought your last post was weeks ago.
not satisfied
"Jesus Christ. Some people just won't be satisfied until the world actually ends"
I couldn't disagree more. The Japanese government and Tepco lied from the beginning, so how do know when they are telling the truth? We don't.
That's why the UC Berkeley site is so important. The numbers don't lie.
People can check their monitoring data for themselves. I for one don't want to rely on "official" government figures.
Thank you BRAWM. We love you!!!! Keep up the good work, and please keep this site up. You continue to provide a much needed, invaluable public service, and a scientifically validated baseline for future comparisons of radiation in our air, water, food and soil.
"The Japanese government and
"The Japanese government and Tepco lied from the beginning, so how do know when they are telling the truth?"
Did they? Even among the confusion of the first days I remember reports about increasing levels of radiation within the plant and outside, we saw the explosions and videos of the efforts to cool down the reactors... I don't know, the great lie was saying that nuclear reactors were a good idea in an earthquake/tsunami prone country, but about the crisis I don't know to which extent they actually had more info that the one provided.
Are you serious? Reactor 1
Are you serious?
Reactor 1 melted down within the first 16 hours of the tsunami/earthquake, and TEPCO/Jap Gov't didn't even announce it until middle of May, three months later! They also forgot to tell us that reactor 2 and 3 melted down within the first week until middle of May also!!
A week before these confirmations... Japanese Gov't official also admitted that they downplayed the situation to avoid widespread panic...
Look at everyone still living there... authorities are not evacuating the common people and that's a fact.
There are many key pieces of information Gov'ts worldwide failed to mention. British Gov't also was caught in conspiring to downplay the situation.
Anyone who has been following this disaster will know exactly what I"m talking about, and if you don't, then you must be a shill if you hold to the above poster's belief.
You can believe something all you want, but that doesn't make it true.
I demand you to stop spreading disinformation/false information.
When did they report the
When did they report the meltdowns that happened hours after the earthquake?
Months later?? Sounds open and honest to me.
That the fuel had melted to
That the fuel had melted to some extent was reported already the first days. When Tepco were able to gather some data they reported the extent to which they assumed the fuel had melted (I think it was between 70% and 25%). They maintained those assumptions during April and part of May, even while some pro-nuclear agencies within Japan were already saying that with the time the fuel had been exposed the meltdown was clearly 100% in all 3 reactors. On May some workers were finally able to go inside Reactor 1 and they confirmed that the Fuel damage was 100% and probably the same for reactor 2 and 3.
That's for Tepco. The Government announced publicly by March 15 that they were working under the assumption that a meltdown had happened and they were establishing strategies based on that assumption (Those strategies being adequate or not, that's another story).