Highest Radiation Ever Detected At Fukushima: 10+ Sieverts An Hour
Can this be verified?
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/highest-radiation-ever-detected-fukushima-...
Highest Radiation Ever Detected At Fukushima: 10+ Sieverts An Hour
Remember all those idiots who claimed that Fukushima is contained, or better yet, the drama is exaggerated? Perhaps it is time to exile them all, starting with that moron from MIT, to Fukushima where the radiation measured at the base of the main ventilation stack just hit an all time high 10 sieverts/hour. The truth likely is much uglier: this is simply the highest reading the devices are able to record. In other words, there does not exist a device that can capture the true extent of the catastrophe at Fukushima!
From Bloomberg:
“I suspect the high radiation quantity was an aftermath of venting done,” Matsumoto told reporters in Tokyo. “The plant is not running. I don’t think any gas with high radiation level is flowing in the stack.”
Tepco sent three workers around the ventilation stack today after a gamma camera detected high radioactivity levels in the area yesterday, Matsumoto said. The workers were exposed to as much as 4 millisieverts during the work, he said.
The utility will create a no-go zone around the stack and cover the area with protective material, he said.
At least with Chernobyl, 5 months after the explosion it was pretty much well-known what the damage really is. In Japan, however, the ongoing attempt to hide everything from the general population, many of whom will pay for their government's lies with their lives, means that reality will only gradually be comprehended. By the time all is said and done, Japan's demographics will be far, far worse than even today. But who cares: that will be some other administration's (and unborn generation's) problem.
Run 4 UR Life!
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Not sure that these reported exposures 'add up'.
To receive a dose of 4[mSv], from this source, by my reckoning, the guys that took this measurement, if unshielded; were there for about a second. With round trip travel time that would be about 2 seconds, tops. It is difficult to take a reading on the run. But, that’s their story and they’re stickin to it.
http://www3.nhk.or.jp/daily/english/society.html
Let’s see now, A[S] = (4[mSv] * (3600 [S/Hr] * (1/(10,000[mSv/Hr]))
1.44 Seconds
Perhaps these Fukushima workers took the measurement from an overhead bungee cord. Or perhaps they were inside a lead-lined canoe, reading the meter through a screen door.
Distance, equipment used.
Distance, equipment used.
Check http://jen.jiji.com/
Check http://jen.jiji.com/
Thank you
just what I was looking for - corroboration of the claim.
10 sieverts no problem says tepco
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/02/world/asia/02japan.html
No problem"The company said the workers who found the reading were safely protected by antiradiation clothing. Tokyo Electric said it has closed off an area of several yards around where the lethal radiation level was found. The company said this would not hamper efforts to build a new cooling system and remove contaminated water" .
.according to abc "TEPCO reported that Geiger counters registered their highest possible reading at the site yesterday."
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2011-08-02/radiation-levels-spike-at-fukushim...
Subject for brawm
Could any one speculate on what type of Alpha,Beta,Gama or nuetron radiation could cause such a reading ?
Yep
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This is not advanced physics.
Neutron irradiation induces radioactivity in previously stable materials.
This is a standard freshman laboratory exercise in engineering physics. The students toss paper clips or nails in a drawer in an experimental reactor. The drawer is shoved into a neutron beam. The freshman engineering students then graph the half-life decay of the iron. If memory serves, the iron half-life is about 30 minutes or so.
The point of this exercise is, any freshman engineering student in the world KNOWS that fission (ie a nuclear blast), occurred when Reactor-3 exploded.
I might add that most Boy Scouts possessing the Atomic Energy Merit Badge would not find this concept particularly challenging.
FYI ---- Gamma radiation also induces radiation in the trace minerals within the human body. THis is why prompt criticality victims are buried in lead-lined caskets.
HOT Structural Sections
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GAMMA HOT SPOTS
Gamma radiation hot spots, presumably between Reactor-3 and Reactor-4, indicate a nuclear explosion.
The photo, in displayed in the MSNBC and Reuters article, tells the story. The structural supports for the failed ventilation piping has some seriously radioactive hot spots.
These gamma ray hot-spots were induced by the massive neutron release which characterizes a nuclear bomb. To my personal satisfaction, the case was for most intents and purposes closed, months ago. There was a nuclear explosion at Fukushima Reactor-3.
While coincidence does not confirm causality; the nuclear blast appears to have been triggered, in some fashion, by the massive hydrogen explosion. It is difficult to arrive at a contrary opinion that matches the filmed detonation of Reactor-3.
The remaining physics questions relate to precisely and sequentially how this miscellaneous MOX fueled nuclear explosion occurred. Perhaps some mechanical resonance phenomenon such as water-hammer effect or some unanticipated chemical reaction from sea water contributed to the mishap.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/43982727/ns/world_news-asia_pacific/
www.GammaCamNow.com
http://af.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idAFTRE7710XF20110802
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/02/world/asia/02japan.html?hp
Photo Caption:
TEPCO via Reuters (pb-110802-fukushima-da_grid-7x2)
An image taken by a gamma ray camera showing the bottom of a ventilation stack where radiation exceeding 10 sieverts per hour - seen here in red - was recorded.msnbc.com news services
Reuters and The Associated Press contributed to this report.
Makes you go Hmmmmmm......
I have been researching this topic of whether a nuke plant can go super critical and result in a nuclear bomb type explosion. Led me to read about the history of the development of nuclear weapons. I learned that they had a lot of "dud" nukes that would not explode; it takes a number of precisely-managed reactions as well as 95% enriched Uranium to succeed. So, we witness (and now have corroborating evidence) that the plant went off like a bomb, yet the fuel is only 5% enriched and is in no way configured to create an explosion. If ordinary hydrogen was effective as a trigger, it would be employed for that purpose in nuclear weapons, but it lacks the mass needed to compress the fissile material sufficiently. (Maybe somebody should ask the foreign tech firm which had installed a suspicious "camera" device at #3 no long before the disaster?) Seriously, how can an explosion of this nature be explained, in light of basic physics.
Yes
What you are saying about the impossibility of this fuel configuration to cause a nuclear blast is correct. However, you are using facts and logic, which don't matter to those who won't believe them.
Casandra Here
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The US DOD and CIA have provisions for citizens to relay concerns and alerts to the government. Sometimes these systems produce useful national security results. It is a matter of record that I contacted the CIA webpage, a while back, with respect to a perceived defect in nuclear reactor design that could result in a nuclear explosion.
Just as a point of curiosity … I wonder how many similar warnings about this concern are in the system. There is no further point in discussing this theory with the feds. It is probably a very well known design flaw. Oh, and as of about 5 months ago, it is not a theory.
Since I did not then and do not now have a retrofit solution … this theory would not have benefited TEPCO.
: 10 Sv/hr is being emitted
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10 Sv/hr is being emitted from previously inert construction materials such as cement and structural metal.
This radiation was induced by neutrons from a nuclear explosion.
That is reality.
Now this business about energy barrier theorys and mathematical 'proofs' is all well and good. Mathematical constructs and industry heuristics are TRUMPED by reality.
But for those enthralled by energy barrier theory ... there are some exceptions. Electron tunneling is one common exception, which is exploited in LEDs and lots of other devices.
Reality delivers lots of little surprises to mathematical models. Oh and quite frankly, every device and phenomenon that I have studied in detail, varied from the textbook theory.
Welcome to REALITY. The reality is there was at least one NUCLEAR explosion at the Fukushima power plant. Or as Jorge Boosh called it, nuculer...
Chain Reactions
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I do look forward to reading the detailed analysis of the Fukushima Reactor-3 nuclear blast sequence.
To be perfectly candid, I am relieved that the nuclear blast in the design defective Fukushima Unit-3, GE Mark-1 stopped there.
It is EASY to visualize a nuclear blast setting off a cascading chain reaction in the nuclear fuel in Reactors-1, 2, 5 & 6. With that many neutrons flying, and that kind of compressive event, the chain reaction could have easily spread to the spent fuel pools and dry cask storage systems.
That 'Big Bang' would have been visible from Planet Uranus. Oh and the 'duck and cover' drill, might not have been effective in Anarctica.
What are the chances that we can collectively agree to say? ...
.......... NIX-2-MOX ..................
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MOX PENALTY BOX
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We have a flagrant violation of the CTBT.
The Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty (CTBT) bans all nuclear explosions in all environments, for military or civilian purposes. And the red penalty flag has been thrown on Japan, TEPCO, General Electric, Hitachi, Toshiba, Siemens and Areva. MOX is in the Penalty Box.
The US Government knew Fukushima Reactor-3 nuclear blast parameters in real-time. That is why we pay the ‘big-bucks’ for satellite ‘eye-in-the-sky’. Just as certainly, US allies in NATO, Japan and South Korea were briefed before the debris quit falling. Perhaps it took a couple of hours for the CTBT folks to process the facts.
http://www.armscontrol.org/factsheets/ctbtsig
That is when this particular federal ‘pack-of-lies’ began. We would like to thank Barack Obama, Ann Coulter, GE, NBC, CBS, ABC, FOX, CNN, PBN, NYTimes, LATimes … and all the rest of the shills for this little charade game. So when do the CTBT hearings begin?
GE Mark-1 Reactor failures are far too common to rate the ink on a national security ‘CLASSIFIED’ stamp.
Game Over, so out with it!
CTBT is NOT in force
The CTBT can not be violated because it is not in force.
See the United Nations CTBT treaty status page at:
http://disarmament.un.org/treatystatus.nsf/44e6eeabc9436b78852568770078d...
When President Clinton negotiated the CTBT back in the 1990s, one of the included provisions was that the CTBT would not go into effect until the 40+ named "nuclear capable" nations were signatories. The USA is one such "nuclear capable" nation. President Clinton signed the CTBT, but as per the US Constitution it has to be ratified by the Senate. The CTBT ratification was submitted to the US Senate in 1998, which voted NOT to ratify. Therefore, the US is not a signatory, and under President Clinton's provision, the CTBT can not go into effect without the USA being a signatory.
So there can be no violations of a treaty that is not in force yet.
It's as if California enacted a law that goes into effect on Jan. 1, 2012
that prohibits doing "X". If you do "X" any time during 20111, you can't be charged with a crime because the law has not yet taken effect, even though the State Government has said they want "X" to be a crime.
Unit-3 March 2011
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Fukushima Unit-3 Status Reports
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2011/03/16/world/asia/reactors-status...
UPDATED April 29, 2011
Status of the Nuclear Reactors at the Fukushima Daiichi Power Plant
None of the six reactors at the plant have operated since the earthquake. But explosions have damaged four of the buildings, and fuel in the reactors and spent fuel stored in the buildings has partially melted, releasing radioactive materials. Updated as of April 29, 4 p.m. EDT. All reactor status updates are listed in Japan time.
MARCH 25, 4:44 PMThe three workers exposed to high levels of radiation, who are fully conscious and ambulatory, are transferred to the National Institute of Radiological Sciences for monitoring.
MARCH 25, 4:00 PMFire trucks sprayed water on the building for two and a half hours.
MARCH 25Officials say that the reactor vessel may have been damaged. A senior nuclear executive who insisted on anonymity said that there was a long vertical crack running down the side of the vessel.
MARCH 24Three contract workers suffer radiation exposure of roughly 170 millisieverts after radioactive water gets into their boots while they are laying a new cable. Two are taken to a hospital with radiation burns.
MARCH 24, 5:35 AMWith no fresh sign of smoke, water injection into the spent fuel pool resumes and continues for more than 10 hours. Power is restored to the control room for the first time since the earthquake.
MARCH 23, 11:30 PMSmoke seems to have stopped coming from the building. A check at 4:50 AM on March 24 also finds no new evidence of smoke.
MARCH 23, 4:20 PMLight black smoke begins belching from the building. Readings in and around the reactor remain stable, but employees are evacuated as a precaution.
MARCH 23, 11:00 AMSeawater is injected into the spent fuel pool for more than two hours.
MARCH 22, 11:00 PMLike the day before, radioactive isotopes of cobalt, iodine and cesium are found in seawater near the discharge canal of the reactor.
MARCH 22, 3:10 PMTrucks begin spraying water on to the building to cool the spent fuel pool. The operation lasts for 50 minutes.
MARCH 21, 9:40 PMRadioactive isotopes of cobalt, iodine and cesium are found in seawater near the discharge canal of the reactor.
MARCH 21, 3:55 PMSmoke begins rising from the Southeast corner of the damaged building. Employees and crews working around the building are evacuated. The smoke ends by 6 PM.
MARCH 20, 9:39 PMTrucks begin spraying water on the building again to cool down the reactor and the spent fuel pool. The spraying continues until 4 AM on Monday, March 21.
MARCH 20, 11:00 AMPressure rises in the primary containment vessel and plans are made to vent radioactive steam. But then the pressure drops and the venting is cancelled.
MARCH 20, 2:10 AMTrucks begin spraying water on the plant. They finish at 3:40 AM.
MARCH 19, 1:30 PMPressure within the reactor containment vessel appears to be stable.
MARCH 19, 12:30 AMTrucks hose down the building for 40 minutes.
MARCH 18, 7:15 PMJapanese authorities raise the assessment of severity of the accident to a 5 out of 7 on the international nuclear event scale.
MARCH 18, 2:00 PMTrucks are again used to try to hose down the building and the spent fuel pool.
MARCH 17, 7:35 PMWater cannon trucks spray water on the reactor building for an hour, though it is unknown if it has any effect.
MARCH 17, 9:48 AMHelicopters make four passes to dump water on the building in an effort to cover the spent fuel, which may have been exposed to the air.
MARCH 14, 11:01 AMAn explosion damages the reactor building and the primary containment vessel. Eleven workers are injured.
MARCH 13, 9:00 AMPlant operators detect increasing levels of radioactive material.
MARCH 13, 6:00 AMInjection of water fails and officials warn that an explosion is possible.
MARCH 12, 8:25 PMA safety valve is opened to reduce pressure and seawater containing boric acid is injected in the reactor.
MARCH 12, 3:48 AMOperators start injecting water into the reactor to cool it.
March 11, 3:41 PMBackup diesel generators for running the plant's cooling systems fail.
MARCH 11, 2:46 PMAn earthquake sparks a tsunami. The reactor shuts down automatically, though its fuel continues to produce large amounts of heat.
Great stenography, doncha think?
Those main stream media guys are the best darned stenographers ever! Why bother with investigative reporting, when taking dictation is so much easier?