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This is a video of the second explosion. starting at 0:18 of the video a replay of the explosion shows it takes 9 seconds for large pieces of debris to be seen falling back down. Unless the video was in slow motion there must have been a huge concussion. If those rods really were stored in the upper level then WTF! I you’ve never been a praying person now is the time to start.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9oNEIj7EmNo
I read a report that some Japan airports are jammed with people getting out.
ATM I am not trusting the MSM. They have given me no reason to do so.
I have been checking for regular updates at:
http://www.world-nuclear-news.org/default.aspx
Call me naive but the cure has obviously been worse than the disease…none of the reactors suffered any damage due to the quake or tsunami. Had they been left on, no nuclear accident would have ever happened.
Mauricio, I am not sure we have had a detailed damage report outlining the condition of the Fukushima plant immediately following the earthquake and the Tsunami one hour later. I do not know if the reactors that were automatically shutdown were not shutdown, the facility would have still been in a condition to produce energy for it’s own normal operation. Certainly actions like dumping water on the stored spent fuel rods made things worse.
What seems to have been the big problem was that the Tsunami knocked out the backup diesel generators and there was only 8 hours battery backup power. Hell and the existing high water should have been overcome some how… to have flown in backup generators and spare parts sooner than they were. It was total BS that the connectors for newly arrived additional backup generators had “Plugs/Connectors” that didn’t fit. How the hell does that stop things in a crisis? Why the hell didn’t they come up with an onsite solution to get the new generators online? Many questions. And all the information is not getting out.
I am wondering what the real story is too.
Bullshit. Radioactive sources stored above ground? In the roofs of buildings? Loose?
We work with Cesium 137, a few micrograms at a time. We need to store the sources in lead and steel containers, with a rotating window to get access to the emissions.
Between uses, this has to be stored in an underground steel bunker. All movement must be recorded. The bunkers must be surveyed monthly, and readings taken before and after removal of the C 137.
The reason for the storage in underground bunkers, is so that potential damage to the source container is minimized, even in fire, flood or explosions.
Failure to do any of the above, and a dozen other things, would result in the loss of our license, regardless of whether we work in Nigeria, the US or Japan or dozens of other countries.
I refuse to believe that larger, more powerful sources, would be allowed to be handled in such a cavalier manner.
I am incredulous at this, too. Just gleaning the information available, I couldn’t understand why this would be so difficult to fix. Obviously, there’s much more to the story. And I’m just ………. they surely can’t be storing the spent rods in the attic?!?!?!??!?!
If they do have them in an upper level I don’t think they just laid them out on the floor.
I hope you’re right about them being in underground bunkers Les. I really don’t know what to believe in all of this. Every new story contradicts the previous story.
There will be plenty of time for post mortems.
Meanwhile, there is an ongoing and worsening nuclear disaster, beyond hope of repair..
The presence of decades of spent fuel on the site makes the scale of that disaster greatly worse than Chernobyl. The only grace is that perhaps most of the contamination will be blown offshore.
NHK has been very good in reporting a detailed explanation of the events, they’ve said that “radiation levels are quite high and dangerous to human health”.
Who had the Idea of putting reactors on top of 5 active faults?
Here is a link to NHK WORLD TV
http://live.nicovideo.jp/watch/lv43386411
I’ll be investing in stocks of adult diapers… Cool heads people!!
No, they are not storing in the attic. They are stored at the top of the containment tower, beside it, in steel and concrete pits. What blew off was the outer shell of the building above the pits and the containment tower. The upper shell is to house the crane, to move from the containment to the pits. The pits are designed to NOT drain. There is no drain nor piping that would drain the pits in the event of a break. The concrete and steel walls need to be ruptured.
There is 16 feet of water above the spent rods, and the water temperature is normally about 40 deg C. Cooling of the spent rods is dead simple; put a garden hose in the pits and keep them full. At 40 deg C, there will not be excessive evaporation.
The hydrogen explosion probably came from the volute at the bottom of the tower. There is apparently hydrogen recombinant capacity, but they need power for that to work. They may want to rethink that for the next generation.
C3 has a good recap, with charts and references. The site Bravenewclimate (referenced at C3) has a cut away of the reactor and storage pools.
http://www.c3headlines.com/2011/03/march-16-tokyo-radiation-levels-status-of-japans-tsunami-wrecked-nukes.html
The Sky is NOT falling and even this shall pass!
Some people need to get a grip and patiently wait out the course of events to look in retrospect rather than getting exercise Jumping to conclusions and Running off at the mouth.
It will be worse than expected but better that the alarmists are claiming! Shit Happens and we deal with the results!
I was part of an Emergency response team that was set up to respond to “Disasters”! Keeping a cool head is the only position to take!
Radiation today at the plant border, is about the same as one would get in 1/2 of year of background radiation.