NHK reports:
“Steam, high radiation detected at No.1 reactor” June 4
"The operator of the damaged Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant says steam was observed coming out of the floor of the No.1 reactor building, and extremely high radiation was detected in the vicinity.
Tokyo Electric Power Company inspected the inside of the No.1 reactor building on Friday with a remote-controlled robot.
TEPCO said it found that steam was rising from a crevice in the floor, and that extremely high radiation of 3,000 to 4,000 millisieverts per hour was measured around the area. The radiation is believed to be the highest detected in the air at the plant.
TEPCO says the steam is likely coming from water at a temperature of 50 degrees Celsius that has accumulated in the basement of the reactor building.
…It is believed to have created holes in the pressure vessel and damaged the containment vessel, causing highly contaminated water to leak out and accumulate in the basement…."
MAJIA HERE: recall that Arnie Gunderson said that he felt that the fuel previously in the pressure vessel for #1 is now a big pool of melted core on the concrete floor of the building. Arnie does not think this pool is capable of re-criticality. I am not sure whether these very high radiation readings are consistent or not with Arnie’s explanation for #1
Washington’s Blog has a very good analysis that I recommend reading: http://washingtonsblog.com/
Lucas Whitefield Dixson has some good images up http://news.lucaswhitefieldhixson.com/
The blogger Ex-SKF has a video on this story http://ex-skf.blogspot.com/
Ex-SKF also reports on the amount of radiation believed to be in the #1 building:
“720,000 Terabecquerels of Radioactive Materials in 100,000 Tonnes of Contaminated Water. That water is estimated to contain 720,000 terabecquerels of radioactive iodine and cesium…”
Majia here: What to do with all that radioactive water? TEPCO is planning on installing more storage tanks for it.
TEPCO to install additional storage tanks http://www3.nhk.or.jp/daily/english/04_28.html
“Tokyo Electric Power Company will install more tanks to store the radioactive wastewater that is accumulating at its troubled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant.
Water levels are rising in the basements of the turbine buildings of reactors 3 and 4. The total amount of accumulated wastewater at the plant is now estimated at more than 105,000 tons…”
MAJIA HERE: Gunderson claims that this water is so radioactive that filtering it is going to be challenging since the filters would become unmanageable because they would be so highly radioactive.
Blogger Radiation Safety Philippines is pondering what is going on at building #1. His analyses and inquiries are always worth reading
http://falloutphilippines.blogspot.com/
That is all for now...read updates at e-news http://enenews.com/
“Steam, high radiation detected at No.1 reactor” June 4
"The operator of the damaged Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant says steam was observed coming out of the floor of the No.1 reactor building, and extremely high radiation was detected in the vicinity.
Tokyo Electric Power Company inspected the inside of the No.1 reactor building on Friday with a remote-controlled robot.
TEPCO said it found that steam was rising from a crevice in the floor, and that extremely high radiation of 3,000 to 4,000 millisieverts per hour was measured around the area. The radiation is believed to be the highest detected in the air at the plant.
TEPCO says the steam is likely coming from water at a temperature of 50 degrees Celsius that has accumulated in the basement of the reactor building.
…It is believed to have created holes in the pressure vessel and damaged the containment vessel, causing highly contaminated water to leak out and accumulate in the basement…."
MAJIA HERE: recall that Arnie Gunderson said that he felt that the fuel previously in the pressure vessel for #1 is now a big pool of melted core on the concrete floor of the building. Arnie does not think this pool is capable of re-criticality. I am not sure whether these very high radiation readings are consistent or not with Arnie’s explanation for #1
Washington’s Blog has a very good analysis that I recommend reading: http://washingtonsblog.com/
Lucas Whitefield Dixson has some good images up http://news.lucaswhitefieldhixson.com/
The blogger Ex-SKF has a video on this story http://ex-skf.blogspot.com/
Ex-SKF also reports on the amount of radiation believed to be in the #1 building:
“720,000 Terabecquerels of Radioactive Materials in 100,000 Tonnes of Contaminated Water. That water is estimated to contain 720,000 terabecquerels of radioactive iodine and cesium…”
Majia here: What to do with all that radioactive water? TEPCO is planning on installing more storage tanks for it.
TEPCO to install additional storage tanks http://www3.nhk.or.jp/daily/english/04_28.html
“Tokyo Electric Power Company will install more tanks to store the radioactive wastewater that is accumulating at its troubled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant.
Water levels are rising in the basements of the turbine buildings of reactors 3 and 4. The total amount of accumulated wastewater at the plant is now estimated at more than 105,000 tons…”
MAJIA HERE: Gunderson claims that this water is so radioactive that filtering it is going to be challenging since the filters would become unmanageable because they would be so highly radioactive.
Blogger Radiation Safety Philippines is pondering what is going on at building #1. His analyses and inquiries are always worth reading
http://falloutphilippines.blogspot.com/
That is all for now...read updates at e-news http://enenews.com/
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