Tuesday, May 14, 2013

Fukushima Daiichi Looks Bad This Morning


The TBS cam showed distortion for the last two hours. Finally an image is visible, barely. I've never seen this color scheme before. I have no idea why the view is yellow-orange:
  

That color scheme is new as far as I've seen on the TBS cam.

The Tepco cam imagery also indicates high radiation levels, as evidenced by the wavy-grainy-quality of the image, the visible steam emissions (particularly from the common spent fuel pool area), and the odd purple glow to the right of the red-and-white crane, situated on the right corner of unit 3, front-stage and below the looming building 4 in the background

Can you see the purple-orange light to the left of the looming building 4 structure?

Those colors were flickering quickly. I happened to get a good screen shot of full flam:
 

That does not look good to me.

I've postulated recently that sub-criticalities may be occurring in the contaminated water storage pools built around the plant to contain the exceedingly contaminated water used to cool the melted site. I believe the sub-criticalities explain the steam releases we were seeing on the TBS cam that seemed to originate on the west side of the Daiichi site.

I've also seen steam releases coming from the area of the common spent fuel pool, visible both on the TBS and TEPCO cams.

The flame-like colors I captured today from unit 3 are not a happy sign because they suggest that unit 3 remains extra-ordinarily hot and the water used to cool it surely leads to massive steam releases. I've seen intermittent steam releases that come and go within an hour.

Perhaps the steam releases from unit 3are caused by two phenomena: first, perhaps they occur when TEPCO injects water or nitrogen or some other substance into unit 3 to keep it from bursting into flames or going critical. Cooling injections could cause steam.

Second, steam could be caused by sub-criticalities occurring across radioisotopes in the heavily contaminated cooling water. Sub-criticalities among radioisotopes in water would cause bursts of heat in ephemeral decay chains, causing steam to form.

I am simply guessing based on my observations and my research on the properties of radionuclides. I am very happy that I took and enjoyed physics in college and even happier to have a scientifically brilliant son who loves physics. My dad was a physics major at UC Berkeley back in the 60s so we all make a team. My analysis based on their inputs could be wrong, but it does offer a parsimonious explanation of the diverse steam events that have been visible at the plant on the cams.

Here is the problem:  The plant is so hot that it must be continuously cooled with water (or something else). I understand the site is too unstable to entomb Chernobyl-style. I don't know why there is not an alternative to water but the plant is using incredible volumes of water to cool the melted site and unimaginable volumes of contaminated water now sit in make-shift pools around the entire site. See http://ajw.asahi.com/article/0311disaster/fukushima/AJ201305080062

Radionuclides from the site are going into the atmosphere and ocean through the water. Hot radioactive water makes radioactive steam. Maybe the entire site is so hot it creates banks of radioactive fog.

I don't know how long the site can be staffed before the radiation levels become so high from all the contaminated water that work is impossible.

Tepco will dump contaminated water into the ocean to prolong their time at the site. Fukushima Daini will fall next.

Cisco at Enenews was right. There is no stopping this runaway train.

I'm sorry to write about this so frequently, but I feel like I'm chronicling the tipping point where humanity falls rapidly into decline.

Look at recent events:

http://majiasblog.blogspot.com/2013/05/coud-this-be-fog-or-is-it-smoke.html

http://majiasblog.blogspot.com/2013/05/evidence-of-major-daytime-steam-release.html

http://majiasblog.blogspot.com/2013/05/another-rapid-steam-release-this-morning.html

2 comments:

  1. Check out this video by Nuckelchen

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aIBvihsqDBE

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  2. I can't imagine that China and other Asian nations (or historians) will look kindly upon Japan for having fatally poisoned their seas and the Pacific ocean forever, known about it, and done nothing about it. I think TEPCO and the Japanese government knew the full extent of their crimes against humanity, then proceeded to cover up their crimes using all the resources at their disposal, instead of using those resources to make rectitude for their crimes. Note how I say "crimes against humanity" instead of the words TEPCO uses: "accident caused by a tsunami". It's funny how the repeated use of certain words can assign blame, or eliminate responsibility. At Fukushima Daiichi, every day that goes by is another crime against humanity's future-- all children who will ever be born ever again on this earth.

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