Emissions can be seen from the Futaba cam:
The emissions rising in the middle of the screen in the last shot taken at 1:03 AM 8/18 appear to be coming from the common spent fuel pool, based on the views from the TEPCO cam (shot below taken at 1:01 AM:
What I find interesting is that the Futaba cam view correlates with the TEPCO cam views.
High emissions visible on the TEPCO cams usually coincide with bright glowing skies on the Futaba cam.
My biggest concern watching the Futaba cam is that most of the emissions appear to be generated from locations OFF-SCREEN of both TEPCO cams and the TBS cam.
The emissions are often coming from both the north and south of reactors 1-4. Reactors 5 and 6 are NORTH of units 1-4 so they could be the source of the northern emissions visible on the Futaba cam.
However, even more emissions come from south of units 1-4. There are buildings located south of reactors 1-4 but I don't know their purpose. I wonder if they include dry-cask storage buildings?
As the weeks and months go by we see and confirm that TEPCO is both incompetent and incapable. For example, the failed ice wall. Maybe it has done some good.
ReplyDeleteUnless though some very creative science and engineering is done, Japan will become uninhabitable. I think within twenty years. I am not sure how this will effect surrounding nations like China and Korea. During this time the west coast of North American will become a dangerous place for children, pregnant women and the elderly. Already some horses in California are getting a "mysterious disease" that closely resembles the "mysterious disease" killing horses in northern Japan. No expert or official is willing to risk mentioning radiation sickness.
So at this time the fear of PANIC assures that the gov will remain mum and apparently inactive.
We can forget "climate change", scary Russia, genocide and so on as Fukushima Daiichi will solve all these problems for us. It is not a self solving problem. And since no one wants to tackle it, it will simply eliminate us. Slowly perhaps but surely!
Burning things again in the onsite incinerator? They burned debris almost every night in late 2011-2012. The Japanese certainly seem fascinated by incinerating things.
ReplyDeleteDry storage casks and spent fuels at Fukushima
ReplyDeletehttp://www.nirs.org/reactorwatch/accidents/6-1_powerpoint.pdf
Waste is still the biggest problem facing the nuke industry. Japanese don't want it in their backyard either, so industry and government scatter it far and wide by burning debris, releasing to the ocean, and piling ton bags of contaminated soil over the land.
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