Thursday, January 2, 2014

TBS Cam Was Up Today


The TBS cam was back up today. I don't know if its running an old loop. For the sake of my sanity I'm going to presume that today's feed was from today.

The good news is the DAIICHI plant does NOT appear to be burning or steaming any worse than it has in the past.

The bad news is I witnessed quite a  few camera glitches that might possibly have been flashes, followed by significantly increased pixilation. An hour later the pixilation was mostly gone, although heat waves could easily be seen coming up from the area of unit 3. Those heat waves are not new. They've been visible since 3/11.

I started watching about at 12:00 am Jan 3 (TEPCO cam time-stamp). Pixilation was high but it worsened significantly during dawn, when the flashes occurred about 6:11 (TEPCO time stamp):

 


color change was very rapid. I really think filters must be in use.





Full daylight brought a sharp view for the TBS cam. I just don't know what to make of it all. I'm convinced its not simply atmospheric. Could intermittent criticalities be responsible???

Today's TBS pixilation was similar to screen shots taken Dec 10-12. See them  here https://www.dropbox.com/s/dvoqmyfnu07xl4j/December%2010%202013.pdf


1 comment:

  1. A little radiation humor: "Half Moon Bay Review, Jan. 3, 2014 at 8:21p ET: [San Mateo] County health officials first learned of the radiation levels last week, and they sent their own inspector on Dec. 28 to Pacifica [...] the county inspector measured the beach to have a radiation level of about 100 micro-REM per hour [1 microsievert per hour], or about five times the normal amount. [...] Although the radiation levels were clearly higher than is typical, [San Mateo County environmental health director Dean Peterson] emphasized that it was still not unsafe for humans. [...] Peterson admitted he was “befuddled” as to why radiation levels were higher than normal, but he was skeptical that the Fukushima meltdown could be the cause. He noted that many innocuous items could spike the radiation levels in an area, including red-painted disposable eating utensils. [...] Peterson forwarded the matter to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and state Department of Public Health [...]

    Dean Peterson, San Mateo County environmental health director: “It’s not something that we feel is an immediate public health concern [...] We’re not even close to the point of saying that any of this is from Fukushima. [...] I honestly think the end result of this is that it’s just higher levels of background radiation.”

    Fortunately these types of folks have lots of experience explaining financial matters so this was a breeze. Yes, "red-painted disposable eating utensils".

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