Monday, March 13, 2017

Webcam Strangeness Persists


Perhaps the webcams are failing because there has been strangeness on the Fukushima webcams recently.

Here is a pdf of screenshots, some of which can be viewed below: https://www.dropbox.com/s/xis4xmczrlvwoxg/March%202017%20Strangeness%20on%20the%20Webcams.pdf?dl=1

I've been remarking over the last week or so about the strange pixilation on the TEPCO 1 webcam, which is trained on reactor units 1 and 2.

The pixilation is new and is relatively consistent in its pattern:

March 11, 2017 3:26


The pixilation seems to be centered on unit 1 and is visible during daylight hours:

March 13, 2017 7:29


I've wondered whether the pixilation is simply cam error or whether its steam.

I know unit 1 is still receiving deliberate water injections, and likely nitrogen as well. Unit 1 is so hot that neither humans nor robots can adequately investigate the location of its reactor fuel.

Unit 1 purportedly still has a spent fuel pool filled with fuel in its upper level. That fuel must be kept cool or it will result in fires.

I've seen at least two distinct devices spraying stuff into the interior of unit 1 and directly into the area shown above from the outside of the building.

Today. I also saw strangeness on TEPCO 4 webcam, which is trained on the unit 4 and, to a lesser extent, the common spent fuel pool.

The corner of the common spent fuel pool building (pretty confident on that assessment of the building) is pixilated red:


I'll watch the red pixilation during the day and report on any continuing anomalies. Perhaps the pixilation is simply cam failure, or some pattern of condensation on the cam, or ????

The cams are quite a ways from the reactor buildings, but still they are subjected to chronic, higher-than-ordinary radiation levels (remember that the water tanks are also a source of high radiation frequency radiation emissions). Hence, webcam strangeness could simply indicate that the cams need to be replaced.

I'm hoping that is the case, because one alternative interpretation is that the Fukushima site in its entirety is becoming "hotter" from the dispersion of radionuclides through the environment as the fuel breaks down in water and spreads through the structures and into the water table specifically and environment more generally.


1 comment:

  1. Some of that strangeness on cam1 is stuff on the lens. Watched while they raised one of the crane tools, it disappears behind the stuff on the lens shown in your second pic. Heavy rains on 3-14, see if it changes the pattern or cleans the stuff off. Bright orange object on cam4 is probably part of a crane.

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