Thursday, March 15, 2018

March 15, 2011 Remembered


March 15, 2011 was the day that Fukushima unit 3's reactor blew in the largest of the explosions that rocked the plant in March of 2011.

Unit 3's MOX fuel contained plutonium, a very toxic as well as radioactive element (e.g., see here).

Nuclear engineer Arnie Gundersen of Fairewinds has hypothesized that unit 3 experienced a "prompt criticality" in the spent fuel pool.

Although Gundersen's account has been disputed, there has been no compelling evidence (in my opinion) to rule out his interpretation and, more importantly, reactor fuel from Fukushima's explosions was detected worldwide regardless of the explosion form (e.g., see http://www.datapoke.org/blog/89/study-modeling-fukushima-npp-p-239-and-np-239-atmospheric-dispersion/).

One group of researchers using Cesium-134 as a marker, which has a short half-life, reported detecting Fukushima plutonium, in Lithuania:
G. Lujanienė , S. Byčenkienė, P.P. Povinec, M. Gera M. (27 December 2011) ‘Radionuclides from the Fukushima Accident in the Air Over Lithuania: Measurement and Modeling Approaches’, Journal of Environmental Radioactivity, 114, 71-80.

Given the intensity of the explosive damage and the volatility of the fuel, it can hardly be surprising that 7 years later Fukushima Daiichi continues to produce heat and radioactive emissions whose traces are visible on the webcams.

My bet is that Diablo Canyon nuclear power plant in California, situated on a fault and next to the Pacific Ocean, will be the next Fukushima.

Fukushima today



Fukushima weather today


Related posts
Majia's Blog: Fukushima's Spent Fuel Pools
https://majiasblog.blogspot.com.uy/2011/08/fukushimas-spent-fuel-pools.html

Majia's Blog: Plutonium From Fukushima
majiasblog.blogspot.com/2012/08/plutonium-from-fukushima.html

Majia's Blog: How Much Fuel Was in Fukushima Daiichi Unit 3 Reactor?
majiasblog.blogspot.com/2017/07/how-much-fuel-was-in-fukushima-daiichi.html

Majia's Blog: Propaganda on Plutonium
majiasblog.blogspot.com/2012/07/propaganda-on-plutonium.html

Majia's Blog: Where is the fuel from Fukushima Daiichi Unit 3 Spent ...
majiasblog.blogspot.com/2017/07/where-is-fuel-from-fukushima-daiichi.html

Majia's Blog: Fukushima Unit 3 in the News and Glowing on WebCam
majiasblog.blogspot.com/2017/07/fukushima-unit-3-in-news-and-glowing-on.html

Majia's Blog: Birth Defects in Fukushima
majiasblog.blogspot.com/2014/11/birth-defects-in-fukushima.html

Majia's Blog: Plutonium Tales
majiasblog.blogspot.com/2012/04/plutonium-tales.html

Majia's Blog: Plutonium: Not Our Friend
https://majiasblog.blogspot.com/2012/03/plutonium-not-our-friend.html


12 comments:

  1. This is a picture of a geiger in Japan, recording rads from bioccumulated lichen. Very high reading. I could not cope with living there. I have seen what it can do, and is doing.

    https://mobile.twitter.com/MKaltofen/status/913070118967668743

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  2. Pretty sure the donald has organic dementia. His kids seem quite stupid, yet enough money can buy anything. The corruption and decadence of this poisoned chemical and radioactive sewer is taking hold. Unfortumately, not many sane caretakers to keep it going anymore.

    Good article about troubled kids. Unforyunately our society is really accelerating in its disintegration . Its poisoned economy and poisoned environment. https://www.counterpunch.org/2018/03/16/school-shootings-who-to-listen-to-instead-of-mainstream-shrinks/

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    1. How sure are you about your pretty sure facts?

      And you know this how? Second hand information and slanted rumor?

      How could you know? Ohhh you read it somewhere?

      I'm not pro trump or anti trump, I'm pro fact...

      So if someone says it's true what information do you have to back it up?
      Ever been to the congressional floor? A crocks crock of total supposition.

      The facts are you don't know trump or his family or anything else but what someone else has said, be it true or not so you base your opinions on secondhand reports and supposition.


      So now (this moment) how do you find truth when you don't have a clue except what you have read or some rumors from someone else?

      Don't fall for the rumor mill information that is compared to the rumor rag papers of old now scattered about online by anyone...

      Do you base your opinions on speculation?

      You will be wrong most of the time.

      Base your opinions on fact? What facts, where's a fact, where are you getting your so called facts from.

      Trump? Hillery? Russia? Does any of that feed a hungry child? Is any of it actually true? And if it is true how do you know.

      Sometimes people can't see the forest for the trees.

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    2. As a professional, who is does not pay attention to msm, I have seen dementia. Donald Trump cannot keep a train of thought. Spurious, organically emotionally labile and irrational. Many times he is not particularly oriented to people,place, time. This is not a very democratic country. It seems apparent that the people behind the face of this sad old creep, are getting what they wanted. JOHN bolton, Eric Prinze, the other neoconservative warmongers he started with. Too bad for us and the world.

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  3. There are remnants of Japanese internment camps in the most gawd-awful, dry, remote desert wasteland, possible in Utah and Nevada. The government would never do this to anglos. American prisons are Disney Land, compared to the concentration camps, built, for Americans of Japanese descent in WWII.
    If activists had not intervened and helped those people, even after the war was over in 1945, they and their families, would have died in those concentration camps. They would have died, courtesy of Harry Trueman, who contrary to propaganda, did not have to nuclear bomb Hiroshima and Nagasaki, to end the war. The government confiscated all the possessions and property of those Americans, some of whom were 3rd generation americans. They never got it back.
    When Hawaiians and Californians, who remember this atrocity, asked about funding rememberance of these blasphemies, this Crepe, Zinke, flippantly replied "Konichiwa" https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2018/03/16/politics/zinke-hanabusa-comment/index.html?__twitter_impression=true




    Remember that Zinke got the crooked contract, for 200 mil for the 2 man electrical contractor in whitefish Montana where Zinke is from. He recommended them. They did such shoddy work, after wasting millions from american taxpayers, that they were fired. They did not come close to doing anything.
    Puerto Rico had 23 bil was allocated by congress, yet 10,000 are still without shelter.

    Zinke also spent 139,000 on new office doors, recently.

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    1. I wouldn't expect the US to play those games and although it gets press, it's not something to give any credence to.

      The US is steadily moving away from these companies and governments that think nuclear power is a way to go!

      It's only a cover to make nuke bomb materials and these undercover efforts will further poison our world and their own citizens for years to come in doing so.

      Those that wish to put a halt to these death traps need our support to stop this crazy lie of clean green or safe nuclear anything.

      "Now Japan pivots towards Russia. They are looking to open contracts at Fukushima Daiichi to Russian firms including government owned Rosatom"

      Let's all do our part to support the eradication of nuclear power!

      And in doing so limit the unfettered emissions and production of materials needed to make a nuclear bomb.

      All or lives depend on stopping nuclear power as a cover to build a bomb.

      Nuclear power is the most radioactively dirty and foolish thing a country can do. We know this and should support ANY effort to stop it everywhere.

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    2. Russia has a sick self-destrutive addiction to nuclear power. Russia makes dangerous nuclear reactors that are prone to failure, yet they are actively trying to sell reactors to every poor country and dangerous dictator in the world to expand their hegemony and indebt suckers to them.

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    3. You are an ass and a liar. Perhaps a bot or political troll. The us is actively involved in building nuclear reactors in Saudia Arabia. MR. mike the neocon planned on building dozens of shitty reactors in the mideast with the russians. Will the vacupus protical propaganda trolls and bots ever cease? Probly not till a few reactors blow or a nuclear war ensues. Majias blog must be important because it attracts the worst nuke trolls, trump trolls ever

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  4. Donald Trump has said nothing about Fukushima. He has encouraged the Japanese to ship contaminated, food from Fukushima, around the world. He is good Buddies with Abe, who wants to open 18 more nuclear power plants in Japan. Abe, is also reopening 2 reactors by Fukui, where there have been a couple of earthquakes recently. Abe is trying to move refugees, back to the evacuation zones around Fukushima. There is several time more contamination around Fukushima, than the evacuation zone at Chernobyl.
    Poeple were actively moved out of, and resettled to other areas after Chernobyl.

    Abe is going straight ahead with yhe 2020 olympic games. Abe plans to have part of the games by Fukushima. Trump has started Uranium mining on sacred land, by the Grand Canyon. That is, even with nuclear energy in steep decline around the world. Trump has gutted the epa tracking of radioactive water, and radiation in america. Trump has extended the running of old dangerous reactors from 40 years to 80 years in the USA.
    Trump has criminalized and enforced, protests of oil pipelines through native american land, or any other land, for that matter in the USA.

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  5. Thanks for this blog. I hope it is ok, where everyone is. Nobody sick or in danger. This is the best blog. I will buy the books, to help support the blog,hopefully that would help. It is a lot more emotional work and mental work than we know. For sure.

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  6. Trump is badly ruining the VA too. He is destroying healthcare access to millions of veterans. Many are atomic veterans. He has done nothing for USS Ronald Reagan. He is the worst thing that could happen to US.

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  7. What say we all get together and pool our data and prove nuclear to be unapproved!

    https://youtu.be/X52hIPmyX_s

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