Fukushima nuclear disaster: Japan to release treated water for next 30 years

Especially Shin Godzilla.

That’s bogus. I’m very familiar with GE’s Mark 1 nuclear steam supply system design.

The issue was what was essentially a pole building built on top of the containment building which houses the reactor.

The steel sided pole building blew up from a hydrogen build up that evolved from the zirconium cladding on the fuel rods when they’re not cooled by water.

The emergency generators ran fine until the diesel fuel in the 600 gal. day tanks was exhausted. The generators weren’t wiped out. They ran out of fuel.

For safety reasons you don’t store the main supply of 5,000 gal. next to the generator. You replenish the day tanks when it empties. W/o power you can’t do that.

W/o the generators running the pumps supplying cooling water to the spent fuel pool stop running. Then the spent fuel pool heats up, the rods are exposed and hydrogen evolves.

Even at TMI where hydrogen also escaped into the containment, neither the building nor the reactor blew up.

I saw the pictures when I worked there.

That was what was essentially a pole building built over top of the spent fuel pool to shield it from the atmosphere.

Normally a negative pressure would be maintained in the building to prevent anything inside from escaping outside.

Hydrogen formed after the zirconium cladding on the spent fuel pool heated up when power to the cooling pumps stopped.

The containment and reactor inside remain intact.

I worked at plants with a GE Mark 1 design which is the same as Fukushima and the latest design which enclosed the spent fuel pool in a hardened building instead of a corrugated pole building.

No. It was not just a pole building that blew up.

Nuclear fuel was blown into the environment and also escaped containment below ground according to TEPCO’s engineers who used remote controlled cameras to discover what was going on down there. I can’t believe ‘the narrative’ has covered over the truth to the point people are saying, “Don’t believe your own eyes. Don’t recall the public addresses where the lasted contamination reports were given to the public. It never happened.”

Isotopes indicating active or continuing reaction were detected in ground water. One piece of fuel rod was blown ‘too far’ to have made that transit under the force of conventional explosion. The ocean near the plant received a shower of radiation as well. The radioactive warning system meant to advise the public where to move based on downwind direction was not activated because, according to Tepco, “We didn’t want to,” so some people escaped from the immediate area to several miles farther from the plant, but unfortunately they escaped in the direction of the radioactive plume.

TEPCO held regular public meetings wherein they insisted that no uranium had been detected outside the plant but they kept providing other radioactive isotope information, like Cesium.

Finally a reported dared to ask the question. “Are you specifically testing for Uranium?” The answer was, no.

But you could detect all these by radioactive byproducts but the public was supposed to believe no uranium could possibly be present.

The Japanese government were against the public interest from the start. They shipped radioactive contaminated produce and beef all over Japan. Likely this was to prevent ‘cleaner areas’ have a better long term health outcome compared with regions directly around Fukushima.

No - it wasn’t just a pole building that blew up. There’s far too much proof that the containment was broken and the myth of nuclear power industry engineering perfection was blown sky high.

Still spreading baseless hysteria. You work for CNN?

CNN supports everything you say - you and CNN are like twins reading from the same talking points. CNN says I’m spreading ‘baseless’ rumors, just like they say Trump is spreading ‘baseless rumors’.

In the General/Chat forum, on a thread titled Fukushima nuclear disaster: Japan to release treated water for next 30 years, ransomnote wrote:

Isotopes indicating active or continuing reaction were detected in ground water. One piece of fuel rod was blown ‘too far’ to have made that transit under the force of conventional explosion.

Those are some bold claims, right there. But you leave a bit to the imagination.

"Isotopes indicating active or continuing reaction were detected in ground water."

Does this mean that you think that the fuel pellets you claim were "blown up" landed in the mud somewhere and were undergoing nuclear fission, without the benefit of a moderator? That would be quite a result all by itself. And what isotopes were those, anyway? Xenon, maybe? That one has a scary name. Or maybe something else that's only magically there when there's and "active or continuing" reaction. Come to think of it, it's kind of confusing: is there a difference between an "active" reaction and a "continuing" reaction?

But you've saved the really big news for later.

One piece of fuel rod was blown ‘too far’ to have made that transit under the force of conventional explosion.

So it must have been some sort of unconventional explosion, right? You're implying that there was a nuclear explosion, which would bag someone a Nobel prize, just for starters. Do the Iranians know about this? They could stop messing around trying to get 90% enrichment and just use plain old ~5% enriched fuel rods. Please don't tell them, they really can't be trusted.

Do you have any source for this stuff?