Posted on 03/23/2017 9:08:23 AM PDT by Java4Jay
Tainted water inside a reactor containment vessel at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant has shown a radiation level enough to kill a person within 40 minutes
(Excerpt) Read more at rt.com ...
If they insist there is no “melted” fuel, then shouldn’t they be able to actually show it?
The most recent evidence… means there’s a puddle of molten uranium that has melted its way through the steel pressure vessel, through the reinforced concrete containment, through the reinforced concrete foundation of the nuclear facility, and is now working its way through whatever rock or soil lies underneath the foundation, dropping lower each day… If the molten uranium hits an underground aquifer, such a spread could get even worse.
There is no solution…
AP FACT CHECK: Fukushima radiation not cause for alarm in US
https://www.yahoo.com/news/ap-fact-check-fukushima-radiation-not-cause-alarm-182903207.html
Report: Hundreds of millions of Pacific salmon missing, presumed dead — Gov’t issues emergency order along US West Coast — Japan suffering historic collapse, fish starving to death — All forms of ocean life dying in stunning numbers across Pacific
Oh come on. RT is the Russians. /sarc
No particulates in the water?
So they must have settled to the bottom.
How far from the bottom were the readings made?
The closer to the particulates the higher the reading.
Yes. I’ve seen these reports. But the very first paragraph of this one says “Radiation from the Fukushima nuclear reactor disaster in Japan has reached North American shores, but — despite a number of reports shared on social media— scientists say the levels of radiation are so low that it poses no risk to public health.” Mayhaps these ‘scientists’ be on the EAST coast?
What has been seen ‘has’ to be measurable, not? My question was solely about that if there was a question about ‘rod melting’ or not and somebody claiming there was none, then there should be some video evidence of that. Is not that a reasonable assumption?
I NEVER get concerned until some “Government spokesperson” tells me there’s nothing to be concerned about.
This needs to be talked about before the situation's beyond a human solution.
In other words, one third of the seas are being made bitter. I read about this in a book somewhere.
The problem has been that people don’t realize that the West coast has a fairly high background radiation level naturally. They go out there and get a reading and start sounding alarms, when really the reading they got is not actually above background for the area.
Weird headline.
How would one find “melted fuel” in reactor water? It would sink like a stone, like an ultraheavy stone. Reactor fuel is generally in the form of oxides as I understand it. Most metal oxides are either barely soluble or very nearly insoluble in water.
This would be like saying “no organic soybeans were found in the alligator’s stomach”.
Uhh, yeah, gators don’t eat them.
Yes, understand I guess because of the turbulent topography in some places and all that mountain crap, but my original comment was quite simple. If there are those who are saying “there is no melting of rods,” then there should be some kind of evidence that should show it - VISUAL being the best proof, IMO.
It is Robert Cringley, a pseudonym.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_X._Cringely
Not a scientist, has a problem with the truth. Not the most credible writer. His degrees are in communications.
Report: Lice-Hunting Underwater Drone Protects Salmon With Lasers
Because it is not happening.
If there is one thing that Chernobyl taught us is that the “China Syndrome” is a myth told to youngsters to make them fear technology.
Chernobyl’s core has been uncooled for decades and has not melted its way to the water table.
The Japanese have been actively poring water to there damaged cores since they have able following the tsunami. With water on the fuel it is not going to continue to melt.
Also it is now years after the accident and the fuel is now hundreds of degrees cooler simply because the short lived nuclides have decayed away and therefor the decay heat is much less.
The most recent evidence… means there’s a puddle of molten uranium...
Look out Nebraska, here it comes.
Years ago, when Fang’s cousin (a cute teeny bopper working
for the government as a “nuclear power plant”
representative) and was traveling all over the place
prissing her silly butt around selling nuclear power - I
told her, “Slow down! At least until we know more about how
they plan to regulate and control this “magical power
producer” and answer some legitimate QUESTIONS about spent
fuel storage, etc.”
Both she and my silly SIL told me to SHUT UP, that I was
just simple and stupid for “not wanting my kids to have the
same comforts I had enjoyed”. Well, I shut up and was
later proven correct. They finally got legitimate, MATURE
SCIENTISTS working on the situation rather than sending out
teeny boppers in short skirts with T&A smart retorts
instead of FACTS.
These days, this “cousin” has NOTHING to do with me, nor
does the silly SIL. Thankfully, their mouths stay shut a
little bit more than they used to do. At least to me.
New data shows molten fuel is “dropping lower each day”, melting deeper into ground below plant — Disaster far worse than public being told — “Why aren’t we reading about this everywhere?”
This is a huge disaster and they are stuck on global warming.
I am of the opinion that the only solution left is very expensive:
- build a containment building
- inside, build a crane based system that will deconstruct the exiting building / mess
- seal the debris in graphite, lead reinforced concrete
- dig down to the uranium, raise the uranium to the service, encase in smaller graphite pellets to break the uranium neutron fission cycle.
- seal the pellets in graphite, lead reinforced concrete
- transport the concrete to a seduction trench in the ocean.
- then continue deconstruction by removing the highly contaminated material in like manner. Likely will require the reduction of the tools used and perhaps the containment building.
- backfill with dirt (could use the debris from the surrounding town.
- cover with a concrete slab that is clearly marked “radiation hazard - do not dig”
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