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It's
boiling inside Fukushima Unit No. 3 - With MOX Fuel!
Original article
from BBC:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-...
http://tinyurl.com/ljw2zh3
BBC:
It's boiling inside Fukushima Unit No. 3 — Reactor supposed to be
in cold shutdown — Situation 'worrying' (23 July 2013 )
Enenews
article, please read threads, they are a great source of information
and links from guys like Sickputer.
(Tepco)
said steam was seen around the fifth floor of the building housing
Reactor No 3
It
is not clear what is causing the steam
The
sight of steam rising is worrying because it means somewhere inside
the reactor building water is boiling, says the BBC's Rupert
Wingfield-Hayes in Tokyo.
Th
badly damaged reactors are supposed to be in what is called "cold
shutdown"; the temperature of the cooling water inside the
reactor should be well below boiling point.
It
is another sign that Tepco still does not fully know what is going on
inside the damaged reactors
Fukushima nuclear plant: Japan
takes steps over sea leak
The
plant's operator recently admitted for the first time that
radioactive water was still going into the sea.
AFP:
'Fukushima reactor site engulfed by steam' — Kyodo: 'Something like
steam' coming from unknown source at Unit No. 3 — Tepco:
'Continuously wafting through the air' — Work to remove rubble
suspended
http://enenews.com/just-in-fukushima-...
http://tinyurl.com/knrrk7k
Kyodo,
July 23, 2013: [... Tepco] said Tuesday it has confirmed "something
like steam" is coming out of the No. 3 reactor building again
[...Tepco] said one of its monitoring cameras showed what appeared to
be steam coming out of the building's fifth floor just above the
reactor container at around 9:05 a.m. Tuesday.
The
steam continued to be seen at 10:30 a.m. [...] TEPCO has suspended
work to remove rubble at the reactor building due to the apparent
steam emission, they said.
Washington
Post, July 23, 2013: Tepco also said in an e-mailed statement today
that steam from an unknown source that was first spotted near the
fifth floor of the Fukushima plant's No. 3 reactor building on July
18 was seen again this morning.
The
Australian, July 23, 2013 (h/t RadChick): Fukushima reactor site
engulfed by steam Workers at the crippled Fukushima nuclear plant in
Japan have reported steam inside a battered reactor building for the
second time in less than a week. The operator said today steam was
seen around the fifth floor of the building housing Reactor No 3
shortly after 9am Steam was spotted in the same area on Thursday with
TEPCO saying it did not know for sure what had caused it.
TEPCO
Press Release, July 23, 2013: Steam Found Near the Central Part of
the Fifth Floor (Equipment Storage Pool Side) of Unit 3 Reactor
Building at Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station [...] This is a
follow-up report on the statuses of steam found wafting through the
air near the central part of the fifth floor (equipment storage pool
side) of Unit 3 on July 18. At around 9:05 AM today (July 23), we
found steam coming from near the central part of the fifth floor
(equipment storage pool side) of Unit 3 by a camera. [...] The steam
is continuously wafting through the air as of 10:30 AM. We will
continue to monitor the status closely.
Watch
the latest Fukushima nuclear plant videos
here
http://www.youtube.com/user/fuku1live...
http://tinyurl.com/lhobxgn
Alarm
as steam rises from Fukushima No. 3 reactor — Concern about
uncontrolled chain reaction — Contains highly lethal MOX fuel —
Tepco: "We don't believe an emergency situation is breaking out"
vapor
on fifth floor near MOX in fuel poolReactor 3, is the only one at the
plant to use the highly lethal mixed uranium-plutonium oxide (MOX)
fuel, some of which is in its spent-fuel pool near the top of the
reactor. "Steam has been seen around the fifth floor of the
reactor 3 building,"
Watch
video of the steam at Reactor 3 here
All
about the world's largest, provable cover-up...over 100,000 estimated
American casualties, by the year 2030 projected to be 1.3 million
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website http://hatrickpenryunbound.com/
source
RED ALERT!!! It's boiling inside Fukushima Unit No.
3
http://youtu.be/Aq2_V7zNjho
Plume-Gate
PROOF Cover-up of Fukushima via the NRC Documents
PLAYLIST
Original BBC story
Fukushima
nuclear plant: Japan takes steps over sea leak
Japan
says it is taking steps to prevent contaminated water from the
crippled Fukushima nuclear plant leaking into the sea.
BBC,
23
July, 2013
The
plant's operator recently admitted for the first time that
radioactive water was still going into the sea.
A
government spokesman said the authorities had taken immediate action.
Workers
were asked to act promptly to stop the leak as steam was seen rising
from one of the reactor buildings for the second time in a week.
On
Tuesday, Tokyo Electric Power Company (Tepco) said steam was seen
around the fifth floor of the building housing Reactor No 3 shortly
after 09:00 local time (00:00 GMT).
Workers
were continuing with the ongoing operation to inject cooling water
into the reactor and a pool storing nuclear fuel, it added.
It
is not clear what is causing the steam, but levels of radiation
around the reactor have not changed.
The
sight of steam rising is worrying because it means somewhere inside
the reactor building water is boiling, says the BBC's Rupert
Wingfield-Hayes in Tokyo.
The
badly damaged reactors are supposed to be in what is called "cold
shutdown"; the temperature of the cooling water inside the
reactor should be well below boiling point.
It
is another sign that Tepco still does not fully know what is going on
inside the damaged reactors, our correspondent adds.
Steam
was last seen rising from a reactor building at the plant on 18 July.
The
plant was crippled by an earthquake and tsunami in 2011, which
knocked out cooling systems to the reactors, three of which melted
down.
Leak
On
Monday, Tepco said the plant was likely to be leaking contaminated
water into the sea, something that has been suspected for some time,
but previously denied by the company.
Outside
experts have long suspected that the damaged reactors are leaking
water, because of the very high levels of radioactive caesium still
being found in samples of fish taken near the plant.
"High
readings of radiation were detected from the soil [ground] of the
turbine building. We are very sorry for causing concerns to many
people, and especially we deeply apologise to the people of
Fukushima," a company spokesman said.
Plant
officials believe a leak is possible because the underground water
levels in suspected areas fluctuate according to tide movements and
rainfall, he added.
The
Japanese government says it is taking the issue seriously.
"The
ministry of trade, economy and industry was instructed to act
promptly to prevent contaminated water from leaking to the ocean,"
Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga told a news conference on
Tuesday.
Since
2011, the plant has seen a series of water leaks and power failures.
Earlier
this month, a sharp increase in radioactive caesium was detected in
groundwater 25 metres (82ft) from the sea.
In
June, radioactive water was also found to be leaking from a storage
tank.
Experts
say years of work lie ahead before the problems at the plant can be
fully contained.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=50oOn01Khb8
Gizmodo:
Entirely possible leaking nuclear material from Fukushima is going to
U.S. and Canada — Bloomberg: “Fish contamination concerns have
spread beyond Japan”
23
July, 2013
Gizmodo,
July 22, 2013: Fukushima’s
Leaking Radioactive Water into the Ocean After All [...]
So we have to wonder: If the radioactive water is leaking into the
ocean but the water’s radioactivity levels don’t raise, where
does the radiation go? TEPCO officials say it’s been contained by
the silt fences erected in the water around the nuclear power plant.
If they’re wrong—or obfuscating—and it made it out, it’s
entirely possible that the ocean’s carrying the radiation off to
far flung places like
it’s been doing tons of debris.
Meanwhile, TEPCO admitted earlier this month that radiation levels in
the nearby groundwater were spiking, further raising suspicion about
the levels in the ocean. [...]
Bloomberg,
July 23, 2013: Tepco
Says Toxic Water Leaked to Sea From Fukushima Plant [...]Fish
Worries [...]
In August last year, the utility found record high levels of
radioactive cesium in fish it caught for tests within 20 kilometers
of the coast from the nuclear plant. [...] Fish contamination
concerns have spread beyond Japan. A study of 15 Pacific bluefin
caught off San Diego in August 2011 found radioactive cesium 10 times
higher than in fish caught in previous years. [...]
More
steam in Fukushima reactor building
WORKERS
at the crippled Fukushima nuclear plant in Japan have reported steam
inside a battered reactor building for the second time in less than a
week
24
July, 2013
The
operator said on Tuesday steam was seen around the fifth floor of the
building housing Reactor No 3 shortly after 9am (1000 AEST), Tokyo
Electric Power Co (TEPCO) said, adding workers are continuing with
the operation to inject cooling water into the reactor and a pool
storing nuclear fuel.
TEPCO
said monitoring equipment showed no significant changes, including in
the levels of toxic substances the broken reactor is releasing.
Steam
was spotted in the same area on Thursday last week but had
disappeared by the next day, with TEPCO saying it did not know for
sure what had caused it.
It
said it was looking at the possibility that accumulated rainwater had
been the source.
The
reactor, devastated by a massive tsunami in March 2011, is too
dangerous to approach, and workers had seen the steam on a camera
feed, the utility said.
The
roof of the building was blown off in a hydrogen explosion days after
meltdowns that were sparked when cooling systems were flooded as the
tsunami swept ashore.
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