Fukushima Update - 11/10/2013

Includes footage from Abby Martin's "Breaking the Set" that were removed a few hours after they were posted

Fukushima News 11/9/13:

Tepco Advisor On Spent Fuel- 

"It's only as hot as a 'few toasters"

Tainted water leaks again at Fukushima Daiichi

Workers at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant have discovered a new leak of contaminated water, this time through a barrier that surrounds wastewater storage tanks.

The workers were inspecting tanks on Saturday when they found tainted water had leaked out of the barrier near the No.4 reactor. They tried to contain it with sandbags.

They reported finding puddles of water 80 centimeters long and 100 centimeters wide beyond the barrier. Plant operator Tokyo Electric Power Company detected 140 becquerels per liter of radioactive strontium.

The utility says the leak occurred near the valve used to drain water inside the barrier. But it says the valve was closed, so it was unlikely to be the cause.
TEPCO officials say no contaminated water reached the ocean.

Engineers at the plant are still investigating. They say faulty joints in the body of the barrier may be to blame. The barrier is made up of concrete blocks bound by metal boards that are fitted either by welding or with bolts.

Abby Martin highlights the Japanese politician, Taro Yamamoto for breaking cultural taboos in Japan by handing a note to the Emperor expressing the urgency of the radioactive nightmare on the ground at Fukushima. Abby then speaks with Alexey Yaroshevsky to get the latest from Japan.

BBC: 'The real dead zone' at Fukushima — Monitor went off scale, over 180,000 CPM — Experts shook their heads when asked where melted fuel is — Tepco: Don't ask what we'll do with Reactors 1, 2, 3 — CNN: Tepco only wanted to show us Reactor 4, strict rules about what we could film (VIDEO)
http://enenews.com/bbc-the-real-dead-...
http://edition.cnn.com/2013/11/07/wor...

Pro-Nuclear Engineer: Potential for "a very, very serious accident" when unloading Fukushima Unit 4; "The thing that keeps me up late at night" — Expert: Concern over "positioning of fuel rods" in pool — Tepco: It's not 'particularly dangerous'
http://enenews.com/pro-nuclear-engine...

Japan Experts: "Very worried" about accident at Fukushima Unit 4; Concern fuel to be dropped, could break apart and overheat — Tepco Adviser: It's only as hot as a 'few toasters'
http://enenews.com/japan-experts-very...

2,500,000,000,000,000 Bq of all β nuclides is still retained in the turbine buildings in total
http://fukushima-diary.com/2013/11/25...

Tepco's president confessed to NRA / Serious shortage of the workers
http://fukushima-diary.com/2013/11/te...

Tepco to train amateur workers in reactor4 pool
http://fukushima-diary.com/2013/11/te...

Dr. Shunichi Yamashita: I thought, "Oops..." After Seeing the SPEEDI Simulation Map on March 23, 2011
http://ex-skf.blogspot.ca/2013/11/dr-...

Vice president of Tepco "Don't know how much radiation level can be decreased to decontaminate reactor3″
http://fukushima-diary.com/2013/11/vi...
http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2013/...

Japan's Toshiba to buy British nuclear firm
http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/ne...

ENENews headlines

07:22 PM EST on November 9th, 2013 | 10 comments

TV: “It’s a crime what’s happening at Fukushima” — People resettling areas 10 to 15 km from plant with “radiation levels still very, very high and even lethal in some cases” — Hotspots 60 to 70 km away same level as ghost towns in Chernobyl (VIDEOS)

03:21 PM EST on November 9th, 2013 | 35 comments

Newspaper: “Patronizing silence” from officials about Fukushima contamination in West Coast seafood; It’s downright irresponsible, they are telling us nothing — Expert: “There is a real cause for concern” (VIDEO)

12:10 PM EST on November 9th, 2013 | 27 comments

Nuclear Expert: “There may be an accident of criticality” during fuel removal at Fukushima Unit 4 — TV: Rods could crumble, frightening Tepco in charge of potential catastrophe (VIDEOS)

01:01 AM EST on November 9th, 2013 | 19 comments

Japan Lawmaker: “Children coming down with many health problems… this is reality” — CNN: “Many parents of Fukushima blame nuclear accident” for higher cancer rate (VIDEOS)

Debunking Fukushima Unit 4...again

Hatrick Penry

To be clear: I hope that I am wrong and all the fuel rods are recovered. That would, obviously, be the best ending to the awful scenario surrounding the Unit 4 spent fuel pool.

After reading thousands and thousands of pages of NRC Freedom of Information Act documents and writing multiple articles on Unit 4 all I can say is this: if the pictures and/or video really are from Unit 4 in it's CURRENT STATE then the Japanese and TEPCO have indeed performed nothing less than a miracle in restoring the building and pool to pristine, like-new condition.

Props to 'tooktheredpill' on enenews.com for noticing discrepancies in the pictures/video from TEPCO.

September 25th, 2013 TEPCO pictures of Unit 4 Spent Fuel Pool: http://photo.tepco.co.jp/en/date/2013...

NHK/TEPCO video from November 6th, 2013....check the 1:45mark: http://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/englis...

Enenews article with relevant thread: http://enenews.com/bbc-extraordinary-...

Fear and Loathing on Fukushima Unit 4 (contains evidence from the NRC FOIA documents): http://hatrickpenryunbound.com/?p=3928

Something Wicked This Way Comes: The story of Plume-Gate, the world's largest, provable cover-up: http://hatrickpenryunbound.com/?p=3683