Fukushima update - 12/02/2013

Fukushima Nuclear update for the last couple days. 12/1/13

Fukushima Where Fearless Fear to Tread

The scariest place on earth is not a disney park , or a war zone , or even being in the company of mass murdering main stream media host . Nope its a shitty little place called Japan that is destroying our world behind closed doors of abuse by cowards who are traitors to humanity . These creatures are hard at work covering up their mass murder with a secrecy act used immediately to physically stuff a rag in a protestors mouth and drag him to prison for the crime of talking . Well i intend to be the voice of the 1000s of voiceless victims created every day by the Lord of Hatred aka Japan .

Latest ENENews Headlines:

04:59 PM EST on December 2nd, 2013 | 7 comments

Risk Expert: “High risk” of nuclear holocaust at Fukushima — Plant to keep emitting radioactive materials “for a thousand years or so” (AUDIO)

09:14 PM EST on December 1st, 2013 | 149 comments

Study finds giant strontium-90 release into body of water begins around 1,000 days after meltdown — Dec. 5, 2013 = thousand days after 3/11 — Graphic shows very high levels being discharged for up to 50,000 days

02:29 PM EST on December 1st, 2013 | 57 comments

Expert: People on West Coast right to be concerned about Fukushima plume — Things “could get much worse” — Lots of radioactivity flowing into ocean — Gov’t not testing water or fish (AUDIO)

04:05 AM EST on December 1st, 2013 | 154 comments

NBC Nightly News: “Another highly troubling report about what’s going on in the Pacific” — Millions of starfish ‘melt away’ from Alaska to California — Expert: Fukushima radiation ‘not ruled out’ as factor in epidemic — Very, very different than anything seen before (VIDEO)

Mike Ruppert interviews Hatrick Penry (aka. Tony Muga)

“Unimpeachable NRC documents released under the Freedom of Information Act disclose a radically different situation at Fukushima than the mainstream press and many sources are admitting. They indicate that all of the fuel in the Spent Fuel Pool at Reactor 4 has already been burned completely and released into the atmosphere even as we choke on ridiculous media stories portray a dog-and-pony charade about TEPCO removing rods. They indicate that at least three spent fuel pools and three reactor cores have already been consumed or melted down completely and that catastrophic levels of radiation were released into the atmosphere in the three days following the tsunami of March 11, 2011, -- much, much more than has been acknowledged.

“These documents cannot be ignored, especially since they more closely match the physical realities we know to be true and have witnessed with our own eyes.

“How then do we reconcile these documents with the positions held by so many anti-nuclear activists? Because if we dismiss them we are risking our own lives. Tony is an amazingly brave man. His thinking is clear and focused. But the documents themselves are even more clear and direct. And that’s the point!

“Tony is also an extremely gifted musician and we’ll be playing one of his originals tonight to show where his heart is. Bring your courage, your heart, and your best critical thinking. This will be one of the most-important shows I have ever done.”

----Mike Ruppert

For Hatrick Penry's website GO HERE

For his You Tube channel GO HERE

Arnie Gundersen on the Real News

TEPCO Downplays Huge Risks Involved in Removing Fukushima Fuel Rods

7.24 microSv/h, NHK Koriyama broadcast station, a cavity of parking lot pavement, Nov. 2013

On 30 Nov., 2013, I measured radiation in front of NHK Fukushima broadcasting station Koriyama brunch. Koriyama city of Fukushima prefecture Japan.

I monitored 0.31 microSievert per hour in air at chest height.

And I monitored 7.24 microSievert per hour on the sand of a cavity of parking lot pavement.

The monitoring place is 55 or 60 km from Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear power

plant.

Measuring instrument is made of Japan, ST corp. Aircounter.

The map shown in the video is "Radiation counter map of the FUKUSHIMA

Daiich nuclear accident" by orofessor Yukio HAYAKAWA of GUNMA

university.

TEPCO forced to shut down contaminated water processing system at Fukushima Daiichi again

Enformable Nuclear News

2 December, 2013

Workers at the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant are working around the clock to cool reactors and spent fuel pools. They are accumulating massive amounts of highly contaminated water from the cooling operations and running out of space to store it on-site.

The troubled Advanced Liquid Processing System, or ALPS, which TEPCO has placed so much responsibility for helping process highly radioactive water to prepare it for storage, has broken down once again during trial operations.

The ALPS design removes radioactive materials by moving contaminated water through various pretreatment stations and adsorption towers. Once processed, the waste materials are transferred to high integrity containers, which are transported to a temporary storage facility.

The first processing systems used at Fukushima Daiichi only removed cesium. The ALPS system is a multi-nuclide removal system, which does remove multiple radioactive materials, but still leaves some behind (like tritium).

TEPCO workers were forced to shut the ALPS system down on Sunday due to a leak of hydrochloric acid from a pipe joint. The hydrochloric acid is used to neutralize alkaline water.

After shutting down the system, workers wrapped the leaking joint with a vinyl bag, which collected over 1 liter of hydrochloric acid at the time of the press release.

The system which was shut down is one of the two units which were in trial operation and scheduled to go into full operation on Sunday. TEPCO said that the leaking unit has been placed on standby and cannot continue operations until the problem is corrected.

TEPCO has been facing severe criticism for its failed management of contaminated water at the Fukushima Daiichi plant. Katsuhiko Ikeda, the secretary general for the Nuclear Regulation Authority, said in October that many of the problems at the crippled facility are caused by a lack of basic checks.

During test runs in June, TEPCO identified that some of the batch treatment tanks had holes in the welds.

In July, the ALPS system was shut down for inspections after corroded parts and other problems were identified.

The system failed again in September after a rubber sheet left in one of the tanks obstructed the flow of water and clogged a drain.

In October, the system was shut down due to programming errors and mistakes. Last month, the system was shut down once again, after the water which was being processed began to corrode one of the tanks.

Critics are worried that TEPCO is relying too much on the ALPS system and do not have enough contingency options if the system is unable to perform as expected.