Fukushima #4 - signs of collapse

Nuclear Experts: Fukushima Unit 4 has shown signs of collapsing

• Underneath buildings it’s becoming saturated
• “Known fractures in soil” 
• Large structure already went down at plant after ground was super-saturated and had mudslide in March 2011

ENENews,

25 September, 2013

Tepco’s video tour of Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, Sept. 2013 (At 1:00 in) – The power line tower of units 5 & 6 fell over due to a collapse of the embankment. Consequently, the whole site lost its outside power source. 20-minute video here

WERU’s News Report interviews Dean Wilkie, nuclear reactor operations at a U.S. Department of Energy test reactor in Idaho (At 28:50 in) – When the accident happened back in March 2011 there was a power pole, one of these huge power poles, inside of the Daiichi facility, inside the area there, and the ground that it was set on became super-saturated with water and they had a mud slide and that whole tower went down […] At Fukushima now, what we’re seeing, all of this work that they’ve been doing with these walls and then it’s causing the water to back up, it’s starting to saturate soil that’s underneath the buildings and in adjacent areas around the buildings. Couple that with the fact that there are known fractures in that soil — it was very obvious during the earthquake.  Full broadcast here

Nuclear Expert Gordon Edwards interview on the Green Power Wellness Show (At 32:00 in) – The worry with Unit No. 4, even though there was no fuel in the core of the reactor, there’s a spent fuel pool very precariously perched up above 5 floors. If the plant were to collapse — which it’s been showing signs of doing — then that fuel would be all over the place and it would be impossible to cool. And that would be a real… you could get far greater emissions than we did initially. Full interview here

See also: Yale Professor: Fukushima Unit 4 pool in perilous condition -- "All of humanity will be threatened for thousands of years" if not able to be kept cool -- Danger of collapse during storm or while attempting removal of fuel rods

12:01 PM EST on September 25th, 2013 | 46 comments

Radio: Sinkhole potential at Fukushima plant from pumping up groundwater? Nuclear Expert: Yeah, that’s a very good point — May very well happen if workers take out too much water from an area (AUDIO)

06:48 AM EST on September 25th, 2013 | 44 comments

NBC Nightly News: Worry at Fukushima plant — Scientist reveals “increased” amounts of radioactive groundwater have started flowing into ocean — Contamination levels in marine life to start rising — “Other countries are worried” (VIDEO)

12:59 AM EST on September 25th, 2013 | 27 comments

TV: A force beyond human control was unleashed at Fukushima, says former top U.S. nuclear official — Impossible to stop radioactive groundwater flowing into Pacific (VIDEO)

09:47 PM EST on September 24th, 2013 | 62 comments

Tokyo Professor: I want to stress that Japan is on verge of collapse after Fukushima — Osaka Professor: If you don’t recognize health risks and take action right now, you have no future (VIDEO)

05:32 PM EST on September 24th, 2013 | 24 comments

Nuclear Expert: I believe Fukushima fuel melted through at some reactors — “Gone beyond building and now it’s in bedrock?” (AUDIO)

01:54 PM EST on September 24th, 2013 | 111 comments

Official: “Police state methods” used by gov’t to promote nuclear power (VIDEO)

09:45 AM EST on September 24th, 2013 | 74 comments

Ex-Chairman of U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission: Upcoming ‘attempt’ to remove Fukushima Unit 4 spent fuel is very, very unprecedented — Pool has significant structural damage — Will be very risky (VIDEO)

06:02 AM EST on September 24th, 2013 | 33 comments

Japan Expert: Cancel plans for trying to remove Fukushima melted fuel — Cover buildings with concrete instead (VIDEO)

01:48 AM EST on September 24th, 2013 | 33 comments

Video: Recriticality Concerns at Fukushima — BBC: Professor warns underground ice walls could become ‘neutron reflectors’ and cause nuclear chain reaction

[Damaged stack] Tepco calculating the possibility of collapsing / 28m radius area is off-limits

Posted by Mochizuki on September 25th, 2013 ·

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Following up this article..[Mystery] 8 damages on the stack are concentrated on 66m point from the ground [URL]

Having been required by Nuclear Regulation Authority to take prevention based on the worst assumption, Tepco announced they are calculating the possibility of collapsing and the potential damage of it.

Tepco’s vice president of Aizawa stated it in their press conference of 9/25/2013.

At this moment, the 28m radius area from the stack is off-limits.

http://www.tepco.co.jp/tepconews/library/movie-01j.html

Fukushima Needs World Wide Help Big Time

Gregory Jaczko: The Ongoing Fukushima Daiichi Crisis 9/24/2013

Gregory Jaczko: The Ongoing Fukushima Daiichi Crisis; Ongoing Radioactive Discharges and Other Current Issues

The radioactive discharge problem at Tepco's Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant is bringing worldwide attention to Japan's ability to deal with the continuing crisis at Fukushima.

PRESS CONFERENCE 9/24 Foreign Correspondents Club of Japan

Gregory Jaczko, Former Chairman,US Nuclear Regulatory Commission
 

Torgen Johnson,Citizens' Representative, San Diego Forum

Tetsuro Tsutsui,Member, Nuclear Regulation Sub-committee,

Citizens' Commission on Nuclear Energy (CCNE) /

Nuclear Power Plant Technical Experts' Group