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This
article from ENENews has appeared today.
It
is an example of where I can definitely take issue with them. They
quote a Wikipedia item that seems to me to be out of the picture.
The
racist and holocaust denier, “Hal” Turner, seems to be definitely
out of the picture.
Here
is the introduction to Turnerradionetwork.com's website
"Welcome
to the Turner Radio Network. As of December, 10, 2010, this web site
is under new ownership. The former owner, radio host Hal Turner, was
Ordered by United States District Court Judge Donald Walter, to
divest himself of control or ownership of all websites after his
conviction at a THIRD federal trial of "Threatening"
federal officials. He is not allowed to own, control or contribute
content to web sites until the end of his probation in October, 2015.
Therefore, Hal Turner no longer has any connection whatsoever to
this web site and does not contribute to its content.."
So,
shoddy investigation on that front. Having said that it still begs
the question of who they ARE, and why they seem to be privy to this
information.
ENENews
also dismiss an article from the
Ecologist. Both Oliver
Tickell (who writes for the Guardian) and the Ecologist have the
highest credentials and the article is along the lines of what I
might want to write if I wasn't in possession of all the facts.
Gizmodo
Report Claims: “Fukushima could be in the middle of another
meltdown”
300th
most popular website in U.S. publishes “unsubstantiated rumor”
31 December, 2013
Gizmodo,
Dec. 31, 2013: “Mystery
Steam Over Fukushima Could Be Sign of Another Meltdown
[...] The newest update in the highly disconcerting series of
devastating failures that is the Fukushima cleanup effort is
troubling to say the least. Tepco has confirmed that (unexplained)
plumes of steam have been rising from the mangled remains of Reactor
Building 3. In other words, there’s a chance Fukushima could be in
the middle of another meltdown. The thing is, no one has been able to
find out the exact cause of the rising, mysterious radioactive steam
because the combination of physical damage and, more importantly,
lethal radiation levels have made investigating the reactor
impossible. Tepco has known that a followup meltdown was a severe
possibility, though. [...]”
This
Gizmodo report cites an article
at ‘The Ecologist’ website,
which doesn’t link to any evidence supporting their claims. In
fact, there’s only one link throughout the entire piece — and
it’s to an article by the ‘Turner
Radio Network‘.
EXSKF
has written
about the many problems with the claims being made by the ‘Turner
Radio Network’.
Earlier today SimplyInfo
addressed unsubstantiated rumors
concerning Unit 3. Wikipedia
has some additional information
about the ‘Turner
Radio Network’
website
Fukushima
meltdown? Mystery steam rising over Reactor 3
Unexplained
plumes of radioactive steam have been rising from Fukushima's Reactor
Building 3, Could a major meltdown be on the way?
31
December, 2013
Fukushima's
Reactor Building 3 exploded on 13th March 2011 as a result of a
hydrogen buildup, breaching the building's containment and emitting a
huge plume of radiation. The reactor itself is in meltdown.
And
now fresh plumes of steam have been seen coming out the structure.
These have now been confirmed by Tepco, the owner of the nuclear
plant, from 19th December onwards. The company believes the steam is
coming from the fifth floor of the building.
However
it does not know the cause of the steam. Lethal levels of radiation
and the physical damage to the structure have so far made entry and
inspection impossible.
Possibility
1 - a meltdown is taking place
The
Reactor 3 fuel storage pond still houses an estimated 89 tonnes of
the plutonium-based MOX nuclear fuel employed by the reactor,
composed of 514 fuel rods.
Ever
since the explosion Tepco has been concerned that if the spent fuel
storage pond dries out, the intensely radioactive spent fuel rods
would melt down and produce further significant radioactive
emissions.
One
possibility is that this process may now be taking place. In the
event of water loss from the pond, the water would begin to overheat
and produce clouds of steam, prior to a complete meltdown. If this is
the case then a second major nuclear disaster at Fukushima is in the
making.
Possibility
2: 'corium' has reached groundwater
Reactor
3 itself contained 566 fuel rods, and has experienced a complete
meltdown. The location of the molten fuel, known as 'corium', is
unknown, but it may have burnt its way through the reactor base and
entered the underlying soil.
This
would also produce steam as the hot corium came into contact with
groundwater, while also releasing radioactive contamination to make
its way into the Pacific Ocean.
Possibility
3: rainwater on stray fuel elements
An
alternative explanation is that the steam plumes could be caused by
stray fuel pellets and reactor rod fragments - which themselves
produce significant amounts of heat - coming into contact with
rainwater percolating through the damaged and roofless structure. Of
the three choices this is probably the least serious.
The
Turner
Radio Network
is advising people on the West Coast of North America to "prepare
for the worst"
in case a meltdown of the waste fuel is in fact commencing. No
official warnings have been released on either side of the Pacific.
