Fukushima has 9 days to prevent ‘unsafe’ overheating

Fukushima operator TEPCO has been forced to switch off the cooling system at mothballed Reactor Unit 5, after it was discovered that it had been leaking water. In nine days, if the system is not repaired, temperatures will exceed dangerous levels.

Engineers have discovered that 1,300 liters of water leaked from a cooling system intended to stabilize the temperature of the spent fuel at the Reactor Unit 5, which was offline but loaded with fuel rods when the plant was damaged by the earthquake and tsunami in March 2011.

The source of the leak was a 3 mm-diameter hole near a flow valve, a statement published by the Japanese energy giant on Sunday asserts. However it is unclear from company data if the location of the opening has been discovered, or whether it was calculated with flow measurements.

At the time when the cooling system was switched off at around 12pm on Sunday, the temperature in the pool in which the rods are submerged was 23C but started increasing by 0.193 degrees per hour, TEPCO says.

If no new cold water is pumped in at such rate it will reach the dangerous threshold of 65C by the midpoint of the month in roughly 9 days.

Such temperatures, which have not been routinely seen at the plant since the failing of the cooling system in the immediate aftermath, would increase the possibility of dangerous reactions and further radiation leaks in the plant.

TEPCO however says that currently, there have been no abnormal readings anywhere in the plant.

Since TEPCO is using seawater for many of its cooling needs at the power plant, it has previously encountered heightened levels of corrosion, in sensitive equipment. The cooling system at various reactors has also been beset by calamities – from rats short circuiting the control panel and forcing a blackout, to an employee “accidentally” switching it off, though all were resolved before rod pools overheated.

At the same time, TEPCO is struggling to deal with ever-increasing volumes of contaminated water which is being stored in hundreds of tanks at the facility and frequently leaking and contaminating the soil beneath it. And the much publicized plan to stop contaminated water from leaking into the sea by building an ‘ice-wall’ and freezing soil and water around the facility is not working as well as Japanese officials had hoped.

http://rt.com/news/170800-fukushima-water-leak-temperatures/

Lovely!

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 :.3chuthluL/: 

 ::smthg:: 

 

P.S. IF I'm still posting from down here in 10 days time, y'all will know what a total conspiracy-loving crackpot the ol' sassy can be at times...

IF NOT, you can all look for me surfing that mythical 'radiation plume' into San Francisco Harbour..

I'LL be the one glowing in the dark.   

You do realise how stupid you are don't you, this news is from TEPCO, who run Fukushima, this isn't a conspiracy theory, this is fact from the people who run it who have been trying desperately not to admit the facts. Now they have had to, because it is out of control.

Fukushima operator TEPCO has been forced to switch off the cooling system at mothballed Reactor Unit 5, after it was discovered that it had been leaking water. In nine days, if the system is not repaired, temperatures will exceed dangerous levels.


You obviously have trouble reading.

And if you are still about in 8 days, it will be because they have managed to do something about it.

This won't help......


http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/japan-braces-for-super-typhoon-bringing-150mph-winds-and-lashing-rain-9588810.html

Lone Wolf wrote: 

P.S.  IF I'm still posting from down here in 10 days time, y'all will know what a total conspiracy-loving crackpot the ol' sassy can be at times...

IF NOT, you can all look for me surfing that mythical 'radiation plume' into San Francisco Harbour..

I'LL be the one glowing in the dark.     

    

  

Stick your head back in the sand and la la la.


Official: “Unfortunately, the fuel itself is exposed” at Fukushima — Scientist: Our tests show contamination isn’t going away… reactors are leaking out into ocean… there’s still a problem — PBS: Plume of water tainted with radiation is reaching to other side of Pacific (VIDEO)

Published: August 7th, 2014 at 2:36 am ET
By ENENews

PBS NewsHour’s ‘Return to Fukushima’, Aug 6, 2014: NewsHour science correspondent Miles O’Brien [...] has traveled to Fukushima three times and six times entered the exclusion zone, which he described as a “post-apocalyptic landscape of abandoned towns, frozen in time.” We’ve stitched his latest reports together into this documentary-length video. They include his tour of the hazardous Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant and a look at the health of marine life off the coast of Japan [...] Plus, a never-before-seen exclusive tour of Fukushima Daini, Daiichi’s sister plant, which narrowly escaped the same fate.

3:30 in – Miles O’Brien, PBS: 3 of [Fukushima Daiich's] cores are now melted down, still steaming hot, their steel containment structures breached. Engineers believe some of the nuclear fuel has melted right through the steel containment vessels on to a concrete basement floor, where it is exposed to groundwater. [...] Each and every day, about 100,000 gallons of fresh groundwater seeps into the basements of the plant, where it becomes contaminated with a witch’s brew of radionuclide. [...] No one disputes the plant is steadily leaking radiation-tainted water into the sea.
14:00 in – O’Brien: [Naohiro Masuda, leader of Fukushima Daiichi’s decommissioning company and head of Fukushima Daiini during 3/11] explained where the melted nuclear fuel has gone.
14:05 in — Masuda: Unfortunately, the fuel itself is exposed.
14:10 in — O’Brien: Melted through?
14:15 in — Masuda: Melted through the pressure vessel, and coming down to this room and it goes down to the floor.
17:30 in — Crystal Breier, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution: This is Fukushima water, this is from our cruise this past September. We found there’s still contamination. […] It’s been persistent, it hasn’t gone away. It’s indicating that the reactors are leaking out more cesium — and there is still a problem.
18:15 in – O’Brien: The plume of water tainted with radiation from Fukushima is only now reaching the other side of the Pacific.

http://enenews.com/official-fuel-exposed-fukushima-scientist-tests-show-contamination-going-away-reactors-leaking-ocean-problem-pbs-plume-water-tainted-radiation-reaching-other-side-pacific-video

http://enenews.com/category/location/japan/fukushima-reactors

 

I ALSO have to wonder whether sassy's mythical "radioactive plume" has yet reached those beaches near Quill's neighbourhood   , as predicted by sassy a few months back...

IT will certainly be tired out when it gets there, considering it's had to swim against the currents and tides for over a year to get there.. Assuming it even survived the Japanese surf, and then the rough seas.   :::blnt:::

  SCIENCE Know-it-all genius sassy - courtesy of her ever-faithful conspiracy sites, knows more than the world's scientists and engineers - tell us again, sassy, where you studied for your Nuclear Physics degree ???

SASSY always knows best..

SAME as she claims to know more about Australian current affairs and history than either veya' or little old moi ~ thanks to her favorite Oz-bashing hatemongering ex-pat "journalists" !  
(PITY her l'il ol' kompooter didn't blow up and take her with it..).  

Pity you are such a bloody idiot you think you know more than  Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution.   But nude bushwalking fried your brain, what little there was of it in the first place, a long time ago.    Whoopee for Veya, luckily he shows there are great Aussies out there and they aren't all as nuts as you.

 

LAUGH a minute, the old sass-pot  !!!

Pathetic old loser, she be ~ filling all of her computer time stalking Nems, FTL, Quill or little old moi all over this site..

 :ashmmmas:

Lone Wolf wrote: 

LAUGH a minute, the old sass-pot  !!!

Pathetic old loser, she be ~ filling all of her computer time stalking Nems, FTL. Quill or little old moi all over this site..

 :ashmmmas: 

Put your sunhat on you silly old fool and cover up your genitals for once, you might actually find you have a few brain cells left then, though I doubt it.

:::lookiehere::

Lone Wolf wrote:


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Yep, heard you were good at showing your bum and bits to all and sundry.

No sassy. You can't touch.



  

Your dried up old mans gonads, don't put me off my tea FFS!

Tell you something if Fukushima does melt down, it wont be as big as the one Sassy is having!

The only melt down going on is with you, but you have been unstable for a long time.

Sassy wrote:The only melt down going on is with you, but you have been unstable for a long time.

Nonsense I haven't had stabilisers on my bike for years

Nems wrote:

Sassy wrote:The only melt down going on is with you, but you have been unstable for a long time.

Nonsense I haven't had stabilisers on my bike for years

Mental instability.

Sassy wrote:

Nems wrote:

Nonsense I haven't had stabilisers on my bike for years

Mental instability.

Im mentally unstable?! What are you a psychiatrist now too?

  NOTE how everybody who makes it into sassy's bad books is always eventually deemed to be "mentally unstable", and if you keep on needling her for long enough, and pointing out some of her many deficiencies, she then claims you're "in need of medication..".

MANY of us on here have copped that analysis from the deranged old biddy at some stage..

FUNNY how sassy is the one person on this site this week truly capable of being so defined by her own constant diagnoses, isn't it !