https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8GUYFzBq3VU
PBS Nova Nuclear Meltdown Disaster https://arxiv.org/ftp/arxiv/papers/1406/1406.1200.pdf Detecting Special Nuclear Material Using Muon-Induced Neutron Emission Muon imaging could help image the meltdown cores at meltdown sites. On Sat, Feb 18, 2017 at 2:00 PM, Jones Beene <[email protected]> wrote: > > Fear-mongering? LOL. Apparently Alain does not look at the dates of these > attempts at what are essentially PR, many of which were sanitized and put > into circulation by TEPCO or their insurance carrier. The company has been > caught in many outright lies since the accident and this is more of the > same. > > The best response to the "no surprise" article can be paraphrased from the > comments from others and from common sense. In fact, it is preposterous to > imagine that the radiation level of more than 530 Sv/hr now measured ... > "could be expected" given the intervening years and prior levels which were > low. Do you understand what this level means so long after the accident? > Apparently not. > > TEPCO reported a previous high reading of 73 Sv/hr soon after the > accident. That would have been in the "no surprise" category, and > relatively less than expected (Chernobyl high reading was 200) but the new > reading is completely off the charts, coming this late. It should have > dropped every year. That is the biggest problem, it is going the wrong way. > > It is a paradigm shift which at worst means that substantial amounts, > possibly many tons or formerly fertile material (U238) is becoming fissile > (Pu239) or at least activated in an unknown way. A secondary explosion > cannot be ruled out since the cores can merge. Thankfully the cores are > melting their way deeper and deeper into earth, but if the 3 should > merge... kaboom ... but let's not go there. Google OKLO a site in Africa > where natural uranium went critical. > > "If the material causing the initial reading (73 Sv/Hr) would have been > normal nuclear fuel at relatively low enrichment, then that level should > have gone down by an order of magnitude in the ensuing time. We should be > seeing no more than 7 Sv/Hr now, BUT instead, it is 500 or 70 times higher > in one location after almost 6 years. > > Thus this high reading was actually totally unexpected by many experts not > associated with the company. It is essentially 70 times higher than > expected if representative, and could be worse the deeper one goes (or > less). As for proof of that dishonesty, consider that the Robots being used > were designed to withstand 1000 Sv (LIFETIME irradiation until failure) > which is only two hours at this rate. You would never use them if you were > "expecting" anything near these levels. Of course they quickly failed and > this means the rate was a huge surprise. > > Had TEPCO expected the 500 Sv level of radiation, as competent engineers > they would have increased the radiation hardness of the robot by a factor > of ten in order to get anywhere near the endurance time they needed for a > meaningful probe. That they did not, completely eliminates their "no > surprise" BS. They are lying, plain and simple and the robot proves they > are lying. > > Plus, if the high radiation was localized in a small zone, then try to > explain why the robot remained over that spot so long... and failed > "prematurely"? Obviously the danger zone could be much larger and possibly > the radiation level is even more severe than admitted - since the robot > failed so quickly. That failure is another smoking gun, so to speak. > > Again, it is ludicrous to say this high reading was expected ... unless > you are a company that was essentially negligent beyond all reason, both in > the design and more so in the response. > > Worst of all - 5 years from now, the situation could be more toxic, since > it appears 3 completely unconstrained cores are converting fertile uranium > into fissile plutonium at an unexpected rate. Again, if a secondary > explosion (hydrogen, steam or nuclear) cannot be ruled out, should not > TEPCO be evacuating a wider zone? > > At Chernobyl, the situation has improved year to year, every year, as > expected. Wildlife is taking over the formerly devastated area. > > Fukushima, appears to be going in the opposite direction. > On 2/18/2017 8:36 AM, Alain Sepeda wrote: > > to relativize the fearmongering > http://spectrum.ieee.org/energywise/energy/nuclear/ > high-fukushima-radiation-estimates-no-surprise-to-experts > https://www.extremetech.com/extreme/243904-fukushimas- > reactor-2-far-radioactive-previously-realized-no-sign-containment-breach > http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/10/09/national/ > science-health/extensive-radiation-study-finds-no- > internal-cesium-exposure-fukushima-children/#.WJoJrzvhDzT > http://the-japan-news.com/news/article/0003511587 > http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2017/01/fukushima- > residents-exposed-far-less-radiation-thought > https://www.minnpost.com/second-opinion/2014/11/ > thyroid-cancer-south-korea-cautionary-tale-about-dangers-overdiagnosis > http://ansnuclearcafe.org/2017/02/07/radiation-levels- > not-soaring-at-fukushima-daiichi/ > http://deepseanews.com/2013/11/true-facts-about-ocean- > radiation-and-the-fukushima-disaster/ > > diversify your sources, or at least avoid the fearmongers and the salesmen. > http://www.huffingtonpost.jp/claire-leppold/fukushima-and- > the-art-of-knowing-en_b_10537440.html > http://www.gepr.org/en/contents/20120507-03/ > > anyway there have been an heavy death toll, beside the huge 20k of living > near water > http://nextbigfuture.com/2012/08/fear-of-radiation-has-killed-761-and.html > http://nextbigfuture.com/2014/02/evacuation-deaths-in-japan- > in-2011-were.html > > water kills, we should forbid it > > 2017-02-18 16:19 GMT+01:00 Jones Beene <[email protected]>: > >> Fukushima much worse than imagined - 3 cores in runaway meltdown with no >> chance to stop them. China syndrome in reverse... >> >> Makes Chernobyl look like spilled milk >> >> http://www.environews.tv/world-news/alert-new-radiation-read >> ings-fukushima-reactor-2-unimaginable-lethal-1-min/ >> >> How long before the entire Pacific fishing industry is shut down? >> >> http://dailyoccupation.com/2016/12/28/fukushima-radiation-co >> ntaminated-entire-pacific-ocean-going-get-worse/ >> >> Be sure to take your rad monitor to the fish market... and avoid the >> specials. >> >> >> > >
