Fuel Pool Gates Found Shifted at Fukushima Plant Mar. 26, 2015 - Updated 19:22 UTC-4 The operator of the disabled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant says 2 iron gates that keep cooling water inside a spent fuel pool were found to be out of position. Tokyo Electric Power Company officials say this could affect the removal of debris. The utility has been using an underwater camera to examine the condition of about 560 units of spent nuclear fuel inside the No.3 reactor storage pool. TEPCO officials said on Thursday that both of the iron gates in the pool had shifted from their original positions. They say the inner gate was likely damaged by a large machine that fell into the pool. The operator says it will examine if removal of the machine from the pool may trigger water leaks. The utility plans to remove the machine in April and will start removing nuclear fuel by the end of September. http://bit.ly/1CWes0z ~~~ New device to see through damaged reactor unveiled Mar. 27, 2015 A team of scientists has unveiled a new device that will help them get a clearer look inside reactors at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant by using elementary particles called muons. The team, made up of officials from Toshiba and the US National Los Alamos Laboratory, showed the device to the media on Friday. Studies are underway at the damaged plant to locate the melted fuel at 3 reactors using muons. The particles pass through various substances, but when they meet dense materials such as uranium, they change course or are absorbed. The new device uses muon detectors, each measuring 8 by 8 meters. The detectors will observe how the courses of the particles change before and after they pass through the reactors, and use that to visualize the substances inside. Two devices will be installed for the No. 2 reactor, one on each side of it, later in the year. The team says the resolution offered by the device is expected to be more than 3 times that of the equipment that has been used by a Japanese institution to scan the No.1 reactor. The institution said earlier this month that its scan, which uses only one small detector, found almost no nuclear fuel inside the No.1 reactor core. That suggests that the fuel fell into the containment vessel. Toshiba official Haruo Miyadera says the new device will help scientists discover details on the location and amount of the melted fuel, and come up with ways to take it out. http://bit.ly/1IG5sND ~~~ Audio by Feeling Dark (Behind The Mask) by 7OOP3D http://bit.ly/1CWeqWK ~~~ Gov’t Report: Plutonium at 1,000,000 Bq/m3 was detected in ocean off Fukushima — “Contaminated waters will be transported rapidly to east” across Pacific — This is “the most important direct liquid release of artificial radioactivity into sea ever known” — Scientists: “Remember, its not just cesium that’s released” http://bit.ly/1IG5vJh Expert: Plutonium-241 from Fukushima nearly 70,000 times more than atomic bomb fallout in Japan — Gov’t Labs: Large areas of oceans contaminated by plutonium from events such as Fukushima; Build-up in biosphere expected; Considerable hazard to humans — Officials: Molten fuel now ‘particle-like’, contains ‘special’ nuclear materials http://bit.ly/1CWeqWL Dead sea creatures “covering the sand with a sea of red” on California beach; Witnesses: “Bazillions of crab-like things washed ashore… I’ve never seen these before, it’s incredible” — ‘Glow in the dark’ organisms recently stranded nearby; Official: “No one here has ever seen it!” (VIDEO) http://bit.ly/1IG5vJi Gov’t model shows Fukushima radioactive gas near Tokyo skyrocketed to 10,000,000,000 times normal levels soon after 3/11 – “Very high concentrations” recorded at all monitoring posts in northern hemisphere (VIDEO) http://bit.ly/1CWerd2
Fukushima Fuel Pool Gates To Hell are Shifted update 3/27/15
Fuel Pool Gates Found Shifted at Fukushima Plant Mar. 26, 2015 - Updated 19:22 UTC-4 The operator of the disabled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant says 2 iron gates that keep cooling water inside a spent fuel pool were found to be out of position. Tokyo Electric Power Company officials say this could affect the removal of debris. The utility has been using an underwater camera to examine the condition of about 560 units of spent nuclear fuel inside the No.3 reactor storage pool. TEPCO officials said on Thursday that both of the iron gates in the pool had shifted from their original positions. They say the inner gate was likely damaged by a large machine that fell into the pool. The operator says it will examine if removal of the machine from the pool may trigger water leaks. The utility plans to remove the machine in April and will start removing nuclear fuel by the end of September. http://bit.ly/1CWes0z ~~~ New device to see through damaged reactor unveiled Mar. 27, 2015 A team of scientists has unveiled a new device that will help them get a clearer look inside reactors at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant by using elementary particles called muons. The team, made up of officials from Toshiba and the US National Los Alamos Laboratory, showed the device to the media on Friday. Studies are underway at the damaged plant to locate the melted fuel at 3 reactors using muons. The particles pass through various substances, but when they meet dense materials such as uranium, they change course or are absorbed. The new device uses muon detectors, each measuring 8 by 8 meters. The detectors will observe how the courses of the particles change before and after they pass through the reactors, and use that to visualize the substances inside. Two devices will be installed for the No. 2 reactor, one on each side of it, later in the year. The team says the resolution offered by the device is expected to be more than 3 times that of the equipment that has been used by a Japanese institution to scan the No.1 reactor. The institution said earlier this month that its scan, which uses only one small detector, found almost no nuclear fuel inside the No.1 reactor core. That suggests that the fuel fell into the containment vessel. Toshiba official Haruo Miyadera says the new device will help scientists discover details on the location and amount of the melted fuel, and come up with ways to take it out. http://bit.ly/1IG5sND ~~~ Audio by Feeling Dark (Behind The Mask) by 7OOP3D http://bit.ly/1CWeqWK ~~~ Gov’t Report: Plutonium at 1,000,000 Bq/m3 was detected in ocean off Fukushima — “Contaminated waters will be transported rapidly to east” across Pacific — This is “the most important direct liquid release of artificial radioactivity into sea ever known” — Scientists: “Remember, its not just cesium that’s released” http://bit.ly/1IG5vJh Expert: Plutonium-241 from Fukushima nearly 70,000 times more than atomic bomb fallout in Japan — Gov’t Labs: Large areas of oceans contaminated by plutonium from events such as Fukushima; Build-up in biosphere expected; Considerable hazard to humans — Officials: Molten fuel now ‘particle-like’, contains ‘special’ nuclear materials http://bit.ly/1CWeqWL Dead sea creatures “covering the sand with a sea of red” on California beach; Witnesses: “Bazillions of crab-like things washed ashore… I’ve never seen these before, it’s incredible” — ‘Glow in the dark’ organisms recently stranded nearby; Official: “No one here has ever seen it!” (VIDEO) http://bit.ly/1IG5vJi Gov’t model shows Fukushima radioactive gas near Tokyo skyrocketed to 10,000,000,000 times normal levels soon after 3/11 – “Very high concentrations” recorded at all monitoring posts in northern hemisphere (VIDEO) http://bit.ly/1CWerd2
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