Recent content by ascot317

Cryptome.org posted some Japanese pdfs about the construction of Fukushima Daiichi. It looks like there is information about the underground rock layers in it. http://cryptome.org/0004/daiichi-build-01.pdf http://cryptome.org/0004/daiichi-build-02.pdf

This Reuters Photo is showing the Haramati Thermal Power Plant (Coal) by Tepco. It was originally distributed by Reuters as "Fukushima Daiichi shortly before the explosion" or similar. I had written Reuters an email about it, but they apparently care little for journalistic accuracy. You can...

Astronuc, I've always wondered why these BWR's use bottom feeding rods in the first place. From a safety point of view this is the most challenging. I know how they have designed the system to be "fail safe", but why make it harder and riskier than it has to be? If this suggestion would...

I'm referring (see the link I quoted in my post) to the sodium-cooled fast breeder that apparently swallowed a 3.3 tonne loading machine they now can't retrieve. Just a few months after the first restart in >15 years after the last incident there (15 years that included a technical overhaul)...

Exactly my thought... and... "How?" How is it technically possible to let this happen?? And... "Let's cool it with seawater" (yes, that's sarcasm).

I've always wondered about this "x or higher". Remember the first weeks when they often measured "999mSv/h or higher"? Is this made by limited personal counters? Naive press people. Ahh. I find it interesting that Tepco apparently covers some things up. There's no point in doing so, this...

It's 8:50 AM in Japan now. That's either due to local weather at night (as discussed before), or because they fill the SFP's at night and this is creating a lot of fog. Or even both. It would make sense to fill up the SFP's at night in the latter case; makes for a safer working environment...

Brought it up just a few pages back, too (and before that, 50 pages or so back). Just questioning what it means, really. I can not see how definite answers on that can be given with the little we know. We don't really know where the bunker is situated and how he is shielded, or do we? We only...

Is the steam in #3 comming from within the RPV or is it caused by leaks in the wall between SFP and drywell? The reactor should be still quite hot on the outside and probably just boils off leaking water from the SFP!? These pictures are taken from far away with TV-cameras. You can...

There was likely a gamma burst during/after the explosion of #3, since Tepco has talked about 12x normal radiation peak in the control bunker.

Or could be leaking water from the SFP that is getting boiled off of the containment cap.

Yeah, I was merely stating that I was unable to identify anything that's "supposed" to be there (except for water xD). I see rubble and I wonder how much the racks can bear.

I had feared it would look bad judging by the drone pictures, but this is just terrible. It's a bit confusing and I yet have figure directions out, but where's the fuel? How sturdy are spent fuel racks normally?

They must be pretty cold then, they're not showing up on IR. I yet have to see evidence for that claim. We've asked this before, were is it? I've been actively looking for it, but it is frustrating to see claims of such but not finding evidence supporting it. Regarding criticality in the...

Erm, you still seem to believe that it must be a production just because one video has helicopter noise and the other hasn't. Like I said, the explosion sound doesn't have to come from the supplier of the video. That does not mean it's not authentic. A different unit/person could have had an...