Recent content by CaptD

I agree with your reasoning; there is "much" more going on below reactors 1-3 ... than anyone would describe as acceptable in a "cold shutdown"...

I agree with your reasoning; there is "much" more going on below reactors 1-3 ... than anyone would describe as acceptable in a "cold shutdown"...

I think one or more of the missing Corium(s) are beginning to interact with the groundwater, especially after Earth quakes (EQ's) and that is the cause of the "steam" events that are visible in some of the web cameras... It would be great to place a recording G-Meter at these locations but...

News on the Quince robots: http://is.gd/vkiFXy

I'm not sure about the firewater cooling but I think it bears consideration!

The containment is to me, just a "coverup" that will keep prying eyes from seeing what is going on inside the containment! Without drawing "rolling eyes" from anyone here, I still believe that TEPCO has The Japanese Gov't. over a barrel because of something like a secret nuclear Lab under the...

mscharisma I agree with you 100%, using that term implies that things are "back to normal" which is nowhere near the truth! As others have said the cleanup will be a very long and costly process even without the public's distrust of TEPCO's news releases! Fukushima disaster: residents may...

Nuceng I think your statement is right on target: "Once core degradation started and the geometric integrity oif the core was altered the normal meaning of shutdown went out the window. I thing that Japan and TEPCO accudentr need to be careful using termsthat can be misunderstood" By...

NEW Fukushima Disaster TEPCO Video of Reactor Unit 3 destroyed top floor, Well and SFP 24 Sept 11 http://australiancannonball.com/2011/09/24/new-fukushima-disaster-tepco-video-of-reactor-unit-3-destroyed-top-floor-well-and-sfp-24-sept-11/ Hopes this help figure out just what is going on in...

Latest chart info 9/20/11: http://atmc.jp/plant/rad/ Sept 19th Reactor 1 spiked 411 Sieverts. Sept 20th Reactor 1 currently 192 Sieverts. + This chart shows #1 RPV pressure almost constant for last six days...

2 Questions: 1. If the leakage is "Inward", then where is all the ocean pollution coming from? 2. I have a hard time imagining that much water flowing upward into the building from ground level, without some outside "change" in the geology of the landfill and or underlying ground, like a...

To: tsutsuji RE Your Post 11267 The link (translation) only describes general conditions, do you have a better link that describes the leakage you mention? Yours is the first I've seen to quantify the amount of leakage, which I've been thinking is "Massive" but nowhere as large as "from 200 to...

WSJ: Tepco needs to find ways to prevent new nuclear reactions — May happen if fuel not adequately cooled — “Containme*nt vessels are largely empty of water” after leakage -Sept.14,2*011...

Melted Fuel at Fukushima May Have Leaked Through, Yomiuri Says By Go Onomitsu - Jun 6, 2011 11:02 PM PT http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-06-07/melted-fuel-at-fukushima-may-have-leaked-through-yomiuri-says.html snip The melted fuel at Tokyo Electric Power Co.’s Fukushima Dai-Ichi nuclear...

Think penetration failures on yet another part of the reactor itself; one side may be intact while yet another is "gone"... and this may be responsible for "The Fuky Effect", where the temperature graph zooms up then down! http://atmc.jp/plant/rad/?n=1 Thanks for asking! + This from April 20th...