Recent content by SpunkyMonkey

Two weeks ago a study claiming a Fukushima thyroid-cancer epidemic made headline news. The epidemic is being associated with the nuclear disaster. However, the study may be seriously flawed. Here are two informed critiques (please post more if found)...

As well, the video cited shows how a local California ABC TV station was duped by a bogus "study" Mangano had published by a vanity publisher. So even folks who should be higher up in the BS-vetting process get duped into spreading junk-science memes.

An investigation of "studies" by the lifelong anti-nuclear activist Joseph Mangano proves they're bunk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DOreFp9983I See also a recent Popular Mechanics smack down of Magano' pseudoscience.

Here's a slide presentation on the explosions of Units 1 and 3 by the Japan Nuclear Energy Safety Organization, presented on September 17, 2012 at the IAEA General Conference: http://www.aec.go.jp/jicst/NC/sitemap/pdf/P-4.pdf They opine that the Unit 3 explosion propagated upwards from a...

Right, I meant March. Could it be a photo (not video frame) you refer to? I think for safety the helicopter avoided a direct flyover, so I'm not sure they got much closer than we've seen. But you seem to be arguing that they had to know the pool wasn't dried out or close thereto, and yet to...

He's also taken the view that there was a PCV overpressure event(s) accounting for the ajar hatch plug. As much as that happily fits with my theory, how do we explain the small lightweight objects in the hatch passageway? I'd expect they should have been blown out of the passage had a huge...

At the time, it may not have been clear from the helicopter footage that the pool wasn't largely empty. It's only with the data gained over the following weeks that we could thereafter determine that there were roof girders / materials in the pool that were obscured by water on the 16th. But on...

Possibly the high-dose rate on the south side (imo prob caused by the stack-vent bursting on the south side and releasing lots of cesium-vapor residue) which should have been detectable by the first Geiger counter in the scene made them opt to try to reach the pool from the NW corner.

Here are some thoughts on the Unit 3 1st floor PVC shield plug being moved from Genn Saji, former Secretariat of Nuclear Safety Commission, Japan:

Exactly, here the firemen were, reportedly watering the fuel pool. They seemed to think it was around the NW corner or near the middle of the floor. Why were they so poorly informed? So there those fearless men were risking their health/lives to merely water debris. :frown: Lot's o great...

Though the Ott et al melt-through model I just posted says RPV pressure drops to equalize with the containment. Isn't that's pretty much what happened (albeit containment pressure was a bit higher thereafter)? When the SRV was opened, was it never closed again? If so, is that usual as a...

Btw, it's curious to note how perfectly the model of a Mark I meltdown by Ott et al happens to correspond to Unit 3's RPV pressure data: After I graphed this remarkable correspondence I found that this sudden RPV pressure drop at Unit 3 shown above was attributed to manual activation of a...

Right, but I'm referring to those underneath objects, which are clearly not roof girders or sheathing strips. I outline them here. The one object at about 4 o'clock could be identifiable had we the right pre-tsunami photo or an FHM expert on hand. Lol, that's exactly what I said on another...

There appears to be some large heavy-metal debris in the NE quadrant of SFP3 (the video is motion stabilized and so the frame moves): "www.youtube.com/watch?v=95mB2B65ZVM&hd=1" This is an area close to the object I suspect is the trolley's upper deck. One only gets the briefest glimpse...

Nice images, you can really bring out the details! Right, I don't think this is a wall. I have to say the easiest thing to guess it is is what was on top of the bridge span it is rather on top of now, the trolley. But were there enough trolleys to account for all them that I'm seeing, lol...