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5.3 earthquake + thanks It appears Tepco went with live testing today! http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/usb000jw8u#shakemap Seriously, probably not much of an issue... Thanks to everyone for continuing to track this evolving disaster, especially tsutsuji and others...

Not unusually large, just sizeable and typical for the active part of the solar cycle; X1 and X2 magnitude flares. We had a much larger X7 (log scale) in Aug - any sulfur reported from that? The X2 in Feb did produce some good auroras (CME was more Earth directed)...

I am not qualified to authoritatively speak to ongoing recriticality or its possible variants, but there are three pieces of evidence about that particular sensor (#1 CAM B): 1) it has been marked as 'under survey' (aka broken) by tepco for a long time now 2) the sister sensor (CAM A) shows...

Correct me if I'm wrong, but the majority of fuel can only be a in a few places for all reactors: 1) the rpv, which is getting water 2) the bottom of the drywell, which has water in it 3) the basement, which is flooded with (highly radioactive) water 4) through the bottom of the basement, which...

Of course it's 24/7. I meant it becomes more visible under those conditions and that's when people have been "crying wolf" about fires/smoke. I completely agree with that. The compressed video is just too misleading/imprecise to tell anything definitive.

A lovely sequence of a marine fog bank rolling in with lots of video compression artifacts thrown in. Yes lots of "steam" whenever the dewpoint gets close to the air temperature (as it often does at night). I realize that something (more) horrible could happen with SPF4 or any of the other...

Could it be that the white spots are neutron reflectors and the black spots neutron absorbers creating a moderating field for recriticality?! Yes! It must have been a borderline collie! Apologies for the physics humor. ;)

Via ex-skf: http://ex-skf.blogspot.com/2011/06/radioactive-strontium-from-groundwater.html Strontium found at sub-drains of #1 and #2 and at other locations: http://www.tepco.co.jp/en/press/corp-com/release/betu11_e/images/110612e10.pdf Also, it appears to me that none of these graphs portray...

I'm going to ask publicly that people please not post uncommented links. Even a *very* short sentence fragment about what is of interest there is much better than nothing. Or just copy and paste a bit. Thanks :) Unless I missed something, this is old news on this thread and already covered...

Well it would be very bad. Beyond that, it seems to me that there are way too many variables for any speculation to be meaningful. They are desperately trying to keep the site so that humans can work there. The collapse of SPF4 would likely compromise that (radiation levels) for part of the...

I was about to post the same thing. Looks to me like this is all related to the marine fog layer that was rolling in. Take a look now: http://www.tepco.co.jp/nu/f1-np/camera/index-j.html all fogged in. Side note: I see a much higher quality image at the url than what has been posted...

I believe the original reference was to this: I think Joe means starting at 0:27 if you look in the upper left corner you see the top of a few of the fuel assemblies. I'm with the dkos user and MiceAndMen here; I can't tell much of anything about the state of the fuel from that brief...

I'm not sure of the quality of this report: http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/nn20110606x2.html but it is echoed here and here: http://mdn.mainichi.jp/mdnnews/news/20110606p2g00m0dm011000c.html http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/jun/07/japan-doubles-fukushima-radiation-leak-estimate If...

Most recent JAIF report on Daini: http://www.jaif.or.jp/english/news_images/pdf/ENGNEWS01_1307247746P.pdf Of relevant interest within: Appears there is still an 8km evac area around the plant. Interestingly, units 1,2 and 4 are at INES level 3, while #3 is not any level (no problems)...

M&M thank you for the precise page number! Yes, if you zoom way in, it is clearly the smaller pipes below, and the yellow arrows indicate where they travel along the side of the outbuilding of #4. Looking the other way, it appears that going toward #3 they almost immediately go underground...