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Press Release (Mar 12,2011)
White smoke around the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station Unit 1









On March 11, 2011, turbines and reactors of Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear
Power Station Unit 1(Boiling Water Reactor, Rated Output 460 MW) and
Unit 2 and 3 (Boiling Water Reactor, Rated Output 784 MW) that had been
operating at rated power automatically shutdown due to the
Tohoku-Chihou-Taiheiyou-Oki Earthquake.(already announced)

Today at approximately 3:36PM, a big quake occurred and there was a big
sound around the Unit 1 and white smoke.
Our two employees and two subcontract workers working for the safety of
the plant were injured and transported to the hospital.
In addition, a vertical earthquake hit the site and big explosion has
happened near the Unit 1 and smoke breaks out around 3:36PM.
Our two employees and two cooperation workers who had been working for
the foundation of safety are suffered and they are all sent to
the hospital.
I find it interesting that tepco points to a second quake (after the big one) as the cause of problems at unit 1. And I didn't catch that the first time...

@elainekirk all images I just posted are out of #3. Cryptome calls that a ladder. Fitter noticed one on top of 3 that I thought was a ladder but was actually a sort of conduit rack for wiring or plumbing. So probably one or the other.

(from USGS)

Looks like continuing unfavorable weather, winds blowing inland through into Friday morning. Hopefully the reactors will be well behaved. www.tide-forecast.com

@Nancy TOKYO PROGRESSIVE: NHK and Japanese media censor video of explosion at Fukushima plant. March 12, 2011 Please see BBC report. This is not being shown in Japan www.tokyoprogressive.org

@elainekirk I pulled it into photoshop. Lots of dots of noise all over the image. It might be raining or snowing maybe? Keep an eye on the hourly shots and if these two things continue let someone know so we can look at them closer. I am curious about the cloud vs. horizon on the image.

@Nancy Or maybe the cam chip is finally degrading.

@Tenzing The Truth = Harmful Gossip

Huge blast at Japan nuclear power plant BBC Fukushima www.youtube.com

This is interesting: The Fukushima reactors built by GE was going to decommissioned in February 2011 after the design duration and useful life had been completed. Mysteriously, TEPCO extended the commissioning after due certification by one of the most dangerous firms in the world, General Electric (forget Jack Welsh and his stupid saying “BE NO 1 or No2 else exit the business, we have proof that it is corrupt company which uses bribes to win contract and then build sub standard utilities esp in emerging markets where it has an alibi to get away with it as they legal jurisdiction is in the US) The failure of emergency systems at Japan’s nuclear plants comes as no surprise to those of us who have worked in the field. Nuclear plants the world over must be certified for what is called “SQ” or “Seismic Qualification.” The owners swear that all components are designed for the maximum conceivable shaking event, be it from an earthquake or anything else. One way to get the SQ lie is do a self attestation and lie in the face. TEPCO was caught by the US government lying on SQ in 1988, at the Shoreham plant in New York. Correcting the SQ problem at Shoreham would have cost a cool billion, so engineers were told to change the tests from ‘failed’ to ‘passed.’ dawnwires.com

@
NncyBBC direct link Japan quake: Second blast at Fukushima nuclear plant www.bbc.co.uk

Japan individual radiation symptoms thread (in Japanese) www.asyura2.com

@Bobby1 - Good find.

will be back this evening

@Elaine Kirk, RE: TEPCO cam pic, according to the NETI readings above, it looks like #1 was vented during the night, as pressure had dropped a little.

@elainekirk hi, i've been out a lot today.

what's up dean?

jmv posted this on the other page. anyone know if we saw some stats change at 1pm JST Friday the 15?

Not sure what to make of this.
01. April 15, 2011 22:28:36: EGaQ73B5yp

[Breaking] around 1 pm today, from nuclear explosions that Zuzuzuzun
1: Nameless @ The teary-eyed. (Tibet): 2011/04/15 (Fri) 21:21:56.46 ID: Dd2QD31G0 ●? 2BP (3)

@ RyuichiHirokawa Ryuichic Hirokawa
Was at around 1 pcm today near the nuclear power plant, heard the dull explosion had jumped into the car radio to communicate with the men of the monitor.
If you have any information please tell me about it.
twitter.com #! /c RyuichiHirokawa/status/58835433894838272

@ RyuichiHirokawa Ryuichi Hirokawa
Large-scale collapse of the road before the first nuclear power plant main gate, taking a monitoring post.
I started to return the security people told to leave the supervision of TEPCO, it Zuzun dull.
And he measured in at about 200 microsievert detector, now that the needle was not jumping.
Not sure what the sound of explosions heard
twitter.com #! / RyuichiHirokawa/status/58855859723309057
www.asyura2.com