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“Unequivocal” Criticality continues at Fukushima
"fresh" I-131 from U2

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@Paul That's what we've been saying for a month.

@Jim: As usual, you guys ahead of the game. Have Tepco actually admitted ongoing criticality yet though - I see they released this data only yesterday?

It's not the absolute amounts of iodine, it's the amount relative to longer-lived isotopes such as cesium-137. More iodine might just mean more washing out of busted fuel rods. And even there we would need to control for other factors such as different melting and boiling points of iodine and cesium. I'm absolutely not competent to judge what's going on solely on the basis of absolute iodine-131 levels or even relative levels of iodine versus cesium.

That said, high levels of iodine relative to cesium SHOULD be explained as to this layperson it shouldn't be that way.

Japanese scientists to map radioactive contamination in Fukushima, includes strontium-90 measurements www.asahi.com

NYT Greenblog covered it: green.blogs.nytimes.com I've just started listening to it, am downloading the MPEG4 now (which likely includes the video).

Washington state cuts back on radiation sampling www.doh.wa.gov

Prime Minister's nuclear advisor resigns. Says nobody is listening to him. www.channelnewsasia.com

@elainekirk He sounded very upset. I hope he talks to the press in detail. I want to know what he was being ignored on and what his ideas are. Things seem to be so bungled and without any plan while this expert is being completely ignored.

@Nancy Download the free VLC (VideoLAN) player, and use it for high resolution screen captures (although that mpeg is not all that much better) -- Also, thank you so much for the link to the advisor's resignation story. I would not have wanted to miss that one before heading out for the day...

@Nancy www.videolan.org multiplatform, will handle any video, and can go frame by frame (well, the windows version can), screencaps, etc.

One still pic from www.physicsforums.com

Yes, VLC is excellent as a video player (I did some work on it years ago, so I am biased). It has its own screen snapshot function, else you can pause and use ZScreen to capture. www.videolan.org

@Askwhy thanks. Have some basic large stills going live in a few minutes. Will try to get upgraded ones yet today to add in.

SFP reactor 4, two underwater video stills and comparison images of pre-quake sfp at reactor 3. You can see how unorderly #4 is now. Lots of things that don't look normal. Link is the top one on the main page of new items www.houseoffoust.com

@Nancy Any idea what the "larger" grids are for? (On left side of the first pic you posted, extending off the top of the pic.)

@Nancy. Thank you! Great to have the comparison. Wow!

I tried using the mpeg from TEPCo, wasn't any larger or better quality for taking snapshots.

I am not sure what the larger diameter racks in the corner are. We need to ask Dean when he gets back. One thing he wanted to look for was burnt tops and I think there may be some but I don't know exactly what to look for. The racks appear to be partially gone around rods in one part. Looks like a huge gap in the middle. The one section lower middle that looks like the rack is gone and kind of a X pattern might be control rods? The bigger box grid on the left I have no clue. If you look at the box of rods in the center of the image, the ones toward the lower right look shiny and orderly and the ones top left in that rack look darker and muddy in appearance. I wonder if that is some that burnt.

@Bobby1 we really need an event timeline. The reactor report stats have a written timeline on the top left of the page

STATEMENT ABOUT THE REACTOR BLUEPRINT AND TEPCO'S ACCUSATIONS



Very soon after the reactor disaster, a small version of a reactor elevation blueprint was circulating around various online forums discussing the Fukushima Daiichi reactor disaster.

About the same time frame I was doing image searches on Google.jp and found a publicly posted image of the same elevation blueprint that was of a larger size. This widely circulated image was available for anyone to look at on one of the largest search websites in the world. The copy I downloaded was freely available to anyone on the internet. The file poster left no information about how or why they had the image and left no identifying information. It did appear that the file could have been online from before the earthquake and tsunami and possibly since 2007 or earlier.

TEPCO, now that they have been publicly confronted with both their denials to the press that blueprints exist (or could be made available) and their claims that I am somehow violating some law by copying a publicly available image on my web site, I felt the need to make a statement.

The real question is why was this blueprint available on Google image search for months or longer?

Since your already here please consider some more important questions.

Why is TEPCO and the govt. of Japan not making all information easily and widely available online for the world to see? This issue greatly impacts the people in Japan, they deserve honest information now, not in hindsight ten years from now. They deserve the right to know accurate details so they may make decisions for themselves and their children's safety.

Why did the govt. of Japan raise the "safe" radiation level for children to that of a German nuclear plant worker?

Why did the Ministry of Defence not release heat images for April 21, 22, 23 and 25? Those dates coincide with increased heat events in the spent fuel pools in reactor 3 and 4. All information should be given to the public, not just the "good news".

I worry greatly for the safety of the people impacted by the earthquake, tsunami and the nuclear disaster. I can't even imagine losing everything in an instant and not knowing what to do nor having any tools to get your life back together. This incident with the nuclear power plant impacts the entire world. The massive amounts of radiation being dumped into the ocean impacts us all as does the radiation being put into the air that is already being found in water, soil and food in the US. I fear what may happen to both Japan and the larger world if Fukushima has a larger catastrophic failure, the releases could be exponentially more. Now is not the time to hide information or intimidate internet users or media reporters. Now is the time to tell everyone everything and solicit the help of the entire world to resolve this issue.

STATEMENT ABOUT THE REACTOR BLUEPRINT AND TEPCO'S ACCUSATIONS



Very soon after the reactor disaster, a small version of a reactor elevation blueprint was circulating around various online forums discussing the Fukushima Daiichi reactor disaster.

About the same time frame I was doing image searches on Google.jp and found a publicly posted image of the same elevation blueprint that was of a larger size. This widely circulated image was available for anyone to look at on one of the largest search websites in the world. The copy I downloaded was freely available to anyone on the internet. The file poster left no information about how or why they had the image and left no identifying information. It did appear that the file could have been online from before the earthquake and tsunami and possibly since 2007 or earlier.

TEPCO, now that they have been publicly confronted with both their denials to the press that blueprints exist (or could be made available) and their claims that I am somehow violating some law by copying a publicly available image on my web site, I felt the need to make a statement.

The real question is why was this blueprint available on Google image search for months or longer?

Since your already here please consider some more important questions.

Why is TEPCO and the govt. of Japan not making all information easily and widely available online for the world to see? This issue greatly impacts the people in Japan, they deserve honest information now, not in hindsight ten years from now. They deserve the right to know accurate details so they may make decisions for themselves and their children's safety.

Why did the govt. of Japan raise the "safe" radiation level for children to that of a German nuclear plant worker?

Why did the Ministry of Defence not release heat images for April 21, 22, 23 and 25? Those dates coincide with increased heat events in the spent fuel pools in reactor 3 and 4. All information should be given to the public, not just the "good news".

I worry greatly for the safety of the people impacted by the earthquake, tsunami and the nuclear disaster. I can't even imagine losing everything in an instant and not knowing what to do nor having any tools to get your life back together. This incident with the nuclear power plant impacts the entire world. The massive amounts of radiation being dumped into the ocean impacts us all as does the radiation being put into the air that is already being found in water, soil and food in the US. I fear what may happen to both Japan and the larger world if Fukushima has a larger catastrophic failure, the releases could be exponentially more. Now is not the time to hide information or intimidate internet users or media reporters. Now is the time to tell everyone everything and solicit the help of the entire world to resolve this issue.

I was gonna try to post the whole thing. OK?