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@Nancy @LM Weird though, why have we never seen this before??

@NervousinNJ Nancy probably has a good point but I'm not sure. We need more close-ups!

@mart I've noticed that phenomenon on the side with the gaping hole. Steam accumulates in an area and glows more or less with concentration and light conditions. If we see black smoke we might need a rethink.

Hitachi to speed up cooperation with GE in nuclear plant business
mdn.mainichi.jp
"The two heavy electrical machinery giants have integrated their nuclear power business operations and set up joint firms in the United States and Japan to engage in construction as well as maintenance of nuclear power plants."

TEPCO to focus on water circulation
Tokyo Electric Power Company's revised plan to stabilize its reactors at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant will focus on creating a system to decontaminate and circulate water back into the reactors to cool them down.

TEPCO unveiled changes to its plan on Tuesday after the discovery that the fuel rods in the No.1 reactor had melted. The melting apparently damaged the vessel containing the reactor, and a large amount of water has been found to have leaked out.

The utility has effectively abandoned its initial plan to cool the reactor by filling it with water, and says it will instead install an alternative cooling system.

The system would collect the highly contaminated water in one place, reduce the amount of its radioactive materials, and return it to the reactor as a coolant.

TEPCO says it is preparing to set up a facility at the Fukushima compound to treat the contaminated water and plans to start operating it by June. www3.nhk.or.jp

@LM Ram rod them through before protests can gain traction.

@LM It will take time to get all the information out about exactly what happened in Japan and the real toll of the disaster.

@all Must say "bye" for a while :-)

A study on Fukushima isotopes @ arxiv.org And a report on the study @ www.technologyreview.com which reads: "Today, Tetsuo Matsui at the University of Tokyo, says the limited data from Fukushima indicates that nuclear chain reactions must have reignited at Fuksuhima up to 12 days after the accident."

@Nancy, my screen shots from today are up here, sadly didn't catch camera guy while he was playing, and wish they would get a cool camera with night vision & infrared: s1097.photobucket.com

Thanks Reed for comment a page back! And thanks Nancy for the photos of the reactor well. Nothing escapes your awareness! And yup, that's exactly what we're looking at in the video www.youtube.com (same video I've posted before, but for any who don't know what I reference). The reactor was like a blazing pressure cooker, a total disaster and inherent meltdown right there before our eyes. Imo, the impression Tepco's given that Reactor 3 was doing well can't be true.

OK GUYS, TIME TO rummage the TEPCO SITE fast....VIDEO's somewhere
TEPCO releases Fukushima plant videos

Tokyo Electric Power Company has released videos of the damage at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant.

A clip taken on May 6th shows dents in a tank that supplies water to a reactor suppression pool.
An overturned car is lying near the tank.

Another video shows an oil tank that was swept by tsunami and landed near the plant's headquarters about 500 meters from the Number 1 reactor.

Most of the windows in the building are broken and documents are scattered around an office. The mess is believed to have caused by hydrogen explosions that occurred in the early days of the nuclear crisis.

Other footage shows workers closing a dormitory entrance door to prevent the entry of radioactive substances.

The workers decontaminate their protective gear and line up to carry supplies into the building.

Another video captures a vehicle spraying green agents to prevent the dispersal of radioactive materials.
It also shows workers putting radioactive debris into a container for removal.

Another clip shows hoses being used to inject water into reactors. The orange one is for reactor 1, the yellow one for reactor 2 and the green one for reactor 3.

Wednesday, May 18, 2011 01:50 +0900 (JST)

Fresh Tales of Chaos Emerge From Early in Nuclear Crisis

BY YUKA HAYASHI AND PHRED DVORAK

FUKUSHIMA PREFECTURE, Japan—The Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant deteriorated in the crucial first 24 hours far more rapidly than previously understood, a Wall Street Journal reconstruction of the disaster shows.

So helpless were the plant's engineers that, as dusk fell after Japan's devastating March 11 quake and tsunami, they were forced to scavenge flashlights from nearby homes. They pulled batteries from cars not washed away by the tsunami in a desperate effort to revive reactor gauges that weren't working properly. The plant's complete power loss contributed to a failure of relief vents on a dangerously overheating reactor, forcing workers to open ...

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Workers enter No.2 reactor building

Workers have entered the No.2 reactor building at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant for the first time since an explosion there on March 15th, as part of efforts to bring the reactor under control.

Tokyo Electric Power Company sent 4 workers into the building on Wednesday morning to check radiation levels and other conditions.

The workers wore protective suits and carried air tanks on their backs. TEPCO says their exposure to radiation has been kept between 3 and 4 millisieverts each.

TEPCO says data on radiation levels inside the building is necessary to proceed with the revised plan it announced on Tuesday to cool the reactors.

The plan calls for decontaminating and circulating water leaked from the containment vessels back into the reactors as a coolant.

An unmanned probe of the No. 2 reactor on April 18th was inconclusive because humidity levels of above 90 percent fogged the camera lens and kept the robot from moving forward.

Work is also under way at the No.3 reactor to move highly contaminated water from the turbine building and other areas to a temporary storage facility. The transfer began on Tuesday evening.

TEPCO says about 130 tons of the water is believed to have been pumped out by Wednesday morning. It says the work reduced the water level in the basement of the turbine building to 144 centimeters, down one centimeter from before the transfer.

Wednesday, May 18, 2011 12:31 +0900 (JST)

WHAT?? 100 T = 1 centimeter....oh WOW.144 centimeters x 100 tons = 14.400 Tons left to Pump...and they have what on storage.2000 i believe or 10k on the barge and this is only one reactor and doesn't include tunnel and trenches......WOW