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Japan's Dumping of Radioactive Water Based on U.S. Request: Cabinet Adviser jen.jiji.com

Tepco Misleading Public Over Nuclear Crisis www.bloomberg.com

Nancy, I carry the TEPCO link in my pinned list, TEPCO 16 May release of plant data collected: www.tepco.co.jp That link then has the links to the data pages.

NHK articles carried in today's JAIF Earthquake Report: (Fukushima NPP site)●Workers enter No.2 reactor building ●TEPCO to focus on water circulation ●TEPCO may face more problems in stabilizing plant ●TEPCO releases Fukushima plant videos (Other News) ●Fishermen claim damages from TEPCO ●IAEA to investigate Fukushima nuclear accident ●Japan apologizes for radiation concerns ●Farmers to make 1st damages claim against TEPCO

I wonder if those instruments are toasty -- at least NISA wasn't showing data there until their latest report (18 May 6:00) -- nothing reported for 17 May 6:00. For it to have been 218 Sv/hr as of 13:00 on 17 May, dropped to 25 Sv/hr on 18 May at 6:00 (the NISA value), then rise again to 45 Sv/hr on 18 May at 12:00 would be "interesting".

@Nancy or Anyone else, do you have a link for those colorful plant status spreadsheet/chart things that list data for each plant?

@RBeaner The Georgian govt. has an English version a few days after the Japanese version is released. Let me know if you need the link

@elainekirk yes I grabbed the link. Going through that TEPCo document I started translating last night. It has some info in it and good detail on things like the heat exchangers and the water treatment but they absolutely avoid talking about big things like the structural damage at 4.

@Meretisa: after the decimals there is this +02 (for yesterday) and +01 (today), so that you have to change the decimal place, it is the same like an exponent.

Thank you Markfm, I was too slow :-)!

Just a couple of notes about TEPCO deception...

1. TEPCO stated back on Mar 17 www.tepco.co.jp -Today, at approximately 10am, we observed 400mSv/h at the inland side
of the Unit 3 reactor building and 100mSv/h at the inland side of the
Unit 4 reactor building. That 100 page leak document implied these levels were not disclosed.

2. On 16 mar, this article www.bbc.co.uk stated "the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC), which has a team of 11 experts advising in Japan, says the pool {speaking of SFP#4} is completely dry." Which was of course incorrect

3. The company, known as Tepco, yesterday reiterated the schedule on its so-called road map announced a month ago to achieve cold shutdown of the three radiation-leaking reactors as early as October www.bloomberg.com , well that is their goal, 5 months provides wiggle room on unforseen events. Will they make it, who knows, but at least they established a timetable for goals, cold plants are probably achievable.

4. I have yet to see any scientific evidence of inadvertant criticality (fissioning) at any plant or pool.

5. On 3/16, TEPCO announced significant fuel damage (melting) at reactors 1 and 2 english.kyodonews.jp

@Meretisa -- That's why I'm curious about if those are valid readings. Possible, I just do not know, other than that it looks like #1 drywell CAMS was offline for some time (not reported). Calibration could be bad or those could be real -- flip a coin.

math point... some times you see 10 with a small 5 .. or 10 to the 5th power... other math numbers are represented as e to the Xth power... "e" is a numerical constant that is equal to 2.71828

@dean (head explodes from math overload)

lol meretisa,,, I noticed earlier on the comment about e+02 ..

I doubt (hope?) that even TEPCO would start reporting things using base e (I'd grant them a typo).

(B):2.18E+02Sv/h = 218 Sv/hr

Thanks for pointing out the TEPCO English plant parameters releases -- I'd gotten so used to looking at the NISA Japanese report that I had forgot to look at TEPCO's site.

if anyone interested, "NUCLEAR MELTDOWN" Airs May 18 and 22nd on CNBC www.cnbc.com

I am almost done translating that document. I noticed their water recirculation plan is dependent on a couple of things. One is getting into the building to get at the supression chamber/torus hatch to put a pipe in to suck water back out. They will have to actually be able to get down there in the lower level. Then plan to continue watering so there will be water in the lower levels. This also does nothing to solve the water running off as even though they will pump it back out it still allow water to leak out cracks.

isotopic-ratio

@Bobby1, but it's an argument I and 99% of the population can't follow! :)