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Radioactive sea water simulation

The operator of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant released a computer simulation on Saturday showing dispersal routes and densities of radioactive water along the Pacific coast of Japan.

Last month, Tokyo Electric Power Company found highly contaminated water flowing from the intakes of the Number 2 and 3 reactors.

The company was forced to release slightly irradiated water to make space to store highly radioactive water in the facility.

The firm estimates the total accumulated radiation dispersed in the sea at more than 4,700 trillion becquerels.

The simulation shows contaminated water spreading southward along the coast on April 11th while maintaining its radiation level.

The water had reached a point about 150 kilometers south of the plant by May 1st with the radiation density decreasing. On May 11th, the water began to spread east on the Kuroshio current.

TEPCO believes the radioactive density will dissipate further, but says it will continue monitoring the spreading water.

Sunday, May 22, 2011 01:15 +0900 (JST)
www3.nhk.or.jp

an english trillion is tera = 10^12. in france and germany a trillion is exa = 10^18. a lot more.

@lillymunster The setting now, I believe is to allow comment access once moderated.... like here. If so, I approved one of Deb's so we could see if it worked, but I haven't pinged her to try it out.

@UKVal : yes i feel better when they use the scientific notation.

The cam's been showng strange artifacts - horizontal fast moving 'beams' if you could see radio waves emanating from the plant. Now back to usual pic

20 Terabecquerels of Radioactive Materials Leak into Sea from N-Plant

Fukushima, May 21 (Jiji Press)--Tokyo Electric Power Co. <9501> said Saturday that some 250 tons of water including 20 terabecquerels of radioactive substances flowed into the sea from the No. 3 reactor of its stricken Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant earlier this month.
The amount of radioactive materials is some 100 times the maximum allowable level of leaks a year from the northeastern Japan plant, which was badly damaged by the March 11 earthquake and tsunami, according to the company.
The water is believed to have contained radioactive iodine-131, cesium-134 and cesium-137, the company said.
Most of the leaked water is believed to be remaining within the port area of the plant because silt fences have been installed in waters around the plant following the nuclear crisis triggered by the disaster.
The contaminated water, which is estimated to have come from the No. 3 reactor via the reactor's turbine building, spilled into the Pacific Ocean from around the water intake of the reactor on May 10-11, Tokyo Electric Power said.

(2011/05/21-19:00)
jen.jiji.com

@estacion : now that's funny: kyodo says "more than 4,700 trillion becquerels", while jiji says "20 Terabecquerels". both reported by tepco. and now ?

Watch the video from that live cam site, last one.

@radioguy possibly & that's what I thought yesterday am. But why the semicircular shape- if light was reflection on the sea from the sun it should have continued to top of screen.

An article about the political relationships at the start of the crisis:
Japan had to show U.S. it took nuclear accident seriously... www.asahi.com
"While Japan and the United States worked closely to deal with the problems from the crippled Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant, there were a few rocky patches at the beginning, including the threat to evacuate all U.S. residents from Japan."

@UKVal If the sun is rising straight out from the cam, there will be a long white stripe of sun-glare on the water. That will do a pretty good job diffusing through fog into a strong hazy backlight then softened by lots more haze.

@Edano: That is another spill.
The company was forced to release slightly irradiated water to make space to store highly radioactive water in the facility.

The firm estimates the total accumulated radiation dispersed in the sea at more than 4,700 trillion becquerels.

The simulation shows contaminated water spreading southward along the coast on April 11th while maintaining its radiation level.
www3.nhk.or.jp

Jiji is referring to a new spill on May 10-11.

sorry about my typing!

Question is 'was the sun rising straight out from the cam'?

@lillymunster: +1

@radioguy also read hudebnik's posts - he saw a white flash at dawn followed by an unnatural pink light, then suddenly dusk

It wasn't me, it wasn't me!!! :-O

Aide Denies Kan's Instructions over Halt in Seawater Injection

Tokyo, May 21 (Jiji Press)--An aide to Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan denied Saturday that the operation to pump seawater into the No. 1 reactor of the stricken Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant was temporarily suspended under the instructions from the prime minister.
Media reports have said that Kan instructed Tokyo Electric Power Co. <9501>, the operator of the plant, to suspend the operation on March 12, the day after the plant was hit by the 9.0-magnitude earthquake and tsunami, as he was concerned that seawater injection could lead to a state of recriticality in the reactor.
The water injection to cool the reactor was halted for about an hour as a result, possibly worsening the situation at the crippled reactor, according to the reports.
But Goshi Hosono, the aide to Kan, told a news conference that hearings from people concerned have found that Kan did not make such instructions.
After fresh water injection into the reactor was stopped shortly before 3 p.m. on March 12 (6 a.m. GMT) due to the failure of the reactor's cooling functions, Tokyo Electric Power started to pump seawater at 7:04 p.m. on a trial basis based on a decision by Masao Yoshida, manager of the nuclear power plant.
(2011/05/22-03:39)
jen.jiji.com

Burn my heart, the sound of the birds on the TEPCO Cam :-(((((((((((((((((((

@UKVal I saw most of it except the flash, and don't know what the colors were, except that they were all in sunrise range and if you look at the cam now, you can see what it was working with atmospherically. That diffusive haze, coming out of darkness with aperture wide open, it's hard to say what you'd get but bright, colorful haze. The flash could have been something unrelated.