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why is the TEPCO livecam at such a strange angle?

@Edano fixed, dropped a line of code.

In fact, what we think might have occurred was actually two explosions. What I found out is there is a sound file connected with the explosion of the Unit 3 building. We cannot draw absolute conclusions from it because the sound was manipulated - realigned in time because you have to allow five seconds in delay for each mile distance between the explosion and where the video was filmed and recorded. I do think that the sound file shows that there were two explosions, which would have been very similar to Chernobyl where just a few tenths of a second apart two different types of explosions occurred and one would have been the prompt criticality. The other is the steam explosion.

It's possible then that there was a hydrogen explosion at Unit 3. It re-arranged the fuel in the spent fuel pool into a geometric configuration that caused a prompt criticality, which would have created much more energy than a hydrogen explosion, allowing the fuel rods to be ejected hundreds of feet into the air and even a mile away from the plant. www.earthfiles.com

@Nancy excellent.

@RadioGuy - not my assessment - from the linked article. I thought it was interesting re prompt criticality - but you make a very good point

And if it was the video with the synchronized sound, I aligned that video sound so we could hear it together. The original had a perfect delay for a cam 600 meters away.

@ UK Val I think they chose the camera angle keeps what's happening at 4 out of the picture.

pubs.acs.org
MAY 31, 2011 DOI:10.1021/CEN052611113424
Scientists Estimate Radiation Doses To Wildlife Near Fukushima Nuclear Disaster: Animals and plants near the Japanese nuclear plant may have received unsafe doses. The analysis, conducted by Jacqueline Garnier-Laplace and colleagues from the French Institute of Radioprotection and Nuclear Safety, is the first assessment of the ecological consequences from the nuclear disaster at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station. Near Iitate, the researchers calculated that dose rates among plants, birds, rodents, and soil invertebrates ranged from 2 to 20 mGy/day, as much as 80 times greater than the threshold dose. Marine doses were even higher, ranging from 210 to 4,600 mGy/day.

But Garnier-Laplace cautions that the analysis has a high degree of uncertainty, in part because sampling data was available only for a few radioisotopes. Moreover, her coauthor, Thomas Hinton, deputy director of the French nuclear safety institute, points out that despite the estimated high dose rates, scientists may have a hard time detecting any ecological effects of the radiation. That's because scientists lack a good understanding of species population sizes before the accident, he says, and because the radioisotopes will slowly dilute.

@elainekirk will this nightmare ever cease?
not in our lifetime :( how are you doing for signatures?

You can't tell that #4 is leaning from that angle.

I think thee's steam from 4 -although they've arranged the cam so the steam comes out close to the tower

@elainekirk - around 10 emails today last time I looked Definitely need far more...
I keep plugging and hoping

Now I've heard the good news Elaine posted that #1 & 4 are safe from further quake damage I think I'll go to bed...

hang on a minute.. what about 2 & £ & Dainii & do I really believe anytthing TEPCO says? Nightmares . Presumably that report was TEPCO taking the pafter the government insisted they do a seismic evaluation...

my typing's getting worse £=3, pafter = p. after... definitely bedtime I'm really sleepy..

@All - ? is weather the only factor the TBS/JNN live cam's unviewable as well as no audio ?