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@dean Who did they evacuate at Calhoun?
by Bobby1 6/15/2011 7:24:15 PM

Thanks Dean for your feedback on the concrete yesterday. Based on your lead I found that indeed concrete from NPPs gets contaminated as SOP and so concrete of decommissioned NPPs is considered nuclear waste to be disposed of with care. But I've not found any dose measures.

My impression is still that Tepco has made waves about the high-dose concrete rubble on the westside of Unit 3 because the dose is too high to consider normal for NPPs. And we don't know that concrete from the primary containment was blown out (the concrete most likely to be higher dose), so I presume the high-dose concrete is from the secondary containment (ie, external walls) of U3. They put a "Stop Stay Away" warning around the rubble, but I doubt they had such a warning sign around the exterior walls of Unit 3 before March 11.
by Ian 6/15/2011 7:25:56 PM

Japan quake may have caused plate shift
June 15 (UPI) -- Global positioning system data indicated a seismic shift occurred from the March 11 earthquake that devastated northeastern Japan, research indicates.
www.upi.com
by Panserbjorne9 6/15/2011 7:39:42 PM

Fukushima Disaster Spurs Japan’s Ikemura to Curate Berlin Show: Interview
“Yet when the media stops reporting, the problems don’t end,” says Ikemura, a painter and sculptor whose own work will be the subject of a solo show at the National Museum of Modern Art in Tokyo this year. “I wanted to make sure the discussion doesn’t stop at this important and dangerous moment.” www.bloomberg.com
by Panserbjorne9 6/15/2011 7:41:18 PM

your welcome Ian
by dean 6/15/2011 7:41:31 PM

Bobby1.. what I read was the staff etc.. and I assume they probably went to the evacuation command center to gather the emergency team just in case
by dean 6/15/2011 7:43:09 PM

@dean is this new news? I am assuming it isn't related to last weeks fire?
by lillymunster 6/15/2011 7:43:45 PM

I did some Google-fu on Ft. Calhoun trying to sort out where they are at for flooding houseoffoust.com
I'm worried. Numbers are vague, Corps is being dodgy about updating predictions.
by lillymunster 6/15/2011 7:48:43 PM

@lilly.. it was associated with the fire
by dean 6/15/2011 7:48:58 PM

pbadupws.nrc.gov more google-fu for you lilly on calhoun
by dean 6/15/2011 7:51:01 PM

@dean phew! Had me a bit worried. The water levels are really concerning. Lots of gaps in the flood predictions. But the water is high and Gavins Point is still doing huge releases and probably will for a while.
by lillymunster 6/15/2011 7:53:44 PM

enenews.com
Did someone post this? enenews.com
Yellow-colored water found in Unit No. 3 — Believed to have come from inside reactor (includes video inside R3)
by radioguy via Enenews 6/15/2011 7:56:42 PM

@radioguy I think it comes from this.............. The footage also revealed yellow-colored water that had accumulated in the basement. The water is believed to be leaked water that had been injected into the reactor in an effort to lower its temperature. www3.nhk.or.jp
by LM 6/15/2011 8:04:58 PM

@LM It did include that link, but I used the enews one because it actually includes the video, rather than just talking about it. :).
by radioguy 6/15/2011 8:06:52 PM

@radioguy ??? weird.
by lillymunster 6/15/2011 8:07:35 PM

I posted the video this morning should I put it up again for #3
by elainekirk 6/15/2011 8:08:42 PM

@radioguy The only yellow water I can think of is Chromated water. Used as a corrosion inhibitor. It is considered a mildly hazardous material (chromium).
by RBeaner 6/15/2011 8:09:05 PM

@elainekirk yes please, I missed the one earlier I think yours went to youtube so we could embed it
by lillymunster 6/15/2011 8:09:51 PM

From Kyodo, but it's just the brief unsubscribed, so quoted here from JapanTimes in its entirety:
"Radioactive cesium was detected from two minke whales caught off the coast of Kushiro, Hokkaido, in Japan's so-called research whaling, a whalers' association said Tuesday.
While the level of the radioactive material remained below the temporarily set upper limit, the association officials said during a press conference in Kushiro that the contamination must have been caused by the continuing nuclear crisis at the Fukushima Daiichi power plant and that they will closely monitor future developments.

During the research whaling that started in late April, 17 whales were caught, and researchers examined six of them. Of the six, two were found tainted with 31 becquerels and 24.3 becquerels of cesium per kilogram of whale meat, they said.

The upper limit tentatively stands at 500 becquerels per kilogram."
by radioguy 6/15/2011 8:09:59 PM

@radioguy I don't know if it's used at BWR's, It's used at some PWR's, but no big deal compared with daiichi rad levels
by RBeaner 6/15/2011 8:10:40 PM

I think the susposed yellow comes from the lights they were using and reflection from an object in the water..
by dean 6/15/2011 8:11:06 PM

So in a limited sample taken 650kn from Fukushima, 1/3 were contaminated. Thank God they raised that linit temporarily so it's not dangerous anymore.
by radioguy 6/15/2011 8:11:21 PM

@radioguy Definitely much better to have video :) It looks like a piece of something under the water rather than water to me. (shrug)
by LM 6/15/2011 8:11:32 PM

It does look like the beam is what is going yellow, but also that it could be color picked up in the water, yellower over a reflective source, but possibly a true rendition of color?
by radioguy 6/15/2011 8:12:46 PM

I pinned the #3 video
by elainekirk 6/15/2011 8:14:09 PM

@radioguy "So in a limited sample taken 650kn from Fukushima, 1/3 were contaminated (( at 1/10 to 1/15 of the limit)). Thank God they raised that linit temporarily so it's not dangerous anymore ((prehaps they will stop killing whales for food, until they can farm them)).
by RBeaner 6/15/2011 8:15:18 PM

maybe the color was one they used to dye the water and see where it was going?
by dean 6/15/2011 8:17:39 PM

@RBeaner : they only kill whales for scientific purposes. in other words: fuku now gives them a reason to kill them.
by Edano edited by Edano 6/15/2011 8:17:49 PM

@Edano kill them for scientific purposes but then you don't want all that meat going to waste...
by lillymunster 6/15/2011 8:19:26 PM

@Edano ""kill whales for scientific purposes."" Well then now they are having a scientific research bonanza.
by RBeaner 6/15/2011 8:19:31 PM

@RBeaner I hope the big brainy whales have senses keen enough to stay away from this mess for as long as they can. I doubt we know for sure.
by radioguy 6/15/2011 8:19:51 PM

EA-10-084
Fort Calhoun NOV
(Yellow) 10/06/2010 On October 6, 2010, the NRC issued a Notice of Violation to Omaha Public Power District for a violation of Technical Specification 5.8.1.a, “Procedures,” at Fort Calhoun Station. This violation, which is associated with a Yellow Significance Determination Process finding, involved the licensee’s failure to develop an adequate procedure for protecting vital facilities and equipment from external flooding events to the level described in the Updated Final Safety Analysis Report. Specifically, the inspectors identified that the licensee’s strategy of using sandbags stacked on top of floodgates would not be effective in protecting the auxiliary building, intake structure, and turbine building basement because the tops of the floodgates were too small to support the necessary number of sandbags. This could have resulted in flooding impacting multiple, redundant trains of equipment required for safe shutdown of the plant.
by dean 6/15/2011 8:21:17 PM

@radioguy I doubt they can, but these were very low levels of radioactivity, test them for all the phosphates and diluted solids that we release, that also cause cancer at higher rates than cs at 37 Bcq/kg.
by RBeaner 6/15/2011 8:21:52 PM

FORT CALHOUN warned 10-6-10 to make improvements
by dean 6/15/2011 8:21:54 PM

@dean Great. I was just going to ask what we knew about that "unusual event."
by radioguy 6/15/2011 8:22:34 PM

@dean And they said they made improvements on flood control, that's what the sand bags and the new water walls are for.
by RBeaner 6/15/2011 8:23:04 PM

@dean As they're still using sandbags should we assume they still haven't made improvements?
by LM 6/15/2011 8:23:28 PM

@RBeaner the solution to sandbags...MORE SANDBAGS! :-)
by lillymunster 6/15/2011 8:23:49 PM

@RBeaner Of course, sandbags don't do squat against rising groundwater. Imagine where that will be by August.
by radioguy 6/15/2011 8:23:55 PM

the other link I put in earlier was the NRC report on an investigation conducted by NRC for follow up to fukushima.. that report didn't look good to me..
by dean 6/15/2011 8:23:58 PM

Panel to urge Fukushima Pref. to stop relying on nuclear power plants

FUKUSHIMA, Japan, June 15, Kyodo

An advisory panel set up by the Fukushima prefectural government plans to propose that the prefecture should seek to create a ''safe, secure and sustainable'' society without relying on nuclear power plants following the March 11 earthquake and tsunami, a draft plan showed Wednesday.

The proposal was included in a set of basic ideas compiled by the 12-member panel at its fifth meeting to provide the basis for deliberations on how to rebuild the disaster-ravaged prefecture in the northeastern Japan region of Tohoku.

With the central government continuing to retain nuclear power as a pillar of its energy policy, the panel's proposal could influence Japan's overall energy policy and other municipalities hosting nuclear power plants or related facilities.
english.kyodonews.jp
by Edano 6/15/2011 8:24:19 PM

@Edano A little late for that now?
by radioguy 6/15/2011 8:24:48 PM

@radioguy :)
by Edano 6/15/2011 8:25:11 PM

@hi Someone saw this on the cam last night? This look not good, but I guess it maybe was a car coming, and the lights of the car made the smoke look like this? It couldn't have been an explosion, because then we would have known by now, but it sure frightens people, right? How is nr 3 and 4 doing - any news last days on them, or are they the same condition? hawaiinewsdaily.com
by Mona 6/15/2011 8:25:31 PM

@LM The sandbags ARE the improvements!!!! Pathetic?? Gundersun (who I don't fully agree with) said something that made sense.. " Nuclear reactors and sandbags should NEVER be used in the same sentence" or words to that effect:)
by RBeaner 6/15/2011 8:25:53 PM