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The NYT got some govt officials in Japan to admit to the whole mess. That they withheld radiation information and downplayed the disaster so they didn't have to pay to evacuate more people and to keep up TEPCO's PR.

@lillymunster I havent seen the nyt do you have a link ?

@smoss brilliannt I saw a twet earlier saying it was reacting with the concrete but needed something solid and japan times is solid enough for me

this happened march 20-24.

@Edano yes I read all your findings I am just pleased it is now taken up bymsm especially Japanese msm

tepco answered meanwhile:

Study says nuclear fuel at Fukushima reactor possibly melted twice, Kyodo, August 9, 2011:

[...] “I presume that the fuel fell to the bottom of the containment vessel made of concrete and reacted violently with its cement, releasing large amounts of radioactive materials into the outside from the pressure vessel,” said [Fumiya Tanabe, an expert in nuclear safety].

TEPCO, meanwhile, casts doubt on Tanabe’s assertion, saying most of the fuel probably remains inside the reactor’s pressure vessel as temperature fluctuations were observed depending on the amount of water injected into it.

enenews.com


Japan nuke expert: I presume melted fuel reacted violently with cement at Reactor No. 3, releasing large amounts of radioactive materials outside — TEPCO responds

longer version and some new aspects: www.asahi.com

Between 1 a.m. and 3 a.m. on March 21, the pressure within the pressure vessel of the No. 3 reactor core increased sharply to about 110 atmospheres, likely caused by an explosion within the pressure vessel due to a lack of cooling of the fuel. That was probably the start of the second meltdown, Tanabe said.

Excessive radioactive cesium found in Fukushima fish: Greenpeace

TOKYO (Kyodo) -- Fish caught at a port about 55 kilometers from the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant contained radioactive cesium at levels exceeding an allowable limit, the environmental group Greenpeace said Tuesday.

The samples taken at Onahama port in Iwaki, Fukushima Prefecture, in late July, included a species of rockfish that measured 1,053 becquerels per kilogram. The reading, the highest among the samples, is well in excess of the government-set limit of 500 becquerels per kilogram, according to a study conducted by the environmental group.

The other samples, which were all rock trout, measured between 625 and 749 becquerels per kilogram, again exceeding the provisional limit.

The second such study of marine products was conducted over three days from July 22 in Iwaki and the town of Shinchi with cooperation of fishermen and those related to the fisheries industry in Fukushima. A total of 21 samples taken in the study were analyzed at a research institute in France, according to the group [......] more

(Mainichi Japan) August 9, 2011
mdn.mainichi.jp

@es there is a construction plan from tepco further down.

If you want some depressing reading, a list of the admitted radiation studies on humans and animals in the US hss.doe.gov

@smoss see you soon smoss

I knew it. I knew something wasn't right about the nuclear reactor they had here back in the 60's. Found a comment online by a local that all the pipe workers on the decomissioning died of cancer. There were also a number of people researching Pathfinder back in the 1990's. One report from someone who was there that the one time they turned it on it shook uncontrollably.
The deaths of the original Pathfinder pipe cutters was going on during the nuclear waste fight in South Dakota during the 1980s. Francis Dircks was a Sioux Falls plumber who knew most of the workers who went into the plant during the late 60s and early 70s to cut pipe from the plant. Francis spoke at a number of state legislative hearings and meetings and talked about the workers who had died or had cancer at that point. He attributed the deaths to radiation exposure, but there was asbestos exposure as well. No doubt both played a role in the deaths. Further work on the piping was done in and around the time it was partially decommissioned (early 90s), and it is believed some of these workers have or are dying from asbestos-related cancers.

The plant was shut down with little public notice in 1967 after a test in which the plant shook uncontrollably. There is a lot about this incident that has never been fully disclosed to the public. I remember that Dr. J.D. Thompson, a physics professor at Augustana College, believed this was a serious incident resulting in some radiation release into the environment. Since this was one of the first commercial nuclear plants, any public admission of radiation release at Pathfinder might have ended nuclear power before it could get off the ground. Since the immediate vicinity of the Pathfinder plant had a number of dairy farms, it is likely that any release of radioactive iodine would have quickly made its way into milk products sold in the area.

Have not been. As I get tidbits on Pathfinder I stash them in a folder on my hard drive. That one series of comments just gave me a pile of leads. Oh and my dad knew Francis Dirks when he was still alive. One of his kids runs his plumbing business I might be able to see if they kept his records on Pathfinder.

Have a good sleep Elaine

Injured
- At 9:30 am on August 7, at cooperative firm rest area inside the site, a
cooperative firm worker who was managing access control expressed dull
feeling in the right knee and he was sent to Iwaki Kyoritsu Hospital by
an ambulance. However, the cause was unknown. As a result of medical
reexamination at Chiba Social Insurance Hospital, he was diagnosed as
"Traumatic right knee synovialis ecchymoma" www.tepco.co.jp

@elainekirk arrived

@Edano ahh I did get google come up with alternatives but I am not wise enough to interpret

An ecchymosis is the medical term for a subcutaneous purpura larger than 1 centimeter or a hematoma, commonly called a bruise. www.google.de
synovialis denotes the capsule around a joint, so together it means that the worker has a haematoma in the right knee capsule.