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good find, will pin it !

@all: is that true:

"However,this evening,Tepco “confessed” a new fact.

That’s there is a huge pool on the basement floor of Fukushima,which is shared by units 1~4. They stock 6400 nuclear spent fuel rods in it,and groundwater is flowing into the pool through broken duct."

???

maybe a misunderstanding.

@lillymunster i am puzzling if they mean that the water in the common pool flows thru cracks into the reactor basements now. the translation of jiji article is hard to decipher.

This is what I get for a translation on the jiji article:
9 t = inflow conduit from building a shared pool of water underground - Fukushima 1
　In the first nuclear accident in Fukushima, Tokyo Electric Power Company on April 15 announced it was found that the groundwater inflow conduit in the basement of the building from the spent fuel pool in each issue of the union machine. Was found in the evening of 13 tons estimated weight of 9. Tanks for water and then was transferred to radioactive contamination, do work to stop the influx.
　In the same before the nuclear accident, was pumped groundwater around each building, not move the pump was in an accident for which the surrounding ground water level is up. Groundwater to get into such a crack in a concrete conduit in eastern earthquake, it seems to have flowed into the underground building a pool. (2011/08/15-13: 05)

I wonder if they mean the basement of the common fuel pool? Cracks in basements and steam coming out of cracks in the ground is a yes. I saw video footage of steam coming out of a pipe entrance into the ground when the media did stories of the high rads in the vent pipe. Workers had also said directly that there was steam coming through cracks in lower floor level concrete in #1 to the mainstream media a while back when they were trying to see how far they could get inside.

Elaine found a few docs that raised suspicion something was different at #4 but we couldn't nail anything down for sure. We put it on a level of we should keep an eye out for anything out of the ordinary for extra scrutiny related to 4.

@Edano the torus level juts out underground between the reactor and turbine building. So that area between the two buildings yes. For fissures to have steam on the other 3 sides would require a penetration hole, tunnel or a big crack in the reactor building walls. The torus level walls are flush with the reactor tower except that 1 side due to the offset of the reactor. #1 has a big offset where the newer ones are a bit more centered since the buildings are slightly wider.

the data plots indicate sth has cracked between 7/31 and 8/12

#2 is very odd. losing pressure, losing radiation, losing temp. suddenly.

the radiation in #2 drywell b dropped from 15 Sv/h to 0.00207 Sv/h on 12/8 !!! now recovering slowly.

Read both articles on the spent fuel. I think they are talking about the common pool basement flooding. They have to pump groundwater out of all the buildings there to keep the basements from flooding. The normal pumping system is destroyed or they can't use it due to all the radiation in the runoff water. So they get water in from runoff or groundwater infiltration

@lillymunster wetwell radiation readings "normal". slowly declining.

@Edano so things are probably not flushing that direction?

@lillymunster doesn't seem so.

@lillymunster the sudden drop in #2 is unexplicable. in the tepco data, there is a column for explanation and notes. there they say if something has failed or if the power is off or under inspection or gauge replaced or recalibrated or similar. however, tepco made no notes on that drop that would explain it. until now.

hi dean, look at pinned post above and the data plots below, please. :)

looking now Edano

@ Edano... good find.. as if they didn't have enough to worry about, now this. Also the word of tritium being found in the water leads to yet another trouble

it's just all the more reason why I think they should have bore drilled some small holes into the inaccessible areas and video what the condition is like in and around the corium

it's impossible, isn't it ?

@dean i agree.