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1- fission gasses can be released.. even in spontaneous fission

dean - our man in corium - reporting live :)

too bad that the decay lines do not end with gold - would make it easier.

@ Edano.. you mean wait long enough and then just mine the gold.. yeh

In looking for news this morning I noticed a trend all week where power industry trade news sites are all making the same proclamation, that fuku is in cold shutdown and the conditions are perfect for commercial nuclear power to run ahead with new reactors etc. Either they are not paying attention in Japan or this is a self preservation technique hoping if they keep telling the same PR statement enough investors won't flee?

So could all these corium reactions account for the increasing hydrogen in 2?

@dean yes, it seems to be being abused to imply more than that via the media and various PR people including TEPCO. As if it means safe, stable etc.

I didn't realize how much new understanding came out of Chernobyl. Makes me wonder what new surprises they will find when they can finally go inside Fuku.

@lilly,,, they can't even say the reactor is shutdown now... they have no idea what the Keff is in the cores,,, it was <1 initially when all the safety rods when in .. and the reactor was subcritical.. but since then explosions, melts etc have occured and so things are very unstable..

Edano says dump nuclear in Japan but sell it elsewhere:

(Asahi Shimbun) 28 minutes 05 November 2011 20:00
　Economy, Trade and Industry Minister Yukio 枝野 5th, nuclear exports have stagnated after the earthquake East, announced that the opinion should be requested from any other country exports. In the lecture at Waseda University in Tokyo, "the answer to foreign technology assessment is now our country has, but rather an international responsibility," he said.

　枝野 said, the risk of nuclear power pointed out that while there is also positive aspects. "How much emphasis do vary from country to country risk. Some countries do not have earthquakes and tsunamis, Japan is by far not suitable for nuclear use," said the new location of nuclear power in the country is negative showed idea.
news.goo.ne.jp

complete with drivers license photo of Edano. :-)

@lillymunster wow !

I hope that table shows up ok..

ty @lilly

@all - I have the update to the condensate tank article done if anyone wants to give it another look and let me know if it is ready or not. wp.me

There has just been a tweet that fukushima diary are reporting 120,000 bq in a schoolyard on phone so unable to follow it up

I need to hit the gym and will try to get back.. ty all for today

@all - after MIA gave me the hint to get into old EPA graphs I am making a list of all the stations that were out of service during March-June. The list is pretty big and I am not even half done.

Have a good one Dean!

Hard to say for sure but that looks like smoke or steam down by the common pool building. It is 11:46pm there. A bit early for fog, we usually see that roll in during the early morning but depends on the weather also. I did notice we are still seeing radiation flashes on the camera.