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My plug in crashed and can't see TBS cam is the fire still about the same?

www.tepco.co.jp new injection points.

Published the speculation ideas on the fire. Please tweet, maybe people will share new info they find.

@estacion very interesting video!

Kyodo
TEPCO study shows water level in spent fuel pool was dangerously low
TOKYO, Dec. 2, Kyodo

A study by Tokyo Electric Power Co., operator of the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, has shown that water in the No. 4 unit's spent fuel pool temporarily dropped to a level close to exposing the stored nuclear fuel, sources close to the matter said Thursday.

After the No. 4 unit lost its key cooling functions along with the plant's other reactors in the wake of the March 11 earthquake and tsunami, the water level in the No. 4 spent fuel pool fell at one point to only 1.5 meters above the top of the fuel assemblies, as heat from the fuel had caused the coolant to evaporate. The water level is usually around 7 meters above the assemblies.

The water level remained low for over a month until at least April 20. Workers injected around 930 tons of water into the spent fuel pool between April 22 and 27, filling up the pool, but a graph compiled by Tokyo Electric shows that the fuel would have been exposed in early May if water had not been injected.

While nuclear fuel inside a reactor is enclosed by multiple barriers so that radioactive substances do not leak outside, a spent fuel pool is only separated from the external environment by the wall of the reactor building.

Exposure of nuclear fuel is dangerous because it could eventually melt and release radioactive substances into the environment. As the wall of the No. 4 reactor building was damaged in a hydrogen explosion, an extremely dangerous situation could have occurred.

The utility known as TEPCO plans to include the outcome of its assessment in a midterm report on its in-house investigation into the world's worst nuclear accident in 25 years at the plant in Fukushima Prefecture. The report is set to be announced Friday.

The study also showed that the water levels in the spent fuel pools of the Nos. 1 to 3 units also dropped, but not significantly.

The heat from fuel in the No. 4 spent fuel pool was greater than in the other units because all of the fuel from the No. 4 reactor, halted for a regular inspection before the quake, was stored in the pool. The temperature of the water in the No. 4 spent fuel pool, usually kept at around 30 C, rose to about 90 C after the nuclear crisis erupted.

We may get more data later today it is wee hours of the morning in Japan right now.

The "fire" is now going on 3 hours unchanged.

@Edano a fire in the forest would have moved or spread over 3 hours. or burned itself out

just wanted to say it must not be in the same distance as the plants. tbs cam is some (30 or 50?) km away.

NEW NHK:
TEPCO, the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station, in order to prevent a new explosion of hydrogen, inert gas, nitrogen is inserted directly into the reactor, reducing the concentration of hydrogen started working.
Unit 2 nuclear power plant in Fukushima Daiichi, began late October, in the work to remove the radioactive material containment extract the gas, if accumulated some explosive hydrogen concentrations up to 2.9 I found that it is in%. TEPCO For this reason, I have been injecting nitrogen into the containment vessel so far, the work place to reduce the concentration of hydrogen in nitrogen directly inside the reactor, and on day 1 and Unit 3 from Unit 1 I started with. The concentration of hydrogen accumulated in the reactor containment and is seen is that it has less than 4% explosion, TEPCO, by putting nitrogen into the reactor, the hydrogen concentration is extruded You are decreases. TEPCO made the country and in the process table for the convergence of the accident, which aims to achieve this year "Step 2", the essential conditions for low hydrogen concentrations, the country's Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency has to be evaluated for management of TEPCO hydrogen.
www3.nhk.or.jp

Reactor idled at Kyushu Electric's Genkai nuclear plant for checks

SAGA, Japan, Dec. 1, Kyodo

Kyushu Electric Power Co. idled the No. 1 reactor at its nuclear power plant in Genkai, Saga Prefecture, on Thursday for regular checks, leaving nine of the nation's 54 commercial reactors in operation.

Thursday's move also left only one reactor in operation on the southwestern Japan island of Kyushu. That reactor, the No. 4 unit at the Genkai plant, is also scheduled to go offline on Dec. 25 for similar checks.

The utility has already begun first-stage work to assess the safety of the No. 1 reactor, a prerequisite for its restart after the checks are complete. But the safety of the reactor has been called into question because it began operation more than 35 years ago.

The four other reactors owned by the utility -- the Nos. 2 and 3 reactors at the Genkai plant and the Nos. 1 and 2 reactors at the Sendai nuclear power plant in Satsumasendai, Kagoshima Prefecture -- are already offline for regular checks.

The utility will ask customers to reduce their maximum power usage by more than 5 percent between Dec. 26 and Feb. 3.

==Kyodo english.kyodonews.jp

Check TBS the flickering has changed to a slow pulsing glow. I wonder if the wind died down?

Ob_Li's clarification of the NHK article: "They've been working on gas extraction from reactor #2, as the hydrogen level was 2.9% when highest, was highly explosive ."

@Majj It looks like the wind has died down a little
in the area over the last 6-1 hours.