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TEPCO has posted some images and info on what they claim is the leak of unit 4's SFP. They are saying a pipe in the installed cooling rigs was leaking. So the skimmer wasn't the only or the source of the leak as claimed. www.tepco.co.jp

This fault line survey might be of interest as it shows the soil layers under the plant area. www.tepco.co.jp

@Ian Live! From some guy's bathroom! Who is his decorator? :-)

From the Newest TEPCO plant status report. But this claims it was the clean water side of the cooling loop for the pool. This wouldn't account for a drop in sfp levels:

-At around 1:00 pm on January 8, at circulating cooling system for spent
fuel pool of unit 4, we found water leakage from 4 points of cooling pipe
of air fin cooler (System B) when we tried to conduct scheduled switching
of air fin cooler (From System A to System B). Currently, we are
investigating the cause of the leakage. Leaked water is purified water
(pure water)* and is not contained radioactive materials. Now we secluded
the air fin cooler from the system to prevent the spread of water leakage.
In addition, the cooling of spent fuel pool has no problem because we are
currently using air fin cooler (System A) to cool spent fuel pool.
* Purified water (pure water): The water from Sakashita dam www.tepco.co.jp

Interesting METI did no plant parameter sheets for the 1'st through 3rd.

The Tokyo Web article Fukushima Diary refers to about ongoing issues at #4 SFP:

January 08, 2012


　Seven to one day a week in January, in the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, the water level suddenly dropped in the tank adjacent to the spent fuel pool in Unit 4 in the afternoon one day. Seen the effects of earthquakes recorded in the Kanto and Tohoku depth of 4 previously.
　Tank water is reduced by evaporation, this time about five-fold decrease in the normal pace. Initially, TEPCO suspected leak. In the subsequent investigation, no water leakage due to the earthquake, and found that was most likely just a temporary stop water flow into the tank from the pool.
　On the other hand, weed cogon 刺Sari the treated water flows through the hose to the high concentration of contaminated water, causing a leak from the field behavior has been plagued by small holes. TEPCO was aggregated since last July, Kenji was also twenty.
　Cyclic injection into the reactor must continue over time is important to keep these small problems resolved soon. TEPCO has been kneading measures. www.tokyo-np.co.jp

Government steps in to set up victim compensation fund ajw.asahi.com

Concern about aging reactors grows www.japantoday.com

@Edano like boarded it? Damn!

there was a video clip. the whaling boats are wrapped in barbed wire, look like swimming jails.

Independent Web Journal has a new website, it translates to ENglish well with google trans. These are the people that do interviews with whistle blowers, TEPCO press conferences etc. iwj.co.jp

In case people missed this spiffy bit of news yesterday. Nagoya university to use muon particles to look inside reactors at Fukushima www.sacbee.com

Japan Today poll:"do you consider Sea Shepherd eco terrorists?" www.japantoday.com

Pushing the yakuza underground may make Japan less peaceful
Laws that crack down on organised crime may encourage more ruthless groups without any concern for public order www.guardian.co.uk

@Ian Lol - pretty strange all around.

I assembled the information about TEPCO buying the shopping mall in Tomioka for an operations base and about the inspection and potential use of the Japan Rail Namie station and rail line. Complete with DigitalGlobe, Google Earth and Google Maps of the buildings and area. www.simplyinfo.org

@UKVal thanks. I can't do it without everyone's help. :-)