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'Tepco failed in pipe pressure resistant test to have contaminated water leak.
1/20/2012, Tepco tested the pressure resistant by using low level of contaminated water before transferring high level of contaminated water from the basement floor of turbin building of reactor 2. They found it leaking from a joint on the first floor of the turbin building for reactor4 for some reason.
Tepco measured 100 microSv/h from the surface of leaked water.' fukushima-diary.com

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@Peter I agree with all your observations. I suspect there must be a hole into which all that water is going. I'm also concerned about the steam that was visible in the video

@Peter -the only thing that's undoubtedly cold at Fuku at present is the weather!

'NISA Hid Fast Breeder "Monju" Trouble for Over a Month.. The Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency under the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry instructed the Japan Atomic Energy Agency (JAEA) to investigate the cause of malfunction at the driving mechanisms for the control rods at the JAEA's fastbreeder "Monju" (in Tsuruga City, Fukui Prefecture), and to come up with measures to prevent it from happening again....According to NISA, the malfunction happened on December 12. Of the 19 driving mechanisms for the control rods, one mechanism didn't work at all when they conducted the test to verify the mechanisms were working. When tested again 2 days later, the mechanism worked. However, there is another mechanism that didn't work [and didn't work in the 2nd test]. JAEA says they will disassemble the mechanism in order to identify the cause'. ex-skf.blogspot.com

'On the basis of fluctuations in pressure measurements inside the containment vessel of the No. 2 reactor, it is assumed a 10-centimeter-diameter hole appeared in the side of the vessel, causing steam to leak 21 hours after the quake'. www.yomiuri.co.jp

'In unit 2, as mentioned above, water injection using the Emergency Core Cooling System (ECCS) failed at 4.36 pm on 11th. However, the steam-driven Reactor Core Isolation Cooling (RCIC) system functioned until the morning of 14th. Pressure was vented on 13th and again on 15th, and meanwhile the blowout panel near the top of the building was opened. The reactor water level dropped rapidly after RCIC cooling was lost on Monday 14th, so seawater injection to the containment was started on 15th via the fire-fighting line. However, RPV pressure was very high from mid 14th and drywell pressure reached 650 kPa (gauge), well above design base maximum of 380 kPag, so that at 6.14 am on Tuesday 15th, unit 2 apparently ruptured its pressure suppression chamber under the actual reactor, releasing significant radioactivity and dropping the drywell pressure inside. At 10.30 am Tepco was told to inject water into the pressure vessel and to vent the containment, and these activities continued. Containment damage is suspected.' www.world-nuclear.org (updated 13 May 2011)

'Kan Administration Declared the Fukushima Accident Worst-Case Scenario Report "Didn't Exist" After Reading It
The news of the worst-case scenario report submitted to the Kan administration by the Japan Atomic Energy Commission in March last year has already been reported, as I wrote on my January 2 post, but a little bit more information is coming from Kyodo News now.

It turns out that the Kan administration not only sat on the report detailing the worst-case scenario of the Fukushima I Nuclear Power Plant accident, but it declared the report wouldn't exist from then on, and didn't even officially recognize its existence as part of the government documents until December last year when the news of the report finally leaked. On the New Year's Eve.' ex-skf.blogspot.com This gets more bizarre by the day!!

@lillymunster ty for pic. I'm still using Vista

another 4.7 off Fuku -fortunately a fair way offshore, but with the quakes elsewhere I would expect further quakes closer in

@RonD ty for the tip - have found it & will experiment (just tried & screen froze...)