Japan declares 'nuclear emergency' after quake, page 1245

reply to post by Required01

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Tepco have been known to produce some very realistic models to show and illustrate events. There are examples of this in this thread - its just a matter of finding them.

reply to post by Required01

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Imo a problem of the Lenses or because of the Data Compression!
We need the Original to get a clue.

Originally posted by Aircooled

fukushima-diary.com...

For what it's worth I sent this to our bud "The Fin" and his answer was "smeltting of Pu-239 and kalium K-37 in the bedrock.
Some other thoughts on this would be that SW corner where they lower the wrapped drums, from the orange crane on to that lead shielded truck, with the cement box on the back. Maybe they dropped one?

To help translate for 'the fin', KaliumK37 is a Potassium K37 isotope in its Latin form.
It breaks down very quickly, half life is 1.226 seconds, into argon which is what we used to have to resort to, combined with krypton, for old school gas laser shows. Argon emits a mostly blue-purple light. Purple because of the red emission lines it has too. Accounts for radioactivity increase too. We saw similar stuff that looked same colour as Cherenkov radiation in water early on.

"The blue glow of a criticality accident results from the spectral emission of the excited ionized atoms (or excited molecules) of air (mostly oxygen and nitrogen) falling back to unexcited states, which happens to produce an abundance of blue light. This is also the reason electrical sparks in air, including lightning, appear electric blue."
en.wikipedia.org...

Problem is most people in this thread are not nuclear chemists. I certainly volunteer for 'most useless chemist' on the thread. I didn't do it at school! The myriad of isotopes possible means this is greatly compounded for all of us.

That light source also looks like an intense UV source (like the substation explosion videos), a welding arc wouldn't be so stationary. I have footage of multiple welding arcs at night, they flash and strobe much more than this, plus have very hard shadows because they are a small point source. This appears softer from a larger source.


Thanks AC/Z and everyone else for the fukushima porn as I work on a new theory for #4. It combines the best of Z with a Ghostrider twist
Have found a cache of high res sat photos that were taken down early on by digitalglobe. You can still however order them at full resolution, I checked. 0.5m/pixel resolution I'll be putting more up later.

reply to post by Aircooled

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I agree with your analysis of the R1 corner works picture, blue titling and compression is what makes it look so surreal. Good spotting though required01, this is the sort of out of the box thinking that is required to solve this mess. Nothing is impossible here, nuclear physics doesn't have a chapter on 'multiple nuclear fuel and weapons grade mixtures melting down in quantities never before seen'.

reply to post by GhostR1der

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Yes GR that's what I thought, but couldn't bring my self to type it out! Been looking round at pics of R3 and that side of R3 is what they've been concentrating on the most. As if the reactor spewed its guts all over the side.

But what else could it be, if not the top of the cv, it does appear to have bits of rebar sticking out around it, and its not an empty space as I imagine the reactor top would be.

I can only think of a couple of things - The pedestal (where the control rods are inserted, from underneath the reactor core) has been blasted up and sideways through the cv. Or its just a simple walkway type thing, that you might find a supervisor using to oversee an equipment move or something.

Well geez, don't strain your eyes. We'll have a closer look. If it's the circular object in the center, one of the french blogs thought it was the #3 cap removing machine.

And this might be why our governments don't want us buying this potasium iodide? They want it all.
www.marketwatch.com...

Unit 2: Kr-85, I-133, Xe-135...

www.tepco.co.jp...

Just a note...I-133 and X-135 haven't been detected in awhile...and the total non-consistency in "detection limit"...

3/29:
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3/22:
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2/16:
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Unit 2: The New Dude Gonna Check Things Out...

Poor guy....

www.tepco.co.jp...

Unit 3: Gas Sampling Results

www.tepco.co.jp...

Air Sampling Results Units 1, 2, 3

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- Purple Chive

Originally posted by Aircooled

And this might be why our governments don't want us buying this potasium iodide? They want it all.
www.marketwatch.com...

Oh Sh!t....AC...Oh Sh!t...

Excellent find...very appreciative bringing this to our attention.

- Purple Chive

Pardon me while I go back to the beginning for a few minutes. Another picture of Daiichi on March 14th 2011. Again, #4 is smokin with no damage to the north wall from the R3 explosion. Please note also the lower plume. Whether this is coming out of the transmission switch yard building, or a cropped out smoldering FBB, I don't know? It might even be some blowback from the #3 plume, although to me it clearly looks like the wind is blowing out to sea.

It has been suggested to me that the strange coloured blobs, that appear in the sea water, in all these early satellite pics are very important. I'm not sure if they were connected to blown fuel or possible methane layers rupturing below?

A zoom on some more strange things in the harbor from an early satellite pic.

They look like rad strikes but only over the water.
There has been so much discussion about #1 having gone china syndrome, even bfore the tsunami hit, I just thought I'd bring up this oddity up now that we know more about those early days.
{UC blowing out and fludding?}

I think I found some newer overhead satelitte pics. The writing was Arabic but March 10th was visible, so I'm guessing these are 5 weeks old. The brown shrubs and the tent on #1 tell us they are fairly recent, anyway.

I split it into 2 zooms so we could have a closer look see......South.

And North....#1 turbine seems to have a fresh roof patch. Dam racoons, eh?

And west. I hope you spot something too.

For Z. A report from a worker that #4 blew up quietly...Hmmm...like an underground muffled blast sound?

fukushima-diary.com...
And a new tent and some foundation work for #4.
enenews.com...

Originally posted by Purplechive

Unit 2: Kr-85, I-133, Xe-135...

www.tepco.co.jp...

Just a note...I-133 and X-135 haven't been detected in awhile...and the total non-consistency in "detection limit"...

Other than the usual short half life krypton measurements, this i133 is a sure ticker for criticality. It is produced approx 2:1 with i131, so can be detectable while i131 isn't.

Great work PC.

Guess they had to build another robot, the packbot must have finally 'chernobyld'.

Unit 2: All Gauges Going Up

They zapped "vessel wall above bottom head (TE-2-3-69H2)" the other day and considered it malfunctioning because they didn't like the temp reading...

www.tepco.co.jp...

- Purple Chive

reply to post by wishes

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Wishes, early on in this thread there was a lot of discussion as to what to do with this beast. All I know is that I wish there was a lot more expert international involvement rather just watching TEPCO fumble their way through the whole mess.

And welcome!

- Purple Chive

Unit 2: Robot Pics, 82 mSV

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- Purple Chive

reply to post by GhostR1der

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I've been looking at this intently, and wanted to float a possible answer for debate.

Carbon arc lighting?

en.wikipedia.org...

If the light remains relatively stable and uniform, that might be it, maybe they needed bright light for the workers to do something.

Just a thought.

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