Posted on 04/05/2011 3:09:21 PM PDT by La Enchiladita
Worked for me, here’s the text:
Originally Posted by PietKuip
That blog entry is correct. See also http://nucleardata.nuclear.lu.se/nucleardata/toi/nuclide.asp?iZA=520429 for data on Te-129m
The incredible thing is that Tepco do not understand their own measurements. See also http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/06/world/asia/06tepco.html?_r=1
Such a company should never have been allowed to operate a nuclear reactor.
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Response by Astronuc (PF Mentor)
So they messed up with Co-56 vs I-134, Cl-38, and Te-129/129m. And TEPCO is not sure about the Te-129
That certainly does raise concern.
I’ve seen site and utility management replaced over much lesser problems.
Real good news ,I wish them best of luck in getting this Done.
Nikkei does not appear to be particularly impressed by the plug job.
Link to NYT article has this choice quote ...
“Someone who knows what they are doing could be off by 5 or 15 percent, and someone who doesn’t know what they are doing can be off by orders of magnitude,”
... the scary off-the-wall readings are from operator error. TEPCO has eff-ed it up. This is only compounding the situation of distrust and concern, although the technical reality is not as bad as some had assumed.
As I understand it, and I am nowhere near an expert, the release of the water is how they are avoiding meltdown.”
Nope. The water in the basement came from the water they were pouring on the spent fuel pool.
” Also, ground motion was not what disturbed the reactors,”
Nope, it was a part of what caused original damage, including the cause of cracking of spent fuel pool liner.
“but it was the overwhelming tsunami.”
both had impact.
It’s an important site to read for trying to understand it all.
Not sure why it isn’t working for you.
Try copying the link and then putting it in your browser.
If that doesn’t work type this in
http://www.physicsforums.com/
Then find the thread and bookmark it.
“Oh no! What will the whiners and pantywaists wring their hands over now?”
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Dunno - mebbe this?
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/06/world/asia/06nuclear.html?_r=2&hp
Among other problems, the document raises new questions about whether pouring water on nuclear fuel in the absence of functioning cooling systems can be sustained indefinitely. Experts have said the Japanese need to continue to keep the fuel cool for many months until the plant can be stabilized, but there is growing awareness that the risks of pumping water on the fuel present a whole new category of challenges that the nuclear industry is only beginning to comprehend.
The document also suggests that fragments or particles of nuclear fuel from spent fuel pools above the reactors were blown “up to one mile from the units,” and that pieces of highly radioactive material fell between two units and had to be “bulldozed over,” presumably to protect workers at the site. The ejection of nuclear material, which may have occurred during one of the earlier hydrogen explosions, may indicate more extensive damage to the extremely radioactive pools than previously disclosed.
Number 2 has a leak in its lower section. That is below ground level. Its is leaking very nasty water. That same water was leaking out a hole in a pit near #2 water inlet. They stopped that leak. Unfortunately it appears that #2 water is also leaking into the ground water under the entire plant. Number 5 has cracks in its reactor main building. Radioactive groundwater (probably from #2) is leaking through those cracks and flooding the lower sections of at least #5 and possibly #6. IMHO.
Yeah, things will be getting better for the next hundred years there.
You are right. Most of Sendai will have to be abandoned unless they can sheid the rads with 2 feet of lead poured all around it.
Don't you find?
Back in your bureau now.
You’re on a roll!!
Sorry your lifestyle is being interfered with, I’m sure Japanese citizens and future citizens will gladly live with a wasteland, like Chernobyl, so you can continue on your merry way unaffected by faraway realities.
Stay!
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