Nuclear reactor temperature at Japan's Fukushima Daiichi plant rises to 82°C

[News_Editor]

Nuclear reactor temperature at Japan's Fukushima Daiichi plant rises to 82°C

2012-02-14 14:34:08 GMT+7 (ICT)

TOKYO (BNO NEWS) -- The bottom of one of the reactors at the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant in eastern Japan rose to 82 degrees Celsius (179.6 degrees Fahrenheit) on Sunday afternoon, the Tokyo Electric Power Co. (Tepco) said on Monday.

According to Tepco, the safety equipment at the No. 2 reactor of the nuclear plant showed that the temperature had reached about 82 degrees Celsius (179.6 degrees Fahrenheit) at 2:15 p.m. local time on Sunday. The temperature has been increasing gradually since February 2, less than two months after the company announced a cold shutdown.

As a result of the increase in temperature, Tepco has been changing the amount of water injection and increase monitoring of the reactor's temperature. Specifically, between 11:38 a.m. and 1:50 p.m. local time, Tepco injected water with boric acid to prevent the reactor from reaching critical levels.

Later that afternoon, between 2:10 p.m. and 3:30 p.m. local time, Tepco also increased the water injection amount through the core spray system and the reactor feed water system.

But despite the temperature rise, Tepco pointed out that there is only one point where the temperature is increasing, and temperature indicators near the Reactor Pressure Vessel and in the Primary Containment Vessel show the facility as a whole is cooled. Officials said the temperatures at other areas of the plant tend to decrease due to the increase of water injection amount.

"We could assume that there is some water around the point at stake and that it cools down the point," Tepco stated. "Judging from the relation between the entry pressure in the Primary Loop Recirculation System and the amount of water injection in the reactor feed water system, overall, we judge that cooling reactors work properly now."

Japan has been facing an ongoing nuclear crisis since the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant was severely damaged on March 11, 2011, when a 9.0-magnitude earthquake and a subsequent tsunami devastated the country. The disaster disabled the cooling systems of the plant and radioactive elements leaked into the sea and were later found in water, air and food products in some parts of Japan.

At least 15,839 people were killed as a result of the earthquake and tsunami while 3,642 others remain missing. There are still more than 88,000 people who are staying in shelters in 21 prefectures across Japan.

-- © BNO News All rights reserved 2012-02-14

[midas]

Fukushima Update: Unit 4 Is Sinking … Unevenly

If Fukushima Unit 4 Falls, Hazardous Radioactive Cesium-137 Release Could be Eight Times Worse Than Chernobyl

Reactor’s ability to withstand another earthquake rated as “zero”

http://www.washingto...is-sinking.html

Edited October 23, 2012 by midas

[Scott]

Oh, thanks for this article. Just when I was thinking that the most important thing in the world was the Red/Yellow divide, this little problem resurfaces!

[midas]

Oh, thanks for this article. Just when I was thinking that the most important thing in the world was the Red/Yellow divide, this little problem resurfaces!

little problem........

Caldicott: If Spent Fuel Pool No. 4 collapses I am evacuating my family from Boston (VIDEO)

This is an especially dramatic statement given that the West Coast is much more directly in the path of Fukushima radiation than the East Coast.

http://enenews.com/c...emisphere-video

Edited October 23, 2012 by midas

[Asiantravel]

Mishaps Underscore Weaknesses of Japanese Nuclear Plant

Increasingly, experts are arguing that the plant’s operator, the Tokyo Electric Power Company, or Tepco, cannot be trusted to lead what is expected to be decades of cleanup and the decommissioning of the plant’s reactors without putting the public, and the environment, at risk.

https://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/11/world/asia/fukushima-nuclear-plant-is-still-unstable-japanese-official-says.html?pagewanted=all&_r=2&

[maidu]

....and Thailand still wants several nuke plants. We haven't heard much from EGAT on this topic lately, but they were gung-ho to get Thailand to go nuclear earlier on, yet since Fukushima, they've kept a low profile on it. However, EGAT execs are hoping the Fukushima thing will blow over (pun intended) so they can get back on track with nuke plants. There's some big money which wants Thailand to go nuclear. Be wary.

[Chicog]

....and Thailand still wants several nuke plants. We haven't heard much from EGAT on this topic lately, but they were gung-ho to get Thailand to go nuclear earlier on, yet since Fukushima, they've kept a low profile on it. However, EGAT execs are hoping the Fukushima thing will blow over (pun intended) so they can get back on track with nuke plants. There's some big money which wants Thailand to go nuclear. Be wary.

I would think they are hoping it doesn't blow over (no pun intended!).

[Gulfsailor]

Related or not?!

Check sea water temperature anomalies. And what is recorded right near the coast of Fukushima; http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/oa/climate/research/sst/ani-weekly.html

Started in early March.

If you ask me, some cores went through all containment and ground and are now under the ocean floor, continuing their nuclear reactions and heating up the water rapidly. Don't even want to imagine the associated radiation should that be the case.

Maybe N. Korea issue is just a smokescreen?

[Asiantravel]

Related or not?!

Check sea water temperature anomalies. And what is recorded right near the coast of Fukushima; http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/oa/climate/research/sst/ani-weekly.html

Started in early March.

If you ask me, some cores went through all containment and ground and are now under the ocean floor, continuing their nuclear reactions and heating up the water rapidly. Don't even want to imagine the associated radiation should that be the case.

Maybe N. Korea issue is just a smokescreen?

This article is in French from Le Monde, but it talks about a fish caught near Fukushima on Friday January 18th that had a record-breaking level of radioactive contamination over 2500x the legal limit. TEPCO measured 'Mike the Murasoi' at 254,000 becquerels per kilogram (with the limit for edible seafood at 100 becquerels). Le Monde reports, the previous record (caught on August 21st 2012) was a mere 25,800 becquerels/kg. As further precautions, TEPCO is installing new nets 20km around the Fukushima Daichi site to avoid highly contaminated fish gettig too far and being consumed by other species.

http://www.lemonde.fr/planete/article/2013/01/18/radioactivite-record-sur-un-poisson-peche-pres-de-fukushima_1819315_3244.html

[Scott]

Holy crap, that fish could be considered pre-cooked.

[Asiantravel]

Holy crap, that fish could be considered pre-cooked.

Self cooking food. Sushi with zero chance of microbiological contamination, too.

[Payboy]

Holy crap, that fish could be considered pre-cooked.

Hold the wasabi in my soya sauce, then.

[jackr]

Any chance they could boat it over to Pyongyang?

[maidu]

Where do the Japanese harvest most of their famous seaweed from?

[Payboy]

Where do the Japanese harvest most of their famous seaweed from?

China?

[Asiantravel]

Even in America they can't afford to be complacent about this

Radioactive traces from Japan found in NW albacore tuna

LONGVIEW, Wash. -- Oregon State University researchers say they have found traces of radioactive cesium from last year's Japanese nuclear reactor disaster in West Coast albacore tuna.

http://www.nwcn.com/news/oregon/175914331.html

[aussiebebe]

This is terrifying, from what I've read the Japanese are nationalistic but I hope they allow the UN to help (or any country for that matter). I've read a lot of new about Japan since this disaster and I'm aware that the Japanese government is misleading even the Japanese people. They've forced people to accept blue barrels of contaminated waste in their gardens, they've revised upwards the acceptable radiation levels in food and they've been less than stringent in ensuring the origins of food is accurately labelled.
When I think about some of the weird Japanese things I've read about like 70+-page booklets for how to recycle trash, female-only train carriages to prevent groping, and shops openly selling what any other country would label 'child-porn', ​while I can't begin to fathom the psyche of Japanese people I hope on this issue the Japanese government sees the greater good and cooperates to avoid a catastrophe.

[Asiantravel]

This is terrifying, from what I've read the Japanese are nationalistic but I hope they allow the UN to help (or any country for that matter). I've read a lot of new about Japan since this disaster and I'm aware that the Japanese government is misleading even the Japanese people. They've forced people to accept blue barrels of contaminated waste in their gardens, they've revised upwards the acceptable radiation levels in food and they've been less than stringent in ensuring the origins of food is accurately labelled.

When I think about some of the weird Japanese things I've read about like 70+-page booklets for how to recycle trash, female-only train carriages to prevent groping, and shops openly selling what any other country would label 'child-porn', ​while I can't begin to fathom the psyche of Japanese people I hope on this issue the Japanese government sees the greater good and cooperates to avoid a catastrophe.

" I hope they allow the UN to help (or any country for that matter) ".

Ha ha ! I will bet you any money you like they most certainly will not!

This is a cover-up of epic proportions. What makes me so angry is that this cover-up is not just affecting the Japanese, it is having an incalculable effect on the environment in general, the ocean and many other countries.

I am happy that a group of American Navy sailors are suing TEPCO and the government of Japan because I'm hoping during the legal process of “ discovery “ both defendants will be forced to divulge information which they want to keep under wraps. But I bet you when environmental scientists take the witness stand there will be some real horror stories that we haven't heard about yet !

“The sailors say they have put themselves in a situation where their potential to develop cancer has been enhanced and that they "face additional and irreparable harm to their life expectancy, which has been shortened and cannot be restored to its prior condition."

http://rt.com/usa/sailors-japan-fukushima-radiation-878/

[OZEMADE]

This is terrifying, from what I've read the Japanese are nationalistic but I hope they allow the UN to help (or any country for that matter). I've read a lot of new about Japan since this disaster and I'm aware that the Japanese government is misleading even the Japanese people. They've forced people to accept blue barrels of contaminated waste in their gardens, they've revised upwards the acceptable radiation levels in food and they've been less than stringent in ensuring the origins of food is accurately labelled.

When I think about some of the weird Japanese things I've read about like 70+-page booklets for how to recycle trash, female-only train carriages to prevent groping, and shops openly selling what any other country would label 'child-porn', ​while I can't begin to fathom the psyche of Japanese people I hope on this issue the Japanese government sees the greater good and cooperates to avoid a catastrophe.

" I hope they allow the UN to help (or any country for that matter) ".

Ha ha ! I will bet you any money you like they most certainly will not!

This is a cover-up of epic proportions. What makes me so angry is that this cover-up is not just affecting the Japanese, it is having an incalculable effect on the environment in general, the ocean and many other countries.

I am happy that a group of American Navy sailors are suing TEPCO and the government of Japan because I'm hoping during the legal process of “ discovery “ both defendants will be forced to divulge information which they want to keep under wraps. But I bet you when environmental scientists take the witness stand there will be some real horror stories that we haven't heard about yet !

“The sailors say they have put themselves in a situation where their potential to develop cancer has been enhanced and that they "face additional and irreparable harm to their life expectancy, which has been shortened and cannot be restored to its prior condition."

http://rt.com/usa/sailors-japan-fukushima-radiation-878/

For all the problems the Japanese are having with these damaged reactors, it might as well have been a 3rd nuclear bomb blast. They are still having trouble with the reactors, they cant fix them and they are still leaking into the ocean, let alone the previous fall out. This area of the land and coast will be useless for god knows how many years. The experts always say the reactors are safe and bomb proof, but mother nature always proves them wrong.

[midas]

Tritium soaring in water at No. 1 plant

http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/07/07/national/tritium-soaring-in-water-at-no-1-plant/#.Udt04KxWp-z

[midas]

Tepco’s ‘Fukushima Fifty’ Leader Yoshida Dies of Cancer

Masao Yoshida, the plant manager who led the fight to bring Japan’s Fukushima atomic station under control during the 2011 nuclear disaster, has died. He was 58.

He died on July 9 at a hospital in Tokyo, according to a statement from Tokyo Electric Power Co (9501)., the operator of the Fukushima Dai-Ichi nuclear plant. The cause was esophageal cancer, the statement said. The illness was unrelated to the radiation exposure after the nuclear accident, according to Tepco, as Tokyo Electric is known.

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-07-09/former-fukushima-nuclear-plant-head-masao-yoshida-dies-of-cancer.html

[midas]

Fukushima nuclear plant: Steam seen at reactor building

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-23353049#TWEET825610

pacific map of fukushima radiation

http://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.opednews.com/populum/uploaded/noaawater-14586-20130711-72.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.opednews.com/articles/Fukushima-Spiking-All-of-a-by-William-Boardman-130711-487.html&h=550&w=790&sz=292&tbnid=hqNvp5bAVYwrSM:&tbnh=90&tbnw=129&zoom=1&usg=__Mth87pfbbTLYqWpDBtTqnCNB8Mk=&docid=Xv63ZW2o9gxzPM&sa=X&ei=IOPnUenxF6794AOJ14CwAg&ved=0CFoQ9QEwCA&dur=27

Edited July 18, 2013 by midas

[midas]

Disturbing Photos of Fukushima Mutant Fruit

Photos have recently surfaced from Japan showing some of the most mutated fruit ever seen!

By JG Vibes

July 17, 2013

Anyone who follows the alternative media knows that the nuclear fallout from Fukushima is far worse than the governments of the world and the mainstream media will admit.

A series of different photos have been posted on the web, showing the kind of mutations that the fallout has caused plants in nearby areas. Recently it was also reported that radioactive water from the site has been leaking into the Pacific ocean for two years, causing untold contamination in the seas.

One can only imagine the effect that this has had on biological life in the oceans, or the effect that it will have on local human and animal populations.

http://beforeitsnews.com/alternative/2013/07/disturbing-photos-of-fukushima-mutant-fruit-2713256.html?utm_source=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2Fl.php%3Fu%3Dhttp%253A%252F%252Fb4in.info%252FqC9Q%26h%3D6AQEutbxF%26s%3D1&utm_term=http%3A%2F%2Fb4in.info%2FqC9Q&utm_campaign&utm_content=awesm-publisher_static&utm_medium=static

[F430murci]

I would think this should be a big deal. Seems like world leaders would be helping Japan fix this problem ASAP. The implications are, to me, more devastating and long term than say Syrian conflict, Iran nuclear program or North Korea's mighty midget. Radiation in the ocean and already reaching California. What percentage of the world's population's food comes from the Pacific Ocean? What are they going to do with all of this radioactive water that is a by product of their cooling efforts to keep from having a melt down?

[midas]

I would think this should be a big deal. Seems like world leaders would be helping Japan fix this problem ASAP. The implications are, to me, more devastating and long term than say Syrian conflict, Iran nuclear program or North Korea's mighty midget. Radiation in the ocean and already reaching California. What percentage of the world's population's food comes from the Pacific Ocean? What are they going to do with all of this radioactive water that is a by product of their cooling efforts to keep from having a melt down?

i agree !

Listen to Mr Kohei Murata , who was the former Japanese Ambassador to Switzerland. What he says in this interview makes every other issue going on in the world seem quite irrelevant….

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-LCTv65aqgA&feature=youtu.be

[Credo]

Unbelievable. He says: "the USA is the main reason". Talk about shirking their own responsibility.

No mention of the Chinese nuclear plants....I am pretty sure they are all safe, or perhaps the Chinese will be a little less understanding if they try to blame them for their ineptitude.

Absolutely unbelievable.

Edited July 22, 2013 by Credo

[GentlemanJim]

I would think this should be a big deal. Seems like world leaders would be helping Japan fix this problem ASAP. The implications are, to me, more devastating and long term than say Syrian conflict, Iran nuclear program or North Korea's mighty midget. Radiation in the ocean and already reaching California. What percentage of the world's population's food comes from the Pacific Ocean? What are they going to do with all of this radioactive water that is a by product of their cooling efforts to keep from having a melt down?

i agree !

Listen to Mr Kohei Murata , who was the former Japanese Ambassador to Switzerland. What he says in this interview makes every other issue going on in the world seem quite irrelevant….

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-LCTv65aqgA&feature=youtu.be

A scary video thanks for posting. Over 14000 spent fuel rods are a little problematic. Can't they just get them out, properly seal them and get rid of them at a secure storage facility?

If Unit 4 sinks, be prepared to short the Japanese market! With the money you make buy a des res in Greenland or Iceland!

[wealth]

the only solution I see is to make a spaceship and pack them all there and fly it as far as possible before it melts through. After that shut down all nuclear power plants. It never was a solution and never will be. By attacking America, I think he meant GE and a few other lobby elites.

Edited July 22, 2013 by wealth

[midas]

I would think this should be a big deal. Seems like world leaders would be helping Japan fix this problem ASAP. The implications are, to me, more devastating and long term than say Syrian conflict, Iran nuclear program or North Korea's mighty midget. Radiation in the ocean and already reaching California. What percentage of the world's population's food comes from the Pacific Ocean? What are they going to do with all of this radioactive water that is a by product of their cooling efforts to keep from having a melt down?

i agree !

Listen to Mr Kohei Murata , who was the former Japanese Ambassador to Switzerland. What he says in this interview makes every other issue going on in the world seem quite irrelevant….

A scary video thanks for posting. Over 14000 spent fuel rods are a little problematic. Can't they just get them out, properly seal them and get rid of them at a secure storage facility?

If Unit 4 sinks, be prepared to short the Japanese market! With the money you make buy a des res in Greenland or Iceland!

I am certainly no nuclear expert but I think the following article suggests they simply can't get anywhere near them for a long enough period to do anything.

http://my.firedoglake.com/kirkmurphy/tag/spent-fuel-rods/

Edited July 22, 2013 by Scott

[midas]

I notice that the photographs of the severely disfigured fruit shown in Post 23 have now removed from the link I posted and other links showing the same thing have been removed from the Internet altogether. There is a cover-up of epic proportions going on here.