Japan reactor has fatally high radiation, no water

Japan reactor has fatally high radiation, no water

TOKYO — One of Japan's crippled nuclear reactors still has fatally high radiation levels and hardly any water to cool it, according to an internal examination Tuesday that renews doubts about the plant's stability.

A tool equipped with a tiny video camera, a thermometer, a dosimeter and a water gauge was used to assess damage inside the No. 2 reactor's containment chamber for the second time since the tsunami swept into the Fukushima Dai-ichi plant a year ago. The probe done in January failed to find the water surface and provided only images showing steam, unidentified parts and rusty metal surfaces scarred by exposure to radiation, heat and humidity.

The data collected from the probes showed the damage from the disaster was so severe, the plant operator will have to develop special equipment and technology to tolerate the harsh environment and decommission the plant, a process expected to last decades.

Tuesday's examination with an industrial endoscope detected radiation levels up to 10 times the fatal dose inside the chamber. Plant officials previously said more than half of melted fuel has breached the core and dropped to the floor of the primary containment vessel, some of it splashing against the wall or the floor.

Fukushima Citizen Proves Japan Radiation Monitor Manipulation :

Fukushima Citizen Proves Japan Radiation Monitor Manipulation :

By Alexander Higgins
March 15, 2012

A Fukushima citizen has proven that a nuclear radiation monitoring post is secretly being decontaminated to lower recorded radiation levels.

After noticing his own Geiger counter measurements were substantially lower than numbers being reported by the MEXT radiation monitoring posts nearby, a Fukushima citizen grew suspicious that the monitor was being tampered with to report a lower level of radioactivity.

To test his theory, he went to the monitoring post and found the monitor hadn’t been tampered with, his Geiger counter was showing the same low readings that the MEXT post was reporting.

Confused as to why the levels where suddenly so low near the governments radiation monitor he walked a few feet away and the levels of radioactivity his Geiger counter was picking up immediately spiked.

Ocean Radiation Plume Hits Hawaii From Fukushima Nuclear Meltdown

Ocean Radiation Plume Hits Hawaii From Fukushima Nuclear Meltdown

The latest marine impact simulation shows the radioactive plume of ocean radiation from the Fukushima nuclear meltdown has now hit Hawaii

Alexander Higgins
March 16, 2011

The latest marine radiation plume simulation from ASR LTD shows that the radioactive contamination from the Fukushima nuclear meltdown has now reached norther Hawaii.

This should be no surprise, since it was originally disclosed shortly after the disaster that the plume would reach Hawaii within about 1 year and California in 2 to 3 years when the government decided not to test fish at that time.

Please note this simulation, as explained below, shows only the extent of where the particles in radioactive plume have traveled.

It does not attempt to estimate the dilution of the radiation since such estimates are currently impossible due to refusal by TEPCO and the government of Japan to release critical scientific data required to calculate the concentration of the plume.

Japan earthquake and tsunami anniversary: Japan suppressed key radiation report - Telegraph

Japan earthquake and tsunami anniversary: Japan suppressed key radiation report - Telegraph

Four days after the Great East Japan Earthquake, Yoshiaki Takaki, the then-science minister, met with senior members of the government and ministry officials and decided not to release to the public data from the national System for Prediction of Environmental Emergency Dose Information (SPEEDI), according to leaked internal documents.

Predictions on the amount of radiation that had already been released from the crippled reactors, as well as further radiation that might escape into the atmosphere "could by no means be released to the public," says the document, according to Kyodo News.

Dated March 19, the document predicts that clouds of radioactivity could be released from the plant and spread across northern and central Japan, including Tokyo.