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  Michael January 5, 2014 at 7:34pm

  DEBUNKING REACTOR 3 STEAM ALARMISM

  JANUARY 2, 2014

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  via ex-SKF / December 29, 2013 /

  (UPDATE 12/31/2013) For those who want the summary of the steam incident since July this year and the Reactor 3 operating floor condition since the March 2011 accident, I have a new post.

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  An acquaintance who casually follows the Fukushima I NPP accident sent me a link, quite worried. I opened the link, and I started laughing, then I despaired – realizing that this may be the current level of understanding in the US when it comes to the Fukushima I NPP accident.

  I have no idea who this is (“Turner Radio Network – Free Speech, No Matter Who Doesn’t Like It”), but it has an urgent news flash on December 28, 2013:

  
  Persons residing on the west coast of North America should IMMEDIATELY begin preparing for another possible onslaught of dangerous atmospheric radiation from the Fukushima nuclear disaster site in Japan. The Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO) says radioactive steam has suddenly begun emanating from previously exploded nuclear reactor building #3 at the Fukuishima disaster site in Japan. TEPCO says they do not know why this is happening and cannot go into the building to see what’s happening due to damage and lethal radiation levels in that building. Experts say this could be the beginning of a “spent fuel pool criticality (meltdown)” …

   

  

  The page shows a photograph of Reactor 3 steaming vigorously to lend support to the contention above.

  The problem? It is a photo from March 2011 right after the building blew up.

  

  Further down the post,

  The video below was taken several months ago by TEPCO. It shows that the roof is totally blown off reactor building # 3

   

  Uh… no. All the debris on the operating floor of Reactor 3 has been painstakingly removed, piece by piece, by remote-control cranes and shovels supervised by carbon-based human workerswearing tungsten vests who were physically there on the platform surrounding the reactor building.

  The readers of this blog know (I hope) about the story of this “steam” rising from Reactor 3′s operating floor. The best hypothesis so far is that this is a combination of rainwater going through the gaps and reaching the Containment Vessel below and being heated up and the steam leaking from a breach somewhere in the Containment Vessel as nitrogen gas is injected into the CV. The steam tends to get observed when it is raining or after it rains.

  The steam rising from the gap in the Reactor 3 operating floor looks like this:

  I suppose it is free speech to claim this is vigorous enough to reach the height of the jet stream and hit the west coast of North America. Or, to use the favorite refrain among many Japanese, “erring on the side of caution“.

  The lack of coverage of the Fukushima nuclear accident by the established media in the US has been being filled by the alternative media. For good or bad.

  For those who care to know, this is what the operating floor of Reactor 3 looked like, and looks like now (from TEPCO’s photos and videos library):

  March 16, 2011:

  

  March 24, 2011:

  

  July 11, 2012:

  

  September 21, 2012 (SFP, when TEPCO started removing the debris):

  

  May 25, 2013:

  

  October 10, 2013:

  
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    Michael > Michael January 5, 2014 at 7:36pm