07 April 2013 (01:20 UTC-07 Tango)/26 Jumada l-Ula 1434/18 Farvardin 1392/27 Yi-Mao (2nd month) 4711
Just one day after finding a massive water leak, contaminated with strontium, Tokyo Electric Power Company reporting another one!
The newest leak is coming from another in-ground waste water holding tank/pool. It’s a smaller pool, holding about 10000 tons of radioactive water.
Now TEPCo has to transfer water from two leaking pools. They do not know why the pools are leaking.
06 April 2013 (13:12 UTC-07 Tango)/25 Jumada l-Ula 1434/17 Farvardin 1392/26 Yi-Mao (2nd month) 4711
The prefecture of Fukushima is revealing that the sludge generated at their sewage treatment plants continue to show radiation contamination.
At this point they have 68000 tons of radioactive sludge built up. Other prefectures are reporting similar radioactive sludge.
This is proof the GE designed reactors at the Fukushima Daiichi power plant are still spewing radiation.
Fukushima Prefecture, along with Japan’s Environment Ministry, has installed an experimental sludge dryer, to speed up the evaporation of liquid from the sludge.
This will make it easier to store the dried hazardous material.
06 April 2013 (02:00 UTC-07 Tango)/25 Jumada l-Ula 1434/17 Farvardin 1392/26 Yi-Mao (2nd month) 4711
Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCo) reports a strontium leak around the GE designed disaster reactors at Fukushima Daiichi.
TEPCo says they discovered a large inground waste water holding tank/pool is leaking. The water is contaminated with deadly strontium. So far 120 tons of water has leaked out.
They are now transferring the water into other tanks. As usual, TEPCo does not know why the tank is leaking.
20 March 2013/08 Jumada l-Ula 1434/30 Esfand 1391/09 Yi-Mao (2nd month) 4711
Tokyo Electric Power Company has found the cause of the power outage, which stopped cooling of spent fuel pools a few days ago.
In one of three high voltage distribution panels they found burn marks, along with a dead rat. It’s very likely the rat touched the panel causing a short circuit, which could have led to another nuclear disaster.
A former inlaw of mine, in Texas, lost a home to a fire that was caused by a rat that got into a circuit breaker panel that was part of a recent room extension on the house.
20 March 2013/08 Jumada l-Ula 1434/30 Esfand 1391/09 Yi-Mao (2nd month) 4711
Tokyo Electric Power Company claims they’ve restored cooling to spent fuel pools. They still are not sure what caused the outside electric supply to stop. They suspect a surge tripped three high voltage distribution panels. After replacement and inspection they could find no signs of damage on the panels.
19 March 2013/07 Jumada l-Ula 1434/29 Esfand 1391/08 Yi-Mao (2nd month) 4711
Tokyo Electric Power Company says they’ve restored cooling of spent fuel pools on the number 1, 2 and 4 reactors. This is the first time TEPCo mentioned Reactor 2 as being affected by the power outage. Cooling for Reactor 4 pool is being powered by emergency generators.
Cooling is still on hold for the fuel pool on Reactor 3, and a shared pool in Fukushima Daiichi’s compound. TEPCo hopes to have cooling restored by tomorrow.
TEPCo has inspected the switchboards from three high voltage distribution systems, and say it appears nothing is wrong with them. Ironically the electric power company still doesn’t know what caused the massive power outage.
19 March 2013/07 Jumada l-Ula 1434/29 Esfand 1391/08 Yi-Mao (2nd month) 4711
For the second day now, cooling of spent fuel pools on the General Electric designed reactors 1, 3 and 4 is not taking place (1, 3 and 4 are the ones that exploded). Another spent fuel rod pool and a water decontamination system are also affected.
Tokyo Electric Power Company says they’ve found the reason why they lost power yesterday; three high voltage distribution systems failed.
TEPCo says two were fixed but they can’t figure out the problem with the third, they suspect a switchboard. TEPCo officials said something shorted out the switchboards, but they don’t know what. Apparently all three systems must be working in order to cool the fuel rod pools.
TEPCo has two more days to fix the problem before temps in fuel pools exceed safety limits. If not they will resort to fire engines to pump water into the pools.
18 March 2013/06 Jumada l-Ula 1434/28 Esfand 1391/07 Yi-Mao (2nd month) 4711
Tokyo Electric Power Company reporting that for an unknown reason the cooling of stored nuclear fuel rods, at the GE designed Fukushima Daiichi power plant, has stopped.
There was an electrical power blackout affecting 2100 spent fuel rods in storage pools for reactors 1, 3 and 4. TEPCo says temps have been rising slowly but steadily every hour.
A forth pool with 6300 fuel rods was also affected, as well as the water decontamination system.
TEPCo does not know what is causing the power outage. They claim cooling of the melted reactors have not been affected.
15 March 2013/03 Jumada l-Ula 1434/25 Esfand 1391/04 Yi-Mao (2nd month) 4711
Japan’s Environment Ministry says the main part of the mass of tsunami debris, from the 11 March 2011 earthquake caused tsunamis, will begin hitting the Pacific coast of North America by April.
Using computer models they predict about 220000 tons of debris could come ashore. Japan has already paid Canada and the United States $6 million USD to help clean it up.
Following behind the tsunami debris could be radioactive debris from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear melt downs.
Researchers from Tokyo University of Marine Science and Technology are following radioactive contamination of the Pacific Ocean. They say the water near the GE designed reactors is still showing 100 becquerels per liter of cesium 137, far higher than Japanese safe limits.
They added that in the 12 months following June 2011 (when they started tracking it) that 16.1 trillion becquerels of cesium 137 was poured into the Pacific Ocean! The main ocean current is bringing that contamination towards North America.
The University researchers also concluded that most of the contaminated water is coming from underground sources, not from rainwater runoff as first claimed by Tokyo Electric (TEPCo), the operator of Fukushima Daiichi. TEPCo officials now agree that the contaminated water is not from rain runoff, and admit they have yet to find the source.
For two years now, radioactive contamination has been pouring into the Pacific Ocean!
A study involving analysts working for NHK (Nippon Housou Kyoukai/Japan Broadcasting Corporation), and University scientists, found that the initial effort to cool the reactors of Fukushima Daiichi, using fire pumper trucks, was a failure and helped caused the melt down of at least three reactors.
The researchers concluded that 55% of the water never made it to the reactors. This is because there was no power. Water entering the cooling system ended up in condenser units rather than the reactors, because the system’s pumps were not working.
Since the 11 March 2011 nuclear disasters Japanese nuclear plants, and local fire departments have been practicing cooling down reactors using fire trucks. The study showed that if there is no power to operate the internal pumps in the nuclear plant’s cooling system, then at least half the water injected by fire pumper trucks is wasted.