[BLOWED UP REAL GOOD!- TEPCO STAFF][a Nuke Plant- it's just a kettle that occasionally blows off some steam, and waste that lasts 24 000 years.]
Even though blowing up is more of a stock market metaphor,
it still works well for Fukushima.
Those sneaky Japanese waited for us to get distracted by the next disaster
to tell us that one of the reactors had a melt-down, long afterward.
It happened on day 1 of the disaster, 2 months ago
Today the International Atomic agency guys show up ,
and today, TEPCO said that 2 more reactors had melted down.
two months ago!
on day 2 or 3
Good timingon day 2 or 3
If you were reading Zerohedge, they noticed it within the first week,
from a video!
It would have been funnier for those IAEA guys who promote radioactive
activities to have gone to Fukushima and gotten a lifetime dose in an hour.
[I hear green is in style]It gets funnier. Apparently, the IAEA also knew what was going on for months (see below),
just like I said in my Liar Liar article.
The first thing they do is lie, and then they lie some more. It's the investments, you see?
-Costick67 ~(8^P
checkitout: 3 things
Japan nuclear plant confirms meltdown of two more reactors
Fukushima Daiichi operator accused of delaying announcement of meltdowns in reactors 2 and 3 as IAEA inspectors arrive
* Justin McCurry in Tokyo
* guardian.co.uk, Tuesday 24 May 2011 09.54 BST
The operator of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant said fuel rods in two more reactors were likely to have suffered a meltdown soon after they were crippled by the 11 March earthquake and tsunami in north-east Japan.
Confirmation by Tokyo Electric Power (Tepco) that fuel in the cores of reactors 2 and 3 had melted came days after new data confirmed a similar meltdown in reactor 1 about 16 hours after the disaster.
The utility, which last week suffered the biggest annual loss by any Japanese firm outside the financial sector, said most of the melted fuel in all three reactors was covered in water and did not threaten to compound the world's worst nuclear accident since Chernobyl.
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It said the fuel rods in the reactors 2 and 3 had started melting two to three days after the earthquake and tsunami, which knocked out vital cooling systems.
2 Zerohedge [check the date]
Problems at 6 Japanese Nuclear Reactors ... 2 Have Already Likely Melted Down
Submitted by George Washington on 03/13/2011 02:01 -0400
Early this morning, the Fukushima I nuclear power plant melted down. See this.
Now, MSNBC reports:
A partial meltdown is likely under way at second quake-stricken nuclear reactor [the Fukushima III reactor], Japan's top government spokesman said Sunday.
Fuel rods were briefly exposed and radiation levels briefly rose above the legal limit at the nuclear plant where both reactors are located, said Chief Cabinet Secretary Yukio Edano.
His statement came after Japan's largest electric utility started releasing steam Sunday at the second nuclear reactor while trying to stop a meltdown that began a day earlier in another.
MSNBC also notes that "the government [is] warning there could be an explosion at a second reactor [i.e. plant number 3] crippled by Friday's devastating earthquake."
BBC points out that a meltdown at number 3 could be more serious than number 1, because it uses plutonium as well as uranium:....
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http://georgewashington2.blogspot.com/2011/05/iaea-knew-within-weeks-of-japanese.html
Wednesday, May 25, 2011
IAEA Knew Within Weeks of Japanese Earthquake that Reactors Had Melted Down ... Public Not Told for a Month and a Half
As I noted last week, reactors 1, 2 and 3 all melted down within hours of the Japanese earthquake.
On Monday, Mainchi Daily News provided an important tidbit:
A meltdown occurred at one of the reactors at the Fukushima No. 1 Nuclear Power Plant three and a half hours after its cooling system started malfunctioning, according to the result of a simulation using "severe accident" analyzing software developed by the Idaho National Laboratory.
Chris Allison [a former manager and technical leader at Idaho National Laboratory], who had actually developed the analysis and simulation software, reported the result to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) in late March. It was only May 15 when Tokyo Electric Power Co. (TEPCO) admitted for the first time that a meltdown had occurred at the No. 1 reactor at the Fukushima nuclear plant.
According to Allison's report obtained by the Mainichi, the simulation was based on basic data on light-water nuclear reactors at the Laguna Verde Nuclear Power Plant in Mexico that are about the same size as that of the No. 1, 2, and 3 reactors in Fukushima.
According to the simulation, the reactor core started melting about 50 minutes after the emergency core cooling system of the No. 1 reactor stopped functioning and the injection of water into the reactor pressure vessel came to a halt. About an hour and 20 minutes later, the control rod and pipes used to gauge neutrons started melting and falling onto the bottom of the pressure vessel. After about three hours and 20 minutes, most of the melted fuel had piled up on the bottom of the pressure vessel. At the four hour and 20 minute mark, the temperature of the bottom of the pressure vessel had risen to 1,642 degrees Celsius, close to the melting point for the stainless steel lining, probably damaging the pressure vessel.
In other words, the IAEA knew in late March that there was a meltdown. The IAEA informs all of its member states of important nuclear developments.
Government agencies sat on this information, and the world didn't learn the truth until the operator of the stricken reactors itself made the announcement a month and a half later.
This is not entirely surprising given that governments have been covering up nuclear meltdowns for fifty years to protect the nuclear industry.
