Fukushima - 25ft metal beam falls inside Reactor 3

all the fuel rods are already smashed to smithereens and melted.

who cares.

the whole world should just start dumping all of their
nuclear waste at Fukushima as the world's nuclear disposal site.

Yeah.. a crane knocked it into the pool.

Come on back... come on back.. Whoa! That's good.

we've gotta get something out of this debacle.

We did already...radiation...its good for you, ya know.

What in THE hell?! Granted, these people can make shit small...but maybe we need to rethink whether a nation that enjoys shitting on anime schoolgirl wannabes should even be handing the big boy toys, huh?

Tepco wrote:
September 22, 2012
Tokyo Electric Power Company

This is the follow-up report on the incident that a steel beam slipped and fell into the spent fuel poof of Unit 3, Fukushima Daiichi NPP.

On September 22, during a rubble removal work of Unit 3 Fukushima Daiichi NPP, a worker tried to grab a steel beam (approx. 300mmX200mmX7m, approx. 470kg), which had been on the side of the spent fuel poof (SFP), using an oil-pressure fork attached to a head of a crane, and the steel beam slipped and fell into the SFP at approx. 11:07 am.

At approx. 11:45 am, we confirmed that there was no significant change to the operation status of the cooling system for the spent fuel pool and the water level of the skimmer surge tank.

Now, we are conducting a sampling of the spent fuel pool water.

There has been no significant change to the measured figures at the monitoring posts in the power plant and the radiation level near the spent fuel pool.

There were no injuries by this incident.

The results of the radioactive concentration analysis of the spent fuel pool water are as follows.
·Cesium 134: 2.2X10(3)Bq/cm3
·Cesium 137: 3.6X10(3)Bq/cm3
·Iodine 131: below detection limit (1.4X10(1)Bq/cm3).

The radioactive concentration analysis of the spent fuel pool water sampled on Sep 21
·Cesium 134: 2.4X10(3)Bq/cm3
·Cesium 137: 4.0X10(3)Bq/cm3
·Iodine 131: below detection limit (3.4X10(1)Bq/cm3)

We confirmed that there was no significant change to the water level of the spent fuel pool using a remote work camera.

There has been no significant change to the measured figures at the monitoring posts.

We will investigate the inside of the pool using underwater camera when as soon as it is ready.
Source: [link to www.tepco.co.jp]

Nothing bad will happen as usual.

So Fukushima was a good thing. You are ill.

Here's a recent photo of the spent fuel pond. Looks like they altered it with MS Paint. Too cheap to use a Photoshop professional.

[link to everist.org]

Lol! That picture reminds me of my first Nintendo, way back when it came out.

i concur

wow...thats some pretty bad editing. Thought the last one was bad enough!

good idea!!!
Because they will somehow always managed to keep it in cold shutdown, and safe and sound.
On top of that , the japs are immune to radiation, they dont need evacuations AND nobody will ever give a second thought about it ever again in their life once is there.

Imo. it look like a Compression Mistake and Tepco is
not willed enough to correct this!

btw thinking ahead. If this beam cracks and breaks a fuel rod, the resulting radiation will probably break them pumping cooling system or make it too dangerous to run, thus eventually allowing the pool water to boil away and then they all go then its show time.

"TEPCO confirmed that radiation and water levels have remained constant".




wow breaking the laws of physics and displacement. Amazing things happen all the time in Japan.

7 tonnes and 20 metre???.. want one in my bedroom............

......... enter attom-twat to say all is well.........

Last Edited by CitizenPerth™ on 09/23/2012 05:04 AM

According to this Wimpy Wanker from Australia nothing could happen
because the Fuel Rods already exploded and burned up
in the days after 03/11!

In that case i really do not know why they still spend so much Time and Effort on Nr. 3!

PS; he is wrong with that Statement,
the Fuel Rods are still there and do not burned or Exploded!

Last Edited by the mighty Atom on 09/23/2012 05:12 AM

The people ARE giving it a second thought...here is a link to a petition BEGGING for people to sign to lobby for the children to be evacuated....cause they are getting sick.

[link to fukushima-syomei.blogspot.jp]

( you need to translate the page )

"Now, the child is in danger! Action - citizens of the world to protect children from the Fukushima nuclear accident -

To protect them from exposure to nuclear accident Fukushima children , please signatures seeking to achieve immediate evacuation population"

This is Mr. Shunichi Yamashita advisor risk management health radiation Fukushima Prefecture, 2000 (0.8 The results of checking the children of Nagasaki in % and, from accident cysts) to 5 ~ 10 The results of checking the children of Chernobyl years (0.5 % compared with the cysts to be), it is a ridiculously high number. Accident has occurred to children in Fukushima clearly. If this still going, Fukushima I will get to that in today's Belarus and Ukraine have only 20% of healthy children.

Pass this on to people to sign the petition!

Last Edited by taniatarn on 09/23/2012 05:25 AM

I can't see much on the live cam - it's very hazy and dark so not much to see.
[link to www.tepco.co.jp]

Apparently this is supposed to be footage of the beam dropping in but I can't tell when it happens. Someone did comment that it was a few minutes into the video. It almost looks like a bit of smoke afterwards but it's very faint.
[link to www.youtube.com]