Fukushima steam still baffling: TEPCO

Alarm as steam rises from Fukushima No. 3 reactor — Concern about uncontrolled chain reaction — Contains highly lethal MOX fuel — Tepco: “We don’t believe an emergency situation is breaking out” (VIDEO)

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Possibility of seawater coming up to the plant side

As long as they keep injecting water to the reactors, Fukushima plant will keep being the worst contamination source of the Pacific.


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Baffling...

Simple: Three total meltdowns, containment vessels breached, cement floor breached and at least one of the three cores has reached the water table. Guess what happens next...
Steam.

Shocking!!!

05/20/2012: Thread: Radioactive steam still coming out of Fukushima reactors — “On the order of trillions of becquerels per day” (AUDIO)

I would say there are billions, actually trillions, of becquerels per day being released airborne, mainly from Units 2 and 3.

Actually on cold nights you can still the steam coming off those reactors, its not just steam its radioactive steam.

Something on the order of trillions of becquerels per day… trillions of disintegrations per second per day are being released even now.

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Arnie Gundersen, Fairewinds Chief Nuclear Engineer: This is the sleeper as far as I’m concerned.

Unit 3 has about half the nuclear fuel in its pool than Unit 4 does.

Some of it is still quite hot.

It had been removed about 6 months before the meltdowns.

So it has a hot enough quarter of a core that it could burn in air.

And of course the Unit 3 building is fatally flawed.

So my concern is the same problem on Unit 4 could occur on Unit 3, we seem to just worry about Unit 4.