Fire at Fukushima near units 5 & 6, melted pipes fixed with duct tape

First press release:

※ around 48 pm on March 21 11 am, that fire come out from both banks of the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station 5, 6 Unit west side of the road, cooperation enterprise workers there was a discovery contact. Perform fire fighting by fire brigade and Futaba Fire Department activities, check the extinguished to 0:24 pm the same day. 1-6 Unit plant data (furnace water injection flow rate, fuel pool water temperature, reactor cooling state, etc.) of abnormal, significant fluctuations and of people injured occurrence of monitoring post indicated value has not been confirmed. And under investigation for the cause of such fire.

dang this shiet gon on for a while now

Duct tape FTW!

Second press release:

Today (March 21) around 11:48, it is follow-up on the fire from the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station 5, 6 Unit switching station west near the road side of the embankment.

In Futaba fire headquarters, confirm extinguished situation, extinguished has been confirmed today (March 21) afternoon 0:24.

For fire range, it was confirmed that it is the two locations of about 2m × 10m and about 2m × 15m by detailed confirmation.

Atmosphere dose of peripheral fire is 10μSv / h, air in the dust concentration was confirmed to be below the detection limit (8.2 × 10-5Bq / ㎝3).

In addition, where it was to investigate the site, that fire that occurred in both sides of the road leading to the 5-Unit 6 switching station, has confirmed that the piping and cable is through the fire range.

Cable, but is 5-Unit 6 from the communication is sending the data of Web camera video, and the like, and monitoring post to Anti-Earthquake Building cable (one line of which is 2 systems), and confirm that there is no abnormality in the communication state and we have.

For pipes, but that it is a piping for transferring the rainwater is treated with domestic water pipes and rainwater processing equipment used in the 5.6 Unit was confirmed, which, some of the domestic water pipe is damaged weaving, it was confirmed that the water has leaked from the damaged portion.

***For leakage point of domestic water piping, currently carried out by curing vinyl tape, leakage is stopped.***


Although it is under investigation for the cause of the fire, the results of the field survey, part of the vehicle (debris that may be damaged brake parts) has fallen on the road and fire range, there is a high possibility that caused the fire I we believe. Including may not have the appropriate vehicle, will continue will investigate.

With regard to materials and images relating to this matter, so we have posted on our website, please refer to [link to Photo.Tepco.Co.Jp]

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Direct link to fire update:
[link to translate.google.co.jp (secure)]

Last Edited by RadChick on 03/21/2015 02:09 PM

when in doubt always use duct tape...always!

From the second press release it looks like a car was burned too.

Interesting to see what caused the fire. Burned both sides of an access road.

Now we know what caused those radioactive Maxi Pads.

"melted pipes fixed with duct tape"

Japan has Rednecks too? Wow.

we will soon all be radioactive and pretty attractive

You know you're a Japanese Redneck if you've ever fired a double barrelled shotgun at Godzilla.

Hasn't this facility already melted down and killed us all 4 times already?

Great job TEPCO!

keep it up!

and cell phone covers.

And this:

130 ‘radioactive’ Japanese cars banned from entering Russia
Published time: January 05, 2014
[link to rt.com]

And this:

300 radioactive Japanese cars stopped at Russian border
Published time: July 19, 2012
[link to rt.com]

And this:

Radioactive cars from Japan keep turning up in Central Asia
Autoweek JULY 10, 2014
[link to autoweek.com]

And lots and lots of food items which Japan agreed to ban from exporting, some not until Nov of 2011 when things had been cookin over there already for 8 months:

From November 7, 2011 to January 16, 2012, the Japanese Prime Minister ordered the addition of kiwi fruit, rice, and bear meat, to the group of products previously restricted from distribution into the market on from the Fukushima prefecture, boar meat from the Fukushima, Ibaraki, and Tochigi prefectures, shitake mushrooms from the Chiba, Ibaraki, and Miyagi prefectures, brick-cap mushrooms and pholiota nameko from the Tochigi prefecture, and deer meat from the Tochigi prefecture.

From January 17, 2012 to May 31, 2012, the Japanese Prime Minister ordered the addition of hatakewasabi, wild Japanese butterbur scape, and common carp (not farm raised) from the Fukushima prefecture; bamboo shoots and log-grown shitake mushrooms from the Tochigi, Ibaraki, Chiba, Miyagi, and Iwate prefectures; boar meat from the Miyagi prefecture; Japanese pepper from Tochigi prefecture; Japanese parsley from the Iwata prefecture; eel, rockfish, Nibe croaker, and channel catfish (not farm raised) from the Ibaraki prefecture; panther puffer from the Miyagi prefecture; seabass and olive flounder from the Ibaraki and Miyagi prefectures; Pacific cod from the Miyagi and Iwata prefectures; dace from Gunma, Miyagi, and Iwata prefectures; wild white spotted char (not farm raised) from the Fukushima, Miyagi, and Iwata prefectures; crucian carp (not farm raised)from the Fukushima and Ibaraki prefectures; land locked salmon from the Fukushima, Gunma, and Miyagi prefectures; pteridium aquilinum (bracken fern) from the Fukushima, Tochigi, and Iwata; koshiabura (wild tree sprout) from the Fukushima, Ibaraki, Tochigi, Miyagi, and Iwata prefectures; royal fern from the Fukushima, Tochigi, Miyagi, and Iwata prefectures and wild Arelia root from the Fukushima and Tochigi prefectures.

From June 1, 2012 to July 10, 2013, the Japanese Prime Minister ordered the addition of the following products to the group of products restricted from distribution into the market:

the whole list here just from Japan:
[link to www.accessdata.fda.gov]

You have to go country by country on the FDA list because all of SE Asia could be affected, and then some.

Last Edited by RadChick on 03/21/2015 02:21 PM

That view shows reactor 1 in the foreground, which is pretty far from where this fire happened.

Duct tape and bars leak have saved the world more time than you know....

Do you work at a nuke plant?

No but my Uncle did....

Today's daily report from Tepco, bit more info about cables and pipes. Still no mention of injuries referenced on initial report:

[link to translate.google.co.jp (secure)]

For fire range, make sure that it is the two locations of about 2m × 10m and about 2m × 15m by detailed confirmation. Ensure that the atmosphere dose of peripheral fire is 10μSv / h, air in the dust concentration is less than the detection limit (8.2 × 10 -5 Bq / cm 3).

To make sure that the cable and piping is through the fire range. Cable, a communication cable that is sending the data of Web camera video, and the like, and monitoring post to Anti-Earthquake Building from 5-Unit 6 (1 lineage of that 2 systems), confirm that there is no abnormality in the communication state.

Also, the pipe is a pipe for transferring the rainwater is treated with domestic water pipes and rainwater processing equipment used in the 5-Unit 6, which, some of the domestic water pipe is damaged, the water from the damaged part leaks The finding that they are. For leakage point of domestic water piping, conducted a curing by plastic tape leakage is stopped. It is under investigation for the cause of the fire, but some of the vehicle (debris that may be damaged brake parts) has fallen on the road and fire range, it seems that there is a high possibility that caused the fire. Including be there is no corresponding vehicle, continue to conduct a survey.

Wigner?