Sunday, September 4, 2016

Heavy Steam Today at Fukushima


Fukushima is extra steamy today:



From the perspective of Cam 4 and also the TBS cam view, it appears the steam is coming from the location of the common spent fuel pool (although I acknowledge the views are limited and I could be wrong about the location of the steam).



The Futaba cam shows dry streets at the intersection.
 

2 comments:

  1. The biggest threat to the continuation of human and other life on this planet over which presumably humans have control is the nuclear. But there are others and probably some about which we do not know. It occurs to me now and then that the human species may very well have a strong death wish which is increasing at this time. Or how else can one explain how educated people ignore the grave dangers of nuclear power? Recently someone who ought to know better was talking about bananas again being radioactive! Certainly climate change has shoved every other threat off the stage. People commit suicide all the time. Having reflected quite a bit on this phenomenon my conclusion is that it is something that happens to people rather than something they do to themselves which is only an appearance. Is the human species reaching the point of mass suicide? Has the collective unconscious become so clogged with despair that too many people now just turn away and take drugs for mental illness or illegal drugs or drink alcohol? And then there is science. Here is an example of why I think we have a science problem now. The article I will list below strikes me as good and helpful though it contradicts what we hear daily on NPR and the like. "Reducing CO2 – To Save The Climate" http://realclimatescience.com/reducing-co2-to-save-the-climate/

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  2. https://nuclear-news.net

    f you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. A lie told once remains a lie but a lie told a thousand times becomes the truth ”

    Dr Goebbels would be delighted with the nuclear lobby’s lie that nuclear power is zero carbon and will fix climate change. He would be even more delighted with the current success of this lie.

    “Think of the press as a great keyboard on which the government can play.”

    The failing nuclear industry is fighting for its life. It now pitches its salvation on its claim to halt climate change. Even if
    that were true (which it isn’t) the world would have to construct several thousand ‘conventional’ reactors, or several millions of Small Modular Reactors (SMRs) very quickly, within a decade or two.

    How is it that politicians , media, academics have swallowed this lie?

    Governments, media, the public still see these issues in terms of “national interest”, but haven’t made that necessary leap of understanding that demands a global  collaborative approach. Pope Francis gets it. So do those most sober and deliberative of scientists – geologists. At the  International Geological Congress in Cape Town, on 29th August, an official expert group recommended that a new geological epoch be defined – the Anthropocene epoch.  Human impact on Earth is so profound that the most recent epoch, the 12,000 year Holocene, must give way to an epoch defined by nuclear tests, environmental pollution, and changing climate. The most appropriate commencement marker would be the spread of radioactive elements from the nuclear bomb tests beginning in 1950s.
    JAPAN. 

    Fukushima:

    Typhoons cause ‘ice wall’ to melt at Fukushima nuclear plant. Underground Ice Wall is Japan’s gamble to contain Fukushima’s irradiated water.Public Cost of Fukushima Cleanup Tops $628 Billion and Is Expected to Climb.  Problems persist at Japan’s crippled Fukushima nuclear reactors.Niigata prefecture governor Hirohiko Izumida not seeking re-election: new hope for restarting Fukushima nuclear plant. Radioactive Boar Are Thriving And Causing Havoc Near The Fukushima Power Plant.< Japan Extends Reactor Lifetimes for First Time Since Fukushima. Japan considers scrapping fast-breeder reactor as costs mount.

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