Thursday, March 6, 2014

WIPP Leak May Be Caused By Salt Roof Collapse

WIPP Leak May Be Caused By Salt Roof Collapse
What’s leaking from the nuclear Waste Isolation Pilot Program? from Fairewinds Energy Education on Vimeo.
- WIPP Expert: Nuclear waste is getting out above ground — Plutonium / Americium found in “every single worker” on site when leak began — New Mexico officials ‘totally unsatisfied’ with lack of info from Feds — “We don’t know how far away it’s gone” — Continuing threat for long time to come (AUDIO)(5,174)
- “WIPP release story doesn’t add up… accident is unbelievable” — New tests show “high level” release underground — “Contains things far more radioactive than High Level Waste” — “I want to hear what really happened down there” (VIDEO) (4,255)
TV: Radioactive waste containers may be “smashed and opened ...
enenews.com/tv-drums-of-radioactive-waste-may-be-smashed-and-open...‎
Feb 21, 2014 - the radiation leak occurred on the evening of Feb. ..... all this nearby drilling disturbance helped that salt mine storage chamber roof collapse.
TV: Radioactive waste containers may be “smashed and opened” after roof collapse at leaking U.S. nuclear site — Official: We believe there’s been a breach… “It’s a very serious thing” — ‘Seismic event’ mentioned — High levels of alpha and beta radiation detected (VIDEO)

Published: February 21st, 2014 at 11:49 am ET
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Carlsbad Current Argus, Feb. 20, 2014 (emphasis added): [...] the radiation leak occurred on the evening of Feb. 14, according to new information made public at a news conference Thursday afternoon. […] Joe Franco, manager of the DOE Carlsbad Field Office, said an underground air monitor detected high levels of alpha and beta radiation activity consistent the waste buried at WIPP. “We are assuming and believe that it is from one of our waste (sources) that we have underground […]” he added. […] It could be up to three or four weeks before workers can go underground to survey the possible source [...]

Reuters, Feb. 20, 2014: Airborne radioisotopes can be harmful if inhaled or swallowed. […] “Even though it’s well below levels established by the EPA to ensure protection of public health, it’s a very serious thing,” [Franco] said at a news conference Thursday afternoon. “WIPP is not intended to be in this kind of condition.” […] “Radiation is simply not supposed to be released outside this facility. It’s not supposed to be released inside the underground. Any type of release is unacceptable and disconcerting,” [Secretary of New Mexico Environment Department Ryan Flynn] said. […] Franco said indications suggest a drum or drums containing radioactive waste may have breached for reasons that are not yet known.

AP, Feb. 20, 2014: [...] could be weeks before workers can safely access the underground dump to determine what happened. […] It was the second incident in just a matter of weeks. Earlier this month, a truck hauling salt below ground caught fire [...] but Franco said it was unlikely the events were related. He also said there was no evidence of a seismic event at the site.

KRQE, Feb. 21, 2014: Federal and state agencies are scrambling to deal with the discovery of airborne radiation [...] one of the working theories right now is that a big slab of the roof broke free, hit the stack, knocked some drums off and smashed and opened one or more of them. [...] that is not supposed to happen in areas being actively worked by crews. It appears the leak occurred in an active work area [...]

Watch the KRQE broadcast here
Officials: More may be affected by WIPP radiation release — TV ...
enenews.com/officials-even-more-may-be-affected-by-wipp-radiation-le...‎
Feb 27, 2014 - a container of waste leaked, but it could be weeks before they can get underground ... Possible scenarios include a ceiling collapse or a forklift puncturing a..... Now we have nuclear waste and a fire in an underground salt mine. .... with the Doh! idea for storing nuclear waste in salt caverns, in the first place.
Plutonium release from the WIPP radioactive waste facility.
optimalprediction.com/.../plutonium-release-from-the-wipp-radioactive-...‎
Feb 22, 2014 - This is consistent with the nature of the nuclear waste stored in therepository. .... After shaft leakage, such roof breaching is the next most common cause of ..... disturbance helped that salt mine storage chamber roof collapse.
The WIPP Facility - Cardnm.org
www.cardnm.org/repository_a.html‎
The Construction and Salt Handling Shaft, the Waste Shaft, the Air Intake Shaft ...seams and anhydrite beds above and below the repository which can leak water. It is actually not at all uncommon for salt mines to become inundated with ... rapid until the salt becomes brittle and the roof collapses causing subsidence and ...
WIPP leaks 'should never occur' (NM nuclear disposal site)
www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3125608/posts‎
Free Republic
Feb 21, 2014 - The waste, stored in sealed containers, is stacked in underground rooms ... One speculation is that part of the salt roof collapsed damaging and ...
400 TONS of Radioactive Water 'Leaking' - AGreenRoad Project
agreenroad.blogspot.com/.../400-tons-of-radioactive-water-leaking.html‎
Aug 9, 2013 - These, and all future rooms will suffer collapse of major roof slabs ... In Germany, they tried this salt mine nuclear waste storage thing and here ...

Thursday, February 20, 2014

Radiation Levels

-Radiation Levels

3.75 Sv/hr 3/2011 Unit 3 from water bombing helicopter
1.3 Sv/hr11/2011 Unit 3 cameraman http://fukushima-diary.com/2011/11/1-3-svh-at-reactor-3

Wednesday, February 19, 2014

Book Fukushima: The Story of a Nuclear Disaster

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Fukushima: The Story of a Nuclear Disaster[Hardcover]

David Lochbaum (Author), Edwin Lyman (Author), Susan Q. Stranahan(Author), The Union of Concerned Scientists (Author)

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Book Description

Publication Date: February 11, 2014 | ISBN-10: 1595589082 | ISBN-13: 978-1595589088

On March 11, 2011, an earthquake large enough to knock the earth from its axis sent a massive tsunami speeding toward the Japanese coast and the aging and vulnerable Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power reactors. Over the following weeks, the world watched in horror as a natural disaster became a man-made catastrophe: fail-safes failed, cooling systems shut down, nuclear rods melted.

In the first definitive account of the Fukushima disaster, two leading experts from the Union of Concerned Scientists, David Lochbaum and Edwin Lyman, team up with journalist Susan Q. Stranahan, the lead reporter of the Philadelphia Inquirer’s Pulitzer Prize–winning coverage of the Three Mile Island accident, to tell this harrowing story. Fukushima combines a fast-paced, riveting account of the tsunami and the nuclear emergency it created with an explanation of the science and technology behind the meltdown as it unfolded in real time. Bolstered by photographs, explanatory diagrams, and a comprehensive glossary, the narrative also extends to other severe nuclear accidents to address both the terrifying question of whether it could happen elsewhere and how such a crisis can be averted in the future.

Review

"The book is a gripping, suspenseful page-turner finely crafted to appeal both to people familiar with the science and those with only the barest inkling of how nuclear power works. Even with the broad outlines of the story in the public record, the authors have uncovered many important details that never came to light during the saturation-level media coverage."
—Kirkus Reviews

"Their thriller-like, minute-by-minute chronicle covers every harrowing technical breakdown, backed by briskly informative illuminations of the science underlying the boiling-water reactors and the systems designed to prevent their meltdown. They are equally precise in their coverage of the human side of the story, from the grave dangers confronting the plant’s valiant staff to the scrambling of public officials to the trauma of evacuees as explosions wracked Fukushima and radiation leaks increased. As the crisis at Fukushima continues, this exacting and chilling record of epic failures in risk assessment, regulation, preparedness, and transparency will stand as a cautionary analysis of the perils of nuclear power the world over."
—Booklist (starred review)

"Anyone seriously interested in understanding the issues involved in delivering ‘safe’ nuclear energy will be rewarded by reading this book; anybody involved in delivering nuclear power should be required to read it."
—Robert Gallucci, president of the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation

"It’s hard to imagine a more comprehensive and compelling account of what happened after an earthquake and tsunami struck the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in March 2011. There are lessons in this book for all of us. This book is a must-read for anyone who cares about nuclear power."
—Robert J. Rosenthal, executive director of the Center for Investigative Reporting

"A compelling analysis of the nuclear disaster at Fukushima and a pointed challenge to the nuclear industry and its regulators."
—Rush Holt, U.S. House of Representatives

"A riveting account of the unfolding of the Fukushima accident that gives the reader a feel for how hard it is to respond to an unprecedented catastrophe in the face of uncertainty."
—Victor Gilinsky, former commissioner at the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission

"Everyone who cares about the Faustian bargain we make for nuclear energy must read this terrifying story."
—David Suzuki, co-founder of the David Suzuki Foundation and host of The Nature of Things

"This amazing book provides both a blow-by-blow account of the Fukushima accident and an exploration of what needs to be done worldwide to improve nuclear safety. Essential reading, whether you agree with all of its conclusions or not."
—Matthew Bunn, professor at Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government

"Gripping and authoritative, Fukushima opens a new chapter in the debate on the difficult and perhaps impossible goal of safe nuclear power."
—Alexander Glaser, assistant professor at the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs

About the Author

David Lochbaum is the head of the Union of Concerned Scientists’ Nuclear Safety Project and author of Nuclear Waste Disposal Crisis. He lives in Chattanooga. Edwin Lyman is a senior scientist in the Global Security Program of the Union of Concerned Scientists. He lives in Washington, D.C. Susan Q. Stranahan is the author of Susquehanna: River of Dreams. She lives in Maine. The Union of Concerned Scientists is the leading science-based nonprofit working for a healthy environment and a safer world.

Febrary 2014

2/19/2014

http://vimeo.com/87088463

CSI: Fukushima

from Fairewinds Energy Education PLUS 10 hours ago NOT YET RATED

TEPCO is behaving as though it is the victim of the largest industrial accident in the history of time rather than the perpetrator. Fairewinds Energy Education's Arnie Gundersen analyzes new leaks at Fukushima Daiichi Unit 3 and discusses TEPCO's negligence in not applying engineering rigor to its analysis of the leaks.
Link to Fairewinds Speech at the New York Academy of Medicine: bit.ly/1lnUCEa

found warm radioactive water leak in unit 3

containment comprimised and leaking water

Thursday, February 13, 2014

Fukushima Groundwater Cesium Double compared to July

Groundwater cesium reaches record level

JIJI

FUKUSHIMA – ..tepco..detected a record 54,000 becquerels of radioactive cesium per liter in groundwater collected..east of the reactor 2 turbine at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant...was 22,000 .. July 2013.
Safe level is (7)

from http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/02/13/national/groundwater-cesium-reaches-record-level/#.Uv0wkvldV6k

from http://www.fukuleaks.org/web/?p=12348

Well 1-3 was previously found to have:
11,000 bq/liter of cesium 134
22,000 bq/liter of cesium 137

Now well 1-13 was found to have:
22,000 bq/liter of cesium 134
54,000 bq/liter of cesium 137

from http://www.fukuleaks.org/web/?page_id=5680

US EPA Limits of Radioactive Isotopes:

EPA has established a maximum contaminant level of 4 millirem per year for beta particle and photon radioactivity from man-made radionuclide’s in drinking water.

Iodine-131 = 3piC/L (0.11 Bq/L)
Cesium-137 = 200 picocuries per liter (7.41 Bq/L)
Stronium-90 = 8 picocuries per liter. (0.30 Bq/L)
Technetium-99 = 900 picocuries per liter (33.3 Bq/L)
Tritium = 20,000 picocuries per liter (741 Bq/L)
Uranium-238 = 30 µg/L (micrograms/liter)
Iodine-129 = 3 picocuries per liter (0.11 Bq/L)
Milk = 170 Bq/kg (of iodine-131)

Arnie Gunderson on Fukushima Unit 3 Wreckage Fuel Removal Problem

Arnie Gunderson on Fukushima Unit 3 Wreckage Fuel Removal Problem

There is a semi-truck worth of wreckage on top of the Unit 3 fuel pool - it is essentially impossible with current or forseeable technology to remove the hot fuel.

http://vimeo.com/86536136

Tuesday, January 14, 2014

Stop Worrying About Fukushima Radiation! Natural Radiation on California beach

Video

43 new results for fukushima

Stop Worrying About Fukushima Radiation! - YouTube02:59

Since the 2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster, people have been quick to blame radiation levels across the Pacific on the deteriorating power plant.[he says authorities have deemed it natural, no reason to panic about the geiger counter on a california beach]

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