Fukushima updates - May 20 , 2012

http://enenews.com/radioactive-steam-coming-fukushima-reactors-order-trillions-becquerels-day-audio


Dr. Helen Caldicott interviews Arnold Gundersen
If You Love This Planet Radio

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.

and....

http://enenews.com/former-reactor-operator-recriticality-spent-fuel-pool-4-never-ending-fountain-particulates-gas-video

 Interview with Chris Harris
Nutrimedical Report, Host Bill Deagle
May 18, 2012

Chris Harris, former licensed Senior Reactor Operator and engineer

His extensive career in the industry spans over 3 decades, and special training in severe accidents and mitigation strategies. Chris now works in Maryland for a consultant firm.

In the case of Unit 4… you can get a recriticality.

Here’s how that happens. To prevent criticality, you are depending on spacing of spent fuel in the racks. If you damage [fuel racks] where you’ve got a reduced spacing between assemblies, you’ve eliminated a guard against spontaneous fission. There’s still neutron emitters and water in the area to moderate… You could actually get a criticality in the fuel pool.

That would be a never ending process threes no way to shut that down.

Some of the fuel doesn’t have control blades, a boiling water reactor has control blades not control rods, so some of them are unbladed. Those would be ones where you may get a fission… of course if you have a fission and you’re going to generate more fission products, there you have another never ending fountain of particulates and gas.

and.....

http://fukushima-diary.com/2012/05/tepco-banned-freelance-journalists-from-taking-cameras-into-fukushima-plants/

Tepco banned freelance journalists from taking cameras into Fukushima plants

Posted by Mochizuki on May 20th, 2012 · 3 Comments

Following up this article..[LIVE] Inside of Fukushima plants (1,500 microSv/h in the bus)

On 5/14/2012, Tepco announced they are going to open Fukushima plants for journalists on 5/26 again.
This time, Tepco is taking invited journalists to the mountain side of reactor4 building.

However, they allowed only two freelance journalists into the site, and banned them from taking cameras.
These two journalists can not even take video.
As the reason, Tepco states they have to assign their employees to each journalist to watch them not to take pictures or videos where they mustn’t for nuclear protection. There are not enough number of the employees to watch these freelance journalists.

5/14、東電は5/26に記者を福島第一原発に招き入れることを発表しました。　今回記者達は倒壊が懸念されている4号機の山側に近づけることになります。
しかし、フリーランスの記者は2人しかいれてもらえず、カメラ等の機材も禁止されていることが分かりました。理由として東電は核防護上公開してはいけないところを保護するため、各取材班に監視員をつける関係で、フリーの分まで人員が回らないとしています。