Remember Fukushima? It's Back

[dd2003]

crap...

TEPCO finds sign of fresh nuclear fission at Fukushima reactor
TOKYO, Nov. 2, Kyodo

Tokyo Electric Power Co. said Wednesday there may be signs of fresh nuclear fission in the No. 2 reactor at its quake-damaged Fukushima Daiichi power plant and that it has begun injecting boric acid to control a possible nuclear reaction.

There has been no change in the temperature, pressure and radiation levels at the reactor, whose nuclear fuel is believed to have melted when the cooling system failed following the March 11 earthquake and tsunami, the utility known as TEPCO said.

Gas samples taken Tuesday from inside the reactor's containment vessel may contain radioactive xenon, a gas typically generated by nuclear fission, the company said.



http://english.kyodonews.jp/news/2011/11/123753.html

[AnOhioan]

1. Recced to zero

[CoffeeCat]

6. The industry lobbyists...

...play for keeps on messageboards.

[RaleighNCDUer]

18. but in the end the number of recs shows how few they really are. nt

[tavalon]

19. it didn't last

155 recs now

[City Lights]

2. K&R. eom

[flamingdem]

3. Mercy for the Japanese

they do not deserve all this tribulation.

[nadinbrzezinski]

4. Alas it truly never go away.

[quakerboy]

10. That is just an exageration

The u-235 is only about 4% of the total uranium volume in those reactors, and its half life is a mere 703 million years. So in just a bit under 3 billion years, it will be back to the level of your average household uranium, at which point that place will be no more dangerous than a uranium mine.

[Bennyboy]

13. :Wipes brow: Whew!

So reassuring!

[Sabriel]

21. Household uranium?

What kind of house are you keeping there?

I'm cancelling my visit.

[quakerboy]

22. The true secret to a long life and unique children.

http://www.orau.org/ptp/collection/atomictoys/gilbertu238lab.htm


Or if you prefer:

http://www.popsci.com/science/article/2011-08/can-you-split-atoms-uranium-home-your-kitchen-one-swedish-man-investigates

[jimlup]

5. So apparently that means that the globs of reactor melt have accumulated yet another fission

sustaining mass. That's scary and nobody can go in to change it. I'm assuming these xenon are Xe133 or Xe135 both of which have half lives of less than one week so this is clearly recent.

[Sabriel]

7. Huh. And we were told it was a thing of the past.

At what point are we considered mature enough to handle the truth?

[nadinbrzezinski]

8. No dinner fer ya?

Asking adult questions. Next you'll demand NO CURFEW.

[dd2003]

9. finally hitting major news

finally.

[Defectata]

11. I guess its hard to insert control rods

into a melted puddle of nuclear fuel, huh?

[kestrel91316]

12. [phone]

[truedelphi]

16. Welcome to Du.

The site itself, not the depleted uranium!

[Defectata]

20. long time lurker

seldom poster (LTL-SPer)

[TBF]

14. Will likely not know the real damage for years .. K&R nt

[greiner3]

15. I'm waiting on Arnie Gunderson's response.

As of today he has not posted anything new.

[Enthusiast]

17. But we continue to encourage building

new nuclear power plants here in the U.S.