Something MAJOR Has Changed Regarding Fukushima Reactor 4.

[LIVE] Tepco is removing the upper part of reactor4  Fukushima Diary seems caught off guard.  He's got a live feed, if you're interested.. Demolition, or urgent deconstruction of the upper part of the Reactor building began without an announcement.  This is important.  Somethings happening.

After a year and a half of watching the severely understaffed workers try to stabilize three Reactors from criticality and clear debris, very little other has been done to stabilize the Reactor 4 building, until just a few weeks ago.  You'd think 1551 fuel assemblies packed in a damaged Spent Fuel Pool 90 feet in the air that is a potential World-Ender would be a priority, but it has not.  Again, until now.

So today TEPCO decides to bust ass on a project that was just a week ago moved up to this fall from the end of 2013, and was moved up today to..  Well, today.  Ominous.

The wind is blowing directly into Tokyo, by the way..

And there's this..

Experts warn of nuclear fire at Fukushima  Audio post from ABC News.  Released earlier today, before deconstruction.


Holy shit!  What the fuck is going on at Fukushima?  Godlike Productions.  The first page of this thread overstates the doom(for the moment), but the thread itself has some good sources.  Like this one. 

One note:  During this thread, the appearance of demolition/construction men on the upper levels of 4 are called out as evidence that this whole thing is a hoax(As the radioactive threat is not real, and this all has been a cover up for Something Else..).  Not quite.  Reactors 1,2, and 3 had meltdowns, and 4 was damaged in an explosion, but the Reactor itself was shut down.  The primary danger of Reactor 4 has always been the Spent Fuel Pool, not overwhelming radiation like the first three.


Any accident involving Reactor 4's Spent Fuel Pool could be catastrophic.  I wish the men dismantling this potentially world ending time bomb nimble-ness, efficiency, and the utmost of safety!  No pressure, fellas:  The fate of the world's on your shoulders; that's all..

It's Cooked And We're Boned? No. It's Boned And We're Cooked!

New photos show what remains of No. 4 reactor building’s eastern wall  The top photo shows how much progress TEPCO's cleanup has made.  Cleaner?  Yes.  Sturdy?  For now..

The fact Spent Fuel Pool/Reactor 4 remains standing is the only thing standing between us and global catastrophe.  Earthquakes happen almost daily.  There's enough material here to contaminate..  Everything, eventually.  And there's a good chance a quake will come along sooner rather than later, thereby causing civilization to effectively end.  

I, for one, are doing things I will miss when they become unavailable.  Went to a movie tonight.  I haven't been in a theater in two years.  Small crowd, no one talked..  It was really nice! 

I will be, in the very near future, doing more items on my Fukushima Bucket List.  Small, accessible activities I love.  Up next, Thai or Indian, and frozen custard.  Jogging outdoors.  A day of photography.  Asking ______ out.  This really is the time, friends.  There might not be any more.   Don't say no one ever told you.. 

Innocuous Header, Ominous Implications.. (Upate, Friday, April 13, 6 p.m. Central)

SFP4 over 55℃. Coolant system is still stopped.  10 hours started awhile ago, by the way..  Fukushima Diary.  Excerpts:  (The little squares are a missing font that indicate Celsius..)

Though Tepco stopped the water leakage, coolant system is still not back on. At the moment, they can’t estimate when they can recover it. Also, they estimated the temperature increases at 0.5℃/h, it’s increasing at over 1℃/h. It went up by 22℃ within 18 hours. Currently the temperature of SFP is 55℃.(10:00 JST) The safety limit is 65℃. At this pace, it will reach 65℃ about in 10 hours.

Please remember that nuclear energy containment temperatures must be tightly controlled to remain safe.  A 22 degree Celsius rise IS NOT STABLE and IS VERY DANGEROUS.  This has been a recurring problem at Fukushima.  Unless TEPCO gets its shit together pronto, there will be fireworks; and soon.  Radioactive, Extinction Level fireworks. 

Prayers to your appropriate deity might be wise right now..  Atheists, just cross your fingers, as nothing else regarding TEPCO seems to help.  Also:  Helpful aliens?  Right now might be a good time to jump into Earth's affairs--You have my permission!

UPDATE:

Probably coolant system of SFP recovered  So things have "probably" stabilized.. For now..

Nebraska Nuclear "Situation:" Less Worries By Almost Half, And Yet..

I've been a tad bit concerned about developments along the Missouri River in neighboring Nebraska regarding the safety of both Ft. Calhoun Nuclear Plant near Omaha, and Cooper Nuclear Plant, near Brownsville. 

Washington's Blog is cautiously optimistic about Fort Calhoun, at least at the moment.

Dr. Tom Burnett has a more pessimistic view..

And then there's Cooper Nuclear Plant's own set of problems..

And then, there's the related Worst Case Scenario that turns these two nuclear plants into Worst Case Scenarios of their(and our) own./  So if Fort Peck Dam collapses, the recipe for Apocalypse involves massive radioactive release/dispersal, and catastrophic flooding of biblical proportions.

Enjoy your summer.  Party hard, and don't forget to update your bug out bag..