Sunday, October 1, 2017

There may be an emergency at Fukushima Daiichi


I've been posting about the heightened emissions at Fukushima Daiichi over the last few days following the 6.0 earthquake last week:

Screenshots from the last few days:



Most notably, emissions have increased from units 2 and 3, visible on the TEPCO CAM 1, but also visible in a heightened pink-yellow glow over Daiichi visible from the Futaba cam.

Please see the location of the sunrise on the Futuaba cam Sep 29 2017:
 

Please see the location of the yellow glow over Fukushima 3 days later on the Futaba cam October 2:

 

Why doesn't the glow over the plant this morning, approximately 1 hour after sunrise, not coincide with the location of the sunrise from 3 days ago (can the sun's relative location moved so much in 3 days)?

I noticed this same effect yesterday (please see links above). 

I believe the pink glow is produced by a similar mechanism as auroras: High speed electrons from radioactive decay excite nitrogen atoms in the atmosphere.

My hypothesis is that the earthquake has producing more fission activity, having disrupting melted corium in some fashion or another.  Although any fission activity is unlikely to lead to explosions, I hypothesize these non-critical fission chains can increase environmental radioactivity.

Today there is a police car and trucks located at the Futaba intersection that is located immediately near the plant:
 

I think something must be going awry.


 

 

7 comments:

  1. It was the 28th when TEPCO posted news about a gauge error... https://twitter.com/Cecalli_Helper/status/913377794209599488 and tank water level alarm https://twitter.com/Cecalli_Helper/status/913378454900543489

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  2. Majia, there is another consideration to the pink color, cesium and/or strontium both burn pink. Plutonium burns yellow.

    I've seen both before on Tepco cams.
    In any case it's a concern that no one is talking about, or will, in the media, which is why I am devoted to your site.

    Lakshmi

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  3. Ninth Gate of Hell

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  4. Yes, the 9th gate of hell sounds about right. Thank you Weez and Lakshmi for your support. It keeps me going.

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  5. Hi Majia.

    Many thanks for your calm, considered and consistent vigilance and reporting of this ongoing disaster. Very few people cover this topic as effectively as you do.

    I wonder if variation in refrective index of different atmospheric contents (local emmissions)could cause the sun to appear to have moved so far in just three days. Just a thought.

    Some quite pronounced upticks on Eurdep monitors again since the recent quake, but as usual it's almost impossible to link the two with certainty. After watching these patterns for long enough now though,and having a pretty good idea what a mess they made at Fukushima I know what my instincts say.

    Sincerely.

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    1. Interesting question anonymous? I don't know the answer but what I have noticed is there often seems to be a broad column of heat at that location, which appears to be just south of the reactors. Not sure what is there, if anything. I'll post a few screenshots in near future

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  6. typo - 'refractive index'

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