| No more will my green sea go turn a deeper blue. I could not foresee this thing happening to you. Plutonium likely ejected from fuel pools during explosions up to "several miles" from reactor http://fairewinds.com/content/closing-ranks-nrc-nuclear-industry-and-tepco-are-limiting-flow-information http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8BhHTA6Gzn0&feature=related Professor at Kyoto University's nuclear institute changes mind: I've started to think fission has happened again re-criticality http://www.asyura2.com/11/genpatu8/msg/632.html Google Translation: http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=ja&tl=en&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.asyura2.com%2F11%2Fgenpatu8%2Fmsg%2F632.html Interview with Professor Akira Hiroshi Koide, Kyoto University's Research Reactor Institute (NOT the literal translation) "The Fukushima I Nuke Plant accident is not winding down at all. I think I have to revise my opinion which was too optimistic." [Host:] What was too optimistic? "We thought the reactors "cold stopped", which means the uranium fission stopped. But now I've started to think the fission has started again. In other words, the reactor has become "critical" again - which we call "recriticality"." [Host:] Professor Koide, you were of the opinion that the recriticality was not happening. "Yes, and I've changed my mind. It may be happening." "First, the level of iodine[-131] is not decreasing; it is increasing. Iodine[-131]'s half life is 8 days. It has been more than 3 weeks since the accident, so the level of iodine[-131] should be about 1/10 of the initial level measured. Second, the presence of chlorine-38 was detected from the contaminated water in the turbine building [he doesn't say which one]." "Well, if chlorine-38 was detected [according to TEPCO], and that can only mean "recriticality". |