74.9℃ in reactor2

Following up this article ..After all, nothing is improved

Reactor2 marked the highest temperature in February.

It’s only 5.1℃ to warn local governments around the Fukushima plants.

It was 71.3℃ at 9:00 of 2/11/2012. It went down to 69.5℃ at 17:00, but it increased rapidly.

At 23:00, it’s already 74.9℃. Tepco decided to increase the water to inject even more.

A Japanese journalist Iwakami Yasumi tweeted like this below

岩上安身
@iwakamiyasumi

速報。東京電力より。傾向監視を行っている2号機原子炉圧力容器下部で、若干の温度上昇。2/11午後5時の時点で69.5度。6時間後の同日午後11時の時点で、74.9度。注水量を増加。Source

<Translation>

Emergency mail from Tepco.The heating gauge of the bottom of reactor2 showed temperature increase. At 17:00 of 2/11/2012, it was 69.5℃. 6 hours later, at 23:00, it was 74.9℃ (+5.4℃) Tepco decided to increase the water amount to inject.

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  1. How can you have cold shut down without a “reactor”?

    There are only three piles of radioactiv­e junk in Fukushima and those are no longer reactors!
    Example:
    If a tank blows up you have a burned out hulk or mass of scrap but you don;t have a tank any more; that ceased to exist when it blew up…

    RE: Cold Shutdown:
    It is a misuse of the term to describe a reactor after meltdown as ‘in cold shutdown’. As the fuel assembly is destroyed no shutdown is possible. Fuel is melted together and impossible to control directly. Even if pressure and temperatur­­e are unalarming momentaril­­y ‘cold shutdown’ implies complete control which is impossible after meltdown.

    Why can’t the Nuclear Industry accept that a melted down reactor is not a normal condition for a reactor which is shut down for any number of reasons and is ABLE TO BE STARTED UP AGAIN SAFELY!
    This is a perfect example of Nuclear Oriented Bad Science (N☢ BS) being used to provide dis-inform­ation to the public and only serves to call into question those in the Industry that should be speaking out against this Nuclear Baloney (NB)!

  2. Why does TEPCO and the Japanese Gov’t want to declare it’s Fukushima disaster Stable and more importantly, what do they hope to accomplish by doing it now; Is it a trial balloon?

    A. If the people “swallow” this Nuclear Baloney (NB) then TEPCO and their other Gov’t Leaders get to keep their jobs and march onward toward a nuclear future while the Nuclear refugees are “encouraged” to return to their Fukushima homes; letting history be the judge of whether or not this was the RIGHT decision.

    B. The people of Japan reject the concept of a “cold shut down” in which case TEPCO, in time, gets nationalized and Japan develops a 20 year plan to replace it’s reactors with solar of all flavors!

    C. The people of Japan are insulted by what TEPCO and their Gov’t is saying and take to the streets to DEMAND immediate change. TEPCO and their Government overseers are both swept away in order to placate the people of Japan. The Nuclear Refugees get settlements and the area around Fukushima is closed to all but scientific personal for the foreseeable future. Japan’s PM pledges to “race” Germany toward New Japanese developed Solar and being Nuclear within FIVE years…

    The Japanese people are now at a cross roads that will define both their future,their children’s future and possibly the future of Nuclear Power on Earth!

    What will they now do:
    …Bow to TEPCO?
    …Accept their Leaders vow to do better?
    …Or Demand much less Nuclear ASAP?

    This is a decision that only the Japanese People can make;
    … I hope they make US proud of them!

  3. Today on the 11th month after 3/11, things have never looked better for getting world wide attention on the reasons that land based nuclear reactors are EACH a Trillion Dollar Eco-Disaster waiting to happen!
    http://is.gd/W7pqVF

    The Japanese “STILL” are getting “Censored” information from their own Gov’t. and that is often suspect considering the news releases from other Japanese Professionals that are saying that what the Gov’t. and TEPCO are saying is just so much Nuclear Baloney (NB), especially about Low, Low dosages of radiation!
    http://kipuka.blog70.fc2.com/
    http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16004188
    http://enenews.com/?p=21124
    http://is.gd/WwnPju
    http://www.ratical.org/radiation/CNR/synapseP.html

    Remember that Nature can destroy any land based nuclear reactor, any place anytime 24/7/365! That in itself is reason enough to N☢T allow them to continue to operate; as what country can afford to spend aTrillion dollars and 20 to 100 years on cleanup?
    http://is.gd/KwMCKY

    Solar (of all flavors) is ready to replace Nuclear, if we all push for it ASAP and demand SAFETY FIRST from those that seek to supply our ENERGY; we cannot afford to yield to Nuclear Fascism* any longer!
    http://is.gd/oYgd5d

    Good Luck Japan, the Japanese Irregulars salute you!
    http://is.gd/05AeKL (there are many others)

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I am the writer of this website. About page remains in 2014. This is because my memory about 311 was clearer than now, 2023, and I think it can have a historical value. Now I'm living in Romania with 3 cats as an independent data scientist.
Actually, nothing has progressed in the plant since 2011. We still don't even know what is going on inside. They must keep cooling the crippled reactors by water, but additionally groundwater keeps flowing into the reactor buildings from the broken parts. This is why highly contaminated water is always produced more than it can circulate. Tepco is planning to officially discharge this water to the Pacific but Tritium is still remaining in it. They dilute this with seawater so that it is legally safe, but scientifically the same amount of radioactive tritium is contained. They say it is safe to discharge, but none of them have drunk it.

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