[Reactor4] Debris removal was finished, fuel will be taken out soon.

Following up this article..[LIVE] Tepco is removing the upper part of reactor4

Tepco finished the debris removal of SFP4.

They are going to take out 2 of the new fuel assemblies soon.[Link]

 

[Reactor4] Debris removal was finished, there's nothing above SFP4

 

[Reactor4] Debris removal was finished, there's nothing above SFP4 2

 

[Reactor4] Debris removal was finished, there's nothing above SFP4 3

 

[Reactor4] Debris removal was finished, there's nothing above SFP4 4

 

 

[Reactor4] Debris removal was finished, there's nothing above SFP4 5

 

[Reactor4] Debris removal was finished, there's nothing above SFP4 6

 

Source 1 2

 

 

  1. How is reactor 4 sfp being cooled now? I don’t see hoses in any of the pictures.

  2. FUKUSHIMA DIARY FR – [Réacteur4] Le déblaiement des décombres est terminé, le combustible va bientôt pouvoir être retiré.
    Par Mochizuki, le 12 juillet 2012 · 1 Commentaire

    Tepco a fini de retirer les décombres de la SFP4 (piscine à combustibles usagés). Maintenant le PCV (Enceinte de confinement primaire) et la SFP4 sout complètement à l’air libre.

    Ils vont bientôt procéder au retrait de deux assemblages de barres de combustible neuves.[cf. http://fukushima-diary.com/2012/05/tepco-removing-2-fuel-assemblies-from-reactor4/%5D

    (6 photos)

    Sources :
    1- http://photo.tepco.co.jp/en/date/2012/201207-e/120711_01e.html
    2- http://www.fct.co.jp/news/#201207124114639

  3. What!!

    “Fuel will be taken out soon?”

    Godzilla to the rescue??

    I’d like to hear how they are going to do that.

    1. It will most likely be a crane that pick up the assembly and drops it in a special tanker truck… Perhaps a modified dump truck that can hold water would be all they needed. It has an open top and a bed that is at least 12-13 ft in length. The unused fuel is not nearly radioactive as the spent fuel. The amount of time needed to extract the assembly Should be less than 1 hour, even if somehow it was irradiated with some stray neutrinos it wont be exposed to the air long enough to ignite. Unless there is a catastrophic crane failure lol we should ask if they have a backup on site I bet they won’t. Some people will never learn to do things the right way for the right reasons.
      Much love to u Japan all of us in Canada are praying for you!

  4. look, I have photos of SFP4 in the top part of reactor 4 building from last year – IT IS GONE.. Spent Fuel Pool Four is no longer part of the building. We can clearly see the top of the reactor (big yellow dome)but where is the fuel pool which should be ABOVE the reactor ???

    Where is SFP 4 ??

    1. The Spent Fuel Pool is under the steel structure on picture 3.

      The cap of the reactor was not on the reactor as the reactor was in maintenance mode with no fuel in it.
      That’s why the Spent Fuel pool is so loaded, there is a full brand new core and older assemblies.

  5. This is good. Things will be better once the fuel has been put into dry storage. OK, OK, I admit I’m desperate for good news.

  6. I think it got hot melted and fissioned, at least that’s what i’ve seen from jnn cam and then the correlating screaming geiger counters across the pacific starting three days after the june 29 beginning of the fission event.

  7. MOCHIZUKI-SAN:

    MOST VERY IMPORTANT FOR YOU TO READ THIS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    FIRST STEP TO END THE WAR ON URANIUM / NUCLEAR FOR FUTURE GENERATIONS.

    THIS SHOULD IN TIME AT LEAST SLOW DOWN URANIUM MINING AND INFORM THE JAPANESE PEOPLE OF WHAT TEPCO DOES WITH URANIUM WASTE BYPRODUCTS.

    FLUORIDE….FLUORIDE….FLUORIDE….FLUORIDE….FLUORIDE….FLUORIDE….

    FLUORIDE IS A TOXIC WASTE BY NATURE.

    IT IS MORE TOXIC THAN CHLORINE TO HUMAN BEINGS AND CANNOT BE BOILED OUT OF WATER.

    FLUORIDE IS USED TO REFINE URANIUM ORE. (ALSO PHOSPHORUS AND ALUMINUM ORE)

    LESS THAN 1% OF JAPAN POPULATION HAS FLUORIDE IN THEIR WATER SUPPLY.

    THE FLUORIDE BYPRODUCT FROM THIS PROCESS SHOULD BE STORED AS TOXIC WASTE IN A DESIGNATED TOXIC WASTE FACILITY IN BARRELS SIMILAR TO THE WAY ANY TOXIC WASTE IS STORED IN THE US.

    THE US TOOK THEIR DEPLETED URANIUM FROM NUCLEAR REACTORS AND REFINED IT INTO TANK ROUNDS WHICH WERE EXPLODED IN THE MIDDLE EAST. THIS “PROCESS” MADE IT ACCEPTABLE FOR THE NUCLEAR CORPERATIONS TO SELL THEIR DEPLETED URANIUM AS A PRODUCT AND NOT A TOXIC WASTE TO THE US ARMY.

    INSTEAD OF STORING DEPLETED URANIUM THEY SENT IT TO THE MIDDLE EAST IN THE ARMY’S TANK BULLETS.

    TEPCO MORE THAN LIKELY DOES THE SAME THING WITH FLUORIDE.

    INSTEAD OF FLUORIDE BEING CLASSIFIED AS TOXIC WASTE AND STORED AT A TOXIC WASTE FACILITY IN BARRELS, IT IS SOLD ACROSS THE WORLD AS A PUBLIC WATER
    SUPPLEMENT.

    IT IS TOO EXPENSIVE FOR TEPCO TO STORE THE AMOUNT OF FLUORIDE WASTE BYPRODUCT CREATED BY THE URANIUM ORE PROCESSING IN A TOXIC WASTE FACILITY.

    AS WE ALL KNOW, TEPCO IS ABOUT MONEY…SO LET’S MESS THAT UP FOR THEM.

    UNDER INTERNATIONAL TOXIC WASTE LAW – TEPCO WOULD BE PERMANENTLY RESPONSIBLE FOR EACH TOXIC BARREL IT CREATES FOREVER IF FLUORIDE WAS STORED THIS WAY.

    THE GENEVA CONVENTION HAS LAWS AGAINST CHEMICAL WARFARE.

    FLUORIDE IN THE PUBLIC WATER SUPPLY IS CHEMICAL WARFARE.

    AT THE END OF WORLD WAR 2 JAPANESE GENERALS AND ADMIRALS WERE HUNG BY A ROPE FOR BREAKING THE GENEVA CONVENTION AGREEMENT.

    LET THE LEADERS OF TEPCO KNOW THEY ARE IN VIOLATION OF THE GENEVA CONVENTION AND COULD BE HUNG FOR WAR CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY.

    TELL TEPCO- “THANK YOU FOR POISONING ME AND MY FAMILY’S DRINKING WATER”

    -A PISSED OFF HUMAN BEING

    JAPANESE CONSTITUTION STATES THAT –

    “SOVEREIGN POWER RESIDES WITH THE PEOPLE.”

    “主権とは、人が存在しています”

    STEP 1: contact your sources in japan TO CREATE A PETITION TO BE SIGNED BY THE PEOPLE TO STOP SELLING FLUORIDE AS A WATER TREATMENT TO FOREIGN COUNTRIES. ITS TOXIC ENOUGH TO BE CLASSIFIED AS TOXIC WASTE.

    STEP 2: FORM A COMMITTEE IN EACH MAJOR CITY TO SPREAD THE PETITION TO BE SIGNED.
    “出る杭は打たれる.”

    STEP 3: BRING THE PETITION TO THE PROTEST INFRONT OF THE PRIME MINISTERS RESIDENCE. THERE ARE A LARGE NUMBER OF PEOPLE IN GROUP WILLING TO SIGN THE PETITION (YOU COULD CALL IT A PROTEST TREATY).

    STEP 4: GET AT LEAST 1,000,000 SIGNATURES TO STOP NUCLEAR POWER AND TO STOP POISONING TO WORLD WITH FLUORIDE.

    STEP 5: SHOW THE WORLD.
    (THIS WILL BE MY PEACEFUL STEP ONCE I SEE STEPS 1-4 ARE INITIATED)

    “能ある鷹は爪を隠す.”

    THIS WILL BE A PEACEFUL PROCESS THE JAPANESE GOVERNMENT OR THE WORLD WILL NOT BE ABLE TO IGNORE. IT CANNOT BE STOPPED ONCE THE PROCESS STARTS. TOO MANY PEOPLE WILL KNOW THE TRUTH AND THEY CAN’T KILL US ALL.

    JAPAN OR IT’S PEOPLE ARE NOT DISGRACED. YOUR GREEDY LEADERS ARE!!!!!!!!!!!
    IT IS YOUR TIME TO SHINE MORE NOW THAN EVER BEFORE.

    IT’S UP TO YOU NOW. THIS IS YOUR TIME.

    ASK TEPCO WHERE DID THE FLUORIDE GO?

    IF TEPCO SOLD IT TO FOREIGN COUNTRIES TO GO INTO THE PUBLIC WATER SUPPLY THEN TEPCO VIOLATED THE GENEVA CONVENTION ACT UNDER CHEMICAL WARFARE AND CRUEL AND UNUSUAL TORTURE.

    THEY THEN CAN BE HUNG UNDER INTERNATIONAL WAR CRIMES LAW.

    THIS IS FROM HARVARD UNIVERSITY.

    http://www.apfn.org/THEWINDS/archive/medical/fluoride01-98.html

    KAIZEN!!

    1. HERE IS THE PROOF
      THE PROBLEM IS NOTHING ELSE REACTS WITH URANIUM ORE OTHER THAN FLUORIDE.

      uranium processing

      http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/619232/uranium-processing/81603/Conversion-and-isotopic-enrichment

      World war 2 and fluoride coorelation

      http://sswam.com/2012/05/21/our-tap-water-with-added-fluoride-and-uranium-238-bone-cancer-alzheimers-disease-15/

      type of nuclear reactor that uses fluoride

      http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liquid_fluoride_thorium_reactor

      URANIUM HEXAFLUORIDE

      http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uranium_hexafluoride

      GASSEOUS DIFFUSION (URANIUM ENRICHMENT)
      UF6 (URANIUM HEXAFLUORIDE) IS THE ONLY CHOICE AS A FEEDSTOCK FOR THE GASSEOUS DIFFUSION PROCESS.

      http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaseous_diffusion

      uranium enrichment and REPROCESSING
      (JAPAN AND RUSSIA HAVE ENACTED LAWS REQUIRING REPROCESSING USED MOX FUEL)
      LOOK AT THE “PUREX FLOW CHART” REGARDING REPROCESSING NUCLEAR FUEL.
      THEY DON’T TELL YOU BUT THE REDUCTANT MORE THAN LIKELY IS FLUORIDE.

      http://www.world-nuclear.org/info/inf69.html

  8. I found myself wondering why the new fuel assemblies would be the first to be removed.Surely the more radioactive, used fuel ought to be the priority – from a human safety perspective.Safety just does not seem to be a concern though.

    NPPs being a for-profit business, all decisions are based on the most cost-effective course.My cynical side says that the new fuel assemblies are much more valuable; they can be used at Oi, or wherever. The used fuel, however,is a huge liability,and the company seems to be at a bit of a loss on how to solve the trouble. What better way to “deal with it”, than to let nature take its course by way of earthquake, tsunami, lightening, whatever.

    I feel that the bottom dollar remains the imperative in this situation, and not the health and survival of every living plant and animal – including us – on the islands of Japan, and the rest of the world. And the police obstruct the very peaceful (so far) protests… We sit and read and write.

    My understanding is that the government of Japan – and thus, the people of Japan – is the major shareholder in Tepco now, and the Prime Minister is the CEO. It’s not a protest in Tokyo, it’s a shareholders’ meeting, and they want to talk to the CEO!

Comments are closed.

About this site

This website updates the latest news about the Fukushima nuclear plant and also archives the past news from 2011. Because it's always updated and added live, articles, categories and the tags are not necessarily fitted in the latest format.
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.

Categories

July 2012
M T W T F S S
 1
2345678
9101112131415
16171819202122
23242526272829
3031