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[Column] Summary of Fukushima situation ~What we don’t know about Fukushima
I have my home, somewhere, some time. The only thing I know is it’s far, and in the future.
Every morning I wake up, I get closer to my home. Every step I take makes me closer to my living room. Live long. It proves that I’m right and winning.
What is so bad in Fukushima ? Unlike Chernobyl, still so many things are covered with the steam in Fukushima. To get the right answer, we need the right questions.
Human beings still have no means to get the answers but here I would like to show the right questions about Fukushima.
1. How many reactors did exploded ?
In Chernobyl, it was only one. In Fukushima, it’s supposed to be 3. However as we can clearly see 4 reactors are crippled.
The explosions of reactor1 and 3 were broadcast by TV, but there is no visual record of reactor4 explosion. In the beginning, Japanese government announced reactor4 had a fire. However only a fire cannot destroy the entire building.
Reactor2 looks sound but the radiation level is extremely high as well. Something must have happened but we still don’t know what happened to reactor2 and 4.
2. How many times Fukushima did exploded ?
Tepco and Japanese government state all the explosions happened in the first week after 311.
However, unusual spikes of air pressure, temperature, and radiation level were indicated and recorded in the various parts of the reactors even after the first explosions. Also, strange spikes of radiation level were recorded in other areas in Japan, so we cannot deny the possibility that Fukushima had additional explosions from April to the summer of 2011.
3. What are they cooling ?
Tepco is giving water to each reactor, and circulate the coolant system. At this moment, the temperatures seem stable, but even Tepco doesn’t know why it is stable.
Giving water is the only thing they can do. However, the locations of the molten fuel are not verified. It is not even known if the molten fuel still remain in each reactor.
There is a possibility that a piece of the fuel is still heating outside of the coolant water, which keeps me blogging.
I hope I made the situation a little bit understandable. The bottom line is it keeps going worse until some genius develops a miracle technology. This is where we are.
Source: http://fukushima-diary.com/2013/07/column-summary-of-fukushima-situation-what-we-dont-know-about-fukushima/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=column-summary-of-fukushima-situation-what-we-dont-know-about-fukushima
