3/28/11 - Mox Fuel Reactor 3 the Crane has fallen and damaged the Mox Fuel Rods - the Expert says there is NO deny that the Mox Fuel is leaking Radiation! Video of him saying it!
This is so sickening and yet NO government is talking about this the UN Nuclear Committee is not talking about this! The Earth is being made toxic for 50000 years! ALL nuclear energy plants should be SHUT DOWN! It is not worth killing the people and Earth when there are other energy sources available! Also all the brilliant governments have put nuclear power plants on Faults - there are 7 nuclear power plants along the New Madrid fault! The Earth is now being destroyed due to corporate greed!
Right here says Reactor 3 has melted down and is now in the soil! Will the govt and media now start talking about the MOX fuel meltdown and what the affect will be? In other words 50000 years it will take for the land not to be toxic anymore.
The operator of the nuclear complex said that the plutonium is believed to have been discharged from nuclear fuel at the plant, which was damaged by the March 11 earthquake and tsunami.
THIS IS A PICTURE OF REACTOR 3(MOX FUEL) 3/18/11
3/25/11 - KYODO NEWS - REACTOR 3 IS BREACHED -
3/21/11 - KYODO NEWS - HEADLINE THIS MORNING: (this is the MOX Fuel)
URGENT: Grayish smoke seen billowing from Fukushima No. 3 reactor building
After the smoke was spotted at the southeast of the building around 3:55 p.m., TEPCO said it had temporarily evacuated its workers from the site as it assessed the situation.
That is radioactive particles of plutonium and uranium steaming out (MOX Fuel)
As of 3/16/11 9:20am est - I am completely Disgusted with the Governments and MSM for NOT talking about Reactor 3 and MOX Fuel! They cut people off who start to mention it! This is unacceptable! They are committing a crime against Humanity! By not informing people they are not just dealing with a Uranium Fallout but a Plutonium Fallout which Potassium Iodide Pills do no good against! I am IMPLORING the Media and the Governments of the World to Start informing all people about MOX Fuel Reactor 3! If the media does not start providing information about MOX fuel Reactor 3 which has been compromised then the many who die from not taking precautions for a plutonium/uranium mix fallout will be on their hands!
3/19/11 - The media is starting to talk about the MOX fuel but they are not going deeply into the subject only mentioning it briefly and saying plutonium is in it.
3/19/11 - A site to bookmark and keep up with "All things Nuclear" about Japan - Scientist - full reports and explanation of the plants and what is occurring and the amount of nuclear material in each reactor.
3/18/11 - Japan has now asked the U.S. for Help at the Nuclear Power Plant.
3/18/11 - I have a post up about a comparison of Chernobyl two days after explosion to Japan's flyover yesterday.
3/17/11 - 3:10pm est - CNN nuclear expert on right now. MOX fuel was mentioned being in Reactor 3. When the anchor asked him what would happen if the MOX fuel got out, he COMPLETELY AVOIDED ANSWERING THE QUESTION! He began a description on how there are containment vessels and if the containment vessel stays in tact - no problems. He NEVER Answered the question "What would happen if Reactor 3 completely melted down with MOX?"! She let him get away with that too, instead of pressing him for an answer!
3/17/11 - It is claimed the U.S. government has seized all Potassium Iodide Pills from suppliers as the MSM is ridiculing people for purchasing them - full story is here.
3/16/11 - 2:38pm est DEVELOPING - JAPANESE OFFICIAL - REACTOR 3 MAY BE RUPTURED NOW AND LEAKING RADIATION - THIS IS THE MOX FUEL REACTOR! ALL MEDIA AND GOVERNMENTS NEED TO START EDUCATING PEOPLE AND INFORMING THEM THIS IS 2 MILLION TIMES WORSE THAN NORMAL FALLOUT!
also click for this video and video of Commander of U.S. Military in Japan - Evacuating Bases there starting today.
Reactors 5 and 6 are now having problems.
3/16/11 - 5:10pm est - CNN has said there is NO Water in Reactor 3 (MOX fuel) - So that one is in total meltdown also. At least he did say it has Plutonium in it.
UPDATE 3/16/11 6:52pm est - 77% of Fuel Rods in Reactor 1 damaged and 33% of Reactor 2 damaged both believed to have partially melted down now.
What do they know that we do not?
***Update 3/16/11 12:45pm est - EU Chief now backtracking saying "He meant it is his fear, something Catastrophic will happen within hours in Japan"***
UPDATE 3/16/11 - 5:47pm est - UN Calls Emergency Meeting with 35 Members regarding Japan's Nuclear Problem.
THESE PICTURES ADDED 3/15/11 11:20pm est - I SCREEN CAPTURED THEM OFF THE LIVE JAPAN NEWS NETWORK
BELOW PICTURES FROM THIS LINK
On right now 3/15/11 10:22pm est - Live News Conference about Reactors
Workers of the Nuclear Plant have been evacuated (they say the workers are now back)
ADDED 3/15/11 11:46am -Another Radiation Detection site
3/15/11 11:54am est Radiation is now being detected at U.S. Military Bases outside Tokyo - Military Personnel are being told to stay indoors with windows closed! Another link Direct from Navy Command about radiation at U.S. Military Bases
ADDED 3/15/11 - Global Jet Stream from March 13th to 21st
- Video of EXPLOSION OF REACTOR 3 (Mox Fuel) that happened on 3/14/11 11am Japanese time (Mox Fuel) * watch this video and the one at the bottom of this article of Reactor #1 exploding on Saturday - to me this explosion is much bigger and more powerful than the other and there was a large flash at the beginning!
Air China has canceled all Flights to Japan.
Lufthansa has canceled all flights to Tokyo Japan
KLM has canceled all flights to Tokyo Japan
UPS is not accepting packages to Japan
3/17/11 US Diplomats and US citizens being evacuated from Japan
3/15/11 - Reactor 4 containment vessel has been breached - it is damaged and leaking radioactive material!
Added 3/16/11 7:08 pm est - A Reader sent me this information.
"The Case Against MOX fuel being used in Japanese Nuclear Plants"
If there is an accident at Fukushima I-3
3/17/11 - NyTimes released an interactive map of where the Radiation Plume will go.
Original post commences about MOX fuel
I am so Astounded that the Japanese have as many Nuclear Power Plants that they have on the most seismic place in the world! How they did not have 100 different back up plans is beyond me! Why didn't they have their generators 50 feet in the air in case of tsunamis? I have thought of tons of questions regarding it all!
I am sadden by the tragedy in the first place, now the Man made tragedy is unfolding that is a million times worse than the natural tragedy!
We all know some of Japan's nuclear power plants are in trouble and one exploded.
What is NOT Being released is the FUEL used in that plant! I read about it and decided to research it!
I am SHOCKED at what I found! This power plant meltdown can be 2 MILLION times Worse than Chernobyl! This could make the whole country of Japan uninhabitable, besides being carried around the world!
This is truly Sickening! In fact it really makes you wonder WHY they did not have 100 safety precautions in place! How dare they use MOX in a nuclear power plant in a place that is known for the biggest quakes and tsunamis! Besides Japan putting their plants right along side the ocean!
Read this whole post to understand the FULL ramifications of this Nuclear Plant Meltdown! There is a Power Point Presentation the UN put together for MOX fuel I downloaded it - but there is not a link to go to for it. I can't insert power point presentations here either.
|Mixing it up: A MOX fuel rod on Saturday is loaded into a nuclear reactor in Fukushima Prefecture. KYODO PHOTO|
***Recognize that plant name? Yeah, it is the one that blew up****
about Mox use in nuclear plants
Green peace information about Mox going to Japan and their very strong concerns about it
A Tepco - Japanese professor about Mox/uranium
DOE - info on Mox and transportation of it
ADDED - 3/14/11 11:25am est - Nuclear Regulatory Fact Sheet on MOX fuel.
ADDED 3/15/11 - MOX Fuel is used at 2 other Japanese Nuclear Plants.
The joint study cites a number of safety precautions necessary in the fabrication of MOX fuel relative to uranium fuel. MOX fuel emits higher gamma radiation and much higher neutron radiation than uranium fuel. Therefore, a separate fresh fuel storage facility designed for MOX only fuel containers for on-site use, and transport equipment for fresh fuel may be necessary. Dust resulting from MOX fabrication is also a concern for worker safety because of the dangers of inhaling plutonium (see article on health effects of plutonium).
MOX Spent Fuel
Plutonium is both used up and produced when MOX fuel is used in reactors. MOX spent fuel contains more plutonium than conventional spent fuel (that is, spent fuel resulting from loading an LWR with low enriched uranium fuel). Conventional spent fuel from LWRs typically contains about one percent plutonium when it is withdrawn from the reactor. The amount of residual plutonium in MOX spent fuel would depend on the initial plutonium loading (percent of plutonium in the fuel), the burn-up of the fuel, and the configuration in which the fuel is used.
For light water reactors using MOX fuel, the NAS calculates that residual plutonium in the spent fuel would range from 1.6 percent (for a 33% MOX core with 4% plutonium loading) to 4.9 percent (for a 100% MOX core with 6.8% plutonium loading). Ranges of 2.5 percent to 6.8 percent plutonium loading have been suggested. In the case of a CANDU reactor using a 100% MOX core, the percentage of plutonium in MOX spent fuel would be between 0.8 and 1.4 percent for MOX fuel containing 1.2 percent and 2.1 percent plutonium, respectively.12
Repository disposal of MOX spent fuel is complicated not only by the higher plutonium content in MOX, but by the larger quantities of transuranic elements in the spent fuel as well. This results in MOX spent fuel being thermally hotter than conventional spent fuel. The presence of greater amounts of transuranic radionuclides like americium-241 also cause persistent higher spent fuel temperatures, and cause the decay of thermal power level to be slower. MOX spent fuel use may therefore require that a host of issues be revisited, such as design of transportation and disposal canisters, and design of on-site spent fuel storage casks. For instance, the higher temperatures may cause storage problems at reactors that have limited storage room in their spent fuel pools. The higher temperature may also result in a need for more repository space, unless a repository is designed to take hotter fuel and withstand higher temperatures. Greater repository space would result in proportionally higher repository disposal costs. In addition, if the amount of residual gallium in MOX spent fuel is too high, it may result in deterioration of the spent fuel cladding, create new issues in evaluating the suitability of a repository, and pose greater risk of groundwater contamination. There are some uncertainties as to the concentration of gallium that might adversely affect spent fuel integrity. The differences between spent MOX fuel and spent uranium fuel pose many complications for reprocessing as well.
#Danger of Losing Control of the Reactor Is Greater with MOX Conventional LWRs are designed to decrease the reactivity when the temperature rises. But when using Pu-239 as fuel, heating of the core from an increase in reaction rate tends to increase the reaction rate still further. This is called the positive temperature coefficient of reactivity, meaning there is a danger of losing control of the reactor by accelerated chain reaction of fissioning.(10)
MOX spent fuel contains more fission products than uranium spent fuel. The important factor in managing spent fuel is the heat generation caused by the highly radioactive fission products. Since spent MOX fuel contains much more fission products, the heat generation from MOX spent fuel is twice as high as that of spent uranium fuel after 10 years and three times as high after 100 years.(14)Plutonium does not exist in the natural environment, and is only produced in nuclear reactors. It is known as one of the most toxic elements. It emits high energy alpha radiation, and has harmful biological effects. Alpha radiation has a very short range but very intense ionization power. If exposed on the surface of the skin, the skin works as a shield and will prevent its penetration into the body, but all of its ionizing power will be focused on the small spot, causing burns and killing the skin tissue. If inhaled into the body, the alpha particle will go in through the respiratory tract, and enter the lung. Due to its long half-life, it will stay in the body permanently, emitting alpha radiation, and killing the surrounding tissues by strong ionization. If plutonium is taken into the body in soluble form (e.g. plutonium nitrate) through food chain, it will enter the blood stream, and into the bones, liver and genital organs where it will be enriched. Alpha radiation leads to reactions in the cells of living things. It can cause damage to the nucleus and DNA of the cell, in effect causing genetic damage in descendants, particularly if germ cells are affected.(15) #Dangers of Resuspension in the Environment In the event of a contamination of the environment with plutonium, the whirling up and inhalation of plutonium particles, known as resuspension, plays an important role. If there is a road traffic, building work or cleaning work at the plutonium contaminated site, plutonium can enter the body through the respiratory tract. Generally, the more whirled up, the greater the dose intake per quantity of plutonium on the ground. If there is fire, and plutonium becomes airborne into fine aerosol particles, plutonium contamination of the environment will extend to a far larger scale, landing on ground, contaminating a vast wider area. Plutonium remains effective over very long periods affecting the health of the people and the environment.(16)#Accident Scenario When Burning MOX Accidents involving overheating and meltdown are possible in any nuclear reactors. In such accidents, not only would readily volatile noble gases, like iodine and caesium be released to the environment, but a small portion of the actinides, including plutonium and neptunium would be released. As the activity of the actinides is substantially higher in the case of MOX, the consequences of such severe accidents become more serious. When MOX fuels are used, the probability of having such serious accidents or trouble would increase due to the high content of plutonium in the fuel. Even if an accident is not a serious one, it could become serious since even a small portion of the inventory of actinides released to the environment could cause significant radiological consequences.#Accidents at Fabrication Plants Accidents at MOX fuel fabrication plants have occurred. In June, 1991, the storage bunker of the MOX fuel fabrication plant in Hanau, Germany was contaminated with MOX. It occurred after the rupture of a foil for container packaging in the course of an in-plant transportation process. Five workers were exposed to plutonium. This accident was the main reason the fabrication plant at Hanau was shut down.(19) In November, 1992, a rod was broken through a handling error and MOX dust released during the mounting of MOX fuel rods to fuel assemblies in the fuel fabrication facility adjoining the MOX facility in Dessel, Belgium.(20) In event of such accidents, if the International Commission on Radiological Protection (ICRP) recommendations for general public exposure were adhered to, only about 1 mg of plutonium may be released from a MOX facility to the environment. As a comparison, in uranium fabrication facility, 2kg (2,000,000mg)of uranium could be released in the same radiation exposure. A 1 mg release of plutonium from a processing process can easily happen from various smaller incidents.(21)
Must Watch video - Information about Plutonium in Nuclear Plants.
3/18/11 - This Video is from Chernobyl a fly over 2 days after it exploded - it shows white smoke coming from it. Seems to me that is what we are already seeing in Japan - the white smoke.
One other bit of information - KI pills do no good against MOX - it is only good for Uranium radiation. Plutonium is not affected by the pills!
EDIT TO ADD 3/13/11 8:54pm - Link to information about Plutonium Contamination of Large Land Areas.
It stays in the soil 100% for one inch. Even rain does not wash it away. This link also give diagrams of distance to amount of contamination of that distance.
I will say in my own opinion ALL Nuclear Power plants anywhere near fault lines need to be SHUT DOWN IMMEDIATELY! That includes those that are right on the fault in California (what brilliant idiots decided on that place?) and all that are near the New Madrid Fault! Nuclear power plants ARE NOT Clean Energy! In fact they contaminate the Earth on a level that takes thousands of years to eradicate.
3/18/11 - WHO says no need to ban travel to and from Japan - radiation levels aren't that bad from people coming from there. WHO is the LAST organization I would personally trust regarding in Health information.
EDIT to ADD - 3/14/11 - 8:55pm est - I will be doing lots of research on how people can protect themselves from contamination. I will say, those on the West Coast should go and get tarps ASAP, before they are sold out to make a small decontamination type building outside your house. I will be putting something together to help inform people what to do for uranium and plutonium contamination.
ADDITION - 3/14/11 - 10:34pm est - Good Article to read with Map of Jet Stream and where the radiation will travel to. PNW is in the direct line of fire of the fallout from Japan.
on 3/15/11 6am Japan time- Reactor 2 exploded -http://www.livestation.com/channels/123-nhk-world-english
0n 3/14/ 11 Japan time- Video of EXPLOSION OF REACTOR 3 (Mox Fuel) that Just now happened on 3/14/11 at 11am Japanese time (Mox Fuel) * watch this video and the one at the bottom of this article of Reactor #1 exploding on Saturday - to me this explosion is much bigger and more powerful than the other and there was a large flash at the beginning!
Question added 3/14/11 - They say they are pumping seawater into all the reactors to cool them. The Japanese government nor MSM have mentioned where the seawater is being dumped afterward. Is the toxic radiated water being circulated back into the ocean after going through all the reactors?
UPDATE - 3/14/11 12:12 AM - I was just listening to FOX news and they were talking to a Nuclear Expert as soon as he began saying Reactor 3 which had just exploded has different fuel and about to explain it, she totally cut him off and said there was no more time to talk to him. Wow - they are trying to keep this information about MOX fuel from getting out!
UPDATE 3/13/11 10PM est- NUMBER 3 REACTOR - rods may have been damaged (this is the one with the MOX fuel).
Unit 3 does not have off-site power supply nor backup diesel generators providing power to the plant. As the high pressure injection system and other attempts to cool the reactor core have failed, injection of water and boron into the reactor vessel has commenced. Water levels inside the reactor vessel increased steadily for a certain amount of time but readings indicating the water level inside the pressure vessel are no longer showing an increase. The reason behind this is unknown at this point in time. To relieve pressure, venting of the containment started on 13 March at 9:20AM local Japan time. Planning is underway to reduce the concentration of hydrogen inside the containment building. The containment building is intact at Unit 3.
Edit 3/14/11 9am est - I have a question.. they are saying there has not been radiation leaking and the containment vessels are intact with both reactors. Then WHY Those in a helicopter were contaminated found when they landed on the Ronald Reagan? It is said the Ronald Reagan went through a radiation cloud also. Why isn't MSM asking that question? How can the reactors be intact yet people are getting contaminated from radiation? Can't they ask the most basic questions? Don't they know people will on their own know someone is lying somewhere. Lets see..... the Japanese about the reactors not melted down and no radiation leaking or the U.S. military and the soldiers who are now showing radiation contamination? hhhmmm.... let me think about that.
another addition.. 9:26am est - I am flabbergasted CNN anchor says reactor exploded but NO Radiation Leaked! How can they say that with a straight face? When the U.S. military has been contaminated out in the ocean from radiation? How can they easily lie like that, when it doesn't make sense? They are saying steam released had small amounts of radiation but they are not saying one word about MOX fuel in that steam.
Added - 3/14/11 12:20pm est - Link for Live Real Time Geiger Counter in Tokyo
Added 3/14/11 12:36am est - Kyodo news says partial melt down for Reactor 1 and 3 and now
Reactor 2 rods were fully exposed - there are fears of it exploding now. This one may be a full meltdown.
Reactor 2 is not a MOX fuel reactor.