Post by nibirumagick2012 on Aug 16, 2014 23:16:13 GMT -5
Gov’t Experts: Fukushima fuel rods melting 75 minutes after tsunami; Reactor core not covered with water 10 minutes after power blackout — Worker: Before explosion, Unit 1 “filled with what looked like steam or dust… a series of large bangs… noise never heard before”
Kyodo News, Aug 14, 2014: Less than 12 hours after the quake-triggered tsunami [TEPCO] sought government approval for the unprecedented step of releasing radioactive steam [...] Prime Minister Naoto Kan, however, would soon become increasingly distrustful of TEPCO because of delays in starting the so-called venting operations, which were aimed at preventing damage to the reactor containment vessels [...] Kan arrived at the plant shortly after 7 a.m. [on March 12.] But he had no idea at the time that fuel was already melting in the No. 1 reactor. [Plant chief Masao Yoshida said] workers would quickly need to manually operate the valves [...] [Shift supervisor Hideyoshi Endo] hung a radiation meter from his neck capable of measuring up to 1,000 millisieverts per hour [...] Endo’s team was tasked [...] to open the valve [...] As he lit up the inside of the building with a flashlight, he saw it was filled with what looked like steam or dust. [They went] to a room housing a doughnut-shaped suppression chamber at the bottom of the reactor’s containment vessel. They heard a series of large bangs in the dark — a type of noise Endo had never heard before. [...] When Endo was some 30 meters away from the valve, however, he saw the radiation meter reading surpass 1,000 millisieverts [...] Endo no longer had a way of knowing how high the radiation level was. Endo only needed a few seconds to decide to return. [...] When the two returned to the main control room, all eyes turned to them. “It failed. The radiation meter scaled out,” reported Endo.
enenews.com/govt-experts-fuel-rods-melting-75-minutes-after-tsunami-hit-fukushima-reactor-core-longer-covered-water-10-minutes-after-power-blackout-plant-worker-before-explosion-unit-1-filled-looked-like-steam
Kyodo News, Aug 14, 2014: Less than 12 hours after the quake-triggered tsunami [TEPCO] sought government approval for the unprecedented step of releasing radioactive steam [...] Prime Minister Naoto Kan, however, would soon become increasingly distrustful of TEPCO because of delays in starting the so-called venting operations, which were aimed at preventing damage to the reactor containment vessels [...] Kan arrived at the plant shortly after 7 a.m. [on March 12.] But he had no idea at the time that fuel was already melting in the No. 1 reactor. [Plant chief Masao Yoshida said] workers would quickly need to manually operate the valves [...] [Shift supervisor Hideyoshi Endo] hung a radiation meter from his neck capable of measuring up to 1,000 millisieverts per hour [...] Endo’s team was tasked [...] to open the valve [...] As he lit up the inside of the building with a flashlight, he saw it was filled with what looked like steam or dust. [They went] to a room housing a doughnut-shaped suppression chamber at the bottom of the reactor’s containment vessel. They heard a series of large bangs in the dark — a type of noise Endo had never heard before. [...] When Endo was some 30 meters away from the valve, however, he saw the radiation meter reading surpass 1,000 millisieverts [...] Endo no longer had a way of knowing how high the radiation level was. Endo only needed a few seconds to decide to return. [...] When the two returned to the main control room, all eyes turned to them. “It failed. The radiation meter scaled out,” reported Endo.
enenews.com/govt-experts-fuel-rods-melting-75-minutes-after-tsunami-hit-fukushima-reactor-core-longer-covered-water-10-minutes-after-power-blackout-plant-worker-before-explosion-unit-1-filled-looked-like-steam