Nuclear Power Is The Most Unreliable of Electricity Sources And Requires 100% Rolling Reserve At All Times

I make this large claim based upon REALITY.

I make this claim BECAUSE the nuclear industry, armed with a $1.4 Billion dollar budget to send propaganda our way to try to keep their challenged industry alive, states that solar and wind is no good because it is too unreliable and requires too much backup.
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Unplanned scrams (emergency full shutdown at a nuclear plant is called a "scrams") come at any time of day or night, and require instantaneous 100% backup.

Losing this type of large supply can drop the voltage and frequency on the grid, and since many types of power generation is "inductive" meaning that they can only follow a known good electricity wave form, if the waveform (voltage, frequency, and sinusoldial shape) is not good, they are programmed to drop off, i.e. shut down.

So if the grid drops out because of of losing the nuke plant supply (wide area blackout) ....and the nuke plant gensets don't start....then we are into nuclear meltdown mode. Again, like TMI, Three Mile Island, nicknamed "They Melted It" like ice cream in the sun.

So 100% backup required for the full capacity of each nuclear plant, and instantaneous.   Instantaneous means that it is required more quickly than even rolling reserve.    That requires a shared "diversity" of power sources throughout the grid.    And say you have 3 or 4 nuclear plants serving an area, you need to do more than just back up one nuclear plant, you must back up all the nuclear plants, since the factors that take down one nuclear can confound to take down all the nuclear. 

So lots of small generation (PV solar and wind is good!) to help feed the matrix of the grid, thus cushioning the impact of the nuclear plant tripping out instantaneously.

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Paid troll at big story
http://bigstory.ap.org/article/59b81101814946c1a1306c5af5791b30/upcoming-nuke-plant-closure-could-roil-new-england-markets#comment-2338770325

vm0404

and how often do those scrams happen? Are they more or less common than say times of low wind?

stock well: Well I would say from the structure of your question, your slant to promote nuclear and pot shot wind is clear.    Nevertheless you deserve a response. 

Sadly, on average, nuclear plants have an emergency requiring a complete and immediate shutdown about ONCE PER YEAR per plant 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_power_debate#Reliability

Some nuke plants are much more dangerous


Which bring us to the concept of diversity.   Diversity simple says that not all sources are producing at a given time, and not all users are consuming at a given time, but when you have a wide variety of producers, say solar, wind, geothermal, sometime hydro, the average supply into the grid is much smoother than an individual supply.    That's a good thing for solar and wind, and the more the better. 


I established my company career on the cutting edge of solar in Hawaii.     Seeing it rise from a "nice idea" to a powerful force that took so much power (literally and figuratively) away from the utility and the various governmental bodies that benefit legally and illegally from the utility, that large forced were brought to bear to kill "citizen owned solar" and replace it with monopoly owned solar.

Even during this process, I was a skeptic on how well the "aging grid" would handle a lot of solar and wind.    I thought at 5% we would start to see problems and require some proactive solutions.

Per Wikipedia link above

According to Benjamin K. Sovacool, most studies critiquing solar and wind energy look only at individual generators and not at the system wide effects of solar and wind farms. Correlations between power swings drop substantially as more solar and wind farms are integrated (a process known as geographical smoothing) and a wider geographic area also enables a larger pool of energy efficiency efforts to abate intermittency.^[40]

Sovacool says that previously intermittent sources such as wind and solar can displace nuclear resources.^[40]

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A very nice summary of the ranked dangers of nuclear plants is at the Cascadia Times

 http://times.org/2013/12/18/dangerous-nuclear-power-plants-america/
 Cascaadia Times Nuke Plants Ranked by DANGER

Solar and wind have effectively no CO2 production, although I won't even agree with the Carbon Meme which even the Pope is not promoting, even though science does not support it.

But the promoters of nuclear ----well just watch

• 9 hours ago

hilarious how the nukists keep on playing the CO2 card. CO2 is an indicator of other pollutants, but is not in fact a "pollutant", its helps plants grow better.
But it boggles the mind how the producers of the most dangerous substances on earth (nuclear waste of which their is no solution) trot out a non pollutant as an excuse for their own existence, which is no longer economic.

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  Dr. Justin G. Frank Energy • 3 hours ago

  
  

  You've never heard of LFTR have you? Liquid Fluoride Thorium Reactors? I recommend you research this kind of reactor and learn how it takes nuclear waste and destroy it.

  TO Dr. Justin G. • 3 minutes ago
  • Yes I have heard of LFTR
    1) No real working model, no track history of operation in commercial environment.
    2) Complete rubbish that "it destroys it". It takes some of the longer lived waste 10,000 to 10,000,000 years and turn SOME of it into waste that only goes away by half in 300 years.....so it takes 3000 years to pretty much completely go away.
    We need to solve some serious issues in the next decade and two, or the human race will be gone within 100 years if not sooner.

    
    
    

    • Dr. Justin G. Frank Energy • 21 minutes ago

      So you'd rather keep the waste that stays radioactive for 10 million years? That's fine, that's not really radioactive. As a matter of fact you could hold something that radioactive in your hand for about a day before you started having any sort of genetic damage due to it. Which would be about as much as a light sunburn or less. Now the radioactive waste that has a half life of about 3000 years or less. Well that is the waste we need to be rid of. And LFTR does just that. Also you must not know about the MSR in Oak ridge that ran for 7 years until it was shutdown by Nixon. So do not say there is no 'track history' of an operational reactor of that kind.
      

    
    

    Frank Energy Dr. Justin G. • a few seconds ago Hold on, this is waiting to be approved by Johnson City Press.

    The degree of "radioactivity" of a substance is not a good measure of its danger to humans, uranium, plutonium are ALSO extremely dangerous as heavy metals that combined with even limited radioactivity, AND bioaccumulation in several specific organs and Red Bone Marrow make them up to 112,000 times more dangerous than your run of the mill radiation, say tritium.
    The Oak Ridge MSR was purely experimental, and as a material scientist, I could have "I told you so".....
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
    One unexpected finding was shallow, inter-granular cracking in all metal surfaces exposed to the fuel salt. The cause of the embrittlement was tellurium
    - a fission product generated in the fuel. This was first noted in the
    specimens that were removed from the core at intervals during the
    reactor operation. Post-operation examination of pieces of a control-rod
    thimble, heat-exchanger tubes, and pump bowl parts revealed the
    ubiquity of the cracking and emphasized its importance to the MSR
    concept. The crack growth was rapid enough to become a problem over the
    planned thirty-year life of a follow-on thorium breeder reactor. This
    cracking could be reduced by adding small amounts of niobium to the Hastelloy-N.[19]
    Decommissioning
    This section requires expansion. (June 2008)
    After shutdown the salt was believed to be in long-term safe storage.
    At low temperatures, radiolysis can free fluorine from the salt. As a
    countermeasure the salt was annually reheated to about 150°C, until
    1989.[20]
    But beginning in the mid-1980s, there was concern that radioactivity
    was migrating through the system. Sampling in 1994 revealed
    concentrations of uranium that created a potential for a nuclear criticality accident, as well as a potentially dangerous build-up of fluorine
    gas — the environment above the solidified salt was approximately one
    atmosphere of fluorine. The ensuing decontamination and decommissioning
    project was called "the most technically challenging" activity assigned
    to Bechtel Jacobs under its environmental management contract with the U.S. Department of Energy's
    Oak Ridge Operations organization. In 2003, the MSRE cleanup project
    was estimated at about $130 million, with decommissioning expected to be
    completed in 2009.[21]
    Removal of uranium from the salt was finally complete in March 2008,
    however still leaving the salt with the fission products in the tanks.[22]
    Much of the high cost was caused by the unpleasant surprise of
    fluorine and uranium hexafluoride evolution from cold fuel salt in
    storage that ORNL did not defuel and store correctly, but this has now
    been taken into consideration in MSR design.[23]
    
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  TimS  • 7 hours ago

  
  

  The erratic nature of wind/solar has to be compensated “real-time” by fossil-fuel power stations operating in back-up mode, consuming more fuel than they would otherwise.
  Nuclear is our best carbon-free option.

  
  
  
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    TO TimS • a few seconds ago

    
    

    The diversity of the grid is actually amazingly good, and smooth supply variances can be simplistically predicted by a few data points of wind and solar insolation of which the data transmission ability is already present at nearly no cost. Other supply sources can thus be strategically ramped up and down (load following) in a very energy efficient way.
    But not nuclear, one of the great weaknesses of nuclear during regular operation is that it is not at all good at load following.

Multi Billion Dollar Nuclear Ripoff In California, An Ongoing Debacle Detailed By Captain D

#SanOnofreGate 

 I believe that this is a Pulitzer Prize story.  It is about a multi-billion dollar utility ratepayer ripoff, that is still growing in size.  It involves SCE, SDG&E, the CPUC, the CA Attorney General, the NRC and many CA Officials including US Senator Boxer and Governor Brown.

Consider the following:

1)  The CPUC is now considering reversing its previous "questionable" SCE settlement decision.  This is because of of all the new information  about the "behind closed door" meetings.  These took place between the then-Chairman of the CPUC, M. Peevey and SCE Exec.'s in Austria. These ex parte meetings occurred months before the public CPUC meetings.   Aguirre & Severson 

http://www.amslawyers.com/ 

 (the attorneys representing the public) are demanding a new investigation.  The last one did not allow discovery into SCE's wrongdoing.  SCE designed the Replacement Steam Generators  which failed soon after they were installed, instead of lasting 40 or more years as promised.

http://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/news/2015/oct/26/sce-fine-cpuc/

2) The CPUC Administrative Law Judge M. Darling has had ex parte communications with SCE.  She is herself now under investigation. 

http://m.sandiegoreader.com/news/2015/oct/20/ticker-edisons-discovery-revealing-documents/

Snip

"Judge Darling refused to allow any "discovery" during the investigation of the replacement steam generator project failure at San Onofre (aka SanO) that ultimately lead to SCE decommissioning SCE early.  That is when I knew the "fix" was in.  I know there are many documents that prove that SCE was in charge of the entire design process, not MHI.  This shifts the responsibility for the replacement steam generator project failure to SCE. Since SCE, was getting paid BIG BUCKS to do the Replacement Project by ratepayers.   SCE's promises of billions in savings and a RSG life span of 40-60 years sounded great then.  Now we all realize it was just a SCE sales pitch since the RSGs failed almost as soon as they were installed.

Now SCE, SDG&E, the CPUC, the CA AG and the NRC are all trying to delay any discovery until after the election.  They think, the longer they can delay the better chance they have of deceiving the public.  

What they are not counting on is all the new information that is coming out, that will document that SCE was at fault."

3)  You have not heard much if anything about SDG&E (Sempra Energy) involvement.  As a 20% owner of San Onofre (aka SanO) they have been doing a masterful job of avoiding any negative PR about SanO.  I expect their emails to be examined next, since they had to be aware of and pre-approve of any proposed SCE settlement deal.

FYI, Their Exec.'s also sold stock once the premature CPUC-SCE "settlement" was announced...

Should Sempra shareholders be worried?

http://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/news/2014/jan/14/sempra-insider-stock-sales-executive-pay/

snip

"In the first week of January, Sempra CEO and Chairman Debra Reed sold 54,786 shares for gross proceeds of about $4.8 million. President Mark Snell sold about $4.3 million worth of his stock."

4)  Edison International Earnings Fall Due to SCE Rate Case

 http://www.nasdaq.com/article/edison-international-earnings-fall-due-to-sce-rate-case-20151027-

For much more on this developing story, please refer to #SanOnofreGate *

* The new hashtag that will allow you to keep up to date on the ongoing investigation into the multi-billion $ SCE-CPUC ripoff. 

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http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-edison-settlement-nuclear-20151022-story.html?reset_flag=true

PUC reform vetos send wrong message | EnergyBiz 

http://www.energybiz.com/article/15/10/puc-reform-vetos-send-wrong-message 

Snip: 

There's something crazy when the most powerful agency in California government spends an entire year mired in scandal caused in large part by inadequate controls over the activities of its key people ? and not a single reform emerges. 

That's the end result of Gov. Jerry Brown's veto of a package of bills that handily passed the Legislature this fall aiming to fix aspects of the state Public Utilities Commission, even if those bills themselves had some flaws. 

The net upshot is that Brown has yet to utter a negative word about the overtly crooked activities of former PUC President Michael Peevey and others at the commission, even complimenting Peevey on "getting things done" at the time he departed the commission in disgrace.

EPA and NRC Both Captured Agencies and Both Trying to Ram More Radiation Down Your Throat

I don't have time to provide all the backup for my assertation in this post, but it is findable via searchingthis lbog, searching at ENENEWS, and general Google search.

Bottom line: as the dying and desperate, yet dangerous and well funded nuclear industry cannot compete with modern energy sources, it has corrupted it's captured agencies to try to raise the radiation levels that they can blast the general public with by 100 times more.

Not joking.  It is beyond comprehension.   These are sick and desperate people.

Some of the pro-nukers I chat with admit that they don't believe that 100 time more would be anything but very dangerous, BUT they also think it won't be opened up that high and maybe just relaxed by double.  

That is very dangerous thinking, you have no idea the result once an absurdity like this enters committee and a vote.   Its a crapshoot at that point.

from a distance

November 2, 2015 at 3:09 am Log in to Reply

Final reminder that your input is needed now:

(1) Comment to the EPA regarding raising radiation levels:
email hanlon.edward@epa.gov
 Also they are having a meeting Nov 9 in DC to discuss radiation protection standards.

https://www.federalregister.gov/articles/2015/11/02/2015-27886/notice-of-public-meeting-of-the-interagency-steering-committee-on-radiation-standards-iscors?utm_campaign=pi+su


(2) Comment to the NRC regarding raising radiation levels:
http://www.regulations.gov/?utm_campaign=comment%20publication%20notification%20email&utm_source=federalregister.gov&utm_medium=email#!submitComment;D=NRC-2015-0057-0086

(3) Sign the Petition
https://www.change.org/p/united-states-nuclear-regulatory-commission-protect-children-from-radiation-exposure

Funny how in 2014 the EPA comments on Nuclear Power Radiation Standards received 33, 960 comments, quite a lot.

The  item 2 above only has a few hundred comments, how lame is that.

Let's Call it the Grim Reaper Asteroid

2015 TB145

Was just discovered a few days ago.    It's really large almost 2000 meters, over a mile across.

And it is ripping through space at insane speeds.

In, fact Nukepro's custom and free asteroid calculator indicates that it pack the energy  of

get this

around 984,000 large atomic bombs.

Did you notice these "late discoveries" are getting more frequent?    Could it be the Oort cloud we are passing through?   

  Info on Oort cloud here

http://nukeprofessional.blogspot.com/2015/08/meterorite-attack-oort-cloud-and-we.html

Free asteroid calculator here, yes you can have the actual Excel spreadsheet.

 http://nukeprofessional.blogspot.com/2015/01/updated-january-asteroid-risk-and.html

On 10-21.15 NASA said the object was around 400M in diameter

Huh, they can say with 100% certainty, yet this beast sneeks up on us with only days notice.

Entergy Prepping to Shut Down Fitzpatrick Nuclear, Another Nuclear Plant Losing Money

We could have a happy Monday.   Entergy is already shutting down Pilgrim, now they may shut down Fitzpatrick, and possibly Indian Point. 

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Shutting them down is better than fleecing ratepayers with huge increases.   Sometime Entergy threatens to leave a market and gets a huge increase is rates, this one is 31% over 4 years.    That will kill people on fixed incomes.
http://www.nola.com/business/index.ssf/2014/07/city_council_approves_31_perce.html

In general nuclear plants need to give local grid operators/governments 6 month notice prior to shutting down.

They also need months to procure and deliver fuel, and to set up the 1000 or so "migrant workers" needed for a refueling/outage.

And in general, they care about their employees as they do not want bad street cred in their industry, meaning the want to give people maximum notice to transmition, find a new job.

ODDLY Entergy also announces 3rd quarter earnings on Monday.   The said they would make a decision regarding closing Fitzpatrick or not over the weekend.

Interesting timing.    They also set up a special 800 number that employees could call in to see if they had a job.   Huh?    You want to employees to be calling in at unspecified times throughout the weekend to have a computer record tell them "You're Fired!".   

I mean, if it can't wait until Monday to announce at work, just send an email?   Why the drama?   Seems like a lot of work to set up a special 800 number for that purpose.

Could be part of an overall game, they are playing chicken with Cuomo, who wants Indian point shut down, but Fitzpatrick to remain open.     Grid supply could be touchy with 2 shutting down in same time frame.
http://www.syracuse.com/news/index.ssf/2015/10/fitzpatrick_nuclear_workers_call_800_number_to_see_if_you_still_have_job.html

http://www.capitalnewyork.com/article/albany/2015/10/8581199/cuomo-cautions-against-comparing-indian-point-and-fitzpatrick-nuclear

The NRC has requirements for "financial qualification" to run a nuke plant

http://vtdigger.org/2013/03/21/watchdogs-say-entergy-not-qualified-to-operate-reactors/

Kimchee probiotic goodness

Recipe stolen from "betty" 

Kimchi is one of those things that seems so exotic but is so ridiculously easy to make at home — and fresh, homemade kimchi is infinitely better tasting than anything you can buy from the market.
If you’ve never had this fermented side dish, think of it like a spicy Korean version of sauerkraut. The smoke and fire comes from gochugaru, a Korean red pepper powder (sometimes also called Korean chile flakes or Korean chili powder, but definitely not to be confused with American red pepper flakes or American chili powder).

Homemade kimchi is a pungent and complex blend of flavors owing to traditional spices (gochugaru, garlic and ginger) as well as a puree of Asian pear and yellow onion, which adds a subtle sweetness without the need for sugar. I use red cabbage for the same antioxidant benefits I get from my ruby kraut. (But you can also use the more traditional napa cabbage.)

Similar to kraut, kimchi is full of probiotic goodness and it’s not solely limited to Korean dishes. I’ve made kimchi omelets, kimchi quesadillas, kimchi pizza, and even spooned a heaping of kimchi on a baked potato. This version is a medium spicy that won’t burn your tongue off, but still has enough heat and tang to make a meal interesting.

Red Cabbage Kimchi
 
Makes 3 quarts
Ingredients
2 pounds red cabbage, chopped
1/4 cup pickling salt
1/2 pound daikon, julienned
1/2 pound carrot, julienned
6 green onions, sliced into 1-inch segments
4 cloves garlic, minced
1-inch piece fresh ginger, peeled and minced
1 small Asian pear (or apple), peeled, cored and chopped
1 small yellow onion, chopped
1 cup dechlorinated water
1/2 cup gochugaru (Korean red pepper powder)
2 tablespoons fish sauce
Method
Red cabbage tends to be a tad tougher than napa cabbage, so I chop mine into thin, bite-sized pieces.
 http://www.gardenbetty.com/2013/07/red-cabbage-kimchi/


Read more at http://www.gardenbetty.com/2013/07/red-cabbage-kimchi/#0Ub3q7kcFH7fHQSZ.99

Fukushima Reactor 3 Now and Sooty Ice Still Not Melting As Fast as They Thought, Maybe Even Growing

Reactor 3, the vertical "covers" look a lot like just a visual barrier, seems odd.

You can also see the equipment pool reaching all the way to the outside wall.

Why don't they just lift up the cap and peer in there with a camera?

Meltout through bottom of reactor, corium steaming away in water, layer of steam bubbles surrounding it.

Hydrogen explosion in main building, compressing steam bubbles to liquid, that creates the sharp increase in reactivity necessary to trigger the Prompt Moderated Criticality.

There, fixed it. Also keep in mind, they spend 10s or even 100's of million to cover things up with visual screens just so we can't see them….what else would they do on an agenda?

Further discussion at bottom

Ice in Greenland, look at how sooty it is, looks like snow after 10 meltdowns in a big city it's so dirty.

Some say Greenlands ice is increasing last 4 years, others say it's not melting as quick as they thought.

With all that soot, I would think soot would be a huge cause of melting

Hmmmm, seems like plague and radiation are correlated quite well

PhilipUpNorth

October 30, 2015 at 3:30 pm · Reply

Overhead view of reactor ruins:
http://grnba.com/iiyama/html/crushedGP/pict6.jpg

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• PhilipUpNorth

  October 30, 2015 at 3:32 pm · Reply

  Unit 4 is on the left.
  Unit 3 is on the right.
  (In the above linked photo.)
  Niw, let's zoom in on Unit 3:
  
  

  
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    October 30, 2015 at 3:34 pm · Reply

    That should be "Now" let's zoom in on Unit 3.
    
    

    
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      October 30, 2015 at 3:38 pm · Reply

      Unit 3 aerial view:
      http://thewe.cc/thewe_/images_5/—-/japan-radiation-/reactor-3-after-explosion-march-24-2011.jpe
      
      

      
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        October 30, 2015 at 3:41 pm · Reply

        Unit 3 after removal of roof ruins.
        http://nuclearstreet.com/cfs-file.ashx/__key/communityserver-blogs-components-weblogfiles/00-00-00-00-34/Unit_5F00_3_5F00_013114.jpg
        
        

        
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          October 30, 2015 at 3:42 pm · Reply

          Unit 3 now:
          http://enformable.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/Fukushima-Daiichi-Unit-3-July-2013.jpg
          
          

          
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          • PhilipUpNorth

            October 30, 2015 at 3:53 pm · Reply

            The essential question about Unit 3:
            The Reactor did not blow up.
            Or else, the insides of the containment vessel would have been damaged.
            But the inside of the containment vessel is intact.
            The videos show that even delicate pipe runs, and even a light fixture, remain intact.
            The Spent Fuel Pool did not blow up.
            As underwater photos of the interior of SFP 3 clearly show. (See photo below)
            Then, the essential question about Unit 3 is:
            What caused the Unit 3 explosion?
            
            

            
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              October 30, 2015 at 3:56 pm · Reply

              Photo of Spent Fuel Pool 3:
              http://enformable.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/Fukushima-Daiichi-Reactor-3-Spent-Fuel-Pool-Investigation-2.jpg
              
              

              
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                October 30, 2015 at 4:01 pm · Reply

                Closeup photo of the handle of a fuel assembly in Unit 3, fully intact:
                http://www.fukuleaks.org/web/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/assembliesunit31.jpg
                Only possible conclusion:
                Unit 3 explosion did NOT originate in the spent fuel pool.
                
                

                
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                • Tacomagroove

                  October 30, 2015 at 4:18 pm

                  I disagree.
                  If water submerges to 35%% of the total rod length; Annealing can take place weakening the structural integrity of the fuel cell, Allowing pellets to escape from a central point, as well as in any point which "cracks" including the rear (bottom) of the fuel cells.
                  They will not show signs of damage from the top of the fuel cell because these handles are made of steel, not zirconium. For all we know the entirety of the Fuel pellets are located at the bottom of the fuel pool, While each and every fuel rack would appear undamaged. Its not to say this is what I think happened; As With reactor 3 there was an obvious nuclear detonation which came from the core. Just to say that the photo only proves a fuel rack is present. (however its mechanical integrity is completely unknown based on the science involved.
                  Its like a double a battery that leaked 30 years ago. It will still look like a battery. However it will not produce power.
                  
                  

                  
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                • Tacomagroove

                  October 30, 2015 at 4:25 pm

                  The reason we know it was a core incident is because MOX rods were found on site between reactor's 3 and 4. Which were ejected directly from the core. This is in addition to the 10+s/hr readings that were present on site shortly after the event took place.
                  They also found fuel cell fragments disbursed off site. (some 175 meters away).
                  3 was the most "visual" detonation in the incident; (in respects to unit 4's footage being witheld to date).
                  While 4 is 'suspected' of putting on a secondary show, which was equally / visually reported to be significant. As there were two actual explosions reported by citizens from this unit during the crisis.
                  (however that footage is again "missing").
                  
                  

                  
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                • Tacomagroove

                  October 30, 2015 at 4:32 pm

                  In respects to your questioning
                  Reactor 3 was highly pressurized from the buildup of hydrogen within the primary containment vessel. due to the buildup its likely that tepco attempted to "vent" the primary containment vessel (or even potentially were trying to manually remove the fuel load).
                  However something caused the hydrogen to ignite, which led to the domed lid of the primary containment vessel to uncap itself.
                  Arnold Gunderson was the first person in mainstream media to point out the loose cap. (via tepco footage). Showing a direct stream of steam ejecting from the primary core unit itself.
                  Essentially reactor 3's core unit melted down causing the initial explosion. Which is reversed from reactor 4's incident. (which was a fuel pool / meltout).
                  
                  

                  
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            • stock

              October 30, 2015 at 4:30 pm · Reply

              Meltout through bottom of reactor, corium steaming away in water, layer of steam bubbles surrounding it.
              Hydrogen explosion in main building, compressing steam bubbles to liquid, that creates the sharp increase in reactivity necessary to trigger the Prompt Moderated Criticality.
              There, fixed it. Also keep in mind, they spend 10s or even 100's of million to cover things up with visual screens just so we can't see them….what else would they do on an agenda?
              
              

              
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• stock

  October 30, 2015 at 4:32 pm · Reply

  PUN we KNOW that amount of uranium in air at something like 3000% over background levels, over the whole Pacific, from Saipan, Guam, Hawaii, California.
  The only way that amount of uranium could get so aerosolized is a blast from below, or perhaps looked at as a blast from within.