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http://www.jaif.or.jp/english/news_images/pdf/ENGNEWS01_1300368041P.pdf Here's an additional update from the FEPC at 22:00 Mar 17 Tokyo time. This is the main "industry group" there but shows an easily read comparitive spread sheet on issues with each reactor. Latest Status Report as of 1 1/2 hours ago from this posting. Noting helicopter drops at Units 3, 4 and water cannon truck spraying at Unit 3 But, still showing increasing temps in Units 5, 6 SFPs Just a note sources: one wonders not so much *why* as *how* the more optimistic, perhaps lying types at the TEPCO and Japanese gov't say one thing, and Jazcko, the head of the US NRC, says something else about the status of the plants. Even with the culture of TEPCO being to downplay anything bad and Chairman Jazcko, an *anti-nuclear* head of the NRC making it seem worse, I suspect Jazcko's sources might actually be more reliable. The infrared remote sensing is an asset that both the U.S. and Japan have in earth orbit satellites. This means that a spent fuel pool, with no water in it, shows up as a very bright white spot on the image and is obvious to a trained photo interpretation analyst. Typically, these satellites orbit at about 200-300 miles above the earth in what is called “low earth orbit,” and typically they are in polar orbits which gives them more coverage of the earth’s surface over time. A fly over at 35,000 feet by a photo reconnaissance aircraft, including both visible spectrum and infra red, from the U.S. Navy fleet off the Japanese coast would show even more definitive results. Also, in a nuclear facility, operating under normal conditions, discovery of water leaks where they don’t belong triggers a cascade of communications. The shift supervisor and plant shift supervisor are notified and radcon is dispatched to survey it. In abnormal conditions, it is impossible to predict what might have happened had any of the skeleton staff remaining at the plant noticed a plume of fog at ground level coming off 180 F water leaking into 34 F air. This is why my speculation is that Jaczko got his intelligence about the status of the spent fuel pool from U.S. military assets which may have also been supplemented or confirmed by similar Japanese assets acquiring similar data. The Japanese military assets, under and extreme vail of secrecy, usually say nothing, I'm speculating, including to the Japanese government (which again, relies on TEPCO news releases) The implication is that with these assets purposed to image the Fukushima site, it is likely to have been made clear to TEPCO that transparency is coming from the skies whether they like it or not. And, assuming this is all true and, assuming the US military isn't down playing or over playing the data from these intelligence assets. Completely *speculating*..... --DW ________________________________________________ Send list submissions to: Marxism@greenhouse.economics.utah.edu Set your options at: http://greenhouse.economics.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
