4/27: Evidence of Ejection of the Reactor Core #3 at Fukushima NPP

On April 27, Frank Sanns posted a note on the unit 3 reactor at Fukushima Dai-ichi Nuclear Power Plant. Here it is.

4/27:  Evidence of Ejection of the Reactor Core #3 at Fukushima NPP--Frank Sanns

For those of you that have followed my posts, I have been saying, with facts that continue to support my claims, that #3 reactor was breached on that day it exploded in mid March. The facts are:

#1. Velocity of detonation not consistent with velocity, color, magnitude of hydrogen explosion alone. High pressure was vented on the day of the explosion of #3.

#2. Ultra high radiation had to be bulldozed between reactors 3 and 4.

#3. Neutrons were detected 2.2 Km from the reactors. Only comes from core material especially plutonium.  The reported "neutron beams" were most likely neutrons in the debris field of the core materials. 

#4.  Reactors #2 and #3 are at atmospheric pressure and not pressurized as would be normal.   Reactor #2 is breached below the core and #3 is breached above the core.

#5. Recent Hi RES photos show physical damage to pools and inner containment.

#6. Yet un realized by Tepco or any scientist that I have seen is the thermal evidence that the reactor is substantially empty of its core. I have heard time and time again that #3 is out of the woods and is near cold shut down temperature. Unbelievable that they do not understand what this is saying! If three reactors are the same size and operating at the same outputs when they are shut down, then the heat inside is the same for all three reactors, MOX or not. Each should be generating roughly the same amount of heat but they are NOT. #3 is cold compared especially compared to #1 which has not lost containment. The conclusion is #3 has lost most of its core, and #2 some but to or out of the bottom and maybe out to sea. Temperature alone is enough to get a guilty verdict without a shadow of a doubt. The rest is icing on the cake. This is also why I did not believe the zero plutonium and uranium numbers in the recent TEPCO report of soil samples at the plant. No soap box here, only the facts.

Marcela This is outrageous. How come they 'throw the neutrons and hide the hand' and nothing be published or discussed? Many a fact about Reac3 are obscure, like when TEPCO said to the journalists demanding info on Reac 3-MOx and plutonium measurings, they wouldn't provide it because at the moment they "did not have a measuring device for that" (sic).

David If you're right, sooner or later the truth will out Frank... this stuff doesn't disappear... too many people taking too many readings to hide it. I was just reading a report that in Belarus "‘of the 400,000 children measured for radiation since 1990, 90% of them have potentially harmful levels of radioactive material in their bodies." Vladimir Babenko, Deputy Director of the Belarus Institute of Radiation. That's quite a statistic. Thyroid cancer cases rose 5 fold in 1990s too. It would be nice to think we aren't going to have to have a third and fourth and fifth category seven, before these wretched water heaters are put permanently to bed!

Steven Sesselmann Last report from the IAEA confirm that the reactor pressure in #2 and #3 is at amospheric pressure. I just looked at the video of #3 blowing it's top, and I agree, the velocity of the debris, colour of the smoke is not consistent with a hydrogen explosion removing the roofing material, which most likely would be sheet iron. Chances are as you suggest that the primary containment vessel concrete slab has been blown off.

27 April at 04:13 · Like

Frank Sanns ‎@Marcela, I reviewed the video of the #3 explosion and the wind is blowing AWAY from the area that the three samples were taken for analysis by TEPCO for uranium and plutonium. There are just TOO MANY facts here. Unlike many conspiracy theories where the facts can be outrageous or scant, these facts are just piling up one after another against TEPCO. SOmebody is doctoring up the data for PR. Sure in time this will come out but it need to be out now when the safety of the people is at stake. In many ways it is too late but it does not give me much confidence in the food supply right now. I could not even start to make a recommendation on the safety of that from the areas in the north.

Marcela When a month ago we were reading that 'fuel bars were exposed >70%', 'that rad materials that only come out when fuel bars zirconium shaft molten/break had been found', etc., and JP gvmt/TEPCO was saying 'no meltdown", the 'pulling the citizens' leg' point had already been surpassed.

Frank Sanns ‎@Steven, Yes, I had that in my original posts but forgot to put it in my summary. Thank you for pointing out still another factor to help people make their own conclusions.

Steven Sesselmann Has General Electric had anything to say on the matter? my understanding is that the reactor is their design.

Frank Sanns From the IAEA’s website again today. The temperatures at the bottoms of the reactors are all at ~110 C but the top especially of #3 is much cooler than the other two reactors especially #1 which has not breached: "The reactor pressure vessel temperatures in Unit 1 remain above cold shutdown conditions. The indicated temperature at the feedwater nozzle of the reactor pressure vessel is 134.7 °C and at the bottom of reactor pressure vessel is 110.9 °C.

The reactor pressure vessel temperatures in Unit 2 remain above cold shutdown conditions. The indicated temperature at the feed water nozzle of the reactor pressure vessel is 121.2 °C. The reactor pressure vessel and the dry well remain at atmospheric pressure.

The temperature at the bottom of the reactor pressure vessel in Unit 3 remains above cold shutdown conditions. The indicated temperature at the feed water nozzle of the reactor pressure vessel is 67.9 °C and at the bottom of the reactor pressure vessel is 110.4 °C. The reactor pressure vessel and the dry well remain at atmospheric pressure.