Saturday, October 19, 2013

Fukushima Lights and Spiking Radiation Levels


What is the strange light that appears periodically at the Fukushima Daiichi site?

I've noticed in the past that the presence of this light correlates strongly with spiking radiation levels, as reported by Tepco. See here.



Horse, at the Enenews Webcam discussion forum, referred to the lights as some form of 'Brown's Gas Burner.' So, I researched Brown's Gas Burner. I also pulled up a comment about this technology made at Enenews over a year ago by a contributor who had worked with nuclear weapons during the Cold War. He went by handle of "the Blue Light."

Here is an interesting reference to Brown's Gas from my research:



Proceedings International Hydrogen Energy Congress and Exhibition IHEC 2005
Istanbul, Turkey, 13-15 July 2005
Water as a Fuel – Brown’s Gas
USES
3. Cleansing of smokestack
7. Destruction of toxic wastes
13. Hydrogen production
14. Mineral separation
15. Nuclear waste decontamination
16. Ore separation
20. Pure water production
http://pacenet.homestead.com/files/waterasfuel.htm

Majia Here: It seems to me from this account and my webcam observations of the Daiichi site that the big lights are Brown's Gas burners. They are probably aimed to reduce nuclear waste during large emissions.

This explanation for the lights explains the strong correlation between a) the presence and size of the lights on the webcams and b) subsequent reports by TEPCO of spiking radiation levels.

See the reports of spiking rads in the Asahi and in NHK. From the NHK article:

Tokyo Electric Power Company managers on Thursday announced they had detected 400,000 becquerels per liter of beta ray-emitting radioactive substances in water collected from a monitoring well. They said the figure is more than 6,000 times higher than the level recorded the day before. They also said the level of radioactive tritium also tripled to the highest-ever figure of 790,000 becquerels per liter.

See also today's update here.

Majia here: I cannot evaluate the helpfulness of the Brown's Gas technology. An individual who posts at Enenews who has professed experience with nuclear (and I'm convinced he has it) had this to say on a forum discussing Brown's Gas:

FROM Enenews: The Blue Light. May 11, 2012 at 3:46 am Log in to Reply
I'm only going to say this one more time "Browns flame is total bullshit". I honestly dont know why people keep bring it up.

None of these pseudo scientific radiation reduction methods work. The Quantum theory says it wont work. The particle accelerator method system has shown a minute reduction. But that reduction was barely discernable.

The problem is that the radioisotopes need to be extremely pure which means you would have to reprocess the fuel first in order to make your targets for the accelerator. The second problem is that the radiation does not go away it just all decays at once which would then vaporize your target turning solid waste into gaseous waste.

Sorry about the rant my hayfever is giving me a kicking at the moment, but it just doesn't work.

MAJIA HERE: I think the mystery of the big lights has been resolved. The number, intensity, and the size of the burners probably indicate how 'hot' the environment is.

What concerns me now is that we are seeing new big lights on the ocean side of the Daiichi site. These lights are HUGE.

The lights are visible on the webcams precisely while TEPCO continues to report rising rads. So, the site is getting very hot, and probably not just because of contaminated water spills.

Nuclear reactions may be increasing as well.

Maybe that is why TEPCO plans on taking the seemingly incredible risk of removing rods from unit 4. Failure to intervene might have natural consequences too perilous to risk.

It all makes sense.


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PowerPoint of data examining reports of conditions at the plant and evidence of criticalities, which can be seen here http://www.academia.edu/4314657/Fukushima_Update_Aug_2013  or here https://www.dropbox.com/s/11xz1zjgwcsbpo0/Fukushima%20Update%20Aug%202013.pptx

 

5 comments:

  1. To clarify: Brown's gas is produced when hydrogen and oxygen are separated from water by electrolysis or other means. This results in a mixture of two parts H to one part O. When ignited it produces an extremely hot flame. At one time it was used in cutting torches, until oxyacetylene replaced it. It's possible this gas is being produced at Fukushima by neutron bombardment in water. I however see no point in burning it rather than allowing it to disperse. The gas may also contain tritium rather than normal hydrogen, in which case it would produce heavy water when burned, further contaminating the water table.

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  2. I don't understand this well. Referring to the Wikipedia entry on oxyhydrogen, Brown's gas is a 2:1 mixture of hydrogen to oxygen. This ratio may go higher, at 5:1 it creates an oxidizing flame.

    It might simply be looked at a way to burn off hydrogen. Excess hydrogen would be present via water radiolysis, where radioactivity splits water molecules into hydrogen and oxygen. This might happen at higher levels when there is higher radioactivity, or perhaps when there is more water available.

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  3. My speculation may be incorrect in detail but I strongly believe the lights are some sort of burner.

    Spider web phenomena were sighted this morning 10/20 on the cams. I don't know what these represent but the are also correlated with spiking rads, as reported by Tepco.

    Here are some links from WideAwake at Enenews' discussion forum:
    https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/77637499/oc20%2019%2009jst.PNG

    https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/77637499/oc20%2019%2006jst.PNG

    https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/77637499/oc20%2019%2023jst.PNG

    Other evidence for spiking rads, beyond Tepco's admissions, comes from EPA's gamma readings for Southern California, which apparently are spiking significantly:

    http://enenews.com/forum-post-radiation-monitoring-data-april-30-2012-present/comment-page-35#comment-399129

    AU reports on the Radiation Reporting discussion forum the following:

    [AU] SF, Calif on a steady climb in radiation since Oct 13, 2013. RADCOM 3 now.
    Eureka, Calif on a steady climb since Oct 11, 2013. RADCOM 3 and RADCOM 5(?) now.

    http://i1316.photobucket.com/albums/t615/Aurum9/SFCAOct2013_zps0b0240a1.png

    http://i1316.photobucket.com/albums/t615/Aurum9/EurekaCaifOct2103Gamma_zps247fc8e2.png

    [AU]: Heads up San Diego and Los Angeles. RADCON 5 level. Take precautions.

    http://i1316.photobucket.com/albums/t615/Aurum9/SanDiegoRADCON5554cmpGamma10202013_zpsc1dd21d4.png

    http://i1316.photobucket.com/albums/t615/Aurum9/LosAngelesCARADCON5218cpmgamma_zps01152c99.png

    CONFIRMATION [WWJD]: October 20, 2013 at 1:54 pm ·

    San Diego, CA, EPA's gamma station shows on NETC.com (station ID 5:915) a high today reached that is high very close to the previously recorded high for that station on September 14, 2013.

    MAJIA HERE: As I've already argued, I strongly believe that the spiking rads are not simply from contaminated water spills:

    Radioactivity level in well water soars near leaky Fukushima tank October 18, 2013 http://ajw.asahi.com/article/0311disaster/fukushima/AJ201310180088

    There is a reason Tepco is going to try and pull melted rods out of unit 4 and I suspect it is a 'hail Mary' pass.

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  4. Video of strange phenomena from today

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pzetM0vtbL8&feature=youtu.be

    Thank you LostWorld and Nuckelchen

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  5. Screen shots from 10/22/2013. Lots of fog, steam, and spider-web effects but this link looks at the red smudge in the foreground of the red-and-white crane.
    https://www.dropbox.com/s/fv34g0xhz6dq1ec/October%2022%202013%20Red%20Smudge.pptx

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