Sunday, March 9, 2014

Web-Cam Observations


Here are my screen shots of today's emission event. I suspect it was very thick because the TBS cam was entirely obscured for awhile:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/a8y0lojx6d0aieq/March%2010%202014.pdf

I've been talking to my friend, an atmospheric chemist, about the webcam phenomena. I had hypothesized tritium was responsible for some of the webcam effects, such as spiderwebs. I learned that we cannot see tritium directly, only its interactions with other elements. The green we associate with tritium derives from interaction with phosphor.

Tritium interacts with phosphor in a process called 'radioluminescence' http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tritium_illumination

So, the strange fog we see could very well be caused by tritium's interaction with other elements in the air. It would make sense that we would see more effects when precipitation is higher because the fog probably has particulates in it (including fuel particles), in addition to H20 (which binds with tritium).

We discussed the plasma hypothesis and spiderwebs. Its likely electrons are responsible for the effects we are seeing, but he was at a loss to describe specifically how the effects are occurring. Beta decay occurs as a radionuclide, such as tritium, decays electrons and positrons.

My friend was surprised by the high tritium levels. Remember that TEPCO had been reporting spiking tritium levels in fresh water samples from July 2013 onward, before they stopped reporting those numbers. Well, that made no sense to him.

I suggested fission was responsible for creating the upwardly spiking tritium levels.

I described these episodic steam/smoke releases. The cam TBS cam view will go from relatively clarity to complete obscurity. Close scrutiny of both cams during these episodes reveals 'sparks' flying up out of buildings 1 and 2 and heat streaming up from all reactor shells.

I told my friend I was convinced that criticalities were occurring (not all criticalities result in explosions, see here.). He said he would investigate further and let me know what he finds.

Most of the fuel is probably decomposing in the underground river, but I believe some melted fuel retains a geometry capable of sustaining sub-critical nuclear reactions.

 
Graphic was originally found here http://www.stofficetokyo.ch/reports/201312_Contaminated_Water.pdf

The nuclear fuel at Daiichi is going to contaminate the soil, fresh water, ocean, and atmosphere forever.


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