Gamma on cams

Twinkle, twinkle little star… If the camera sparks are gamma bursts we might expect to find them during known radiation spikes. Bo posted radiation readings, TY, showing spikes on 7-7, the event a few days ago and a spike on 5-15.
http://fukuichi.mods.jp/?p=37&fname=p34.csv&cnt=300&update=%E6%9B%B4%E6%96%B0

Went spark fishing on the 5-15-2015 recording and found 112 sparks amid multiple emission events. Posted sparks to HorseCam, http://s87.photobucket.com/user/HorseCam/library/?sort=3&page=1

Start of 05-15 sequence, use left arrow to advance.
http://i87.photobucket.com/albums/k146/HorseCam/05-15%20202550_zpsl416ld0j.png

End of sequence 05-16, use right arrow.
http://i87.photobucket.com/albums/k146/HorseCam/05-16%20010329%20sprk%20yel_zpsa99euuma.png

A few are out of time order. Notice the smoke/Fuku fog/steam over the r3 pit as it flares a few times to fill the screen. Lots of color and combo sparks. Sparks were dimmed by the smoke. Scanned the recording at 1.5X speed so may have missed a few of the sparks.

There’s a slide show of the 5-15 steam/smoke event in my dropbox that has more sparks and is in chronological order to show off the eruptions of steam/smoke. A gamma sparks perspective on the emissions questions.
https://www.dropbox.com/s/0b7z4afykhe2pvg/5-15-2015%20Spike.ppsx?dl=0

The timelapse archive 5-15-2015 had 204 views. I saw one spark at 0:51 to the right of the tower over halfway up.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JKhpwUsxsTg


Live_ISS_Stream June 13 at 10:39pm
A gamma storm starts about 36 minutes in.
http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/63726962
July 3 at 10:51pm gamma at 2 hrs in.
http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/66192813

Gamma fireworks belong in space, not sitting on a coast line.

Uploaded more sparks to the 7-7-2015 album. http://s87.photobucket.com/user/HorseCam/library/7-7-2015
Graphed the time data and saw the same pattern as in the 5-15 time data; a few bursts over minutes, a long pause, more bursts over minutes, and another long pause. The period is about 40-50 minutes and quite regular in both the measured timeframes. The sparks indicate gamma activity occurring in a regular pattern during both radiation events.

Nuclear fires still burn at Fukushima and spew actinides to pollute the air and water. Fukushima Diary posts TEPCO’s radiation readings at the reactors, ever increasing to new record levels.
http://fukushima-diary.com/

Conditions at the plant look to be deteriorating; plans and actions have been delayed again by years; the media, too silent on the dangers of the Fukushima nuclear disaster. The explosions that made headlines four years ago were fixed by ignoring the problems that followed. The reason I bring these little gamma bursts to your attention is that they are occurring more often than last year, when the phenomena was hardly noticed.

Sunset to Dawn 7-16-2015
The weather had started to clear a bit during the day. I was looking for when the sparks might decrease or disappear in clear weather, but we haven't had much clear weather the last few weeks, too much smoke and Fuku steam/fog to see anything but new colors in the sunrise/sunset. At sunset another eruption of yellow smoke clouded the view. I can't pinpoint where the smoke originates. There are sparks in the yellow/orange smoke. The smoke cleared quickly this time and the sparks put on a strong show until after midnight when they slowed to a different rate till dawn’s early light ends the show.

http://s87.photobucket.com/user/HorseCam/library/07-16-2015

The graph of the delay time between sparks shows a step change in the rate to a slower frequency. The sparking doesn’t end by dawn and probably continues unseen in the daylight.

http://i87.photobucket.com/albums/k146/HorseCam/07-16-2015/GAMMA%20SPARKS%20%20170%20%20%207-16-2015%201900-0400_zpsdejrqzdm.png

Majia posts a hypothesis quoted here to save me the time typing.

I've been a bit discouraged by the escalating signs of trouble in the Pacific and in Japan, which is becoming more fascistic daily. Webcam images haven't looked stable for months.
What hypotheses can we forward?
H1: Melted nuclear fuel at Daiichi is experiencing ongoing water-mediated sub-criticalities (sub-criticalities are not capable of producing an explosive chain. Geometry may explain).
Evidence:
Empirical evidence of Iodine-131 detections in dry sewage sludge. (TEPCO data courtesy of Fukushima Diary and Optimal Prediction).
Assertion by TEPCO that they cannot find the melted corium from reactor 1 (all over the news).
Webcam evidence of episodic, pulsating events at the plant whose precise nature is not clear but appear as "emissions" from buildings, strange fogs, eclipsing lights, patterned pulses of "sparks," wavering and/or pixilated imagery.
Clear evidence of severe ongoing fresh and sea water contamination with levels rising rather than falling. (TEPCO data)
No single piece of evidence stands alone to support the hypothesis but as a whole they provide persuasive circumstantial evidence for the hypothesis.
Are there data points that dis-confirm the hypothesis, other than TEPCO's fraudulent assertion of cold shutdown in November 2011?
I personally don't trust any of TEPCO's automated plant readings.
Other hypothesis that supplement or compete?
I don't think the ice wall can explain all the strange emissions since the emissions have been documented in screenshots and cams for years and the ice wall is newer (2014 I think).

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I suspect sub-criticalities in the melts as well. I would add possible zirc fires in the CSFP to the list. I think the last few months events are more than just incinerating debris onsite.

They tiptoe away from the problem trying not to waken the sleeping masses.

Increasing radiation at the site may lead to abandonment or halt the feeble efforts TEPCO/Japan has made so far. Their efforts haven’t stopped the radiation spewing to air and sea. Nuclear fuel still sits in pools near broken reactors too radioactive for men or equipment. Gamma sparking on cams won’t be in the news either.

bo
July 24, 2015 at 9:48 am
Via @akira_pt4ever

'Unit 3 reactor containment monitor spiking same time as the steam/fog/black smoke seen on webcam.
If this wasn't criticality what is?'

http://fukuichi.mods.jp/show_graph.php?fname=p34.csv&cnt=100&p=37&vmode=mobile

This monitor had spiked 7 times this month

Horse
July 24, 2015 at 9:29 pm
TY, Bo, for posting the recent graph of U3. It seems the smoking and sparking seen lately could be a sub-criticality becoming more active. I think a melt has jumped to a more active level. I keep seeing sparks. Keep posting those graphs.

Sample of smoke clearing during regular hourly breaks and an hour and 15 minute sample of sparking.
http://s87.photobucket.com/user/HorseCam/library/07-21-2015%20smoke

Cleared during the day, evening spark activity was increased.
http://s87.photobucket.com/user/HorseCam/library/07-22-2015

7-22 spark activity graph dusk to midnight
http://i87.photobucket.com/albums/k146/HorseCam/07-22-2015/07-22%20graph_zpsdpccqxos.png

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http://enenews.com/forum-about-japan-burning-radioactive-debris

The enenews webcam forum was busy last week as yellow/orange smoke kept erupting and fogging out the view. Attempted to locate the origin of the smoke, it seems to be coming from the CSFP area or the nearby Unit 3 reactor pit.

Up in the front office, the NRC is proposing a rule change to allow more radiation exposure to the public. Proposed is a change from LNT to Hormesis.

https://www.federalregister.gov/articles/2015/06/23/2015-15441/linear-no-threshold-model-and-standards-for-protection-against-radiation

Docket ID NRC-2015-0057

Instead of acknowledging the harmful effects of radiation, the NRC would like all of us to get a protective dose of radiation. They say it is only radiophobia causing stress and cancer and killing people. LNT probably underestimated the danger of low level radiation. Hormesis theory claims health benefits from exposure. The rule change is open to public comments until September 8th.

Four years after Fukushima started leaking radionuclides, the Pacific Ocean is having problems that many would like to blame on global warming. West coast fisheries have closed for lack of fish. It is never tritium or actinides to blame so we don't even bother to test for it. After Chernoybl we learned that cancer can take five to ten years to develop after radiation exposure. Watch industry and media try to cover up an increase in aggressive cancers with more disinformation.

Increasing ionizing radiation may disrupt your plans for growing new DNA strands. Protect yourself now because industry and governments will only protect their profits.

Hello,

This looks like interesting data you are collecting here. It's photo stills from a camera you installed near your home, right? It doesn't sound like you're in Japan, so are you saying that these are gamma bursts, and that they're being picked up on a camera in your part of the world?

Can I ask you to explain how you identify them as gamma bursts, and how you source them to the Daiichi plant at Fukushima? Thanks.

Niall said:

Hello,

This looks like interesting data you are collecting here. It's photo stills from a camera you installed near your home, right? It doesn't sound like you're in Japan, so are you saying that these are gamma bursts, and that they're being picked up on a camera in your part of the world?

Can I ask you to explain how you identify them as gamma bursts, and how you source them to the Daiichi plant at Fukushima? Thanks.

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Hi Niall, yes, gamma bursts. I record the TEPCO live feed cameras at my home in the mile high city on my comcastrophe connection.

TEPCO Cam1 http://www.tepco.co.jp/en/nu/f1-np/camera/index2-e.html

TEPCO Cam2 http://www.tepco.co.jp/en/nu/f1-np/camera/index-e.html

You can find more links in my posts in the Fukushima spent fuel removal thread. http://cassiopaea.org/forum/index.php/topic,32715.0.html

I blog on the Enenews webcam thread about the sparks and other strange things seen on the TEPCO cameras.
http://enenews.com/forum-about-japan-burning-radioactive-debris

As I would go thru the recordings I started seeing these small bursts of light lasting a single frame, which made them easy to separate from other light effects. There has been a marked increase in sparks and more smoke/steam emission events were documented when they increased. Very few are watching the cameras, popular timelapse vids on yutube remove most lightening strikes and sparks, so no one was seeing these events. The last few months, even watching cam1 at night for 10 minutes would yield some sparks, in real time it looks like the twinkle of a star in the black background. The recordings allowed me to step thru a recording and output frames for posting so others could see too. As I grabbed frames I started noticing a timing pattern and got serious about trying to count these things while they were firing off so frequently. Camera1 is the closest to the reactors and shows the most sparks. Camera4 is much further away but still shows an occasional spark. The TBS/JNN cam is even further away and hasn't shown any sparking but it does show the smoke/steam events at the site. Each frame grab has a timestamp so anyone could go thru a recording and verify the data. As to how I source these to gamma radiation, the effect on CCD cameras has been seen in several vids showing insides of reactors.

Agreenroad http://agreenroad.blogspot.com/2015/01/inside-of-fukushima-reactor-2-molten.html

The ISS archive links above go stale after a month but the gamma storms up there produce the same spark show on the HD CCD cams they use.

I thought SOTT readers might like to know what's going on at Fukushima and I'm glad you asked about the sparks. I don't have much expertise to share and I don't want to add any noise to the discussions going on at SOTT about the terror of the situation, I have learned much from Laura and the SOTT network. I hope my citizen science project and observations add to the warnings of the problems the psychopaths in power are making of this existence.

Here's a vid that all should see. Quietly into Disaster - Full Movie Published on Jun 18, 2015
"Just as the use of nuclear energy for military purposes the use of nuclear fission for peaceful purposes in nuclear reactors is a crime against all of humanity."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HIEzTKO03do

Posted a couple more nights of spark grabs and graphs located in the albums at http://s87.photobucket.com/user/HorseCam/library/
Check there for new photo postings.

edit above post
TEPCO Cam2 http://www.tepco.co.jp/en/nu/f1-np/camera/index-e.html
meant to read Cam4. The cams are named for the reactor in the foreground. Cam1 looks on reactor 1 and cam4 looks on reactor 4. No edit function and I'm a lousy typist. I should know not to post when I'm tired, no matter how many times I reread before submitting, typos sneak in.

“TEPCO successfully removed the fuel handling crane from the spent fuel pool on August 2nd amid problems with fog.”
http://www.fukuleaks.org/web/?p=14930

“It originally weighs 35 t, so Tepco cut it into 20 t piece in the pool water.
Two large cranes were remotely operated to remove this debris. In case of oil leakage from the debris, they stopped the coolant system of SFP 3 (Spent Fuel Pool of Reactor 3) for 12 hours.”
http://fukushima-diary.com/2015/08/tepco-completed-removing-20-t-debris-from-sfp-3/

The fog may have provided cover for the other emissions web cam watchers noticed, it may even be heat from the pool steaming away that caused unusual thick fogging over the site. Disturbing the contents of the R3 spent fuel pool while removing the large fuel handling crane could be the source of the increase in gamma sparks and the radiation spikes that occurred over the last two months. While stations in Japan reported radiation spikes, TEPCO site readings on NETC did not change. TEPCO is not telling us the true radioactivity at the site. Gamma sparking went from peak rates of 30 per hour in June and July back down to an average 20 per hour. From a count on August 1st it seems to be dropping below that 20 per hour average. The gamma sparks in the recordings indicate that radiologic events are still happening; whatever the cause or whether they get reported or not. The spark albums on HorseCam are best viewed in Filename order to preserve the time sequence. Did you notice the variety of sparks? Do you think sparks might be something other than gamma bursts?

Horse
jec, while counting the sparks, I wondered if workers were getting an unexpected dose of gamma. Sad to hear one reached his limit. A count of 47 sparks in three hours on 8-2 for an avg. 15.66 sparks per hour. Seems to be steadily decreasing.

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Then another worker died.
http://fukushima-diary.com/2015/08/another-fukushima-worker-died-after-leaving-the-frozen-wall-area-tepco-the-cause-of-death-is-not-identified/

Now I see evidence that Enenews might be controlled opposition. Who's in control of this site? The weekend of August 1st, Enenews had an outage, when it came back Monday, the burning debris forum that webcam watchers had been using was archived, no comments. We tried to move to the alternative energy forum. A day later that forum was archived.

ChasAha
The Web Cam Forum has been messed up for such a long time. (months) Viewers have dropped off. Having a centralized place to document and archive observations WAS a good thing. Now data is spread out over several forums making access to prior observations almost impossible.

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Archiving the alternative energy forum a day after the outage that archived 4 forums, a day after webcam watchers moved there, seems a deliberate censorship. Admin continues to post new stories, but now there is no place left for webcam watchers to post observations.

Proof of increasing gamma radiation at the site as evidenced by increased gamma sparking on the webcams while workers are dying must come close to violating the ‘no one has ever died of Fukushima radiation’ myth.

This is the only other site I have posted the gamma spark data on. I wasn’t expecting the reaction I received at Enenews. I’ve only lost a hobby blogging about the Fukushima webcams, others have lost so much more trying to tell truth to power or the people.