April 5, 2011 :
The things get worse from day to day in Japan. There are important leaks of water which had become strongly radioactive, toward the Pacific, and the attempts of plugging failed. The radioactive water flows out freely toward the sea, since the unit number 2. The Japanese called on the Russians, who already had business to problem of flights in liquid phase emanating reactors of submarines flowed in Baltic. As soon as engineers of Toshiba had taken contact with me (my file is read to Japan) I had recommended such a contact, of which the evidence to my eyes imposed itself.
The taken aerial photos make the measure of the size of the problem take. There are in the "swimming pools" all loads of the reactors, corresponding to decades of working, to the rhythm of a yearly reloading (...). The earthquake fissured some of these swimming pools, that leak, and the attempts of plugging, with scratch and derisory means, proved to be inefficient. One cannot empty these swimming pools to plug it, at the risk of seeing the temperature of the assemblies going up rising immediately.[...]
The Japanese began Monday April 4 to loosen a few 11.500 tons of water greatly contaminated, stocked in a vast vat, full to straight side, "while apologizing by the residents." To all to take, knowing that it would be necessary to get rid soon or later of this water, it would have been necessary to foresee to route it in full sea in barges, that it would have been preferable to flow to big distance, because they would be them same become radioactive. Useless in fact to consider towing some barges. 11.500 tons don't even reach the tonnage of oil carried away by a small tanker. It would have sufficient to pump this water in a tanker out of age, that would have been driven to the large by a crew piloting the boat since a wheelhouse protected by the plates of lead. Then the boat would have been flowed, after the crew has been evacuated by win up. The contaminated water would have in a first time been kept thus in the cockle of the ship, to be loosened progressively with the passing of its deterioration.
The fact that the Japanese engineers who manage this crisis didn't think of it, demonstrates their improvidence, their incompetence and their inability to face this situation. One would say that all their "actions" are conditioned by the impact that these could have on the public, at a time on their own population and to the eyes from all over the world. It is the picture of Japan, country of the High Technologies, that is in danger. To bring a tanker close to the site, to pump the contaminated water would have made very bad effect, especially if one announced thereafter that the boat would be flowed in depth and that its crew should lead it toward its last journey protected by plates made of lead.
The situation presents itself very badly. The Japanese meteorological service undergoes some pressures not to give any information, if winds move head to big metropolises "not to trigger any panics in the population."
If the government announced "that the reactors would be dismantled", only one glance on the photos taken by the small drone (to see lower) is sufficient to realize that such a "dismantling" is an impracticable project.
It is not non possible to extract the hundreds of assemblies of the storage swimming pools. To be able to make it, it would be necessary to clear over the of the wreckages of these reactors of the assemblies of girders that regain them. If there was not the radioactivity, some teams could conduct their carving, there, to the blowtorch. But it is impossible. One didn't foresee a robot capable to operate it from afar, and the time misses to conceive such devices.
The only solution is the sarcophagus. In emergency it is necessary to pour strong materials on the three reactors to stop the radioactive emanations. These signal themselves "by light smokes", as it was the case for the reactor of Tchernobyl, after the spectacular explosion of the heart. But the aspect of these smokes must not deceive on what they contain.
Gleams signaling the radioactivity emitted by elements of the reactors
It is not necessary to wonder that materials emitting radio-activity create luminous phenomena, visible to the naked eye. Previously, it was while depositing on the needles of watches a radioactive substance that one allowed their owners to read the hour overnight. If clichés of the site were taken, of night, by a drone or since a helicopter, the gotten pictures would have, with no doubt, cause panic in the population. It woul recall the sinister gleams that emerged from the crater of the reactor eviscerated of Tchernobyl, while going up until the clouds, visible the night.
The look of the N°4 reactor of Tchernobyl, the night, before the crater is filled
Let's come back to this question of the setting under sarcophagus (who would not solve the problems bound to a possible diffusion of corium under the reactor). In Tchernobyl, graphite burned, and the hole by which escaped of the particles of radioactive dusts made about ten diameter meters. The Russians sent therefore of young pilots of helicopters heavy Hind, with their crews, to pour thousands of sand cubic meters, of cement, of lead, of boron, in this hole. And it was only when this chimney of the devil was obstructed that the nuclear pollution stopped. To achieve the same operation in Fukushima would imply to drown the reactors on score, or hundreds of thousands of cubic meters of strong materials, before the sparkling emanations and strong particles don't stop.
To this effect the Japanese brought on foot of work a disperser of cement :
But if one tempted a setting under sarcophagus with the help of such a device, the beginning of cement would be a lot too slow. The debit would be completely insufficient (this inability to take the measure of the headache could see itself when the Japanese sent some helicopters to pour goatskins of water on the reactors). The Americans would have sent therefore, by sea, a similar device, assuring a stronger debit, while adding "that this journey would be without return because the device, after use, would have become a lot too radioactive to be able to be rappatrié in USA."
Other news, transmitted by one of my contact. A meeting of crisis, regrouping teams of AREVA and ITER, as well as of the representatives of foreign groups, of which Germans, held in Aix in Provence April 2, 2011. One of the participants carried a file mentioning the code-name of this one :
Godzilla
