This Fukushima Steam- are there any good sources?

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52. Even Fukushima Diary rejects this Steam bullshit.

And Fukushima Diary is pretty out there at times.

http://fukushima-diary.com/2014/01/column-reactor3-hoax-and-fukushima-exploiters/

Since the end of 2013, the hoax has been going around on the internet to say reactor3 is having meltdown. (It’s molten already.)



I immediately denied the rumor on Facebook but haven’t made an official statement on Fukushima Diary itself.



From my observation, the mess started from the article of Enenews to say reactor3 was still steaming multiple times in December, which is correct. (It’s not the fault of Enenews.)



The “steam” has been observed at least since this July. Since then, it has been observed almost everyday. From the frequency of the “steam”, I assume it is the evaporated coolant water leaking out of primary containment vessel (I don’t think it’s evaporated rainwater retained on the top of PCV because it was observed even if it doesn’t rain for a long time.). We got to see it because Tepco removed the major debris from the top of reactor3. Probably it has been coming up since just after 311. Sure it’s extremely radioactive. Nobody can stand on the top of reactor3, and it’s harmful for west coast. However, it’s been so for these 3 years.



I made at least 30 articles related to the “steam”. Here are the posts. They are actually all about the “steam”.



7/18/2013 [Breaking] Tepco “Steam / Gas coming up from the top of reactor3, ambient dose and dust not verified” [URL]

7/18/2013 Steam still coming up from reactor3 at 13:00 JST / Tepco prepared to inject boric acid [URL 2]

7/18/2013 [Timely] M3.5 hit Fukushima offshore at 15:10 7/18/2013 (JST) [URL 3]

7/18/2013 [Column] What could have happened to reactor3 ? [URL 4]

7/18/2013 Tepco to hold an extraordinary press conference about reactor3 “steam” at the headquarters [URL 5]

7/18/2013 [Video] “Steam” from the top of reactor3 building [URL 6]

7/18/2013 [Steaming reactor3] Tepco “The steam is the heated rain, same thing happened last year but didn’t report it” [URL 7]

7/19/2013 Cs-134 detected from “steam” in reactor3 / Tepco “not sure if it was rain” [URL 8]

7/21/2013 Tepco “Steaming area of reactor3 is 18~25℃ by thermography on 7/20/2013? [URL 9]

7/22/2013 Thermography shows 50℃ on operation floor of “steaming” reactor3 [URL 10]

7/23/2013 [Nothing settled] Steam from reactor3 again [URL 11]

7/23/2013 [Breaking] 2.2 Sv/h from the top of reactor3, 562 mSv/h from the steam [URL 12]

7/23/2013 [Timely] 2 of the 2 dust radiation monitoring systems down in reactor2 [URL 13]

7/24/2013 Reactor3 steaming again / Over 1 Sv/h at 6 of 25 locations on the operation floor [URL 14]

7/25/2013 [Steaming reactor3] Thermography shows the steaming area is over 15℃ hotter than atmosphere [URL 15]

7/26/2013 [Steaming reactor3] Tepco “The steam may be from the inside of the reactor, a certain volume of N2 gas is missing” [URL 16]

8/1/2013 Cesium density in reactor3 “steam” higher than the gas inside of PCV [URL 17]

8/4/2013 Reactor3 has steamed for over 1 week [URL 18]

8/4/2013 [Column] Summary of Fukushima situation July~August – The latest problems and the impending crisis [URL 19]

8/5/2013 Reactor3 steaming again [URL 20]

8/6/2013 Steam coming up from reactor3 again / Videos released [URL 21]

8/7/2013 Reactor3 steamed till 9:00AM 8/7/2013 [URL 22]

8/23/2013 Cesium-134/137 level jumped up 10~1,000 times much as average on the top of reactor3 [URL 23]

9/3/2013 Kyoto Uni Prof. “Tritium might be discharged directly from the reactor3 to the atmosphere” [URL 24]

9/13/2013 [Never be fixed] “Steam” came back again on the top of reactor3 [URL 25]

9/15/2013 Steam observed coming up on the top of reactor3 again [URL 26]

9/17/2013 [Steam after typhoon] “Steam” observed from the top of reactor3 again / humidity was only 53% [URL 27]

9/20/2013 Steam found coming up from the top of reactor3 again / Reason is not verified yet [URL 28]

9/26/2013 Tepco “Can’t disclose atmosphere contamination data because the crane is malfunctioning” [URL 29]

9/27/2013 Tepco not to investigate nor take countermeasures for reactor3 “steam” anymore [URL 30]



Anyway, Turner radio something picked up this article of Enenews to warn the west coast to RUN.

The article referred to the picture of reactor3 taken back in 2011. It was quite misleading. If the “author” (I dare not to say “writer”) didn’t recognize what the picture was, the person doesn’t know anything about Fukushima situation. The steam has been visible since July. It wasn’t timely to warn to run, at least not urgent. They should have reported it in July.