#Fukushima I Nuke Plant: Reactor 1 Aerial Video

This may be your last chance to see Reactor 1 from the top, before TEPCO manages to cover the whole reactor building up.

The video was taken on October 3 when TEPCO did the dust sampling of the air above Reactor 1, and released on October 8. You can download the video for yourself at TEPCO's "Photos for Press" page, or view it here:

This diagram from TEPCO shows the camera angle in relation to the reactor, spent fuel pool, and drier separator pit:

Watching the video, I don't quite understand how TEPCO or the government can claim they watered the Spent Fuel Pool. How? Do you see the pool?

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#Fukushima I Nuke Plant: Steam Rising from Reactors 2 and 3

The latest videos of Reactors 2 and 3 at Fukushima I Nuclear Power Plant show steam rising from the locations where the reactors are located.

The video of Reactor 3 was taken on August 24, and the video of Reactor 2 was taken on September 17 when the company sampled the air using the remote-control crane; a video camera was attached to the boom.

You can download the zip files from TEPCO's Photos for Press page for your record (Reactor 3, Reactor 2), or you can view them here, courtesy of the Mainichi Shinbun video page.

Reactor 3, August 24, 2011 (see this document for the view angle):

Reactor 2, September 17, 2011, from the opening on the east side of the reactor building (see this document for the view angle):

According to Asahi Shinbun (9/24/2011), TEPCO thinks:

東電は「湯気の下には原子炉がある。原子炉から漏れた水蒸気が立ち上っているのか、雨が入り込んで原子炉のふたの熱で蒸発しているのではないか」と話している。

"Under the steam are the reactors. It could be either the steam is escaping from the reactor, or the rainwater is evaporating on the lid of the reactor which is hot."

Looking at the videos, they do not look like rainwater being evaporated, as the steam comes out unevenly and sporadically. If it's rainwater I would imagine a steady rise of steam.

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#Fukushima I Nuke Plant: Latest Photos and Vids by a Drone on April 15 (Updated)

Photos taken by a T-Hawk drone on April 15, 2011, released by TEPCO.

Reactor 4:


For the rest of the photo, go here.

Here's the video.

Part 1:

Part 2:



Part 3:

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#Fukushima I Nuke Plant: April 10 Aerial Shows Steam Out of Reactor 3

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#Fukushima I Nuke Plant: Close-Up Flyover Video by Air Photo Systems

Cryptome.org also had the video taken by the drone by Air Photo Systems, a private aerial photography company in Niigata Prefecture. Here it is:

Or see it on Youtube.

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