Thursday, January 19, 2012

Video of Inside Fukushima I Nuke Plant Reactor 2 Containment Vessel

It's raining inside the Containment Vessel, with water droplets and radiation.

TEPCO has just released the digest version, 1 minute and 14 seconds. In the evening press conference on January 19, TEPCO's Matsumoto said the video footage that they took was about 30 minutes long, but most of it is either totally dark, or white-out as a water droplet was on the camera lens. (Or so he said.)

It took 34 workers (6 TEPCO, 28 affiliate companies) 1 hour and 10 minutes for the video.

10 comments:

Anonymous said...

And this is footage of an operational Containment Vessel in "cold shutdown"? Review of the video will be interesting, the speed of the frames make it difficult to visualize. Probably on purpose. But at least its inside something, somewhere...

The workers if the camera was rated to 1000 mSv/h--have taken their lives in their hands. Many thanks to these heros who are sacrificing lives to do this attempt at Reactor 2. Harrowing to hear they were there for over an hour....

Anonymous said...

Robbie001 stated awhile back that you could expect it to be actually raining inside #2, and he appears to have been right.

Anonymous said...

I forgot to add my lol at this,

"And this is footage of an operational Containment Vessel in "cold shutdown"? "

Anonymous said...

I'm going to shift my comment from a previous post as it seems more relevant here now: at the conference, one of the independent journalists (did he say he as from Nico Nico Douga?) challenged the TEPCO spokesperson to make the entire unedited endoscope footage available. He even offered a USB harddrive when the spokesperson prevaricated...

robertb said...

If this is how tepco determines "stability" and "cold shutdown", I would like to know why they are still allowed to operate nuclear power plants

Chibaguy said...

I agree, it looks like it is raining inside.

Florian said...

Looks like it snows in Japan right now...

Mauibrad said...

Thanks for the video.

Anonymous said...

You find the full videos here:
http://www.tepco.co.jp/en/news/110311/index-e.html

sebaschan said...

Well the rain should be normal since water is sprayed into reactor vessel 2 and 3. The water is probably dripping through the holes of the control-rods. I guess this video only shows that it wont be possible to determine the location of the melted fuel...

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