Thermal Images Reveal Scattered MOX Fuel At Fukushima Reactor 3

Using thermal aerial imaging, analysts have been able to show the location of  mixed Plutonium Uranium fuel scattered around Fukushima nuclear reactor 3.

Goddards journal has release a video which overlays thermal imaging of reactor 3 at the Fukushima nuclear reactor on top of aerial video released by TEPCO.

The analysis reveals the locations where the mixed Plutonium and Uranium (MOX) nuclear fuel rods have been scattered around the site following the massive nuclear explosion that occurred in reactor 3 which has sent plutonium around the world, with levels recently being detected 200 times above government reported levels 50 kilometers from the Fukushima nuclear plant.

The results, shown below reveal that there are at least 3 hot spots containing over heating nuclear fuel outside of the well cap.

One of the hotspots is lying between the spend fuel pond and the well cap.

Watch The Video – Fukushima Unit 3 Reactor-Well Cap Fractured?

See the IR map with overhead crane placed where it fell:
http://iangoddard.com/journal/fukushima/IRwithCrane.png

Because the trolly on the overhead crane sits directly over the well cap and obscures any heat signatures underneath it, and because we see linear heat signatures on either end of the trolly that could be connected as one continuous line, there may be a crack straight across the well cap.

Infrared Imagery
http://www.mod.go.jp/j/approach/defense/saigai/tohokuoki/temp.html

Tepco’s August 24 video of Unit 3

Tepco’s raw video file (zip)
http://www.tepco.co.jp/en/news/110311/images/110924_02.zip

Full Tepco video on youtube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=22MdqwR3558

Tepco handout about the video (pdf):
http://www.tepco.co.jp/en/nu/fukushima-np/images/handouts_110924_02-e.pdf

Video of the Reactor 3 Nuclear Explosion

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