Fukushima Conspiracy Theories

Well, I think everyone has a right to their opinions in this world. I also think I would have the time of my life, and he'd likely have one of the worst in his, to have a straight up and fair debate on the topic from what he has presented there.

It is fair to say he is factually wrong on how the G.E. design in use at Fuku functioned for power generation and emergency power backup, as well as a couple fundamental misunderstandings in precisely how and why a couple steps were taken by TEPCO, with the result they produced. Folks see the reactor building explosions as a horrible thing ..and out of context to that Pandora's box of doom, it WOULD be, to be fair. At that place? I can well imagine some of the on-site people giving time for tears when they made the connections and remote commands which initiated the series of events to end with total containment building blowouts. They knew exactly what was going to result, and it was a pure case of 'which bad is better?', because when external power dropped ...so did the options. To precisely 1. Get electrical power with margins to power the cooling systems of 4 active or recently active and hot units ...or play '3 card monty' until even they lost track, as it had to eventually, for options that added no time but chose how the failures happened.

They could have blown out the containment vessels directly ...which was already happening to build pure hydrogen bombs (Not "H-Bombs", and there is a big difference), or they could choose to do what they did...in what was brave as hell, but was as likely to kill them all to the last person as it was to prevent a TOTAL containment failure of multiple cores in quick succession (at least 2).

They vented the vessels to outside atmosphere. All of about 1 foot away, and still inside the reactor area, let alone the buildings...and they turned the buildings into the hydrogen explosive. The buildings had panels capable of blowing out by design (and we saw the frames and remains after the explosions). It endangered the spent fuel pools (INSANELY) placed high in the reactor buildings ..but they were betting (I'd guess) the super-armored nature of the pools would survive the short blowout, thanks to weak walls in the building itself.

Had the containment vessels blown? a few tons of pure fuel and mixed (MOX), or some of the worst crap man has ever made, from what STARTED at some of the most dangerous NATURE has ever made...would have been all over the wrong side of the breakwaters, and in the open Pacific.

THEN? We WOULD have true reason to fear waters off the West Coast by now. As it is? you can watch the blast of one containment building, and SEE parts of the interior landing beyond the breakwater/jetty less than 200 yards away, in a direct line. I'd guess some of that was spent fuel from the worse of the two blasts ...and that region of Japanese waters are screwed for those few little splashes. THOSE gifts NEVER stop giving in human time frames to consider.

If those had been the splashes of a thousand pounds of MOX? God help everyone around the Pacific rim, because nothing Earth could offer would have at that point. Moving away from shorelines...would be all anyone could do, I'd guess...and then, only really a temp fix.

The Fuku workers did what was more likely to kill them, to what was almost certain to save everyone outside their immediate area. They got lucky..the larger blast didn't shower them with death in fuel material.


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He also could stand to take a Geology Intro class. It would do wonders for a fundamental misunderstanding of how quakes work for power, strength and felt strength over distance. There is a reason it generated a wave from hell, but didn't do enormous physical damage onshore, and precisely the same physical detail to THAT quake's behavior answers both issues directly, simply, and as a matter of basic science to the topic.

Just my two carrots.

Ok let me say after a super quick review he has some serious errors. 

Most notable the generator size, most homes in the US have a service capable of delivering 200 amps at full load in single phase, in Japan I would suspect its more like 100 amps they are the kings of down sizing specially with power consumption. They are after all almost entirely dependent on Nuclear power. At 100 amps for 14,000 homes is only 1.4 mega watts. But still lets do one additional number, 1 HP in a gasoline driven motor is capable of delivering 750 watts of generated power using liberal numbers, and 10 mega watts would require roughly 13000 HP to drive at full load. Slightly less for diesel and what size fuel tank would that take and what size basement if it was available? Seems to me it would take nuclear power to run those generators. 

Secondly PLC don't do anything random and never run two programs at the same time the have ladder program that scans from beginning to end every time unless there is a loop built in in which case it does the loop and nothing else until some parameter is reached to exit the loop. I am not aware of administrative mode on a PLC, to download and upload program changes requires a manual switch to be thrown on the ones I worked with called run, and program. In terms of computing and computer power PLC's are not very smart compared to a desk top. They were created to replace 100's of relays, switches, timers, etc. There are more of a single purpose device designed to run machinery. 

He makes reference to the switch gear, in industrial applications the switch gear is manually controlled much like a circuit breaker but a switch without any thermal properties. There is no automatic process that I am aware of that would disconnect this remotely, after all it is a safety device used for service and safety. It is usually a grey panel with a very large lever to over come the mechanical springs inside. Stuxnet or the PLC could not control these. Any lifer of PLC's and controls would know all of this. I would imagine kdog could add a ton to this he still works with these types of controls in his industry, I have been out of it for 4 years now. 

BTW it was said with no proof that the Israelis did Stuxnet because the found a single word referencing Israel in the code, they aren't that stupid to point a finger at themselves. I never believed that report from day one. 

Just a quick review of what he says, maybe this week I will get more time to go deeper, but he would be better with bikini pics to drive people to his site then this report. 

Knowing nothing about nuclear reactors, I could almost buy his story about backup systems. But I thought the guy was getting too extreme denying that an earthquake had occurred and the tsunami was caused by an underwater nuke explosion. Also, the idea that bombs were planted inside the reactor and the Stuxnet virus was used to cause the failures, that was really too far out to believe for me. Too much going on and just the story details cued me to the fact that the author was a few fries short of a happy meal.

Still, I found the ramblings of this guy's conspiracies to be interesting because it puts me into the perspective of the average non-believer who says "just another tin foil hat wearing CT nut job". I didn't read any of his other material, but I imagine this guy has a closet full of tin foil hats, outfits and accessories. If he really believes these CTs, the guy probably needs a vacation in a fully padded room.