"The days" Netflix, Fukushima story.. (series)

[Mr Gus]

Likely it will go down better with folk on here than it has generally been received outside of Japan.
New to the service, if you have access it was an interesting watch, not as descriptive as the chernobyl series a few years back, (different generation, different country, mindset etc)

I enjoyed the insight (bearing in mind it is storytelling, not a documentary)

[Moxi]

Thanks Gus I will watch that with interest,

Moxi

[AE-NMidlands]

There is also currently an ongoing docu-drama on the World Service, the bits I have listened to highlight very well the conflict between the need for openness and honesty in crisis management and the Japanese need kow-tow to high-ups at any cost.

The last episode I heard had the Prime Minister telling the Company Chief exec he just didn't believe him and then breaching all protocol to go to the site to deal direct with the power station top manager - to find him completely frustrated by the company high-ups' refusal to admit the scale of the problem or engage with him and authorise what was obviously needed.

Their culture of sycophancy is absolutely poisonous.
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[Mr Gus]

You will.see a bit of protocol.& trouser dropping in a strategic video meeting in the control room by the site team leader, they do acknowledge this.to some degree, the guys who stayed there. "pissing blood, lots of blood" to put it politely would be to miss ramming the sacrifice home (apologies, it is a dirty affair that is marked now as an "incident" not the catastrophic event we saw played out, doubtless Tepco still have folk driving dirt from search engines to save face & be better prepared for another time.I

Is it over? ..nope, just like chernobyl is still a massive liability.

What percentage of the sarcophogi works dod russia.stump up for? ..anyone? I never got past the. "collective countries" bit.

[nowty]

I enjoyed (I know thats a bit weird) the HBO Chernobyl series, but for context I was working in the nuclear industry at the time of the Chernobyl disaster. That really brought home the danger surrounding me at the time.

Last night I watched the first two episodes of the Fukushima series (The Days) and its a pretty good watch so far.

[Joeboy]

Watched episode 1 last night. Outstanding stomach wrenching stuff.

I remember being on a running machine offshore in Saudi when it hit the news and just hitting the stop button.

Now i'm a fat bas**rd that couldn't run to the bottom of the garden and I'm watching it as entertainment, ah Time.

[nowty]

If you want a background into the disaster, which may enhance the viewing of the series, I found this video very informative. When I was in the industry I was aware of the risks of hydrogen build up from water based reactors. But no one could explain to me exactly how that happens, this video has finally briefly explained it to me.

When you think about it, building a reactor which needs constant cooling even after a shutdown and having water which can turn into hydrogen seems a bit dodgy and an accident waiting to happen. Murphy's law comes to mind.

I just hope we wont be watching a slow motion similar event with the ukraine zaporizhia nuclear power plant.

[Moxi]

Anyone looking to read up on this further should know that the reactor type at zaporizhia is the VVER type which is very different to the BWR (boiling Water Reactor) type at Fukishima. The VVER is therefore akin to a Western European PWR like Sizewell B and if you think of 3 mile island or the near miss at Davis-Besse you get a better idea how a PWR might typically "fail".

I just wonder how the plant internal to the PCB has been maintained as thats generally the weak link area as its not available for inspection when the plant is running.

Certainly an inexcusable place to set up combat positions by anybody and something I would think should be considered as a war crime to dissuade future combatants in other conflicts.

Moxi

[Mr Gus]

Seems like the right point to ask if anyone has seen any plans for various conflict scenarios online (via reputable sources) as to a russian made vengeance "slow em down" problem at zaporizhia? ..that the russians would "claim" must have happened after they had left "obviously" & were therefore not accountable, ..just like those 2 dams

[AE-NMidlands]

It seems that the next stage is starting, dumping the "cleaned up" cooling water - after it has been diluted with seawater to comply with emission limits, which sounds to me like a fix for not filtering everything out!

This got me thinking: If they can filter out everything except the tritium and carbon 14, and tritium has a half-life of 7 years, why don't they "filter" it and then re-use the cooling water? That way exactly the same nuclides build up but using less / no more water. The really nasty stuff is in your ion-exchange resin or whatever they are going to do (and will be dealt with as currently proposed) and the tritium and C-14 just go round and round...