Uploaded March 2012 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago
See the IR map with overhead crane placed where it fell:
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
mod.go.jp/j/approach/defense/saigai/tohokuoki/temp.html
Tepco's August 24 video of Unit 3
Tepco's raw video file (zip)
tepco.co.jp/en/news/110311/images/110924_02.zip
Full Tepco video on youtube:
youtube.com/watch?v=22MdqwR3558
Tepco handout about the video (pdf):
tepco.co.jp/en/nu/fukushima-np/images/handouts_110924_02-e.pdf
See the IR map with overhead crane placed where it fell:
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
mod.go.jp/j/approach/defense/saigai/tohokuoki/temp.html
Tepco's August 24 video of Unit 3
Tepco's raw video file (zip)
tepco.co.jp/en/news/110311/images/110924_02.zip
Full Tepco video on youtube:
youtube.com/watch?v=22MdqwR3558
Tepco handout about the video (pdf):
tepco.co.jp/en/nu/fukushima-np/images/handouts_110924_02-e.pdf
