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Videos from robots probing inside the extremely radioactive primary containment of Fukushima Daiichi Unit 3 reveal clues that microorganisms may be thriving therein. If so, Fukushima's destroyed reactors could be useful radiobiology laboratories.
Tepco's videos and reports on the
(A) 2015 robotic exploration inside Unit 3's primary containment vessel photo.tepco.co.jp/en/date/2015/201510-e/151020-01e.html
(B) 2017 robotic exploration inside Unit 3's primary containment vessel photo.tepco.co.jp/en/date/2017/201711-e/171130-02e.html
All Fukushima Unit 3 PCV videos are collected @ youtube.com/playlist?list=PLAZoYp2E1CWMVYPJ1yb8Xmyt-LSov4Gu4
@ 0:31 Opinion that rusty colored formations are nuclear fuel simplyinfo.org/?p=17335
@ 1:11 Textbook examples of bacterial tubercles @ businessdocbox.com/Metals/71498650-Corrosion-problems-and-solutions-in-oil-refining-and-petrochemical-industry.html (see PDF pages 32 and 205); i0.wp.com/scl.umn.edu/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/tweets-05-1.png; https://www.d.umn.edu/biology/documents/Oster1.pdf#page=3
@ 4:25 CRD housing comparator example is from Fukushima Daini Unit 5 www7.tepco.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/hd03-02-03-004-002-handouts_170721_01-e.pdf
@ 5:08 Tubercle anatomy sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0043135415000159?via%3Dihub#undfig1
@ 5:17 Cracked-open tubercle shells nfpa.org/~/media/files/forms-and-premiums/nf13hb07_chs3.pdf#page=6 and corrosion.hzs.be/Presentations/Klijnstra.pdf#page=2
@ 6:07 Chernobyl's solidified corium youtu.be/CcDZtlm_pI0?t=39 and https://tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-01311262/file/QUAINI_2015_archivage.pdf#page=53
@ 7:26 University of Minnesota's Battling Biocorrosion project https://scl.umn.edu/project/115/
@ 10:49 Atomic Gardening in the 1950s ripleys.com/weird-news/atomic-gardening and nytimes.com/2007/08/28/science/28crop.html
福島第一原発3号機
Videos from robots probing inside the extremely radioactive primary containment of Fukushima Daiichi Unit 3 reveal clues that microorganisms may be thriving therein. If so, Fukushima's destroyed reactors could be useful radiobiology laboratories.
Tepco's videos and reports on the
(A) 2015 robotic exploration inside Unit 3's primary containment vessel photo.tepco.co.jp/en/date/2015/201510-e/151020-01e.html
(B) 2017 robotic exploration inside Unit 3's primary containment vessel photo.tepco.co.jp/en/date/2017/201711-e/171130-02e.html
All Fukushima Unit 3 PCV videos are collected @ youtube.com/playlist?list=PLAZoYp2E1CWMVYPJ1yb8Xmyt-LSov4Gu4
@ 0:31 Opinion that rusty colored formations are nuclear fuel simplyinfo.org/?p=17335
@ 1:11 Textbook examples of bacterial tubercles @ businessdocbox.com/Metals/71498650-Corrosion-problems-and-solutions-in-oil-refining-and-petrochemical-industry.html (see PDF pages 32 and 205); i0.wp.com/scl.umn.edu/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/tweets-05-1.png; https://www.d.umn.edu/biology/documents/Oster1.pdf#page=3
@ 4:25 CRD housing comparator example is from Fukushima Daini Unit 5 www7.tepco.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/hd03-02-03-004-002-handouts_170721_01-e.pdf
@ 5:08 Tubercle anatomy sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0043135415000159?via%3Dihub#undfig1
@ 5:17 Cracked-open tubercle shells nfpa.org/~/media/files/forms-and-premiums/nf13hb07_chs3.pdf#page=6 and corrosion.hzs.be/Presentations/Klijnstra.pdf#page=2
@ 6:07 Chernobyl's solidified corium youtu.be/CcDZtlm_pI0?t=39 and https://tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-01311262/file/QUAINI_2015_archivage.pdf#page=53
@ 7:26 University of Minnesota's Battling Biocorrosion project https://scl.umn.edu/project/115/
@ 10:49 Atomic Gardening in the 1950s ripleys.com/weird-news/atomic-gardening and nytimes.com/2007/08/28/science/28crop.html
福島第一原発3号機
