Posted on 05/15/2012 10:51:30 AM PDT by yank in the UK
Unit 2 we now know completely liquified. We’ve never seen this before in the history of nuclear power. A 100% liquification of a uranium core.
(Excerpt) Read more at enenews.com ...
And it melted its way to the center of the Earth, right?
This happening in the US was labeled the China Syndrome, they were wrong again.
However what would the movie be called if it were to be made in Japan?
That doesn’t sound good at all. Anybody smart enough to know what the ramifications are?
This happening in the US was labeled the China Syndrome, they were wrong again.
However what would the movie be called if it were to be made in Japan?
Nothing to see here...... lol
I guess that means Nuke power is safe now that the world is still here and doesn’t have a navel where a power plant used to be.....
“That doesn’t sound good at all. Anybody smart enough to know what the ramifications are?”
According to previous guesses we were all supposed to be dead by now. I’ll just sit and wait.
“That doesn’t sound good at all. Anybody smart enough to know what the ramifications are?”
My thoughts exactly. I was hoping that another freeper that knows anything about this sort of situation could enlighten us all. No, it doesn’t sound good at all.
And that’s a bad thing, right?
As at Chernobyl, time will tell.
What did Mr. Kaku say? I’ve read his books and also have a great deal of respect for him.
I don’t know what this means, but it sounds very bad.
So in it’s current state it is pretty much unsalvageable and there is no way to contain it? Evuh?
So does it sit there for 1,000’s of years or does it eat through the containment field and then melt it’s way to the core?
Wonder if there will a loud boom when it reaches magma?
I think the Falklands.
I had read somewhere that if it got bad enough there that they would evacuate Tokyo. I don’t know if this is “bad enough” though.
if we pumped about a million gallons of freon on that sucker...oh wait...
No election to be held in November./s
They won't be able to re start the reactor until at least the end of the year.
Is this being reported by a Left-Wing Alarmist rag ?
However what would the movie be called if it were to be made in Japan?
South Atrantic Syndrome.
If you bored straight down, you'd burst through the sea floor over 16,000 feet down.
You just have to wait long enough, eventually everyone will be dead.
Not sure if this GE design incorporates a Boron "catch pan" at the bottom of the containment vessel. Boron will "poison" the reaction and quench it so that the core will stop melting itself. Properly designed Boron catch pans will contain an entire melted core until it solidifies, and will keep it immobile and stable.
This sounds to me like a transient event that is no longer a threat.
FROM THE COMMENTS SECTION OF THE LINK:
think it means it’s no longer in the corium ‘blob’ state but capable of traveling into the earth’s mantle in a stream-like state; which is much worse than any previous worst case scenario. There will be no remediation possible; resulting in radiological contamination of underground water-ways (interacting ocean and fresh-water aquifers) within this entire region, for hundreds-of-thousands of years.
Given the amount of energy needed to maintain a liquified condition without significant surface cooling is unusual. Classical thermodynamics has left the building…
So has this liquified core melted down to below sea level?
That would make the situation “more complicated”.
“You just have to wait long enough, eventually everyone will be dead.”
That’s what J.M. Keynes thought. And it’s true, in that all that lives must die. But human beings are known to reproduce themselves, through a highly entertaining and interesting process about which I won’t go into details. When that eventuality comes there will be new people who will be alive. One of the points of civilization is to outlast the current generation.
How does Michio Kaku know this to be fact?
—They are using “liquified” — in the past tense. Does that not mean that it liquified, and is now solid again? —
I think they are using it in the sense of “The house burned down.”
I read that post. When knowledgeable physicists are worried, there’s a problem.
Thank you! I’ll watch it when I get home (not able to watch videos at work).
That plant has been fukushima’d over.
OK, now that REALLY sounds alarming.
I must confess that I am more than a little concerned that this thing could go all “1950’s doomsday movie” on us.
Seeing as the world’s civilization is going through social and economic meltdown as I write this, I suppose this would complete the picture. ;-)
Don’t forget to watch “On the Beach” this week!
If true, it means that the containment structure did what it was designed to do...it contained the (formerly) melted core.
Ramification: clean-up is going to be very difficult.
Re: And it melted its way to the center of the Earth, right?
If Jane Fonda says so it must be true LOL!
If it's so dang heavy, why doesn't it travel down instead of spreading laterally? If it IS heading to the earth's core, how is that a problem? I mean, as long as we don't brew beer out of Core-water?
I enjoy listening to Micio Kaku, but he is a die hard rabid leftist, ao you should take anything he says that can have a political angle (global warming, nuclear ower, etc..) with a great deal of skepticism..
Well...The term China Syndrome is slightly overstated....most people in the know say the liquefied core would melt through the metal and concrete container and bottom out at about thirty feet. It seems that for all the hand ringing about nuclear disasters that as disasters go this one is not near the Apocalypse one of these things was suppose to have been!!!
Some one will get you for that!!
Exactly.
Here’s the recent monitoring info on the reactors:
http://www.tepco.co.jp/en/nu/fukushima-np/f1/images/2012parameter/12051511_table_summary-e.pdf
NB the temps at the bottoms of the reactor pressure vessels. Below the point of boiling for water. Warm, but not “hot.”
Didn't know he was a rabid leftist. Wish we could get some other heavy hitters to chime in on this with updated information. Anyone you folks know, or can contact?
When you’re hot you’re hot.
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