Japanese Government Confirms Meltdown

RightBias ^ | March 13, 2011 | Stratfor

[nancyvideo]

Japan’s Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency (NISA) said March 12 that the explosion at the Fukushima Daiichi No. 1 nuclear plant could only have been caused by a meltdown of the reactor core, Japanese daily Nikkei reported. This statement seemed somewhat at odds with Japanese Chief Cabinet Secretary Yukio Edano’s comments earlier March 12, in which he said “the walls of the building containing the reactor were destroyed, meaning that the metal container encasing the reactor did not explode.”

[Thermalseeker]

Looked like there could have been some steam, too. This is certainly well out of my area of expertise (electrical engineering) but I do know when hydrogen burns it produces white smoke.

[lowbridge]

You wanna bet that some green freak will try to blame the quake on the US as some sort of delayed reaction to the atomic bombs dropped on Japan in 1945, perhaps?

They did a good job blaming Godzilla on that.

[lowbridge]

Since they use high pressure water not cryogenic hydrogen to cool the reactor your belief just goes to show that you don't know what is going on in the reactor. The hydrogen in the building was cause by the disassociation of the hydrogen and oxygen in the coolant water. The chemical reaction that causes the disassociation takes place when the fuel rods are uncovered

Um, yeah. Thats my theory too.

(there goes my broken rubber band excuse)

[Scanian]

I’m told that some blogs have already blamed the US’ High Altitude Research Project(HARP) of the 70’s which attempted to launch space probes with huge naval guns with extended barrels.

Reportedly, their recoil did considerable damage in some areas.

[Oztrich Boy]

I thought it meant we had a new Pope.

[Mariner]

"just in the last hour FOX is still trying to say the whole plant will explode, still trying to possible keep its story moving for viewership."

There might be 1,000 people worldwide who know what's really going on with these reactors.

We won't know for sure until the post-mortem.

The last thing governments want to do is to announce false information on "everything OK", or conversely to unnecessarily cause real panic.

They're between a rock and a hard place...forced into secrecy on all matters except for those that can be independently ascertained.

Here's the spookiest (and unlikeliest) scenario:

One of the reactors was without cooling water long enough where the residual decay and heat from the reactions (even after insertion of the control rods) melted the fuel rods and the fuel pooled at the bottom of the containment vessel. Eventually said fuel melts through the steel containment vessel...and the entire sites has to be abandoned.

Then you would have 3 more reactors nearly certain to melt, eventually.

[little jeremiah]

One of the photos shows the Fukushima nuke plant before and after. Tons of stuff no doubt much of it essential to the functioning of the plant got swept away.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/events/japan-quake-

2011/beforeafter.htm

Sun Mar 13, 2011 3:00pm

Aerial photos taken over Japan have revealed the scale of devastation across dozens of suburbs and tens of thousands of homes and businesses.

Hover over each satellite photo to view the devastation caused by the earthquake and tsunami.

[flat]

bwhahahah i know....we’re the worst allright....
hell....as rush said...nobody does more or has done more to clean up what pollution we had....and as usual the libs overboarded it ....sean hannity from time to time holds up his thick sheaf of papers containing all the lefty judges decisions blocking drilling and nuke and refinery construction....it’s sad...