Posted on 03/11/2011 1:25:16 PM PST by James C. Bennett
Air that may contain radioactive materials will be vented from a nuclear power plant in quake-stricken Fukushima Prefecture. The Tokyo Electric Power Company has decided to release air from the reactor's containment vessels, aiming to avoid their breakdown.
The company issued a warning about its Fukushima Number One Plant early on Saturday morning. It said the pressure value for the reactor's containment vessels had risen, and that if the value was correct, the vessels could break down.
Tokyo Electric says the amount of air to be released will be small and that it will notify residents near the plant before it starts releasing the air. The company says it will check the amount of radioactive materials in the air before the release.
Earlier, the government issued an evacuation advisory to people living within a 3-kilometer radius of the Fukushima Number One plant.
Saturday, March 12, 2011 03:56 +0900 (JST)
pack your stuff leave and dont come back unless you want kids that look like science experiments or die horrible long drawn out cancers.
This is very very bad, they would never tell you how much they’ll have to dump.
o geez this ain’t gonna help their kyoto account. they’re gonna have to be charged for these particles; IMF will have to hold ‘em up else the asset seizures would close em down for good.
Not actually funny, but it reminds me of a funny Simpsons episode where Homer got on disability by being grossly overweight. He manages to prevent the release of toxic radioactive gas by plugging a hole with his massive girth.
"Yeah, and I'm amazed for once that Dad's butt actually prevented the release of toxic g..." "Bart!"
Pray for Japan.
Smacking self in head - this is no laughing matter. I Must be suffering from disaster fatigue...or something.
Prayers will be said in this house for all those in danger.
Imagine if the US Gov’t had to do this.
The announcement of how much radioactive dust released would be issued by the same people who publish our unemployment, inflation and economic data. YIKES!
note to self, cancel plans to visit japan until after the year 2525.
what do the squares mean?
We are talking about the same country that we dropped two A-bombs on 65 years ago, right? Could it be worse than THAT?
The air probably contains a small amount of Xenon. Plants vent this from time to time. It’s used in radioimaging for people sometimes.
Naturally the press will go ballistic and will play it up without ever saying what it is exactly or how much. If they told us that we could look it up ourselves and make our own conclusions.
Good point.
They’re used to it. This will be like ragweed pollen to them.
On Neil Cavuto show——
Was just said the air outside this nuke is 1000x more radioactive than normal. Must be confirmed I suppose
Over a period of how many years?
Just today I think : /
Prayers for Japan.
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