Posted on 03/12/2011 2:10:04 AM PST by jmcenanly
Unit 1 (shut down at 2:48PM on March 11th) - Reactor is shut down and reactor water level is stable. - Offsite power is available. - Control rods are fully inserted (reactor is in subcritical status) - Status of main steam isolation valve: closed - Injection of water into the reactor had been done by the Reactor Core Isolation Cooling System, but at 3:48AM, injection by Make-up Water Condensate System begun - At 6:08PM, we announced the increase in reactor containment vessel pressure, assumed to be due to leakage of reactor coolant. However, we do not believe there is leakage of reactor coolant in the containment vessel at this moment.
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So it was. Will be a great disappointment to many leftwing news outlets.
what about the huge explosion?
Cheers to the engineers/ops/management that reportedly got this stabilized. No doubt a lot of contamination. Heroes!
Prayers up!
TOKYO, March 12 (Reuters) - Japanese Chief Cabinet Secretary Yukio Edano confirmed on Saturday there has been an explosion and radiation leakage at Tokyo Electric Power Co's (TEPCO) (9501.T) Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant.
http://in.reuters.com/article/2011/03/12/japan-quake-leakage-idUSTKB00729820110312
? seen live on TV...walls burst out at "supersonic speeds"
Not buying.
Haven’t you heard? http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2687620/posts
I saw a supersonic pressure wave at the top of the explosion!
I am afraid that Fukushima Daiichi #1 is done...lost containment.
http://www3.nhk.or.jp/daily/english/12_49.html
if you look at that photo taken hours afterwards, the building housing reactor 1 on the left is no longer there..just debris
i hope to Jesus i am wrong and i dont say that lightly
ah okay sorry my mistake mixing it up
NHK World says evacuation zone is now 20 kilometers for both No 1 & No 2 power plant areas: Fukushima Daini and Fukushima Dai-ichi.
Houston....we have a problem....
We just lost Reactor No1
Daini is shut down. Daiichi, as far as I can tell, may be melting down.
That was written before the explosion and that information (all shut down)had been reported on NHK hours before the explosion.
Awfully confusing in English language reports to have units 1 and 2 referred to by their Japanese counting names.
Is this going to be a Japanese version of Chernobyl — radioactive junk strewn for hundreds of miles out?
The reactor is now far smaller and there is no fire. If the wind blows towards NW, the radiactive elements would disperse into the sea.
Huge explosion was at a different nearby plant. The plant in this article was the second plant with cooling problems. So apparently we now just have 1 plant with two reactors having problems.
I correct:
from, instead towards.
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