Posted on 03/12/2011 3:42:55 PM PST by Secret Agent Man
CNN live reporting it has been confirmed by japanese govt sources that fuel in unit 1 at fukushima (the one that had the explosion) has partially melted. They are still working to cool it.
Check out the design features of the pebble bed reactor,,, looks disaster proof to me.
Trust me...
Some people are born into faith. And it makes perfect logical sense to them until they get about 15 or so, and have to be re-born, which might take a couple years.
I did not realize that the newer reactors were so much safer. I can’t believe we have let the eco nuts run rampant all over us for so many years. As far as I’m concerned they have caused a lot more harm then good. They have just about wreaked our economy.
live feed from tokoyo said they are feleing aftershocks
6.6 just showed up
9/11
YIKES :( after shock??? Or another earthquake? I wonder how they tell the difference?
Oh my gosh that whole area is being shook but, good. There are two 6.5 right above Australia in the ocean. One on either end.
Prayers for you and all of Japan affected by this catastrophic event. :(
Dang it, I’m looking at that earthquake 3D map you can down load. I must have set it wrong. Now I don’t see the 2 above Australia that I had seen before. Maybe those were from the other day?
We are just southeast of the plant on the gulf of Mexico and definitely in the first evac zone.
Thanks for mentioning this design, it was the one I was thinking about, but was blanking on the name.
Yes, this is the design that is virtually impossible to have go into a meltdown, specifically because of the design of the fuel and control spheres are. the guy explaining this design said it was almost impossible, so that’s why I was saying that. I suppose you can never say “never”.
now downgraded to 6.2(the 6.6 one a few posts back)
now downgraded to 6.2(the 6.6 one a few posts back)
You STOLE the LIKE BUTTON!!!!!!!!! LOLOLOL!!!!!
I’m taking it too.
From you. :)
We haven’t stopped praying for you ALL in Japan. Just what we’ve seen from thousands of miles away on our screens has brought many of us to tears of sorrow for you and our prayers will continue.
God be with you.
I did....and why did I just KNOW that YOU would, too! heh-heh!
0155: A strong earthquake occurred off Japan’s eastern coast at 0126 GMT today, the US Geological Survey confirms. It was closer to Tokyo than Friday’s quake. Buildings swayed in the capital, AP says.
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