Posted on 03/13/2011 12:24:55 AM PST by Nachum
From the Washington Post:
Chief Cabinet Secretary Yukio Edano said officials were acting on the assumption that a meltdown could be underway at that reactor, Fukushima Daiichi’s unit 3, and that it was “highly possible” that a meltdown was underway at Fukushima Daiichi’s unit 1 reactor, where an explosion destroyed a building a day earlier.
Hours before he spoke, authorities began evacuating more than 200,000 residents from a 12.5-mile radius around Fukushima Daiichi and another nuclear power complex, made preparations to distribute potassium iodide pills, and warned people in the vicinity to stay inside and cover their mouths if they ventured outdoors.
According to this CNN report, they have pumped sea water into reactor #1, which is a measure of last resort:
(Excerpt) Read more at verumserum.com ...
The Japanese plants that blew were vintage circa 1970. They had some weaknesses that have been designed out of today’s reactors, among them the need to keep active power going to keep them safely cooled. Japan had plans in place to replace those old risky reactors with newer safer ones, but the earthquake beat them to the punch. Calm engineering discussions will, however, be difficult to hear over Chicken Little shrieks.
Very true. What can we use instead of Nuclear Reactors. That is what we will need to sell to the American people now.
You're kidding, right?
We know what his handlers were (are) doing.
Events in the world as it actually exists are of no concern to them.
Disasters and chaos, although perhaps unfortunate in some respects, all have the effect of hastening The Revolution.
They exist for The Revolution. Think of it always, speak of it never.
The minds that invented "Obama" are not concerned with day-to-day events. They are focused on other things.
Almost. What happens is that when you fission uranium it produces smaller particles (nuclear waste) that are radioctive and further decay on much longer time scales (days weeks months years centuries and millenia) producing a lot of what is called "waste heat." The waste heat is very significant for the first hours and days and decays to much lower levels over time. So even after the reactor is shut down some cooling is require to remove the waste heat from the core. Melting is not exactly a great thing, but it is probably decayed.
This is nothing like what happened at Chernobyl.
65 Nuclear power plants under construction, Jan 19, 2011
China 27
Russia 11
India 5
Korea 5
US ZERO
Four years from first concrete pour operational, near forever for permits and approvals.
Not left in the dust, we cannot see the dust.
You are witnessing the death of the first world.
We listen to the false prophets and the fools.
China will use this as a valuable lesson and move on.
A successful economy requires affordable energy.
We are on the path of no coal, no oil and nuclear is the word that cannot be spoken.
The road to hell.
Gee! We would never read this type of “meltdown” about a coal or gas fired generator plant.
Oh, how the “greenies” pray to the “clean” nuclear god of environmentalism and clean air when their “god” is contaminating the earth for eons to come.
***Calm engineering discussions will, however, be difficult to hear over Chicken Little shrieks.***
We had that problem with enviro-weenies 34years ago whe our local power plant went on line.
They used every frightning thing they could to pevent building it.
When we did go on line some locals were afraid it would blow up and kill everyone for miles around! Such is the power of the press.
It was a coal fired power plant.
***Gee! We would never read this type of “meltdown” about a coal or gas fired generator plant.***
When our local coal fired plant went on line 34 years ago many of the locals were afraid it would explode and kill everything for miles around.
such is the power of fear.
I really, honestly didn’t know. Not having the slightest clue about stuff like that...ignorance dictated that I needed to ask in order to educate myself.
Not a possibility...now I know.
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