Where is "0" in all of this???...
"ARLINGTON, VA - MARCH 14: U.S. President Barack Obama
visits with students in a classroom...
Posted on 03/14/2011 11:33:03 AM PDT by LibFreeUSA
Japanese officials said Monday that nuclear fuel rods appear to be melting inside three reactors compromised by Friday’s earthquake, sparking discussion among officials in the U.S. over domestic nuclear policy.
Nuclear experts differ on whether to call what's happening at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station in northeastern Japan a partial “meltdown.”
Chief Cabinet Secretary Yukio Edano said Monday that "although we cannot directly check it, it's highly likely happening."
Unit 3 of the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station exploded earlier Monday, wounding 11 workers; it had been under emergency watch for an explosion after a hydrogen blast at Unit 1 of the plant on Saturday. Edano said the Unit 3 reactor’s inner containment vessel was intact.
"ARLINGTON, VA - MARCH 14: U.S. President Barack Obama
visits with students in a classroom...
0 will accept many deaths to happen if it will help him push ahead his anti-nuclear agenda.
Mr. Obama, he lay low.
Good thing that kid isn’t wearing an American Flag shirt.
He’d be sent home.
Now he can blame the economy on the Republican House and the Japanese earthquake
Zero fiddles, while Rome burns!
What a horrible piece of excrement he is!
he helps Americas traditional enemies... and hinders/hurts our traditional allies.
if with holding aid hurts an ally... he’ll grab the golf clubs
if saying nothing will allow an enemy to continue to mow down opposition with jets and bombs... he’ll grab the golf clubs
if supporting a revolt against an ally will aid in ousting him and destabilizing our fragile alliances in the region... he’ll be right on the horn
it’s all fairly straight forward if you understand how he thinks.
he is an enemy to the country, except for those in the country that are themselves America-haters
:)
Who cares what Obama says or does. There’s no one in this country any more competent than the Japanese anyway.
Good point! We live in the "United States of 'Alice in Wonderland'".
The Japanese government has formally asked the United States for help in cooling the nuclear reactors damaged by the major earthquake, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission said.
The commission said it is responding to the request and may provide Japan with technical advice.
The commission has already sent to Japan two agency officials with expertise in boiling water nuclear reactors, as part of a US International Agency for International Development team.
It would be nice to have a source that isn’t filtered through the mainstream media or through politicians. TEPCO’s press releases aren’t frequent enough.
Well the Japanese have indeed asked for the USA help from the get go....not a time to say who is better equipped...it was a man in a little community in Pa. who had the answer to the coal miners evacuation method.....do not underestimate the power of minds working together no matter what nation they are from.
Fixed it.
I think you can just about count on it.
True enough but I have heard that the Japanese version of their site has more current releases than the English due to translation delays.
Perhaps someone over there can verify that and advise?
Chief Cabinet Secretary Yukio Edano said Monday that “although we cannot directly check it, it’s highly likely happening.”
The Secretary is talking out of his a$$. He knows NOTHING about what is likely happening.
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Cesium and iodine are routinely detected from routinely leaking fuel in routine plants during routine reactor power downs. Iodine is a voltile radionuclide. Cesium is semi-volatile.
Nuclear fuel is contained in little “cans” made of zirconium, commonly referred to as cladding. The cladding can have tight cracks or defects due to weld defects or fretting against the support grid.
Power reduction or a reactor trip reduces the temperature and pressure in the fuel-clad gap. The gap opens (since the fuel shrinks more than the clad as temperature falls) and water is drawn into the “can”. The water dissolves the most soluble elements deposited on the gap surfaces (cesium iodide and cesium hydroxide) and they are released back to the coolant within a few hours as a result of diffusion. The concentration of the iodine isotopes at first may appear to be normal. However, on a down power or trip the iodines may ‘spike’ to 5-50 times their normal concentration. Similar effects can be observed for cesium isotopes.
In a healthy plant, these changes in cesium isotopes are used to characterize the fuel assembly which is leaking.
IF, there were large openings in the cladding, as would be the case with melting, we would be hearing reports of NON-volatile radionuclides, such as strontiun, barium and cerium. There have been NO such reports.
I think you're right - I heard similar.
Here's the link to the English version of Tokyo Electric's press releases...
http://www.tepco.co.jp/en/press/corp-com/release/index-e.html
it’s not just the reactors we’re talking about, tho. It’s also the spent fuel pools. I have read that as long as there is 25 feet of water on top of the spent rods in the pools, there is no radiation issues since water is a good insulator and that is why the pools are housed in non-air-tight buildings. These pools have also lost their water, in some cases exposing MOX rods six or more feet to the atmosphere. Unless I’m reading wrong, they are also having a problem keeping water in these spent fuel pools, not just inside the reactor itself. So, is the water is vaporizing faster than they can pump it in, or it’s going somewhere it’s not supposed to be going?
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