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Smoke Rising Near Troubled Fukushima Nuke Plant(3/16 10am, No.3 reactor)
Nikkei ^ | 03/16/11

Posted on 03/15/2011 7:25:28 PM PDT by TigerLikesRooster

Smoke Rising Near Troubled Fukushima Nuke Plant

TOKYO (Kyodo)--White smoke has been seen rising from around the No. 3 reactor of the quake-hit Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant since around 10 a.m. Wednesday, Tokyo Electric Power Co. said, noting it may be steam.

The development came after TEPCO, the operator of the plant, reported that a fire broke out again earlier in the day at the plant's troubled No. 4 reactor but that flames were no longer visible about 30 minutes later.


TOPICS: Extended News; Foreign Affairs; Japan; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: fukushima; japan; no3reactor

1 posted on 03/15/2011 7:25:33 PM PDT by TigerLikesRooster
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To: TigerLikesRooster; sushiman; Ronin; AmericanInTokyo; gaijin; struggle; DTogo; GATOR NAVY; Iris7; ...

P!


2 posted on 03/15/2011 7:26:24 PM PDT by TigerLikesRooster (The way to crush the bourgeois is to grind them between the millstones of taxation and inflation)
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To: TigerLikesRooster

This is a groundhog day nightmare.


3 posted on 03/15/2011 7:26:26 PM PDT by TSgt (Colonel Allen West & Michele Bachman - 2012 POTUS Dream Team Ticket!)
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To: TigerLikesRooster

Smoke or steam?


4 posted on 03/15/2011 7:27:41 PM PDT by Cheetahcat ( November 4 2008 ,A date which will live in Infamy.)
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To: TSgt

“I Got You Babe” keeps running through my brain.


5 posted on 03/15/2011 7:29:15 PM PDT by JPG (May the WI GOP stay united and strong.)
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To: Cheetahcat

I heard they are not sure at the moment. They described it as something like white gas.


6 posted on 03/15/2011 7:29:52 PM PDT by TigerLikesRooster (The way to crush the bourgeois is to grind them between the millstones of taxation and inflation)
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To: TigerLikesRooster

White PLUTONIUM ENRICHED smoke has been seen rising from around the No. 3 reactor of the quake-hit Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant since around 10 a.m. Wednesday, Tokyo Electric Power Co. FIXED IT.

I guess the company just “forgot” that this reactor uses Mox fuel.


7 posted on 03/15/2011 7:30:37 PM PDT by darkside321
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To: TigerLikesRooster

Then let’s see it.


8 posted on 03/15/2011 7:32:22 PM PDT by Varsity Flight
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To: TigerLikesRooster

Then let’s see it.


9 posted on 03/15/2011 7:32:41 PM PDT by Varsity Flight
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“I heard they are not sure at the moment. They described it as something like white gas.”

I am rooting for them,Brave bunch there,I can imagine a Union crew doing that here! 4:30 Clock out and 5 watching one work.


10 posted on 03/15/2011 7:33:34 PM PDT by Cheetahcat ( November 4 2008 ,A date which will live in Infamy.)
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To: darkside321

There is a poster here saying that the MOX fuel with plutonium is no big deal.

I asked him whether the International Commission on
Radiological Protection (ICRP) claim that safety precautions should be only a release of 1 MG of plutonium versus 2000 KG of uranium in a nuclear accident is a valid safety recommendation.

He never answered that question.


11 posted on 03/15/2011 7:37:14 PM PDT by RummyChick
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To: TigerLikesRooster

Black smoke or white smoke? Any dots and dashes?


12 posted on 03/15/2011 7:37:59 PM PDT by yup2394871293
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To: darkside321
White PLUTONIUM ENRICHED smoke has been seen rising from around the No. 3 reactor

White means it's plutonium enriched???

13 posted on 03/15/2011 7:41:07 PM PDT by Cementjungle
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To: Cementjungle

White means it’s plutonium enriched???


No of course not ;-)
But if it is steam from the reactor then it is enriched with plutonium because this reactor is fueled with plutonium. So the water and the steam inside automatically gets conterminated with this.


14 posted on 03/15/2011 7:44:58 PM PDT by darkside321
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To: darkside321

Looks like steam...........not smoke.


15 posted on 03/15/2011 7:49:11 PM PDT by cornfedcowboy (Trust in God, but empty the clip.)
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To: RummyChick

There are posters here who claimed that there was no housing bubble, that the war in Afghanistan was over in 2003, Obama winning the nomination guaranteed a McCain presidency, etc etc


16 posted on 03/15/2011 7:51:00 PM PDT by Eyes Unclouded ("The word bipartisan means some larger-than-usual deception is being carried out." -George Carlin)
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White means it's plutonium enriched???

No. It means they have a new Pope.

17 posted on 03/15/2011 7:55:13 PM PDT by UCANSEE2 (Lame and ill-informed post.)
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To: Eyes Unclouded

And that California is still a wonderful place to live.


18 posted on 03/15/2011 7:55:33 PM PDT by steve86 (Acerbic by nature, not nurture (Could be worst in 40 years))
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To: yup2394871293
Any dots and dashes?

You know , that reminds me of a photo of some school in Japan where there were some people needing rescue.

They needed help and a helicopter, so they made a signal in the yard.

They spelled out "SOS" and had an "H" in a circle (means need helicopter).

The oddity (to me) was that they didn't use JAPANESE letters, but English.

19 posted on 03/15/2011 8:01:32 PM PDT by UCANSEE2 (Lame and ill-informed post.)
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