Posted on 03/17/2011 8:49:37 PM PDT by NRG1973
A global nuclear disaster potentially worse than Chernobyl may be under way in Japan as hundreds of tonnes of highly radioactive spent nuclear fuel are open to the sky, and may be on fire and emitting radioactive particles into the atmosphere.
Many countries have advised their citizens in Japan to leave the country.
"This is uncharted territory. There is a 50-percent chance they could lose all six reactors and their storage pools," said Jan Beyea, a nuclear physicist with a New Jersey consulting firm called Consulting in the Public Interest.
"I'm surprised the situation hasn't gotten worse faster... But without a breakthrough it's only a matter of days before spent fuels will melt down," said Ed Lyman, a physicist at the Union of Concerned Scientists and an expert on nuclear plant design.
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For comparison, Chernobyl held 180 tonnes of nuclear fuel. Fukushima Daiichi has 560 tonnes of nuclear fuel in its reactors along with 1,700 tonnes of spent fuel.
I’m glad I’m not doing a shot every time I see this headline. I’d be too dead to type right now.
The sensationalism is because these people are too stupid to actually say what’s going on? They flunked science. The sad part is most people would not understand it if they read it.
Thank public schools and their unions - not to mention the school board that let it happen.
A pair of commie fronts.
The liberals are already using this incident to quash any future nuclear power in this country. Angela Merkel in Germany is ordering nuclear plants there to be shut down, inspected, etc. But the word is Germany may abandon nuclear power altogether.
How many people have been killed in nuclear power plant accidents? How many have been killed in coal fired power plant accidents? How many have been killed in oil refinery accidents? How many are killed and injured in coal mining accidents? How many are killed or injured in all types of industrial accidents compared to nuclear power accidents?
The Japan situation, while very serious, should not be used to embargo future nuclear power development. The liberals should be called out on using a catastrophe to push a political agenda. They are shameless.
Chernobyl had no containment vessels, and they were graphite-moderated. Graphite which incidentally caught fire, causing a rather largish draft that swept a rather largish amount of radioactive stuff into the air. These reactors have containment vessels, and aren’t graphite moderated. Two big differences.
Soros/Tides. The bastards are everywhere.
On the other hand, it might not be "worse than Chernobyl".
“Consulting in the Public Interest.”
LOL go away!
All this crap wouldn’t be filling the information void if the Japanese would provide detailed consistent information that didn’t contradict our lying eyes.
There is a “family pack” of potassium iodide on e-bay now with a buy-it-now price of $5000. Seems a little pricey, but it does include free shipping.
The 1700 tons of spent fuel at Fukushima aren't in containment vessels either. Thats why they say this is potentially worse than Chernobyl.
No. It won’t be. This headline is muckraking.
While all of that is true, apparently there are large amounts of fuel, and not all of it spent, in large holding tanks that are neither contained or currently under control. None of the reactors have to be breached in order to cause a huge mess.
I don’t make any claim to know what’s going on with those tanks - but currently nobody is actually saying...
Educate, Educate, I had a college professor of History, taught me well. He said, It isn’t good enough to know what happened, you must know the why, and how. Soon we will know the why and how and not just what. For now its just speculation by special interest groups, of which we already know the why and how !
Educate, Educate, I had a college professor of History, taught me well. He said, It isn’t good enough to know what happened, you must know the why, and how. Soon we will know the why and how and not just what. For now its just speculation by special interest groups, of which we already know the why and how !
I posted an article days ago, about how this isn’t a Chernobyl but could be a super Chernobyl. Man did I get clobbered by responses...
We’ll see.
I pray it gets contained. Ain’t looking good so far.
That article doesn't address the fact that there are 1700 tons of spent fuel rods in Fukushima (not inside a containment vessel) versus only 180 tons of fuel at Chernobyl.
I know that we are all supposed to hate the MSM and we are supposed to love nuclear fuel becuase the left hates it, but c'mon, the numbers speak for themselves. If the Japanese lose control of the situation this could potentially be worse than Chernobyl.
The Japanese made a huge mistake by keeping so much spent fuel onsite and outside a containment vessel. Lets all hope that it doesn't come home to bite them in the arse.
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