Posted on 03/18/2011 4:47:13 AM PDT by hc87
Please post links and comments on Fukushima reactors here.
Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency
Information (the 30th Release)
As of 15:00 March 18th, 2011
http://www.nisa.meti.go.jp/english/files/en20110318-3.pdf
Officials weigh burying facility:
http://www.calgaryherald.com/news/Japan+rushes+cool+reactor/4452975/story.html
Plant Status of Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station (as of 2:00 PM Mar 18th)
http://www.tepco.co.jp/en/press/corp-com/release/11031803-e.html
Japan raises accident severity level to 5 in nuke crisis
TOKYO, March 18, Kyodo
Japan raised the severity level of crisis-hit reactors at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant to 5 on a 7-level international scale, the same level as the Three Mile Island accident in the United States in 1979, Japan’s nuclear safety agency said Friday.
The provisional evaluation stands at level 5 of the International Nuclear and Radiological Event Scale for the plant’s No. 1, No. 2 and No. 3 reactors as their cores are believed to have partially melted and radiation leaks continue, the government’s Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency said.
Whereas many experts outside of Japan have been saying, for obvious reasons, that it is certainly higher on the scale than TMI. This doesn’t help the credibility of Japan’s nuclear safety agency.
Sorry if this is too unrelated.
Sitting silent in their classroom, the 30 children whose parents have not come to collect them after tsunami swept away their town
IAEA report on spent fuel rod temps.
http://www.iaea.org/newscenter/news/2011/tsunamiupdate01.html
States normal holding temp is 25 degrees celcius.
“Officials weigh burying facility:
http://www.calgaryherald.com/news/Japan+rushes+cool+reactor/4452975/story.html";
When they mention sarcophagus,
You know they’re serious!
From the NEI link above to their blog to this link on the right sidebar:
http://depletedcranium.com/best-sources-for-information-on-the-fukushima-nuclear-reactors/
per the LA times article the US believes that there are holes/cracks in the spent fuel pools caused by the explosions becuase in only a few days pure evoparation wouldn’t lower the pool to levels that they are now.
my thoughts:
perhaps more evidence of this is that the fuel pools in 5 and 6 aren’t having that many problems(only a slight rise in temps) despite also no have cooling pumps working
That’s just heart breaking...
Denial not being just a river in Egypt. This disaster in Japan blew by TMI more than a week ago.
How many reactors are melting down? Calls for international assistance should have gone out the minute they realized that they could not get the cooling systems to operate.
It would not surprise me if the death toll from this accident does not approach the thousands by the time all is said and done.
Just remember human beings are much more adept at finding truth after the facts, than before them.
Zero. Units 1, 2 & 3 are being injected with seawater. Units 4, 5 & 6 were down before the earthquake.
The main problem at this point is in the cooling pool of spent nuclear fuel.
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