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Breaking:Explosion at Tepco's Fukushima Daiichi plant heard around 0630 GMT
reuters ^ | 3-12-11

Posted on 03/12/2011 12:02:10 AM PST by rawhide

Just in:

Explosion at Tepco's Fukushima Daiichi plant heard around 0630 GMT

NHK footage shows steam-like smoke coming from Tepco's Fukushima plant

(Excerpt) Read more at live.reuters.com ...


TOPICS: Breaking News; Extended News; Japan; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: bwr; daiichi; disaster; doomage; fukushima; fukushima1; japan; japanearthquake; nuclear; radiation
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To: Junior_G

Potassium Iodide.

Get it quickly


281 posted on 03/12/2011 1:22:18 AM PST by Tolsti2
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To: tsowellfan

CNN is talking about explosion of “the outside building” but is still making it sound like maybe only outer building around containment exploded. saying if containment affected then radiation levels will confirm shortly. No, CNN is live.

Fox is talking about possibility of unfprecedented disaster.

The CNN expert is in London but he keeps saying it may be the outer ablove ground building and the reactor wil be further down, he is saying MAYBE it is just the outer structure which contains cranes and other equipment. Seems all the CNN coverage so far was from London.


282 posted on 03/12/2011 1:23:00 AM PST by Williams (It's the policies, stupid.)
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To: blueplum
Chernobyl was a boiling water reactor

It was a graphite reactor.
283 posted on 03/12/2011 1:23:40 AM PST by PA Engineer (Liberate America from the occupation media. There are Wars and Rumors of War.)
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To: sushiman
..need another drink ...

This is not the day to quite drinking.

284 posted on 03/12/2011 1:23:42 AM PST by justa-hairyape
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To: Tolsti2

what is ki?


285 posted on 03/12/2011 1:24:04 AM PST by GOP Poet (Obama is an OLYMPIC failure.)
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To: Tolsti2
Right now, everyone in Hawaii and the west coast of the USA needs to be taking KI
NOW!!!!!!!!!!!!

.... sigh .... That's probably good advice, but really...you ought to call it a night, my friend. You're gonna have a heart attack, if you don't calm down.

286 posted on 03/12/2011 1:24:04 AM PST by Windflier (To anger a conservative, tell him a lie. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth.)
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To: justa-hairyape

Zooms of the live video show building parts blowing out just ahead of the smoke. That might be what you are seeing.


287 posted on 03/12/2011 1:24:34 AM PST by ican'tbelieveit
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To: tsowellfan

I work with nukes in Illinois, different roles, and I can tell you jumping to conclusions really is probably a bad thing to do right now. Until you know more about the actual release path and start running your plume models, assuming fantastically enormous disbursal at meaningful rates of exposure is just irresponsible. It’s a very old reactor, so it’s not as robust as the newer plants, but it probably is a lot weaker too, and that, right now, is a good thing. To paraphrase Charlie Sheen, panic is for losers.


288 posted on 03/12/2011 1:24:38 AM PST by Springfield Reformer (Winston Churchill: No Peace Till Victory!)
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To: SE Mom

Serious posting.

The USAF base Misawa has iodine in volumes. I would imagine the Japanese military has large amounts as well.


289 posted on 03/12/2011 1:24:46 AM PST by Jet Jaguar
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To: Williams

LOL what would cuase an explosion between the contaiment wall and the outer building that powerful


290 posted on 03/12/2011 1:24:53 AM PST by janetjanet998
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To: tsowellfan

Just watched it and they showed video of the explosion and were definitely soft-pedaling it. I’d like to know what blew up, if it wasn’t the reactor.


291 posted on 03/12/2011 1:25:10 AM PST by dr_lew
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To: Tolsti2

where does one get potassium iodide?


292 posted on 03/12/2011 1:25:21 AM PST by GOP Poet (Obama is an OLYMPIC failure.)
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To: John W

yes...fox is finally live....................is this going to be an all nighter, freepers?


293 posted on 03/12/2011 1:25:41 AM PST by cherry
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To: janetjanet998

hydrogen rupture?


294 posted on 03/12/2011 1:26:07 AM PST by sunmars
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To: justa-hairyape
Radiation?

Could be intense heat rays loaded with infrared light coming off the oddly shaped rods. Pink has always been an odd color in nature. I have seen pinks and purples that were close to blue light. Violet for example looks a little blue pink at times. Probably just camera/tv problems.

It is just a video artifact - an interference pattern - it is not "pink visible radiation".

295 posted on 03/12/2011 1:26:24 AM PST by Sunnyvale CA Eng.
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To: justa-hairyape

Good day to start . : )


296 posted on 03/12/2011 1:26:35 AM PST by sushiman
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To: Williams

That’s it. If the reactor was flooded in an emergency cool down, the resulting vapour could be left building up pressure in the secondary containment, which could have triggered the “explosion”.

There is no information about the first containment, but in this mode of failure, it could still be in good shape.


297 posted on 03/12/2011 1:26:48 AM PST by J Aguilar (Fiat Justitia et ruat coelum)
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To: Cementjungle

re: Your android phone.... When you been on the phone non-stop for ten days, and the battery still shows full.... you have a problem.


298 posted on 03/12/2011 1:27:22 AM PST by MindBender26 (Fighting the "con" in Conservatism on FR since 1998.)
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To: Windflier

I took my KI, for others on here, it’s potassium-iodine.

You have to saturate your system before you get exposed.


299 posted on 03/12/2011 1:27:22 AM PST by Tolsti2
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To: Springfield Reformer
I put credibility in your post until I got to the part where you paraphrased Charlie Sheen.

Charlie Sheen's got twisted definitions for "winning" and "losing", thank you.

300 posted on 03/12/2011 1:27:51 AM PST by tsowellfan
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