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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: Windflier

LOL! I just did and came back and saw your post. Interesting and informative site. Half-hour is all it takes for KI to fill your thyroid and block the nasty stuff.


441 posted on 03/12/2011 2:16:48 AM PST by 21twelve ( You can go from boom to bust, from dreams to a bowl of dust ... another lost generation.)
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To: sunmars

Good grief. I remember what I was doing the day Chernobyl coverage exploded.


442 posted on 03/12/2011 2:17:22 AM PST by machogirl (First they came for my tagline)
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To: SE Mom

BBC Live News Feed: 1009: “This is starting to look a lot like Chernobyl” Walt Patterson, an associate fellow with Chatham House, has told the BBC after seeing pictures of the explosion at the Fukushima-Daiichi nuclear plant. “The nuclear agency says that they have detected caesium and iodine outside the unit, which certainly indicates fuel melting at the very least,” he says. “Once you have melting fuel coming into contact with water, that would almost certainly be the cause of the explosion.”


443 posted on 03/12/2011 2:17:22 AM PST by advance_copy (Stand for life or nothing at all)
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To: All

NHK says evacuation zone is now 20 kilometers for both No 1 & No 2 power plant areas.


444 posted on 03/12/2011 2:17:41 AM PST by newzjunkey
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To: newzjunkey

See post# 279


445 posted on 03/12/2011 2:18:56 AM PST by rawhide
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To: lefty-lie-spy

They have internet/twit, facebook - no phone service - holding it for rescue teams.


446 posted on 03/12/2011 2:19:08 AM PST by presently no screen name
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To: ConservativeTeen

They’re putting makeup on the janitor right now... he’s on in a few.


447 posted on 03/12/2011 2:19:31 AM PST by scott7278 ("...I have not changed Congress and how it operates the way I would have liked..." - BHO)
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To: newzjunkey

What about this?

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2687633/posts


448 posted on 03/12/2011 2:19:37 AM PST by tatown (Obama is a turd)
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To: newzjunkey
NHK says evacuation zone is now 20 kilometers for both No 1 & No 2 power plant areas.

About time.

449 posted on 03/12/2011 2:20:22 AM PST by justa-hairyape
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To: advance_copy

It’s bad- and by expanding the zone it’s a confirmation this isn’t contained.


450 posted on 03/12/2011 2:20:24 AM PST by SE Mom (Proud mom of an Iraq war combat vet)
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To: newzjunkey

BBC updated - 1011: More from Walt Patterson of Chatham House. He says the presence of the radioactive caesium in the surrounding area does not pose a huge threat to public health in the immediate aftermath of the explosion. “What would be serious is if there was an explosion or fire that lifted this stuff high in the air, meaning it could get carried over a wide area.”


451 posted on 03/12/2011 2:20:30 AM PST by advance_copy (Stand for life or nothing at all)
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To: tatown

Different reactor. All but this one are apparently safe now.


452 posted on 03/12/2011 2:20:46 AM PST by Straight Vermonter (Posting from deep behind the Maple Curtain)
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To: txhurl

It’s just so eerie. It was Friday, during the day. I see very few people. Just those in cars, who have no idea what is about to hit them, and very few cars on the road, but many cars swept away. There had to be tens of thousands of people close to those shores.


453 posted on 03/12/2011 2:21:25 AM PST by machogirl (First they came for my tagline)
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To: tatown

That thread looks to be about the No 2 site which is also under the 20km evacuation zone now.


454 posted on 03/12/2011 2:21:28 AM PST by newzjunkey
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To: 21twelve
Interesting and informative site. Half-hour is all it takes for KI to fill your thyroid and block the nasty stuff.

Hopefully it's safe for your wife to take.

455 posted on 03/12/2011 2:22:00 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: 2ndDivisionVet

My God, this just keeps getting worse by the hour.


456 posted on 03/12/2011 2:22:05 AM PST by Gator113 (I'll be voting for Sarah Palin, Liberty, our Constitution and American Exceptionalism.)
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To: machogirl

The tsunamis came about 10-15 minutes after the quake. For most people there probably was no warning. Yes, under all that rubble and mess will be potentially hundreds of more bodies. We got extremely lucky her in Tokyo.


457 posted on 03/12/2011 2:22:09 AM PST by lefty-lie-spy (Stay metal. For the Horde \m/("_")\m/ - via iPhone from Tokyo.)
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To: lefty-lie-spy

Please know that many thousands of us are praying for you all...

Keep us posted if possible and stay safe.


458 posted on 03/12/2011 2:23:10 AM PST by SE Mom (Proud mom of an Iraq war combat vet)
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To: machogirl

Maybe not? At 2:45 local, maybe everybody was at work or on the way to school to pick up the kids further south and west?


459 posted on 03/12/2011 2:23:52 AM PST by txhurl
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To: lefty-lie-spy

Were there high waves in Japan other than the NE coast?
Thank goodness you are safe.


460 posted on 03/12/2011 2:24:31 AM PST by machogirl (First they came for my tagline)
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