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Breaking:Explosion at Tepco's Fukushima Daiichi plant heard around 0630 GMT
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| 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
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TOPICS: Breaking News; Extended News; Japan; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: bwr; daiichi; disaster; doomage; fukushima; fukushima1; japan; japanearthquake; nuclear; radiation
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posted on
03/12/2011 12:02:16 AM PST
by
rawhide
To: rawhide
Japan Nuclear Safety Commission: still trying to confirm if there was an explosion at Fukushima plant; Several people appear to have been injured after reported Fukushima plant explosion
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posted on
03/12/2011 12:03:00 AM PST
by
rawhide
To: rawhide
Japan Nuclear Safety Agency: has heard explosion was not at reactor
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posted on
03/12/2011 12:03:53 AM PST
by
rawhide
To: TigerLikesRooster; AmericanInTokyo
To: rawhide
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posted on
03/12/2011 12:04:44 AM PST
by
Red Badger
(How can anyone look at the situation in Libya and be for gun control is beyond stupid. It's suicide.)
To: rawhide
If not the reactor, then what went boom?....
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posted on
03/12/2011 12:05:52 AM PST
by
Red Badger
(How can anyone look at the situation in Libya and be for gun control is beyond stupid. It's suicide.)
To: Red Badger
Meltdown. Not so fast. We don't know the details yet.
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posted on
03/12/2011 12:05:52 AM PST
by
Windflier
(To anger a conservative, tell him a lie. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth.)
To: Windflier
Then what else would explode?......
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posted on
03/12/2011 12:06:49 AM PST
by
Red Badger
(How can anyone look at the situation in Libya and be for gun control is beyond stupid. It's suicide.)
To: rawhide
Well, that's comforting, I guess.
Does anyone actually have a clue what is going on in Japan right now? It seems like a wasteland when I see the videos, and I can't imagine the global impact of this earthquake at this point.
Indonesia was tragic, but outside of hotels and a bunch of relatively primitive cities, that disaster had almost no impact on global commerce.
I hate to sound crass, but in these economic times, I can't help but think of how this is going to impact the modern world.
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posted on
03/12/2011 12:07:48 AM PST
by
Carling
(Obama: Inexperienced and incompetent, yet ego maniacal. God help us all.)
To: rawhide
To: Windflier
A steam explosion from an overstressed pipe is possible.....
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posted on
03/12/2011 12:08:35 AM PST
by
Red Badger
(How can anyone look at the situation in Libya and be for gun control is beyond stupid. It's suicide.)
To: Red Badger
They reported a fire at this plant right after the earthquake. Was put out fast. A third plant had a major Turbine building fire that lasted a few hours. Not the best working environment right now.
To: rawhide
Hopefully it’s not that bad. The structure should be sound, unless they cut corners.
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posted on
03/12/2011 12:08:57 AM PST
by
allmost
To: Red Badger
Then what else would explode?...... Transformers or other equipment related to the transmission of the electricity that they produce.
To: Red Badger
Japans reacters are "light water" reacters and are supposed to not be capable of a chernobyl type of meltdown.
I know, famous last words.
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posted on
03/12/2011 12:09:44 AM PST
by
exnavy
(May the Lord bless and keep our troops.)
To: Red Badger
Or maybe an electrical transformer.
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posted on
03/12/2011 12:12:04 AM PST
by
Brad from Tennessee
(A politician can't give you anything he hasn't first stolen from you.)
To: Red Badger
Then what else would explode? Could have been anything. A nuclear plant is a large, complicated thing. The actual nuke rods are in a containment facility. As far as I know, they don't go 'boom', even if they do melt down.
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posted on
03/12/2011 12:12:29 AM PST
by
Windflier
(To anger a conservative, tell him a lie. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth.)
To: Brad from Tennessee
From BBC. White Cloud ?
0755: AFP says an explosion has been heard at the Fukushima-Daiichi plant, and says Japanese TV is showing a white cloud above the plant.
To: allmost
Hopefully it’s not that bad. The structure should be sound, unless they cut corners.
Or unless an earthquake or tsunami caused cracks or breaches in the containment. OR the cesium is leaking into the water nearby....
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posted on
03/12/2011 12:13:51 AM PST
by
Freddd
To: justa-hairyape
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posted on
03/12/2011 12:14:03 AM PST
by
JEH_Boston
(Never give up.)
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