Posted on 03/14/2011 5:27:49 PM PDT by gandalftb
There was a new explosion Tuesday morning at a reactor the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant, and the company that runs the plant said water may be leaking from the reactor.
Half of the rods inside the reactor were not immersed in water and the suppression pool, which holds the water used to keep the rods cool, seemed to be damaged, according to Tokyo Electric Co. and government officials.
The level of radiation also rose around the reactor, but a government official said there was no danger.
"The radioactive level near unit 2 has gone up, but at this juncture, the level is not judged to be immediately harmful to human bodies," said Noriyuki Shikata, a spokesman in the prime minister's office.
The blast is the third at the plant in the three days since a powerful earthquake struck Japan on Friday.
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All but 50 workers are being evacuated.
Next.
It only takes one to start leaking badly to force the workers to retreat. If that happens the other reactors will go too.
As my professor said today, DON’T BUILD A NUCLEAR REACTOR NEAR A FAULT LINE.
There is one directly on the San Andreas fault too.
No doubt when the inevitable happens, and that one gets hit by an earthquake, the left will use the disaster to end all nuclear power in the US.
There are a MILLION great places in America to build nuclear plants. The San Andreas fault is NOT one of them.
“Diablo Canyon” indeed.
They are still calling it “injecting water into the reactor”
instead of “pouring water on an exploding molten heap”
Lord have mercy !
That’s 3.
Under Emergency are 6...
I’d be really surprised if a bunch of Obamaites don’t show up and post a bunch of nonsense about how safe all this stuff is, shortly...
Diablo Canyon isn’t on the San Andreas fault.
To clarify, the first two explosions degraded the containment buildings only, their internal reactor vessels are still intact. This third blast was heard inside the reactor containment vessel and it is likely the vessel walls were degraded in some way. If so, melting uranium fuel rods would be exposed to atmosphere.
NHK reported 10,000 times more than acceptable radiation after the explosion...
No one thought of that.......
Reactor #3 is the one to watch.
It has Plutonium as part of its fuel source.
Plutonium is far more deadly than Uranium and takes a very long time to decay substantially.
I read somewhere that GE produced these Japanese nuke plants.
My question is... Is that going to leak into the ocean and radiate the Pacific Ocean and spread over the globe.. much like the tsunami waves that reached our shores? Is it going to cause Japan to be another Chernobyl type disaster? If 3-6 cores melt down isn’t that 6x’s the disaster of Chernobyl which is a no go zone for the next thousand years or so? Where do all those people go? It looks like a much bigger disaster than they are telling us. The news gets worse every day...
Yup, we have ships at sea, downwind. They are on the road to Chernobyl now.
you mean no one thought of a tsunami? I find that hard to believe..
no reason why those gen sets weren’t built on top of the reactor or another high place...not at ground level
You are very correct on Plutonium. It is the most lethal substance known. Anything inhaled destroys the lungs.
I’ve been told on here that can’t happen with a LWR. I was told to ‘educate myself’ on the matter.
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