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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“We need to put this into perspective”
Maybe, but people won’t though. Because if this stuff gets in the air then they or their children might breath it and reduce their life expectancy. They’re not personally affected by the coal accident.
You’re never going to convince people differently.
Yes, it will be learned from, but that won’t stop leftist agitators with anti-US intentions calling for a “moratorium on nuclear plants until we know what happened”
http://tickerforum.org/akcs-www?post=182121&page=46
BREAKING NEWS: TEPCO admits possibility of meltdown at Fukushima reactors (09:29)
FLASH: Fukushima’s No. 2 reactor container damaged, radiation leak feared (09:41)
http://www.kyodonews.jp/english/
Bravo..!
I swear, reading FR tonight, you would think freepers WANT a catastrophe. Let's see what the containment structure does and pray for the 50 left inside.
I realize this thread’s title is the precise ABC title, and we must post stories with their exact titles, but MAN is this title ever incorrect. There was an “explosion”, yes, but there is not to anyone’s knowledge right now, an “explosion of a nuclear reactor”. Mods, can you modify or at least parentheses it to “cool it down” from typical US MSM panic rhetoric?
True, but the temperature required to disassociate hydrogen is quite lower than the temp required for meltdown.
375 degrees Celsius is sufficient, whereas meltdown requires several thousand.
I think I am going to get another beer, turn on fox and get all hyped up over the scare movie they are producing.
I do feel for the Japanese and I can’t imagine what the nuke workers are having to do on minimal sleep and tremendous worry over family and friends. I have said many prayers for them.
1,000 Microseiverts is considered the maximum safe exposure dosage for one year. An Airline pilot will be exposed to an average of 85 microsieverts flying between Honolulu and Tokyo.
So, if the numbers from TEP are to be believed, the exposure dosage on site has gone from 1,000ms, to just over 1,900.
A CT Scanner runs about 2000-2200 micro sieverts in one use.
Not a really dangerous dosage, but not one you want to be exposed to over a long period.
To put this in perspective, the firefighters at Chernobyl got about 7-13 MILLION microsieverts, and a cancer patient gets around a 50-60 MILLION microsievert dose to the affected area.
TEPCO finally admits the truth,,notice is says reactors..plural
TEPCO wasn’t exactly honest during the last nuclear indicent in Japan either
Diablo Canyon’s near the Shoreline Fault. The San Andreas is about 40 miles away, over on the east edge of the San Jouquin Valley.
thread bump
Darn. I thought the first post to me me would be some fookstick FR member from 2009 telling me to pack my bag. Guess I'll go get a beer as well.
Kyodo headline scroll: PM Kan to adress nation 11am local time
# 0052: Details are now emerging about radiation levels after the blast at Fukushima's reactor 2 at 0610 local time (2110 GMT Monday). Tokyo Electric officials say that one hour of exposure at the nuclear plant would be equivalent to eight times at what a person might experience naturally during the year.
[So 1 hour equals 8 years natural radiation exposure around the reactors.]
Do you recall what those guys who went to the edge at Chernobyl got? I remember a documentary once that had one of the ones that got a lethal does talking about not fearing what he can’t see. It was really sad. He didn’t last very long.
No, they DID plan for tsunami’s, but not the 500-year ones. and you can clearly see the tsunami wall in the pictures of the plant.
It’s like living in a 500 year flood plain. Yeah, you COULD get flooded, but do you spend the money to insure against an event quite unlikely to happen in your, or anyone you know that is cuurently alive’s lifetime?
fox news: guy on phone from Tokoyo
we are getting reports of not just a meltdown but the CORE melting
This is news, and people might die, but compared to the thousands of bodies washing up on the shore, it's nothing.
We need nuke power, ASAP.
I couldn't agree more.
I slightly disagree about the 7 meter wave assumption. It is obvious now, but obviously is wasn't obvious at the time of construction. They typically look at the records for these type of projects and attempt to build it better than what has been experienced before. In this way, they get a low probability of a greater occurrence in the lifetime of the plant. Think 100 year and 1000 year flood plains (which seem to flood that high almost every year now!)
These days, they take it a step further and use risk analysis to randomly run hundreds of scenarios and predict probabilities of worse events than what is likely. But even then, there is still a chance because it can never reach zero. Because it is never zero, there is still a chance. If that chance happens, then everyone says it is obvious it would have happened which isn't the case at all.
0012: Radiation is feared to have leaked after the container vessel was damaged at Fukushima's reactor 2, the Kyodo news agency is quoting Tokyo Electric Power Company as saying.
[Think they might know a little more about the situation then you. :>]
Well, of course. What do you think melts? The chocolate doughnuts in the break room?
Dang. Someone please wake us up from this nightmare.
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