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Third Reactor at Fukushima Nuclear Plant Explodes
ABC ^ | March 14, 2011 | DAVID MUIR AND JESSICA HOPPER

Posted on 03/14/2011 5:27:49 PM PDT by gandalftb

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To: Christian Engineer Mass

The problem wasn’t the earthquake. The problem was that the reactors require external power to operate. Fukushima didn’t get into trouble until the back-up generators quit. Someone correct me if I’m wrong, but I think they were OK immediately after the quake. Had the reactors been able to power their own control systems, they wouldn’t be in this fix.


81 posted on 03/14/2011 6:12:20 PM PDT by Redcloak (What's your zombie plan?)
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To: All

From India times:

“They’re basically in a full-scale panic” among Japanese power industry managers, said a senior nuclear industry executive late Monday night. The executive is not involved in managing the response to the reactors’ difficulties but has many contacts in Japan. “They’re in total disarray, they don’t know what to do.”

http://timesofindia....how/7705671.cms


82 posted on 03/14/2011 6:12:58 PM PDT by janetjanet998
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To: gandalftb

God help those poor people. I don’t know how much more tragedy they can take! It’s going to take many years for them to recover from all these catastrophes!

....and yet our fake president golfs.


83 posted on 03/14/2011 6:14:31 PM PDT by luvie (I'd rather be a Tea Bagger than a FLEEbagger! :))
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To: trumandogz
None of us in our lifetime will see another nuke plant built in the US.

or a refinery; we haven't seen a new one built in some thirty years. A couple of years ago the Democrats stopped the plans for a military refinery that was to be built for military fuels only.

84 posted on 03/14/2011 6:15:37 PM PDT by Loud Mime (If it is too stupid to be said, people will listen to it, if sung - - Voltaire)
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To: WhistlingPastTheGraveyard

Good, I am glad to hear that. Makes me feel a lot better:)


85 posted on 03/14/2011 6:15:59 PM PDT by dforest
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To: SteamShovel
When you build a coastal nuclear power plant, facing the most violent earthquake fault in the world, it seems reasonable that a tsunami over 7 meters is likely within the life expectancy of the power plant.

Here's the bottom line, this is not Armageddon. We, collectively, need to accept the safety hazard of nuclear power. Far more have been killed by being hit by spinning wind power turbines.

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.

86 posted on 03/14/2011 6:16:03 PM PDT by gandalftb (Fighting jihadists is like fighting an earthquake, harden yourselves.)
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To: Aroostook25
The Japanese plants survived the earthquake.

It was the tsunami that did them in.

87 posted on 03/14/2011 6:16:18 PM PDT by DB
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To: maine yankee

I dont live on the west coast.

Nice try though. I’ll give you that.


88 posted on 03/14/2011 6:17:50 PM PDT by crz
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To: janetjanet998

Your link is broken.


89 posted on 03/14/2011 6:19:16 PM PDT by netmilsmom (Happiness is a choice.)
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To: SteamShovel

Hey, Im trying to sell my place in AZ and I figure if these people get enough hysteria into them...


90 posted on 03/14/2011 6:19:34 PM PDT by crz
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To: Christian Engineer Mass
DON’T BUILD A NUCLEAR REACTOR NEAR A FAULT LINE.

Japan IS a fault line.

They have no oil of their own.

They don't have their own coal.

They don't get a lot of sun.

They couldn't possibly build enough windmills and wires to power their industry.

What should they do?

What has happened is tragic, unprecedented, and will be learned from. Nuclear plants will get better.

More people have died from refinery accidents than from nuclear accidents. More people have died from coal mining accidents and natural gas explosions than from nuclear plant accidents. We need to put this into perspective. It isn't the end of the world.

91 posted on 03/14/2011 6:19:54 PM PDT by SteamShovel ("Does the noise in my head bother you?")
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To: BenKenobi
Neither does it indicate meltdown. All hydrogen explosions indicate is that the core is hot enough to disassociate water. This is strictly a function of temperature.

Temperature increase is what causes the meltdown.

92 posted on 03/14/2011 6:20:02 PM PDT by justa-hairyape
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To: gandalftb

Would somebody call the fat lady and get her on Japanese TV NOW!


93 posted on 03/14/2011 6:20:19 PM PDT by Joined2Justify (tagline removed for security reasons)
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To: BenKenobi

Obama is against the West using nuclear power. He’s just ducky with the Iranians using it and then making nuclear weapons on the side.


94 posted on 03/14/2011 6:20:43 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (The biggest waste of brainpower is to want to change something that's not changeable. -Albert Brooks)
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To: LUV W
I don’t know how much more tragedy they can take!

At this point the people most affected are just trying to find shelter and food, and mourning for friends and family lost. They people being evacuated from what is becoming a large area are trying to find a place to stay.

Emergency management personnel must be overwhelmed. I wonder how the Japanese people in emergency management are handling it.

I hate to say it, but if this was a US government agency dealing with these multiple combined major disasters, they'd be paralyzed by this time. Can you imagine Janet whatshername was in charge of something like this? She'd be busy telling Homeland Security to keep an eye on possible tea party members and gun rights nuts, and Obozo would be in full brain-lock.

95 posted on 03/14/2011 6:20:52 PM PDT by Fido969 ("The hardest thing in the world to understand is income tax." - Albert Einstein)
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To: gandalftb

I don’t understand why they don’t have plumbing to vent the reactors outside the outer building walls...

With a simple pipe the hydrogen gas/steam could harmlessly be vented to outside the structure and remove the risk of explosion...

Seems very odd...


96 posted on 03/14/2011 6:21:02 PM PDT by DB
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To: gandalftb

Japan: Dear USA,

You did such a great job containing and stopping the oil leak in the gulf...

Could you please come and help us with our meltdowns???

Glowing thanks


97 posted on 03/14/2011 6:21:56 PM PDT by Safrguns
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To: janetjanet998
“They’re basically in a full-scale panic” among Japanese power industry managers, said a senior nuclear industry executive late Monday night. The executive is not involved in managing the response to the reactors’ difficulties but has many contacts in Japan. “They’re in total disarray, they don’t know what to do.”

Sounds like something a greenpeace member would say.

98 posted on 03/14/2011 6:23:25 PM PDT by meyer (We will not sit down and shut up.)
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To: gandalftb

Crap, this it. Where can we go now. 750 Rems on the West Coast. First it feels like pins and needles on your face, then a metal taste in your mouth! Then in a couple hours you start puking! What can we do!


99 posted on 03/14/2011 6:24:33 PM PDT by ScreamingFist (Quiet the Idiot)
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To: gandalftb

Now there is not much they can do.


100 posted on 03/14/2011 6:24:33 PM PDT by redgolum ("God is dead" -- Nietzsche. "Nietzsche is dead" -- God.)
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