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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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.
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
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.
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.
Good, I am glad to hear that. Makes me feel a lot better:)
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.
It was the tsunami that did them in.
I dont live on the west coast.
Nice try though. I’ll give you that.
Your link is broken.
Hey, Im trying to sell my place in AZ and I figure if these people get enough hysteria into them...
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.
Temperature increase is what causes the meltdown.
Would somebody call the fat lady and get her on Japanese TV NOW!
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.
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.
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...
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
Sounds like something a greenpeace member would say.
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!
Now there is not much they can do.
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