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.
Lord have mercy !
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.
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...
Via Twitter Breaking News
More on blast: Explosion may be more severe than previous incidents; containment vessel possibly damaged - nytimes
6 minutes ago via breakingnews.com
Is Japan’s government still going to claim that everything is under control? This is a catastrophe of biblical proportions!
is there ANY water going into these reactors at all?
I think they should shut down ALL the nuclear plants on the west coast NOW...FORE EVER.
Home page of cnn.com has a good video on the emergency safeguards that failed.
‘Watch what went wrong at the plant.’
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.
Would somebody call the fat lady and get her on Japanese TV NOW!
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
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.
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?