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Fuel Rods Damage At Fukushima's 2 Reactors Estimated At 70%, 33%
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| 03/16/11
Posted on 03/15/2011 5:19:24 PM PDT by TigerLikesRooster
Wednesday, March 16, 2011
Fuel Rods Damage At Fukushima's 2 Reactors Estimated At 70%, 33%
TOKYO (Kyodo)--An estimated 70 percent of the nuclear fuel rods have been damaged at the troubled No. 1 reactor of the Fukushima No.1 nuclear power plant and 33 percent at the No. 2 reactor, Tokyo Electric Power Co. said Wednesday.
The reactors' cores are believed to have partially melted with their cooling functions lost after Friday's magnitude 9.0 earthquake rocked Fukushima Prefecture and other areas in northeastern and eastern Japan.
TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; Japan; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: cancer; fuelrod; fukushima; japaneathquake; japannuclearplants; leukemia; meltdown; no2reactor; radiation; radiationrelease
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posted on
03/15/2011 5:20:20 PM PDT
by
TigerLikesRooster
(The way to crush the bourgeois is to grind them between the millstones of taxation and inflation)
To: TigerLikesRooster
WHERE THE HELL IS OBAMA????
DO WE EVEN HAVE A PRESIDENT ON DUTY????
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posted on
03/15/2011 5:20:20 PM PDT
by
LibFreeUSA
(Show me what Obama brought that was new and there you will find things only radical and destructive.)
To: TigerLikesRooster
Again, losing track. Is this the plant that has “cooled down”?
To: LibFreeUSA
WHERE THE HELL IS OBAMA????
DO WE EVEN HAVE A PRESIDENT ON DUTY???? No.
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posted on
03/15/2011 5:23:27 PM PDT
by
sionnsar
(IranAzadi|5yst3m 0wn3d-it's N0t Y0ur5:SONY|http://pure-gas.org|Must be a day for changing taglines)
To: LibFreeUSA
WHERE THE HELL IS OBAMA????
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posted on
03/15/2011 5:26:13 PM PDT
by
EGPWS
(Trust in God, question everyone else)
To: Larry Lucido
No, but both reactors are being injected with sea water.
Not efficient enough to prevent some core melt obviously.
IMHO, #2 is the greater problem, though there are some important unknowns with it.
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posted on
03/15/2011 5:27:01 PM PDT
by
D-fendr
(Deus non alligatur sacramentis sed nos alligamur.)
To: Larry Lucido
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posted on
03/15/2011 5:27:30 PM PDT
by
sushiman
To: Larry Lucido
This is the reactor that has a containment defect that is not been defined.
To: sushiman; TigerLikesRooster; SE Mom
Have you FReepers in Japan found the LIVE thread that SE Mom started this morning? It's a great compendium and running commentary of all the updates from Japan, especially regarding Fukushima. Links and info are being posted from a multitude of sources and it's been invaluable for finding everything in one place today. Link:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2689114/posts
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posted on
03/15/2011 5:32:31 PM PDT
by
lonevoice
(Where the Welfare State is on the march, the Police State is not far behind)
To: RummyChick
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posted on
03/15/2011 5:34:01 PM PDT
by
D-fendr
(Deus non alligatur sacramentis sed nos alligamur.)
To: LibFreeUSA
WHERE THE HELL IS OBAMA???? DO WE EVEN HAVE A PRESIDENT ON DUTY????Please, I rather he be playing golf and vacationing out of the country than saying one word.
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posted on
03/15/2011 5:36:55 PM PDT
by
bgill
(Kenyan Parliament - how could a man born in Kenya who is not even a native American become the POTUS)
To: D-fendr
To: LibFreeUSA
What the hell do you want the guy to do?
The less Obama is involved, the better.
This mindset of having a President or our Gov't fix and solve everything is absurd.
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posted on
03/15/2011 5:47:32 PM PDT
by
Palter
(If voting made any difference they wouldn't let us do it. ~ Mark Twain)
To: LibFreeUSA
I hear he is betting on the sweet 16 and no we do not have functional leadership of any form. Sorry about that. We are on our own. Get used to it.
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posted on
03/15/2011 5:54:13 PM PDT
by
duffus
(Deport all Aliens, Secure the Border, Recall the Troops, Shrink the Government.)
To: TigerLikesRooster
Only 7 days left to prevent the fuel in the reactor from reaching the center of the earth and detonating in a solar system ending event!!!!/sarc
I wish the media would cool it. This isn’t what is the main driver of the markets.
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posted on
03/15/2011 5:54:51 PM PDT
by
dila813
To: Palter
Apparently our president is some kind of superhero.
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posted on
03/15/2011 6:21:28 PM PDT
by
Realism
(Some believe that the facts-of-life are open to debate.....)
To: LibFreeUSA
He is packing his bags for his next vacation, to Brasilia, which starts on Friday.
18
posted on
03/15/2011 6:46:20 PM PDT
by
Palladin
(Obama, Ayers, Dohrn, Trumka: birds of a feather.)
To: Palladin
Be glad he waited this long to head to Brazil. Michele might have wanted to go dancing in a Carnival dress.
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posted on
03/15/2011 7:53:20 PM PDT
by
JohnBovenmyer
(Rat fleas carry plague.)
To: Palter
“This mindset of having a President or our Gov’t fix and solve everything is absurd”
While I agree with you in principle, there is still an element of official decorum and propriety that should be paid attention to. Even figurehead monarchs understand the importance of projecting the right tone at the right time. I personally think that an advanced version of ‘Turbo Tax’ could probably be used to run the Presidency more effectively than what we have seen lately. That said, the President does have a responsibility to project a proper respectful image.
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