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NRC: No water in spent fuel pool of Japan plant
AP via Yahoo! Finance ^ | 03/16/2011 | AP

Posted on 03/16/2011 1:12:42 PM PDT by AnAmericanAbroad

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The chief of the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission said Wednesday that all the water is gone from one of the spent fuel pools at Japan's most troubled nuclear plant, but Japanese officials denied it. If NRC Chairman Gregory Jaczko is correct, this would mean there's nothing to stop the fuel rods from getting hotter and ultimately melting down. Read more at source.

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TOPICS: Breaking News; Foreign Affairs; Japan; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: gregoryjaczko; jaczko; nrc; nuclearpower
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To: silentknight

From the sound of it, Obama didn’t bother to speak to Kan until tonight?


101 posted on 03/16/2011 7:49:04 PM PDT by 9YearLurker
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To: AnAmericanAbroad
your wish is my command bender paranoid Pictures, Images and Photos "We're Boned!"
102 posted on 03/16/2011 8:03:51 PM PDT by Illuminatas (Obama - Dumber Than Bush!)
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The fuel storage pool I worked at had racks that maintained fuel cell spacing for safety, and almost as important...a plain old Stortz connection for a fire hose on the outside of the facility. What the heck is going on with losing cooling pit water?? You can get a hell of a lot of water in through a large diameter fire hose. This just doesn’t make sense.

Good info is so hard to get.


103 posted on 03/16/2011 8:58:02 PM PDT by TjBlacken
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To: TjBlacken

The buildings must be cracked underneath. All the water is leaking out the bottom. Just like an old cracked bathtub.


104 posted on 03/16/2011 9:01:39 PM PDT by Palladin (Obama, Ayers, Dohrn, Trumka: birds of a feather.)
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To: Danae

You are whistling past the graveyard.


105 posted on 03/16/2011 9:03:24 PM PDT by Palladin (Obama, Ayers, Dohrn, Trumka: birds of a feather.)
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To: Fido969

The spent fuel facility I worked at had cages that maintained fuel rod spacing. Almost as important, it had a fairly common Stortz hose connection on the outside of the building that could easily by connected to a firetruck or hydrantfrom a safe distance and behind shielding. I can’t believe a spent fuel water pit would not be equipped this way anywhere in the world! Something ain’t adding up again.

Good info on current status seems so hard to get


106 posted on 03/16/2011 9:26:59 PM PDT by TjBlacken
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To: Danae

It is always good to keep a cool head even if things actually do go south quickly. Acting in a panicked state increases your chances of making dumb decisions.

Someone also needs to tell teh fed govt to calm down, as they’ve just apparently cornered the market on KI pills.


107 posted on 03/16/2011 9:34:08 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (I'd like to tell you, but then I'd have to kill you.)
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To: Danae

A great point, these things were designed a hell of a lot better in terms of containment than the soviet reactors. Worst case they also fill up the buildings with sand and put a massive concrete top on them.


108 posted on 03/16/2011 9:36:39 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (I'd like to tell you, but then I'd have to kill you.)
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To: TjBlacken

Based on the explosions and pictures of the wrecked buildings, I’d guess a lot of equipment and plumbing was destroyed.


109 posted on 03/16/2011 9:39:42 PM PDT by Fido969 ("The hardest thing in the world to understand is income tax." - Albert Einstein)
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To: BwanaNdege

France has newer safer designs because they’ve been building new plants along the way, past 1980.

If anything, if people want to learn a good lesson, it’s to forge ahead with new, safer reactor designs like the pebble-bed reactors, to replace the older plants and thus, increase our nuclear safety.


110 posted on 03/16/2011 9:41:17 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (I'd like to tell you, but then I'd have to kill you.)
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To: Secret Agent Man
Someone also needs to tell teh fed govt to calm down, as they’ve just apparently cornered the market on KI pills.

Worse. More people will die from anaphylactic shock taking KI than will be injured by the radiation.
111 posted on 03/16/2011 9:41:18 PM PDT by PA Engineer (Liberate America from the occupation media. There are Wars and Rumors of War.)
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To: Retired Greyhound

“They’ve been working to restore power to the plant. I believe they will get a handle on it.
Even if they don’t, I don’t think this is a catastrophe for anyplace other than Fukushima and the surrounding area.”

Well, just a short time ago the word was, “don’t worry, they’ve got it all under control”.

Hmm.... so now it might become a “catastrophe” — but that’s fine, it’s only going to be one for the Fukushima area?

What next?

Just askin’....


112 posted on 03/16/2011 9:57:50 PM PDT by Grumplestiltskin (I may look new, but it's only deja vu!)
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To: Secret Agent Man
That is going to be the ultimate solution. There is no salvaging anything from the plant. Best to bury it at this point.

I am concerned now for the surrounding countryside. This kind of accident does render the land uninhabitable, the question is... at what radius?

Pray for Japan. They are hiding the radiation levels now according to drudge. THAT is not a good sign. Not by a long shot. That actually worries me quite a bit.

113 posted on 03/16/2011 10:11:36 PM PDT by Danae (Anailnathrach ortha bhais beatha do cheal deanaimha)
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To: Danae

To be honest, I have watched a lot of Japanese tv streams with these people reporting, the officials...

I have thought they were glossing over and not really telling the whole story of what was going on for awhile.

I believe it is partly because of their culture. Admitting problems is admitting failure, hiding weakness, etc.

It’s not that great of a ‘virtue’ when you really need to know what’s going on in catastrophic emergency situations.


114 posted on 03/16/2011 10:15:30 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (I'd like to tell you, but then I'd have to kill you.)
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To: Illuminatas

Thank you!


115 posted on 03/17/2011 6:19:04 AM PDT by AnAmericanAbroad
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To: Fido969

The Stortz emergency water connection I was familiar with, was nothing more than a 4” pipe from outside the facility directly to the pool through about 10’ of reinforced concrete. Can’t imagine a low velocity H2 explosion damaging anything that is designed to be last ditch, reliable and simple. As far a cracked steel pit liner....its still contained by surrounding reinforced concrete. This lack of water in a cooling pit is not believable to me. If its leaking, add make-up water. I’m sure it doesn’t have ‘a big hole’ in it.


116 posted on 03/17/2011 11:08:45 AM PDT by TjBlacken
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