Posted on 05/15/2012 10:51:30 AM PDT by yank in the UK
Unit 2 we now know completely liquified. We’ve never seen this before in the history of nuclear power. A 100% liquification of a uranium core.
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Don’t forget to watch “On the Beach” this week!
If true, it means that the containment structure did what it was designed to do...it contained the (formerly) melted core.
Ramification: clean-up is going to be very difficult.
Re: And it melted its way to the center of the Earth, right?
If Jane Fonda says so it must be true LOL!
If it's so dang heavy, why doesn't it travel down instead of spreading laterally? If it IS heading to the earth's core, how is that a problem? I mean, as long as we don't brew beer out of Core-water?
I enjoy listening to Micio Kaku, but he is a die hard rabid leftist, ao you should take anything he says that can have a political angle (global warming, nuclear ower, etc..) with a great deal of skepticism..
Well...The term China Syndrome is slightly overstated....most people in the know say the liquefied core would melt through the metal and concrete container and bottom out at about thirty feet. It seems that for all the hand ringing about nuclear disasters that as disasters go this one is not near the Apocalypse one of these things was suppose to have been!!!
Some one will get you for that!!
Exactly.
Here’s the recent monitoring info on the reactors:
http://www.tepco.co.jp/en/nu/fukushima-np/f1/images/2012parameter/12051511_table_summary-e.pdf
NB the temps at the bottoms of the reactor pressure vessels. Below the point of boiling for water. Warm, but not “hot.”
Didn't know he was a rabid leftist. Wish we could get some other heavy hitters to chime in on this with updated information. Anyone you folks know, or can contact?
When you’re hot you’re hot.
Remember Y2K? Remember how it was supposed to be the end of modern civilization?
Those of us who actually wrote code for Big Computer Systems were laughing our asses off about the panic.
I don’t believe that any bona-fide nuke operators or objective physics jocks are laughing here, but they’re not running around in circles, yelling “Repent, the end is near!” either.
Cleaning up this mess will be a long, slow, expensive slog... but it will get done.
And the death toll still stands at about: The nuke plant? Three (from physical deaths due to the disaster, not “atomic” deaths), and over 20K from the tsunami.
The hysterics continue to point a quavering finger at the reactors... while ignoring a pile of bodies the size of a pretty good sized town causes by the flooding. I fail to understand the illogic of this, to this day.
If all reactors are currently below the boiling point of water, there certainly can be no "liquified (as in "molten) corium" hanging around...
The Uruguay Syndrome
Doubt it has been reported that it melted through containment, however sounds like it is sitting there as a molten glob, is it even possible to clean that up? I’ve had relatives like this, not good.
I don’t find anything that shows a boron catch-pan component in this reactor. I do see they ordered up 52 tons of Boron and then later ordered 90 plus tons of Boron-10 from the French and they were mixing it with water and injecting it.
Boron-11 doesn’t do too much as Boron-10 has one less neutron and provides the perfect catch material for the excess neutrons slowing and cooling the reaction.
Of course, injection yields water vapor that is contaminated as it leaves.
US Physicist Michio Kaku: "Unit 2 we now know completely liquified"
Yo Dude,
The word “nip” is pretty derogatory to be using against a good ally.
Heading in numerous directions. Already veined all over the ground under the plant. Very, Very bad. They were forced to place thick metal plates on the ground around the plants early on just to be able to get close to the reactor buildings safely. Tepco is also lining the ocean floor near the plant with concrete. That should tell you were some of it is headed. Will unfortunately be quite spectacular when it enters the ocean. A steaming and boiling cauldron that may not end in our live times. And guess where all that steam will be heading ?
And just think there are 3 more reactors that are out of control and cannot be fixed. Not to mention, the hundreds of other reactors around the planet, very much capable of this same scenario. This scripture is now possible. The Bible is always correct. It appears that judgement has arrived.
Revelation 16:3 (KJV) 3 And the second angel poured out his vial upon the sea; and it became as the blood of a dead man: and every living soul died in the sea.
I also read some of the comments and this was very interesting.
"think it means it's no longer in the corium 'blob' state but capable of traveling into the earth's mantle in a stream-like state; which is much worse than any previous worst case scenario. There will be no remediation possible; resulting in radiological contamination of underground water-ways (interacting ocean and fresh-water aquifers) within this entire region, for hundreds-of-thousands of years.
Given the amount of energy needed to maintain a liquified condition without significant surface cooling is unusual. Classical thermodynamics has left the building…
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