[Shadow44]

That doesn’t sound good at all. Anybody smart enough to know what the ramifications are?

[Tublecane]

“That doesn’t sound good at all. Anybody smart enough to know what the ramifications are?”

According to previous guesses we were all supposed to be dead by now. I’ll just sit and wait.

[yank in the UK]

“That doesn’t sound good at all. Anybody smart enough to know what the ramifications are?”

My thoughts exactly. I was hoping that another freeper that knows anything about this sort of situation could enlighten us all. No, it doesn’t sound good at all.

[OldNavyVet]

ramifications

As at Chernobyl, time will tell.

[cuban leaf]

I had read somewhere that if it got bad enough there that they would evacuate Tokyo. I don’t know if this is “bad enough” though.

[HereInTheHeartland]

“That doesn’t sound good at all. Anybody smart enough to know what the ramifications are?”

They won't be able to re start the reactor until at least the end of the year.

[AmonAmarth]

FROM THE COMMENTS SECTION OF THE LINK:

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…

[kidd]

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.

[GGpaX4DumpedTea]

“Anybody smart enough to know what the ramifications are?”

At this link Dr Mark Sircus’ Blog comments are very interesting and applicable to the disscussion on this thread...
http://blog.imva.info/medicine/reader-responses

[justa-hairyape]

Anybody smart enough to know what the ramifications are?

This is something new for us humans. Unchartered territory. Been following this from the beginning and originally I was middle of the road concerning nuclear power. Saw the positives and the negatives. Unfortunately, now think the negatives far outweigh the positives. Primarily because of the stupidity and corruption of the people charged with handling and preventing these accidents. Mankind does not have enough integrity to properly operate and manage these early nuclear designs. And to think Obama wants Iran to have nuclear power plants. Yeah. Great idea.

At any rate, back to the ramifications. Go to the thread linked above at ex-skf. Read those comments. Some were mine. Also read the comments on the Enenews thead. Some were good. I never ever commented there.

Personally have no intellectual respect for Kaku at all. He bought into that global warming is gonna kill us idiocy, hook, line and sinker. Now what was interesting with his comment, is that #2 apparently experienced 100 % meltdown. Do not know his specific source. Sounds like it might be a news feed or email list that is only for the well connected. No public info backing up his claim yet. Prior to that, Tepco had stated around 50-60 % meltdown of unit #2. Could go into the implications of a 100 % liquification with respect to #2, but quite frankly, if what I suspect happen, actually happened, you may not want to know. The truth will come out in time, until then, be a prepper.

[GOPJ]

Anybody smart enough to know what the ramifications are?

Anyone know?

[UCANSEE2]

Anybody smart enough to know what the ramifications are?

Smart enough? I got good grades in Science while in publik skools, so I might almost qualify.

We may be 'bothered' about it, but to the planet Earth, the effect would be about the same as pissing in the ocean.

There are volcanic vents in the ocean bottom, and yet you never see the ocean boil away.

[dfwgator]

That doesn’t sound good at all. Anybody smart enough to know what the ramifications are?

I'm afraid it could mean 9/11 times a thousand.