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Following Core Meltdown, Reactor One At Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant Explodes - Video
Following a report earlier that the Uranium at the Fukushima Power Plant may have melted, we sadly bring you this video of the explosion at Reactor one of the nuclear site.
A before and after picture, showing the loss of Reactor 1
From BBC:
There has been an explosion at a Japanese nuclear power plant that was hit by Friday's devastating earthquake.
Pictures show a blast at the Fukushima plant and initial reports say several workers were injured.
Nuclear expert, Malcolm Grimston told the BBC that nuclear materials may have been able to escape .
And as predicted by Zero Hedge first yesterday, the power plant has just announced that there is indeed a meltdown at the plant.
The core at Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant's No. 1 reactor may be partially melting, the nuclear safety agency said Saturday.
Radioactive substance cesium was detected around the reactor, it said.
Alas, as many may be affected by fallout, we present the wind data for Asia for Saturday:
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prevailing westerly winds will take whatever comes out of this caldren of chaos north over Alaska, then Canada, and USA, estimated time of arrival about 2 weeks and will arrive carried by the April showers that bring May flowers. Canadians and Americans should stock up on Iodine as their is no way to stop what is coming.
So far the animated maps I have seen don't really show Alaska at risk unless one is in very SE Alaska or the Aleutians. But there is definately the possibility.
Cooter
There is something else they either aren't bothering to report or ar hiding from the public is that there are 3 volcanoes erupting in conjunction with the quake. The only place I've seen this reported is one the web.
Volcanoes have reportedly erupted in Japan, Indonesia, and Kamchatka Russia today, presumably due to the massive Japanese earthquake. There have been no reports of damage from the eruptions.
@hacksaw
Thanks. TD may see this and post it. Did you send it to tips@zerohedge.org? Really gets going about 1:20 into the clip.
this has been one of the headerZ to this very ZH page, until recently: Japanese, Russian and Indonesian Volcanoes Erupt ... 5 Japanese Nuclear Reactors In Danger ... 1 Is Leaking and May Melt Down Within 24 Hours
Submitted by George Washington on 03/11/2011 19:14 -0500
from tokyo, i believe kamchatka is about 2.5 inches NE. and, as we can see, this is one of the most geologically stable //s// loci on the freaking planet!
World Volcanoes Map | Volcano Lookup | Kamchatka Volcanos | Japan Volcanoes | Philippines Volcanoes | Volcano Finder
(trying to get map link to work. sry. pls google yerself, with abandon, if you wish! -s)
scotty! beam the pi-rat up. NOW!!!
Thanks, I'd missed the Kamchatka eruption...
IN THE PAST MONTH - huge quakes in: Chile, New Zealand & Japan
Huge eruptions in Hawaii, Japan, Indonesia & Russia...
Keep 2 weeks of supplies on hand all of you folks in the Earthquake zone.
If you learned anything from Katrina, it should have been YOU WILL BE ON YOUR OWN
It's been pretty quiet (seismically speaking) for awhile here in southern California.
Can't help but feel we're very overdue for an earthquake.
Gotta stock up on food/water...
by Hacksaw on Sat, 03/12/2011 - 09:29 #1044093
There is something else they either aren't bothering to report or ar hiding from the public is that there are 3 volcanoes erupting in conjunction with the quake. The only place I've seen this reported is one the web. ..
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ANY qualified geologists find this strange (3 volcs erupting in conjunction w/quake)?
If not, I'm not concerned either (after all, what does one expect from the 'Ring of Fire' around the Pacific?)
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TD,
We need a new poll:
What is concerning Americans more this weekend:
The Japanese tsunami/possible Fukushima meltdown OR the NFL player's union decision to decertify?
You forgot the angst surrounding Charlie Sheen's lawsuit...
(Bread and circuses...)
curses, cursive! on you & TD, too! lol!
bracketology starts this weekend. fuk all else. with KY cheerleaderZ sending me bible verses, you know upon whom iyam piling in...
There is no such thing as a benign explosion, especially in a nuclear power plant...
Right friggin on!
Forget all that BS on that nuclear power plant. Until now, the worst thing is that it looks like about 10.000 people are unaccounted for and might have simply drowned.
Until now, the container is still holding the core. This does not necessarily mean that it stays that way, but until now, the plant is as safe as it could be in this situation.
Handing out the iodine tablets is the right thing to do now IF the containment IS breached - which seems to be still possible.
This tragedy is very upsetting, but the greenies, tree huggers, and humanity haters will be loving it.
It's time to go long on windmills.
The greenies love nuke power. CO2 is more toxic than radioactive fallout to them.
But the poor birds get chopped in the whirling blades. Greenies give 'em thumbs down.
Sigh. It turns out Hiroshima was just a foreshadowing.
The Hiroshima Bomb killed more than 200.000 people. Until now, the death count of that reactor is zero.
http://www.lbc.co.uk/japan-quake-10000-unaccounted-for-in-port-37314 Japan Quake: 10,000 Unaccounted For In Port Saturday, 12th March 2011 05:46Around 10,000 people are unaccounted for in the Japanese port of Minamisanriku, reports say, as the estimated death toll from the country's quake and tsunami nears the 1,300 mark.
The Real Killer Is Water, Bitchez!!
Update: Radiation outside the containment is at about 1000 microSievert... that's almost nothing. But the risk of a containment breach is still there.
BBC reports 88,000 unaccounted for.
Conspiracy is so rude, how about North Korea taking advantage of the situation?
My guess is there are people working there to try and avert disaster and save lives knowing that they are going to dies fom the exposure they are getting. True heroes
I've been thinking the same thing since yesterday.
many of the rescue workers at the wtc site in nyc after 911, also have died from what seems like radiation sickness? interesting , no?
Terrible as it is, you can count on the Japanese to contain it as well as anyone could. Could you imagine if the same thing happened in, say, New Orleans? The congress would vote for the only tried and true solution: making the Bush tax cuts permanent!
Bobby Jindall is governor of LA now. No comparison possible with the loser who held the office during Katrina.
The small town of Minami (South) Sanriku, located at the northern end of a small bay about forty miles northeast of Sendai in Miyagi Prefecture, reported that 9500 of its 17000 citizens are missing. Horrible.
38.40.27.78 N 141.26.47.82 E
Yes, I'm sure there are people working tirelessly trying to contain the damage, knowing full well that they will die - contrast those heroes with the banker scum who knowingly cause tsunamis of pain and suffering to sweep across the world and do not have a scintilla of remorse, worst yet, they probably laugh about it in their midst.
I'm wondering if this catastrophe means U.S. retail stocks will gap up and take out the highs next week?
Seem to be the pattern, lately.
Or maybe the REIT stocks are next?
Amazing after last week's epic breakdown, these two sectors were unfazed.
Short sellers who piled into these groups must be pulling their hair out.
Bears must get some selling going ASAP.
People in Los Angeles are going nuts over March Madness.
Over $65 million was raised in record time for a total renovation of UCLA's Pauley Pavillion last week. Local PigMen here who run all the money management firms in Westwood and Century City coughed up the cash. All of them have billions under management and they all ride the coat tails of Brian Sack.
Who is no doubt the primary conduit and circuit cable to the Fed POMO desk.
RT, in all of the tragedy, I almost forgot about porn - thanks...
no shitsky! ty, RT! i'd like to pull sum hare on that 2nd wench myself!
Hmm, wondering about these questions:
-For the outer casing ... why did the explosion completely destroy the concrete, but the metal frame appears entirely intact?
-If the metal frame is intact, does it seem reasonable to conclude that the inner metal containment is also entirely intact?
Something tells me that the inner metal container has maintained its integrity.
I was thinking the exact same thing.
The metal frame appears almost completely intact; virtually no deformation.
Pool Shark, maybe Halliburton poured the cement? But seriously ... looks like the cement just suffered a completely brittle failure, like all of the energy went into shattering the brittle cement with no plastic deformation of the metal. I can't understand why it would be designed to do th ...???
Radioactive rice :(
The question is "When do I start taking my Potassium Iodide"?
http://www.ki4u.com/faq-part-2.htm#8
Well, let's face it. The japanese have a long history of being fucked by the jewish-american nuclear technology. First it was the nuclear bombs and now HAARP. You might even say it's their destiny.
JFC how many moonbat conspiracy theories can idiots spout in such a short span of time?
Christ, these theads are becoming rapidly unreadable...
i think the answer is either 4 or 7.
this zeroHedge site is so fuking cosmic, one's prayers are answered before human utterance...
trav, ole fnd, may i humbly suggest either slowing down or watching one's proverbial adverbial placement a bit more closely?
or both...
May I suggest you toss my salad?
Holy shit, just went back and reviewed the explosion, looks like the entire containment vessel lifted about 100 feet into the air, then fell back down behind the smoke, check me on this ... look at the close-up footage...shit!
Are you talking about 7 / 8 seconds into the first video.
Something large and dark in colour?
No, it's at :26 seconds, you can see a dark colored "dome" rising, then falling back down.
Yeah. It's the same thing.
The video repeats but zooms in.
I can see a cylindrical shape.
But I don't think it is a solid object.
It lasts for what? Two tenths of a second?
Go back and look at the before and after pictures. The sheet metal and sheet rock left, the structural steel is still there.
A schematic of the reactor building:
http://www.beyondnuclear.org/home/2011/3/12/fukushima-dai-ichi-unit-1-re...
A new problem. Years of spent fuel discharges is stored in a pool on the currently exposed top floor. This requires cooling to prevent release from this pile of irradiated fuel, more radionuclides than what is in the reactor core.
(Note: a hydrogen explosion happens within a specific range of hydrogen concentrations and propogates at the speed of sound. The combustion event is over in microseconds, you see no flames, the sonic shock wave takes out the structure.)
Junk me...... but all the actual quotes say 'may be' melting. Turns out today that there was no meltdown and all that sensationalism (which many seem to crave) was wasted.
2x.
Whats the worst case scenario and what is the outcome ? for the forum nuke scientists.
Hard science is beyond me.
Building Nuke plants in an active seismic zone ? Is this standard practice for ths industry? The Insurer of the projects are an even greater fool. along with those who built them..the Lawyers will clean up.
Japan, Taiwan, U.S., PRC, Russia, France, Korea**2, UK, Spain, Sweden, ... catchin' my drift? - Ned
Those boys down the block eating fresh fugu at the seafood cafe must have remarked, "Hmmm.. tastes like Cordite today"
Just a note....the upper metal panels above the refueling deck are designed to blow out in the event of an overpressure. Almost all type 1 boiling reactors are designed this way.