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Fukushima Update: Reactor 1 Core Now At 380 Degrees Celsius, 80 More Than Normal Running Temperature
The latest news from Japan is not the radiation has now been found in various leaf vegetables in Fukushima, including cabbage and parsley: after all that was to be expected following the radioactive rain of the past few days. The news this time comes straight from TEPCO which finally admits that the temperature of Reactor 1 is 380-390 Celsius (715-735 Fahrenheit), which apparently is a "worry" as the reactor was meant to run at a temperature of 302 C (575 F). That is when the reactor is fully operational, not when it is supposed to be in a cold shut down mode.
From Reuters:
Hidehiko Nishiyama, the deputy-director general of Japan's nuclear safety agency, later said the smoke at reactor No.3 had stopped and there was only a small amount at No.2.
He gave no more details, but a TEPCO executive vice president, Sakae Muto, said the core of reactor No.1 was now a worry with its temperature at 380-390 Celsius (715-735 Fahrenheit).
"We need to strive to bring that down a bit," Muto told a news conference, adding that the reactor was built to run at a temperature of 302 C (575 F).
Asked if the situation at the problem reactors was getting worse, he said: "We need more time. It's too early to say that they are sufficiently stable."
As was reported only on Zero Hedge so far, the termal imagery from Fukushima indicates that if reactor one is a "worry", then reactor 3 should be a "nightmare", as according to some it is now "operating" north of 500 degrees celsius, and possibly as high as a 1,000. That's three times what it is designed to withstand.
From yesterday:
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Ah...the Supreme's.
Yes, we need WB7 to roast them badly (or should I say well done).
The Supreme Dolts
The Supine Court
The Sophistic Court
The Supreme Torts
I can be certain that my Daughter can abort my grandchildren at will, the city can steal my home to increase tax revenue, BP - GM - and Comcast can buy my Congressional Representatives, and now big pharma can make wheelbarrows of $$$ and laugh all the way to the bank by giving me the prions that will rot my brain in a flu shot .
Eyeopener,surf-ty
The good news is that the reactor is still pressurized. If it couldn't hold pressure there would be a mighty disaster brewing. If the main circulator pumps can't be restarted then there will be a tough job ahead. They'll need to tap the high pressure lines and inject water. If that's not feasible they'll need to get inside the containment dome with plastique, blow a main circulator and fill the containment dome with cold water.
Any volunteers for that job?
The only containment vessel above the fuel storage ponds is God's blue sky.
Fed delenda est.
Sea water around plant high radioactivity blowout...meltdown still on?
http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/dy/national/T110322004914.htm
"meltdown still on?"
Only if it's good for another 200 point rally. If it isn't, then the meltdown will be cancelled.
This is not good.....
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How the hell did they get those crane hoses up? I thought radiation was so high it would vaporize any human nearby?
Yet there are photos of actual live people standing down there at the base of the reactor building.
Look...the news flow is not worsening and is actually looking to improve.
I am hoping that this marks a low-water point for this catastrophe. I know that this will OFFEND THE SHIT OUT OF THE ZH COMMUNITY, who wants nothing other than the end of the world, pain, misery, and death. In, short, fuck you.
Pardon the missing link, but a quote of a supervisor on the ground from a story yesterday caught me by surprise. He said there was no dire threat to the people on the ground at the site as long as they wore their suits and masks. My new motto for the ZH crowd is that have moved from the can do to the won't do:
They have moved from Failure is not an Option to Failure is the Only Option.
Trav, our on board Nuclear Physicist and resident expert, getting his degree in Nuclear Metaphysics & Atomic Philosophy from the Bronx Alternative College, has spoken, everyone.
As the temperature in reactor core 1 reaches 400 degrees celsius as I type this, Trav previously said "I guarantee the temperature will never get warmer than my Nvidia GPU."
Trav, did you get a money back guarantee with your Nuclear Correspondence degree?