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Number 2 Reactor Explodes, Damaging Core Containment Structure
There has now been an explosion at Fukushima reactor number 2 (reactors number 1 and 3 experienced explosions previously).
NHK reports:
The
sound of a blast was heard Tuesday morning at the troubled No. 2
reactor of the quake-hit Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant, the
government said.
The incident occurred at 6:10 a.m. and is
feared to have damaged the reactor's pressure-suppression system, the
Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency said, citing a report from the
plant's operator Tokyo Electric Power Co.
MSN notes:
Chief
Cabinet Secretary Yukio Edano told reporters that "damage appears on
the suppression pool" -- the bottom part of the container, which
contains water used to cool down the reactor and control air pressure
inside.
"But we have not recorded any sudden jump in radiation indicators," Edano said without elaborating.
If
confirmed, it will be the first direct damage to the reactor since a
massive earthquake and tsunami battered Japan's northeast coast on
Friday, knocking out nuclear plants in Fukushima, north of Tokyo.
Kyodo News is reporting higher radiation levels North of Tokyo after the blast.
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Looks like the NY Times is fear mongering now. Take the time to read this article because the Times is know to parse it's words carefully and this isn't your typical NY Times play it down piece.
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/15/world/asia/15nuclear.html?pagewanted=1&_r=1&hp
Notice they did not say reactor containment building, but instead the reactor.
Close to sarcasm and cynicism here.
The reactor many thought would not be news at all has suddenly become the news.
Nice to see the Americans are there to save the day......from a safe distance.
Here is that nasty hysterical talk again about the fuel in unit three being particularly lethal. It looks like the NY Times is being hysterical. Where is Trav7777 to admonish the NY Times?
Actually it's now three since TEPCO has said it's likely unit 2 has suffered partial fuel melting.
Depending on the definition of Melt down, reactor 1 and 3 had a partial meltdown because the fuel melted but the "primary reactor pressure" barrier was not compromised, but with reactor 2 the reactor pressure barrier has likely "shit the bed" ie full melt down time.... I think the times may have it right. If this is accurate the radiation detectors around the facility should be should be reading very high numbers, like nothing we have seen so far.......
When I listened to the Japanese news conference (English translation version) where they described the "explosion" in the water suppression system of unit two I immediately thought of the loud bang one hears when a super heated cast iron engine block cracks under the heat stress when rapidly cooled.
I actually did it once when I was a young and stupid kid. I was running an overheated engine and slowly pouring water into the radiator as I had been told by my father.
BANG!
I imagine if the reactor cracked from the thermal stress it would sound like an explosion. They claim that rapidly pumping cold water into the super heated reactor it would explode. Of course I don't think that's what happened, just what came to mind. But who knows at this point.
Hey there CD... the game changer is the second post from the top.
Something for all of us to keep an eye on... namely the worst case scenario.
Here's to hoping.
I talked about the spent fuel pools being on the top level plus the fact that unit three uses MOX fuel, which is up to 30% reprocessed plutonium, on an earlier thread this morning and I was immediately branded hysterical and a fear monger. So while I love you ZerOhead, you are being hysterical and you're a fear monger.
But because you're a mangy cat it can't be held against you. Watch out for Trav7777 though. He may not feel the same way about your pretty fur coat and winning smile. :>)
I was reading trav's earlier comments on the "leaving tokyo" post and he wasn't talkin that talk over there.... but he plays to the crowd... who knows, Trav might like a little mangy pussy.... sure sounds like he needs some....
It was a morning thread. I said unit three used a special MOX fuel with plutonium that was much more toxic if released. I then said it appeared the outer containment structure of unit three had been breached in the explosion this morning. I never said nor implied the reactor core was breached. I was making a statement that unit three was particularly dangerous. I was also posting pictures of the damage to unit three which I think frosted his ass, maybe because he can't post pictures. Who knows.
Trav immediately jumped me telling me unit three wasn't special and the process of decay causes plutonium in all fuel. When I produced citations showing unit three was using a MOX fuel and that it was widely considered to be much more toxic Trav attacked me while ignoring one citation while mocking the other. I offered to produce dozens but he doesn't wish to discuss MOX fuel. Typical Trav. When backed into a corner by someone who will stand toe to toe he begins to insult and demean. He never did respond to my facts. Just increased his screaming.
http://www.zerohedge.com/article/satellite-photo-reactor-1-and-3-explosions-fukushima
http://www.zerohedge.com/article/japanese-officials-say-nuclear-fuel-rods-likely-melting-all-three-troubled-japanese-reactors
I finding his posting extremely amusing in a sadistic sort of way..... an example of cognitive dissonance if there ever was one.
My brother worked as a research physicist at a nuclear research laboratory. And he now lives on the West Coast.
He's hoping he can sleep tonight.
Sorry I missed your original post... but it is the worst case scenario IMHO.
And it is more than just a disinct possibilty. And potassium iodide pills will not protect you from the various nasty fission products in a spent fuel rod.
Just sayin'...
Potassium Iodide as a Thyroid Blocking Agent in Radiation Emergencies
(one of the side effects is shrinkage)
Needs to be taken before exposure...
And please don't talk shrinkage issues to a cat! ;)
Trav can suck may tail
A live broadcast of the news conference from Japan
http://www.cnn.com/video/flashLive/live.html?stream=stream3&hpt=T1
Update - news conference discussing possible worst case scenario, mentions asking some plant workers to evacuate, may have been containment breach, supression pool (torroid beneath reator used for cooling) may be comprimised.
Amazing, truly amazing. We are seeing a chain reaction in the making.
Not good. Today on the (L.A.) radio, they were saying the Japanese prepared really well for strong earthquakes, and for tsunamis, but not for both at the same time. Say what?? Isn't a tsunami triggered by an offshore earthquake, considering all the major faultlines that lie just off of Japan's coastlines?
Now all of a sudden we in SoCal are worried about our next "overdue" quake, since it's been 17+ years since our last big one. It's always the same...SoCal disaster hits, reported damage, short-term residents get scared and leave en masse, real estate values suffer, long-term residents who know better hunker down and re-build, life goes on...rinse, repeat every so often.
But where ya gonna run to if/when the Schumer hits the fan and the whole economy goes to poo-poo? I'm still squirreling away food, gas, silver, cash, clothes, etc. Lived here too long and seen too much not to. In fact, a few years ago, the electrical grid went out across most of our valley for only two days. All the stores were closed (even though they had food plainly visible right there on the shelves) because their checkout registers are computers now. The only store that had its doors open was a Subway Sandwich shop - kept the window blinds open for light, dealt in cash only, and wrote down the transactions with pencil in a ledger book. The line for that place was out the door!
"real estate values suffer"
OK, I might as well say it, because we know someone will:
Buy the dip!
Buy the dip on irradiated properties that will have property taxes that will go to the moon with the debt that must be paid.
Better off renting.
You arrive here yesterday?
It's "Buy the FUCKING dip". BTFD
Here's a video to help:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jllJ-HeErjU
Ok, got it?
... you're welcome.
Those closed stores were actually open for business, you just did not use the right key to open the doors. You have to be resourceful at time of change.
No doubt some very frustrated people will open those doors no problem with the front grilles of their cars if the SHTF. Me?...I'll stay out of that mess and munch on my own reserves while the stores burn down and people use their FRNs for spitwad ammo.
Hey, that gives me an idea. Now I know what to do with this ratty $1 bill I have in my wallet...
Where is the ZH resident expert gasmiinder ? She has all the answers how these "shutdown procedures" are working as planned.
No need to panic, for all of the events transpiring worldwide, there are considered, logical, rational explanations.
First, the moon is approaching one of its nearest passages to the earth in years. Referred to as a “supermoon”, it has been considered by physicists to be exerting exceptionally larger gravitational effect not only on tides but also plate tectonics, which is gonna make it really fucking bad. Bad I say. Bad. It’ll go away eventually, so deal with it.
Second, planetary alignments are of something of quite an unusual nature, considered by many astrologers to be of an unusually severe and untimely bad effect, or so says Magical Mary, my palmist.
Third, the sun is experiencing unusually large core plasma ejections coincident with the 12/50 or so year sunspot/Maunder cycle. And that is no small deal or joke, but even though we all get irradiated badly, the Northern Lights will be quite pretty, even in Mexico City.
Fourth, there is substantial enough shifting of gravitational poles that airport runways are in places, being renumbered such that headings coincide with new compass readings. Ah-hemmm. Maybe it was all sanctioned by the FAA?
Fifth, and associated with gravitational pole shift, should there be a repeat of pole reversal which many in the scientific community portend as inevitable, it is thought to destroy or incapacitate the Van Allen Belt, thereby allowing the Earth to be essentially cooked by the Sun’s radiation. Smores, honey?
Sixth, the demise of the ozone layer will accomplish the same, frying of all life, excepting cockroaches and politicians.
Seventh, the activities of HAARP and other upper atmospheric heaters are destroying the atmosphere they’re heating, causing geologic and climate changes which cannot be reversed and are doomed to extinguish all life. (It’s quake and bake and I hepped.)
Eighth, all of the GMO produced food will poison all mankind anyhow. (It’s really not nice to fuck with Mother Nature.)
Ninth, we are entering into the fourth iteration of the Strauss-Howe generational predictive theory, portending great doom. (Yes honey, the kids are stupid.)
Tenth, many are of the opinion that world governance is failing badly, evidence increased riots, and civil wars through out the MENA region as merely one example.
Eleventh, many are of the opinion that 2012 is reflective of significant change or the destruction of mankind as predicted separately by Nostradomus, the Mayans and my next door neighbor.
Twelfth, the Japanese radiation is going to poison all of the west coast of America. Never mind anybody else’s problems anywhere else on the globe, and probably can’t do any worse than already being done anyhow, and can’t change it if we wanted to, so please pass the iodine crystals and pills, mom.
And let’s just throw in lucky thirteenth (WTF) about time anyway for all of the religious scriptures sections like the Book of Revelations to show up without an note from home and react badly to being told to sit in the corner, like when Gog and Megog start going at it and we’re all fucked by our own hand anyhow.
So, no big deal.
Knuckles, you forgot the Schumann Resonance, which is speeding up and which will totally fuck up our sense of time, making it feel like time to moving incredible fast. It's happening already, or maybe I'm just getting old...
That's very timely...
While it is genrally held that the lowest-frequency/maximun effect of the Schumann Resonance is at about 7.8 hz, it just so happens that HAARP is often broadcast at its highest power at approximately one half of that frequency.
Not meaning to split hairs or anything.
HAARP-monic resonance?
Did you forget about honeybee hive collapse?
Yes, dammit! That's sixteen.
And seventeen, the whole shebang about the FED being a criminal enterprise.
God, this all makes my scrotum shrivel up real tight.
dude! loosen yer topknot!
Let's go get drunk. I just read that red wine )my dinrk of choice( was the suggested drink of Russians and Ukrainians to help them protect themselves from fallout. Serious. Research has been done on it. Resveratrol or something in the wine. But they told them to drink vodka too. Breast cance patients too are told to drink wine to protect against the radioactivity of their treatment.
somehow, msC, i doubt that yer elbow will wait 4 us to come along. i'm allergic to etoh, but i have smoke signals coming outa the top of my t.p. due to the puckering of my bunghole.
"You're running into a burning building from which no one can be saved." --1st Sgt. Edward Welsh
A few glasses of wine and it just doesn't feel that bad.
Bad News - items 1 through 13.
George Bush has been very busy. I know that somehow all of this is his fault (even the earthquakes, get it fault?)
I think you missed the part about the GOM oil spill slick re-surfacing as the effect of the Corexit (TM) wears off. That one is Dick Chenys fault.
Oh shit, that's right.
BTW, I knew that I had about 20 of these things, but trying to keep focused...
Fourteen, all the shit that they spray and say doesn't exist and everybody else says that I'm fucking crazy when I talk about it, like Corexit on the GoM and the chemtrails full of aluminum, barium enemas and all that sorta crap that cover the whole sky a pale white haze either trying to do geo-engineering or for HAARP and as a weather modification/war effort.
And it's all being officially investigated over in Europe. The Dutch are investigating the Luftwaffe who admitted on Dutch TV that they're spraying (but then again, knowing those two's love for one another they might be doing it to antagonize the piss out of each other) the Italians are investigating and asked Brussels to take it up (but then again neither of them have anything better to do anyhow after they watch the Greeks and Portuguese get shafted by the banksters) and the Irish have been talking about it openly (but then again, they too need a diversion from a capital screwing and are always drunk anyhow)
And those are all the "excuses" my fellow "sane" people tell me about and say I'm crazy, don't understand or what the hell I'm talking of and need serious mental help.
Well fuck 'em, I won't visit them while they're rotting away in the hospital with government induced lung cancer, which will essentially be a national pre-existing condition, anyhow.
And fifteen, we can't pay for anything related to any of this anyhow since the country's been looted.
And did you all see today that Moscow announced that Blankfien, Dimon and Schwartzman have been elevated to positions of counsel, to tell the Russians what to do to become a major world financial center?
You have got to be kidding me. Talk about either peach pit fucking dumb or a pure triumph of the Anglo-American Elite....
Hah! Fucking sixteen, the whole world's fucked!
You forgot 17, flouride in the water. We'll put your forgetfulness down to the flouride in the water.
Very amusing list.
our banksters are the creme de la creme, k-nuke! we can trust them to advance the ruskies into the stone age with aplomb.
soon we shall see the Enquirer from the check-out line (sorry, lol!): "How the FUK Did Goldman Sachs Get Nuculer Weapons???"
Cheney and Bush both have their solid places in history as mass murdering war criminals--no need to stretch it.
Where is dat wasciwy wepubwican? Surely not Switzerland.
So if you are not a rabbit, is it really pronounced Sritzerland?
Don't touch my aluminum foil hat or I'll bite your nose off...
+1
I sure as hell did enjoy that.
My positive take is something like this: even if the entire planet were suddenly engulfed in instantaneously-fatal shitstorm of white-hot radioactive cancer death, it would only actually kill half the human species.
The other half has already died of previous causes we've mostly forgotten.
I forget why we all had such a big party in '99. This is the real shindig.
Yea, well, at least I was busy changing date fields, not sitting around waiting for the next reactor to blow.
Great post. Thank you.
Good to see you around, Mitchman
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""Second, planetary alignments are of something of quite an unusual nature, considered by many astrologers to be of an unusually severe and untimely bad effect, or so says Magical Mary, my palmist.""
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Planet and Earthquakes...
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Kareoke Sing along...new lyrics by me, his highness A D F....
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Looks like Mel Gibson can look forward to a Mad Max reality TV show.
I wonder where he came up with that gravitational pole shit. The runways are numbered by their magnetic headings. The magnetic north pole has been wandering a bit. They're looking for it as we post.
They're looking for it as we post.
LOL, fucking hilarious. :)