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Stunning Video Of Reactor 3 Explosion
This is what a hydrogen explosion looks like. There a several other reactors that are seeing a build up of hydrogen.
And another view. Hopefully the thing dropping from the explosion was not the containment dome.
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JW n FL /J.E.W. Are the Iosat tablets interfering with your meds already?
US dropped thousands of bombs like that all of the mountains of Afghanistan.
Did nothing except make some more caves for the taliban to hide in.
this is what happens when residual coolant gets boiled off and pressure must be vented.
Maybe they ought to think about ventilating #2 and #4 going forward
Reuters: Fukushima Daiichi plant No.2 reactor cooling functions have stopped, the Jiji news agency is reporting.
http://live.reuters.com/Event/Japan_earthquake2
Why don't they just go ahead and cover the entire screen with captioning?
if you were standing on the roof of that reactor when that explosion took place.
More than likely you would not have survived.
More than likely?
You would evaporate.
Nothing left but aerosol mist.
I 'member when Uncle Ray threw his cigarette butt down the hole in the outhouse.
Now there was some containment that failed. Don't know what caused it exactly, but I'm sure it involved some pinto beans.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cD9TxMEaQfg
Amazing. They actually filmed it.
Repost.
"That explosion differs from the first.
There is a fireball at the very beginning of your clip.
Hydrogen? Doesn't look like the first one."
I agree, that looked like steam and debris. Hydrogen would have flamed.
Boiler overheats, weakens, blows?
Super heated steam from reactor core?
The explosions between #1 and #3 look very different. In #1, there is a visible shock wave that goes vertical, then the material (concrete) goes horizontal. In #3, there is no visible shock wave, and most of the material goes vertical... in big chunks.
Not good.
Every nuclear plant, everywhere int he world, needs to shut down.
Draconian? Hardly.
Death is all ok, but warts and all?
Human Hubris, such an atlantean moment.
ORI
The world is going to get it's energy from one source or another. Nuclear still looks less risky to me than than petrochemicals. How many people died and how much environmental damage was done in pursuit of oil in the last ten years?
If you want the lights to stay on you've got to pick your poison. Not that improvements in energy technology and an end to resource wars wouldn't be a very welcome thing, you understand.
Crocette, not sure I agree.
Why is so hard for trend-spotters (read investors here on ZH), to read the tea leaves here?
We are at a multi-generational shift, chock a bloc with 6 sigma and beyond events.
There is no return to normal. Candle-light, freak weather and a whole lot of shaking going on might be our immediate future. To not consider it as realistic in the face of Data, not speculation is an ostrich response, I'm afraid.
ORI
JFC, man, STFU with the hysteria.
Within this period of Chernobyl, radiation alarms were going off in countries 1000mi away.
That has not happened here. And it most likely will not. And you are ready to pull the plug on the entire nuclear power industry??
In fact, what has just happened? One of the few largest earthquakes in recorded HISTORY PLUS a gigantic tsunami!
And STILL the shit hasn't melted down or gone critical or caused a massive catastrophe. Meanwhile, oil refineries are ablaze...you are pissing into the wrong wind
Doode, I suggest you SHUT THE FUCK UP yourself.
What is happenign here is that Engineering designs that were menat to withstand X are being exposed to 6X. Is that simple enough math for you?
Now look at earthquake and Volcano trends for the past 500 fucking years.
See something a little off the charts in the last two?
You represent the hubris I'm speaking off. And your feet are wet in your own piss and you don't even know it.
It's O V E R. Get used it, rascist twaddle. And America is directly responsible. Who the FUCK would build Nukes on Geo-unstable lands? The same twats who would try to put spent fuel in a hole in a mountan that sits upon a massive fault.
ORI
Easy there ORI. A little over the top.
Jumping the shark is never easy ... or planned.
T - 1000 miles away from japan is the middle of the ocean
Point being, should the blowout of the reactor really happen, there's no way to cover it. First, big chunks of Japan would register MUCH higher levels of radiation way outside of evacuation zone, regardless of where the wind is blowing. Second, after some time - possibly in Russia and China, Korea. SU tried to cover up Chernobyl, yet information did go out despite Iron Curtain once nuclear plant workers in Sweden, 1,100 km away from the disaster were tested positively for radiation, it was first attributed to the problems on the plant itself. Plus, there is a whole bunch of effects, which cannot be covered up, i.e. effects on the different layers of the atmosphere.
You better get to work building some windmills... a LOT of windmills.
Oh wait, can't build those either... it will kill birds.
Like I said before Rm, the hubris, as clearly exhibited in your sarcastic post, is quite something to behold.
Good luck swimming in a pool of nuclear sparkles and radioactive oily blobs.
Hubris or sheer mind-controlled slavery.
ORI
If you don't like nuclear power facilities, then provide a constructive post with a reasonable (see: affordable) alternative to the hundreds of nuclear facilities that are currently operating worldwide to keep yours, and everyone else's lights turned on.
http://squareandc.net
Last 2+years. tremendous pushback. Obviously.
Forget life-style (which is what most power is used for).
Try life-substance. Invert your perspective.
ORI
http://aadivaahan.wordpress.com/2011/03/11/axis-trembles/
The problem is, nuclear isn't affordable either, at least not without MASSIVE government subsidies.
Frankly, I think most people would rather use natural gas and coal and risk putting up with a world that's 1 degree C hotter in a hundred years.
Here is one:
http://www.kitegen.com/en/?page_id=7
Unlike wind turbines which are limited to the slow and irregular winds near the ground, kites can tap into the stronger and much more persistent winds at 1km altitude and higher. When there is no wind at ground level, there is typically more than enough where kites can reach.
Kites can extract more energy from the no-fly zone above a typical nuclear power plant than what the plant itself produces.
Zero pollution, fully renewable, almost free energy.
Unlike wind turbines which are limited to the slow and irregular winds near the ground, kites can tap into the stronger and much more persistent winds at 1km altitude
- - - - - - - - - - -
How do they handle Thunderstorms?
Mesoscale weather systems like 950 mb lows with tremendous circulation?
Hurricane remnants that have moved inland?
Any planning for those contingencies (which WILL happen with far higher frequency than a magnitude 8.9 quake or 30' Tsunami)
Gee, I don't know, maybe they'd ground the kites until after the storm?
'cause otherwise the obvious risk is that the kites might explode and scatter radioactive material all over that continent.
OH BORING INDIAN
I AM CHUMBADUMBA!
Ori,
You should go to France with your Gandalfian staff and say that to the Central planning nuclear brigade in France, n° 1 promoters of nuclear solution. True sons of Colbert! France has the highest concentration of nuclear generated electrical power in the world : 77%!!! All eggs in one basket. They are up to their necks in this shit and these plants are same time line as Fukushima #1 and #3. All they can sing is we don't want alternate clean energy it's NOT economic, so we can only fall back on oil/gas fossil fuels. Which means dependence on ME or Russia!
I am praying that the Italians invent PRONTO fast their Kitegen project. Potentially 1 G watt plants all thanks to kite surfing material and a little grey matter thrown in. Wow, if it works, prototype in construction, its goodbye nuclear!!! Much cheaper and energy efficient than conventional air turbines.
Jesus has just landed in Tokyo.
Weird our comments crossed. But Christ is not God of vengenace. Although I cannot know the Grace of God the Scipture tells me he is a God of Mercy. Shame on you...
Have you read the last few chapters yet?
So I was at YouTube looking up James Earl Jones saying "Mother of God" from Red Storm Rising during the scene in which the October turns directly into the torpedo, but the only thing which popped up was this:
Revelation Ch.1-2 (James Earl Jones Narrarates - KJV Bible)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qnyr6Y9RD2I
Ummm...yeah ok, that's eery.
You didn't find it because the movie was"Hunt For Red October." If ONLY they had made a RSR movie.
"You heard it hit the hull...and I...was never here." J.E.J.
Ooops. You're right! Well, I didn't type the movie name, just JEJ. Great film, nonetheless.
Someone's been selectively reading the bible again.
Death is not sad if you are of God. Poor Japan...
wake me up when the BoA fraud comes out and their corporate HQ goes up like fuk#3.....
This has never been more appropriate...Tyler used to post this vid.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rSjK2Oqrgic
Here's a better look at it:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T_N-wNFSGyQ
Yeah.
That is definitely fucked up.
I'm surprised well spoken one! Nasty language indeed. I think my spelling was proper. I don't need any Pandas crucifying me. I'm a bit short on bamboo right now.
Spread the word: Nuclear Core Explosion Avoided
http://thehardrightedge.com/ansjapan/
March 13, 2011, 7 p.m. EDT Update
Fukushima Daiichi
The hydrogen explosion on March 11 between the primary containment vessel and secondary containment building of the reactor did not damage the primary containment vessel or the reactor core. To control the pressure of the reactor core, TEPCO began to inject seawater and boric acid into the primary containment vessels of Unit 1 on March 12 and Unit 3 on March 13. There is likely some damage to the fuel rods contained in reactors 1 and 3.
At both reactors 1 and 3, seawater and boric acid is being injected into the reactor using fire pumps. On reactor 3, a pressure relief valve in the containment structure failed to open, but was restored by connecting an air pressure to the line driving valve operation.
The water level in the reactor vessel of reactor 2 reactor is steady.
Personnel from TEPCO are closely monitoring the status of all three reactors.
The highest recorded radiation level at the Fukushima Daiichi site was 155.7 millirem at 1:52 p.m. on March 13. Radiation levels were reduced to 4.4 millirem by the evening of March 13. The NRC’s radiation dose limit for the public is 100 millirem per year.
Japanese government officials acknowledged the potential for partial fuel meltdowns at Fukushima Daiichi Unit 1 and 3 reactors, but there is no danger for core explosion, as occurred at the nuclear power station at Chernobyl in 1986. Control rods have been successfully inserted at all of the reactors, thereby ending the chain reaction. The reactor cores at Fukushima Daiichi and Daini power stations are surrounded by steel and concrete containment vessels of 40 to 80 inches thick that are designed to contain radioactive materials.
Fukushima Daini
The Fukushima Daini plants remains in a state of emergency. There is electricity available at all four of the reactors at Fukushima Daini, although there is limited availability of the cooling water pumps at reactors 1, 2 and 4.
TEPCO is working to maintain constant cooling in the primary containment vessels of those reactors. No radioactivity has been recorded outside of the secondary containment buildings at Fukushima Daini, according to TEPCO.
Two other nuclear power plants in the Tohoku region, Onagawa Nuclear Power Station and Tokai Nuclear Power Station, were automatically shut down in response to the earthquake. The four reactors at these plants have functioning cooling systems and are being monitored by plant operators.
The Rokkasho Reprocessing Plant and accompanying facilities, located far north of the tsunami zone in Rokkasho Town, is operating safely on backup power generation systems.
Japanese nuclear facilities are designed to withstand powerful seismic events, such as earthquakes. In this earthquake—the strongest recorded over the past 100 years in Japan—the containment structures of Fukushima Daiichi maintained their structural integrity. These facilities were designed to withstand tsunamis within a range of assumed strength, however the force of the tsunami on March 10 exceeded the assumed range and flooded diesel generators at Fukushima Daiichi power station. This precipitating the loss of power for the reactor cooling systems.
The automatic shutdown of the 11 operating reactors at the Onagawa Nuclear Power Station, Tokai Nuclear Power Station, Fukushima Daiichi and Daini, represents a loss of 3.5% of electric generation capacity for Japan.
—
Attached to this email, we have the following information:
- This cite is doing a good job of aggregating news stories about the situation so you can track it as it evolves: http://ansnuclearcafe.org/
- Here is a pretty entry-level overview of what is happening: http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2011/03/12/world/asia/the-explosion-a...
- Here is a more detailed and technical-jargon oriented summary: http://www.world-nuclear-news.org/RS_Venting_at_Fukushima_Daiichi_3_1303...
When does Mt. Fuji blow its top?....
http://seenoevilspeaknoevilhearnoevil.blogspot.com/2011/03/when-does-mt-fuji-blow-its-top.html
This is really looking like the end of nuclear power in japan.That explosion was so bad, I will embrace the doom of the reactor vessel exploding.The lower walls are hugely thick...and they look damaged.This film will play for eternity in engineering schools as The Worst Case.
Nuclear power plants stand in for about 1.5 million of barrels of oil usage annually so yup..oil is going up so shorting Shaw might not be the worst idea. Just think of the petrol that will be needed just for the earth movers simply to rebuild this part of Japan in coming years.
Yes.And Coal looks real good too.
Poor Japan....such a horrible disaster.
One thing I am amazed at is their composure in their face of so many catastrophes. Look at Katrina and the rape, murder and looting as society broke down there over flooding. Haiti is still a mess of destruction and the rubble has not been removed. By this time next year the Japanese will have removed all the debris and returned to as business as usual as is possible and they will pull together and become a stronger nation.
My hat goes off to these people because I do not believe Americans could cope with the trifecta of a 9.0 earthquake, tsunami and likely 3 nuclear meltdowns on such as small isle and remain stoic. At the end of the day all humans have the ability to remain as civilized and honorable as they desire for the greater good and I am learning a lesson watching this wonderful culture.
Japan is asians...katrina and haiti are blacks.
Note that there wasn't any looting in indonesia either.
VASTLY more people have died from this than Katrina. Listen, fucking Katrina was a PICNIC compared to this. NO was flooded, sure...but the devastation in Sendai is literally apocalyptic. Things there have been obliterated, annihilated, wiped from the face of the earth. Yet there will be no looting despite the orders of magnitude worseness of this catastrophe versus Katrina.
But let me just say, George Busch DOES NOT LIKE ASIAN PEOPLE. Where the fuck is Coonye when we need him???
It's true. They are not black and they are not looting, raping, killing etc.
Can't argue with that.
Japan is asians...katrina and haiti are blacks
Very observant. I heard Germany is full of Europeans and India is mostly Indians - weird how that works.
Your post is such fucking garbage, Trav. How can a guy as smart as you be plagued with such redneck social values?
What about the earthquake in Chile last year? There was non-black looting everywhere; looting is not a race thing.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/07/weekinreview/07mcneil.html
And what about the looting/fleecing of America by the (mostly) white den of thieves on Wall Street, who are incomprehensibly rich and educated by the best universities? There is no looting in history that compares in magnitude to the massive transfer of wealth from 99% of the population to the top 1%. It's pure robbery, and it's nothing but a bunch of greedy fucking cracker asses.
I enjoy your posts about energy and debtmoney. Leave your racism in your doublewide.
The Japanese have extremely low crime rates, it's true.
Having said that... there's not much left in Sendai to loot, unless you have a particluar need for firewood and scrap metal.
Also, I seem to recall quite a lot of Japanese looting went on in Nanking - I guess that would be all the Haitian mercenaries the Japanese Imperial Army deployed there, right?
7777=6666????
There was no "raping" during katrina. That was exposed as sensasionalist hate-mongering news well after the chaos had died down and investigative reporters went in to interview police and stranded residents. Your color is showing, bigot.
Your what is wrong with people in this nation and your attempts to devolve everything into race. I wish someone would have informed me I was a bigot before I married outside of my race. I speak in facts and absolutes only and there are enough reasons to not like a person if you give them enough time regardless of their skin color. I have experienced more racism by the way since you are on the topic as white male attending NYC public school as a child and teen and seen more racism directed at whites than I have ever seen directed at another race.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/1497685/Brito...
Beautifully said. Thanks!
Alot of the murder that occurred during katrina was committed by armed whites picking off defenseless/unarmed black people who were fleeing the flooding and happened to be passing through white neighborhoods. Are we devolving into a pseudo kkk/Denninger forum here? Supposedly as intelligence increases, ignorance decreases.
"shorting Shaw might not be the worst idea"
As in The Shaw Group? Dude, they are also involved in remediation and decomissioning! Sounds like they are ripe for picking up some government sponsored contracts. Even austerity programs recognize the need to keep those contracts funded. Short away, at your own peril!
Oh - TSG also is waist deep in combined-cycle plant construction and operation. What else will the Carbon-Footprint nazis allow them to build as replacement power?
http://www.shawgrp.com/markets/powersvcs/nuclearpower
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I only short banks and actually am a fan of Nuclear energy but thanks for the heads up this and a very valid point I overlooked.
News Flash: Reality does not exist anymore to our governments ot the media.
They are saying in the vid that the fire is raging.
Japanese newspaper says the smoke is darker, and that there may be something else involved than simply a hydrogen explosion.
(Uhhhhgggghhh I still hve to do this math question??? brain's not working, damn it..)
As much as I hate to use such a horrendous catastrophe as a visual aid, I think it's pretty motherfucking important, given the state of things these days, to remember that our entire way of life is tenuous at best. In this country, it may not even take an enormous natural disaster to render us broke, starving and shivering. Our fucking government is doing it to us in incremental doses, over SEVERAL administrations (so don't give me that Obama vs. Bush bullshit...they're all scum). Further, the reality could not be more clear...we are a subset of the planet upon which we live, and are therefore subject to the ebb and flow of nature around us. The idea that we can somehow supersede such a condition is ridiculous, and the consequences are painful beyond your wildest nightmares.
Well said.
That was certainly more than just hydrogen going up. That looked like the top of the reactor being blown through the roof.
: listening to the crack of doom on the Hydrogen Jukebox
Where is that from Snow?
Eerie indeed.
ORI
That ain't no hydrogen explosion.
Please enlighten us about your wealth of knowledge around hydrogen explosions that would convince us about why we should believe you rather than engineers and experts on the ground in Japan? Other than the fact that they are authorities and therefore are wrong/lying/or covering up. They are closest to what happened, you are basing your judgement on a low quality video over the internet, perhaps give them the benefit of the call...
well, he may have a point.From what I understand, the coolant water is cracking from the extremely high heat ... then what? are you saying that the oxygen is re-oxidizing with the hydrogen in this enviroment?
Until they explain to me how the amount of radiation equivalent to a dental x ray (their highest claimed figure) can be sending people to the hospital, and forcing an aircraft carrier to move from its position 100 miles away, I'll accept the word of anybody on this site as equivalent to theirs.
Actions certainly do speak louder than words.
so what can anybody do?
Stay away from the cloud...far away.
Thanks. This is a lot more believable (and historically consistent with how governments behave in crises) than the panglossian smoothery I've been getting from the MSM.
And my husband thought it was funny when I bought a Geiger counter; he's not laughing now.
Geiger counter, NukAlert detectors, KIO3, solar shower... all things we have packed up neatly in our storeroom. It just sucks to even think we might have to use them.
Be a Girl Scout...
Be prepared...
Either you are ready or your not and the pass fail curve is harsh when playing for keeps.
How long until the fallout hits America? Should I tell my relatives to stay inside?
I'm not a meteorologist but from my loose knowledge it could be as soon as days.
Mine was a trick question. The fallout has already hit America.
medical precautions: http://blog.imva.info/medicine/treatments-nuclear-contamination
For nuclear fallout exposure its potassium iodide, not iodine as stated in the article you linked.
Amazon sells potassium iodide tablets:
http://www.amazon.com/iOSAT-Potassium-Iodide-Tablets-130/dp/B00006NT3A/ref=cm_cr_pr_product_top/181-3490602-2237059
~Misstrial
You may want to consider the purchase of calcium (not oyster shell) and magnesium supplements to offset any strontium uptake.
You Americans are so reactionary. Stop watching CNN and Fox and calm down. I didn't see anyone on the west coast freaking out when you dropped 2 atomic bombs on Japan and did mid air blasting over bikini atoll, nor did you worry when they did above ground bomb testing in Nevada while you were playing craps. Your relatives are statistically more likely die in a traffic accident on the way to work. And what makes you think you have that much control over life itself?
We didn't have CNN and FOX and the internet back then. Not that I was around then. . .
Wow, you are just a fount of stupidity today, aren't you?
No one on the west coast was 'freaking out' about the 2 nukes back in 1945 because the risks weren't known.
As for the idea that taking reasonable precautions is equivalent to thinking we 'have that much control over life itself' - I suppose you cross the road without looking first? No? You do? What a control freak.
Flipping unbelievable that that was allowed to happen. In the 1800s they learned how to avoid explosions like that with catalystic converters and blow-out disks.
The only explanation can be that it was the pressure vessel, uranium fire, or a main coolant line let loose.
You realize that if they had bothered to dig the reactors in below sea level they could have been flooded and there would be no issue whatsoever. What frikkin idiots the nuclear designers are.
You should have spoke up sooner... they could have installed a massive catalytic converter and avoided this whole mess.
Can you please place a quarter next to it so I can get some perspective?
http://english.kyodonews.jp/photos/assets/201103/0314033.jpg
These are not tiny buildings... see people in picture for size comparison.
<Insert short Asian people joke here, you assholes.>
While some would look at the images and describe what they say as an "explosion" we need to put things in a more technical perspective, since we are dealing with a complex technical system this event can be more accurately described as an "energetic disassemblement."
Dematerialization...
At this point are there really personel on site monitoring all this?
Good point.
And. Is there any monitoring equipment left functional.
Graveyard shift will be in any minute now.
That explosion is normal.
Hey look!
Charlie Sheen is with a baby wolf!
FYI - I went out to the FEMA website earlier today to see what their perspective was on all things Japan. Sure the quake and wave were there, but not a single use of the word "nuclear." I tried to post something about it on their public blog, but they said it had to get approval. The blog comment dates (absent) were also interesting. I am waiting for the FBI to show up at my IP address.
I am looking for "canaries in the coal mine" on this deal.
Any ideas for first signs of bugout - bugin?
Its clear you can't trust the face saving Japanese. Somehow after POMO, TARP and QE Team Obama will not be anymore forthcoming.
I am reading the USAF base memos in Japan to gauge if there is any bugout movement or base lockdowns. Also, it would be interesting to know the exact whereabouts of one Albert Arnold Gore. Is he sunning in Newport Beach or Menlo Park, or are people moving to Aspen bunkers? I just want to be ahead of the hysterical traffic jams.
Anywho. You can substitute potassium iodide with kelp pills to protect your thyroid with a 2 week regimen. I think.
Good luck to everyone.
Better call up BP and order another Top Hat.
If this was the big one it would look like my avatar. I picked this avatar out 2 weeks ago, it is a Nevada testing.
Don't you remember the Challenger explosion in '86 - H2 and O2!
Yeah and the WHITE clouds it produced.
That was nothing like a white cloud in the reactor explosion.
Japan hires Tony Hayward as spokesperson for ongoing disaster.
TO INFINITY - AND BEYOND!!!
On a darker note, this whole thing is assuming a nasty feeling reminiscent of 9/11/01.
Time to invade another country?
get yer potassium iodate ready!!!
Potasssium IODINE.
Do NOT take potassium IODATE.
Never, ever.
Oh, unless you're a banker or part of the two party political system.
Iodide...it's a salt, not elemental.
http://msds.chem.ox.ac.uk/PO/potassium_hydrogeniodate.html
http://msds.chem.ox.ac.uk/PO/potassium_iodide.html
Iodide. Not iodine or iodate.
KIO3 is potassium iodate and is recommended over potassium iodide.
http://www.kio3.com/faq.htm
Potassium iodide tablets. I live 12 miles from Diablo Canyon reactor on California's Central Coast.
http://www.amazon.com/iOSAT-Potassium-Iodide-Tablets-130/dp/B00006NT3A/ref=cm_cr_pr_product_top/181-3490602-2237059
~Misstrial
Uh, make that 7 trillion more Yen now.
God, can this get any worse. Is the US doing anything commensurate for a total wipeout of the Japanese coastline as far as aid. Shouldn't we have like an entire division landing there. It looks like they are running out of time. I've seen all this stuff in Godzilla movies and now its real.
Did the Messiah play 18 or 36 today?
Did he nap before or after SportsCenter?
For those in the US (Alaska/California/Oregon/Washington) you can follow jet stream predictions on two sites:
http://www.stormsurfing.com/cgi/display_alt.cgi?a=npac_250
... and ...
http://squall.sfsu.edu/scripts/nhemjetstream_model.html
Cooter
Not sure, however he did party with reporters today:
http://voices.washingtonpost.com/reliable-source/2011/03/obama_gets_laughs_at_first_gri.html
~Misstrial
CNN reports " It's actually quite normal for a nuclear plant to explode like this.
and melting down may actually be beneficial and help the healing process"
What?
That is patently insane.
Who are these people?
Are they people?
Haven't you ever met someone that is brainwashed by media propaganda? They repeat everything they're told!
Baa baa blacksheep, have you any wool?
No sir, no sir,
For i am just a tool.
Per wiki, this is 4 of 6 on the meltdown scale. That is, hydrogen explosions.
Cooter
CNN is insane.
Watching CNN last night and their "video" of the exploding #3 reactor was nothing like the NHK. They only show a grainy slow steam plume.
That is done on purpose.
Why would CNN NOT run the dramatic video of a nuke reactor exploding.
Watch the CNN video and then watch what foreign press is pumping out.
That is the final nail in the MSM coffin.
"It is quite normal to bailout banks using the assets of individual citizens and their children's future, it will be beneficial and help the healing process of the markets."
Up is down, zero is infinity, and there is a great deal of money to be made on reconstruction.
Let's get WWIII started so the reconstruction comes sooner, eh?
Obama flying to Tokyo to meet Jesus. Yeahhh!
Did the Messiah play 18 or 36 today?
The workers inside reactor number 3 are reporting that the containment vessel has not been breached.
have you seen this video...how are the workers in "reactor number 3" able to report anything?? that was a massive explosion that i am afraid no one in the area could survive...even in a reactor below ground....
this information is getting very fishy
I know. I was just reporting what the heads of the Japanese govt agency are reporting to NHK. Maybe the worker was inside the containment vessel when the building exploded so he wasn't injured. He was checking out the blue violet glow.
Tokyo Electric Power Co. says three workers have been injured and seven are missing after an explosion at the stricken Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear plant.
They're talking about the guy that actually works inside the core.
He's sort of like the guy that turns the light off and on inside the refrigerator, except he wears a different suit.
"how are the workers in "reactor number 3" able to report anything??"
Well, they aren't exactly in the reactor. The operators monitoring the system are in the control room - and although it is close to the reactor building (secondary containment), it is quite removed and has several missile shield walls between, along with its own ventilation system equipped to remove gaseous radionuclides with carbon beds (adsorption).
Thanks. See what happens in a crisis. We can't figure out simple possibilities because we have preconcieved notions about the truth.
Let's go with IN THE REACTOR. At this point this seems perfectly reasonable and consistent, given everything else.
What workers?
They're dead for fuck sake.
Or maybe you forgot "/sarc"
No I posted word for word what was told to NHK. Maybe something was lost in translation.
Looks like the workers in reactor number 3 are now outside reactor number 3...
The workers inside reactor number 3 are reporting that the containment vessel has not been breached.
But they reported later that they couldn't feel a thing-------- not one fucking thing. The seven that are missing failed to report back to their Supervisor. Thats a real pissoff in Japan. Let's face it this is becoming comically inane. Its unfolding as they tell you it is. Can't panic house poor/unemployed and possibly armed West coast Americans.
The Markets, for goodness sake think of the Stockmarket and all the money they spent to get it back from the edged.
Kar poooooom
"The workers inside reactor number 3"
LOL.
Military giving "Tsunami" warning but Meteorological Agency said there was no risk of another deadly wave.
Nikkei down -4.5%
CVS pharmacy online: iosat potassium iodide sold out....it was there this a.m.
Same at redflarekits.com where my order went through yesterday.
the NYTimes suggests that they're having trouble getting sea water into reactors
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/14/world/asia/japan-fukushima-nuclear-rea...
"To pump in the water, the Japanese have apparently tried used firefighting equipment — hardly the usual procedure. But forcing the seawater inside the containment vessel has been difficult because the pressure in the vessel has become so great.
One American official likened the process to “trying to pour water into an inflated balloon,” and said that on Sunday it was “not clear how much water they are getting in, or whether they are covering the cores.”
The problem was compounded because gauges in the reactor seemed to have been damaged in the earthquake or tsunami, making it impossible to know just how much water is in the core."
An incident I observed 45 years ago with a fire engine required wiring down the govenor on the diesel engine to get more rpm and increase the pressure to overcome the difficulties. Note: this resulted in bursting the fire hose and backflow of undesirable material from a 1/2 mile long pipeline that actually expands some from high pressures.
That explosion appeared to be much more directional. Focused almost as if the energy release occured deeper in the shielding structure. Much slower energy release as well, not like a hydrogen explosion.
Could have been rupture of secondary containment pressure vessle boundary surrounding the core vessle proper. Would still launch the concrete shield covers over the whole shebang.
very bad ..danger
lotz of grey concrete dust
in this explosion..
that was a blown out containment vessel
very bad ..danger ..
don't need a weatherman
to know which way
the wind blows...
You should worry more about bed bugs