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TEPCO Director Weeps After Disclosing Truth About Fukushima Disaster
The Daily Mail has released a dramatic picture showing the emotional exhaustion of TEPCO managing director Akio Komori who is openly weeping as he leaves a conference to brief journalists on the true situation at Fukushima, following his acknowledgment that the radiation spewing from the over-heating reactors and fuel rods was enough to kill some citizens. "A senior Japanese minister also admitted that the country was overwhelmed by the scale of the tsunami and nuclear crisis. He said officials should have admitted earlier how serious the radiation leaks were. Chief Cabinet Secretary Yukio Edano said: 'The unprecedented scale of the earthquake and tsunami that struck Japan, frankly speaking, were among many things that happened that had not been anticipated under our disaster management contingency plans." This is precisely as Zero Hedge had expected would happen all along, following our recurring allegations of a massive cover up by the Japanese government. And furthermore as we predicted a week ago when we said that continued government lies and subversions would make the situation untenable once the population loses faith in the government, this is precisely what has happened.
A contrite Komiri crying after he discloses the truth:
And for those who believe the lies that TEPCO and the government has any control over the situation we suggest you read the following:
Deputy director general of the NISA, Hideohiko Nishiyama, also admitted that they do not know if the reactors are coming under control.
He said: 'With the water-spraying operations, we are fighting a fire we cannot see. That fire is not spreading, but we cannot say yet that it is under control.'
And Yukiya Amano, the head of the U.N.'s International Atomic Energy Agency said workers were in a 'race against the clock' to cool the reactor.
Attempts to quell the overheating plant with waterbombs from helicopters yesterday failed and despite the army pelting the site with water cannon, radiation levels rose higher.
Engineers are also working to restore power to the coolant pumping system knocked out by the tsunami.
Also, the Mail shows a dramatic photo of a crane used to move spent fuel rodes into a now empty storage pond.
pictures emerged showing overheating fuel rods exposed to the elements through a huge hole in the wall of a reactor building at the destroyed Fukushima nuclear plant.
Radiation is streaming into the atmosphere from the used uranium rods at reactor number four, after a 45ft-deep storage pool designed to keep them stable boiled dry in a fire.
And some of the radioactive material could reach Britain within a fortnight, according to experts.
However they say it will not be dangerous when it reaches our shores while low levels of radiation have already hit Southern California.
And while we descrbed the worst case scenario, i.e., the Chernobyl Solution, earlier, there is still hope for a last ditch deux ex machina over the weekend.
There was a potential breakthrough when engineers succeeded in connecting a power line to Reactor 2. This should enable them to restore electricity to the cooling pumps needed to prevent meltdown.
But it is not certain the system will work after suffering extensive damage.
Unfortunately, judging by how horrendously the government and the utility have handled the crisis so far, we are extremely skeptical any further attempts to improve the situation with fail spectacularly. In the meantime, the Japanese economy is slowing grinding to a halt as more people leave Tokyo, as factories lie dormant, and as high tech supply chains are suddenly halted. Out estimate, unlike that of an increasingly less than credible Bloomberg, is that the adverse impact to 2011 world GDP will be well at least 2% when all is said and done just factoring the events to date. Should the situation continue to stagnate it will get far worse.
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How about 'Shippai Shita' (or shimashita, if you want to be polite). That would be sufficient.
I wonder how long until the Emperor is forced to come on TV and explain it to Japan how he just lost their country for his lack of judgement.
and i expect in true japanese fashion, this man will commit hari-kari, ...i am sure under pressure from the govt. he was less than honest...i wish our "guys" had a hair of the dignity these people have...
Do not be surprised to hear of honor-restoring suicides in the coming weeks.
It's always a confidence booster when the boss starts to cry during a crisis...
That's why they call it a CRYsis
It's an unclear crysis
zing!
"zakennayo bizunichusu!"
Iodide biznitchez?
Does that mean when bernangstme starts crying, we are in big trouble?
The guy has no sleep and a little stress. Give him a fucking break.
"I want my life back."
No, he will simply say that QE was not big enuf
No, Paul Krugman will say that.
A literal word, yes.
Yelling/crying for/at/with Isis.
um.........get out.
FYI, on the internets, it's common protocol to demand tits before telling someone to get out...
10 minutes & I'm still laughing...
Gee, now I begin to understand that John Boehner is just trying to rally the troops.
When in danger, when in doubt,
Run in circles, scream and shout.
"This is precisely as Zero Hedge had expected would happen all along, following our recurring allegations of a massive cover up by the Japanese government."
I don't think this neener neener moment is at all appropriate.
Damned straight. Officials should just be able to lie with impunity. Anyone who calls them on it, should be labeled a looney in advance, and then called *assholes when they turn out to be correct.
I don't want to live in a world where being right gives the speaker crediblity....
+10,000
quit bitching paul.
Everyone in power deserves an eternity of neener-neener moments, for their evil and incompetence.
Agreed. Public shame is only the beginning. Suicide would be letting these fucks off lightly. Execution only - die ignominiously.
Probably gonna be a few hari karis by the time this it's all said and done...
from a froman named joeman, anything hari is fabulous!
this japanes guy has handlers from memphis and is gonna be huge when all is said and done: he's got the elvis jumpsuit going, which several bloggerz have already ejaculted over, not to mention some creamed cotton, too, from the smaller-hipped ladies.
plus, he's doin it in jimmy swaggart colors!
it's ok! after the quake, and the tsunami, it only took them a freaking week to think straight about the smoldering pile of nukes, which is, like, 4-5 years faster than any american confusion has been resolved. ever.
so, good for these people and their leadership! in out post-modern poilitical and morally haZZard-000-ous world, hopelessness is the handmaiden of truth.
please be advised.
now, what about the fuking temperatures involved and the rates of incineration? and the amount of plutonium involved? slewie sez remember! the "unspoken" part of "nukuler" is THERMO!!!
earlier, i was treated to the info that Cesium 137, the horrific "waste" in the spent fuel, has a half-life, of 30 years. a half-life. plutonium is even worse. exponentially. actually, exponentially would be better than the Real.
plutonium has a score of isotopes, each with a diff half life. from a few minutes to 80 million years. Pu239 has a half-life of 24,000 years. only the FED will be around then!
i think the healthiest way for us to help the japanese buck up, here, as well as to deal with our fucked-ness in now having food which is genetically modified AND radio-active, is to consider this just another human radiation experiment, without informed consent.
don't chew?
(edit) lol! pro-nukuler/p.c. junks to die for! i say a piece the other day, questioning whether this event would be the "death knell" of the nukuler 'renaissance'.
huh?
Lock it down - no more edits.
I must say that it is sooo comforting to know that Boo Hu is in charge of this mess.
His tears are genuine, and deeply felt. Can the same be said for Glen Beck and John Boehner?
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aHHH YES, there are contingency plans for the elite..... the new ex-rad is in "phase 1 trials" imagine that?
No, really, everything is just fine. No need to blow things out of proportion.
You know he just loves weeping. His culture digs that. They see it as an open and healthy expression of masculinity to do so.
What I want to know is who in the hell gave them authorization to break free of the U.S. PR machine?? Who allowed this? Why wasn't he taken out?
Somehow I think this weeping pic will be edited out of domestic evening news...
You've got a really good point.
What point? Who do you suggest.
John Bohner must be the most masculine man to the Japanese then.
John Boehner is just a whiny little bitch! Big difference.
+1
that's an insult to whiny little bitches.
Ha ha You guys got junked. Must be a boner fan out there.
Ann, is that you?
Or should I say Andy, the adam's apple, weener in the butt magnet?
So a horse walks into a bar, and the bartender says, "Hey Ann, why the long face?"
-1
people died
that's why he cried
Gods coming
you all gonna git fried
ROFL! Yeah man, it says in my copy of Book of Five Rings that the orginal was inked by Mushashi with his own tears.
How to cry like a Samurai: Step one, wash your face. Step two, take hold your sword....
No, not quite there ... try it in Haiku .....
First, apology.
Second, slow jig-jag of sword.
Third, friend cuts off head.
His culture digs that
They also dig enema and tentacle porn.
Masculinity! Who is your pick? Then we can postulate and banter a bit.
To quote the article:
"Later, six fire engines and a water cannon tried to spray the building with 9,000 gallons of water from high pressure hoses. However, radiation levels within the plant rose from 3,700 millisieverts to 4,000 millisieverts an hour immediately afterwards."
I hope for the sake of the Japanese that the Daily Mail (Like so many) have their Milli- and Micro- Sieverts backwards. If not then everyone who has been working at that plant is a dead man walking.
I am at my limit after a week of 20 hours a day of Fukushima news. I can only imagine what the poor bastards who have been on scene feel like. I'd be crying too.
seriously. What is the maximum allowed exposure time for an adult male to a seemingly endless stream of tradgic threads courtesy of TD?
I have been feeling nauseous alot lately
Me too.
NO they DONT. The Daily mail just tells the fucking truth: everybody who is crazy enough to work there for one hour recieves 3-4 Sievert, or about 2000yearly doses of normal radiation. With 3-4 Soievert, You have a 50% chance to die within 30 days, and a 100% chance to die of cancer.
I certainly believe the readings could be correct, it is about what one would expect in the vicinity of leaking reactor cores and burning fuel rod storage assemblies (probably on the low side). It seems as though there has been intentional confusion sown in the MSM and by TEPCO, et al regarding the levels measured at the plant. The times, the levels, the intentional/accidental misuse of "milli" and "micro" have all been seriously tweaked. I think the tears here mean that at least one person feels guilty for participating in the obfuscation game. (among other things)
It was clear to me from the coverage I saw that the firemen were being sent to their deaths. The reported noted that the Tokoyo Fire Chief mad a point to shake the hand of every volunteer he sent there.
The daily mail is the biggest bullshit paper in the UK.
The Daily Mail makes the Enquirer look like serious journalism. I wouldn't believe anything printed in that rag.
ZH: Relentlessy documenting the ineluctable, global descent perpetuated by the power-mad few with the complicit consent of an ignorant, indifferent many.
I don't really understand what you are saying, and don't really care either, so go ahead with whatever it is that you are doing.
Or more simply
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sKhN0gh0kjY
"I hope for the sake of the Japanese that the Daily Mail (Like so many) have their Milli- and Micro- Sieverts backwards."
No, I don't think so. More likely all along most of the reading have been getting a 'swap the scale factor' treatment for public consumption. 4 Sv - sounds about right for several hundred live (not 'spent') rods burning into the air in #4, and probably the same but with added Pu joy in #3. Earlier today I read the 2nd day of water hosing was called off, now it's on again. I'm guessing the first day's drivers are too sick. Now they've found some more.
"If not then everyone who has been working at that plant is a dead man walking."
This was obvious all along, to anyone who looked at the hi-res satellite images. Most of the site roads were still covered in explosion debris, as of 17th. This says no one can clear them.
I'v been watching NHK a lot these days. They always talk about microsieverts. They have also broadcasted several times that the radiation level dropped down a bit after the first water spraying, from around 3000 microsv to 2840 microsv. I bet the Brits are wrong. Only by 1000 times.
I watched a couple press conferances by Edano where he specified that they were now using milli- vs micro-, NHK anchors made a point of reiterating it as well. These conferances were held after Reactor 3 blew up.
Since then both units are used by various outlets. It's all hashed up at this point how much is going where.
I'v been watching NHK a lot these days. They always talk about microsieverts. They have also broadcasted several times that the radiation level dropped down a bit after the first water spraying, from around 3000 microsv to 2840 microsv. I bet the Brits are wrong. Only by 1000 times.
A rad is 1 MILLION SEVERTS. explore a rad? A beautiful woman blessed us with this. During ww2 the curies were partial rads.The wondurful ladies built watches for the pilots and crew. Curies area madam that discovered Radon!
I have a perfect solution, and it will work, I expect to be rewarded handsomely for this.
Have robotrader find two good looking japanease women.
And from 300 yards away they could launch water balloons.
I have tried it. the classic water balloon slingshot can go 300 yards...........
If they cannot find one I will fedex one to them.
Or even better arm a smart bomb with pinpoint accuracy with a huge water balloon and the problem is solved.
No more BS, no more crying, No more endangering the world.
Mission accomplished !!
why dont you just shut the f*** up.
There's another picture in that article that shows the storage pool itself before all this occurred, I thought it was very helpful in putting that other shot in perspective of where that crane is compared to the spent rods.
u have a link? I'd like to see it for comparison
Correct, and that strikes me as VERY IMPORTANT. There is now no doubt that nuclear fuel is directly exposed to the atmosphere.
Everyone should take a look at the two photos:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1367684/Nuclear-plant-chief-weep...
And all this talk about radiation levels being higher or lower is all maddening when they don't give out any actual data.
Agree...as I have been saying for 2.5 days, the loss of water in SFPs has caused ambient radiation levels to rise sharply as the water is the ONLY shielding means for these rods, which are heavy gamma emitters. This is how and why the problem has become so intractable. The SFRs pose a fire risk, turning this worse than Chernobyl, but at the same time just the sheer amount of radiation they emit naturally just sitting there makes it impossible to get near enough to them to conduct effectively cooling operations.
Or to put it another way...look at the picture! It's a crane over a pit and vapor is rising from the pit.
Ipso
Fucking
Facto
I thought we had that one figured out. The one I am wondering about is unit 3 where parts of the crane appear (in the chopper video) to be splayed out on the broken floor, with a gaping hole where the pit should be.
+1 for the slang and plus one for the truth.
it is exceedingly difficult to tell what those pictures actually show without additional reference photos (before pics).
I think you mean res ipsa loquitur
I can't wait till they show us everything!!!
no
it's res ipsa fucking loquitur
We have Physicists weeping in public and calling for prayer.
This means it is a runaway clusterfuck, and there ain't no good news coming, imo.
The circle highlighted crane in that pic takes away from the more important feature and that is the gapping hole in the wall big enough to drive a tractor trailer through in the lower right corner which would be at the same level as the bottom of the pool I would guess.
Those poor, poor people.
Yours is the only sentiment I can understand. Thank you for expressing it. While I hate what is transpiring politically and economically globally, I do not hate the Japanese people. And while I am not religious in the least, my hope is they will persevere and find an end to their nightmare.
+1!
I was quite impressed by the images of technicians, firemen, etc, as they were being sent to the plant. It looked to me as if they were soldiers knowingly accepting a probably suicidal mission, although if successful, would save a lot of lives. This is a true sense of duty.
What saddens me is to think that this could have been avoidable with sensible safety policies. As always, those who finally pay for the mistakes are those not responsible for them (mistakes or straight voluntary wrongdoing). So yes, poor them and all the people who will suffer this, both on short and long term.
Does anyone know what happens to the excecutive class in Japanese culture when something like this happens? Is it like here where everyone who predicted a disaster retires in shame or is fired and the executives get more money and promotions?
Read down to williambanzai7 and he answers your question.
comment: #1072934
+1
+1
As always, the ravages of nature are not nearly as damaging as the treachery of officialdom.
So much needless suffering in every respect...
This
i have empathy for this man. all i could feel was compassion for him. this burden can not be handled by just one man. it is insane to expect a human being to shoulder these triple tragedies to a country that he must love.
i have empathy for this man. all i could feel was compassion for him. this burden can not be handled by just one man. it is insane to expect a human being to shoulder these triple tragedies to a country that he must love.
he could of just said 'I want my life back' and go work for BP
The latest radiation readings can be found here: http://www.mext.go.jp/component/a_menu/other/detail/__icsFiles/afieldfil.... Note readings for point 32 (which is outside of 30 km zone). A half a day in that level of radiation will exceed a yearly recommended dose.
Thanks for posting.
EPA - hows RADNET doing? Do we have any excel spreadsheets or pdf's ready for public consumption yet?
I read this in a blog posts...
"Today they raised INES from 5 to 7, so I guess it is nearly over with the attempts to save the plant. Also from the firemen that were there today to spray water above the reactors, 5 lost their lives and 21 of them have severe radioactive poisoning. << This is from my man in Japan."
Bullish. Less tears than forecast.
Radiation levels in U.S.
http://www.radiationnetwork.com/
Whoa. These guys are stressed out.
What's the over/under on Japanese officials committing seppuku in the next two weeks?
I'll take the over.
Very unlikely, previous senior bosses in Tepco have been promoted or moved sideways or given a golden payoff when they have previously been found out for lying about the terrible management and previous problems, they promote from within.
Seppuku en mass would be gross to watch, but welcomed as an example of how to atone for endangering lives of your fellow man. Good Luck to the Japanese people - sad sad sad
Start with Wall Street, then move to Capitol Hill.
Agreed. These people in Japan, WS and DC are evil. They endanger people's lives. This old guy needs to be giving a wrench and some tools to go fix the reactor.
Amen, Freddie!
RADZ, BITCHEZ!
Very dire especially reactor three.
MOX fuel -
" One attraction of MOX fuel is that it is a way of disposing of surplus weapons-grade plutonium, "
I've said this many times but it is conclusive - Hydrogen emits no visible light when it combusts: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T_N-wNFSGyQ a fire ball is seen in the first couple of seconds. The damage is is also incredible and in itself indicated it was definately not hydrogen.
600,00 fuel rods are stored in those building near the top. Two buildings have exploded completely. What's 40% of 600,000? That's how many rods are blown across that area..
Who knows what other damage has been done or what is melting where...
Time for some truth about this incident.
...and Trav7777 if you are going to say I'm wrong and to get my car ready for the HAARP activated NWO flock.....post some credible information to refute my claim, but, you won't because you know I'm right.
OK, 600K old rods at his one plant. Any guesses as to how many old rods are waiting to combust above reactors in the US?
Good thing Yucca Mountain has been killed.
"The President has made clear that Yucca Mountain is not an option for waste storage."
http://www.energy.gov/environment/ocrwm.htm
damn right. could you imagine the property value damage to the six or seven people that live in that god foresaken wastleand? We are talking over $9,000
yeah, yeah i know its only 100 miles from vegas.
wait i thought the mountain was 100 miles from the wasteland
As we keep looking for info I saved this.
A fuel assembly consists of a square array of 179 to 264 fuel rods, and 121 to 193 fuel assemblies are loaded into an individual reactor.
http://my.firedoglake.com/kirkmurphy/2011/03/14/nuke-engineer-fuel-rod-f...
We’d be lucky if we only had to worry about the spent fuel rods from a single holding pool. We’re not that lucky. The Fukushima Daiichi plant has seven pools for spent fuel rods. Six of these are (or were) located at the top of six reactor buildings. One “common pool” is at ground level in a separate building. Each “reactor top” pool holds 3450 fuel rod assemblies. The common pool holds 6291 fuel rod assemblies. [The common pool has windows on one wall which were almost certainly destroyed by the tsunami.] Each assembly holds sixty-three fuel rods. This means the Fukushima Daiichi plant may contain over 600,000 spent fuel rods.
Oops.
We bury ours in mineshafts in Nevada, that is that tickley feeling you get in Vegas..
We bury ours in mineshafts in Nevada, that is that tickley feeling you get in Vegas..
Why does EVERYone think that we are CURRENTLY putting stuff in Yucca mountain? NO WE AREN'T yet.
As I have said they are mostly stored ON SITE at the reactors LIKE the Japanese ones.
Some 70,000 tons of nuclear fuel rods are stored at commercial plants around the country in temporary facilities. These were supposed to be transferred under a 1987 law to Yucca Mountain where they would be buried “permanently.” For a variety of reasons — political, legal and scientific — Yucca Mountain has remained off-line.
After the rods have cooled enough for dry storage and glass encapsulation
Hydrogen combusts with no visible light? You mean like the Challenger or Hindenburg?
The fire you saw was not from the hydrogen combusting but of other material assiciated with those accidents...you had gas, canvas, wood, fuel, and lots of other stuff that does emit visible light, but you did not see the hydrogen itself.
"Pure hydrogen-oxygen flames emit ultraviolet light and are nearly invisible to the naked eye, as illustrated by the faint plume of the Space Shuttle main engine compared to the highly visible plume of a Space Shuttle Solid Rocket Booster."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydrogen
Denial is a very powerful emotion.
It runs mighty, deep, and wide. Also it has mummies. So at least there is that.
+1
Oxy-hydrogen combustion produces high temperatures and high temperatures mean black-body radiation. In this case the temperatures are so high visible light is produced. The Wikipedia reference you cite is full of baloney. If you don't believe it watch a nighttime launch of a Delta IV heavy with hydrogen-oxygen 1st stages. Wow. See here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delta_IV
or here:
http://www.nasaspaceflight.com/2009/09/ula-claim-gap-reducing-solution-v...
"Seeing is believing"
Flames seen in Lakewood NJ were actually the combustible skin of the Hidenburg burning.
Yes, you are correct. The hydrogen was invisible during the combustion.
Can anyone go against my claim? I am hoping.
I saw a live demo of a 3 foot diameter balloon filled with pure H2. A candle was put to it, burned through the balloon, and the result was a large burst of flame floating upward about 6 or 8 feet. It was definitely not just the balloon material burning - too much flame for that. The hydrogen burned visibly, in I would guess about 1 to 2 seconds.
The demo was followed by another demo of a similar balloon filled with 2 parts H to one part Oxygen. It sounded like a cannon going off. I don't remember if I saw anything. The memorable part of the first balloon was the flame. The memorable part of the second one was the Kaboom.
Hahaha I did that with the seperated H and O from water electrolysis in science learning center and just about blew a window out.
Lesson: don't let precocious 11 year olds into science learning centers....
uh..bob...the onus is on YOU to provide evidence to support your claim.
uh...trav7777 i did
of which claim? That there are fuel rods in downtown Tokyo?
That there was a nuclear explosion?
You claim that this was not a hydrogen explosion...then what was it? All because of a flash you claim you see on a grainy video...
If something blew up at that point, it would have been hydrogen, dude. A nuclear explosion, if one were possible in a reactor (which they aren't), would be RIGHT NOW belching asinine amounts of black smoke as everything and the mother was burning. It would be a gigantic smoke plume going up and up and up.
Can you forward me a copy of your livestream to the nuke plant site.
You must have one because you seem to know exactly whats going on.
How many reactors have exploded? I'd like your direct evidence as well please.
why do you make such logical fallacies?
I have no livestream, and neither do you. All we have is news footage of what is going on as they spray with water, which happened today. I see no massive billowing smoke plume which would be an inevitable consequence of a nuclear explosion.
You don't seem to understand that not knowing what is going on is NOT the same as being able to know what is NOT going on. In this case, there has NOT been a nuclear explosion. There is NO nuclear fire.
As far as buildings which have exploded, there are 3. Reactors that have exploded? None.
Is this a black enough smoke plume for you?
http://tinyurl.com/5sggggb
Refinery fire? - coast line doesn't match that of the Fukushima I complex ...
See picture on right side below for overhead image of all six Fukushima I reactors and coast line:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fukushima_I_nuclear_accidents#Reactor_unit_1
Update:
Complete non-match for the coast I would say ... here's the equiv. of Google Earth for that region:
http://virtualglobetrotting.com/map/fukushima-daiichi-nuclear-powerplant...
I would say the picture of smoke at that website is mis-labeled; FWIW from a complete stranger.
was my conclusion as soon as I saw it...I am growing weary of this particular discussion
would you two put some definitions up for those of us following this interesting exchange?
what do you, trav, mean by 'nuclear explosion' (and bob is that what you're saying happened?)
whatever kind of explosion it was, do you both agree that the spent fuel rods were blown to kingdom come?
just asking
I am saying that there is compelling evidence that a nuclear explosion (of some magnitude) occured which would have certainly cracked any containment vessels. However, I do agree with trav that the big issue is the SFP being exposed. The bottom line with the explosion is that i. those rods were shot everywhere, and ii. damage to the structural integrity (water pumps, cooling systems, etc) Obviously this is bad and infact much, much worse than Chernobyl which killed many and the effects of which are still being felt today
There are so many different problems and very little information (almost none now) regarding the status of this...
thanks bob
all I know is that the explosion had a mushroom quality it, whatever significance that has.
But whether it was 'just' hydrogen or nuclear, it's hard to believe that the fuel pool could have survived intact.
I would agree; looked like two different kinds of events.
We even saw a fast-moving condensation/pressure wave (kinda of a broad acring white wave things) in the air owing to the shockwave on Rx bldg #1 with hardly any plume compared to an immediately ascending dark plume on the blast for Rx bldg #3 ...
Also, on the audio there were three booms when Rx bldg #3 went up ...
OT -
Video helicopter flyover - since the original YouTube vid has 'gone away':
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xhob5v_survol-des-reacteurs-de-fukushim...
sigh...there is NO FUCKING EVIDENCE WHATSOEVER that a nuclear explosion took place. NONE.
If you were even VAGUELY conversant in ANY topic relevant to nuclear power, you would know exactly WHY such a claim was nonsense.
BD is one brain cell short of brain dead isn't he? Apparently YouTubing 'hydrogen explosion' is beyond his typing capabilities. What a useless human appendage. I burn hydrogen from HHO's and B-gas generators but if you want a bunch of fun, put it in a balloon and set it off. Oh gee, a flash? No shit sherlock...http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ptiCFq5YK3Q See that?
More impact (bigger hammer effect):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MMB2VR0087w&feature=related
dave, I'm kinda' quick. but nay this quick. an atom bomb can't go off with the configuration of a reactor. You'd have to actually work to understant that (nay sayin' that you couldn't, just that it takes effort).
wtf knowz wtf was blow'n to kingdom come.
'specially since mrs. O'shanahan's corned beef ++++++++++ waz super!!!!
well, don'tcha' know
- Ned
thanks, I hadn't looked at it that way.
dp
You are a complete f'ng retard. Hydrogen does not 'burn' with a 'naked eye' visible flame. It explodes with a flash which IS visible to the naked eye. Youtube that you stupid shit. I have burned gases off my HHO and B-gas generator but when placed in a container, mixed with oxygen and a flame, it flashes and explodes, visibly. Your whole f'in hypothesis is that there is no visible flash from hydrogen exploding but a 5th grade science teacher proves your dumb ass wrong. Grow a brain...actually forget it, one brain cell does not a thinking mind make. The only thing 'conclusive' is you know jack shit about anything...eat your keyboard and choke on it twit. Trav7777 is some many levels above you, ants in his kitchen look down on your world and shit on it.../rant off.
These 'CEO's are going to be guilty of mass murder.
How could someone have predicted a 9.0 seism, and several aftershocks/tsunamis which killed the emergency generators?
According to you, the KLM CEO was guilty for the Tenerife disaster?
Read up on the wikileaks info about repeated warnings that the reactors weren't equipped to handle the earthquakes.
Then, maybe, you possibly could get a clue.
Actually, these 'executives' are going to be guilty of much more than mass murder. They'll be guilty of ancestoral land genocide, too.
At least they didn't blow up their own skyscrapers in broad dayight blaming on some terrorist organization. Or wrap up all their crappy debt that was designed to fail ,stamp it AAA and sell it all around the world.
Word.
But this nuclear reality makes me care much less about the silver price these days.
Puts it into perspective.
Get the food you can now, make sure it's either in tin cans or sealed plastic, because after the Japanese radiation clouds come, all of the food not protected will have radiation in it.
Exactamundo, as the Phonz would have said.....
yup