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Tepco: Meltdown at Reactor 1 HOURS After Earthquake ... Reactors 2 and 3 Have Likely Melted Down As Well
Tepco - the operator of the stricken Japanese nuclear complex - is
finally admitting what independent experts have been saying for months.
Initially, Tepco now admits that reactor number 1 melted down hours after the earthquake. As NHK notes:
Tokyo
Electric Power Company, the operator of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear
power plant, says most of the fuel rods in the No.1 reactor had dropped
to the bottom of the pressure vessel within 16 hours of the earthquake on March 11th.The utility revealed its study on the subject on Sunday.
TEPCO
said it analyzed the data and calculated a timeline for the
developments in the No. 1 reactor on the assumption that the reactor
lost its cooling system as soon as it was hit by the tsunami.The firm said that within about 3 hours after the reactor automatically shut down, the cooling water had evaporated to a level at the top of the rods.
In the next hour and a half, parts of the fuel rods are believed to have begun melting.
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Almost of all the fuel rods melted and dropped to the bottom of the pressure vessel by 6:50 am on March 12th.
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The firm says the melted rods created small holes on the bottom of the vessel...
Tepco has also admitted that reactors 2 and 3 have likely melted down as well. As reported in a separate article from NHK:
TEPCO
also says the gauges at the No.2 and 3 reactors might not be showing
the actual water levels and that both reactors are likely to have
undergone meltdowns.
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The decay heat in the cores immediately after shutdown from the earthquake required an active cooling system. The loss of cooling and coolant makeup due to the complete loss of power after the arrival of the tsunami set the stage for massive core damage. Given the ability to inject water via external fire pumps at some point and given the timing and capability of those pumps, it would have been fairly easy to assess the effectiveness of those measures. Why are we only learning about this now?
Within one week of the accident there were industry experts stating that there was a very high probability that a full meltdown had occurred...
The reason you are just learning about it is that TPTB have been using the time interim to "prepare the people" for this news. They have done this to minimize panic in the population...
The reason the US has stopped monitoring radiation is because there is NOTHING (or so TPTB say) that can be "reasonably done" to minimize to effects on the general population without instilling panic and fear and "damage the US economy". Better to trade off higher incidents of birth defects and cancer etc.. than to damage the economic base. Furthermore the cancers that will occur from exposure to low levels of radiation will occur in the "distant future", it appears to take over 10 years for most to develop in an adult. The children and very young will be another matter.
There is no fixing this and it is going to get worse.
Arnie has to best "non-techie/non-geek" explanations out there..
http://www.fairewinds.com/updates
To not tell us and warn us of the disaster is treason.
Thanks GW, for keeping it as real as you can with finding the ever shrinking facts.
Fuck blood pressure, fukushima is the heralded new, silent killer.
Actually it's control. Control of record bonuses and posturing to profit beforehand.
Money makes these decisions, not safety or some panic bullshit.
The common good is dead fucking last, as always.
Definetly some weird shit going on in Japan.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4rWDrZIucAQ
High Voltage Volcano, Japan. never in my life have i seem anything like this.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WSIPs_5gMp4
1,203 Earthquakes in Japan since March 11, 2011.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D30LlIAZMu4&feature=feedu
Uh-Oh. Godzilla's busting out again
(duplicate post, sorry)
History shows again and again how nature points up the folly of man
Godzilla!
"High Voltage Volcano, Japan. never in my life have i seem anything like this."
Looks like a neutron beam. Now we know where they are dumping the fuel rods.
GW - Didn't you post at the onset that ZH'ers were ridiculously over-inflating the damages at NuKuFuKu, no evidence of meltdown, and that our illustrious government controlled media would tell us the truth et al?
I thought so.
If I have to wade back through all the Troll Poo to prove it, I'm not going to be a happy camper.
You must have confused him with trav7777,who along with a few others, tried to minimalize and trivialize everything Fukued up with the reactors, and basically callied anyone worried about the radioactive danger some kind of alarmist pussy.
Right trav7777? How well did you serve humanity with your ego-tripping sanctimonious WRONG bullshit???
We love ya Trav, but be a "Man" and step up to the plate for some ball busting!!! lololol
In all fairness, I think as the situation unfolded he changed his opinion.
Speak for yourself fella. Trav777 is a disingenuous troll.
Along with IQ145
GW has been on this from the begining that TEPCO was lying. What were you reading?
I think he's confusing him with Trav7777...
Retracted, and my apologies to GW. I must have confused him with Leo or his other significant troll.
Learned my lesson, now if you'll excuse me while I scrub off the top layer of skin...
GW tends to put out some award winning stuff. What I like about GW's work is that he keeps it up even after the main stream news stops covering it. Did the Gulf oil spill go away? Nope. Did Fukushima go away? Nope.
Proof please. If you gonna throw the shit you'd better be ready to step in it.
Retracted, and my apologies to GW. I must have confused him with Leo or his other significant troll.
Learned my lesson, now if you'll excuse me while I scrub off the top layer of skin...
Murderous Bastards
If I could, I would retract the following post as I have mistakenly confused GW with another poster. GW has been on top of this story since it's inception, and benefitted ZH readers with timely copy.
Wading through the troll poo in an effort to discredit GW has taught me the lesson. Once again, my apology to all.
The worlds' top banker types will be rushing to get to a safe place where they can sleep in metal Faraday Cages with thick reinforced concrete walls around. Probably.
DSK’s already there
ha!
Not to mention a free blowjob to welcome the bankers to their bunkers.
Criminal charges must be filed against TEPCO and the Japanese Failed Government.
A widespread boycott of anything Japanese labeled would be more effective. Do not forget how much US IP is owned by Japanese majors. They are granted more US patents than most. I believe only IBM beats them.
Well, it could be effective if the MSM actually reported on Fukushima instead of... (googling) Donald Trump and Brad Pitt!
Well, DSK did make it to the top of the list with the elite rape trick, along with Turbo Timmah's "All You're Retirement Are Belong to Us" story, but hey did you know that Brad may be having a mid-life crisis? (maybe it's his crazy wife's tats?)
Meanwhile, I'm having a difficult time keeping up with Lilo.
As Chris Martenson notes in his latest posting either TEPCO was lying about the water temperature readings they were posting in the weeks after the earthquake where they never showed temperatures greater than 800F and the fuel cladding melts about 2,000F, or all the measuring equipment malfunctioned. Either scenario is deeply disturbing.
Considering how TEPCO, the Japanese government and quite possibly the US have all been lying since the start, the only question is what else are they lying about? Time will tell. It's not like they can put a huge tent up around the entire sticking mess and shield it from public view.
Oh...wait a minute.
+2 What a fucking flea circus of biblical proportions.
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so many disasters man made & others
so much turmoil all over the globe
conspiracy or happenstance it almost doesnt matter
I am convinced that the powers that be, believe something much worse will happen
various theories and reasons abound, based on strings or piles of truth
things will never be what they were
may what ever it is or the series of events that lead to it
be quick, be concise, and have the best possible outcome for the worse of all possible situations
until then enjoy all the side shows
and remember that everything is temporary
and remember that everything is temporary
Radioactive fallout, not so much.
On a long enough timeline, yeah.
+1
My wife and I are not going to Hawaii this year, mostly because of what we do not know about the Japanese Trifecta. My worst case guess is the reactors are spewing radioactive dust all over the islands.
The closest the jet stream got to Maui's North Shore was over 950 miles to the North. The toxic radiation coming from SoRoS 0>BaMa is going to waste you before Fukushima.
I'm going to HI end of this month. They're gonna kill you with GMO, Corexit, pesticides, fluoride or some other manner, speaking of trifectas, I might as well go all the way. Heck, you should go this summer before it becomes a barren nuclear wasteland.
i will take your airplane and hotel tickets...
Really what a freaking ninny. The levels of radiation across that much ocean aare less than a suntan.
Yeah, everybody could stand a few hundred chest x-rays each year, no problem.
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