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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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Some amazing video of the tsunami water gushing into the city:
http://www.gizmodo.com.au/2011/03/this-is-the-scariest-first-person-vide...
Ja-hee-zus. Thanks for posting that - un real.
Rumour: Contamination levels rising in Tokyo
Source: Third hand; friend of friend of step-brother on Tokyo; Uni Researcher
Very worrying
Fun facts;
The only known cause of breast cancer in mice is radiation (from nuclear particulate in air or water).
That is why mice should not get annual chest x-rays. Say cheese.
New Blast ReportedReuters: TEPCO says it's considering releasing hydrogen from Fukushima Daiichi No. 2 reactor building.
http://live.reuters.com/Event/Japan_earthquake2
Explosion #3 coming up soon?
Edit: Also a 6.1 aftershock off the coast in the last hour... can't be helping anything.
http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/recenteqsww/Quakes/usc00022er.php
Unit 2 @ Fukushima has now lost all cooling capacity and will blow
What mixture do we have in there ?
This is a nightmare right ?
Wake me up !!!!!!!!!!!!
http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/tokyo-electric-says-3rd-reactor-has-lost-cooling-capacity-at-stricken-japan-nuclear-plant/2011/03/14/ABsCDQU_story.html
(2) 5.3 and (1) 5.0 aftershocks in the last 1/2 hour
http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/recenteqsww/Quakes/quakes_all.php
Japanese bloggers are reporting that a whistleblower came forward in the 80s with a story that the construction companies were bypassing unions and employing seasonally unemployed fishermen to build these plants in the 60s. They believe that may be why the backup systems and structural integrity are not responding as expected.
http://www.iam-t.jp/HIRAI/pageall.html#page1
Get TEPCO out of your portfolio pronto.
At least say what the junk was for! Drive-by junkings...shameful what the world has come to.
I am not a geologist, and I did not stay at a Holiday Inn Express last night, but are recent events indicative of a something akin to a six sigma event in the world of earthquakes and shifting of plates, and is the tension on the plates under and near Japan getting worse, and not being relieved?
This is a good question. The quake lasted for between 2 to 3 minutes (confirmation anyone?) and there were corresponding volcanic eruptions throughout the ring of fire in Indonesia and Russia... Sounds like a tectonic plate shift, not just an earthquake.
Unfortunately, the "conspiracy theorists" and "doomers" may have been too far out there in their predictions of EVENTS, but they may have hit the mark on timing and outcome. Soon, panic sex.
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Reactor No.2 cooling system just failed.
I will fill my post when I find more info.
http://ex-skf.blogspot.com/2011/03/fukushima-i-nuke-plant-reactor-no2.html
I hear three very distinct explosions. It sounds exactly like they are a timed and controlled series of explosions. Could they actually have blew this building up on purpose? Why? Any sound reason for that possibility? Any reason. I'm just saying...
"controlled series of explosions"
LOL. I've been waiting for that one.
NHK World just reported that Fukushima Daiichi No.2 is now without cooling...
I'm sure things will go from bad to worse -- Godzilla will surely emerge from the ocean depths and wreak havoc on Tokyo now!
Well, the jig is up and the Japanese officials should just STFU right about now.
Japan 'Chernobyl' fearedUS nuclear experts have warned that pumping seawater to cool a quake-hit Japanese nuclear reactor is an “act of desperation” that could foreshadow a Chernobyl-like disaster, referring to the 1986 accident in Ukraine.
Nuclear meltdown fears grow at Japan's earthquake-damaged power plantsDavid Lochbaum of the Union of Concerned Scientists Nuclear Safety Project said: “The use of seawater means they have run out of options.”
Japan making Hail Mary bid to avert 'Chernobyl-like' disaster: expert
Fear finally takes hold among Japan's nuclear faithful
This is nothing like Chernobyl. Why Chernobyl had graphite, and Fukashima has water (when it's available). This is not a Chernobyl. It is a Fukashima.
Picture of No.3 reactor after the explosion
http://ex-skf.blogspot.com/2011/03/fukushima-i-nuke-plant-whats-left-of....
I have been thinking maybe the best way we Americans can help Japan is to stop QE and help Japan by making the dollar stronger .
Other thoughts that have crossed my mind - Germany and France will pick up a lot of slack in the economy left by Japan. Example : high tech manufacturing .
Will China see this as an opportunity to expand ? example Taiwan .It has definitely has changed the military game in Asia .
And of course the thought that is always there besides the above God help them .
Fuck, CNN just reported that reactor #2 is going the way of #1 and #3.
Impressive !
Algoture
Yomiuri Shinbun says cooling system for Reactor No.2 failed because they ran out of water. Unreal.
why the hell aren't they evacuating - seriously ? The US has camps set up just for this kind of catastrophe ,why not ask the japanese if they want to use them at their cost?
ruhroh...black plume...that means the containment housing was breached at the base (graphite base to contain melting core). Cesium ya later!
Anthony R. Pietrangelo, a senior vice president and chief nuclear officer with the Nuclear Energy Institute, a trade group representing the nuclear power industry, said that the industry was keenly watching the Japanese situation and would readily revisit its own emergency procedures as new information and potential lessons emerged.
But he also said the combination of an enormous earthquake and immense tsunami was of historic proportions, and that the odds of it happening in the United States were small.
“It’s not impossible, he said, “but it’s extremely remote.”
Let's see, primary reason the reactors (two fait accompli with 4 more cooking) have melted down is because they lost cooling, this happened because the "back up" generators were located below flood level...... and the grid was down...considering that the core cooling pumps are so vital, I am truly shocked that there was not SERVERAL more layers of redundancy in the design!!!!
The Grid being down and the generators failing are events that could happen without a earthquake or tsunami right here in the good old USA! A category 5 hurricane, hitting say... Crystal River Fl, with a monster storm surge, might do the trick.... The arrogance of that statement is over the F'in top!
Nah, Crystal River Nuclear Plant in Florida is at least 3 feet above sea level
"the odds of it happening in the United States were small."
But the odds of it happening in Japan were what?
When people see things go bang it makes all the difference,
Well. That's the end of the nuclear industry for living memory. The greens will be playing that on a continuous loop for the next couple of decades.
Fuel rods at No. 2 reactor of Fukushima No. 1 nuke plant fully exposed.
Source - http://english.kyodonews.jp/news/
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Am soooo glad I live in the southern hemisphere. In a country with zero nuclear power stations. Uh... just one small research & isotopes reactor, a few Km from where I live. Oh well.
I predict a very sudden rise in the price of solar electric panels. And batteries.
Natgas has barely budged, which I find inexplicable.
Can someone please uninexplicate it for me?
don't worry about energy future : permanent magnetic motors and kitegen are here...
nextbigfuture.com/2009/09/kitegen-update.html
http://english.kyodonews.jp/news/
FLASH: Fuel rods fully exposed again at Fukushima nuclear power plant: TEPCO
Who can be working there? Wouldn't everyone be killed in such an explosion? How many people are trained for this and when the first on the scene are killed, who comes in to replace them? Seems like an impossible situation.