D*mn.
Updated info here:
http://www.tepco.co.jp/en/press/corp-com/release/
Each time they leave a country, an earthquake/tsunami occurs. Check it out-
1. Thailand
2. NZ
3. China/Japan
Wouldn't some, you know, platinum gauze, or platinum wire mesh, hung up by the ceiling of these blow-out panel containment buildings, couldn't that... ah... allow the hydrogen and oxygen to hook up without the shotgun wedding? Just a thought. And I don't know anything.
It looks like we are going to find out just exactly how good GE’s primary containment vessel is. I’m hoping it is up to the job of containing the core melt down that it was designed to contain. Most likely it is, very bad if it is not.
Wow, a lot more smoke than the previous explosion and it’s definitely blacker, which would seem to indicate a wider involvement.
Water levels dropped precipitously at another reactor, completely exposing the fuel rods and raising the threat of a meltdown.
officials reported that the fuel rods at another reactor, Unit 2, were fully exposed, at least temporarily.
Shortly after Monday’s explosion, Tokyo Electric warned it had lost the ability to cool Unit 2. Hours later, an indicator showed water briefly fell to the bottom of fuel rods, fully exposing them, according to a spokeswoman for the company, Takako Kitajima.———————
Did you catch that? COMPLETELY EXPOSING THE FUEL RODS!
Ahh, nevermid, it’s the age of Obama, it’s all good.
I wonder how Hollywood will react when Japan decides to rebuild some of the plants with coal-fire powered plants.
So , “Monday morning” is that Monday morning here or there? it’s Monday night in Japan right now.
What does this mean to us laymen? I mean potential outlook?
That didn’t look good. And if “workers were injured” the event was NOT under control, planned or expected.
I wonder what they call “The China Syndrome” in Japan? Maybe “The New York Syndrome”?
IEAE is stating that they ran out of seawater yesterday and that has been rectified now.
http://www.iaea.org/newscenter/news/tsunamiupdate01.html
“Sea water injections into Units 1 and 3 were interrupted yesterday due to a low level in a sea water supply reservoir, but sea water injections have now been restored at both units.”
This suggests to me they have no circulation and the water is just steaming away....hence the explosions. Given this the decay heat is still a very large issue and not under control.
AGain....with the understanding that this is a local event and not a worldwide catastrophe.
Is this the reactor with plutonium in the rods?
I hope the Japanese survive.