Posted on 03/15/2011 3:09:28 PM PDT by The Magical Mischief Tour
Fire breaks out at Japan Fukushima Daiichi No.4 reactor: NHK quotes Tokyo Electric Power
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For anyone who knows.
Or a low tech faucet or two or 50?
My limited understanding at this point is that there is too much contamination to get close, and there’s only a hole in the roof to allow water in.
I am speaking of the pool containing the spent fuel rods.
Oh. It’s open on top.
I hadn’t seen the Zubrin article that Eva cited when I posted that. Even with potential design flaws, if he’s right then it appears they may be able to handle this.
So, they watch from a distance. A bunch of entertainers had just flown out of Japan before this happened. Michelle Malkin’s cousin is missing. A baby was found alive today.
There are a gabillion ways to make dangerous things safe, these people are just not creative considering the consequences.
GE should be made culpable.
They sold a pig in a poke to any bloke with a bag of cash, for shame, for shame.
Because of the radiation you can't get too close. You need a hose like Ron Jeremy to put these fires out safely and completely.
ewe. Jeremy was on a stupid reality show a few years ago. I tried not to watch unless nothing else was on.
My understanding it’s encased and not normally exposed...
I should perhaps use container instead of contaiment but it’s definetly not open to the floor of the housing structure.
The diagram QBERT posted shows that nicely.
Forty years ago. Did your 70's car have frontal as well as side curtain air bags and headrests and shoulder harnesses and anti-lock brakes and all weather radials and traction control and full time 4wd and... and... um...
I've lost track.
Apples & tangerines, if my car had the potential to create billion of profit for me I would go way beyond the beyond to make it safe, pennies on the dollar investment wise, GE & company are not wise, just a bunch penny pinchin dollar hoarding azzzzzzholes desperately in need of a bitchslap with a metal bat.
I'm getting eq/tsu/nuke fatigue. All I can do now is keep Japan and everyone over there in my thoughts and prayers.
My concern is these incremental releases of radiation will add up and most likely increase of the next few days.
Right now the talk is that two reactors have exposed themselves, that would be plant 2 and plant 4 (though i understand the argument that plant 4’s breach is not the reactor vessel it is still potentially the most damaging of the two.
As the days go buy the reactor core melts will become less of an issue as the heat is dissipated. Reactor 4 is an more the issue.
To those that say the heat right now is nominal and poses no risk is just flat at wrong, for as we can see it does. What that leads to is in the brave hands of those that are rotating on site and to those in the war room figuring out what to do next.
This is the new fire the 3rd in command at Al Qaeda was starting when he was killed
just heard on NHK TV that they are trying to get water from plant #5 and plant #6 is experiencing problems? How many reactors or on site? I never heard about 5 or 6!
You look awfully dumb right now. There is ZERO risk to the United States. NONE. Climb out of your backyard fallout shelter, put away your Potassium Iodide tablets.
There's some potential risk to Japanese within the evacuation zone in the WORST CASE if the nuclear fuel melts through all containment. We're not there.
Yesterday's media panic-inducing 400 mSv radiation detection at the plant was less than half that required to cause nausea.
Serious problem? Let's see... 10,000 are MISSING or DEAD. Two-hundred billion in infrastructure is lost. 350,000 made homeless are facing FREEZING temperatures this week and starvation. Floods invariably bring risk of disease, refinery fires release toxins. Anyone care? Hello? Anyone?
Of course not! That's boring!
Let's stir up a Chicken Little PANIC over the continuing battle to cool reactors, let's menace the world with fear of radiation holocaust! It's NUCLEAR!
How many have been killed by the nuclear plant problem in Japan? None. I pray it stays that way but those engaged in the battle, like all first responders, are at risk. This isn't a one day battle. Expect it to take two weeks.
Gosh, your 40 year old hindsight is just as clear as can be.
It is a testament to the design and construction of these things that they have heave held up as well as they have considering what they have been subjected to, which they were NOT designed to handle.
I think they are damned impressive.
The engineers should be proud.
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