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[Japan] URGENT: Gov't eyes injecting nitrogen into reactor vessels to prevent blasts
Kyodo News ^
| 04/01/11
Posted on 04/01/2011 7:13:00 AM PDT by TigerLikesRooster
URGENT: Gov't eyes injecting nitrogen into reactor vessels to prevent blasts
TOKYO, April 1, Kyodo
The government and Tokyo Electric Power Co. are considering injecting nitrogen into containment vessels of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant's reactors to prevent hydrogen explosions, government sources said Friday.
==Kyodo
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TOPICS: Breaking News; Extended News; Foreign Affairs; Japan; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: fukushima; nitrogen; radiation; reactor
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To: TigerLikesRooster
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posted on
04/01/2011 7:14:15 AM PDT
by
al baby
(Hi Mom!!! <sarc>)
To: TigerLikesRooster; sushiman; Ronin; AmericanInTokyo; gaijin; struggle; DTogo; GATOR NAVY; Iris7; ...
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posted on
04/01/2011 7:14:23 AM PDT
by
TigerLikesRooster
(The way to crush the bourgeois is to grind them between the millstones of taxation and inflation)
To: TigerLikesRooster
Wow, this is FAR from over.
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posted on
04/01/2011 7:14:46 AM PDT
by
TSgt
(Colonel Allen West & Michele Bachman - 2012 POTUS Dream Team Ticket!)
To: TigerLikesRooster
This sounds ominous. Don’t be surprised that if later in the day, Japan announces displacement of the population from the current 30km to 300km from the nuclear plant site.
To: TigerLikesRooster
Sounds like a good Idea. Air is 80% nitrogen and 20% oxygen, if you purge the reactor with nitrogen and make it 100% nitrogen then you won’t have an explosive mixture.
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posted on
04/01/2011 7:19:26 AM PDT
by
babygene
(Figures don't lie, but liars can figure...)
To: TigerLikesRooster
I think the hydrogen is being GENERATED by the fuel rods, meaning they would have to inject nitrogen CONTINUOUSLY to displace the hydrogen.
Those rods take a long time to cool down. They gonna do this continuously for the next 10, 20, 30 years???
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posted on
04/01/2011 7:24:19 AM PDT
by
dayglored
(Listen, strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government!)
To: babygene
Wow....just browsing and read a couple of things...scarey
To: TigerLikesRooster
Instead of an explosion, you just get a high-pitched squeal.
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posted on
04/01/2011 7:29:21 AM PDT
by
Thrownatbirth
(.....Iraq Invasion fan since '91.)
To: dayglored
“I think the hydrogen is being GENERATED by the fuel rods, meaning they would have to inject nitrogen CONTINUOUSLY to displace the hydrogen.”
No, hydrogen in the reactor is not explosive unless there is oxygen present. The idea is to purge the reactor of oxygen thereby making it non explosive. You would just have to do it once. They wouldn’t have to use nitrogen, they could use CO2 instead.
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posted on
04/01/2011 7:30:19 AM PDT
by
babygene
(Figures don't lie, but liars can figure...)
To: TigerLikesRooster
If one listens to Ann Coulter, this is actually a good thing.
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posted on
04/01/2011 7:31:49 AM PDT
by
Red in Blue PA
(Obama has fired more cruise missiles than any other Nobel peace prize winner.)
To: TigerLikesRooster
Hi-tech injection equipment:
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posted on
04/01/2011 7:33:03 AM PDT
by
Christian Engineer Mass
(25ish Cambridge MA grad student. Many younger conservative Christians out there? __ Click my name)
To: dayglored
The fuel rods super heat the water which causes it to separate into Hydrogen and Oxygen. Perhaps they are just trying to reduce the amount of oxygen.
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posted on
04/01/2011 7:35:55 AM PDT
by
driftdiver
(I could eat it raw, but why do that when I have a fire.)
To: Red in Blue PA
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posted on
04/01/2011 7:39:00 AM PDT
by
fred2008
To: fred2008
I would venture a guess that most of the public has a better grasp of radiation that Ann Coulter.
Whent here are idiots in the party, they need to be called out.
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posted on
04/01/2011 7:42:49 AM PDT
by
Red in Blue PA
(Obama has fired more cruise missiles than any other Nobel peace prize winner.)
To: babygene
They wouldnt have to use nitrogen, they could use CO2 instead.But they won't because that might contribute to global warming.
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posted on
04/01/2011 7:46:43 AM PDT
by
P-Marlowe
(LPFOKETT GAHCOEEP-w/o*)
To: TigerLikesRooster
Move along ... nothing to see here.
To: TigerLikesRooster; All
Has this news been reported by any other source?
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posted on
04/01/2011 7:57:31 AM PDT
by
LuvFreeRepublic
(Support our military or leave. I will help you pack BO!)
To: TigerLikesRooster
I vote for some
liquid nitrogen injection...
At least it might provide some cooling at the same time.
Of course, Obama officials are proposing injecting liquid Oxygen [ /sarcasm off ]
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posted on
04/01/2011 7:58:51 AM PDT
by
topher
(Traditional values -- especially family values -- are the values that time has proven them to work)
To: driftdiver
No, the hydrogen is generated by a chemical reaction between the zirconium clad of the fuel rods and the steam. (Think of the clad as a hollow rod into which the uranium dioxide fuel pellets are inserted; the rod is then sealed after the pellets are all inserted).
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posted on
04/01/2011 8:01:26 AM PDT
by
bagman
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