Posted on 05/16/2011 1:29:19 PM PDT by Sprite518
Tokyo Electric Power Co. (TEPCO) admitted for the first time on May 15 that most of the fuel in one of its nuclear reactors at the Fukushima No. 1 Nuclear Power Plant had melted only about 16 hours after the March 11 earthquake struck a wide swath of northeastern Japan and triggered a devastating tsunami.
(Excerpt) Read more at mdn.mainichi.jp ...
There is radioactive material on the ground, that is not good. Don't stand in it. The clean up will begin soon....why all the predictions of doom?
Actually, if you do a bit more reading..TEPCO had indicated that the plant may have been compromised before the tsunami.
Given their history, it is quite possible their safety measures..or lack thereof... contributed to this mess.
but, you think what you want.
The issue is that there is a chunk of land uninhabitable for at least 30 years if things work out.If they don’t give it 50 years to a century for there to be people living there again.
http://ex-skf.blogspot.com/2011/05/asahi-shinbun-core-meltdown-in-reactors.html
“Fun to see the spin by one of the MSM in Japan. Now they are all saying core meltdown, complete core meltdown, we knew from the beginning, we knew in March. It’s hysterically comical.
Particularly hilarious is Haruki Madarame, who now basically says “we knew that”, while he was the one who told the PM on March 12, “Don’t worry, the nuclear reactor doesn’t break.”
Yes, there were nuclear experts and independent journalists in Japan and around the world who said it was a meltdown, and they were attacked by the government and the MSM like Asahi as “fear-mongering”. I thought so too, after reading the entries on wiki on Three Mile Island, Chernobyl, and corium, among others.
But it isn’t true until the official, government-approved sources say so, and it is now, after more than 2 months: complete core meltdown in all three operating Reactors at Fukushima I.
What’s next? Recriticality, maybe, announced in two months or so?
Quick and dirty translation, subject to later revision.”
Kind of like a very few people here who suspected what was taking place..but were attacked relentlessly on this forum...
AHEM...
Just reporting reality. You have a problem with reality ? Beginning to think I was somehow transferred to an alternate universe, while I was driving through a massive West Texas wildfire a few months ago. The smoke, fire and tumbleweeds went on for hours. In this new alternate universe, exploding nuclear reactor buildings are nothing to worry about.
Yea, and that chunk of land around Hiroshima and Nagasaki has been uninhabited since we dropped bombs on them, right?
What’s that? Oh, I’m not going to get some future real estate as bargain-basement prices?
Darn.
At TMI, they also had hundreds of thousands of gallons of cooling water in the concrete structure below the vessel as well.
I still don’t see any three-headed people in eastern PA.
there never was a doubt the jamapanese were lying. They always lied at that power plant.
The only new information is the when they knew.
They voted for Obama....coincidence?
I can relate to that.....having seen it myself. I can't relate to people on FR that believe what is going on in Japan is anything more than a localized disaster. It's the same as the Texas/Oklahoma wildfires....not something you want to endure....but recoverable from a residents standpoint......frankly the Texas/Oklahoma wildfires have killed more people that the "nuclear meltdown" you are so worried about.
Was Fukushima a China Syndrome?
http://ecocentric.blogs.time.com/2011/05/16/was-fukushima-a-china-syndrome/
“Eight months after the Three Mile Island accident, “an Oak Ridge National Laboratory scientist declared, ‘Little, if any, fuel melting occurred, even though the reactor core was uncovered. The safety systems functioned reliably.’ A few years later, robotic sorties into the area revealed that half the core — not ‘little, if any’ — had melted down.””
Btw, the core in Reaction 1 melted down before the venting and the explosion..imagine what was released when those two events happened.
The readings at the actual plant,not to mention within the reactors should be something else entirely.
The Tsunami killed 30,000 or so.....what's the toll for the radiation? Make sure to link it....
And I can’t relate or even fathom people that are so clueless as to think Fukushima is a localized disaster.
The ramifications are mind boggling.
I suspect lurking behind the reluctant release of info from the beginning ..in a small part..had to do with credit default swaps and the unwinding of yen carry trades.
Japan MUST have trade surplus because of their leverage.
I repeat..MUST have trade surplus.
They are the second highest foreign owner of our debt.
A big portion of their Government Bonds are held by Japanese corporations.
The financial ramifications are huge.
And NO it does not just effect Japan.
Remember the banking crisis????
In 2008.
It didn’t just effect the US.
In case you find any of their data interesting:
http://www.tepco.co.jp/en/press/corp-com/release/betu11_e/images/110515e10.pdf
By all means, if you think radiation isn’t a problem ..go live in a house by Fukushima and eat the fish and the produce etc.
I can’t relate to your cluelessness.
This is a HUGE event for the entire world.
But keep your blinders on...
Or perhaps you just don’t understand global economic ramifications...
I'll ask you again. What is the death count from the Fukushima "melt downs".
Awesome!!
Let's fire up those coal plants and hunt for whales once again.
If you want to get rid of nuclear; let's hear your solutions for generating abundant; inexpensive electricity?
Because the rest of world is leaving us in the dust:
http://www.world-nuclear.org/info/inf17.html
And don't forget coal:
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