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Japan: Fukushima No. 2 reactor temperature up to 82C, but not critical: TEPCO
Mainichi Shimbun ^
| 02/12/12
Posted on 02/12/2012 5:46:42 AM PST by TigerLikesRooster
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posted on
02/12/2012 5:48:49 AM PST
by
TigerLikesRooster
(The way to crush the bourgeois is to grind them between the millstones of taxation and inflation)
To: TigerLikesRooster
Well, as long as there's no xenon we are safe ~ safe! Arrrrrrggggggh ~ S A F E!!!
No XENON.
So, I have to ask this time why the guys in charge of this need to tell me this is not a "critical temperature". ~
NO XENON!!!!
This is an undifferentiated pile of radioactive waste materials dumped out of crushed or opened fuel rods ~ so what's in there?
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posted on
02/12/2012 5:56:39 AM PST
by
muawiyah
To: TigerLikesRooster
It seems as if they cannot control the temperature of this pile of rubble. Is there a chance that it will reach criticality? What happens then?
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posted on
02/12/2012 6:05:32 AM PST
by
Former Proud Canadian
(Obamanomics-We don't need your stinking tar sands oil, or the jobs that go with it.)
To: Former Proud Canadian
” What happens then?”
Shrimp become 2 feet long and fish have two heads.
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posted on
02/12/2012 6:09:37 AM PST
by
duckman
(Go Newt...)
To: duckman
To: Eric in the Ozarks
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posted on
02/12/2012 6:19:53 AM PST
by
muawiyah
To: Former Proud Canadian
There is zero chance of any of the reactors going critical. The reaction stopped instantly when the reactors were scrambled and the boron rods dropped. ( well not instantly but close enough )
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posted on
02/12/2012 6:24:37 AM PST
by
central_va
( I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
To: duckman
Looking forward to the 40 foot long squid. Calamari for a 1000?
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posted on
02/12/2012 6:25:45 AM PST
by
central_va
( I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
To: central_va
The sushi that ate Sendai !
To: TigerLikesRooster
in view of the margin of error of thermometers, according to TEPCO officials. These guys need a very wide margin of error.
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posted on
02/12/2012 6:45:13 AM PST
by
bgill
(Romney & Obama are both ineligible. A non-NBC GOP prez shuts down all ?s on Obama's admin)
To: central_va
Yes, and it comes with a pretty green glow that you can enjoy for days.
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posted on
02/12/2012 6:47:52 AM PST
by
autumnraine
(America how long will you be so deaf and dumb to the tumbril wheels carrying you to the guillotine?)
To: central_va
Ok, so what does it matter that the temperature is increasing?
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posted on
02/12/2012 7:25:55 AM PST
by
Former Proud Canadian
(Obamanomics-We don't need your stinking tar sands oil, or the jobs that go with it.)
To: Former Proud Canadian
Ok, if you want to fret over something the issue is not the core going critical, it can't. What may still be a concern is melt down. The core actually becoming molten, and potentially melting thru the concrete containment. A highly unlikely event.
Again there is zero threat of going critical.
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posted on
02/12/2012 7:41:09 AM PST
by
central_va
( I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
To: Former Proud Canadian
Ok, so what does it matter that the temperature is increasing? It means that the cold shutdown lie is dead. Tepco/Japan just does not want to give up on that dead horse yet. They are claiming sensor failure and that temperature is not the main metric to determine Cold Shutdown Conditions. These Japanese Nuclear engineers are starting to sound like Global Warming proponents. Warmth causes snow - Temperature has nothing to do with Cold Shutdown.
The main problem with the high temperature readings is that it means they have no clue as to what they are doing. But hey, some of us already knew that. We are in uncharted territory. We need to know what is causing the high temperature. It could be heat coming out of the hole where the corium melted reactor mess is digging into. Or it could be heat from some of the remaining as yet unmelted core that still resides in the RPV with a big hole in the bottom of it. And recriticalities have been ongoing. They have measured radioactive iodine around Japan off and on ever since last March. You see, once the core melts, there is no containment and no shutdown. The control rods have also melted.
To: justa-hairyape
All of this means they don't know why it's heating up ~ even though there is much speculation in that regard.
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posted on
02/12/2012 2:06:44 PM PST
by
muawiyah
To: muawiyah
Temperature eventually rose to 91-94 C, then Tepco did a resistance test on the Thermocouple sensor, and then it went bat crazy. Starting reading 260-280 C. Looks like something is causing temperature sensors to fail within Reactor #2. They had a similar problem in January. A temperature sensor in the lower section of the RPV rose to about 140 C, then started reading negative temps.
So temperature sensors within reactor #2 are failing after reading high temps. Tepco is losing the ability to determine what is happening within the RPV of reactor #2.
To: justa-hairyape
At the same time they are telling us it’s not returning to criticality ~ or something like that ~ RETURNING? It’s been there? ~ without sensors they are blind.
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posted on
02/13/2012 5:39:24 AM PST
by
muawiyah
To: muawiyah
Seems like they are experiencing a new problem each week.
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posted on
02/13/2012 10:16:46 AM PST
by
freebird5850
(Of course Obama loves his country...it's just that Newt loves mine!)
To: justa-hairyape
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posted on
02/13/2012 6:47:47 PM PST
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chimera
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