From the Blaze blog:
12:34 a.m. – Meltdown Warning
Ominous warnings posted by Kyodo:
BREAKING NEWS: Fukushima nuke plant might be experiencing nuclear meltdown
BREAKING NEWS: Radioactive Cesium detected near Fukushima plant: nuke safety commission
Cesium found outside the plant suggests a reactor may have started melting, as cesium is a byproduct of a nuclear chain reaction.
Japanese officials are urging the public not to panic, saying that a possible meltdown would not affect any humans outside of a six-mile radius of the plant. Not sure if that is going to relieve fears.
Jimmy Carter’s fault?
TOKYO, March 12, Kyodo
http://english.kyodonews.jp/news/2011/03/77025.html
The core at Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant's No. 1 reactor may be partially melting, the nuclear safety agency said Saturday.
Radioactive substance cesium was detected around the reactor, it said.
==Kyodo
Live Japan TV: http://wwitv.com/tv_channels/6810.htm
This is going to make it harder for the rest of us to have nuclear power.
Radioactive iodine—
Anyone know if this kind of nuclear reacort would be relaesing I-131? I have KI at home and so do others
“Historically, I-131 releases have occurred most frequently after incidents involving nuclear reactors (e.g., Chernobyl).”
Radioactive iodine—
Anyone know if this kind of nuclear reactor would be releasing I-131? I have KI at home and so do others
“Historically, I-131 releases have occurred most frequently after incidents involving nuclear reactors (e.g., Chernobyl).”
Have they ever tested for cesium before?
There are thousands of people dead from fallen building bridges and drowned.
Probably tens of thousands injured from falling debris.
Possibly hundred of thousands homeless.
Billions of dollars lost in properties.
People accept all those acute deaths, injuries and losses as part of a devastating natural disaster.
Yet, let a few rads of radiation escape from a nuclear plant - something that at worse may cause a few people to receive an exposure similar to what you get flying cross country or living in a high elevation town like Denver, and the panic level shoots to the moon.
At worse this can be like three-mile-island, where nobody died or was injured (except when tripping as they were running away in the media generated panic!)
Compared to the other devastation, having some reactor fuel melt and a bit of radiation released is a picnic in the park.
I wish the media wouldn’t contribute to the hysteria by exaggerating the comparatively small danger. This is not Chernobyl! (Not that the damage and lives lost from that compares to the losses from this Tsunami).
Breaking: Explosion at Tepco’s Fukushima Daiichi plant heard around 0630 GMT (Rueters) http://live.reuters.com/Event/Japan_earthquake2