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Breaking:Explosion at Tepco's Fukushima Daiichi plant heard around 0630 GMT
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| 3-12-11
Posted on 03/12/2011 12:02:10 AM PST by rawhide
Just in:
Explosion at Tepco's Fukushima Daiichi plant heard around 0630 GMT
NHK footage shows steam-like smoke coming from Tepco's Fukushima plant
(Excerpt) Read more at live.reuters.com ...
TOPICS: Breaking News; Extended News; Japan; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: bwr; daiichi; disaster; doomage; fukushima; fukushima1; japan; japanearthquake; nuclear; radiation
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To: Red Badger
A steam explosion from an overstressed pipe is possible... That's also my uneducated guess, but we'll have to wait for on-site reports to know for sure.
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posted on
03/12/2011 12:14:03 AM PST
by
Windflier
(To anger a conservative, tell him a lie. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth.)
To: rawhide
we need to watch prevailing winds
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posted on
03/12/2011 12:15:03 AM PST
by
blueplum
To: rawhide
Could be many possibilities. Don’t jujp yet. Let’s all wait for Jack Lemon and Jane Fonda to report the hype in the sequel to “China Syndrome”. Except China is sideways from Japan.....
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posted on
03/12/2011 12:15:12 AM PST
by
SERKIT
("Blazing Saddles" explains it all......)
To: Red Badger
Then what else would explode?...... back up generator or transformer overload..could be a fuel storage tank heated up.
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posted on
03/12/2011 12:16:16 AM PST
by
spokeshave
(WTF....the only thing 0bambi's investments will get us is a bullet train to bankruptcy.)
To: Red Badger
Lots of equipent at a nuke plant capable of exploding, fuel tanks for generators, secondary pressurized vessels, large electrical components, etc. I am frankly surpised to hear talk of a meltdown, as more modern designs account pretty well for loss of coolant accidents (LOCA). Routine subject matter for drills here. Maybe an older plant?
To: All
Latest from Reuters feed:
Several people appear to be injured at Fukushima nuclear plant - NHK
by Reuters_TonyTharakan at 2:03 AM
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posted on
03/12/2011 12:18:01 AM PST
by
Windflier
(To anger a conservative, tell him a lie. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth.)
To: rawhide
Outer structure of building that houses reactor at Fukushima plant appears to have blown off - NHK
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posted on
03/12/2011 12:19:24 AM PST
by
rawhide
To: All
Just in:
Outer structure of building that houses reactor at Fukushima plant appears to have blown off - NHK
by Reuters_TonyTharakan at 2:12 AM
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posted on
03/12/2011 12:19:34 AM PST
by
Windflier
(To anger a conservative, tell him a lie. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth.)
To: rawhide
Certainly don’t want to jump to conclusions, but it’s hard to see an explosion as a positive thing. This is very serious.
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posted on
03/12/2011 12:20:05 AM PST
by
americanophile
("this absurd theology of an immoral Bedouin, is a rotting corpse which poisons our lives"-Ataturk)
To: Springfield Reformer
billowing grey smoke on NHK etc
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posted on
03/12/2011 12:20:21 AM PST
by
AmericanInTokyo
(IF Obama is REELECTED (not an impossibility) then what'll that have said re: what America's become?)
To: Freddd
I'm not fluent in current Japanese designs. I hope the box is sturdy enough. If the structure fails, all bets are off. Some run-off is inevitable though IMO.
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posted on
03/12/2011 12:21:05 AM PST
by
allmost
To: rawhide
To: americanophile
And there are 4 more under Nuclear Emergency....
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posted on
03/12/2011 12:21:47 AM PST
by
Freddd
To: rawhide
Outer structure of building that houses reactor at Fukushima plant appears to have blown off - NHK
The containment building? I would hope not...
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posted on
03/12/2011 12:21:47 AM PST
by
dragnet2
(Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
To: blueplum
The jet stream isnt gonna change anytime soon i hope.for good or bad.
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posted on
03/12/2011 12:22:40 AM PST
by
Nooseman
(mutt)
To: rawhide
Japan Nuclear Safety Agency: has heard explosion was not at reactor Thanks! That's a good thing.
To: dragnet2
Well radiation isn’t supposed to be in the control room either, but it was...
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posted on
03/12/2011 12:23:02 AM PST
by
Freddd
To: Springfield Reformer
1971 plant.
Diesel doesnt explode without a whole lot of help......
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posted on
03/12/2011 12:23:29 AM PST
by
Red Badger
(How can anyone look at the situation in Libya and be for gun control is beyond stupid. It's suicide.)
To: Windflier
That certainly doesn’t sound very good!
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posted on
03/12/2011 12:23:29 AM PST
by
smokingfrog
( BORN free - taxed to DEATH (and beyond) ...)
To: Red Badger
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