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Breaking:Explosion at Tepco's Fukushima Daiichi plant heard around 0630 GMT
reuters ^ | 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: spokeshave; Irishguy

The whole building went up!


561 posted on 03/12/2011 4:35:10 AM PST by spunkets
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To: justa-hairyape
From Hot Air....

Report: Meltdown at Japan reactor may be underway

BREAKING NEWS: Radioactive Cesium detected near Fukushima plant: nuke safety commission.

I take it that, if true, the cesium thing is very bad?

562 posted on 03/12/2011 4:38:32 AM PST by mewzilla (Hey, Schumer, your Lockerbie report left quite a bit out.)
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To: Jonah Hex

Jonah,

I think you nailed it. A high order hydrogen explosion has completely gutted on the reactor buildings.

Remember folks how that was the big fear during Three Mile Island?

Well, it happened.

Not a good sign that the PM didn’t even mention this during his latest presser.

It is hard for the Japanese to admit that the situation is out of control. Especially a nuclear situation.


563 posted on 03/12/2011 4:39:06 AM PST by Milwaukee_Guy (Don't hit them between the eyes. Hit them right -in- the eyes!)
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To: greedo

:)


564 posted on 03/12/2011 4:41:08 AM PST by fatima (Free Hugs Today :))
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To: justa-hairyape
"there was definitely a darker spherical cloud obscured within the grey blast clouds"

Could be insulation....

if the main reactor was exploded...you would expect to see a shower of valves...pipes...motors...and miscellaneous industrial debris......we saw none of that. ...

recall the video of the dead whale that was exploded with some boxes of dynamite...body parts ..bones...and lumps of blubber spread all around.

565 posted on 03/12/2011 4:41:29 AM PST by spokeshave (WTF....the only thing 0bambi's investments will get us is a bullet train to bankruptcy.)
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To: rawhide

http://www.tepco.co.jp/en/press/corp-com/release/11031221-e.html

latest release sounds like hell.


566 posted on 03/12/2011 4:42:12 AM PST by winoneforthegipper ("If you can't ride two horses at once, you probably shouldn't be in the circus" - SP)
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To: spokeshave

What would you see if the reactor had already internally melted down ?


567 posted on 03/12/2011 4:42:41 AM PST by justa-hairyape
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To: spokeshave
crap that was a funny video....the old guy behind the Buick was rendered unconscious by flyin bludder

there is one for the grandkids huh

568 posted on 03/12/2011 4:43:42 AM PST by advertising guy (.......... I don't crap anymore....... I Kathy Griffin...........)
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To: chessplayer
Yup. Unless a breakthrough in fusion power is made, energy from nuke plants is finished.

Only for the Chicken Little United States!

569 posted on 03/12/2011 4:44:07 AM PST by newzjunkey
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To: sunmars

The MSM will report it onl when they can use it as a tool to help the left push their agenda. Should be any day now with our desire to drill baby drill, they’ll use this news as an excuse not to.


570 posted on 03/12/2011 4:44:17 AM PST by snippy_about_it (Looking for our Sam Adams)
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To: Secret Agent Man

Was that why the explosion at Chernobyl was so big? That took a thousand-ton concrete roof and blew it apart like it was particleboard. I always thought it was just a violent steam release but I couldn’t imagine a steam release being able to do that. Hydrogen, on the other hand...

}:-)4


571 posted on 03/12/2011 4:44:27 AM PST by Moose4 ("By all that you hold dear on this good Earth, I bid you stand, Men of the West!")
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Oh Oh BTTT


572 posted on 03/12/2011 4:45:52 AM PST by DollyCali (Don't tell God how big your storm is... tell your storm how BIG your God is!)
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To: mewzilla
Posted on FR 7 hours ago: Radioactive Cesium detected near fukushima.
573 posted on 03/12/2011 4:47:28 AM PST by newzjunkey
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To: newzjunkey

Thx!


574 posted on 03/12/2011 4:48:02 AM PST by mewzilla (Hey, Schumer, your Lockerbie report left quite a bit out.)
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To: mewzilla

Definitely been at least a partial meltdown. Apparently that is what the presence of the Cesium indicates. So we know we have had at least a partial meltdown of a reactor that also experienced an explosion that blew away the housing building.


575 posted on 03/12/2011 4:48:20 AM PST by justa-hairyape
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To: Revel

That almost looks like concrete dust as much as it does smoke. Maybe it’s a trick of the light but that appears about the same color as the dust cloud from the WTC collapses, which would lead me to think it’s from the shell of the building collapsing.

}:-)4


576 posted on 03/12/2011 4:48:34 AM PST by Moose4 ("By all that you hold dear on this good Earth, I bid you stand, Men of the West!")
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To: justa-hairyape

The photo was captured from a tv screen. That’s what you are seeing.


577 posted on 03/12/2011 4:48:34 AM PST by snippy_about_it (Looking for our Sam Adams)
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To: fatima

So, are you saying the big secondary containment structure—that mass of concrete and steel—is essentially gone?


578 posted on 03/12/2011 4:49:43 AM PST by oceanagirl
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To: Lady Heron

The plants that can use steam to pump coooling water seem to be fine. The older plants that depended on diesel generators to supply emergency back up power seem to be the problem. That seems to be because they got deluged with sea water. That can be solved with better design also.

It it the support systems that caused the failure, not the nuclear plant. The earthquake should be a ringing endorsement of nuclear power when properly designed.


579 posted on 03/12/2011 4:54:26 AM PST by listenhillary (Social Justice is the epitome of injustice.)
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To: newzjunkey
Not an alarmist...been fed the greatness of nuclear power most of my life. The problem is that I was also fed some of the problems with the locations of some of these plants from one who worked on the problem of future disasters that could happen and the planning for those disasters...and not just in the nuke industry.

It is not like we did not know New Orleans was a ticking time bomb for at least 20 years I knew of and did nothing to solve the problem before it happened because the politics there were a disaster. There were plans in place for that disaster because we knew it was coming, that the governor did not allow to be implemented.

There are problem dams built in stupid places also...the question is what to do about things like nuclear plants built in stupid places because worse case scenarios do happen(believe me I understand the unlikelihood of the plant being hit by a massive earthquake and then a tsunami getting seawater into the generators of the cooling system destroying them, if that is what happened) and once that worse case scenario happens it is to late and lets face it a dam breaking and the loss of life is horrible but a nuclear plant breaking does not compare and it puts at risk other nuclear plants being allowed to operate due to politics.

So placing a nuke plant in an earthquake tsunami zone or smack dab on a fault line to me just smacks of stupidity, but then I think sometimes common sense needs using.

580 posted on 03/12/2011 4:56:43 AM PST by Lady Heron
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