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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: presently no screen name

The external containment concrete dome seems to have gone, in the TV footage. That seems to be confirmed.


61 posted on 03/12/2011 12:32:58 AM PST by J Aguilar (Fiat Justitia et ruat coelum)
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To: Freddd
The operation at Fukushima No.1 plant to lower pressure of the containment vessel has been suspended due to high radiation levels at the site.

Those are definitely the conditions that can lead to an explosion with white smoke.

62 posted on 03/12/2011 12:33:03 AM PST by justa-hairyape
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To: sushiman
Would you believe we in Japan are just getting this news NOW ?

You are? I'm on the Eastcoast USA and watching NHK english live online for the last 3 hours and they've been updating by the second. They are showing before and after pictures of the blast.

You're not watching the taped version of Fox are you?

You may want to turn it on. They just gave instructions about washing yourself after going outside and avoiding fresh vegetables and other preparedness instructions when called for.

63 posted on 03/12/2011 12:33:07 AM PST by tsowellfan
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To: americanophile

Surely there’s more that can be done.

-——I think they’ve been doing all they could...and I also think, the reason the headlines are being dribbled out like they have been is because they knew it was coming to this..


64 posted on 03/12/2011 12:33:24 AM PST by Freddd
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To: All

Comment from the Reuters feed:

The outside of the building would be the secondary containment boundary. We need to hope that the primary containment is still intact.
comment by nuketoo at 2:26 AM


65 posted on 03/12/2011 12:33:27 AM PST by Windflier (To anger a conservative, tell him a lie. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth.)
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To: rawhide
Rueters Live (blog): "Outer structure of building that houses reactor at Fukushima plant appears to have blown off - NHK"

Not good. Not good at all.
66 posted on 03/12/2011 12:33:27 AM PST by advance_copy (Stand for life or nothing at all)
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To: J Aguilar

wow...


67 posted on 03/12/2011 12:33:51 AM PST by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: rawhide

This is it for nuke plants, sadly.


68 posted on 03/12/2011 12:34:37 AM PST by Tolsti2
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To: Freddd

before and after pic are very disturbing

the before picture showed 4 buildings the largest on the left..

the after pics show that building on the left is GONE


69 posted on 03/12/2011 12:35:31 AM PST by janetjanet998
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To: tsowellfan

I’m watching NHK live on TV .


70 posted on 03/12/2011 12:35:36 AM PST by sushiman
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To: rawhide

Wow.. This is some very serious business.


71 posted on 03/12/2011 12:35:36 AM PST by Lancey Howard
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To: janetjanet998

Could I get a link to that?


72 posted on 03/12/2011 12:36:07 AM PST by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: Lancey Howard

This is it baby


73 posted on 03/12/2011 12:36:07 AM PST by Tolsti2
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To: Carling

I heard CNN this morning say that some parts of the main island have reducted under the sea permanently ala Indonesia. I haven’t heard that from Fox, however. Lower sea level would explain why the tsunami came inland 6 miles in some areas.

blurb from AFP: FOCUS News Agency

Home / World

Tokyo. An explosion was heard Saturday from a quake-hit Japanese nuclear plant and smoke was seen billowing from it, as several workers were injured and radioactivity rose 20-fold outside, reports said, cited by AFP.
http://www.focus-fen.net/?id=n244320


74 posted on 03/12/2011 12:36:19 AM PST by blueplum
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Above 900 C the Zircaloy cladding around the fuel reacts with steam to produce hydrogen. This is a likely source of the hydrogen for an explosion when they vented the vessel.

The plant generator may also be cooled by hydrogen, that would be another source.

If the former, then the fuel integrity has definitely been compromised.


75 posted on 03/12/2011 12:36:34 AM PST by Royal Wulff
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To: Lancey Howard

NHK giving out nuclear safety warning to viewers about what to do, on food, water and other stuff.


76 posted on 03/12/2011 12:36:37 AM PST by sunmars
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To: J Aguilar
That seems to be confirmed.

YES. Radiation has been detected.
77 posted on 03/12/2011 12:37:05 AM PST by presently no screen name
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To: tsowellfan
...watching NHK english live online for the last 3 hours

Gotta a link handy for the rest of us?

78 posted on 03/12/2011 12:37:17 AM PST by Windflier (To anger a conservative, tell him a lie. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth.)
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To: rawhide

Standard operating procedure. This conforms to common exercise scenarios andprocedures, so the dispatch of a field team does not indicate the extent of contamination. They are used to confirm or deny projected release path for gasious effluents based on plume projection models, etc.


79 posted on 03/12/2011 12:37:21 AM PST by Springfield Reformer (Winston Churchill: No Peace Till Victory!)
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To: Windflier

See post number 27. And then learn something from it. Man is arrogant to think that he can plan against all things in nature.

There are many ways in which things can go wrong. For instance if a good sized meteor struck the ocean within hundreds of miles from Japan then it would have been all over for those plants in hours...Not days. We now know that waves of water are more a threat than an earth quake. Now it is possible that thousands of people might die over time, and that land may not be livable again during mans reign. That is if this gets as bad as it can get. And I admit that we don’t know yet. Some things are not worth the risk. I won’t respond to personal attacks- so please don’t bother. Anyone who knows me knows that I am as far from being a leftist as you can get.


80 posted on 03/12/2011 12:38:13 AM PST by Revel
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