Posted on 03/12/2011 12:02:10 AM PST by rawhide
The whole building went up!
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?
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.
:)
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.
What would you see if the reactor had already internally melted down ?
there is one for the grandkids huh
Only for the Chicken Little United States!
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.
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...
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Oh Oh BTTT
Thx!
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.
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.
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The photo was captured from a tv screen. That’s what you are seeing.
So, are you saying the big secondary containment structure—that mass of concrete and steel—is essentially gone?
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.
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.
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