Posted on 03/18/2011 6:27:47 PM PDT by Sprite518
0403: Tepco says temperatures have fallen in the spent nuclear fuel pool at reactor 5, reports Kyodo.
0349: The operator of the Fukushima power plant says engineers have bored holes in the roofs of the buildings housing reactors 5 and 6 to avoid a potential gas explosion, reports AFP.
Just how much food are they exporting right now ? That is what the British embassy in Tokyo is currently telling its citizens.
Advice on the risk of food contamination around Fukushima nuclear plant
Too busy to follow up on these posts this weekend. Stay save.
If the rest of your factual content is as badly wrong as this, it's no wonder you're scared. NO nuclear reactor is "1000 ft tall". Even the cooling towers, which are far and away the tallest structures at a nuke plant, aren't that high. The actual height is ~150 FEET.
I'd just be happy to see some REAL DATA about actual levels of radioactivity in the immediate area, so it can be determined just how dangerous it is, and for whom. Most of what we've gotten is speculation and hysteria from supposed 'nuclear experts', who are actually anti nuclear power activists, who are muddying the waters for their own personal agenda.
Are you talking about the explosions that happened a couple of days ago? Those were not the reactors exploding. Those were the buildings surrounding the containment vessels, and you can see the steel supports still standing after the 'skin' was blown off by the pressure build up inside the buildings. That was from pressure being taken off the reactors by the plant managers.
Again, I want DATA, not 'hair on fire' speculation by people with an agenda. The fact that those plants are not smoking holes in the ground already, after a 9.0 earthquake and a 10 meter tsunami is amazing, and speaks to good design, and plain hard work on the part of those who are trying to get the situation under control.
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