Japan Disaster! Hit By 9.0 Earthquake, Huge Tsunami, Nukes Meltdown

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  1. Logan 5

    Logan 5 Confessed gynephile Lifetime Supporter

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    Actually, there is. Provided we can safely get the rods into orbit. There was a paper done on by a professor of the University of Utah about using the sun to deal with the rods.

    Something worth mentioning though, IF they utilized todays technology correctly, they could reuse those rods.
     
  2. sunfighter

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    Yes, but I think we need to wait until we have a safer way to send it to the sun. Explosive rockets are not the way.
     
  3. Logan 5

    Logan 5 Confessed gynephile Lifetime Supporter

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    Like I said, provided we can do it safely. Which isn't very likely.
     
  4. midgardsun

    midgardsun Senior Member

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    meltdown
     
  5. midgardsun

    midgardsun Senior Member

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    http://atomicpowerreview.blogspot.com/

    Low reactor water level may have caused fuel rods to melt
    http://edition.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/a...ion&utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter


    Water leaking from No.1 reactor

    http://www.nuc.berkeley.edu/node/3918

    Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO) said Thursday the problem became evident when workers finally were able to enter the building and adjust water gauges in the unit. The company previously thought the water was about one meter below the top of the nuclear fuel rods. Instead, it is actually below the rods - leaving them completely exposed.

    A company manager told reporters that fuel pellets probably melted and fell, creating a hole at the bottom of the reactor vessel.

    http://www.voanews.com/english/news...at-Japanese-Plant-Were-Exposed-121711744.html


    Tokyo Electric Power Co. [TEPCO], the operator of the Japan’s crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, revealed Thursday that one of the plant’s reactors likely suffered a substantial meltdown of its core, and is now leaking water from holes in the pressure vessel, as well as from the containment vessel that surrounds it.
    http://wallstreetpit.com/74870-water-leaking-from-fukushimas-no-1-nuke-reactor-tepco


    Japan's gov't spokesperson slams TEPCO for latest nuke leak

    TOKYO, May 12 (Xinhua) -- Japan's Chief Cabinet Secretary Yukio Edano slammed Tokyo Electric Power Co. (TEPCO) on Thursday, saying it was deplorable that the utility firm could allow another leak to occur from the stricken Fukushima No.1 nuclear plant.

    Japan's top government spokesperson said that the highly radioactive leak that was announced by TEPCO on Wednesday and subsequently stopped, threatened not only Japan's marine environment but potentially a host of other countries' too....


    Japan Government Fails To Agree On Tepco Aid Plan
    http://online.wsj.com/article/BT-CO-20110512-715551.html

    Live Blog:
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  6. midgardsun

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  7. jdd

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    here is a nuclear expert giving straight talk on the danger of fukashima
    in laymans terms

    Fukushima - One Step Forward and Four Steps Back as Each Unit Challenged by New Problems
    http://www.fairewinds.com/updates

    http://www.7he7ruth.com/fukashima-f47.html
     
  8. skip

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    Uh, they do reuse the rods. In fact most of the rods at Fukushima are reprocessed uranium that came from previously used rods. The difference is the used rods now contain high amounts of plutonium which is even more dangerous than the uranium.

    And it is that plutonium that will remain active long after the iodine and cesium have dissipated. The used rods will also start melting at a lower temp than the original uranium rods.

    BTW, I was watching some news about Fukushima where they were discussing the current state of Reactor #3 and it sounds far worse than Reactor #1 which everyone seems more concerned about here... Reactors 2, 3 & 4 all contain reprocessed uranium rods.
     
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    Japan reactor leak 'serious setback'

    Radioactive water pouring from troubled reactors is hindering efforts to bring the nuclear power plant under control.

    Japan's crippled nuclear power plant has been damaged more severely than originally thought, officials said, a serious setback for efforts to stabilise the radiation-leaking complex, leaving the portion of the fuel rods still intact fully exposed.

    Nuclear Industrial and Safety Agency officials said the new data indicates that it is likely that partially melted fuel had fallen to the bottom of the pressurised vessel that holds the reactor core together and possibly leaked down into the drywell soon after the March 11 quake and tsunami that struck Japan's northeastern coast.

    Other fuel has slumped to the bottom of the pressure vessel and is thought to be covered in water.


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  14. MayQueen~420~

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    This is terrible and will severely effect Japan's marine life for years to come.
     
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    Will the radiation cloud have dispersed to the point of little or no danger?
     
  17. midgardsun

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    Interesting Factoid from the Time Mag article comments.

    Chernobyl contained 180 tons of radioactive material

    Fukushima contains 2000 tons of even more dangerous radioactive material.

    Chernobyl released most of its radioactivity in one go, Fukushima is dragging it out for months so far, perhaps years. And more melting of the cores is possible.

    And the media has gone mostly silent on this subject now.
     
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    Ive heard workers inside are earning $5000.00 a day.. Imagine all that pay and never being able to spend it. It will go to their families I suppose.. :(
     
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    Then he is angry inside, but he continues to reflectively own the truth of this Material Reality. He realizes more about the money than his idiot family.

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    The Will to Power is the Will to Truth.
     

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