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

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Wherebouts is "here"?

Are you saying they still have the remains of a boat at all? I'd think if boats can withstand it, and you're on the coast, your best bet is to get in your boat and go like hell, strait for the wave to hit it as far from shore as possible...

That is to say, you're close enough that boats got destroyed, but you're alive?

 

Japan Disaster! Hit By 8.9 Earthquake, Huge Tsunami

 

Here is Northern California. The several harbors nearby got totally demolished by 8 foot waves. A couple people got washed out to sea, but they got rescued. I didn't see it first hand because the area was evacuated, but I've seen a couple youtube videos of the damage.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aBVKuWhKOig"]YouTube - Japan Earthquake, Whirlpool off the Coast 3/11/2011

 

Also.. radiation levels are 8 times higher in the Fukushima Nuclear Plant area


GODZILLA!!!!!!!!

 

Photos: http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2011/03/massive_earthquake_hits_japan.html

 

My stomach sank when I seen the roof blow off one of their Nuclear reactors... this is really really really bad... in the long term I think could be worse than the earthquake and tsunami combined.

 

Did one or two rods blow up? Will more blow any minute? The jet stream carrying the clouds of radiation is what I'm worried about. Will the radiation clouds disperse before the jet stream gets to the US? The news isnt saying much. WTH?

 

They say the reactor core never blew. It was a secondary concrete barrier outside the core that filled with hydrogen gas. The core was venting out of control and is now exposed, not Chernobyl yet but still not good.

 

What I don't understand is how these power stations failed to get power to operate them. They ARE the power! So I am assuming they are powered from the national grid then, which went down.... WHY isn't there a safety procedure in place where they can tap some of the energy being generated in the nuclear cores to power the station in emergencies like this?

 

Good point. At the least have some big Caterpillar generator back ups. Even factories an hospitals have diesel generator back ups.

 

The core is most likely in the "meltdown" stage at this point.

 

There is. The problem with an Old staion like this. Its remains to be Analog equipment of some type.. Unlike new reactors, the digital protection is much much faster than Analog. This causes delays in substation relay power to back up pumps, vents, cranes to lift plates of active material quickly...

I think this is some the things you guys are failing to understand about electricity. Its not lighting speed as you think it may be.

This facility rocked very fast back and forth with hundreds of machine parts rocking with it.. With humans at the controls floating in the building unable to gain control, and get to sections fast enough to use manual equipment. There is also a Fire: protection precautions for human beings in the Unit comes first, the people outside 2nd. If the operators dont respond rationally inside, the outside is doomed..

Inside the facility they may limit their communication with the general public as long as its been evacuated. Likely the public will think the worse til operations return to normal.. And even after all Safe is called, the question is. Can the reactor survive another earthquake...

Where Japan has failed this time around. Its sure now to dominate the world in repairing its infrastructure alone, to be 10.0 Quake proof ..

 

I trust the authorities.:sunny:

 

For more than a day??? :?

Yes it is!

That's a fair point but from what I gathered 10 reactors had failed to get power.

 

From: http://english.aljazeera.net/news/asia-pacific/2011/03/20113124353222667.html

 

A nuclear power stations backup, comes from Coal or Oil/Gas powered energy next door to its own. If the quake knocked out this first. I think its safe to say the power plant is heavily disabled..

 

I'm no genius with this stuff, but I'd assume that based on the way the land is and how prone they are to these kind of disasters, it's rather tough to have an emergency plan in place. Its one of those situations where they'd have to rely on their neighbors and other nations for help.

And I agree with orison on this one when it comes to learning from their mistake. It usually takes a disaster like this for nations to realize how to build in order to prevent structural damage in these instances. Look at the plans for the trade centers after 9/11...they had all kinds of structural plans for these things to cause the least amount of damage if they happened again...

 

Apparently this morning one of those nuclear reactors exploded.