Japan's nuclear power plant problems - merged
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Bodah @ Sat Mar 12, 2011 2:08 am
Shit. That's the last thing we need is another Chernobyl.
martin14 @ Sat Mar 12, 2011 2:08 am
PublicAnimalNo9 PublicAnimalNo9:
Hmmmm, now who was it that was yammering on in another thread about how safe nuclear power is?
I have grave doubts they can prevent this disaster but man, I wish 'em all the luck I can muster.
I have grave doubts they can prevent this disaster but man, I wish 'em all the luck I can muster.
Probably me.
This is not funny: video of reactor No1 exploding.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pg4uogOEUrU
Hyack @ Sat Mar 12, 2011 2:15 am
WTF.....we now have 6 stories running on the nuclear power plant problems..... time to do some merging of the stories... 
PublicAnimalNo9 @ Sat Mar 12, 2011 2:25 am
martin14 martin14:
PublicAnimalNo9 PublicAnimalNo9:
Hmmmm, now who was it that was yammering on in another thread about how safe nuclear power is?
I have grave doubts they can prevent this disaster but man, I wish 'em all the luck I can muster.
I have grave doubts they can prevent this disaster but man, I wish 'em all the luck I can muster.
Probably me.
This is not funny: video of reactor No1 exploding.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pg4uogOEUrU
Oooops
I didn't mean to suggest you said that. I just remember someone going on about it.
Hyack @ Sat Mar 12, 2011 2:35 am
Huge blast at Japan nuclear power plant
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A huge pall of smoke was seen coming from the plant at Fukushima and several workers were injured.
Japanese officials fear a meltdown at one of the plant's reactors after radioactive material was detected outside it.
A huge relief operation is under way after the 8.9-magnitude earthquake and tsunami, which killed more than 600.
Hundreds more people are missing and it is feared about 1,300 may have died.
The offshore earthquake triggered a tsunami which wreaked havoc on Japan's north-east coast, sweeping far inland and devastating a number of towns and villages.
Japan's Prime Minister Naoto Kan declared a state of emergency at the Fukushima 1 and 2 power plants as engineers try to confirm whether a reactor at one of the stations has gone into meltdown.
It is an automatic procedure after nuclear reactors shut down in the event of an earthquake, allowing officials to take rapid action.
Television pictures showed a massive blast at one of the buildings of the Fukushima 1 plant, about 250km (160 miles) north-east of Tokyo.
A huge cloud of smoke billows out and large bits of debris are flung far from the building.
Japan's NHK TV showed before and after pictures of the plant. They appeared to show that the outer structure of one of four buildings at the plant had collapsed after the explosion.
The Tokyo Electric Power Co, the plant's operator, said several workers had been injured.
Cooling systems inside several reactors at both the Fukushima plants stopped working after Friday's earthquake cut the power supply.
Japan's nuclear agency said on Saturday that radioactive caesium and iodine had been detected near the number one reactor of the Fukushima 1 plant.
The agency said this may indicate that containers of uranium fuel inside the reactor may have begun melting.
Air has been released from several of the reactors at both plants in an effort to relieve the huge amount of pressure building up inside.
Mr Kan said the amount of radiation released was "tiny".
Thousands of people have been ordered to evacuate the area near the plants. BBC correspondent Nick Ravenscroft said police stopped him 60km from the Fukushima 1 plant.
Analysts say a meltdown would not necessarily lead to a major disaster because light-water reactors would not explode even if they overheated.
The 8.9-magnitude tremor struck in the afternoon local time on Friday off the coast of Honshu island at a depth of about 24km, 400km (250 miles) north-east of Tokyo.
It was nearly 8,000 times stronger than last month's quake in New Zealand that devastated the city of Christchurch, scientists said.
Some of the same search and rescue teams from around the world that helped in that disaster are now on their way to Japan.
Japanese officials fear a meltdown at one of the plant's reactors after radioactive material was detected outside it.
A huge relief operation is under way after the 8.9-magnitude earthquake and tsunami, which killed more than 600.
Hundreds more people are missing and it is feared about 1,300 may have died.
The offshore earthquake triggered a tsunami which wreaked havoc on Japan's north-east coast, sweeping far inland and devastating a number of towns and villages.
Japan's Prime Minister Naoto Kan declared a state of emergency at the Fukushima 1 and 2 power plants as engineers try to confirm whether a reactor at one of the stations has gone into meltdown.
It is an automatic procedure after nuclear reactors shut down in the event of an earthquake, allowing officials to take rapid action.
Television pictures showed a massive blast at one of the buildings of the Fukushima 1 plant, about 250km (160 miles) north-east of Tokyo.
A huge cloud of smoke billows out and large bits of debris are flung far from the building.
Japan's NHK TV showed before and after pictures of the plant. They appeared to show that the outer structure of one of four buildings at the plant had collapsed after the explosion.
The Tokyo Electric Power Co, the plant's operator, said several workers had been injured.
Cooling systems inside several reactors at both the Fukushima plants stopped working after Friday's earthquake cut the power supply.
Japan's nuclear agency said on Saturday that radioactive caesium and iodine had been detected near the number one reactor of the Fukushima 1 plant.
The agency said this may indicate that containers of uranium fuel inside the reactor may have begun melting.
Air has been released from several of the reactors at both plants in an effort to relieve the huge amount of pressure building up inside.
Mr Kan said the amount of radiation released was "tiny".
Thousands of people have been ordered to evacuate the area near the plants. BBC correspondent Nick Ravenscroft said police stopped him 60km from the Fukushima 1 plant.
Analysts say a meltdown would not necessarily lead to a major disaster because light-water reactors would not explode even if they overheated.
The 8.9-magnitude tremor struck in the afternoon local time on Friday off the coast of Honshu island at a depth of about 24km, 400km (250 miles) north-east of Tokyo.
It was nearly 8,000 times stronger than last month's quake in New Zealand that devastated the city of Christchurch, scientists said.
Some of the same search and rescue teams from around the world that helped in that disaster are now on their way to Japan.
martin14 @ Sat Mar 12, 2011 3:10 am
The evacuation zone around Fukushima has been expanded to 20km.
ShepherdsDog @ Sat Mar 12, 2011 3:34 am
You reading the idiot anti nuke comments?
martin14 @ Sat Mar 12, 2011 3:37 am
Reuters..
http://live.reuters.com/Event/Japan_earthquake2
ShepherdsDog @ Sat Mar 12, 2011 3:38 am
I have it up as well as the NHK broadcast.
PostFactum @ Sat Mar 12, 2011 3:44 am
My condolences to Japan. The second time when they suffer from nuclear stuff. Today I've heared that poland was proposing it's help to them. That's weird, I hope they'll rebuild as soon as possible.
desertdude @ Sat Mar 12, 2011 8:20 am
I have been glued to NHK since yesterday, watching the Tsunami roll in was surreal. Something you see in disaster movies. What surprised me even after such a big tremor was that majority of the buildings survived, mostly intact, goes to show that all those quake proofing did its job well.
What really did them in was the double blow of the huge tsunami afterwards. We were really worried as it predictied that one of the first countries the Tsunami was to hit after Japan was the Phillipines and Mrs being from there has a lot of family there but fortunately it was nothing more than just a few waves there. Although a evacuation order was given to move inland and to higher ground.
My heart goes out to the victims, their families and people affected by this. Watching it unfold on TV was nothing short of frightning. Seeing people trying to flee the path of the wave. When you realise that everyhouse car or farm the wave from engulfing belonged to someone and just hoping no one was in it.
I think a round of kudos to the Japanese govt for giving out as much forewarning as they could about the on comming flood and probably save thousands of lives.
As for the reactor I hope it does not get any worse and that it is brought under control as soon as possible. NHK is reporting that 3 people have been found to be contaminated from radition out of a test of 900 and they are increasing the evacuation zone from 10 to 20kms.
I dunno how to comment on this. All other fail safes in other reactors worked save for this one as the diesel gennies failed to kick in to cool the core.
So wheter this was a win that majority of the fail safes one or wheter this was a fail that even one not working when it comes to nuclear power is one too many ?
ShepherdsDog @ Sat Mar 12, 2011 8:28 am
it was less than 30cm when it hit China and Taiwan. The Philippines would get even less seeing it's tucked in behind Taiwan. Mother Nature likes to use typhoons to kick the Flips around.
desertdude @ Sat Mar 12, 2011 8:55 am
It was an all around much better situation but after the Xmas day Tsunami which reached and wreacked havoc thousands of miles away, people were expecting something similar. Thank God that wasn't this case this time round.
desertdude @ Sat Mar 12, 2011 8:56 am
http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2011/0 ... japan.html
Proculation @ Sat Mar 12, 2011 11:29 am
@desertdude: There's almost no jews in Japan 
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