nebula Posted March 15, 2011 Group: Royal Member Followers: 10 Topic Count: 5,823 Topics Per Day: 0.75 Content Count: 45,870 Content Per Day: 5.93 Reputation: 1,897 Days Won: 83 Joined: 03/22/2003 Status: Offline Birthday: 11/19/1970 Share Posted March 15, 2011 http://bravenewclimate.com/2011/03/15/fukushima-15-march-summary/ <snip> What is of most current concern? Units 1 and 3: the situation now seems fairly stable. There is some concern that holding pools for spent nuclear fuel (SNF) may have been damaged by the hydrogen explosions, but nothing is confirmed. Provided the pool walls remain unbreached and the SNF is covered with water, the situation should not escalate. Note: Although still Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nebula Posted March 15, 2011 Group: Royal Member Followers: 10 Topic Count: 5,823 Topics Per Day: 0.75 Content Count: 45,870 Content Per Day: 5.93 Reputation: 1,897 Days Won: 83 Joined: 03/22/2003 Status: Offline Birthday: 11/19/1970 Author Share Posted March 15, 2011 OK - adding this from the above report: ~~~~~~~ The lesson so far: Japan suffered an earthquake and tsunami of unprecedented proportion that has caused unbelievable damage to every part of their infrastructure, and death of very large numbers of people. The media have chosen to report the damage to a nuclear plant which was, and still is, unlikely to harm anyone. We won Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
other one Posted March 15, 2011 Group: Worthy Ministers Followers: 29 Topic Count: 599 Topics Per Day: 0.08 Content Count: 56,268 Content Per Day: 7.56 Reputation: 28,001 Days Won: 271 Joined: 12/29/2003 Status: Offline Share Posted March 15, 2011 Thanks for this neb. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hr.jr. Posted March 15, 2011 Group: Senior Member Followers: 0 Topic Count: 1 Topics Per Day: 0.00 Content Count: 615 Content Per Day: 0.09 Reputation: 12 Days Won: 1 Joined: 05/21/2006 Status: Offline Share Posted March 15, 2011 I saw a nuclear engineer on television last night that actually helped design this reactor. He basically said this entire incident is all media hype. He said the chance of the reactor melting down is 1 in a thousand and even if it melted down it would release almost no radiation. He said there is absolutely no way this reactor could do what the Chernobyl reactor did because the designs are totally different. He said its worst case scenario is a three mile island event. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ayin jade Posted March 16, 2011 Group: Worthy Ministers Followers: 44 Topic Count: 6,178 Topics Per Day: 0.87 Content Count: 43,799 Content Per Day: 6.19 Reputation: 11,244 Days Won: 58 Joined: 01/03/2005 Status: Offline Share Posted March 16, 2011 Update on the update .... All workers have been withdrawn because the level of radiation has gotten too high. 70% and 33% of fuel rods in 2 different reactors have been damaged. It is believed that 3 reactors are in partial meltdown. http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/as_japan_earthquake Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
other one Posted March 16, 2011 Group: Worthy Ministers Followers: 29 Topic Count: 599 Topics Per Day: 0.08 Content Count: 56,268 Content Per Day: 7.56 Reputation: 28,001 Days Won: 271 Joined: 12/29/2003 Status: Offline Share Posted March 16, 2011 A different possib le problem is in the reactor buildings 4-5 and 6. They are in a cold shutdown condition, but they have spent fuel rods that are stored under about 15 feet of water on the fifth floor of the buildings....... problem is that they are outside the core and there is no safety containment. If this is where the fires in reactor building #4 is it would be much worse than a complete meltdown in the active reactors because they are inside the containment vessels, Even if they melt and run down to the bottom of the containment vessel, they can't burn through like Chernobyl. It would be bad but not that bad. I'm not sure just what the spent rods are capable of so that would be a crap shoot from my knowledge of those rods. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ayin jade Posted March 16, 2011 Group: Worthy Ministers Followers: 44 Topic Count: 6,178 Topics Per Day: 0.87 Content Count: 43,799 Content Per Day: 6.19 Reputation: 11,244 Days Won: 58 Joined: 01/03/2005 Status: Offline Share Posted March 16, 2011 The fire is in #4, and they have mentioned the danger of the uncontained spent fuel rods. Adding to the problem, I just read on NHK (Japanese news in english) that the system they have to predict fall out patterns is not working. Each time I think can it get any worse for the japanese people ... it does. http://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ayin jade Posted March 16, 2011 Group: Worthy Ministers Followers: 44 Topic Count: 6,178 Topics Per Day: 0.87 Content Count: 43,799 Content Per Day: 6.19 Reputation: 11,244 Days Won: 58 Joined: 01/03/2005 Status: Offline Share Posted March 16, 2011 Photo of reactor 4, showing a gaping 8 meter hole. http://www3.nhk.or.jp/daily/english/16_25.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ladypeartree Posted March 16, 2011 Group: Royal Member Followers: 37 Topic Count: 542 Topics Per Day: 0.08 Content Count: 33,102 Content Per Day: 5.06 Reputation: 23,968 Days Won: 241 Joined: 06/21/2006 Status: Offline Birthday: 02/23/1953 Share Posted March 16, 2011 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nebula Posted March 16, 2011 Group: Royal Member Followers: 10 Topic Count: 5,823 Topics Per Day: 0.75 Content Count: 45,870 Content Per Day: 5.93 Reputation: 1,897 Days Won: 83 Joined: 03/22/2003 Status: Offline Birthday: 11/19/1970 Author Share Posted March 16, 2011 http://bravenewclimate.com/2011/03/16/fukushima-16-march-summary/ Fukushima Nuclear Accident Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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