patsfan13

A site with a lot of good technical information.

BraveNewClimate


Up to date status on the conditions at each reactor in the complex.

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DarrylS

Start to worry...spoke to a former nuclear power operator, this ain't good....

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patsfan13

Well the is the worst case scenario outlined in the link in the first post. The reactor containment vessels are in tact. The most serious issue now is in the cooling pool for the spent fuel rods in reactor 4 .

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Patters

The Japanese nuclear plant situations is a disaster by any measure--with people being forced to evacuate or stay indoors, iodine pills being distributed, workers dying, explosions happening almost daily, radiation being released into the atmosphere (and threatening some of the food chain) and the reactors still out of control. While it could be worse, it's a disaster nonetheless.

DarrylS

The retired power plant operator that I am with volunteering, just got an email from an active power plant operator... is said simply, "grab your ankles"...

This ain't good and is getting worse.

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reflexblue

It looks like this plant is toast. They can't get to the spent fuel rods in the #4 reactor building, and as im sure you have read there's no containment. Which makes wonder about the #1+3 reactors there was an explosion that ripped open the top half of the reactors where the spent fuel rod cooling pools was located. In the last several days ive noticed that theres nothing inside, the roof and walls were blown out, you can see right down to what should be the roof of the containment/reactor pressure vessel. But there are no rods to be seen, no pool, nothing. Wondering if the spent fuel rods for that reactor were blown up and scattered?
Going back to the #4 reactor at this point it looks like someone will have to voluntere for a suicide mission to cool the fuel rod pool down.

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Holy Diver

I appreciate a guy from MIT throwing in his 2 cents to help quell some fearmongering, but lets all step back for a second...

Fact of the matter is nobody knows if the containment structure has been breached. If its already scaling at a 6 on a scale of 7, its gotta be pretty bad.

Not to throw another wrench in here, but that containment structure is made of steel and concrete, right. Isnt that the same material that 'melted' due to a 5 hour jet fuel burn on 9-11?

this nuclear material is said to be over 2,000 degrees and burning for a week now.

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none of us are there, or know anything. I'd say I'm worried.

reflexblue

The last i heard it was 2000 degrees Celcious. It Could burn right through the bottom of the containment vessel. I just got through listening to the head of the NRC, he said that a team of US experts had reached the plant this morning. Based on what THEY said he thinks the situation is Dire. That there is no water in the #4 spent rod pool, and that the radiation is to high for anyone to get close.

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Holy Diver

Another thing that I find odd in this deal is WHO is telling me that everything is fine. Last night I watched Glenn Beck tell me how silly it is to question the safety of such a facility. He demonstrated how safe the facility was with pots, pans and M&Ms. Then I get this thread and its 'don't worry' mentality...

From the hydrogen explosions, exposed spent fuel rods and lack of cooling, expansion of the radius of evacuation, the movement of the US naval forces away from the radioactivity...The fact that reactor 3 contains plutonium...I'd say that we should be pretty concerned about this.

The news seems to be changing hourly...this is the latest

U.S. raises alarm over Japan nuclear crisis - World news - Asia-Pacific - msnbc.com

reflexblue

Ive been following this day and night since it happened. Unlike Chernobyl if this plant goes the radioactive particulate matter will stay in the lower levels of the atmosphere. It will affect Japan primarily, but WE should have nothing to worry about. Chernobyl's reactor core blew up literally, the fallout reached the upper atmosphere and spread out over europe. Again thats not the case here, so don't bother buying any Iodine tablets on the street corner.

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