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Michio Kaku: 3 meltdowns in Fukushima, but uranium actually totally liquified… 1st time in history — “Reactor actually melted totally” (VIDEO)
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[quote:Waterbug:MV8yMDYwMzE1XzM0NjYzNDg1XzFCRDVEOEM1] [quote:Anonymous Coward 28145118:MV8yMDYwMzE1XzM0NjYwMjAzXzJDNTcyNEE0] [b]What was that B.S. he was spewing about one(yes one) Tepco employee "disobeying" the orders to not flood with sea water? [/b] Some how this is what saved the day! That's all I could listen to so sorry if I missed. He was putting a rosy colored spin on it for sure. [/quote] That's actually what happened.. He was the plant manager. :wink: [snip] Yoshida knew that the reactor was vulnerable to seawater, and in the absence of emergency power or viable containment rods, that natural salty fluid was the only weapon he had. At the same time, he knew that the moment the reactor core came into contact with sea water, the plant itself would be effectively inoperable forever. [b]His bosses at TEPCO ordered him to do nothing while they modeled the potential consequences of injecting seawater into the reactor core. Yoshida and his workers figured out how to prevent backflow of seawater, but [b][color=red]TEPCO still ordered him to wait on word from the prime minister. He ignored them, and on his order, decided to flood the bay.[/color][/b] Problem: Getting seawater into the core was impossible, or almost impossible, because of the debris and damage done by the earthquake and the flood. Fukishima workers began to use abandoned firefighting equipment to literally pump water in, just gallons at a time, equivalent to a dropper of ink in a well. [quote:Waterbug:MV8xNTM3MTQ2XzM0NjQ0NDk4X0VBQzE1NzI=] Giving thanks to a rebel http://theweek.com/article/index/236800/giving-thanks-to-a-rebel [snip] Masao Yoshida, 55, was on watch. He was Fukushima's plant manager, and he was among the 50-odd employees who stayed in the hot zone as radiation levels rose well above toxic levels. He was already a hero, although at that point only a foolish one. Yoshida knew that the reactor was vulnerable to sea-water, and in the absence of emergency power or viable containment rods, that natural salty fluid was the only weapon he had. The world would learn later that his actions averted a complete meltdown and saved, potentially, tens of thousands of lives, many even a lot more. Yoshida would learn later that he had cancer, apparently unconnected to the high levels of radiation he was exposed to. He retired in December of 2011. He is alive, and giving some interviews, but outside of Japan, his actions are not appreciated. [/quote] [/quote]
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Professor Michio Kaku, City College of New York:
We had three simultaneous core meltdowns in Fukushima, but the uranium actually liquified — liquified — we’ve never seen a totally liquified core before.
First time in history.
But the Fukushima reactor actually melted totally.
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Michio Kaku: American theoretical physicist, the Henry Semat Professor of Theoretical Physics in the City College of New York of City University of New York, a co-founder of string field theory [...] Kaku graduated summa cum laude from Harvard University in 1968 and was first in his physics class. He attended the Berkeley Radiation Laboratory at the University of California, Berkeley and received a Ph.D. in 1972.
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