Evacuation in Progress: Japan Fukushima No. 1 Nuclear Plant Nears Meltdown.

right now, the Prevailing winds are blowing West to East... out to sea, toward US.

As summer warms the Sea of Japan, it swirls around, and then blows East to West (toward the Asian mainland-- Koreas and China).

THE CORE OF THE REACTOR IS MELTING DOWN!

I CAN ALSO OVER-REACT AS WELL! LOOK AT ME, DAMN IT!

Fucking hell.

Yes. In the US, a program called RASCAL (Radiological Assessment System for Consequence Analysis) is used - Japan would use it or something similar.

Plug in the source terms, meteorological conditions and it will crank out a pretty good projection of where stuff goes and where people should leave, shelter or do nothing.

I reckon an 'after shock' has a very good chance of blowing that containment building wide open with that internal pressure sitting behind it.



Last Edited by DiskSpaceFull on 03/11/2011 02:19 PM

Sounds just like that made for tv movie atomic twister - tornado instead of earthquake but loss of power caused inability to pump in cooling water - till zack from Saved by the Bell saves the day by hijacking a gas truck for the backup pump

link?

I was watching the Prez. speak a bit ago...
I think the timing of the speech is unusual if there isn't bad stuff happening behind the scenes, on a couple of fronts.
The way he avoided really answering questions about what is happening with this reactor...if all is going well, why not say more than just 'Our people are in contact with theirs", and 'We're there to help"?
I also found it strange that suddenly he's out talking about how we have enough oil , not to panic about supplies ( Does he know something we don't about the ME?)
Also noticed when he was talking about energy alternatives, Nuclear was moved to the very last thing mentioned.( used to be that it was the 'best ' way to get around the energy problem...now it's last?!)
It straight up gave me the creeps watching it...
There is something really bad happening there...

[link to rsicc.ornl.gov] 3.0.5&id=C00553&cpu=PC586&v=10&t=Radiological Assessment for Consequence Analysis for Windows.

that link was a little too long, sorry bout that

go here and scroll down:

[link to rsicc.ornl.gov]

thanks but I was hoping for something more user friendly :)

That IS the most user-friendly of the bunch :D

There are places that run this stuff for a living, and they will have maps out showing the projected paths of any plumes. At least they would in the US. No idea what the equivalent Japanese resources are, but suspect they have something similar.

Without knowing the source terms, any simulations are useless.

I was watching Headline News and noone in the Air Force or Pentagon can confirm that they delivered any type of coolant .... hummmm

Besides isn't the coolant for a reactor ..... water?? So if this is true the Air Force delivered water....

I wonder if it was bottled???

I'm not sure I would be looking to any politician for anything accurate about a technically complex situation ;)

True... so very true!!!!!

Japan trade ministry: Pressure inside Fukushima reactor may have risen to 2.1 times designed capacity


If they're bringing in coolant it's not water but likely boron for a last ditch effort to flood the reactor.

U.S. Rushes Coolant to Japanese Nuke Plant After Earthquake
Defense Ministry official Ippo Maeyama said the ministry has dispatched dozens of troops trained for chemical disasters to the Fukushima plant in case of a radiation leak, along with four vehicles designed for use in atomic, biological and chemical warfare.
[link to www.foxnews.com]

Initially I was optimistic that they would be able to provide the needed water to cool down the fuel rods....however, now I really think the reactor is going to meltdown or blow- take your pick.

6.6 after shock usgs

[link to earthquake.usgs.gov]

they can still fix it, japanese are pretty smart..

All the genius in the world can't fix shit without the proper equipment and supplies...

what if they just rule it a lost cause - cant they contain it or encapsulate it before it blows? or implode it somehow?

if only we had some of that red anti-matter from star trek... it helped the romulans remove unwanted portions of vulcan from the planet.

Send in BP to cap it. Well, BP probably hopingfor a bigger disaster that the GOM disaster though.

6.3 aftershock after that

Time to send in MacGyver

here ya go


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put that on there, all is well..

All he'll need is a paperclip and some string...

Right! He'd fix it... and what the hell? where's Superman when you need him?

Last Edited by Deej on 03/11/2011 03:56 PM

I still say they're PRE-SHOCKS!

Just like the 7.2 on Wednesday was....

what a mess. poor japan. i hope the international community can help them.