Explosion at the Fukushima Nuclear power plant in Japan and possible meltdown coming.

yeah, if it was a nuclear explosion you would think it would have been MUCH larger.

Just on CNN a nuclear physicist just said pouring sea water in the reactor is not at all a safety feature and that this is a last ditch effort and will likely fail leading to a larger reactor explosion. This reactor contains plutonium which will be a potential large explosion and greater fall out area.

I never understood why, in a meltdown situation, they don't pour tons and tons of sand on the rods...What does sand do when super heated? It turns to glass and forms a hermetically tight seal...

Great overview.

It's all about heat transfer with the reactor and once those systems are destroyed, what exactly can be done 'on the fly'? Could a temporary system be rigged up where the surrounding seawater be used? Lesser of the two evils and way beyond code I'm sure, but what else can you do in limited time once the site infrastructure has been destroyed?


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Shit Im in So. Oregon.

+1000000000

i agree about that last point..

but why did the fires of the hydrogen explosion go out then?

what would make it ignite, then go out like that?

unless the explosion we see has NOTHING to do with the release of pressure? two SEPARATE events. one CAUSED the other?

why would the flames of the initial explosion be seen all over the walls of the building, and not appear from the weak point of the building the pressure of the explosion found?

can you see what i'm saying?

oh well, there's nothing I can do about it, whether I 'know', or not, so i'm gonna crack a tinny open.

fuck it!

+1

It's also exponentially harder now to work on stopping the meltdown of the other reactors at the site... now that the entire site's hot.

This is so far from over...

A reactor does not explode like a nuclear bomb.

SHR you should see this video

SHR, please ignore idiots like this who want to see a credential and then believe the information because it came from a "proper authority". Instead keep spending your time putting out information to people so they have a base to start from and can do their own research to check things out and verify.

Thanks again.

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No one has mentioned the issues of disease that approach.

Go back to watching Fox.

No, not gas. Steam.
Steam because I beleive we are in meltdown scenario.
The small amout of cooling water is not near enough to cool the rods.
The steam then vaporized and critical mass was reached.
That's what the detonation was.
CNN just had another "nuclear expert" on.
The guy was obviously lying and scared shitless.

Not yet... but (potentially) thousands of bodies buried in the sewage & various other components that make-up the landscape there since the tsunami will make that issue crystal-clear in the coming days.

Great video everybody should watch

Thanks, much appreciated.

From what you wrote....it sounds as if a meltdown is indeed inevitable.
And most likely all ready happening.

What I am curious about is wether or not the radiation from fallout that
is carried by the jet stream....to us....becomes less dangerous.

Does it weaken? How much?
This was reported on FOX, and I'm wondering if it is just another pet on
the head to keep us calm.

Thanks SHR for another great thread. Would you leave west coast USA?

Yes ... may God have mercy on our souls.


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The OP, SHR potrayed himsef as an expert during the oildoom last year.

As others have asked, just exactly what are your credentials?

Try to watch the History Channel special on Chernobyl. I think it is on youtube and they go into a lot of detail about the fallout and disease like cancer and how far away the cancer rates went up.

Chernobyl Radiation Killed Nearly One Million People: New Book



" NEW YORK, New York, April 26, 2010 (ENS) - Nearly one million people around the world died from exposure to radiation released by the 1986 nuclear disaster at the Chernobyl reactor, finds a new book from the New York Academy of Sciences published today on the 24th anniversary of the meltdown at the Soviet facility.

The book, "Chernobyl: Consequences of the Catastrophe for People and the Environment," was compiled by authors Alexey Yablokov of the Center for Russian Environmental Policy in Moscow, and Vassily Nesterenko and Alexey Nesterenko of the Institute of Radiation Safety, in Minsk, Belarus.


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" The authors said, "For the past 23 years, it has been clear that there is a danger greater than nuclear weapons concealed within nuclear power. Emissions from this one reactor exceeded a hundred-fold the radioactive contamination of the bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki."



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" The book explores effects of Chernobyl fallout that arrived above the United States nine days after the disaster. Fallout entered the U.S. environment and food chain through rainfall. Levels of iodine-131 in milk, for example, were seven to 28 times above normal in May and June 1986. The authors found that the highest U.S. radiation levels were recorded in the Pacific Northwest. "





entire article at link

[link to www.ens-newswire.com]





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Ma and Pa Kettle are melting down...and all of the little Kettles too.

A once stable family has now become dysfunctional.

No YOU Are the idiot. I want to know if the information is coming from someone with a DEEP understanding of how this all works and what could be wrong. If he has the background, then that is fantastic. If he is a quack like you, then this is just more information that isn't very helpful.

Brief: Get yourself over to Tokyo ASAP!!



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I'm in Oregon too, Craze.



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No, he didn't. He portrayed himself as an intelligent layman who used the all the available facts to cut through the BS.

This map was on another thread yesterday, Madigan. Maybe it will help to answer your question.

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what?

and leave his patented 'squish count' machine in the hands of amateurs?

NEVER!

......and was eventually totally wrong. Intelligently, of course lol.