After 13 hours, firefighters stop shooting water into Fukushima nuclear reactor - Kyodo News

We're on a whole new level of fun when a uranium meltdown doesn't seem all that scary.

But here we are.

Good gawd almighty.

Water spraying goes on, return of power helps cool down reactor

TOKYO, March 20, Kyodo

Japanese authorities carried out an overnight mission Sunday of spraying water into crippled nuclear reactors of the Fukushima Daiichi plant, while an overheated pool at another reactor was cooled down thanks to the restoration of power supply.

The Tokyo Fire Department shot water into a spent-fuel pool of the No. 3 reactor in an operation that lasted more than 13 hours until 3:40 a.m., while the Defense Ministry plans to shoot water into a similar pool of the No. 4 reactor shortly.

More than 2,000 tons of water is believed to have been put into the No. 3 reactor's pool so far, exceeding the pool's capacity of 1,400 tons. Fuel rods used at the reactor were plutonium-uranium mixed oxide fuel, known as MOX, said to be harder to control than normal fuel rods made from uranium.

The unmanned operation, using automated equipment, was first planned to last for seven hours but extended twice.

The power plant which was hit hard by the March 11 powerful earthquake was on the Pacific coast of Fukushima Prefecture about 220 kilometers northeast of Tokyo.

At the No. 6 reactor, the cooling system was reactivated due to restoration of electricity supply and the temperature in an overheated spent-fuel pool dipped to 52 C at 3 a.m. Sunday from 67.5 C at 11 p.m. Saturday, according to the operator Tokyo Electric Power Co.

Meanwhile, the company is set to restore electricity to the No. 1 and 2 reactor buildings as early as later Sunday to reactivate the cooling system for their spent-fuel pools.

==Kyodo

NEWS ADVISORY: Self-Defense Forces begin water spraying at Fukushima's No. 4 reactor
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More than 2,000 tons of water is believed to have been put into the No. 3 reactor's pool so far, exceeding the pool's capacity of 1,400 tons. Fuel rods used at the reactor were plutonium-uranium mixed oxide fuel, known as MOX, said to be harder to control than normal fuel rods made from uranium.


LOL FUCKIN L

And they are never gonna fill those pools cause they asploded

they are lying and they are in fact spraying the #3 reactor core which popped its top awhile ago

The spent fuel pools are::byekitty:



diagram:
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heres what it looks like now:

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and remember that this happened and it's allready melting down

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Don't believe the disinfo use common sense
Theese are the common pools which are huge.

Didn't they learn ANYTHING from Bush?


First say, "Mission accomplished". Then start over.

The pump truck ran on batteries, they estimated 7 hours, 13 is good.

Love to Japan, we too cry for you.

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ultra fast water spraying japanese water spray forces?


btw.: is there a way to embed images?

Last Edited by MrSmith on 03/19/2011 10:07 PM

Things are going a lot better at this plant than most GLPers believe, but that is typical for this site. Mostly good news today again.

AND THEN!!!!

They only sprayed for and hr and change Fuck hopefully the firetrucks electronic aren't giving out from the high rads...

If better means we havn't seen nearly the end of the doom

than

YES

And this isn't important ...right on top of the reactor

6.1M, depth: 25km 19/3/2011 18:56

5M, depth: 31km 20/3/2011 10:24

5M, depth: 31km 20/3/2011 10:24

At Fukushima

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Sorry

The last was a 5.5M, depth: 23km 20/3/2011 10:30

So when are the Fukushima Tonka Trucks going to show up at There! Fixed It!

I keep looking.

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According to physicis profess Michio Kaku, the fire hoses and water canon aren't getting anywhere they are supposed to hit. Basically speaking... Epic Fail!

Ain't no reason to kill these guys for nothing.

God that is so sad
All because some rat faced suit put profit ahead of safety.......

Clean cheap power or some such shit.
GE has blood om its hands up to the armpits.
I feel tourettes coming on.

After I finish this 12 pack I'll add my relief to the spent rods...

You can hear the earthquakes from under the water and there is a constant rumbling there now. Its quite creepy.

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Pressure rising in reactor 3...per NHK!

Chernobyl was a uranium graphite pile, not a reactor in the sense of a high pressure steam generating reactor with a closed loop. Go to Wiki and read the article on the GE Mark One reactor.

It was a very old design. I trained on the GE Pressurized Water Reactor that did not need pumps in the primary loop. That was in 1969 so the technology was there way back then.

That can be good, depending upon what they are trying to do.

they just said at the news conference that they are going to vent "air" from #3 and that there is no filter so "certain amount" of radiation could go in to the athmosphere...

NEWS ADVISORY: Steps to reduce No. 3 reactor's pressure to be taken swiftly: nuke agency
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What people are not getting is at the worst wrecked reactors while shooting water at the spent rods may help with those, the rods in the reactor vessel is inside the containment structure, so shooting water on that structure wont do any good at all. If the pipes and valves are still intact they could hook up and fill them up, but I am not reading any reports of that.

IMO the reactor rods inside the reactor vessel in the worst 2 reactors will probably end up totally melt down.

We are just not hearing the whole story.

Experts have already said if one reactor totally melts down the plant will be so radioactive they will have to abandon the entire facility.

which brings us back to the extreme unbelievable stupidity to build 6 reactors as close to each other as they did

Brains of the world will win. Doom averted. way...Your a Dick head, but you knew that didn't you.

From what I've seen, the G20 have plenty of water cannon Tonka Trucks to send to Japan. We've seen then shown off at all the G20 Annual Conventions. Might be put to best use at Fukushima.

Just a suggestion.

That must be the quote of the decade, tape out meltdown problem solved

Send the jailers too.