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Arnie does not have much confidance in the Mark I reactor containment design. They should all be decommissioned immediately.


-here is an article concerning the Mark I from March 15th.


March 15, 2011
Thirty-five years ago, Dale G. Bridenbaugh and two of his colleagues at General Electric resigned from their jobs after becoming increasingly convinced that the nuclear reactor design they were reviewing -- the Mark 1 -- was so flawed it could lead to a devastating accident.

Questions persisted for decades about the ability of the Mark 1 to handle the immense pressures that would result if the reactor lost cooling power, and today that design is being put to the ultimate test in Japan. Five of the six reactors at the Fukushima Daiichi plant, which has been wracked since Friday's earthquake with explosions and radiation leaks, are Mark 1s.

"The problems we identified in 1975 were that, in doing the design of the containment, they did not take into account the dynamic loads that could be experienced with a loss of coolant," Bridenbaugh told ABC News in an interview. "The impact loads the containment would receive by this very rapid release of energy could tear the containment apart and create an uncontrolled release."

[link to abcnews.go.com]

Schematic of Reactor Design at Fukushima Daiichi

[link to www.nei.org]

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Looks like a big crane has felt on reactor #3 during the Typhoon. Some more crap on the crappy reactor lol.

Not surprised. The out-riggers probably lost support in the saturated ground. Possibly caused by the eq and liquifaction. Or wind.

didn´t fall, they lowered them :)

First of all, I will give you a big thumbs up, waterbug, for keeping on, keeping on! keep it up.

I just read that "they" are planning for a "possible" "massive" release, of radionuclides, in the very near future!

This ^, is what I have been fearing, and waiting for.

Everyones talked about the "china syndrome", but I have another, possibly greater worry. And that is that the corium is eventually going to slowly melt into the ground water. Causing not the massive unbelievably huge explosion that people are speculating, but instead a geyser of steam, gushing out endlessly, out of each, and eventually ALL six reactors!

The rate of radiation pouring out every day has apparently been increasing ten fold. Which makes logical sense.
They were talking becqerals, then gigabecqerals, then terabecqerals, and now I think its perabecqerals! Which is according to a very smart friend of mine, 1000 x 1000 more to the power of, or "in order of magnitude greater"

Im not the smartest tool in the shed, and please exuse my dreadfull spelling. I asked my friend "what comes after perabecqerals??" and he said, "well, they will have to invent a new term"

So together with the knowledge that the melted coriums radiation "grows" "climbs" "increases" etc for the first 250,000 years!! (the first "halflife" being the worst) and the fact that air measurements are doubling, quadrupling, etc every month, it wont be long at all I think before my feared geysers start erupting.

People have spoken about the "fog" incidents on the webcams. I have seen this, when all at once an extremely dense "fog" suddenly covered the site. This to me, says that when the corium finally finds a suitable water source, well, hello old faithful.

And when I read today about plans, and letting people in the outer exclusion zone know that soon there "may" be further massive releases, I shivered inside. My personal, albeit, naive, and ignorant, belief, is that the best thing that could happen actually is an enormous explosion!!
I really think that is would be the best outcome at this stage. Simply because, the areas contaminated allready are going to remain so for thousands of years, so, it doesnt matter now if they were further contaminated. But the staedy non stop geyser like, steam eruptions from all six, would continue perhaps forever, with the rates of radiation INCREASING for 250,000 years, which says to me, the end of japan, then all "local" asian countries and finally the world at large!!

I also cannot beleive that people around me are worried about elections and homeloans when this is happening.

I am also worried about these so called "tents" they are planning on erecting. What on earth do they think that this will achieve? It is, to me, inconcievable that this "short term" "solution" is going to work at all.

I think that they are "forgetting" about the suspended fuel pools. Which WILL eventually collapse, given what intense radiation does to metal. By covering the buildings with a "blanket" the radiation, "ever increasing" will destroy them.

I dont know much in technical terms. But I can see a vision in my mind, or should I say nightmare?
Cheynoble, and its "cover" is a disaster by itself. With temperatures close to 200 celcius, 25 years later, what on earth do they think will happen with fukushima.
Condesation alone will cause the inside of the "tents" to become enormously "hot" given that they havnt been able to fully explore the buildings as it is due to massive readings........

There are other nuclear sites within cooee of fukushima, how long before they cant get near them? even with utterly suicidal workers?

Good ol Arny Gunderson was saying yonks ago the worst of the releases was back in march, and that these so-called tents would help in containg releases.......

I think hes wrong. At least on that score. (dont get me wrong, I think hes awesome)

So finally to get to the point, recap etc
the worst is yet to come, in my mind, and that worst is just around the corner. The reality of the situation is frightening and way to real for people to contemplate.
We are watching what could well be the end of our civilisation, and even human life itself. I realise that sounds dramatic, even a little paranoid, but this situation is, in my mind, as bad as world war three, nuclear war etc.

We are talking here about world wide nuclear fallout in every sense of the word.

No, Im not going to slash my wrists, Im just here for the ride.

peace.................

Nuclear experts rethink their future

Japan's nuclear energy experts are discussing how complacency contributed to the accident at the country's Fukushima Daiichi power plant. They started a 4-day conference on Monday. It is their first major gathering since an earthquake and tsunami triggered a nuclear crisis.

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