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Reactor meltdown possible in Japan.


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  On 3/14/2011 at 2:18 AM, Chicago Storm said:

Live shots from NHK/Japan-TV confirm white smoke coming from #3 reactor.

It's hard to tell given sh*tty camera zoom/resolution, but it looks like all that's left is the skeleton of the structure.

Just like what happened with #1 reactor yesterday.

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  On 3/14/2011 at 2:29 AM, Plokoon111 said:

^^ Yeah right.

Well, we used to use meters at my old job that would be able to detect when a certain threshold of explosive vapors was being approached. This was a while ago and not that big of a deal.

They know it would be giving off hydrogen and I would think they could measure the levels? Just wondering. If people were in that blast they would be doomed

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  On 3/14/2011 at 2:29 AM, FiveAlarmPhotography said:

Seems the smoke is darker than the other explosions. The other explosions smoke was lighter. Usually lighter/whiter smoke is when it comes in contact with water.

looks like it did more damage then #1 explsosion..almost all the skeleton is gone and the damage looks like it goes down more

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  On 3/14/2011 at 2:28 AM, HubbDave said:

I can't help but feel anguish for the employees who are still working at those plants.

Are they suicide workers like at Chernobyl? (not trying to compare the 2 events themselves)

Would they be able to predict that a hydrogen explosion would occur (02 LEL levels or something?)

they'll probably all die

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  On 3/14/2011 at 2:29 AM, FiveAlarmPhotography said:

Seems the smoke is darker than the other explosions. The other explosions smoke was lighter. Usually lighter/whiter smoke is when it comes in contact with water.

the first was briefly pretty brown. this looks like it was more intense by the almost mushroomy cloud appearance.

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  On 3/14/2011 at 2:32 AM, HubbDave said:

Well, we used to use meters at my old job that would be able to detect when a certain threshold of explosive vapors was being approached. This was a while ago and not that big of a deal.

They know it would be giving off hydrogen and I would think they could measure the levels? Just wondering. If people were in that blast they would be doomed

It certainly can be measured, but who knows what their capabilities are now. Don't know if they have personnel in the plants, or if they even have power to run fixed meters, or if they even have monitoring equipment.

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