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Reactor meltdown possible in Japan.


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Yes, I certainly understand that....but with multiple reactors having issues (very close to each other) we MIGHT be dealing with something more significant. Again, with "explosions" taking place at nuclear facilities (which is not normal, of course, and, IMO, is an indication of a complete loss of control of the situation) it is at least prudent to start planning for a potential downstream. If I remember correctly, around Chernobyl, during the crisis, there was generally (over weeks) not strong winds to carry the contamination great distances...

Again, of course, there is a certain amount of speculation....but with that, comes a certain amount of unknown....

It's nothing too bad really... nuclear reactors are built with multiple safeguards. The explosions resulted from the ignition of hydrogen gas, and barely touched the reactor cores.

Trust me this is no Chernobyl. And the fact that we aren't talking about a full fledged disaster yet with two explosions, a 10m tsunami, and an 8.9 earthquake... speaks volumes.

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I believe it was only about 60 miles from Kiev and it's two million plus population? They got lucky with the winds.

Yeah to be fair you are right I think...

However still doesn't really compare to what 40-50 million people that would be in the fallout zone so to speak if the winds went in the right direction and the true worst case happened.

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It's nothing too bad really... nuclear reactors are built with multiple safeguards. The explosions resulted from the ignition of hydrogen gas, and barely touched the reactor cores.

Trust me this is no Chernobyl. And the fact that we aren't talking about a full fledged disaster yet with two explosions, a 10m tsunami, and an 8.9 earthquake... speaks volumes.

You're about one explosion behind.

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Chernobyl was more than a meltdown, they believe (per the Wikipedia article) that there was a nuclear excursion... I'm no nuclear physicist but I think that's a very small scale, low yield nuclear explosion.

And to finish, which is absolutely impossible here. Graphite in the reactor what was made an explosion possible in Chernobyl. That is one of the reasons the design was considered very unsafe.

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2.7 meters of the fuel rods are exposed per fox and Kyodo

Yeah I heard that at the press conference, but the way he said it was kinda like "the last information we had was 2.7 meters" and, gosh idk, the way the exchange went didn't make me feel like it was particularly up to the minute information.

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Yeah I heard that at the press conference, but the way he said it was kinda like "the last information we had was 2.7 meters" and, gosh idk, the way the exchange went didn't make me feel like it was particularly up to the minute information.

Those guys were media PR people totally out of their league, get the feeling it's OC.

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Based on what I'm listening to on NHK, it sounds like the suppression chamber breached on the outside, the pressure inside the chamber fell to normal atmospheric pressure and radiation has increased suddenly.

It was confusing but if pressure is dropping and radiation outside increasing that means only one thing, it's self venting, broken shell on the containment vessel.

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Yeah to be fair you are right I think...

However still doesn't really compare to what 40-50 million people that would be in the fallout zone so to speak if the winds went in the right direction and the true worst case happened.

Yes it will be much different with some 33 million in the Tokyo/Yokohama urban area alone. What are they going to do, evacuate them? How..where? Whatever happens for the near future most of them are pretty much stuck there.

And it does not even have to be any kind of 'serious' fallout or light radioactivity or whatever- the public reaction will be huge even if some light radioactivity drifts that way. People will just respond to RADIATION..just like they do to EXPLOSION AT NUCLEAR POWER PLANT. There is just a very visceral response to those things with the public-reason tends to go out the window. Secrecy does not help-there was alot of near panic in Kiev in the days following Chernobyl-people knew something was terribly wrong, and with no real info, rumors were rampant. (not that the truth was very good either).

And it appears that a good part of the public in Japan is already very skeptical of the 'official story' and that does not help.

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Alright now I'm lost again, they're going on about a number 4 reactor which is now in trouble. :yikes:

Damage to the roof of the building on reactor 4.

TEPCO also said that reactor 4 is in "cold shutdown" -- which I believe they mean is safely shut down -- but I wasn't sure if they were talking about Plant #1 or Plant #2.

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