Earthquake in Japan....9.0...ouch!

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Why can we not build such nice roads :(
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Huge public services, often working 24hour shifts to get things finished.

They demolished and built two new flat blocks, to Japanese standards, in less than 6 months when i walked past this one area i passed quite often.
 
PlacidCasual said:
The back up generators or the switchgear may have shorted out if the tsunami wave got onto the site. As has been said what level of precaution is it reasonable to plan for. A fossil fired station would just close down on battery power for the essential controls under worse case scenarios because the energy supply would go with all imaginabe forms of trip. The decay heat as discussed doesn't obey that rule for nukes, hence the need for the back up cooling.
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It is worth pointing out though, that in modern designs (this is a 1970's reactor built on 1960's designs) this problem has been solved, and they can self cool even without power.
 
GOOD GOD

Yesterday wake up to footage of Tsunami
Today wake up to footage of explosion at Nuclear Power Plant
 
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Dolph said:
It is worth pointing out though, that in modern designs (this is a 1970's reactor built on 1960's designs) this problem has been solved, and they can self cool even without power.
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We dont fully know what failure mechanism caused this problem to escalate to where it is now so im not sure that can be declared as fact.

Power off Self cool during at operating temperature and pressure if you lose your pumps and the condensing system has a failure such as secondary system pipe leak would be somewhat impressive.
 
Do the americans posting about "pearl harbour" not know the death tolls involved in Hiroshima + Nagasaki? Infact i'm so ****** off about some of those comments, i'm sending them all facebook messages, wonder what i'll get in reply :D
 
mrbios said:
Do the americans posting about "pearl harbour" not know the death tolls involved in Hiroshima + Nagasaki? Infact i'm so ****** off about some of those comments, i'm sending them all facebook messages, wonder what i'll get in reply :D
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Probably something to do with wooden teeth and drinking tea!
 
What's happening in Japan is truly horrific, first an Earthquake, than a Tsunami and finally an explosion in a nuclear plant..

But one thing I do have to wonder is how when they were showing pictures of the Tsunami there were things on fire? Surely with that much water nothing could be on fire?
 
Monkeymatt said:
What's happening in Japan is truly horrific, first an Earthquake, than a Tsunami and finally an explosion in a nuclear plant..

But one thing I do have to wonder is how when they were showing pictures of the Tsunami there were things on fire? Surely with that much water nothing could be on fire?
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Electrics, short circuiting, I don't know :confused:
 
Monkeymatt said:
What's happening in Japan is truly horrific, first an Earthquake, than a Tsunami and finally an explosion in a nuclear plant..

But one thing I do have to wonder is how when they were showing pictures of the Tsunami there were things on fire? Surely with that much water nothing could be on fire?
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Oil. You've seen oil fires out at sea, right?
 
Monkeymatt said:
What's happening in Japan is truly horrific, first an Earthquake, than a Tsunami and finally an explosion in a nuclear plant..

But one thing I do have to wonder is how when they were showing pictures of the Tsunami there were things on fire? Surely with that much water nothing could be on fire?
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A lot of what was on fire was floating on top of the water.
 
InvaderGIR said:
Interesting as this has not been reported anywhere, so that'd be one of those useless Twitter feeds then.
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-pacific-12720219

Because the BBC is just a "useless Twitter feed"...

I'm not only worried about the fact that there could be a massive amount of contamination but also that this could make other countries scared of building Nuclear power stations and instead stick to Coal/Oil etc.
 
You said it as if that was a news update. It was reported yesterday/last night, which everyone that is reading this thread already knows, so posting it when the main focus of talk is on the explosion.

The article you linked to is an old title with new updates which don't relate to the title anyway. It has also been said that Koyodo News is about the best source for the moment.

Monkeymatt said:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-pacific-12720219

Because the BBC is just a "useless Twitter feed"...

I'm not only worried about the fact that there could be a massive amount of contamination but also that this could make other countries scared of building Nuclear power stations and instead stick to Coal/Oil etc.
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Eh?

I'm watching BBC News and checking the Kyodo News site, neither have reported a new incident at another reactor, this is the point.

Also, the plant in question is a 60's design, built in the 70s, there have been loads of developments since then that mean events such as this would not occur with a modern plant, so building new ones is not an issue at all.
 
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Forde said:
What a disgrace!
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Wow, just so quick and see how high it rises in such short space.
 
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