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

RobertN said:
that was a lot bigger than the first looked a bit like mushroom cloud no way it was just hydrogen
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There isn't anything else it could possibly be. The material in the reactor can't explode, even if you left it completely by itself in a big pile. The second tsunami was a false alarm it seems, thankfully.
 
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Raikiri said:
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Its so bad to laugh but I saw that and thought of a some government official saying something along the lines of "sorry, you didn't get planning permission for your loft conversion".

Frankly it is astonishing that some buildings survived, the massive force thrown at that building while everything else around was demolished, and then its still strong enough to support such a huge boat.


The explosion certainly looked very different, but that could just be down to where the building failed, if it cracked dead centre at the top first then gas will shoot out in that direction first, while the first one maybe exploded out the sides at the top all around so you got pretty even distribution of the cloud.

7 missing, 3 injured in the explosion at reactor 3 :( Those guys are seriously risking their lives to keep those plants under control.
 
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Last I read, (sorry can't even remember link) They estimate between 20,000 & 30,000 dead. Which is a little more beliveable when you look at the carnage.

Those poor poor people.. :(
 
Report of the hydrogen blast at Fukushima No. 3 reactor:

TOKYO, March 14, Kyodo


A hydrogen explosion occurred Monday morning at the quake-hit Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant's troubled No. 3 reactor, injuring three workers, but the reactor's container was not damaged, the government's nuclear safety agency and the plant's operator said.

The 11:01 a.m. incident came after a hydrogen explosion hit the No. 1 reactor at the same plant Saturday, and prompted the Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency to urge residents within a 20-kilometer radius to take shelter inside buildings.

''We judge that the possibility of a large amount of radioactive materials flying off from there is low,'' Chief Cabinet Secretary Yukio Edano told a news conference, adding that the injection of seawater to cool down the No. 3 reactor is continuing.

Tokyo Electric Power Co., the plant's operator, separately said three workers at the plant sustained bruises and that it had called an ambulance. It said it had all its workers go inside buildings but that the radiation level was as low as 20 micro sievert per hour at 11:44 a.m.

The blast followed a report by the power company to the government earlier in the day that the radiation level at the plant had again exceeded the legal limit and that pressure in the container of the No. 3 reactor had increased.

The Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant has been shut down since a magnitude 9.0 quake struck northeastern and eastern Japan on Friday, but some of its reactors have lost their cooling functions, leading to brief rises in the radiation level over the weekend.

Since residents within the 20-km radius from the plant were asked Saturday to evacuate in the wake of the initial blast at the plant's No. 1 reactor, there remain about 475 people in hospitals and nursing care facilities within the radius, plus several residents, according the agency.

The agency ruled out the possibility it will broaden the area subject to the evacuation order for now.

On Monday, radiation at the plant's premises rose over the benchmark limit of 500 micro sievert per hour at two locations, measuring 751 micro sievert at the first location at 2:20 a.m. and 650 at the second at 2:40 a.m., according to the report.

The hourly amounts are more than half the 1,000 micro sievert to which people are usually exposed in one year.

The maximum level detected so far around the plant is 1,557.5 micro sievert logged Sunday.

The utility had been pouring seawater into the plant's No. 1 and No. 3 reactors to help cool their cores, which are believed to have partially melted after part of the fuel rods were no longer covered by coolant water when levels fell following the quake.

The seawater injection stopped around 1 a.m. due to the shortage of water left in tanks, but resumed for the No. 3 reactor at 3:20 a.m., according to the nuclear safety agency.

The halt of coolant water injections apparently caused rising pressure in the reactor container and an increase in the radiation level at the plant, the agency said.

TEPCO at one point planned to release radioactive steam from the No. 3 reactor container to depressurize it and ordered workers to vacate the site. But as the pressure later lowered, workers resumed operations at the site, according to the agency.

Edano said pressure in the No. 1 reactor container has been stable and that seawater injections for the reactor will resume later.

==Kyodo
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More worrying is this lastest flash:

BREAKING NEWS: Cooling functions lost at Fukushima nuke plant's No.2 reactor (16:04)
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That was a huge blast compared to the first one.
3/4 of the building is missing this time.
I hope that black "mess" that erupted was just the roof disintegrating, unlike the last one where it just blew it clean off intact.
 
Lysander said:
I'd put £100 on the premise that this is vacuous, sensationalist, scaremongering crap.
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Can't really speak for the other channels, but in my opinion, BBC news has been an utter disgrace with their reporting on this.
There was a quote from one today when interviewing a nuclear specialist. "Of course, our intention isn't to scare anyone." That is their only intention though. Completely gloss over the cold hard facts and try to have worst case speculation and doom-mongering.
I could almost see them crossing their fingers for the nuclear plant situation to get worse.

Why bother having the specialists on if you're going to try to twist the situation? :mad:
 
Emlyn_Dewar said:
Can't really speak for the other channels, but in my opinion, BBC news has been an utter disgrace with their reporting on this.
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I agree. I dont watch broadcast news media and i skim over what i read online, but i am appalled by how much politicking and scaremongering goes hand in hand with reporting such a large scale tragedy. They also keep insisting Japan are 'lieing' and 'covering up' and 'playing down' using all sorts of BS terminigoly that their nations themselves would implement if a similar thing had happened there.

When dealing with an ongoing problem of national security, you don't give a press conference saying 'Yeah guys, errr, were pretty *******'. You plan, prioritise, best case worse case and implement.

Edwards: Why the big secret? People are smart. They can handle it.
Kay: A person is smart. People are dumb, panicky dangerous animals and you know it.
 
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BBC News said:
0915: For those concerned, the Japanese government says there's a low risk that the two blasts at the Fukushima plant caused an uncontrolled release of radiation, with officials saying levels around the site remain low - roughly equivalent to those experienced during an x-ray.
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So it's just media overhyping the tragedy that is happening on the shore with scary news from the Fukushima plant.
 
It's like a giant lottery win for the news. They've got all the pictures of destruction and they can say the word nuclear and disaster...
It's a shame but they'll only turn the general public here against nuclear power. (If they weren't already)
 
Emlyn_Dewar said:
It's like a giant lottery win for the news. They've got all the pictures of destruction and they can say the word nuclear and disaster...
It's a shame but they'll only turn the general public here against nuclear power. (If they weren't already)
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That's even better for them, will certainly get full coverage of inevitable protests.

BBC News Live is ******* up for some reason - http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-12307698
 
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