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

If you want to know what it feels like to be on the ground and then in a tsunami, watch Here After

First 10mins :eek::eek:

It might be a movie but it really gives you that impact of just how people felt, terrible :(
 
I only watched about 30 seconds of that vid and it said like 300 comments had been posted since I started viewing.


More relevant news is, water into reactor 2 but the water level isn't rising as fast as it should, they are starting to suspect a leak, which will just be into the containment building but, could make it difficult/impossible to keep it cooled if any water they put in just comes out.
 
GJ02 said:
what the ....
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Dr. Daniel McNamara, a seismologist with the U.S. Geological Survey, told The Huffington Post that the disaster left a gigantic rupture in the sea floor, 217-miles long and 50 miles wide. It also shifted Japan's coast by eight feet in some parts, though McNamara was quick to explain much of the coast likely didn't move as far
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Wow thats pretty impressive/scary
 
They've found a "partial defect" in Reactor 2's container, so its sounding like theres a leak from the container into the metal container building and they highly suspect partial meltdown in the core, they are getting water in and dropped pressure, but the water level doesn't appear to be rising.

They are saying theres been no rise in radiation outside the container so the outer container appears not to have a leak. It is starting to sound like that core might be utterly screwed, but the building is pretty much designed for the reactor, if it breaks/leaks, to contain, cool and keep everything safe inside without getting out.


That vid was up a while ago, but yes, its amazing the way what I assume is tarmac, is just folding and moving like a wave, the water being "pumped" up is just, freaky.
 
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LOOOOL WE ARE DOOMED :D

A special feature of the Mark 1 design is that the used fuel, also called spent fuel, is stored within the reactor building in a swimming pool-like concrete structure near the top of the reactor vessel. When the reactor is refueled, the spent fuel is taken from the reactor by a large crane, transferred to the pool, and kept underwater for a few years. This spent fuel must be kept underwater to prevent severe releases of radioactivity, among other reasons. A meltdown or even a fire could occur if there is a loss of coolant from the spent fuel pool. The water in the spent fuel pool and the roof of the reactor building are the main barriers to release of radioactivity from the spent fuel pool.

http://www.ieer.org/comments/Daiichi-Fukushima-reactors_IEERstatement.pdf

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radiation, over 1,200 microsieverts per hour7 – which is more than 10,000 times natural background radiation at sea-level – have been reported outside the plant. At this level the annual allowable dose of the radiation to the public would be exceeded in less than an hour. Such levels indicate a partial meltdown in Unit 1 and possibly in Unit 3. However, while it seems to be widely assumed that the radioactivity has been emanating only from the reactor vessel (s), it is unclear whether some of it is also being released from the Unit 1 spent fuel pool, which may have been damaged by the explosion

http://www.ieer.org/comments/Daiichi-Fukushima-reactors_IEERstatement.pdf
 
The two reports there may or may not be accurate, if its true they are holding spent fuel essentially in the pool water underneath the reactor. The fact that he advertises his book and pronounces that Japan should cease building all nuclear, oil and coal plants and they can do so fine by following the plan in his book makes it seem, biased at the very least, unconfirmed, and hopefully just complete BS.
 
One of the japanese stations in its news alerts is saying blast heard at Reactor no.2, supposedly there is a hole in the roof caused by the reactor 3 blow out, so they weren't expecting a hydrogen explosion purely because it had a place to get out on its own.
 
drunkenmaster said:
One of the japanese stations in its news alerts is saying blast heard at Reactor no.2, supposedly there is a hole in the roof caused by the reactor 3 blow out, so they weren't expecting a hydrogen explosion purely because it had a place to get out on its own.
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Isn't that why a hydrogen explosion happens? They pump water in, which creates Hydrogen, The Hydrogen can escape, mixes with the Oxygen in the air and boom?

Bad news if it's true anyway.
 
Reports are saying that they have some coolant flow into the last reactor now to try and stablise the chance of a full meltdown on the rods.

Fingers crossed they can sustain the coolant flow to all the reactors or this could get messy fast.
 
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