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| Thread ID: 116631 | 2011-03-13 04:11:00 | Nuc Meltdown 'Likely" Means It Prolly Happened - Right? | SurferJoe46 (51) | PC World Chat |
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| 1185723 | 2011-03-13 04:11:00 | Japan says it is likely having a small-scale melt down right now and the REMs went outside of the 'acceptable limits' for living things. But then it went down 'significantly' - but they don't say if it went down to a safe-for -living-things level - huh? I remember the old anti-nuke movie 'The China Syndrome' (1979 Jane Fonda, Jack Lemmon, Michael Douglas) and wonder if a core melt down in Japan would be called a 'Florida Syndrome'? |
SurferJoe46 (51) | ||
| 1185724 | 2011-03-13 18:04:00 | Probably right there The Japanese authorities seem to be very economical with news. There are now 2 or 3 meltdowns possible or happening. |
Digby (677) | ||
| 1185725 | 2011-03-13 18:34:00 | Japan's nuclear industry has a tarnished image. Britain's Observer News Service reports that in 2002, the president of Japan's largest power utility was forced to resign after he and other senior officials were suspected of falsifying plant safety records. "We know that they have lied in the past," one local man told the paper. "They may be wanting to stop panic now." |
pctek (84) | ||
| 1185726 | 2011-03-15 04:11:00 | BULLETIN:::: Breaking news | ABC7 Los Angeles Monday, March 14, 2011 Officials in Japan say a nuclear fourth reactor has caught fire and is leaking radiation . The latest development came after an explosion earlier Tuesday that may have damaged a unit's container and caused a radiation leak at the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear plant . |
SurferJoe46 (51) | ||
| 1185727 | 2011-03-15 06:17:00 | Damn - my next Honda might glow in the dark! | johcar (6283) | ||
| 1185728 | 2011-03-15 08:26:00 | bravenewclimate.com | wmoore (6009) | ||
| 1185729 | 2011-03-15 21:06:00 | I remember the old anti-nuke movie 'The China Syndrome' (1979 Jane Fonda, Jack Lemmon, Michael Douglas) and wonder if a core melt down in Japan would be called a 'Florida Syndrome'? a lot has changed in reactor design since 1979... most people don't know what a meltdown actually means. most news sites are not giving real technical facts... have a read of this: http://mitnse.com/ |
robsonde (120) | ||
| 1185730 | 2011-03-15 21:23:00 | most people don't know what a meltdown actually means. have a read of this: http://mitnse.com/ Thanks for posting this Robsonde, I didn't know until I read the article. |
WalOne (4202) | ||
| 1185731 | 2011-03-16 02:24:00 | Sorry to shoot you in the head on this one - but those Japanese reactors are 39-40 years old and they don't have nor could they be retrofitted with the updated self-shutting and cooling systems that require no human intervention. The biggest trouble the US/NucRegCommittee has noted is that the backup emergency generators were below street level and were flooded, losing the ability to keep the pumps running to cool the cores. Core-on-the-floor is never good and now I see that the containment chamber has been breached in one of the reactors, fouling ground water and out-flow waters to the ocean too. |
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