• Huge blast at Japan nuclear power plant - a partial nuclear meltdown has occured
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[URL="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-pacific-12720219"][IMG]http://gyazo.com/3f23370e082a4782ad92cbdca0799237.png[/IMG][/URL] [URL]http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-pacific-12720219[/URL] [quote=BBC News] [B]A massive explosion has struck a Japanese nuclear power plant[/B] after Friday's devastating earthquake. A huge pall of smoke was seen coming from the plant at Fukushima and several workers were injured. Japanese officials fear a meltdown at one of the plant's reactors after radioactive material was detected outside it. A huge relief operation is under way after the 8.9-magnitude earthquake and tsunami, which killed more than 600. Hundreds more people are missing and it is feared about 1,300 may have died. The offshore earthquake triggered a tsunami which wreaked havoc on Japan's north-east coast, sweeping far inland and devastating a number of towns and villages. [B] Japan's Prime Minister Naoto Kan declared a state of emergency at the Fukushima 1 and 2 power plants as engineers try to confirm whether a reactor at one of the stations has gone into meltdown.[/B] It is an automatic procedure after nuclear reactors shut down in the event of an earthquake, allowing officials to take rapid action. Japan's NHK TV showed before and after pictures of the Fukushima plant. They appeared to show that the outer structure of one of four buildings at the plant had collapsed. [B]Cooling systems inside several reactors at the plants stopped working[/B] after Friday's earthquake cut the power supply. Japan's nuclear agency said on Saturday that radioactive caesium and iodine had been detected near the number one reactor of the Fukushima 1 plant. [B]The agency said this may indicate that containers of uranium fuel inside the reactor may have begun melting.[/B] Air has been released from several of the reactors at both plants in an effort to relieve the huge amount of pressure building up inside. Mr Kan said the amount of radiation released was "tiny". Thousands of people have been ordered to evacuate the area near the plants. Analysts say a meltdown would not necessarily lead to a major disaster because light-water reactors would not explode even if they overheated. The 8.9-magnitude tremor struck in the afternoon local time on Friday off the coast of Honshu island at a depth of about 24km, 400km (250 miles) north-east of Tokyo. It was nearly 8,000 times stronger than last month's quake in New Zealand that devastated the city of Christchurch, scientists said. Some of the same search and rescue teams from around the world that helped in that disaster are now on their way to Japan. [/quote] [URL="http://news.yahoo.com/nphotos/Huge-Japan-quake-causes-tsunami-fires-landslide/ss/events/wl/031111japanquake"][IMG]http://l.yimg.com/a/p/us/news/editorial/d/50/d5043e1191255964794522d936923803.jpeg[/IMG][/URL] [IMG]http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media/images/51647000/jpg/_51647503_51647502.jpg[/IMG] [I]Japanese TV showed a huge cloud of smoke rising from one of the Fukushima plant buildings[/I] [IMG]http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media/images/51642000/gif/_51642884_japan_quake304x171.gif[/IMG] [IMG]http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media/images/51641000/gif/_51641143_japan_quake_sendai_464.gif[/IMG] [B]Read/watch this before you post, the amount of disinformation circulating these forums pertaining to the nuclear reactors is astounding[/B]. [QUOTE=Crimor;28613070]Since people can't understand basic shit I'll go over a few things. A fire won't do what it did in chernobyl because the only reason that spread radiation was because it used carbon(graphite to be exact) as a [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neutron_moderator"]moderator[/URL](shield) which caught on fire, turning the carbon, and the radiation inside it, into smoke, which rose up into the atmosphere. As far as I know, no one has used carbon moderators since Nuclear reactors cannot explode, no matter how hard you try and make it happen, it does not have enough [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_fuel"]fuel[/URL] for [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Critical_mass"]critical mass[/URL] If you want to know more and not be an ignorant hippie, watch this, if there's something you don't understand after watching the entire thing, feel free to pm me or post and I will explain it, or someone else that knows their shit will. [URL="http://youtube.com/watch?v=5BHdsjo-NR4"][media]http://youtube.com/watch?v=5BHdsjo-NR4[/URL][/media][/QUOTE]
Well fuck
Holy shit, sucks to be japan right now :frown:
This ain't good.
Chernobyl v2
way to repost then close my thread.
I hope that it won't happen. It's already bad enough as it is.
run
[QUOTE=doonbugie2;28559319]way to repost then close my thread.[/QUOTE] This was posted before and has more info.
[QUOTE=Eluveitie;28559340]This was posted before and has more info.[/QUOTE] no, mine was posted before.
[QUOTE=doonbugie2;28559343]no, mine was posted before.[/QUOTE] Read the timestamps [B]EDIT: [/B]Look at the thread ID, this thread has a lower ID[B]:[/B] This thread[B]: [/B][URL]http://www.facepunch.com/threads/106863[/URL][B]0[/B]-Huge-blast-at-Japan-nuclear-power-plant His thread: [URL]http://www.facepunch.com/threads/106863[/URL][B]1[/B]-Explosion-at-japanese-nuclear-power-plant Now, I'd appreciate it if people stopped accusing me of stealing his thread now, thanks.
I hope everyone will be alright :ohdear:
Aww fuck. They should really think about evacuating the whole Japanese Island.
:ohdear:
[QUOTE=Starpluck;28559348]Read the timestamps[/QUOTE] They both say five minutes, I refreshed after posting and your thread was not in the section. Whatever I dont give a rats ass.
STALKER: Shadow of Fukishima
[QUOTE=doonbugie2;28559359]They both say five minutes, I refreshed after posting and your thread was not in the section.[/QUOTE] No, it actually shows that the thread I posted was one to two minutes before you did. The event logs would also show if the thread was moved from another section. Stop whining.
Also for everyone who skim-read this, [B]calm the fuck down:[/B] [quote]Analysts say a meltdown would not necessarily lead to a major disaster because light-water reactors would not explode even if they overheated.[/quote]
[QUOTE=DainBramageStudios;28559362]STALKER: Shadow of Fukishima[/QUOTE] That's got to be about the 10th time I've seen someone say that about Fukishima.
[QUOTE=crackberry;28559373]That's got to be about the 10th time I've seen someone say that about Fukishima.[/QUOTE] New thread, new rules
[QUOTE=Eluveitie;28559340]This was posted before and has more info.[/QUOTE] I dont see how it has more information, same quote, same source with some added pictures derping the affected regions of the earthquake.
And this is one of the reasons why I am not going to live in any earthquake-dangered place.
[QUOTE=doonbugie2;28559319]way to repost then close my thread.[/QUOTE] actually, you were a minute late
[QUOTE=pawelte1;28559388]And this is one of the reasons why I am not going to live in any earthquake-dangered place.[/QUOTE] Which planet are you moving too.
[QUOTE=DainBramageStudios;28559372]Also for everyone who skim-read this, [B]calm the fuck down:[/B][/QUOTE] yeah, because an explosion is the only possible damage caused by a reactor meltdown
[QUOTE=kmlkmljkl;28559390]actually, you were a minute late[/QUOTE] -snip-
I woke up, mum told me that one of the reactors went up :smith: She was half way there Still not good.
[QUOTE=pawelte1;28559388]And this is one of the reasons why I am not going to live in any earthquake-dangered place.[/QUOTE] Every inch of planet earth is at risk of an earthquake.
[b]0905[/b]: Japan's NHK TV says officials measured the level of radiation at the entrance of the Fukushima-Daiichi plant at 1529 Japanese time. If people are exposed to this level of radiation for an hour they'd receive the same amount of radiation they normally would in a year, the report says.
disregard this I fail at reading
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