• Huge blast at Japan nuclear power plant - a partial nuclear meltdown has occured
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They showed a 2006 documentary about Chernobyl produced for the Discovery Channel today. It's really scary how deadly radiation can be: One of the workers died of a single grain of sand he swallowed underneath the reactor.
[QUOTE=TrouserDemon;28572099]If there is a total meltdown and an explosion that throws all the radioactive material in the air and the wind is blowing in a certain way, then yes, but you'll have a few days before it reaches you. But realistically the answer is no.[/QUOTE] Yeah I really doubt it would even do anything once it reached the coast, it's not as bad as the media makes it out to be sometimes.
I'm getting me information mainly from NHK's live stream. They have been reporting on this shit since the quake started. By the way, they have a close-up of the blast site. [IMG]http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a166/ballsandy/no1.jpg[/IMG] It's not as impressive now that we see it only took the top third off the building and that top third was constructed from something else as the bottom two thirds are painted differently.
pray with me
Nothing is going to happen to the US, stop worrying about that and start worrying about Japan
[url]http://satwcomic.com/don-t-panic[/url] Satwcomic is the best :) [editline]12th March 2011[/editline] [QUOTE=Miskatonic;28569018][img_thumb]http://i.imgur.com/5ZGkQ.jpg[/img_thumb] He's got a point.[/QUOTE] I disagree. His argument is rather [B]circular[/B].
So under absolute worst circumstances and if the worst thing happens to this plant, where will all the fallout go
[QUOTE=DJSergei;28573431]So under absolute worst circumstances and if the worst thing happens to this plant, where will all the fallout go[/QUOTE] in the floodwaters
[QUOTE=DJSergei;28573431]So under absolute worst circumstances and if the worst thing happens to this plant, where will all the fallout go[/QUOTE] Into the air and water I think.
Copypasta'd from /sci/: Just to make matters clear. The Soviet reactor and the Japanese reactor are of two different types. They operate differently, mainly in that the Japanese reactor is deliberately designed to passively run down if everything goes to hell. The coolant helps the reaction so when the coolant is turned into steam the fission reaction stops. The uranium is no longer being split and turned into matters more radioactive. Commercial uranium is not very radioactive and by itself can't achieve a critical mass that would cause a runaway reaction. So what's the meltdown about then? Well, the fission process generates a lot of heat to turn coolant into steam (a nuclear power plant is in a sense a steam engine) and the solid matter inside the reactor will retain heat even when the process stops. If the heat is hot enough it can melt the cladding that the uranium pellets are encased in. The melted reactor will fall to the bottom of the steel containment chamber enclosing the reactor. Hence "meltdown". In popular imagination this can cause a "China syndrome" where the hot lump of material melts through the containment chamber and bores down into the earth. However, this is an impossibility in western reactors, it's simply not hot enough to burn through the thick steel encasing. The real danger here is that the reactor leaks and various amount of highly radioactive fission byproducts escape. It appears a little cesium and iodine isotopes escaped when they let out steam to lower pressure in the reactor, but otherwise the dangerous content remains inside. In short, what happened at Chernobyl is an impossibility here.
They are now assuming there has been a meltdown.
190 cases of radiation caused by the nuclear plant are being treated in Japan now.
[QUOTE=Xhidelex;28574850]190 cases of radiation caused by the nuclear plant are being treated in Japan now.[/QUOTE] Source?
Fuck man I need constant updates.
[QUOTE=jordguitar;28574812]They are now assuming there has been a meltdown.[/QUOTE] Sauce?
[QUOTE=IcyTruth;28572062]Guys - just give me a simple yes or no here - Will california be affected by the radiation? If so, how long do I have to get the fuck out of CA?[/QUOTE] The reactor won't go up in a fiery plume of smoke and radioactive material, if that's what you're wondering. It may release small amounts of hazardous particles, but by the time they reach the western coast of the United States they'll pose such an insignificant danger to the population that there won't be anything to worry about. [editline]12th March 2011[/editline] Anyone in a possible zone for receiving the fallout might be prompted to take iodine pills, beyond that it's not like there's going to be a mass evacuation of California.
[QUOTE=Timebomb575;28575235]Sauce?[/QUOTE] [quote]BreakingNews Breaking News AP: Japanese government spokesman says partial meltdown is likely under way at second reactor[/quote] BBC Twitter feed.
The key phrase there is "partial meltdown." A full on meltdown means there's no way to stop it.
I'm thinking less about the unlikely/impossible idea of a chernobyl scenario, and more on the thought of whether or not they'll close the plant for safety reasons Considering the earthquakes over there, there are better times to lose a source of power
[quote]BreakingNews Breaking News Fukushima nuclear plant was tested to withstand 7.9 quake, not 8.9 - wsj [url]http://on.wsj.com/idd9Yo[/url] 9 minutes ago[/quote] [quote]Reuters Reuters Top News Wind direction monitored near quake-hit Japan nuclear plant reut.rs/fjPAXQ 5 minutes ago[/quote]
CNN's Twitter feed said a 'meltdown occurred'. However, the AP's feed said a 'partial meltdown'. Which one? Partial or complete?
[QUOTE=Cheshire_cat;28575541]CNN's Twitter feed said a 'meltdown occurred'. However, the AP's feed said a 'partial meltdown'. Which one? Partial or complete?[/QUOTE] I'm guessing partial right now since that's what ever other news source reports.
Fukishima = New Pripyat. We just need Asian models in stalker and japanese voice mods.
[QUOTE=DainBramageStudios;28559372]Also for everyone who skim-read this, [B]calm the fuck down:[/B][/QUOTE] That's [b]if they overheated[/b]. Not a full-scale meltdown, not to mention an aftershock rumbling the power-plant, causing the [i]massive amounts of pressure[/i] to explode out of the concrete containment structure. Also if that structure collapses, the reactor may still blow right up in a massive explosion, no one can fully say that any nuclear reactor is safe, unless it's deep underground (i'm talking 50Km or so), and even then a thermo-nuclear explosion would still fuck shit up. I don't want Japan to be a fallout-zone, i wanted to visit my great grandparents sometime soon :frown:
[QUOTE=Saxon;28575773]I'm guessing partial right now since that's what ever other news source reports.[/QUOTE] 0426: Japanese government spokesman Yukio Edano says radioactive meltdowns may have occurred in two reactors at the plant - AFP. [url]http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-12307698[/url]
Who the fuck cares, seriously? [highlight](User was banned for this post ("Trolling" - PLing))[/highlight]
[QUOTE=Dummkopfs;28575839]Who the fuck cares, seriously?[/QUOTE] Then don't fucking post about it if you don't care. People are DYING and are DEAD, and there is a chance more serious things can happen.
[QUOTE=Dummkopfs;28575839]Who the fuck cares, seriously?[/QUOTE] Nuclear meltdowns are pretty serious and rare events, FYI.
[QUOTE=eggnogg13;28573719]In short, what happened at Chernobyl is an impossibility here.[/QUOTE] Not if that structure breaks. Also, wasn't there a fire involved at chernobyl?
This is scary shit.
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