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Workers Evacuated From Smoldering Nuke Plant as Radiation Levels Soar

FUKUSHIMA, Japan (AP/The Blaze) – Japan suspended operations to prevent a stricken nuclear plant from melting down Wednesday after a surge in radiation made it too dangerous for workers to remain at the facility.

Chief Cabinet Secretary Yukio Edano said work on dousing reactors with water was disrupted by the need to withdraw.

Earlier officials said 70 percent of fuel rods at one of the six reactors at the plant were significantly damaged in the aftermath of Friday’s calamitous earthquake and tsunami.

News reports said 33 percent of fuel rods were also damaged at another reactor. Officials said they would use helicopters and fire trucks to spray water in a desperate effort to prevent further radiation leaks and to cool down the reactors.

The nuclear crisis has triggered international alarm and partly overshadowed the human tragedy caused by Friday’s double disaster, which pulverized Japan’s northeastern coastline, killing an estimated 10,000 people.

Authorities have tried frantically since last Friday’s earthquake and tsunami to avert an environmental catastrophe at the Fukushima Dai-ichi complex in northeastern Japan, 170 miles (270 kilometers) north Tokyo.

The government has ordered some 140,000 people in the vicinity to stay indoors. A little radiation was also detected in Tokyo, 150 miles (240 kilometers) to the south and triggered panic buying of food and water.

There are six reactors at the plant, and three that were operating at the time have been rocked by explosions. The one still on fire was offline at the time of the magnitude 9.0 quake, Japan’s most powerful on record.

The Nuclear Industrial and Safety Agency estimated that 70 percent of the rods have been damaged at the No. 1 reactor.

Japan’s national news agency, Kyodo, said that 33 percent of the fuel rods at the No. 2 reactor were damaged and that the cores of both reactors were believed to have partially melted.

“We don’t know the nature of the damage,” said Minoru Ohgoda, spokesman for the country’s Nuclear Industrial Safety Agency. “It could be either melting, or there might be some holes in them.”

Meanwhile, the outer housing of the containment vessel at the No. 4 unit erupted in flames early Wednesday, said Hajimi Motujuku, a spokesman for the plant’s operator, Tokyo Electric Power Co.

Japan’s nuclear safety agency said fire and smoke could no longer be seen at Unit 4, but that it was unable to confirm that the blaze had been put out.

UPDATE 11:00 p.m.

Two crew members on an Australian search and rescue helicopter have reportedly showed low levels of radiation contamination after they were forced to make an emergency landing in Fukushima earlier on Wednesday. Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard was quoted as saying the radiation was detected on their boots. They landed about 12 miles (20km) outside the exclusion zone surrounding the plant.

UPDATE 11:49 p.m.
TEPCO has released this image of reactor No. 4 which shows that a large portion of the building’s outer wall has collapsed.

Workers Evacuated From Smoldering Nuke Plant as Radiation Levels Soar

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  • docgreen
    Posted on March 16, 2011 at 1:11am

    God please help Japan and US! Does anyone know,if large amounts of Radiation exploded into the air and then pushed out over the Pacific, would that adhere to the Ocean and cause massive amounts of fish to die? I have a feeling these Reactors are about to melt down! All six of them! I’m concerned about what the Bible says about fish dying?

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  • idapatriot
    Posted on March 16, 2011 at 12:52am

    I am worried over this, but more from the panic than the actual fallout. I pray for us all( and especially the Japanese). I don’t think even with “full meltdown”, it will be as bad as it is portrayed. I am with Glenn though, those men in that plant were heroes. God help us that no one in the so called “International community” is willing to put their people in harms way to help the Japanese minimize this. I faced the fear of chemical and biological attack going through the Suez right after 9/11. If this thing went full catastrophe, I would head over and don that awesome Ziploc suit again to help with survivors, or whatever was needed. At least it wouldn’t be as damned hot as in the gulf.

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  • Showtime
    Posted on March 16, 2011 at 12:39am

    Murmai ~
    Hm. Looks like you might have a tail problem. Was your name supposed to be Mermaid but you couldn’t spell it and left off the tail of the word?

    Stuff it about SnowLeopard. One more crack like that, and everybody here will be clicking the Report link on you. You owe him an apology.

    And a word to the wise, Shrimp-Do: Better not let My Sacred Honor find out who you are. He’s so pack-full of frustration right now, it would be a blessing for him to wipe the street with your sorry mouth.

    Take it out on me, but not SnowLeopard. He’s not a lady, and I’m not, either, when I’m riled.

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  • AzDebi
    Posted on March 16, 2011 at 12:22am

    As the PM was speaking, I got the impression that they (the 50 operators) did not leave the site…more likely “relocated” “on site”…perhaps taking shelter in the reactor’s control room, which is heavily shielded from radiation…I don’t know…just guessing.

    AND

    @MURMAI: You are a very lonely man, aren’t you?

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  • Via Dolorosa
    Posted on March 16, 2011 at 12:09am

    The news reports said the quake moved the coast of Japan by 8 to 10 feet – and mentioned
    the axis turning as well.

    http://www.scroogle.org/cgi-bin/nbbw.cgi

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  • gofigureinternational
    Posted on March 16, 2011 at 12:08am

    Go Sacred!…And the left accuses the right of violent rhetoric. Differing opinions used to be the foundation of American exceptionalism. I’d wager a guess that the handful of far left ideologs on this site (several being the same person with different identities) have no clue as to the definition of Honor, much less ever standing up for it.

    May God bless all involved across the pond.

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  • ChiRho4Life
    Posted on March 15, 2011 at 11:56pm

    @ Cpoenloaf
    If you can’t get iodide pills, try eating dulse, a dried purple seaweed sold at markets or health-food stores..it has loads of iodine (causes the purple color)

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  • mossbrain
    Posted on March 15, 2011 at 11:52pm

    Is it true that the vocano on the big island of Hawaii has stopped flowing due too the earthquake? A person told me that. Maybe the shift in the plates changed something. I also heard that the earth was shifted 4 inches on it’s axis due to this earthquake. True or BS?

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    • Stoic one
      Posted on March 16, 2011 at 12:06am

      let me give you some perspective; the is an auto pileup: 50 cars on the other side of town. Are you OK?

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  • sWampy
    Posted on March 15, 2011 at 11:46pm

    These axxholes, they are doing just like the gulf oil spill, they reported that all life in the gulf was doomed, that it would be decades before anyone in the region ever worked again, and that it would be centuries before life started returning to the gulf, and thousands of years before it was back to normal, all lies, they are doing it again. I was in the gulf, watching in amazement at the lies they were telling, traveled to California, and DC couldn’t believe people believed the lies, believed the even when shown pictures/videos that proved they were lying. You can bet your children’s lives 99% of these reports are made up crap.

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  • Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra
    Posted on March 15, 2011 at 11:37pm

    Don’t mess with a leopard, especially around here.

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  • FLyoverman
    Posted on March 15, 2011 at 11:30pm

    Boys and girls as a child, I was subjected to nuclear fallout from atmospheirc testing for over ten years. There were times we had to play indoors becasue of radioactivity and I remember farmers had to dump their milk on one occasion because of radioactive milk. I am still here and so are all of the people I grew up with.

    Radioactive exposure is nothing to take lightly, but we need some people of science to put the risk into perspective. People have and can tolerate a degree of exposure to radiation. Right now most of the reporting is irresponsible crap.

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  • Stronge
    Posted on March 15, 2011 at 11:26pm

    How can this be true when Glenn told me these were safe? He is, after all, the world’s leading nuclear physicist.

    Next you’ll be telling me he showed a screengrab of the Ploughshares literary magazine website while talking about the (completely unrelated) Ploughshares Fund. Oh…

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    • Captain Crunch
      Posted on March 16, 2011 at 12:23am

      Well let’s see you get hit by a 9 earthquake and see if your still standing as well as these nuke plants.

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    • Stronge
      Posted on March 16, 2011 at 1:10am

      Are you trying to tell me Mr. Beck doesn‘t know what he’s talking about? I refuse to believe it.

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  • glennrocks
    Posted on March 15, 2011 at 11:24pm

    Where is our President? Is he on tv calming people’s fears about the radiation? IS he sending our best nuclear scientists in to help? Is he helping the people of Lybia that are screamig for his help? Is he helping work out the budget so there is not a government shutdown? NO? Oh there he is on espn, picking his basketball winners. PFFFFFFFF!!!

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    • DeadFred
      Posted on March 16, 2011 at 12:25am

      He’s hiding under the couch…..leave him there

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    • AzDebi
      Posted on March 16, 2011 at 12:57am

      @DeadFred:
      “He’s hiding under the couch…..leave him there”
      ____________________
      And get this…The First Lady has decided to put EGG ROLLS on her healthy food list in solidarity with the Japanese PEOPLE!

      What a great country we live in!

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    • ADNIL
      Posted on March 16, 2011 at 7:51am

      I heard he was planning another white house party and making out the celebrity guest lists. We need a LEADER and he isn’t it.

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  • gatorbait91105
    Posted on March 15, 2011 at 11:22pm

    we will never know the truth, until the fat lady sings….you can bet your useless dollar that we aren’t getting the truth about anything… from CBS,NBC,ABC and FOX….

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  • kurwa
    Posted on March 15, 2011 at 11:14pm

    No this report is incorrect. Glenn and his M&M are right!

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  • 82dAirborne
    Posted on March 15, 2011 at 11:10pm

    What is your major malfunction? Did your sheep finally runoff? Snow is a respected member of this community. What the hell are you? Coward fits nicely. Attacking someone on a message board………..

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  • mharry860
    Posted on March 15, 2011 at 11:05pm

    It will never be Chernobyl and what was that anyway. How many people actually died, do your research.
    The real tragedy is along the coast lines and everybody’s freaking out about some reactors that will end up killing no one, unless they work there.

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  • My Sacred Honor
    Posted on March 15, 2011 at 11:01pm

    So. Your wish is to kill those with whom you disagree? Want me to give you my address and see if you can make that work for you?

    I wish to God this wasn’t a cencored site.

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  • TheRealElvis
    Posted on March 15, 2011 at 10:58pm

    It’s a 6 out of 7 crises. Soon to be a 7 equivalent to Chernobyl. I don’t care what anybody says, nuclear is not good.

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    • FLyoverman
      Posted on March 15, 2011 at 11:47pm

      What is good? What is risk free? Everything mechanical has risks. My father worked in a coal fired power plant. More people died in that one plant than in the entire US nuclear industry, because there have been no fatalities. We sell alcohol and allow gambling for tax revenue and know ahead of time statistically that a certain percentage of people will have their lives ruined or even lose their lives.

      Those are “accpetable caualties,” so you can enjoy government services, but you want the power industry to be risk free. That is an unreasonable standard and expectation.

      If you want to keep yourself warm or cool. If you do not want people getting sick and dying because they live in cold homes, then you have to accept risks.

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    • sWampy
      Posted on March 15, 2011 at 11:59pm

      The liberals are saying that crap, not long ago, they were saying that all life in the gulf was going to die because of the oil spill, not exactly true, not even close to true. Ten years from now, it will be reclassified as a 2, just like Obama’s good employment numbers on Fridays always get reevaluated the next week to be the truthful bad numbers. I can tell you are one of the useful idiots, so you will have forgotten all about it being a 7 when they finally admit it was a 2.

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    • Chuck Stein
      Posted on March 16, 2011 at 3:26am

      If you amend the statement to “40 year old nuclear is not good,” then I agree. Think of how this would have played out if the nuke plants had been offshore in a submerged container tethered by 30 foot steel cables to the sea floor? The earthquake would have been of very little consequence. The tsunami would have caused the cables to play out another 20 feet or so and then return to the oiginal position. The reactors would be functioning — let alone there being any release of radioisotopes at all. This is a terrible event. We can learn from it. But right now, we might be better off putting our hands together in prayer that in throwing our arms up in despair.

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    • GONESURFING
      Posted on March 16, 2011 at 4:58am

      I agree, nuclear power is “safe” until something goes wrong, like flying is safe until your plane crashes. Do hope they get this under control before things get really bad and endanger us all.

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  • vennoye
    Posted on March 15, 2011 at 10:57pm

    These poor people just can’t catch a break!! We do need to pray for them….so much destruction and pain. We also need to pray that the Doctors learn better ways to treat exposure too, other than just the iodine pills.

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    • pattybbb1
      Posted on March 16, 2011 at 12:24am

      so true, it just continues to pile up. Everyone I talk to is heartbroken over these tragedies. They just keep piling up. So keep praying.

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  • teachermitch32
    Posted on March 15, 2011 at 10:57pm

    I am just speachless…to the point of only being able to pray. I wish I could do something to help. I am helpless.

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    • Star Spangled
      Posted on March 15, 2011 at 11:47pm

      I think most of us feel that way , All we can do is pray for them .

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    • Showtime
      Posted on March 16, 2011 at 12:50am

      @StarSpangled ~
      And pray for ourselves, too, actually, with that socialist regime in D.C.

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  • SnapTie
    Posted on March 15, 2011 at 10:56pm

    That’s all folks… We need to shut all the US nukes and coal fired plants down and go green..Humm,but how?

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    • marine249
      Posted on March 15, 2011 at 11:04pm

      10,000 windmills in your backyard
      go green—- now— how— dumb

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    • My Sacred Honor
      Posted on March 15, 2011 at 11:10pm

      Fusion technology. Water-molecular technology.
      But first you have to dis-allow the oil industry to buy out and hide patents.
      Impossible to do, so just be as self-sufficient as you can. Grow a garden, raise livestock, learn to live like it is 1870.
      Folks made it work for several thousands of years before Blackberries, it ain’t so hard.
      Be involved with your community and see who knows how to do what.
      I dunno, stop crying and figure it out.

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    • My Sacred Honor
      Posted on March 15, 2011 at 11:16pm

      MARINE (Semper Fi, BTW)
      You mean the windmills that have parts breaking off and flying into who-knows-where?
      Yup, that’s the answer. What’s a few human lives as long as the Californian Smelt are saved?
      I have 25,000 windmills in my backyard, and only 37 (Thirty-seven?? In a row??) human deaths recorded!
      But i gots my mother-truckin’ movie check!

      Silly liberal…. ( NOT Marine…I get you, my Brother!)
      Green is for those legislatures who will make billions on legislating this.
      Like Al Gore, Barbara Boxer, Nancy pelosi….etc, ad nausium.

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    • Stoic one
      Posted on March 15, 2011 at 11:25pm

      UM… I dunno, we switched from heatin’ oil to wood. Wife complains it is too hot, so I tell her to open the kitchen door.
      Her response ” It’s 5 degrees outside!”.
      Me, “Yea so it will cool down quick, so open the door”

      We went from cfl‘s to now switching to led’s .
      We have hand tools for almost every power tool.

      A few years ago my wife and our grown kids thought me eccentric at best. They do not now.
      The next thing is a physical manifestation of of the second amendment

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    • sWampy
      Posted on March 15, 2011 at 11:27pm

      He means windmills that require more energy to build than they produce in 50 years that have a 30 year life span.

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    • teachermitch32
      Posted on March 15, 2011 at 11:38pm

      Interesting! My wife and I were prevented from returning home a few years ago because one of the props on a windmill had flown off and destroyed a car on hwy. 58 (Tehachapi area in Calif.) The hwy. was closed for over 12 hours so we had to divert, along with thousands of travelers, south approx. 110 additional miles to get home. Certainly not failsafe technology, and created so much extra, so called, carbon output that it seems unfeasible to use. /Also, our energy prices in my county are so high that it appears the windmill credits are only going to the few who have invested in them. We need some significant energy output that is safe…dare I say…such as nuclear, in this county.

      Just saying……

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    • Dougral
      Posted on March 15, 2011 at 11:50pm

      Shutting down nukes and going green will not make you appreciably safer. Lets run some numbers. Assume that every 50 years there is a US nuclear accident that kills 10,000 people. Horrible right? Shut them all down! Not so fast. Automobiles kill about 35,000 people per year in the US. Over 50 years that’s 1,750,000 people dead in auto accidents. Compare that with the postulated 10,000 nuke victims. Suddenly the reactors don’t look so dangerous.

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    • Contrarian51
      Posted on March 16, 2011 at 12:34am

      Oh, good, let’s declare all forms of energy either unsafe or unhealthy and go back to living in caves. Sorry, we already have our quota of hand-wringing, most of it in Washington, D.C.

      I just heard the Germany has ordered a shutdown of all their older nuclear plants pending new inspections. I was not aware that Germany was susceptible to magnitude 9 earthquakes with following tsunamis.

      Joe Lieberman wants us to “put on the brakes” on our nuclear energy program until we can evaluate how safe our plants are. Seeing as how we haven‘t started new construction on a plant since 1977 and haven’t commissioned a new plant to go on line since 1996, I’m not sure how much braking we need to slow down our program.

      And then Obama makes that ludicrous statement we’ve heard for 40 years, the old “even if we start drilling tomorrow that new production won’t come on line for several years” BS. So anything that doesn‘t provide instant gratification isn’t worth doing, I guess. Well, gee, it might take several years to pay down our national debt so if we can’t fix it tomorrow, why bother thinking about it.

      Here’s my prayer – God, save us from all these clowns.

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    • AzDebi
      Posted on March 16, 2011 at 12:55am

      @Stoic one:
      “UM… I dunno, we switched from heatin’ oil to wood. Wife complains it is too hot, so I tell her to open the kitchen door.
      Her response ” It’s 5 degrees outside!”.
      Me, “Yea so it will cool down quick, so open the door”
      __________________
      You are “priceless”, simply “priceless”…that’ll teach her to complaint, won’t it?

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  • Marylou7
    Posted on March 15, 2011 at 10:51pm

    All we can do is continue to pray for them and I will.

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  • Ironmaan
    Posted on March 15, 2011 at 10:49pm

    They need to bury this plant and stop trying to save it, otherwise people are going to get killed!
    http://guerillatics.com

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    • Stoic one
      Posted on March 15, 2011 at 11:04pm

      The moment they started pumping ocean water in the reactors, economic viability disappeared. This is only the third time in the history of peace time nuclear power, that there has been a failure.
      Remember the magnitude scale is logarithmic, base 10, so a 9 is ten times greater than an 8. The last two biggies in Calif. were 7′s. It is a tribute of human engineering that these reactors are even STILL STANDING!

      Just imagine what the world would be looking at if these power plants were destroyed either by the tsunami or the quake! It is my belief that GOD lent a hand here; so that lives can get out of the way.

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    • Chrono_Sleuth
      Posted on March 16, 2011 at 12:29am

      Whether God lent a hand or not is irrelevant if you don’t take notice and utilize it. At this point they really should sand bag it, bury the reactor core in sand, then when radiation levels are at a palatable level, blast the site from underneath, then bury it over with sand once more, then a layer of concrete.

      Seriously, where the heck is France, where is the IAEA? The French scientists haven’t done anything but talk, and the IAEA is almost silent on this one. I would almost think they want this thing to deteriorate to a point of complete meltdown.

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    • Showtime
      Posted on March 16, 2011 at 12:31am

      @Stoic one
      Posted on March 15, 2011 at 11:04pm

      Sor, I understand that you are trying to explain something to me, but unless it requires tools and parts, or paint brushes and paint, I‘m afraid I’m just going to necessarily sit here in absolute ignorance of what you’re asking me to understand. However, I do understand the concept of what you said, and it is a wonder those things are still standing. It does appear that one of them could have been spared somewhere, though, doesn’t it? Well, no, not really. The island of Japan was moved eight feet by the earthquake.

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    • AzDebi
      Posted on March 16, 2011 at 1:04am

      @Stoic one:
      “It is a tribute of human engineering that these reactors are even STILL STANDING!

      Just imagine what the world would be looking at if these power plants were destroyed either by the tsunami or the quake! It is my belief that GOD lent a hand here; so that lives can get out of the way.”
      @Ironmaan:
      “They need to bury this plant and stop trying to save it, otherwise people are going to get killed!”
      ___________
      Wiser words were never spoken!

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    • Chuck Stein
      Posted on March 16, 2011 at 3:14am

      @ Ironman
      I agree as regards entombing these reactors (and the burning spent fuel storage as well). Put sand with cadmium interspersed on the bottom of the containment vessel (about 2 meters deep). Maybe crushed soda glass over that. There is probably a better way, of course. When the core melts down, it goes into the sand and you will have fused silica encasing the melted rods. The soda glass is lighter & has a lower melting point so it could form a floating cover.

      This would, however, probably cost lives. Military volunteers? Older Japanese? I don’t know, but drastic, self-sacrificial action appears necessary.

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  • Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra
    Posted on March 15, 2011 at 10:49pm

    God help the Japanese.

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    • My Sacred Honor
      Posted on March 15, 2011 at 10:59pm

      God help us all. If the Japanese fall, we all fall down.
      So yes, God help the Japanese, the last stand against total global meltdown.

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    • joseph Fawcett
      Posted on March 15, 2011 at 10:59pm

      Amen, Please Lord deliever them and send them the help they need!

      http://www.josephfawcettart.com western artist

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    • Copenloaf
      Posted on March 15, 2011 at 11:00pm

      We are feeling a little nervous in Hawaii, iodine pills are scarce…

       
    • sWampy
      Posted on March 15, 2011 at 11:26pm

      Soars, now nearly double the radiation you get when you go through a body scanner at the airport, 4 times the level gotten in a cross country flight.

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    • Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra
      Posted on March 15, 2011 at 11:35pm

      @Copenloaf
      My wife is from Hawaii, the Lords prayer in Hawaiian.

      Aloha oe, e Maria, uapihaoe ika maikai;
      ua noho puka Ha’kume oe;
      pomaikai oe iwaena o
      na wahine a pau, pomaikai Jesu
      ka hua okou opu.
      Maria Saneta, makuahine o ke Akua, e pule
      aku oe i ka Haku no makou no
      ka poe kina nui i keia manawa,
      a i ko makou manawa e make ai.
      Amen.

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    • Showtime
      Posted on March 15, 2011 at 11:36pm

      Lord, I don’t know where to begin praying. This is all so mindboggling, so tragic, so overwhelming, so disastrous, that it is difficult to understand it all. We pray for the Japanese people, for those who have survived, who are lost, those who lost their lives and their families, the Japanese governmental officials, our military there to help, and that’s only the beginning! Please show those in need Your mercy. In the name of Your Son, Jesus, I pray. Amen.

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    • AzDebi
      Posted on March 16, 2011 at 12:10am

      Blaze at Reactor Adds to Challenges:

      http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/16/world/asia/16nuclear.html?_r=2&hp

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    • kryptonite
      Posted on March 16, 2011 at 12:26am

      @Snow
      Thank you for your prayers. God has gifted you in that arena.

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    • gofigureinternational
      Posted on March 16, 2011 at 12:28am

      The worse thing is, this nightmare is going to get much much worse for them and Sacred is correct…When this starts dramatically hitting the markets (not just a $200-500 point swing in the Dow), this is likely going to be the match that starts the entire financial meltdown worldwide. And we have China waiting in the wings, watching it all play out. What happens when they call the roughly $1.5 Trillion in Treasury Notes on the U.S.? The knuckle draggers in Washington cannot even agree to cut this bloated budget 60 Billion, let alone BALANCE IT! What is the likelihood that they could produce the 800+ Billion that Japan has in T-Bills (which they could certainly use right now) and then produce $1.5 Trillion to the sleeping giant in China? Meanwhile, Obama is thinking of tapping the Strategic Petroleum Reserve to help offset spikes in gasoline prices, in-between golfing and picking his college brackets! What happens if a conflict begins on our lands? How do we fuel the battle groups with outrageous petroleum prices, little domestic production and no credit? We are well into Crazyland!!!

      May God bless all those in harm’s way in Japan and those who continue to stand for Freedom as the storm builds!

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    • TulsaYeeHaw
      Posted on March 16, 2011 at 12:38am

      I pray Lord God Almighty, for your very hands to cool the reactors. We are asking for a miracle. In Jesus name, Amen

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    • Showtime
      Posted on March 16, 2011 at 12:42am

      @Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra
      Posted on March 15, 2011 at 11:35pm
      @Copenloaf
      My wife is from Hawaii, the Lords prayer in Hawaiian.

      Aloha oe, e Maria, uapihaoe ika maikai;
      ua noho puka Ha’kume oe;
      pomaikai oe iwaena o
      na wahine a pau, pomaikai Jesu
      ka hua okou opu.
      Maria Saneta, makuahine o ke Akua, e pule
      aku oe i ka Haku no makou no
      ka poe kina nui i keia manawa,
      a i ko makou manawa e make ai.
      Amen.
      ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
      Beautiful.
      Thank you.

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    • AzDebi
      Posted on March 16, 2011 at 12:51am

      I realize that we need to be concerned about the melt-downs…but…while watching a news report, the reporter said that “just outside this building, there’s 13 inches of snow on the ground, and a major snow storm blowing”…can you even imagine being these homeless souls in Japan…and…many of them still in shock from the horror of even surviving the tsunami and perhaps watching loved ones washed away in the floods…Oh, God please help them…AND…please help us to help them…AND…why on earth is the Japanese government not transporting THEIR people to the southern part of their country…(I’ve never been there) but maybe it’s WARMER and perhaps they could provide them with housing????? Is this not something that they should be doing? I mean the reporter was talking about the “shelter” he was standing in (filled up with people lying on blankets on the floor all around him) that the shelter was only “temporary” and that the people seeking refuge there would have to leave in a COUPLE OF DAYS? Are you kidding me? It has been “5” days since the initial catastrophe and they are no further along than this?

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    • thepatriotdave
      Posted on March 16, 2011 at 1:02am

      My Sacred Honor
      Posted on March 15, 2011 at 10:59pm
      God help us all. If the Japanese fall, we all fall down.
      So yes, God help the Japanese, the last stand against total global meltdown.
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      No, that’s not true. First of all the japanese will not fall forever, and with our help they will re-build and go on with their lives. And just because they abandon this plant doesn’t mean the world is doomed. In fact, it doesn’t even mean that Japan is doomed. With Gods help we can help them thorugh this tragedy. Keep in mind we are Americans. We can do anything!!!

      However… If we do not get control of what our useless and dangerous president is doing, we may be doomed from within. For us, and the Japanese, that is the real threat!

      http://tinyurl.com/4rv8xsm

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    • thepatriotdave
      Posted on March 16, 2011 at 1:04am

      Copenloaf
      Posted on March 15, 2011 at 11:00pm
      We are feeling a little nervous in Hawaii, iodine pills are scarce
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      You have nothing to worry about as far as radiation is concerned. Don’t let the media and/or your local government try to scare you into believeing you are in danger.

      http://tinyurl.com/4rv8xsm

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    • AzDebi
      Posted on March 16, 2011 at 1:20am

      Fukushima: Mark 1 Nuclear Reactor Design Caused GE Scientist To Quit In Protest:

      Thirty-five years ago, Dale G. Bridenbaugh and two of his colleagues at General Electric resigned from their jobs after becoming increasingly convinced that the nuclear reactor design they were reviewing — the Mark 1 — was so flawed it could lead to a devastating accident.

      “The problems we identified in 1975 were that, in doing the design of the containment, they did not take into account the dynamic loads that could be experienced with a loss of coolant,” Bridenbaugh said. “The impact loads the containment would receive by this very rapid release of energy could tear the containment apart and create an uncontrolled release.”

      GE told ABC News the reactors have “a proven track record of performing reliably and safely for more than 40 years” and “performed as designed,” even after the shock of a 9.0 earthquake.

      My answer to this is………With an active nuclear reactor and the world-wide devastation that could ensue…we shouldn’t be having a discussion of FAILURE of any kind whatsoever….there is NO ROOM FOR FAILURE!!!!!!!!!!! And, just whose greed are we looking at that permitted these older units to continue operations at all? Sure, blame it on the stockholders, you bet!

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    • GONESURFING
      Posted on March 16, 2011 at 1:41am

      Yes, only God may be able to help them now. There is power in prayer.
      There is a little panic here in Hawaii and the local news is whipping up the hysteria, but it is a very serious disaster which might have widespread effects.

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    • My Sacred Honor
      Posted on March 16, 2011 at 2:44am

      thepatriotdave
      Posted on March 16, 2011 at 1:02am
      My Sacred Honor
      Posted on March 15, 2011 at 10:59pm
      God help us all. If the Japanese fall, we all fall down.
      So yes, God help the Japanese, the last stand against total global meltdown.
      ——————————————————-
      No, that’s not true. First of all the japanese will not fall forever, and with our help they will re-build and go on with their lives. And just because they abandon this plant doesn’t mean the world is doomed. In fact, it doesn’t even mean that Japan is doomed. With Gods help we can help them thorugh this tragedy. Keep in mind we are Americans. We can do anything!!!

      However… If we do not get control of what our useless and dangerous president is doing, we may be doomed from within. For us, and the Japanese, that is the real threat!

      Exactly. With the Executive leadership in America, we are now one of the weakest Nations on earth. We are now a stagnant cesspool of indecision. And the world’s chilren run rampemt.
      I look down, ask God….I just ask “why” and “what can I do?” and I get no answer.
      I think the scroll is unsealed and God is no longer with us.
      I think we are alone if not with each other, and I think God is testing us to see if we can pull through without the Holy Spirit on earth.
      I think if we as a a people can’t pull it together and persevere, then I think satan will rule us and we shall suffer for all of time.
      Pray now, pray hard.

      Semper Fi, and I pray for us all every night.
      I shall stand with you.
      Good night, and sweet dreams…..

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    • dawg of gawd
      Posted on March 16, 2011 at 9:33am

      People, people, people, relax. Everybody on Fox is telling me that the plants are a testament to nuclear safety. We have nothing to worry about.

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    • Deb C
      Posted on March 16, 2011 at 10:31am

      Business is good…but it can get too big – like selling a nuke plant before its/we are ready

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