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Report: Japan Has Just ‘Hours’ to Prevent Nuclear Meltdown

Fears of nuclear meltdown are spreading throughout Japan after five nuclear reactors have malfunctioned. Now, reports suggest Japanese officials may have only hours to cool reactors disabled by Friday’s massive 8.9 earthquake or face nuclear meltdown.

Report: Japan Has Just Hours to Prevent Nuclear Meltdown

Japan's Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant

According to Reuters, Tokyo’s Electric Power Co. is struggling to cool down the reactor core after the plant lost power necessary to keep water circulating through the plant to prevent overheating.

Daiichi Units 1, 2 and 3 reactors shut down automatically at 2:46 p.m. local time due to the earthquake. But about an hour later, the on-site diesel back-up generators also shut, leaving the reactors without alternating current (AC) power.

That caused Tepco to declare an emergency and the government to evacuate thousands of people from near the plant. Such a blackout is “one of the most serious conditions that can affect a nuclear plant,” according to experts at the Union of Concerned Scientists, a U.S. based nuclear watchdog group.

“If all AC power is lost, the options to cool the core are limited,” the group warned.

TEPCO also said it has lost ability to control pressure at some of the reactors at its Daini plant nearby.

The reactors at Fukushima can operate without AC power because they are steam-driven and therefore do not require electric pumps, but the reactors do require direct current (DC) power from batteries for its valves and controls to function.

If battery power is depleted before AC power is restored, the plant would stop supplying water to the core and the cooling water level in the reactor core could drop.

Japan‘s ambassador to the United States spoke to CNN Friday evening to assess the safety of Japan’s nuclear plants:

To try and release some of the reactor pressure which had built up to more than 50 percent higher than normal, nuclear officials have opened valves to release radioactive vapors they say shouldn’t harm the surrounding environment. James Acton from the Carnegie Endowment told the BBC that if releasing the radioactive steam is the worst fallout, “there’s unlikely to be significant lasting damage to people outside the plant.” However, if the structural integrity of the core is lost and the core begins to melt, “we could be in an extremely serious situation.”

Edwin Lyman, a senior staff scientist at the Union of Concerned Scientists, also told Reuters: “We don’t have all the information but every indication is that the type of event that occurred there is one of the most serious things that can happen to a nuclear reactor.”

“In the worst case the entire core could melt through the steel reactor vessel and escape into the containment building, and then the containment is the only thing that is standing between the radiation in the reactor and the atmosphere,” he said. “There is a chance if that does occur that there will be over pressure, the containment can fail and you might have a release on the order of the Chernobyl accident.”

Meanwhile, nuclear expert Cham Dallas suggests a Chernobyl-like meltdown is unlikely, but claims a Three Mile Island-type incident is a possibility:

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Comments (98)

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  • alshere
    Posted on March 12, 2011 at 2:02am

    Hanoi Jane knows all about ths stuff, send her in. After all she was in the China Syndrome and he she could protest it.

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  • ReactorOperator
    Posted on March 12, 2011 at 1:36am

    These plants are Boiling Water Reactor types. The water that boils off in the core is used directly to spin the main turbine. There is no secondary loop as a Pressurized Water Reactor has.

    These plants are equiped with steam driven pumps (Terry Turbine) that will pump water back into the core in the event of a complete loss of AC power. The valves that need to reposition to run this pump are DC powered and will not need to reposition after the initial line-up. This pump has two functions, one to provide make-up cooling water and the other is to provide vessel pressure control. Until AC power is available for other support systems this pump will be aligned only for coolant injection. Pressure control will be provided by safety relief valves. Both the valves and turbine dump steam into the wetwell/suppression pool inside the containment. With no cooling, periodic venting will be needed to prevent overpressurizing the containment structure.

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  • islandlady
    Posted on March 12, 2011 at 1:27am

    This has been horrific for the people of Japan. They have suffered so much. To have the reactors as well will effect the whole world. I have read stories of the japanese that still carry radiation in their
    overies only to have their children born with defects. Pray for them, pray for all of us.
    This will affect all of us. This will affect the oceans, the food chain as well. I think they should evacuate before there is a meltdown.

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  • malaglot
    Posted on March 12, 2011 at 12:52am

    I may be just a layman here but….HOLY CRAP! This is a NUCLEAR plant. One would think that they would have thought this stuff through. “OK guys what do we do if the power fails?“ ”Well we can switch on the generators.“ ”What happens if THEY fail?“ ”AHHHHHHHH GODZILLA!!!!!!”

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  • duane38637
    Posted on March 12, 2011 at 12:45am

    Notice Obama did not offer $$$ to New Zealand or Japan just ship help from the navy yet he pumped billions into Haiti that was just embezzeled.These people are the wrong color for his liking.

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  • projectvxn
    Posted on March 12, 2011 at 12:42am

    Nigel you’re an idiot.

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  • Lone Ranger
    Posted on March 12, 2011 at 12:30am

    Time’s up.

    TOKYO (AP) — Japan nuclear safety commission official says meltdown at nuclear power plant possible
    AP-ES-03-12-11 0027EST

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  • ares338
    Posted on March 12, 2011 at 12:29am

    Seems like Japans’ Karma is coming back to haunt them.

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  • pwatkins
    Posted on March 12, 2011 at 12:23am

    I am praying for Japan and know jokes are ridiculous at this time, but it doesn’t seem to me that they have a lack of water if that is the coolant. Hillary and Obama will have to get approval from the UN first to dip some water from the ground I guess.
    All jokes aside…..Hope they get things under control…..May God Bless them.

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  • RugDog
    Posted on March 12, 2011 at 12:21am

    QUICK! Send Jesse Jackson and the union morons inside the reactors why there’s still a chance!

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  • thegreatcarnac
    Posted on March 12, 2011 at 12:17am

    I hope this doesn’t mess up the Toyota plants…that is the ony car I will buy.

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    • pwatkins
      Posted on March 12, 2011 at 12:25am

      Obama’s already messed up the Toyota plants with his run away car sheme.

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  • chips1
    Posted on March 11, 2011 at 11:58pm

    OMG The government said that a meltdown is unlikely. That is scarry. First it was one plant, now it’s five? Run for your lives, the government is going to save us!!! RUN…..

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  • mossbrain
    Posted on March 11, 2011 at 11:54pm

    Mothra is the only living being who can save Japan now.

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    • thegreatcarnac
      Posted on March 12, 2011 at 12:15am

      “Mothra”………….LOL!

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    • pattybbb1
      Posted on March 12, 2011 at 1:36am

      I see I’m not the only one that thought: Godzilla has awoken!
      Seriously though, my prayers are with all the people in Japan.

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  • samiams60
    Posted on March 11, 2011 at 11:44pm

    i pray for Japan and its citizens and i don’t believe this is a time for mockery. if the worst case happens and there is a meltdown do you think with trade winds, we will be untouched. what will be the radiation isotope that will be released. what is its half life and what can be done if anything to protect ourselves. these are the kinds of questions and answers i would expect from this crowd, not the sniping i am seeing

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    • CodyLee
      Posted on March 11, 2011 at 11:59pm

      Uranium 235 is a typical fuel element. The half life is about 700 Million year. http://www.nrc.gov/about-nrc/radiation.html If the worse case Chernobyl event happens, as far as wind carry particulates to us most people would not notice anything unless they were scan for radiation. As far as the venting of steam to cool the reactor, that steam would have minimal nuclear particulates and would likely dissipate in the atmosphere.

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    • NancyBee
      Posted on March 12, 2011 at 12:03am

      6.8 just hit Japan …after shock…alert from Fox

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    • Chuck Stein
      Posted on March 12, 2011 at 1:54am

      The most worrisome isotope is the fission product Iodine 131. It’s half life is 8.07 days. Because Iodine 131 is chemically identical to non-radioactive iodine, it is absobed by the body as if it were the nice iodine from iodized salt. In the body, it will cause cancer. This is why iodine pills are called “anti radiation pills” by some — because the load up the body with benign iodine, thus leaving less room (chemically speaking) for Iodine 131 to adhere to body tissue and do its dirty work.

      I hope this helps. Time now for me to pray for Japan.

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  • Insanityrules
    Posted on March 11, 2011 at 11:42pm

    Many disasters all at once. I felt like I was watching a Si Fi movie until I imagined people in those cars, houses and debris floating on the wave. Then it no longer was Si Fi. It is so sad.

    But another aspect looms on the horizon. Japan needs a lot of money. We owe Japan a lot of money. So just what happens if Japan says: “We really need the money that you owe us. So we’re cashing in your debt.”?

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    • ManThong
      Posted on March 12, 2011 at 1:21am

      No problema.

      Obama and Bernanke can print all the fiat currency they want.

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  • heavyduty
    Posted on March 11, 2011 at 11:40pm

    Move them all to Mexico. Then they can sneak across the border, because they will work cheaper than the Mexicans.

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  • theyarenotmeopinion
    Posted on March 11, 2011 at 11:39pm

    maybe throw all the globalist in at the base of the reactor and They could blow on it

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    • chips1
      Posted on March 12, 2011 at 12:08am

      Aparently Bill knows a lot of people that could blow on it!!!

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  • I am for real
    Posted on March 11, 2011 at 11:30pm

    All material is made up of atoms, even the human body. When man split the atom it became a bomb.

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  • Thatsitivehadenough
    Posted on March 11, 2011 at 11:26pm

    You made us all look so bad with your inappropriate, sarcastic, and indifferent comment.

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  • Evileye
    Posted on March 11, 2011 at 11:22pm

    Hillery probably does not know the difference between a diesel generator and a barrel of water.
    She thought snipers were shooting at her when a kid was handing her roses.
    Even a dumb Animal know when you shot at it

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    • jam ustigran
      Posted on March 12, 2011 at 2:42am

      What if her memory was a little too good?

      Ive allways found this really interesting.

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  • Rob@AmPre
    Posted on March 11, 2011 at 11:17pm

    The irony of a power plant going down because of a lack of electricity is pronounced.

    I pray for the sake of the Japanese people they are able to get it under control.

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  • 8jrts
    Posted on March 11, 2011 at 11:03pm

    I hope for the best in Japan!! It would be devastating for them to have a leak. I had family that evacuated Three Mile Island, and it was scary.
    So I guess we won’t be getting any new nuclear energy here now. Japan is on a shelf, and they know they are at risk of quakes. But that won’t stop the libs from shutting down any possibility of us here, becoming energy independent of the middle east. Just one more reason to go expensively “green”. Wait and see!!

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    • Tnredneck
      Posted on March 12, 2011 at 12:00am

      @8Jrts….. Exactly what I was thinking. The evirowackos were successful in getting the iuka ms. Nuclear power plant moth balled after it was 80% completed. Union workers were used to cut the rest of the supplies up in little pieces and sold for scrap. Won’t see any new nuclear plants any time soon.

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  • CodyLee
    Posted on March 11, 2011 at 10:55pm

    GE makes good nuclear plants. The majority of nuclear power plant for the Navy are GE and Westinghouse. As far as coolant goes, I’m trying to find exactly the coolant Japan uses. If they use the same as the Navy and US plants. Then it is water as the coolant or moderator. So I could see a couple carriers showing up to produce fresh water for the nuke plants.

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    • Stoic one
      Posted on March 11, 2011 at 11:05pm

      aren’t nuke plants for ships of a different design for land base for electrical generation?

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    • CodyLee
      Posted on March 11, 2011 at 11:39pm

      The overall layout and design is different but the mechanics are the same. Ships are closed loop and redundant. Both have a primary and a secondary loop. Primary being in touch with the fuel. And the secondary is used to cool the primary. Electric generation is still the same. High pressure steam pushed through turbine generators to produce electricity.

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    • Tnredneck
      Posted on March 11, 2011 at 11:48pm

      Like there isn’t any fresh water in japan??? It takes only hours for the core to melt down and I highly doubt the u.s will be sending any coolant. Especially after what happened in the gulf with the oil spill. It took over a month for the government to react. Once again Clinton is making a fool out out of herself and the u.s.

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    • CodyLee
      Posted on March 12, 2011 at 12:08am

      The coolant they speak of, going through this a second time, could be borated water. We already have one carrier in japan. The borated water essentially absorbs the neutrons and effectively “shutdown” the reactor and ruins the plants. I can’t say for sure this is what they are referring too. There might not be a whole lot the military can do once they get there except help with clean up.

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    • Chuck Stein
      Posted on March 12, 2011 at 1:44am

      I doubt that they need borated water. If the control rods are in shutdown location (“up” for boiling water reactors and “down” for pressurized water reactors), then the fission chain reaction has effectively been stopped. The decay heat of fission products is another matter. They need water circulating to take away that decay heat to avoid a meltdown. By the way, any water should do — although seawater could cause a lot of corrosion, the surfaces in the reactor are significantly corrosion resistant to resist the boric acid that is used to borate primary coolant in a pressurized water reactor.

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  • Showtime
    Posted on March 11, 2011 at 10:44pm

    None of that sounds good, especially the part about GE.

    Wonder if we can send GE in its entirety to Japan to fix things? Maybe they have some good idea, like curly lightbulbs? Maybe something will will increase Japan’s cost of energy instead of ours?

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    • Showtime
      Posted on March 11, 2011 at 10:46pm

      Was I second or fourth?

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    • Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
      Posted on March 11, 2011 at 10:54pm

      Has anyone considered one major lesson from this so far for America…what would the damages in the nation be if the west coast got hit by this kind of devastating quake and tsunami along with the aftershocks?

      Japan has had years to prepare and lives with the constant threat of these natural furies; and still we see what has happened so far.

      So what would we say here…other than maybe, armageddon like in results?

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    • NancyBee
      Posted on March 11, 2011 at 11:53pm

      I am praying for Japan…………………………………………..But I will never ever buy or have a General Electric product in my house again….ever

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    • Showtime
      Posted on March 11, 2011 at 11:57pm

      @Snow ~

      Our quakes on the west coast are generally at a fault, not in the ocean, aren’t they? Now if one hit the quake zone in central USA, at or near St. Loiuis, then it could affect all but the states on the west coast and extreme northeast, depending upon its strength and depth. I think it was 24 of the continental 48 states that would be affected.

      There was a time when the (I believe it’s) San Madrid fault near St. Louis that made the Mississippi River flow backweards for a while in the late 1910s. Maybe 1917-1918?

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    • 1TrueOne55
      Posted on March 12, 2011 at 12:14am

      Well I lived near Seattle and the spent a lot of time and money on studying the issue. But I did not see them trying to super glue the cracks in the earth. Go back in history to 1964 and the Alaska quake that devastated the Northwest, I lived through that roller coaster when I was 9 years old. Inside my school class room, we had to run outside while the ground was rolling, could hardly walk.

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    • Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
      Posted on March 12, 2011 at 12:21am

      @Showtime

      The San Madris quake you reference is not known to me, yet I believe there were three large ones estimated at 8.0+ by geologists around 1870-71 that reshaped the mississippi and did cause it to flow in reverse for a time; I know that one town subsided completely into the ground based on eye witness testimonies of the survivors.

      Either way, I do not wish to go through anything like that.

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    • Templar Knight
      Posted on March 12, 2011 at 3:53am

      GE isn’t a good company no matter how you look at it. Lets just hope and pray this incident doesn’t turn into another Chernobyl disaster.

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    • Herman_Cain
      Posted on March 12, 2011 at 4:02am

      Remember Energy policy can kill people see: Cafe http://www.ncpa.org/pub/ba388

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    • Islesfordian
      Posted on March 12, 2011 at 10:51am

      1811-12 earthquake on the New Madrid fault caused the Mississippi to flow backwards and when it resumed its southward course it created a new loop.

      Our technological advancement is as fragile as our financial system. Things could go very bad very quickly if the wrong things happen at the wrong time or place, which they could.

      Keep your powder dry, your pantry full and your Bible open.

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  • trueblueday
    Posted on March 11, 2011 at 10:34pm

    Interesting to hear on NBC News that the Fukushima nuclear plants were built by GE.

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    • trueblueday
      Posted on March 11, 2011 at 10:36pm

      Hillary Clinton also made mention earlier in the day that coolant from the US was being delivered – So what happened with that?!

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    • trueblueday
      Posted on March 11, 2011 at 10:38pm

      (may be a duplicate post)

      Hillary Clinton reportedly said earlier in the day coolant was being delivered from the US – so what happened with that?

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    • CatB
      Posted on March 11, 2011 at 10:49pm

      Praying for Japan .. especially if these are anything like my G.E. appliances.

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    • theBigToe
      Posted on March 11, 2011 at 10:49pm

      I heard that too. I believe she was trying to say that we are sending help with the generators (either fixing the old one or bringing in portable ones) to help restart the plants cooling system. These plants are water cooled so bringing in “coolant” would mean bringing in water which doesn’t make much sense.

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    • Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
      Posted on March 11, 2011 at 10:51pm

      Interesting of it being a GE reactor; and as for the coolant being delivered there is mixed reports on the matter, some are saying yes it is there or on the way…yet drudge report says no.

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    • Showtime
      Posted on March 11, 2011 at 10:54pm

      @trueblueday
      Posted on March 11, 2011 at 10:38pm

      Hillary Clinton reportedly said earlier in the day coolant was being delivered from the US – so what happened with that
      ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
      Could be having to get through TSA before taking off. Might be days.

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    • Theleftisda
      Posted on March 11, 2011 at 11:01pm

      All the libs drank it,honest mistake
      kool-aid
      coolant

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    • Creestof
      Posted on March 11, 2011 at 11:27pm

      There WAS a Vibration!
      (Jack Lemon)

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    • jzs
      Posted on March 11, 2011 at 11:32pm

      Please, stop. Clinton was making statement that the uniformed (all of us) would understand. There is only one coolant for a nuclear reactor: water. It could be they have no source of water at the plant now and they are actually bringing water in. More likely the are bringing in generators to run the pumps.

      But I will also say this. If by “coolant” they mean liquid nitrogen, then there really is problem.

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

      God help us and the Japanese people.
      We pray in your name, deliver us, protect us, and bless us, all of mankind.

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    • restorehope
      Posted on March 11, 2011 at 11:57pm

      I’m really glad that America is trying to help Japan. They are in for rough days ahead. Having said that, I do notice that Obama is deviating a bit from his usual script. I thought it was only Muslim countries that he seems to care about. After all, his State Department is spending millions of dollars each year to renovate ancient mosques in the Middle East while American churches fall into ruin in cities like Detroit. By the way, they are spending all that money on foreign mosques without congressional approval. Guess Obama’s word on the matter is good as gold.

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    • AzDebi
      Posted on March 11, 2011 at 11:58pm

      I worked at the Palo Verde Nuclear Plant here in AZ…the back up systems at the plants are unbelievable…I can honestly say that once I understood the built-in systems to protect a meltdown, I was never afraid to be on site…so…an 8.9 magnitude quake must generate such an unbelievable amount of force in order to cause these kinds of malfunctions! Something so out of the possibility range that it just wasn’t something man is able to build safeguards against!

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    • My Sacred Honor
      Posted on March 12, 2011 at 12:08am

      CatB
      Posted on March 11, 2011 at 10:49pm
      Praying for Japan .. especially if these are anything like my G.E. appliances

      Pray for us too. If those plants melt, Hawaii for sure will be affected, and most likely the western part of the US.

      God help us all.

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    • 1TrueOne55
      Posted on March 12, 2011 at 12:10am

      Well the Navy could use a carrier in the neighbor hood to help by getting electricity from the carrier or steam etc. to the plant and that could get the core cooled down to the point until they get normal operations up to speed.

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

      @thepatriotdave:
      “…One observation… you do not build nuclear reactors on something called the “ring of fire” by geologists for obvious reasons.”
      ___________
      Good Point!…Dah! …Go figure!

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    • My Sacred Honor
      Posted on March 12, 2011 at 12:12am

      jzs
      Posted on March 11, 2011 at 11:32pm
      Please, stop. Clinton was making statement that the uniformed (all of us) would understand. There is only one coolant for a nuclear reactor: water. It could be they have no source of water at the plant now and they are actually bringing water in. More likely the are bringing in generators to run the pumps.

      But I will also say this. If by “coolant” they mean liquid nitrogen, then there really is problem.

      It has to be fresh water. Only a very few plants around the world, Enrico Fermi one of them, can be cooled by salt water. The sodium content in sea water could cause an explosion… I don’t think Japan has the fresh water capacity to cool these plants. Sending a carrier group to supply fresh water ias a national security must, and one that South Korea better be excercising.

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    • GONESURFING
      Posted on March 12, 2011 at 12:14am

      Boy, sometimes when things go bad, they really go bad. Earthquake, tsunami within minutes, and now this. Hope they can prevent a meltdown.

      Pray for Japan, and help if you can.

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    • My Sacred Honor
      Posted on March 12, 2011 at 12:14am

      @AZDEB….Am I right then? My research is from 20 or so years ago when i did a high school paper on American Nuclear reactors…???

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    • Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
      Posted on March 12, 2011 at 12:15am

      @AZdebi

      My grandfather lived over the hillside from the plant, and I was a kid when the first reactor pit was being dug and construction beginning; I recall the tours given of the place during the public relations tours for the local folks…and here is one other interesting fact as well, Palo Verde rests on top of a minor fault line as well.

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    • My Sacred Honor
      Posted on March 12, 2011 at 12:19am

      Enrico Fermi in Michigan and the one in Utah were sodium cooled reactors, and if a meltdown occurred in those two places it would have blown. So I assume that if you use salt water to cool fresh water reactors, there may be a HUGE problem?

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    • Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
      Posted on March 12, 2011 at 12:27am

      @My sacred honor

      I remember something of the Russians using a sodium compound to cool their submarine reactors, and there is suppose to have been one lost due to a runaway reaction that sent her to the bottom.

      That is what I understand, I cannot remember when the story was mentioned though.

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    • My Sacred Honor
      Posted on March 12, 2011 at 1:30am

      The chemical fact is that if sodium contacts water, in fact, oxygen, you get a big boom. Sodium cooled reactors, if there is a problem, could leak sodium into the outside air, containing oxygen. What you get is not a thermo-nuclear explosion, but rather a “dirty-bomb” effect, where the explosion caused by sodium and oxygen combining would throw radioactive particulates into the air.
      Still bad business.

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    • woodypynes
      Posted on March 12, 2011 at 1:32am

      PREDICTION!!!!! Some of the nuclear (or in W language “nukeular”) facilities will have something wrong with them. There’s your crisis, right there. We (Obama calling the shots) will do nothing at all, or the absolute least at the very last second. He won’t be criticized in the media, who reports the eventual ‘leveling of the situation’ as Obama’s great oversight b/c it happened on his watch. Chrissy will get another tingle and it’s back to business. Yawnfest, at best, you guys. Seriously.

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    • paleoconservatarian
      Posted on March 12, 2011 at 1:45am

      @woodypynes

      I should think the what the something is that’s wrong were that the the plants suffered an earthquake well above the 7.9 for which they were designed and 110 aftershocks greater than magnitude 5.0.

      Doesn’t look good. The workers at the plant are waiting for evacuation themselves.

      http://montreal.ctv.ca/servlet/an/local/CTVNews/20110311/nuclear-tsunami-japan-110311/20110311/?hub=MontrealHome

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    • Xcori8r
      Posted on March 12, 2011 at 1:48am

      Hoo Boy! Let’s hope those suckers stay contained. A big release could be big trouble for us.

      Prevailing winds could carry the contamination right over the Pacific Northwest.

      The only successful bombing of the continental US in WWII was by the Japanese.

      In desperation, they launched balloons with little bombs from Japan and let the wind carry them to the US. They killed a few folks who retrieved one of them in Oregon.

      http://web.mst.edu/~rogersda/forensic_geology/Japenese%20vengenance%20bombs%20new.htm

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    • Templar Knight
      Posted on March 12, 2011 at 2:56am

      Read the posts about the plant. It was constructed in a very bad way. Of course it had to be GE’s doing. Japan should of let one of their own company’s build the reactor with failsafes that would actually work in a crisis like this. Maybe we should send the GE executives in there but I am afraid them being full of hot air would only escalate the problem.

      Regardless I pray for the Japanese people and hope that this crisis is averted. Pray for those working on the reactor and also for the families who will lose their homes if this problem isn’t fixed. If anyone can fix this problem I am sure Japanese and American scientists can.

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    • GONESURFING
      Posted on March 12, 2011 at 3:21am

      Just in ; possible meltdown !

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    • A1955Rosie
      Posted on March 12, 2011 at 10:17am

      This is an older system. The diesel back up is under water. Plans to bring in sea water… I’m going w/DARMOK’S SUGGEST. GOD, HAVE MERCY TO YOUR PEOPLE. Now I know there are many that will say that should this turn out badly never the less that they will say see…it’s fantom. You will not dissway my beliefs. As I know there are lessons as well. Lessons of morals and virtues and natural consequences. However in the scope of life, you may find that these people will have found that prayers WERE ANSWERED in goodness just towards one another while struggling through this.

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    • Ruler4You
      Posted on March 12, 2011 at 10:46am

      I find it very hard to believe that in a nation as seismically active as Japan that this possibility wasn’t considered and a contingency plan manufactured into the plant.

      On the reactor I lived near (for 9 years) we had at least 3 methods to cool the reactor in the event of a designed primary coolant system failure. Including 3 different power resources.

      Further, with Japans history of understanding of radiation exposure to humans, it’s surprising that such short cuts, if indeed they don’t exist, would even be considered. Especially for economic considerations.

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