2011-03-14, 03:49 PM
Kalovale Wrote:Exposed to what? What exactly is exposed?
If you read the sentence, you'd see that I said the fuel rods are exposed.
Anyway, a lot happened while I was asleep, including a second explosion. I'm going to go read some news and come back after I've digested it.
Edit:
More Bad news:
http://www.zerohedge.com/article/radioac...ower-plant
Quote:Pentagon officials reported Sunday that helicopters flying 60 miles from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant picked up small amounts of radioactive particulates
The two radioactive isotopes can mean only one thing: One or more of the reactor cores is badly damaged and at least partially melted down.
The build-up of hydrogen caused reactor no. 3 to explode at around 02:00 GMT but the government's top spokesman, Yukio Edano, said its core was still intact. He said there was a "low possibility" of a rise in radiation levels near the damaged plant.
I just have to say, I think the Japanese government wants to cover some of this up for one reason or another.I could be crazy, but it might be possible that Japan has had a history of cover ups.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2011/...ion=justin
Quote:"They had to shut down 17 plants in 2003 because they'd been falsifying the records about what had been happening at them," he said.
"Now the accidents weren't of a major nature. They weren't anything like what's going on in Fukushima.
"But they were serious in the sense that lives were threatened, systems broke down, there were failures to report and there were cover-ups. People pretended things hadn't happened."
"Well it depends how you define major. It's the first partial meltdown. That's fair enough. But there have been serious accidents where people have been killed and injured," he said.
"Maybe one of the most spectacular was the collapse of the cooling system of Japan's first commercial fast breeder reactor which is on the coast, on the opposite coast to the Pacific coast over on the Japan Sea side.
"A place called Monju, which in 1995 sprang a leak in its liquid sodium cooling system which made the whole thing absolutely red hot and had to be shut down immediately and stayed shut down until the beginning of last year - 15 years."
"It should have been shut down years ago because it's 40 years old this month."
I'm starting to think that this will be like Katrina - many of the issues could have been prevented if the government wasnt so incompetent.