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Holes feared in two Japan nuclear reactors

POSTED BY: NIKI2
UPDATED: Thursday, June 2, 2011 17:46
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Wednesday, May 25, 2011 10:49 AM

NIKI2

Gettin' old, but still a hippie at heart...


Oh, gee, THAT's encouraging!
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Two of the damaged reactors at the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in Japan may be riddled with holes, according to the facility's owner.

The holes may be as big as 7 to 10 centimeters ( 2.8- 3.9 inches), Tokyo Electric Power Co. said in a 225-page document submitted to Japan's Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency.

In the report, Tokyo Electric says the containment vessel of reactor No. 1 may have developed a hole as big as 3 centimeters in diameter 18 hours after the quake.

Fifty hours after the quake, the hole may have widened to 7 centimeters, the report said.

In reactor No. 2, the containment vessel may have developed a hole as wide as 10 centimeters 21 hours after the quake.

The nuclear plant has suffered cooling problems and radiation leaks since a March 11 earthquake and tsunami.

The hydrogen explosion four days after the crisis began may have led to the formation of a second hole in reactor No. 2, as wide as 10 centimeters in diameter.

"This report is not conclusive. No one has entered these areas and we cannot confirm this as fact," TEPCO said, adding that the report is making preliminary assumptions about what happened inside the reactors.

A hole in the reactor's containment vessel means there is a high probability of the leakage of radioactive material into the reactor building.

The amount of radioactive material in all three of the reactor buildings has hampered TEPCO's ability to build an effective cooling system. TEPCO says a cooling system is a critical step to leading to a cold shutdown, still estimated to be five to eight months away.

Nuclear experts and scientists have long suspected this sort of damage to the containers of the reactors at the crippled plant, as well as a full meltdown of the fuel rods in reactors 1, 2 and 3.

http://www.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/asiapcf/05/25/japan.nuclear.report/index
.html?hpt=T2


Depressing. Makes me wonder which will happen first, whether we'll destroy this pretty blue marble through pollution or our own little form of "nuclear war". Remember when we actually thought REAL nuclear war would destroy the planet? Wonder if we won't even need an actual "war" to do it?

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Wednesday, May 25, 2011 11:32 AM

KANEMAN


Well...what do you want to do about it?

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Wednesday, May 25, 2011 11:49 AM

NIKI2

Gettin' old, but still a hippie at heart...


Why do I have to want to do anything about it, especially given there's not a damned thing I CAN do? It's a "real world event", it's news, which from what I've read here and other places, may end up affecting ALL of us. Are you saying nobody here should ever post anything unless they intend to do something about it? I'm confused by your response.


Hippie Operative Nikovich Nikita Nicovna Talibani,
Contracted Agent of Veritas Oilspillus, code name “Nike”,
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Wednesday, May 25, 2011 12:55 PM

AURAPTOR

America loves a winner!


That's unpossible !

No way can those containment vessels become breached.

INCONCEIVABLE !




" I do not love the bright sword for its sharpness, nor the arrow for its swiftness, nor the warrior for his glory. I love only that which they defend. "

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Wednesday, May 25, 2011 1:14 PM

NIKI2

Gettin' old, but still a hippie at heart...


"I do not think that word means what you think it means"
Iligo Montoya


Hippie Operative Nikovich Nikita Nicovna Talibani,
Contracted Agent of Veritas Oilspillus, code name “Nike”,
signing off



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Thursday, June 2, 2011 5:46 PM

RIONAEIRE

Beir bua agus beannacht


Just keeps getting worse.

"A completely coherant River means writers don't deliver" KatTaya

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