Jpegs13 Report post Posted March 12, 2011 Thankfully, Japan has been utilizing strict earthquake codes in building construction for years or the aftermath would have been total devastation. Hats off to the engineers! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ammaar555 Report post Posted March 12, 2011 Japan faces these kind of natural disasters all the time.As a community they can over come from this soon. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
capt_chaos Report post Posted March 12, 2011 Chemical explosion at the troubled nuclear reactor. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Albert-LP Report post Posted March 12, 2011 40 miles interdiction around Fukushima nuclear power plant, nobody is allowed to go in. total evacuation within 15 miles range from Fukushima nuclear power plant reactor gone nuclear disaster incoming God save them Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
SAB Report post Posted March 12, 2011 There's new images coming in today showing whole towns being consumed by the tsunami. People have continued filming as the giant waves head inland towards them. Whole buildings have been swept away by the waves and are floating like boats and crashing into other buildings. The images are awful. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
vyce77 Report post Posted March 12, 2011 40 miles interdiction around Fukushima nuclear power plant, nobody is allowed to go in. total evacuation within 15 miles range from Fukushima nuclear power plant reactor gone nuclear disaster incoming God save them I'm still skeptical. As a licensed engineer, I have been legitimately "owned" by the experts in the field here before when I questioned the possibility of a modern meltdown. In all seriousness, I hope this is just sensationalism by the media. We have some very legit resources on this board, and I will stand by their previous assessments. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lambo91 Report post Posted March 12, 2011 God save them yeah right... from the way i see it..we should stop relying on that...humans need to saves themselves and people need to help one another.. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
vyce77 Report post Posted March 12, 2011 yeah right... from the way i see it..we should stop relying on that...humans need to saves themselves and people need to help one another.. I don't think Albert was being literal... Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Roman Report post Posted March 12, 2011 Meltdown. http://www.stratfor.com/analysis/20110312-...-japanese-plant Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
LuisGT3 Report post Posted March 12, 2011 Since I am not familiar with how these powerplants work, what is worse case scenario if one of them is not able to cool itself down? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
LuisGT3 Report post Posted March 12, 2011 9,500 unnacounted for?!?!?!?! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Roman Report post Posted March 12, 2011 Since I am not familiar with how these powerplants work, what is worse case scenario if one of them is not able to cool itself down? Melting of the Nuclear Material (has apparently already happened) and breach of the reactor core. (Chernobyl) Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lambo91 Report post Posted March 12, 2011 so whats going to happen? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
q8ylambo Report post Posted March 12, 2011 Melting of the Nuclear Material (has apparently already happened) and breach of the reactor core. (Chernobyl) and ? what will happen after that ? what;s the worst case scenario ? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
livetodrive Report post Posted March 12, 2011 One plant has already exploded. Effects - Health problems for many, many years to come if not contained, to say the least. (Saw that it has already leaked out). Got to know my friends there are alright. Hope all other countries help out Japan. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
baazinakon Report post Posted March 12, 2011 CNN just interviewed an expert, who said that the explosion was hydrogen related, and that he doesn't think that anything similar to Chernobyl will happen. He said that it was an issue that must be handled with extreme care, and that the typical limit for a year was released in one hour. I was making breakfast so I may have missed some points of his interview, but this is what I got from it. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
baazinakon Report post Posted March 12, 2011 CNN just interviewed an expert, who said that the explosion was hydrogen related, and that he doesn't think that anything similar to Chernobyl will happen. He said that it was an issue that must be handled with extreme care, and that the typical limit for a year was released in one hour. I was making breakfast so I may have missed some points of his interview, but this is what I got from it. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
capt_chaos Report post Posted March 12, 2011 One plant has already exploded. Effects - Health problems for many, many years to come if not contained, to say the least. (Saw that it has already leaked out). Got to know my friends there are alright. Hope all other countries help out Japan. Lot of mis-information flying about and I actually think it is sad that the focus of this tragedy has been 98% toward the reactor incident which is like dismissing the many many people that have already died. The media knows that pictures of dead people does not sell advert time so they have camped with a long lens trained on a building and whilst speculating madly. Some say that the reactor was closed down earlier preventing a greater environment impact should it meltdown completely but the fact is that public and press should never ever find out what goes on in those buildings for security reasons. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
capt_chaos Report post Posted March 12, 2011 http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-pacific-12722264 NUTS!! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lambo91 Report post Posted March 12, 2011 http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-pacific-12722264 NUTS!! i just saw it on the news about 10mins ago...me and my family just said "how the heck did that happen?" Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Roman Report post Posted March 12, 2011 and ? what will happen after that ? what;s the worst case scenario ? Chernobyl is the worst case scenario- The reactor temperature becomes uncontrollable, The fuel rods melt, A fire and or explosion results that breaches the reactor containment structure spreading radioactive material for miles around, basically creating a "no go zone" for millennium to come. People in the immediate vicinity die within days or weeks from radiation poisoning, hundreds or thousands suffer long term health risks. An explosion at a Nuclear Power Plant (which is all thats being reported) could be anything.... Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lambo91 Report post Posted March 12, 2011 Chernobyl is the worst case scenario- The reactor temperature becomes uncontrollable, The fuel rods melt, A fire and or explosion results that breaches the reactor containment structure spreading radioactive material for miles around, basically creating a "no go zone" for millennium to come. People in the immediate vicinity die within days or weeks from radiation poisoning, hundreds or thousands suffer long term health risks. An explosion at a Nuclear Power Plant (which is all thats being reported) could be anything.... Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
HannibalACP82 Report post Posted March 12, 2011 (CNN) -- An explosion at an earthquake-struck nuclear plant was not caused by damage to the nuclear reactor but by a pumping system that failed as crews tried to bring the reactor's temperature down, Chief Cabinet Secretary Yukio Edano said Saturday. Workers at the Fukushima Daiichi plant have begun flooding the reactor containment structure with sea water to bring the reactor's temperature down to safe levels, he said. The effort is expected to take two days. Radiation levels have fallen since the explosion and there is no immediate danger, Edano said. But authorities were nevertheless expanding the evacuation to include a radius of 20 kilometers (about 12.5 miles) around the plant. The evacuation previously reached out to 10 kilometers. http://www.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/asiapcf/03/1...dex.html?hpt=T1 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
SAB Report post Posted March 12, 2011 9,500 unnacounted for?!?!?!?! That's in one town alone, about 50% of the town's population. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
speedy4500 Report post Posted March 12, 2011 The media knows that pictures of dead people does not sell advert time so they have camped with a long lens trained on a building and whilst speculating madly. Some say that the reactor was closed down earlier preventing a greater environment impact should it meltdown completely but the fact is that public and press should never ever find out what goes on in those buildings for security reasons. I'd imagine the media are licking their lips at the chance of a mushroom cloud. Unfortunately for the media, but fortunately for the Japanese and all other nuclear stations, a uranium isotope capable of fast neutron chain reactions isn't used in most power generation reactors. And even if they did, it requires a very precise chain of events for a fast atomic reaction to occur. So any "explosion" at a nuclear facility is not going to be like an atomic bomb. Period. RomanDad covered the total meltdown scenario, and even that is highly unlikely. The Japanese are wisely taking all precautions, but I'm quite confident they have it under control and it won't be a major problem. As far as I'm concerned, this is a non-issue compared to the devastation that has already occurred. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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