Explosion at Japanese nuclear plant

Commander Fleet Activities Yokosuka
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Lots of people trying to figure out wtf is going on with their loved ones. This is a huge operation getting the word to everyone. Whatever the Navy knows, they are preparing to GTFO.

 

That isn't good. I was watching the CNN international feeds this morning of the helicopter drops; seems like it's pouring a cup of water on a house fire

 

It makes sense for the Navy to be preparing with so many people to move. They haven't given any order to evacuate just yet. It does show some concern over how things are going.

 

Interesting... check out this report from Canada... he makes is sound like the worse it over...

http://www.youtube.com/BrucePower4You

Ron

 

Key word from Japan today is a possible breach of reactor core 3.

 

When you see the USA moving it 4.5 billion dollar aircraft carrier out of the way it might be time to worry

 

Problem now is dealing with the tons of highly radioactive water leaching into the ground and nearby ocean.

 

What I remembered from Radcon 101.. Dilution is the solution :wow:

 

From NEI:

 

Nothing wrong here.

 

Is 1000 millisieverts per hour bad?

 

That's just about enough to show up in blood work. Not bad, but not lethal. Assuming one would absorb every bit of that radiation, they'd have to stand in the area of radiation for about 25 hours straight before they get a lethal dose. That's just highly unlikely to happen.

Newborns, people with developing cells, and pregnant mothers are about the only ones at real risk there with 1000mSv/hour. People need to really worry when readings start getting close to 2500-3000mSv/hour, which will make people ill.

Edit: 25000mSv/hour is enough to kill someone in just one hours time.

 

Almost full disclosure.

http://arstechnica.com/science/news/2011/05/fukushima-reactor-1-melted-down-2-and-3-may-have-too.ars

"by four hours after the tsunami hit, the levels of cooling water had dropped enough that the top of the fuel stack was exposed to the air. Shortly after that happened, the temperature in the core reached nearly 3,000°C"

 

Definitely not a good situation, but a very very lucky one. If that article is accurate, the situation could have been a hell of a lot worse.

 

Prelim reports
http://www.iaea.org/newscenter/focus/fukushima/japan-report/

http://www-pub.iaea.org/MTCD/Meetin...tion/cn200_Final-Fukushima-Mission_Report.pdf

Cliff notes version
http://www.npr.org/2011/06/20/137303620/reports-why-things-fell-apart-at-fukushima-plant?ft=1&f=1001

"By agreement with the Government of Japan, the International Atomic Energy Agency conducted a preliminary mission to find facts and identify initial lessons to be learned from the accident at Fukushima Dai-ichi and share this information across the world nuclear community. To this end, a team of experts undertook this Fact Finding Mission from 24 May to 2 June 2011. The results of the Mission will be reported to the IAEA Ministerial Conference on Nuclear Safety at IAEA headquarters in Vienna on 20 24 June 2011."

Interesting details like the workers using a car battery to try to operate valving after they lost power.