God Bless Japan: And hope they hang in there

[Elar]

Holy cow! Nuclear power plant has exploded.
Explosion at 0:47 in video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=pg4uogOEUrU

[Tetrium]

My god...I seriously feel sorry for the Japanese
With every new newsflash, it just keeps getting worse, it's like a bad disaster movie

[6a6ar09a]

... and meltdown seems unavoidable

The worst was not happened jet

[CPUShack]

On the seven-point International Nuclear and Radiological Event Scale, Fukushima rates a four, said Japan's nuclear safety agency. Three Mile Island was a five, while Chernobyl was a seven.

[6a6ar09a]

Yep. It looks that sea-water cooling system works well. I hope Fukushima rating will stay at that level.

[doccybrown]

I think Japan's nuclear safety agency is the wrong name,
it should be called Japan's anti-panic angency.

The coolant which is now used can do only a damage
limitation, the nuclear fuel rods are probably already
partly molten.

Two reactors are completey out of control (the chain-reaction),
one with outer hull break after hydrogen-explosion.
The hydrogen very probably passed thru a leak directly from the
reactor compression chamber so the radioactive vapors
will unhindered pass to outwards now! This is a very similar
scenario like it happened in Chernobyl (lukily the Fukushima
reactors have no graphite inside which would burn very well
and tons of the highly radioactive particles would be emitted).
But to rate that a way too low four in the index is laughable
and an affront against the involved population!
A lot of readioactive material was already blown out,
five other plants blew out radioactive contaminated steam
in consequence of emergency shut-downs. What a mess!
More than 100 km away in Miyagi there was a measured value
of radioactivity 150 times higher than normal. EDIT: 400 times higher
I hope this disasters will force rethinking the use of atomar energy.
What a coincidence that it now comes out that the reactor block
Fukushima 1 should have gone offline in end of this month!
People want cheap and a lot of energy, a few other people
want to make big money and business, here you go!

[kosmokrator]

"People want cheap and a lot of energy, a few other people
want to make big money and business, here you go!"

here is the point and the problems root!!!!

[6a6ar09a]

[yy2013]

Dear all.

Thank you for all of your kind messages.

The damages caused by this earthquake seems to be far severer
than I thought at first. In addition to about 1,400 people who were
killed by the earthquake, there are more than 10,000 people who are
still missing.

I'm very worried about the status of the nuclear power plants.
Now, they are pouring sea water to cool the nuclear fuel bars.
I really hope this will succeed.

yy2013

[D.8080]

The only thing I can say is that all the world is by the side of the people of Japan.

I hope that all the japanese members of this forum are fine.

[CPUShack]

Even Kandahar, Afghanistan has donated $50,000 which is a pretty cool token, considering they themselves are receiving $3 billion in aid from Japan

[6a6ar09a]

Well, I hope that this should be the starting point for a better news from Japan.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/03/18/us-japan-quake-nuclear-idUSTRE72H6Y420110318

[picur10]

There was an earthquake again there:
http://edition.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/asiapcf/04/07/japan.quake/index.html?hpt=T2

[D.8080]

It's really a bad situation.

Not over yet.