Post: Japan nuclear plant: Just 48 hours to avoid 'another Chernobyl'
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03-16-2011, 11:24 PM
#1
DEREKTROTTER
You're Goddamn Right
Japan nuclear plant: Just 48 hours to avoid 'another Chernobyl'
Pretty serious now, Japan has 48 hours to bring its rapidly escalating nuclear crisis under control before it faces a catastrophe “worse than Chernobyl”.
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This image made available from Tokyo Electric Power Co. via Kyodo News, shows the damaged No. 4 unit of the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear complex in Okumamachi, northeastern Japan
10:52PM GMT 16 Mar 2011
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Nuclear safety officials in France said they were “pessimistic” about whether engineers could prevent a meltdown at the Fukushima power plant after a pool containing spent fuel rods overheated and boiled dry.
Last night radiation levels were “extremely high” in the stricken building, which was breached by an earlier explosion, meaning that radiation could now escape into the atmosphere. Tokyo Electric, the owners of the plant, said five workers had been killed at the site, two were missing and 21 had been injured.
Last night a US nuclear safety chief said that the Japanese government had failed to acknowledge the full seriousness of the situation at the Fukushima plant and that warnings to citizens had been insufficient and understated.
Gregory Jaczko, the chairman of the United States Nuclear Regulatory Commission, warned that if “extremely high” radiation levels increased it would become impossible for workers to continue to take “corrective measures” at the plant as they would be forced to flee.
As Japan resorted to increasingly desperate measures — including dumping water on the site from helicopters — there were accusations that the situation was now “out of control”.
Last night radiation levels were “extremely high” in the stricken building, which was breached by an earlier explosion, meaning that radiation could now escape into the atmosphere. Tokyo Electric, the owners of the plant, said five workers had been killed at the site, two were missing and 21 had been injured.
Last night a US nuclear safety chief said that the Japanese government had failed to acknowledge the full seriousness of the situation at the Fukushima plant and that warnings to citizens had been insufficient and understated.
Gregory Jaczko, the chairman of the United States Nuclear Regulatory Commission, warned that if “extremely high” radiation levels increased it would become impossible for workers to continue to take “corrective measures” at the plant as they would be forced to flee.
As Japan resorted to increasingly desperate measures — including dumping water on the site from helicopters — there were accusations that the situation was now “out of control”.
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lets hope they can fix this
03-18-2011, 10:02 PM
#38
Dopey
NGU :/
Originally posted by DEREKTROTTER
Japan nuclear plant: Just 48 hours to avoid 'another Chernobyl'
Pretty serious now, Japan has 48 hours to bring its rapidly escalating nuclear crisis under control before it faces a catastrophe “worse than Chernobyl”.
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This image made available from Tokyo Electric Power Co. via Kyodo News, shows the damaged No. 4 unit of the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear complex in Okumamachi, northeastern Japan
10:52PM GMT 16 Mar 2011
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lets hope they can fix this
It's been 48 hours, nothing happened yet. You were wrong, now surrender your rep!
03-18-2011, 10:12 PM
#39
DEREKTROTTER
You're Goddamn Right
Originally posted by Dopey
It's been 48 hours, nothing happened yet. You were wrong, now surrender your rep!
lol its even worse now, thread level up to a 5
18 March 2011 Last updated at 21:12
Originally posted by another user
Japan has raised the alert level at its quake-damaged nuclear plant from four to five on a seven-point international scale of atomic incidents.
The crisis at the Fukushima Daiichi site, previously rated as a local problem, is now regarded as having "wider consequences".
Rupert Wingfield-Hayes met Britons preparing to leave Japan, and says a team of Tokyo firemen are the latest 'heroes' in the country's bid to repair the nuclear plant.
The crisis at the Fukushima Daiichi site, previously rated as a local problem, is now regarded as having "wider consequences".
Rupert Wingfield-Hayes met Britons preparing to leave Japan, and says a team of Tokyo firemen are the latest 'heroes' in the country's bid to repair the nuclear plant.
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so no surrendering yet
03-18-2011, 10:17 PM
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03-18-2011, 10:17 PM
#41
NeedaLifeSoon
Retired Life
03-18-2011, 10:20 PM
#43
NeedaLifeSoon
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03-18-2011, 10:24 PM
#44
Silver_Snake7
Do a barrel roll!
Originally posted by Ropponen
Maybe, becouse this is biggest earhquake in Japan's history. They were prepared for smaller quakes, but not the big ones.
Sucks really, but what's also good is that they ARE well-equipped for quakes. If a 9.0 earthquake hit anywhere else in the world (California for instance), I'm sure the damage would have been much worse. Japan's infrastructure is built from the ground up to withstand stuff like this.
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