Nuclear Meltdown?
Mar 14th 2011 | 3:28 pm
#181
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From: Ilukapool. WA
Re: Nuclear Meltdown?
I picked a bad day to quit smoking...
"All hell is currently breaking loose following an explosion at reactor #2 and a another hydrogen explosion at reactor #4 per Kyodo, leading to a 16% drop in Nikkei futures as blind panic grips Japan. Kyodo essentially confirms there was a reactor meltdown as radiation levels at Fukushima 3 are now 400 times legal levels. And topping it all Japan's warning that all people within 30 kilometers from Fukushima should stay indoors and that the radioactive winds may reach Tokyo in as little as 8 hours. The BOJ has just intervened to prevent the yen from surging, as the following chart shows. Our prayers are with the people of Japan. "
http://www.zerohedge.com/article/nik...ks-loose-japan
"All hell is currently breaking loose following an explosion at reactor #2 and a another hydrogen explosion at reactor #4 per Kyodo, leading to a 16% drop in Nikkei futures as blind panic grips Japan. Kyodo essentially confirms there was a reactor meltdown as radiation levels at Fukushima 3 are now 400 times legal levels. And topping it all Japan's warning that all people within 30 kilometers from Fukushima should stay indoors and that the radioactive winds may reach Tokyo in as little as 8 hours. The BOJ has just intervened to prevent the yen from surging, as the following chart shows. Our prayers are with the people of Japan. "
http://www.zerohedge.com/article/nik...ks-loose-japan
Mar 14th 2011 | 3:30 pm
#182
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Joined: Apr 2005
Posts: 8,735
From: Chippendale, Sydney
Re: Nuclear Meltdown?
I picked a bad day to quit smoking...
"All hell is currently breaking loose following an explosion at reactor #2 and a another hydrogen explosion at reactor #4 per Kyodo, leading to a 16% drop in Nikkei futures as blind panic grips Japan. Kyodo essentially confirms there was a reactor meltdown as radiation levels at Fukushima 3 are now 400 times legal levels. And topping it all Japan's warning that all people within 30 kilometers from Fukushima should stay indoors and that the radioactive winds may reach Tokyo in as little as 8 hours. The BOJ has just intervened to prevent the yen from surging, as the following chart shows. Our prayers are with the people of Japan. "
http://www.zerohedge.com/article/nik...ks-loose-japan
"All hell is currently breaking loose following an explosion at reactor #2 and a another hydrogen explosion at reactor #4 per Kyodo, leading to a 16% drop in Nikkei futures as blind panic grips Japan. Kyodo essentially confirms there was a reactor meltdown as radiation levels at Fukushima 3 are now 400 times legal levels. And topping it all Japan's warning that all people within 30 kilometers from Fukushima should stay indoors and that the radioactive winds may reach Tokyo in as little as 8 hours. The BOJ has just intervened to prevent the yen from surging, as the following chart shows. Our prayers are with the people of Japan. "
http://www.zerohedge.com/article/nik...ks-loose-japan
Or picked a good day to buy Yen...
S
Mar 14th 2011 | 3:34 pm
#183
Rhino with a big horn!
Joined: Feb 2011
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Re: Nuclear Meltdown?
Looks like it is about to get a lot worse.
The wind is due to start turning onshore soon (in 7 hours), and they appear to have lost control of cooling, with a real explosion in reactor 2 (eg not the same as 1 or 3). Add to that the spent fuel ponds are at risk if everyone has to evacuate because the the breach in containment in No.2.
It's officially hitting 'oh shit' levels now.
The wind is due to start turning onshore soon (in 7 hours), and they appear to have lost control of cooling, with a real explosion in reactor 2 (eg not the same as 1 or 3). Add to that the spent fuel ponds are at risk if everyone has to evacuate because the the breach in containment in No.2.
It's officially hitting 'oh shit' levels now.
Mar 14th 2011 | 3:38 pm
#184
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Re: Nuclear Meltdown?
[QUOTE=asprilla;9240160]"British expats" should be renamed "british experts". Come to this forum for expert knowledge, advice, hints and tips on:
I used to work for BNFL, so have more than a nodding knowledge of the nuclear industry, but I now concur with GarryP - The feacal defecatory matter is about to impinge upon the apparatus particularly suited for generation of toroidal air motion.
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I used to work for BNFL, so have more than a nodding knowledge of the nuclear industry, but I now concur with GarryP - The feacal defecatory matter is about to impinge upon the apparatus particularly suited for generation of toroidal air motion.
S
Mar 14th 2011 | 4:24 pm
#186
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Re: Nuclear Meltdown?
Interesting times we live in. I dont suppose anyone can predict whats going to occur out of all of this, ramifications for the rest of the world etc etc. If we were to have another major catostrophe in another part of the world to equal this right now...we probably would have huge problems for world order.
Hope they fix it, before anything incredibly destructive happens elsewhere in other words.
I guess the time to really panic is when the net goes down
Is this shaping up to be bigger than 9/11 ?
Hope they fix it, before anything incredibly destructive happens elsewhere in other words.
I guess the time to really panic is when the net goes down
Is this shaping up to be bigger than 9/11 ?
Mar 14th 2011 | 4:29 pm
#187
Greetings Traveller
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From: Sydney
Re: Nuclear Meltdown?
GarryP/Swerv-o/Vegemite Kids - have you found any online source of decent technical info on this, ie dose-rates etc ?
& do any of you work at ANSTO btw?
& do any of you work at ANSTO btw?
Mar 14th 2011 | 4:31 pm
#188
Crazy Cat Lady
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Re: Nuclear Meltdown?
http://www.ustream.tv/channel/nhk-world-tv good live stream in English of NHK
Mar 14th 2011 | 4:36 pm
#189
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Re: Nuclear Meltdown?
Radiation levels of 400 millisevers (??) in the immediate area around the leak apparently. Thats harmful to humans they say
Doesn't sound great.
I'm going to Japan in a few weeks. If I come back with no hair and 8 eyes then you can consider it dangerous.
Doesn't sound great.
I'm going to Japan in a few weeks. If I come back with no hair and 8 eyes then you can consider it dangerous.
Mar 14th 2011 | 4:37 pm
#190
Crazy Cat Lady
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Re: Nuclear Meltdown?
How much hair and how many eyes do you currently have? So we can compare later.
Mar 14th 2011 | 4:42 pm
#191
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From: Semi-rural wonderworld, Brisbane
Re: Nuclear Meltdown?
You could always live in Ipswich.
Mar 14th 2011 | 4:42 pm
#192
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Re: Nuclear Meltdown?
millisieverts
Mar 14th 2011 | 4:49 pm
#195
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Re: Nuclear Meltdown?
You wouldn't call him a bonny baby by any stretch . . .
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"That's right dear . . . just a little lower . . . that feels sooooo good!"
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"That's right dear . . . just a little lower . . . that feels sooooo good!"
