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@Karen Warren I see. You are quite correct also. :)by Dennis Tucker Jr 3/27/2011 3:38:42 PM
Did y'all see the post on our group FB page about historic amount of reuters blog---COOL! blog.scribblelive.comby marie rich 3/27/2011 3:39:04 PM
@Matsuoko : So why are they showing it open in the Areva presentation describing the incident? www.scribd.com (R4 is described from pr28)by sims 3/27/2011 3:39:13 PM
@All: Has it been previously reported that there is no room in the condenser tanks for additional water? AP = hosted.ap.org Extract: Safety agency officials had been hoping to pump the water into huge, partly empty tanks inside the reactor that are designed to hold condensed water.
Those tanks, though, turned out to be completely full, said Hidehiko Nishiyama of Japan's Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency.by Apollo 3/27/2011 3:39:20 PM- @Apollo Very significant post. Thanksby marie rich 3/27/2011 3:40:16 PM
- @Marie I didn't doubt that it COULD be the cap of the containment, but it's in the wrong place. Ripped of and flung through the building as it exploded?by Salvador 3/27/2011 3:41:08 PM
I've been trying to grasp what's remaining under all the rubble for a while now, and a thing to remember is that the SFP being on the 4th floor means the TOP of it is there, because that's where the people work around it. So it extends 12 meters DOWN from the 4th floor. What's that, two stories?by radioguy 3/27/2011 3:41:51 PM- by elise 3/27/2011 3:42:01 PM
- @Salvador idk. anythings possible after an explosion.by marie rich 3/27/2011 3:42:13 PM
@Max In the TEPCO press conference currently underway, officials were asked by journalists why there is no independant corroboration for data being released. Apparantly TEPCO answered that having another team on the ground would complicate matters and might cause more confusion.by es 3/27/2011 3:42:24 PM
@all I seriously doubt with all the cover-ups they would blatantly show a blown reactor head. Every nuclear engineer on the planet would have raised alarmsby Patrick Kelley 3/27/2011 3:42:26 PM
Like the Reuters live.blog, I am imposing an unannounced hiatus for a while. Please keep chugging, or steaming, or dousing, or radiating, but, please, refrain from flaming. :o) Be back in a while. Thanks.by alblee 3/27/2011 3:43:27 PM
@Apollo, thanks. That's an answer to my question about what happens when they try to pump the radioactive water from the turbine halls to the condensers (coolers) and they become full. Well, pretty soon we have a real world test of that if the containers were already full to begin with, as you report.by vasra 3/27/2011 3:44:00 PM- @Max. Not being funny but tepco really should have been able to cope, regarding any possible eventuality within their holdings.by Charlie 3/27/2011 3:44:18 PM
- @Patrick We are talking about No. 4! There were no fuel rods in the reactor and it was being repaired when the quake hit, so there is a good possiblity that the containment vessel was open.by Salvador 3/27/2011 3:44:36 PM
- @Patrick Kelly Yes, I tried to imply containment head must be in place in earlier post. They edited this vid pretty heavily, stands to reason they wouldn't have included a blown-off containment (not reactor vessel) head, so as not to 'panic' the masses.by marie rich 3/27/2011 3:44:40 PM
- @George @Albee This one's for you, for all you do *chug Budweiser*, THANKSby marie rich 3/27/2011 3:46:29 PM
- @Salvador. I knew a man who worked inside reactors. He was given a time allowance as even though it was shutdown it still held masses of radioactivity and was not 'open as such'by Charlie 3/27/2011 3:46:51 PM
@marie rich lol thanksby George Gibb 3/27/2011 3:46:53 PM- @ll Has anyone seen the round object on the left of the screen in the first few seconds of the video, beginning with 3? There is a lot of smoke around it. Any idea what it could be?by Salvador 3/27/2011 3:46:59 PM
smoke or steam
by elainekirk 3/27/2011 3:48:09 PM- @charlie I don't know, but the fuel rods are out of the reactor vessel since November. Idle speculation, it could be some other of the thousands of parts such a reactor is made of.by Salvador 3/27/2011 3:48:30 PM
- I think if that were steam it would not be pooling and drifting?by elainekirk 3/27/2011 3:48:49 PM
- @radioguy 3.5 storiesby Dennis Tucker Jr 3/27/2011 3:49:29 PM
- @elainekirk2001 Morning Elaine - its steamby George Gibb 3/27/2011 3:49:34 PM
- Per TEPCO, water at #2 "only" 100,000 times more radioactive than normal english.kyodonews.jpby Markfm 3/27/2011 3:50:04 PM
- "Only"?by Dennis Tucker Jr 3/27/2011 3:51:07 PM
According to this www.ustream.tv the yellow dome is the cover of the containment vessel!by Peter Melzer 3/27/2011 3:51:18 PM- @Dennis Tucker Jr Well a lot better than the original 10 million....by borrrden 3/27/2011 3:51:53 PM
- The question is, if it is true...by Mina 3/27/2011 3:52:21 PM
- @Dennis so the SFP extends down to the ground then.by radioguy 3/27/2011 3:52:29 PM
- Kind of sad when 100Kx normal is a good thing.by Markfm 3/27/2011 3:52:29 PM
- (That sghold have had a question mark after it.)by radioguy 3/27/2011 3:53:14 PM
- Pushing midnight where I am (GMT+8)... Before I stand up from this PC station, I just wish to let everybody know that we are presently making very good noise trying to make sense of, for one, the videos and many such things.
Pretty soon, don't be surprised if this our noise becomes somebody else's news.
Yet, that's all the heroes we need be. Good vibes to Nippon.by alblee 3/27/2011 3:53:31 PM 
On reactor 3, the story in allthingsnuclear.org "Possible Cause of Reactor building Explosions" should be read by all that speculate about the Drywell Head. I personally don't believe it is still connected to the drywell flange. 70 psi is all the flange could handle before it started leaking Hydrogen gas. What was the pressure before the boom?by Lethbridgean 3/27/2011 3:53:42 PM- Could someone post a link to the vid please,i've lost itby Charlie 3/27/2011 3:53:42 PM
- Any news from the Tepco press conference about proceedings? I mean it's ok to correct measurements, but is that all for the whole day - exept finding out that the condernsers are full?by Max 3/27/2011 3:54:28 PM
- @Charlie Sorry, which video ?by vasra 3/27/2011 3:54:49 PM
- The 100K factor still means the water is releasing 1 Sievert/hr (1000 millisieverts/hr).by Markfm 3/27/2011 3:55:13 PM
- Also notice on the bottom of the previously posted article english.kyodonews.jp TEPCO has started testing the site soil for plutonium.by borrrden 3/27/2011 3:55:15 PM
- @markfm Whew... only 100,000 times normal. I think as heavy as some of these elements are, we can assume it swirls and sinks in pools and the radiation is going to fluctuate WILDLY on where you take the sample.by radioguy 3/27/2011 3:55:27 PM
- How reliable is the information that some reactors were empty at the time?by Hermine 3/27/2011 3:55:34 PM
- @Hermine It is undisputed that reactor number 4 was.by borrrden 3/27/2011 3:55:57 PM
- @borrrden They've been promising the plutonium soil tests for ages, but nothing so far. They say it's "complicated" and tests might take "days". Sounds stalling to me.by vasra 3/27/2011 3:56:01 PM
- @Albee thanks again. Been a long time since I was in the PI, so I'm not sure this is how to say g'bye but, mabuhayby marie rich 3/27/2011 3:56:14 PM
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