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Reply to all...if you are havng disturbing feelings and are feel you are bombarded with thoughts and images that you'd rather not have, then you need to consider a change for a while. I could not watch the videos of the tsuanmi raining death across the coast of japan, I had turn away for a time, I had to consider what I felt I could handle emotionally and mentally. The reactor crisis is not under human control at this point and there will be destruction, and there will be a way that this all becomes the past for us but this may not be the time that you want to be constantly bombarded with this.

Yes @alaskan, this is good: www.rdtn.org But even here, each data point is being revealed in a different measurement. Have we as a group chosen the best method of measurement yet?

@tenzing am working, later when i can print plant layout so i know what building i am looking at i will look further at video...BUT WITH THE PLOTIUM ISSUE if you look at the actual explosion www.youtube.com (remeber scale - height of build vs exhaut risers vs explosion plume... )it would not surprise me if they did't loose the top of the reator then... any one in this field,,, comments??? also what are the readings saying as far as when they started.. how much??? WILL RETURN tonight, but does anyone have any thoughts on why that explosion was so so much greater than #1 ..and #1 went outward and #2 and or #4 still have roofs- outward explosion.. welcome any thoughts back on #3... just to high and to much force for me to think all was still OK... and where did the sfr pool go???? sorry so sloppy!!!

@Pat Agreed. good advice. thank you. we need to take care of ourselves and families so that we are able to be there for them (and here for each other) in effective ways.

@Pat Agree. I had to do the same last week.

@MaryMary That's great piece of advice.

@NHK: Ok. I saw the video a day after the accident.

Good advice, everyone. If it starts to affect you personally, walk away for awhile. If you can't, Nurse Rached will be here in an hour to dispense your Xanax.... :-)

@Karen Warren ....lol.....yes, tear yourselves away and go eat something, at least....

@Jim That is not quite true. "Hydrogen gas (dihydrogen or molecular hydrogen)[10] is highly flammable and will burn in air at a very wide range of concentrations between 4% and 75% by volume.[11] The enthalpy of combustion for hydrogen is −286 kJ/mol:" Source: en.wikipedia.org

@Karen Warren That's an issue I'm starting to have recently. Nightmares about the Tsunami. But I know how to fix that in myself. A little backwards, but I need to focus on it a little more and do some art for it. And I'll feel better.

Hydrogen does need an ignition source to oxidize at normal temps and pressure. Also, the more air (O2) mixed with it, the bigger the explosion.

@Pedro Jesus Yes, I agree, but hydrogen will not spontanously combust. Once it gets going though it makes for a very impressive explosion as we saw.

@Alaskan No it doesn't but anyway, the conditions of temperature and pressure inside the buildings at the time were far from «normal».

Denmark

@Natalie: I've often wondered why Dean kept needing to go rest so often. Someone else mentioned that a family member with similar background was experiencing extreme stress.

Canada

@Sheila: Are you seeing any reports in France re: its assist to TEPCO. If so, please report. Thanks.

Victoria, B.C, Canada

@Alaskan "Hydrogen gas forms explosive mixtures with air if it is 4–74% concentrated and with chlorine if it is 5–95% concentrated. The mixtures spontaneously explode by spark, heat or sunlight. The hydrogen autoignition temperature, the temperature of spontaneous ignition in air, is 500 °C (932 °F).[13] Pure hydrogen-oxygen flames emit ultraviolet light and are nearly invisible to the naked eye" [Source: ^ Patnaik, P (2007). A comprehensive guide to the hazardous properties of chemical substances. Wiley-Interscience. p. 402. ISBN 0-471-71458-5.]

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