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ITS 1:45PM MAR 15,11 AND JAPANS NUCLEAR RATING HAS BEEN UPGRADED TO A 6 FROM THE 4 YESTERDAY.FRANCE NUCLEAR SAFETY AUTHORITY-GRAVITY OF FUKUSHIMA-QUOTE:THE INCIDENT HAS TAKEN ON A COMPLETELY DIFFERENT DIMENSION COMPARED TO YESTERDAY(MAR 14,11).IT IS CLEAR THAT WE ARE AT LEVEL 6-ANDRE-CLAUDE LACOSTE TODAY MAR 15,11.
ITS 5:25PM MAR 15,11 AND GLENN BECK IS BEING A HYPOCRITE FOR SOME REASON ON THE NUCLEAR LEAKS.FOR 13 MINUTES FROM 5:05PM-5:18PM GLENN WAS TRYING TO PROVE THAT THE NUCLEAR REACTORS ARE IN NO DANGER TO PEOPLE.BUT THEN FROM 5:18-5:20PM HES TALKING ABOUT A HERO AT THE CHERNOBYL SITE THAT WAS SICK TO HIS STOMACH FROM WORKING AT IT FOR AN HOUR.BUT HE WAS THROWING UP SO BAD FOR THAT HOUR HE FINALLY HAD TO STOP WORKING ON THE COOLING.BUT HERES THE KICKER.HE THEN SAYS 1,350 WORKERS HAVE LEFT THE JAPAN NUKE SITE AND ONLY 50 WORKERS ARE LEFT THERE NOW.WELL MY QUESTION IS TO GLENN? IF ITS NOT DANGEROUS AT THE SITE LIKE YOU TRYED TO TELL US FOR 13 MNUTES,THEN YOU SAY 1,350 WORKERS LEFT THE SITE SO THEY WOULD NOT BE POISONED OR EXPLODED.WERE DOES THE NO DANGER TO PEOPLE COME IN.IS MY QUESTION.
ITS 6:08PM MAR 15,11 AND A NEW FIRE WAS DISCOVERED IN THE NORTHEAST CORNER OF THE REACTOR 4 BUILDING AT FUKUSHIMA DAIICHI PLANT.THERE SAYING ITS THE NUCLEAR WASTE THATS ON FIRE AGAIN FOR THE 2ND TIME TODAY.THERE FIGHTING THIS FIRE WITH HELICOPTERS.OH BUT GLENN,THIS IS NOT A DANGEROUS SITUATION.THERE ALSO SAYING ALL 6 REACTORS AT THE SITE ARE ALL IN TROUBLE.AND RADIATION LEVELS ARE RISING STRONGLY.THERES AN 18 MILE RADIOUS QUARINTINE OF THE SITE..
THIS WILL BE A PERFECT SITUATION FOR THE ONE WORLD GOVERNMENT CONTROL FREAKS TO TRY TO BAN COAL AND NUCLEAR POWER STATIONS WHICH WOULD KILL 65% OF THE ENERGY CONSUMPTION.HOW WOULD THE NWO NUTCASES WANT THIS 65% FILLED,OF COURSE WITH WIND MILLS,SOLAR WHICH WOULD REALLY SKYROCKET OUR BILLS.AND THEN THEY COULD TAX US INTO INFINITY AND CONTROL OUR EVERY MOVES IN EVERY ASPECT OF OUR LIVES.
New reactor fire as Japan works to contain threat By ERIC TALMADGE and SHINO YUASA, Associated Press - 6:45PM MAR 15,11
SOMA, Japan – A new fire broke out at a nuclear reactor early Wednesday, a day after the power plant emitted a burst of radiation that panicked an already edgy Japan and left the government struggling to contain a spiraling crisis caused by last week's earthquake and tsunami.The latest blaze erupted in the outer housing of the containment vessel at the No. 4 unit at the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear complex, said Hajimi Motujuku, a spokesman for the plant's operator, Tokyo Electric Power Co. Japan's nuclear safety agency also confirmed the fire, whose cause was not immediately known.On Tuesday, a fire broke out in the same reactor's fuel storage pond — an area where used nuclear fuel is kept cool — causing radioactivity to be released into the atmosphere.Radiation levels in areas around the nuclear plant, which rose early Tuesday afternoon, appeared to subside by evening, officials said. But the unease remained in a country trying to recover from the massive disasters that are believed to have killed more than 10,000 people and battered the world's third-largest economy.The radiation leak caused the government to order 140,000 people living within 20 miles (30 kilometers) of the plant to seal themselves indoors to avoid exposure, and authorities declared a ban on commercial air traffic through the area. Worries about radiation rippled through Tokyo and other areas far beyond that cordon. The stock market plunged for a second day, dropping 10 percent.
The troubles cascaded Tuesday at the Dai-ichi plant, where there have already been explosions at two reactor buildings since Friday's disasters. An explosion at a third reactor blasted a 26-foot (8-meter) hole in the building and, experts said, damaged a vessel below the reactor, although not the reactor core. Three hours later, a fire broke out at a fourth reactor, which had been offline for maintenance.
In a nationally televised address Tuesday, Prime Minister Naoto Kan said radiation had seeped from four of the plant's six reactors. The International Atomic Energy Agency said Japanese officials informed it that the fire was in a pool where used nuclear fuel rods are stored and that radioactivity is being released directly into the atmosphere. Long after the fire was extinguished, a Japanese official said the pool might still be boiling.Depending on how bad the blast was at Unit 2, experts said more radioactive materials could seep out. If the water in the storage pond in Unit 4 boils away, the fuel rods could be exposed, leaking more virulent radiation.
Experts noted that much of the leaking radiation was apparently in steam from boiling water — and the falling radiation levels suggest the situation could be stabilizing.Government spokesman Yukio Edano said the radiation leak potentially affected public health. But authorities and experts said the risks to the public diminished the farther the distance from the plant. At its most intense, the leak released a radioactive dose in one hour at the site 400 times the amount a person normally receives in a year. Within six hours, that level had dropped dramatically.A person would have to be exposed to that dose for 10 hours for it to be fatal, said Jae Moo-sung, a nuclear engineering expert at Seoul's Hanyang University.
Radiation elsewhere never reached that level. In Tokyo, 170 miles (270 kilometers) to the southwest, authorities reported radiation levels nine times normal — too small, officials said, to threaten the 39 million people in and around the capital. Weather patterns helped, shifting Tuesday night to the southeast, blowing any potential radiation from the plant toward the sea.It's not good, but I don't think it's a disaster, said Steve Crossley, an Australia-based radiation physicist. If the radioactive material gets out, it's a major problem. That doesn't appear to be happening in Japan, and that's the big difference. As long as you are not near it, it doesn't pose a health risk.Though Kan and other officials urged calm, the developments fueled a growing panic in Japan and around the world amid widespread uncertainty over what would happen next. In the worst case scenario, one or more of the reactor cores would completely melt down, a disaster that could spew large amounts of radioactivity into the atmosphere.
Foreigners began leaving in larger numbers. China organized an evacuation of its citizens from Japan's stricken northeast. The U.S. urged Americans to avoid travel to Japan. Austria moved its embassy from Tokyo to Osaka. Lufthansa diverted its two daily flights to Tokyo to other Japanese cities.The U.S. Navy shifted some ships from Japan's east coast to western waters to avoid hazards from debris dragged into the sea by the tsunami and to be away from any radiation plume. One ship at its base south of Tokyo detected low levels of radiation from the Fukushima plant.In evacuation centers for people living near the plant, Japanese worried about radiation contamination, calling it an unseen threat, and complained that the government was not forthcoming with information.Nuclear power is the most frightening, even more than a tsunami. The government, the ruling party, administrators, nobody tells us, the citizens, what is really happening, Isao Araki, 63, said at an evacuation center. Kan's government has been more open and transparent than previous administrations in keeping the nation informed of developments in the nuclear crisis. Edano, his top spokesman, appears frequently before the press with updates that have been widely praised for their frankness and clarity.However, given past governments' notorious record of covering up bad news on nuclear emergencies, many Japanese are skeptical they are getting a complete picture.
The radiation fears added to the catastrophe that has been unfolding in Japan. Four days after the 9.0-magnitude earthquake and tsunami, millions of people strung out along the east coast had little food, water or heat, and already chilly temperatures dropped further as a cold front moved in. Up to 450,000 people are in temporary shelters.Officials have only confirmed about 3,300 deaths, but officials have said the toll was likely to top 10,000 in one of the four hardest-hit areas. Experts involved in the 2004 Asian tsunami said there was no question more people died, despite Japan's high state of preparation, and like the earlier disaster, many thousands may never be found.In a rare bit of good news, rescuers found two survivors Tuesday, one of them a 70-year-old woman whose house was torn off its foundation by the tsunami.Mostly, though, search teams found few signs of life. More than 200 rescue crews from the U.S. and Britain poured Tuesday into the coastal city of Ofunato, finding little but rubble and people looking for lost possessions. Whole city blocks lay flattened. A yacht came to rest atop the remains of a two-story gas station.Amid the debris, 32-year-old Ken Suioya used a crowbar to try to force opon a safe, which he said had been thrown from his father's destroyed home and into a trench.My house has gone, our family's restaurant has gone, our car has gone — this is part of what we have left, he said, gesturing to unyielding gray metal.As rescue teams and survivors hunted through ruined communities and officials struggled to deliver supplies to the displaced, urgent attention was focused on the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear complex, the most severely damaged of three nuclear plants on the battered coast. Three of the plant's six reactors were out of service for maintenance at the time of Friday's disasters, which compromised cooling systems at all of the reactors. Before Tuesday's fire in Unit 4's storage pool, workers were desperately trying to pump seawater to cool the fuel rods in the three active reactors.
Conditions in Unit 2 are less clear after a blast near a suppression pool, into which fuel rods are plunged to cool them and which also serves as an emergency receptical for excess steam, said plant owner Tokyo Electric Power Co. The nuclear core was not damaged but the bottom of the surrounding container may have been, said Shigekazu Omukai, a spokesman for Japan's nuclear safety agency.The IAEA's head, Yukoiya Amano, urged the Japanese government to provide better information to the agency about the situation.Temperatures in the two other offline reactors, units 5 and 6, were slightly elevated, said Edano, the chief cabinet secretary. Fourteen pumps have been brought in to get seawater into the other reactors, and technicians were trying to figure out how to pump water into Unit 4, where the storage pool fire occurred. Early Wednesday, Tokyo Electric Power officials said they had scrapped a plan to use helicopters, deeming them impractical, and said they were considering other options, including using fire engines.About 70 workers remained at the complex, struggling with its myriad problems. The workers, all in protective gear, are being rotated in and out of the danger zone quickly to reduce their radiation exposure.The prime minister and other officials warned there is a danger of more leaks and ordered a wider emergency cordon, telling people within 20 miles (30 kilometers) of the Fukushima plant to stay indoors to avoid exposure that could make people sick.Please do not go outside. Please stay indoors. Please close windows and make your homes airtight, Edano told residents in the danger zone.
These are figures that potentially affect health. There is no mistake about that, he said.Some 70,000 people had already been evacuated from a 12-mile (20-kilometer) radius from the Dai-ichi complex. About 140,000 remain in the wider zone. The multiple problems at Fukushima appear to be the nuclear industry's most severe accident in 25 years, since the meltdown at the Chernobyl power plant in the former Soviet Union.Experts said that differing designs in the reactors made it unlikely that Fukushima would degenerate into a widespread contamination problem. The biggest difference is that in Chernobyl's case the reactor core caught fire and there was no containment shell — thick reinforced concrete around the reactor.We're a long way from fuel material coming out of the reactor in the way it did in Chernobyl, said Crossley, the physicist. In this case, the fuel is still contained.Physicist Edwin Lyman of the Union of Concerned Scientists, an advocacy group that pushes for nuclear industry safety, said it was unlikely that a plume from the Fukushima plant would rise as high as the one from Chernobyl, which means that radioactive material would be deposited closer to the site.That may spare Tokyo from the worst of it, he said.Yuasa reported from Tokyo. Associated Press writer Elaine Kurtenbach in Tokyo and David Stringer in Ofunato contributed to this report.
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To whom it may concern:
The media is not going to tell anyone about the way a Nuclear Reactor Core functions…It’s not public domain information. Nuclear Reactor cores never cool down, the core is super heated with Nuclear Fusion and remains radio active for about 250 years. This is Nuclear Heat Energy being converted into consumable energy. The reason sea water is processed and treated into pure cooling water is to constantly keep the Reactor from melting. The Reactors Cooling Tubes are so hot that small particles can crack or tear them and usually within 1-2 hours after that is when the loud explosion will happen. This is the reason they should not be using un-treated sea water; however, what other resources do they have at this moment? If they are dumping the Nuclear Waste Water back into the Ocean the Ocean will not last long {3-5 years}. Fish are washing up every where out here in Calif. I’m expecting to feel a different type of heat during the day & night. On a normal hot day their will be a type of heat that warms the surface of the body. The type of heat to watch out for is a radiating heat that warms the bodies core temperature all day 24-7. {This is a clear indicator that Radiation is going through you.} This will not damage potable drinking water right away, perhaps with in 3-5 years, especially if the reactor core has already released itself into the atmosphere. I’m under the impression that four Reactors have already released their contents into the atmosphere. The Reactors in Japan are nothing at all like the Reactors in Chernobyl. Chernobyl’s Reactors were already operating at low levels, albeit, the Reactors that are used in Japan are designed to operate at Maxim operating levels, and that is when there is severely dangerous Radiation Levels. The contents of a Reactor will travel the planet inside of clouds and that is how people in other Countries will feel light Radiating Heat waves. Surprisingly it would take about twenty reactors to destroy the Planet, however, four to six of them will create sever noticeable damage within 3-5 years Prepare for the worst and pray for the best. And definitely expect the unusual, especially if three or four more Reactors explode. It feels like a Science Fiction event. But I’ve told people for about eight years now that H.A.A.R.P. will leave everyone asking themselves..{Who need science fiction anymore?} I cried when thinking about the residents of Japan; and still feel sick to my stomach. People everywhere have no idea of what is occurring. They are victims of normalcy. I’m going to go outside now, and look for UFOs and stare at what is left of the Ocean. Enjoy it while you can.
Thank you for reading this, being you, and God Bless You.
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Radiation level soars after Japan nuke plant fire
By ERIC TALMADGE and SHINO YUASA, Associated Press - 12:20PM MAR 15,11
SOMA, Japan – Dangerous levels of radiation leaking from a crippled nuclear plant forced Japan to order 140,000 people to seal themselves indoors Tuesday after an explosion and a fire dramatically escalated the crisis spawned by a deadly tsunami.
In a nationally televised statement, Prime Minister Naoto Kan said radiation had spread from the four stricken reactors of the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear plant along Japan's northeastern coast. The region was shattered by Friday's 9.0-magnitude earthquake and the ensuing tsunami that is believed to have killed more than 10,000 people, plunged millions into misery and pummeled the world's third-largest economy.
Japanese officials told the International Atomic Energy Agency that the reactor fire was in a fuel storage pond — an area where used nuclear fuel is kept cool — and that radioactivity is being released directly into the atmosphere. Long after the fire was extinguished, a Japanese official said the pool might still be boiling, though the reported levels of radiation had dropped dramatically by the end of the day.Late Tuesday, officials at the plant said they were considering asking for help from the U.S. and Japanese militaries to spray water from helicopters into the pool.That reactor, Unit 4, had been shut down before the quake for maintenance.If the water boils, it could evaporate, exposing the rods. The fuel rods are encased in safety containers meant to prevent them from resuming nuclear reactions, nuclear officials said. But they acknowledged that there could have been damage to the containers. They also confirmed that the walls of the storage pool building were damaged.Experts noted that much of the leaking radiation was apparently in steam from boiling water. It had not been emitted directly by fuel rods, which would be far more virulent, they said.It's not good, but I don't think it's a disaster, said Steve Crossley, an Australia-based radiation physicist.Even the highest detected rates were not automatically harmful for brief periods, he said. If you were to spend a significant amount of time — in the order of hours — that could be significant, Crossley said.
Less clear were the results of the blast in Unit 2, near a suppression pool, which removes heat under a reactor vessel, said plant owner Tokyo Electric Power Co. The nuclear core was not damaged but the bottom of the surrounding container may have been, said Shigekazu Omukai, a spokesman for Japan's nuclear safety agency.Though Kan and other officials urged calm, Tuesday's developments fueled a growing panic in Japan and around the world amid widespread uncertainty over what would happen next.In the worst case scenario, one or more of the reactor cores would completely melt down, a disaster that could spew large amounts of radioactivity into the atmosphere.I worry a lot about fallout, said Yuta Tadano, a 20-year-old pump technician at the Fukushima plant, who said he was in the complex when the quake hit.
If we could see it, we could escape, but we can't, he said, cradling his 4-month-old baby, Shoma, at an evacuation center.The radiation fears added to the catastrophe that has been unfolding in Japan, where at least 10,000 people are believed to have been killed and millions of people were facing a fifth night with little food, water or heating in near-freezing temperatures and snow as they dealt with the loss of homes and loved ones. Up to 450,000 people are in temporary shelters.Hundreds of aftershocks have shaken Japan's northeast and Tokyo since the original offshore quake, including one Tuesday night whose epicenter was hundreds of miles (kilometers) southwest and inland.Officials have only been able to confirm a far lower toll — about 3,300 killed — but those who were involved in the 2004 Asian tsunami said there was no question more people died and warned that, like the earlier disaster, many thousands may never be found.Asia's richest country hasn't seen such hardship since World War II. The stock market plunged for a second day and a spate of panic buying saw stores running out of necessities, raising government fears that hoarding may hurt the delivery of emergency food aid to those who really need it.In a rare bit of good news, rescuers found two survivors Tuesday in the rubble left by the tsunami that hit the northeast, including a 70-year-old woman whose house was tossed off its foundation.The Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear complex, along that battered coastline, has been the focus of the worries. Workers there have been desperately trying to use seawater to cool the fuel rods in the complex's three reactors, all of which lost their cooling ability after Friday's quake and tsunami.
On Tuesday, the complex was hit by its third explosion since Friday, and then a fire in a separate reactor.Afterward, officials in Ibaraki, a neighboring prefecture just south of the area, said up to 100 times the normal levels of radiation were detected Tuesday. While those figures are worrying if there is prolonged exposure, they are far from fatal.Tokyo reported slightly elevated radiation levels, but officials said the increase was too small to threaten the 39 million people in and around the capital, about 170 miles (270 kilometers) away.Amid concerns about radiation, Austria moved its embassy from Tokyo to Osaka.Meanwhile, Air China and China Eastern Airlines canceled flights to Tokyo and two cities in the disaster area. Germany's Lufthansa airlines is also diverting its two daily flights to Tokyo to other Japanese cities. None mentioned radiation concerns, instead giving no explanation or citing the airports' limited capacities.Closer to the stricken nuclear complex, the streets in the coastal city of Soma were empty as the few residents who remained there heeded the government's warning to stay indoors.Kan and other officials warned there is a danger of more leaks and told people living within 19 miles (30 kilometers) of the Fukushima Dai-ichi complex to stay indoors to avoid exposure that could make people sick.Please do not go outside. Please stay indoors. Please close windows and make your homes airtight, Chief Cabinet Secretary Yukio Edano told residents in the danger zone.These are figures that potentially affect health. There is no mistake about that, he said.
Weather forecasts for Fukushima were for snow and wind Tuesday evening, blowing southwest toward Tokyo, then shifting and blowing east out to sea. That's important because it shows which direction a possible nuclear cloud might blow. The U.S. Navy said several helicopter crews involved in relief efforts were exposed to low levels of radiation Tuesday. Like 17 crew members exposed the previous day, the personnel had to go through a decontamination process, which can involve a simple scrubdown with soap and water.The Navy also said it was sending some of its ships to operate off the country's west coast instead of the east to avoid hazards from debris dragged into the sea by the tsunami and to be further away from any radiation. Some 70,000 people had already been evacuated from a 12-mile (20-kilometer) radius from the Dai-ichi complex. About 140,000 remain in the new danger zone.Officials said 70 workers were at the complex, struggling with its myriad problems. The workers, all of them wearing protective gear, are being rotated in and out of the danger zone quickly to reduce their radiation exposure.Another 800 staff were evacuated. The fires and explosions at the reactors have injured 15 workers and military personnel and exposed up to 190 people to elevated radiation.Temperatures in at least two of the complex's reactors, units 5 and 6, were also slightly elevated, Edano said. The power for cooling is not working well and the temperature is gradually rising, so it is necessary to control it, he said.Fourteen pumps have been brought in to get seawater into the other reactors. They are not yet pumping water into Unit 4 but are trying to figure out how to do that.In Tokyo, slightly higher-than-normal radiation levels were detected Tuesday but officials insisted there are no health dangers. The amount is extremely small, and it does not raise health concerns. It will not affect us,Takayuki Fujiki, a Tokyo government official said.
Edano said the radiation readings had fallen significantly by the evening. Japanese government officials are being rightly cautious, said Donald Olander, professor emeritus of nuclear engineering at University of California at Berkeley. He believed even the heavily elevated levels of radiation around Dai-ichi are not a health hazard. But without knowing specific dose levels, he said it was hard to make judgments.Right now it's worse than Three Mile Island, Olander said. But it's nowhere near the levels released during Chernobyl.On Three Mile Island, the radiation leak was held inside the containment shell — thick concrete armor around the reactor. The Chernobyl reactor had no shell and was also operational when the disaster struck. The Japanese reactors automatically shut down when the quake hit and are encased in containment shells.The impact of the earthquake and tsunami dragged down stock markets. The benchmark Nikkei 225 stock average plunged for a second day Tuesday, nose-diving more than 10 percent to close at 8,605.15 while the broader Topix lost more than 8 percent.To lessen the damage, Japan's central bank made two cash injections totaling 8 trillion yen ($98 billion) Tuesday into the money markets after pumping in $184 billion on Monday.Initial estimates put repair costs in the tens of billions of dollars, costs that would likely add to a massive public debt that, at 200 percent of gross domestic product, is the biggest among industrialized nations.The Dai-ichi plant is the most severely affected of three nuclear complexes that were declared emergencies after suffering damage in Friday's quake and tsunami, raising questions about the safety of such plants in coastal areas near fault lines and adding to global jitters over the industry.Yuasa reported from Tokyo. Associated Press writer Elaine Kurtenbach contributed to this report.
Cover Up Of Fukushima Chain Reaction Underway
Paul Joseph Watson & Steve Watson Infowars.com March 14, 2011
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All the nuclear reactors at the earthquake stricken Fukushima nuclear plant are under threat of melting down and exploding in a chain reaction that will signify the world’s worst ever nuclear disaster and send clouds of radioactive particles hurtling towards the United States – that’s the scale of the crisis facing Japan as officials admit for the first time that three nuclear reactors are already in a meltdown.While the mainstream media continues to argue over the definition of a meltdown while unquestionably regurgitating the dubious claim of Japanese officials that the two massive explosions witnessed at the plant were caused by pressurized hydrogen, radioactive isotopes cesium-137 and iodine-121 have been detected by helicopters flying 160km (100 miles) away from the nuclear plant, which can only mean one thing, according to the Seattle Times: One or more of the reactor cores is badly damaged and at least partially melted down.After claiming for three days that the explosions did not damage reactor cores and downplaying the severity of the situation, Japanese officials have now been forced to admit the obvious, that nuclear fuel rods in three reactors are melting. Given the sequence of events, it is entirely probable that all six reactor sites will now go into total meltdown and start spewing radioactive particles into the atmosphere that threaten not only Japanese citizens but also those living on the west coast of the United States.The two explosions have already compromised the surrounding facilities. Tens of thousands of people have been evacuated from a 20-km exclusion zone around the plant which keeps growing. Latest reports suggest that the exclusion zone is already at 50km and expanding. Casualties in the immediate vicinity of the nuclear facilities are likely to be far higher than reported.
Japanese authorities, presumably in an effort to prevent hysteria, have engaged in a cover-up of the true scale of the Fukushima crisis from start to finish, and they have been largely aided by a mass media that has slavishly repeated their lies without question, despite the fact that there is a long history of covering up nuclear catastrophes in Japan. This process has only put the Japanese people in more danger.Amidst the disgusting spectacle of a castrated and inept corporate mass media failing to ask hard questions about the true scale of the Fukushima crisis, a handful of nuclear experts are attempting to blow the whistle.As reported by the BBC:
Japanese engineer Masashi Goto, who helped design the containment vessel for Fukushima’s reactor core, says the design was not enough to withstand earthquakes or tsunamis and the plant’s builders, Toshiba, knew this.Mr Goto says his greatest fear is that blasts at number 3 and number 1 reactors may have damaged the steel casing of the containment vessel designed to stop radioactive material escaping into the atmosphere.He says that as the reactor uses mox (mixed oxide) fuel, the melting point is lower than that of conventional fuel. Should a meltdown and an explosion occur, he says, p lutonium could be spread over an area up to twice as far as estimated for a conventional nuclear fuel explosion. The next 24 hours are critical, he says.
Goto warns that Japanese authorities have suppressed the true severity of the crisis and that there is a severe risk of an explosion, with radioactive material being strewn over a very wide area – beyond the 20km evacuation zone set up by the authorities, adding that the worst case scenario would manifest itself as many Chernobyls, and that the effect would be, Like a volcano spreading radioactive material.Nuclear expert Joe Cirincione warns that radiation from Japan’s multiple potential nuclear meltdowns could spread to the US west coast and that the threat represents an unprecedented crisis.Yoichi Shimatsu, former editor of the Japan Times, states that after a high-level government meeting, Japanese agencies are no longer releasing independent reports without prior approval from the top, and that censorship of what is really occurring at the plant is being overseen under the Article 15 Emergency Law.Professor Richard Wakeford, a nuclear expert at Manchester University, said yesterday: If the fuel is not covered by cooling water it could become so hot it begins to melt – if all the fuel is uncovered you could get a large-scale meltdown.Today it looks as if that scenario is playing out.Shaun Burnie, an independent atomic energy consultant, also warns that Japan’s nuclear crisis is much worse than it seems:The US has moved one of its aircraft carriers from the area after detecting low-level radiation 160km (100 miles) offshore.The Japanese government is playing down the scale of the disaster, however, experts have pointed out that it has a long history of nuclear cover ups, and that this is merely the latest.Documentary filmmaker Tony Barrell says in 2003 reactors across the country had to be shut down after it emerged the Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO) had hid accidents.
They had to shut down 17 plants in 2003 because they’d been falsifying the records about what had been happening at them, he said.Lives were threatened, systems broke down, there were failures to report and there were cover-ups. People pretended things hadn’t happened.Barrell says several other major incidents have occurred and gone relatively unreported:A place called Monju, which in 1995 sprang a leak in its liquid sodium cooling system which made the whole thing absolutely red hot and had to be shut down immediately and stayed shut down until the beginning of last year – 15 years, he told ABC News in Australia.Barrell also pointed out that the Fukushima Daiichi plant should have been shut down long ago because it is now 40 years old.
Should other plants in Japan experience complete meltdowns, the entire country could become a nuclear wasteground, and the radiation could engulf large areas of the planet, leading to huge numbers of cancers and future birth deformities.
Woman, 70, found alive 4 days after Japan tsunami
By ERIC TALMADGE and SHINO YUASA, Associated Press -MAR 15,11 5:35AM
SOMA, Japan – Rescuers have found a 70-year-old woman alive four days after the disaster struck.Osaka fire department spokesman Yuko Kotani says the woman was found inside her house that was washed away by the tsunami in northeastern Japan's Iwate prefecture. The rescuers from Osaka, in western Japan, were sent to the area for disaster relief.Kotani said the woman was conscious but suffering from hypothermia and is being treated at a hospital. She would not give the woman's name.Her rescue was a rare bit of news for Japanese traumatized by the disaster.
Hedge funds hammer stocks to worst plunge since '87
By Chikafumi Hodo and Antoni Slodkowski - 5:30AM MAR 15,11
TOKYO (Reuters) – Japan's Nikkei share average plunged 10.6 percent on Tuesday, posting the worst two-day rout since 1987, as hedge funds bailed out after reports of rising radiation near Tokyo. Many mutual funds were left on the sidelines, leaving them poised to dump shares into any rebound.The yen tripped on talk of intervention by authorities trying to contain the economic impact from last week's devastating earthquake and tsunami, but then recovered. Government bond yields rose as investors sold debt to offset stock market losses.The scale and speed of the equity selloff forced domestic fund managers to sit on the sidelines as market volumes surged to a record for a second day running.Even if we wanted to sell today there was very little we could do, said a manager at a Japanese fund, asking not to be named because he was not authorized to speak to the media.We didn't sell and waited, sidelined because hedge funds were just dumping stocks in panic.At one point, the Nikkei had plunged 14 percent after Prime Minister Naoto Kan said the risk of nuclear contamination was rising at the Fukushima Daiichi complex on Japan's quake ravaged northeastern coast, 240 km (150 miles) north of Tokyo. The French embassy said a low-level radiation could hit Tokyo within hours.
Local reports of radiation rising in communities near Tokyo only stoked the sense of panic.In contrast to Monday's trading, when construction stocks rose in anticipation of revenue from rebuilding contracts, none of the 225 constituents of the benchmark Nikkei average gained on Tuesday. Shares of construction company Kajima Corp (1812.T) slid 13 percent, a day after its shares surged.The broad TOPIX index of Japanese stocks has shed 16.3 percent this week, the worst two-day losing streak since the global equity crash of October 1987.All focus is on the nuclear crisis, said Hideyuki Ishiguro, a supervisor at Okasan Securities in Tokyo.Foreign investors and domestic fund operators are pulling out from Japanese shares.The Nikkei share average (.N225) dropped 10.6 percent to 8,605.15, while TOPIX share index lost 9.5 percent to 766.73 (.TOPX) -- both the worst single-day slides since the global selloff after the Lehman Brothers collapse in 2008.The Tokyo Stock Exchange's first section, making up the country's biggest companies, has lost about $626 billion in market capitalization this week. First section volume totaled 5.77 billion, a nearly 20 percent increase from Monday's record.Traders said overseas hedge funds were particularly aggressive sellers in Nikkei futures, especially the Singapore-listed contracts. The massive swings in futures sent implied volatility on Nikkei options (JNIATMIV.OS) soaring to 63 percent, the highest since the financial crisis.
During the first phase of the rout, many domestic portfolio managers sat on the sidelines to await more clarity on the nuclear troubles. But some investors threw in the towel on Tuesday.Today's market moves truly show the severeness of Japanese situation, it's a true market, it's not a lie or speculation. We're not talking any more about power cuts, earthquake or tsunami, we're talking about which areas will get most radioactive exposure,said the chief trader at a Japanese securities firm.I had to sell, and I just dumped everything as I went along,the trader said.Japanese officials tried to calm the market and moved to reduce short selling, placing limits on broker sales of stocks for arbitrage trading. That move helped spark a bout of short-covering in the afternoon, and stocks finished off their lows.Shares of Tokyo Electric Power (9501.T), the owner of the stricken nuclear plant, did not trade, although sellers massed at the indicated price of 1,221 yen on Tuesday. There were no buyers at that price. The stock market rout was bad enough to force some institutional investors to sell government bonds to offset losses in their portfolios before Japan's business year ends this month, traders said.Insurance companies were cited behind the selling in cash JGBs, pushing benchmark 10-year yields up a basis point to 1.215 percent. Longer-term yields were up even more.The worries about the potential fiscal cost of the crisis and new bond issuance caused a further back-up in long-term yields. Twenty-year yields rose 4 basis points to 2.075 percent, causing the yield curve to steepen for a second day.
Since Friday's massive quake, market players have fretted that a hefty reconstruction bill will further add to Japan's debt totaling twice the size of the $5 trillion economy.Japanese government CDS spreads have widened by around 35 basis points to 115 basis points, near the record 120 basis points reached in February 2009 and reflecting worries of more credit rating downgrades ahead.Stock markets showed some signs of stabilizing in after-hours trade, with Osaka Nikkei futures up about 1 percent from the regular session close to 8,720 from the regular session close. JGB futures slid into negative territory.The yen was up slightly at 81.85 per dollar, relatively stable in the face of the equity market selloff.Traders were on alert for signs that Japanese investors were repatriating funds, a phenomenon that had pushed up the yen in the wake of the 1995 Kobe earthquake.At one point, the dollar spiked against the yen, and dealers suspected that Japanese authorities may have intervened in the market. They later downplayed the idea, with a large buying order cited as exaggerating the move in choppy trade.The dollar had touched a low around 80.60 on Monday, less than a yen from the record low of 79.75 yen touched in 1995 on trading platform EBS.Fund managers said the sheer uncertainty around the nuclear crisis and economic risks suggested it would take investors a while to feel confident about buying stocks.We know where things are bad, but we don't know anything about sustained damages yet, so buying anything is a huge risk,said one fund manager in Tokyo.(Additional reporting by Hideyuki Sano and Akiko Takeda in Tokyo, Masayuki Kitano in Singapore and Vikram Subhedar in Hong Kong, Writing by Dayan Candappa, Editing by Eric Burroughs)
DISEASES
REVELATION 6:7-8
7 And when he had opened the fourth seal, I heard the voice of the fourth beast say, Come and see.
8 And I looked, and behold a pale horse:(CHLORES GREEN) and his name that sat on him was Death, and Hell followed with him. And power was given unto them over the fourth part of the earth, to kill with sword,(WEAPONS) and with hunger,(FAMINE) and with death,(INCURABLE DISEASES) and with the beasts of the earth.(ANIMAL TO HUMAN DISEASE).
FEARFUL SIGHTS AND GREAT SIGNS FROM HEAVEN
LUKE 21:11
11 And great earthquakes shall be in divers places, and famines, and pestilences; and fearful sights and great signs shall there be from heaven.
FIRES AND EXPLOSIONS
REVELATION 8:7
7 The first angel sounded, and there followed hail and fire mingled with blood, and they were cast upon the earth: and the third part of trees was burnt up, and all green grass was burnt up.
JONES ON THE MELTDOWN(RADIATION CONTAMINATION)OF JAPAN ALL THIS WEEK
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17 U.S NAVY CREW MEMBERS WERE EXPOSED TO LOW LEVELS OF RADIATION.THATS WHY THE REAGAN HI-TAILED IT FROM THE SITE.MEANWHILE A GUY COL SOMEBODY ON FOX NEWS SAID THESE NAVY GUYS WILL NOT BE AFFECTED BY THESE SMALL RADIATION LEVELS.MY RESPONSE:ANY AMOUNT OF RADIATION IS POISON,NO MATTER HOW SMALL THE AMOUNT.
ITS 8:02 PM MAR 14,11 AND NOW THERES BEEN AN EXPLOSION AT REACTOR NUMBER 2.THIS MAKES 3 REACTORS EXPLODED OF THE 6 SO FAR.THERE SAYING WORKERS ARE LEAVING THE SITE.ONLY 50 WORKERS ON SITE NOW TO DO THE COOLING REPORTS HAVE IT.THIS 3RD EXPLOSION ALSO WAS COMPOSED OF URANIUM AND PLUTONIUM.THIS IS REALLY SERIOUS NOW.THE NUCLEAR WASTE FUEL IS ALSO STORD IN THE REACTORS.THIS WASTE MIGHT EXPLODE ALSO.LOOKOUT WORLD,WE ARE IN TROUBLE.
THERES ALSO A WIND WARNING FOR THE NEXT 24 HOURS IN JAPAN.THERES A NORTH EASTERN WIND AND IF THE RADIATION COMES FROM THE REACTORS NOW,THE WIND WILL BE BLOWING DIRECTLY ON THE JAPANESE PEOPLE.AND THEN WITHIN A WEEK IT WOULD GET TO CANADA AND AMERICA THE RADIATION.THIS WIND AFFECT FOR JAPAN IS FROM 8:30PM MAR 14,11 TO 8:30PM MAR 15,11.
ITS 10:22PM MAR 14,11 AND REPORTS HAVE NUCLEAR REACTOR NUMBER 4 HAS A FIRE BURNING FROM IT.AND JAPANS PRESIDENT NOW ADMITS,THE RADIATION COMING FROM THE 3 EXPLOSION REACATORS ARE HIGH ENOUGH TO CONTAMINATE PEOPLES IMMUNE SYSTEMS.IN SIMPLE WORDS TO RADIATION POISON PEOPLE.
Fuel rod fire at Fukushima reactor would be like Chernobyl on steroids
Kirk James Murphy FDL March 15, 2011
The Fukushima reactor building that exploded March 12 is one of a series of identical General Electric reactors constructed in Japan and the US. In this reactor design, the used nuclear fuel rods are stored in pools of water at the top of the reactor building. These spent rods are still highly radioactive: the radioactivity is so great the rods must be stored in water so they do not combust. The explosion at Fukushima Daiichi reactor unit 1 apparently destroyed at least one wall and the roof of the building: some reports stated the roof had collapsed into the building.Two days later, the nearby building containing the plutonium-uranium (MOX) fueled Fuksuhima Daichii reactor unit 3 exploded. So why bother about the rubble of reactor No 1? The WaPo quotes a nuclear engineer who knows the answer:
Although Tokyo Electric said it also continued to deal with cooling system failures and high pressures at half a dozen of its 10 reactors in the two Fukushima complexes, fears mounted about the threat posed by the pools of water where years of spent fuel rods are stored.At the 40-year-old Fukushima Daiichi unit 1, where an explosion Saturday destroyed a building housing the reactor, the spent fuel pool, in accordance with General Electric’s design, is placed above the reactor. Tokyo Electric said it was trying to figure out how to maintain water levels in the pools, indicating that the normal safety systems there had failed, too. Failure to keep adequate water levels in a pool would lead to a catastrophic fire, said nuclear experts, some of whom think that unit 1’s pool may now be outside.That would be like Chernobyl on steroids, said Arnie Gundersen, a nuclear engineer at Fairewinds Associates and a member of the public oversight panel for the Vermont Yankee nuclear plant, which is identical to the Fukushima Daiichi unit 1.People familiar with the plant said there are seven spent fuel pools at Fukushima Daiichi, many of them densely packed.Gundersen said the unit 1 pool could have as much as 20 years of spent fuel rods, which are still radioactive.We’d be lucky if we only had to worry about the spent fuel rods from a single holding pool. We’re not that lucky. The Fukushima Daiichi plant has seven pools for spent fuel rods. Six of these are (or were) located at the top of six reactor buildings. One common pool is at ground level in a separate building. Each reactor top pool holds 3450 fuel rod assemblies. The common pool holds 6291 fuel rod assemblies. [The common pool has windows on one wall which were almost certainly destroyed by the tsunami.] Each assembly holds sixty-three fuel rods. This means the Fukushima Daiichi plant may contain over 600,000 spent fuel rods.
The fuel rods must be kept submerged in water. Why? Outside of the water bath, the radioactivity in the used rods can cause them to become so hot they begin to catch fire. These fires can burn so hot the radioactive rod contents are carried into the atmosphere as vaporized material or as very small particles. Reactor no 3 burns MOX fuel that contains a mix of plutonium and uranium. Plutonium generates more heat than uranium, which means these rods have the greatest risk of burning. That’s bad news, because plutonium scattered into the atmosphere is even more dangerous that the combustion products of rods without plutonium.Chernobyl on steroids. When the nuclear engineer from an identical plant states there’s any possibility of such a catastrophe, Washington, we have a problem. Chernobyl’s contamination settled upon people and nations thousands of miles from that reactor’s location. How far would “Chernobyl on steroids” travel? And where are the up to 20 years of reactor no 1 spent fuel rods that could cause such a problem, and the spent fuel rods held – until the building exploded – in the spent fuel rod pool atop reactor no 3? Along with the rest of the planet, Washington’s looking at the risk of a potential catastrophe. At least when it comes to finding the fuel rods from reactor 1, Washington possesses some unique assets. One asset – the secretive National Reconassiance Office – runs the spy satellites remote sensing devices that enable US national security to spy on planet Earth. The NRO’s slightly less secretive cousin over at the the Pentagon is the Defense Intelligence Agency. The DIA, in turn, controls MASINT measures and signatures technologies.What is MASINT? FDL’s recent guest Tim Shorrock answered that question a few years ago for CorpWatch:MASINT is a highly classified form of intelligence that uses infrared sensors and other technologies to sniff the atmosphere for certain chemicals and electro-magnetic activity and see beneath bridges and forest canopies. Using its tools, analysts can detect signs that a nuclear power plant is producing plutonium, determine from truck exhaust what types of vehicles are in a convoy, and detect people and weapons hidden from the view of satellites or photoreconnaissance aircraft.
With assets like the NRO and the DIA’s MASINT capacity, even an Obama administration that couldn’t find out millions of of barrels of Corexit and crude oil would poison the Gulf should be able to help Japan’s Fukushima plant locate their missing fuel rods. And do so before the missing rods – or any of the other pools of fuel rods in Japan’s stricken reactors – ignite Chernobyl on steroids.Once Obama and his generals have found the fuel rods, let’s hope they’ll time out from Gridion dinners and collateral damage and let the Americans who pay for all the fancy spy technology know what’s happening. Because now that Americans are hearing CNN’s Dr. Gupta talking about potassium iodide (KI) to prevent radiation toxicity, they’re going to be wondering if they need to take KI. As long as we don’t see massive uncontrolled radiation releases from the stricken reactors, they probably won’t. Should we see Chernobyl on steroids, Americans may need a whole lot more than KI. And until the spent fuel rods are located, there won’t be enough information to let Americans plan how to protect their loved ones. Unless we all learn the fuel rods have caught fire.
Stock futures plunge 16 percent after PM radiation comments
By Chikafumi Hodo and Antoni Slodkowski - 11:45PM MAR 14,11
TOKYO (Reuters) – Japanese stock futures prices plunged 16 percent on Tuesday as the country's prime minister said radiation levels at a stricken nuclear plant had become high, deepening concerns about the disaster and its likely economic toll.Cash stock markets, closed for the regular midday break, were down 7 percent but were set to fall sharply when trading resumes.After Naoto Kan's comments, Nikkei equity futures prices dropped sharply, triggering a circuit breaker to halt trade. When it started again, the futures were down more than 16 percent on the day. Kan also said the possibility of radioactive leakage had increased.Japanese government bond prices rose as equities fell. The pressure on Japan's already bleak fiscal situation in any reconstruction was likely to be high, with Japan's yield curve steepening some 10 basis points since Friday.Unlike Monday, when construction stocks rose, none of the 225 constituents of the benchmark Nikkei average were up on Tuesday.Four explosions, including two on Tuesday, have occurred at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear complex in Japan's ravaged northeastern coast since the magnitude 9.0 quake on Friday, raising concerns about radiation leakage and the longer-term stability of power supply.
All focus is on the nuclear crisis. In the situation where the crisis appears to be worsening, foreign investors, domestic fund operators are pulling out from Japanese shares, Hideyuki Ishiguro, a supervisor at Okasan Securities in Tokyo.The broad TOPIX share index slumped 7 percent by the regular midday break to 787.90, after posting the biggest decline since the 2008 financial crisis on Monday on record volume.So far this week, the index is down nearly 14 percent and has shed around $528billion in market capitalization.The Nikkei share average dropped 6.5 percent by the midday break to 8,999.73. The sharp decline in the futures market will pull the cash market lower when it resumes trade.Osaka Nikkei futures fell more than 16 percent.
Chart support for the Nikkei index lies at around 8,800 -- the low from September 2010.We are making every effort to prevent the leak from spreading. I know that people are very worried but I would like to ask you to act calmly, Kan said in an address to the nation.Power companies were the biggest percentage losers in early trading, with shares of Kansai Electric Power and Chubu Electric Power, which both own nuclear plants, down 12 percent.Shares of Tokyo Electric Power were untraded with a glut of sellers at the indicated price of 1,341 yen on Tuesday, down 280 yen or 17 percent from Monday's close as an emergency appeared escalate at the utility giant's quake-damaged nuclear reactors in the northeast.The firm's credit default swap spreads, contracts that protect against debt default and restructuring, were 150/170 basis points compared with 40 basis points on Friday -- an indication of increasing caution on the outlook for TEPCO.Since the quake, Japan's CDS spreads have widened by nearly 20 basis points to 97 basis points, but were still narrower than the record 120 basis points reached in February 2009.Ten-year Japanese government bond futures rose 0.40 point to 140.49, on the way to testing the high for the year hit on January 4 at 140.71. In the cash market, the 10-year yield fell to 1.17 percent, the lowest since January 2011. The 5-year to 20-year yield curve, or the difference between the maturities, steepened to 158 basis points.The immediate impact on Japan may be stagflationary: negative for growth and upward pressure on the prices of items in short supply such as rice, some other foods and possibly even some materials needed for reconstruction,said Gerard Lyons, Standard Chartered's chief economist, in a note.
The scale of the devastation means that the region impacted may take years to recover fully, as it needs major reconstruction and some of the agricultural areas will need to be repopulated; not easy for a country with a rapidly aging population.
The yen was steady at 81.72 per dollar, relatively stable in the face of the equity market selloff. Traders were on alert for signs of Japanese investor capital repatriation that could push up the yen similar to what happened after the 1995 Kobe earthquake.The dollar had touched a low around 80.60 on Monday, less than a yen from the record low of 79.75 yen touched in 1995 on EBS.(Additional reporting by Tokyo News bureau and Masayuki Kitano in SINGAPORE, Writing by Kevin Plumberg)
Japan: New radiation leaks harmful to health
10:45PM MAR 14,11
SOMA, Japan – Radiation is spewing from damaged reactors at a crippled nuclear power plant in tsunami-ravaged northeastern Japan in a dramatic escalation of the 4-day-old catastrophe. The prime minister has warned residents to stay inside or risk getting radiation sickness.Chief Cabinet Secretary Yukio Edano said Tuesday that a fourth reactor at the Fukushima Dai-ichi complex was on fire and that more radiation was releasedPrime Minister Naoto Kan warned that there are dangers of more leaks and told people living within 19 miles (30 kilometers) of the Fukushima Dai-ichi complex stay indoors.
THIS IS A BREAKING NEWS UPDATE. Check back soon for further information. AP's earlier story is below.TOKYO (AP) — Japan's nuclear safety agency said an explosion Tuesday at an earthquake-damaged nuclear power plant may have damaged a reactor's containment vessel and that a radiation leak is feared.The nuclear core of Unit 2 of the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear plant in northeast Japan was undamaged, said a spokesman for the Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency, Shigekazu Omukai.The agency suspects the explosion early Tuesday may have damaged the reactor's suppression chamber, a water-filled tube at the bottom of the container that surrounds the nuclear core, said another agency spokesman, Shinji Kinjo. He said that chamber is part of the container wall, so damage to it could allow radiation to escape.A leak of nuclear material is feared, said another agency spokesman, Shinji Kinjo. He said the agency had no details of possible damage to the chamber.Radiation levels measured at the front gate of the Dai-ichi plant spiked following Tuesday's explosion, Kinjo said.Detectors showed 11,900 microsieverts of radiation three hours after the blast, up from just 73 microsieverts beforehand, Kinjo said. He said there was no immediate health risk because the higher measurement was less radiation that a person receives from an X-ray. He said experts would worry about health risks if levels exceed 100,000 microsieverts.
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Third Reactor Explodes, Full Scale Nuclear Catastrophe Imminent
Kurt Nimmo Infowars.com March 14, 2011
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A third reactor has exploded at the number 2 reactor at the crippled Fukushima nuclear power plant. The blast follows an explosion Monday morning at the number 3 reactor and one on Saturday in the number 1 unit.An earlier news report on the second explosion.The Tokyo Electric Power Company had tried a last ditch effort to cool and reduce pressure in the over-heated reactors in units one and three by injecting seawater earlier today and over the weekend.On Monday, Japan’s chief cabinet secretary Yukio Edano officially announced the cooling system on the third reactor had failed. The water level inside the reactor fell and exposed the fuel rods at its core for more than two hours despite efforts to pump seawater into the reactor, he said. Government officials have finally admitted to the public that the fuel rods in all three separate reactors have started to melt despite repeated efforts to cool them with sea water. Safety officials are now saying they cannot rule out a full meltdown and the inevitability of a nuclear catastrophe of a magnitude never before experienced.
Japanese agency: Explosion heard at nuclear plant By ERIC TALMADGE and MARI YAMAGUCHI, Associated Press - 7:35PM MAR 14,11
SOMA, Japan – A third explosion in four days rocked the earthquake-damaged Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear plant in northeast Japan early Tuesday, the country's nuclear safety agency said.The blast at Dai-ichi Unit 2 followed two hydrogen explosions at the plant — the latest on Monday — as authorities struggle to prevent the catastrophic release of radiation in the area devastated by a tsunami.The troubles at the Dai-ichi complex began when Friday's massive quake and tsunami in Japan's northeast knocked out power, crippling cooling systems needed to keep nuclear fuel from melting down.The latest explosion was heard at 6:10 a.m. Tuesday (2110 GMT Monday), a spokesman for the Nuclear Safety Agency said at a news conference. The plant's owner, Tokyo Electric Power Co., said the explosion occurred near the suppression pool in the reactor's containment vessel. The pool was later found to have a defect.
International scientists have said there are serious dangers but not at the level of the 1986 blast in Chernobyl. Japanese authorities were injecting seawater as a coolant of last resort, and advising nearby residents to stay inside to avoid contamination.Tokyo Electric Power said some employees of the power plant were temporarily evacuated following Tuesday morning's blast.The accidents — injuring 15 workers and military personnel and exposing up to 190 people to elevated radiation — have compounded the immense challenges faced by the Tokyo government as it struggles to help hundreds of thousands of people affected by twin disasters that flattened entire communities and may have left more than 10,000 dead.The crisis also has raised global concerns about the safety of such reactors at a time when they have enjoyed a resurgence as an alternative to fossil fuels.Japanese authorities said there have been no large-scale radiation releases, but have detected temporary elevations in levels, and have evacuated tens of thousands of people from around affected reactors. Prevailing winds were pointing out to sea, and U.S. ships assisting tsunami recovery moved further way to avoid potential danger.
