URGENT: Radiation Levels Surge after 8.9 Earthquake in Japan

[danielofthesaints]

Toyko Fire Department sending a special nuclear rescue team to the area minutes after the explosion.

New update says that they were using hydrogen to cool the reactor as a last ditch effort, and the building blew itself to pieces.

Wind is currently from the north at 16 mph as per WeatherUnderground.com

Another update: the outside of the building itself is a secondary containment boundary.

So did it blow through both, or was it contained by the secondary containment boundary?

 

[SaltwaterServr]

So did it blow through both, or was it contained by the secondary containment boundary?

Check out that Reuters link I put up, it auto-refreshes.

Just came through that the ceiling of the reactor has collapsed. That's got to be both primary and secondary containment failures then.

I've been reading a little, and they say a light water reactor cannot undergo the same issues that Chernobyl did with its melt down. Then again, that was from an "official" gov't spokesperson.

EDIT: Wind is from the south, not the north, at Toyko.

 

[CliffnDallas]

So did it blow through both, or was it contained by the secondary containment boundary?

link to explosion video
http://www.twitvid.com/LICNU

 

[SaltwaterServr]

link to explosion video
http://www.twitvid.com/LICNU

Holy **** Batman. That's bad. I hoped it was a minor implosion or something.

 

[SaltwaterServr]

Confirmed radiation leak at the plant, expanding the evacuation zone around the plant, and the gov't is broadcasting how to protect yourself against radioactive fall out.

Anyone else find this reminiscent of Katrina? Nature popped us one good, then the man-made disaster at the back end of it made things so much worse...

 

[SaltwaterServr]

Explosion footage from BBC World News Service.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-pacific-12720219

 

[kristie]

Explosion footage from BBC World News Service.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-pacific-12720219

 

[CliffnDallas]

Holy **** Batman. That's bad. I hoped it was a minor implosion or something.

Didn't look very fraking minor to me!

 

[CliffnDallas]

Explosion footage from BBC World News Service.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-pacific-12720219

Notice the pressure wave going straight up!

 

[SaltwaterServr]

Fox News carrying the footage, CNN's interviews are sucking goat turds.

The big difference, as said on Reuters, is that Chernobyl was on overdrive when it blew as compared to this one that was shut down. Big difference.

 

[SaltwaterServr]

Notice the pressure wave going straight up!

Yeah, I saw that. I bet that's do to the way the containment buildings are constructed.

 

[CliffnDallas]

Yeah, I saw that. I bet that's do to the way the containment buildings are constructed.

That's what I thought as well.

 

[SaltwaterServr]

And you can watch NHK updates, live, in Japanese here:

http://www.ustream.tv/channel/nhk-gtv2

I just read a report out of Italy that the entire world's axis shifted about 20 something centimeters due to this quake. Another source says that GPS and GLOSNASS (Russian GPS system) show that the main island of Japan shifted between 2.25 and 2.9 meters.

Evacuation radius increased to 20 kilometers, literally 4 minutes after someone reported to Reuters that TEPCO was confident that 10 km was more than enough.

 

[SaltwaterServr]

Uh huh. BBC putting together a report on a potential fire at the reactor, after the explosion. People on Reuters concerned that radioactive cesium and iodine could be carried to the US west coast by prevailing winds if the fire isn't controlled.

 

[CliffnDallas]

Uh huh. BBC putting together a report on a potential fire at the reactor, after the explosion. People on Reuters concerned that radioactive cesium and iodine could be carried to the US west coast by prevailing winds if the fire isn't controlled.

Stock up on pineapple and lettuce now!

 

[SaltwaterServr]

It's the USGS that's saying Japan shifted 2.4 meters. The amount of energy required to move a land mass 8 feet in a under a minute is mind boggling.

It make sense now to say that an 8.9 is 27,000 times as powerful as a 5.9.

 

[SaltwaterServr]

Jeez, I really need to pull my head out of my rectum when I'm writing this late at night. The Richter scale is logarithmic. Every full point on the scale is 10x as powerful as the one before it.

An 8.9 is 1000 times as powerful as a 5.9, unless they were reporting the other scale system used, which is momentum based or something like that.

 

[CliffnDallas]

Jeez, I really need to pull my head out of my rectum when I'm writing this late at night. The Richter scale is logarithmic. Every full point on the scale is 10x as powerful as the one before it.

An 8.9 is 1000 times as powerful as a 5.9, unless they were reporting the other scale system used, which is momentum based or something like that.

Is the spped of light still 186000k a second? I need to know before I plug this in...

 

[SaltwaterServr]

Is the spped of light still 186000k a second? I need to know before I plug this in...

My bulb is dimmer, so it might have slowed down.

Gravity still feels like 9.81 m/s/s though, so at least we're good there.

Kinda pissing me off that people keep asking if there's going to be a nuclear bomb type explosion on Reuters, I'm providing succinct explanations why that kind of physics cannot happen in a nuclear reactor, and yet the moderators there feel it's not worthy of posting.

 

[TwoCentPlain]

I had heard the fault that moved underwater measured 250 miles long x 100 miles wide and moved a depth of 18 meters. The Japanese coast moved 2.5 meters (8 ft) and the earth's axis shifted 10 cms (4 in).

I had heard the Indonesian earthquake movement which caused the tsunami several years back was a 250 ft ht movement spanning 600 miles long. In a few seconds the plates shifted 250 ft at a length of about the distance from Atlanta to NY all underwater.

My wife told me that the recent Japan quake had 180 times more energy than the Kobe quake of '95.