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**•REC** · **•REC** 14877 User ID: 14877 03-11-2011 07:12 PM **Posts: 21,081**

Red Alert Again Reinstated at Japan Nuclear Plant after Earthquake.

Lshsgpda

**microbe maven** lop guest User ID: 23152 03-11-2011 07:12 PM

SweetSkitzo Wrote:

•REC Wrote:
SweetSkitzo Wrote:
So the nuclear issue is okay now??

Not so sure..

2 min ago
U.S. has transported coolant to Japanese nuclear plant, will continue to assist Japan, Secretary of State Clinton says

2 mins ago
Tokyo Electric Power Co says pressure inside the No.1 reactor at its Fukushima-Daiichi nuclear plant has been rising - Reuters

2 mins ago
Radiation level rising in Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant turbine building - Kyodo

What does all that mean, Rec? Will people be poisoned? Will water be poisoned? Will it explode? I mean I dont really understand what can happen when these things get out of control...

Xx

Sorry to butt in here, but you probably don't really want to know.
Hiding

**•REC** · (This post was last modified: 03-11-2011 07:18 PM by •REC.)

SweetSkitzo Wrote:

•REC Wrote:
SweetSkitzo Wrote:
So the nuclear issue is okay now??

Not so sure..

2 min ago
U.S. has transported coolant to Japanese nuclear plant, will continue to assist Japan, Secretary of State Clinton says

2 mins ago
Tokyo Electric Power Co says pressure inside the No.1 reactor at its Fukushima-Daiichi nuclear plant has been rising - Reuters

2 mins ago
Radiation level rising in Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant turbine building - Kyodo

What does all that mean, Rec? Will people be poisoned? Will water be poisoned? Will it explode? I mean I dont really understand what can happen when these things get out of control...

Xx

There are real concerns about the water supply.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_meltdown#Effects
In a modern reactor, a nuclear meltdown, whether partial or total, should be contained inside the reactor's containment structure. Thus (assuming that no other major disasters occur) while the meltdown will severely damage the reactor itself, possibly contaminating the whole structure with highly radioactive material, a meltdown alone will generally not lead to significant radiation release or danger to the public. The effects are therefore primarily economic.

**•REC** · (This post was last modified: 03-11-2011 07:27 PM by •REC.)

20 mins ago
Pressure inside nuclear reactor rose to 1.5 times designed capacity, says Kyodo wire service.

3 mins ago
Reuters flash: Radiation leak feared from damaged Fukushima Reactor, says Nikkei

**microbe maven** lop guest User ID: 23152 03-11-2011 07:22 PM

•REC Wrote:

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Owner of nuclear power plant says pressure is rising, and there is a threat of a radiation leak.

This is monumentally bad.
Hiding

**oh shit..** lop guest User ID: 23129 03-11-2011 07:23 PM

**Lil Miss Trouble**

microbe maven Wrote:

•REC Wrote:
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Owner of nuclear power plant says pressure is rising, and there is a threat of a radiation leak.

This is monumentally bad.

To put it mildly

**•REC** · **•REC** 14877 User ID: 14877 03-11-2011 07:32 PM **Posts: 21,081**

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Latest report is that Japan will intentionally release radiation from reactor to reduce pressure on containment.

**Arch Phoenix**

As i said earlier , maybe these are webbots illwinds Hiding

**Galaxy**

Just on tv: problems growing bigger at nuclear plant.

**SweetSkitzo** lop guest User ID: 19633 03-11-2011 07:35 PM

•REC Wrote:

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Latest report is that Japan will intentionally release radiation from reactor to reduce pressure on containment.

I thought releasing radiation was a TERRIBLE thing...:(

**•REC** · **•REC** 14877 User ID: 14877 03-11-2011 07:43 PM **Posts: 21,081**

SweetSkitzo Wrote:

•REC Wrote:
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Latest report is that Japan will intentionally release radiation from reactor to reduce pressure on containment.

I thought releasing radiation was a TERRIBLE thing...:(

Events seem to be some what similar to what happened at 3 mile island, where some radiation was purposefully released in to the atmosphere.

**Omega**

•REC Wrote:

SweetSkitzo Wrote:
•REC Wrote:
secs ago
Latest report is that Japan will intentionally release radiation from reactor to reduce pressure on containment.

I thought releasing radiation was a TERRIBLE thing...:(

Events seem to be some what similar to what happened at 3 mile island, where some radiation was purposefully released in to the atmosphere.

Its to keep the containment vessel from fracturing if that happens you've lost total control.

No choice.

**•REC** · **•REC** 14877 User ID: 14877 03-11-2011 07:47 PM **Posts: 21,081**

7 mins ago
Residents within 10 mile radius of #fukushima daiichi nuclear plant told to stay indoors

**SweetSkitzo** lop guest User ID: 19633 03-11-2011 07:47 PM

Wow.

:(