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Barrett808 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-11-11 10:31 PM
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Fukushima I Nuke Plant: Reactor 1's RPV Has Hardly Any Water
After the workers braved the very high radiation inside the Reactor 1 reactor building and repaired the pressure gauge and the water gauge inside the Containment Vessel and the Reactor Pressure Vessel (RPV), TEPCO is finding out that the number they've been reporting on the level of water inside the RPV that houses the nuclear fuel rods was very, very wrong, and there's hardly any water inside the RPV.

It also turns out that there is little water in the Containment Vessel that houses the RPV.

There goes the "water entombment" scheme. All the water that has been poured into the reactor has gone somewhere. Both the RPV and the Containment Vessel of the Reactor 1 have been breached. ...

Fukushima I Nuke Plant: Reactor 1's RPV Has Hardly Any Water
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virgogal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-11-11 10:35 PM
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1. God,those poor people.
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defendandprotect Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-11-11 11:01 PM
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2. Doesn't look good for any of us --- !! What's the Pacific Ocean worth -- ????
This is an interesting comment on the article --

So, here's a puzzle:

TEPCO has been pouring water into the Reactor 1 RPV to the tune of 6 tons/hour, 24/7: 144 tons per day, 1,008 tons per week, 7,056 tons for 7 weeks.

Now they find out that there is hardly any water inside the reactor.

Yet, neither the iRobot's Packbots nor the human workers have found leaks from the Containment Vessel in the Reactor 1.

Where has the water gone?



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flamingdem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-12-11 12:38 AM
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9. Look who really likes fish, it's all smelly and stuff nt
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defendandprotect Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-11-11 11:02 PM
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3. ... and why didn't you post this in General Discussion?
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Gregorian Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-11-11 11:14 PM
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4. It's sounding a bit like Pandora's box.
I wonder if there is still potential for even more catastrophic results.
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nadinbrzezinski Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-11-11 11:25 PM
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5. Your answer is yes
it could still go very much more wrong than it already has.

Awkward sentence, but... Neato Kan giving up on Nuclear is a free hint of what THEY KNOW.

Why early on I wrote... WATCH WHAT THEY DO, NOT WHAT THEY SAY. It applies, more now than ever.
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flamingdem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-12-11 12:37 AM
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7. Good point about Kan, wonder what he does know!
:hi:

This is pretty shocking, I'm glad they got in there, eeesh.
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defendandprotect Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-12-11 01:42 PM
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12. How much longer can they drag this out protecting themselves .... ????
And perhaps making things much more dangeorus for Japan -- humanity in general --

and the planet?

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Fledermaus Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-12-11 12:02 AM
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6. Where's the corium now?
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flamingdem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-12-11 12:38 AM
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8. Wonder if anyone asked at the latest press conference.. nt
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madokie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-12-11 05:27 AM
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10. I'll repeat again. You cannot trust the nuclear power people for one second
I've been saying this on this board from day one and now I'm being proven correct.
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defendandprotect Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-12-11 01:45 PM
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14. +1000% -- Government should have taken this over --
Edited on Thu May-12-11 01:45 PM by defendandprotect
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jpak Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-12-11 07:47 AM
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11. This can't happen - nuclear power is safe
or so we have been told....
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defendandprotect Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-12-11 01:44 PM
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13. Think we were told that to protect the bomb from "Ban the bomb!"'ers ....
Edited on Thu May-12-11 01:44 PM by defendandprotect
There had to be a vision of some positive use for atomic research other than

bombs -- or public would have demanded they be all destroyed!

Well -- here we are -- on the speedway to destroying humanity and the planet -- !!

Pollution and Global Warming weren't fast enough!!


:nuke:
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