Breaking MSNBC= Explosion at Fukushima Dai ichi Reactor

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/


Nothing but the banner right now




http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/42058349/ns/world_news-asiapacific/

Hydrogen blast

Hydrogen buildup.

Hopefully just blew off the top of the building like before. Like they said might happen.

I am not watching teevee...just checking about the Tsunami warning..it suddenly switched to this banner.

they should have free hydrogen igniters in the building like they do before the launch of the space shuttle, it would prevent a massive buildup of hydrogen by burning it up slowly, rather than in an explosion.

Might be something they should do from now on.

Check out GD.

that doesn't sound very reassuring

I would like to believe they would be truthful about the situation.

If they're lying about a serious radiation release (containment failure) and it leads to any deaths they will hang them.

would the containment vessel be exposed?

The vessel is designed to take insane impacts (it'd survive a 9/11 style attack).

US helicopters detect radiation 60 miles from damaged Japanese plant, suggesting wider contamination http://nyti.ms/fp9b7L


Radioactive Releases in Japan Could Last Months, Experts Say

WASHINGTON — As the scale of Japan’s nuclear crisis begins to come to light, experts in Japan and the United States say the country is now facing a cascade of accumulating problems that suggest that radioactive releases of steam from the crippled plants could go on for weeks or even months.

The emergency flooding of two stricken reactors with seawater and the resulting steam releases are a desperate step intended to avoid a much bigger problem: a full meltdown of the nuclear cores in two reactors at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station. On Monday, an explosion blew the roof off the second reactor, not damaging the core, officials said, but presumably leaking more radiation.

So far, Japanese officials have said the melting of the nuclear cores in the two plants is assumed to be “partial,” and the amount of radioactivity measured outside the plants, though twice the level Japan considers safe, has been relatively modest.

But Pentagon officials reported Sunday that helicopters flying 60 miles from the plant picked up small amounts of radioactive particulates — still being analyzed, but presumed to include cesium-137 and iodine-121 — suggesting widening environmental contamination.


More at:
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/14/world/asia/japan-fukushima-nuclear-reactor.html?_r=1

Scary. I'd be leaving Tokyo for a few days if I was there.