Japan Earthquake/Tsunami

<.< Couldn't resist this one.

Well it is technically possible. The reactor wants to startup. It naturally would.

This is why we have control rods. In no normal situation could the reactor be critical with the rods on bottom. Actually even with the most reactive one on top in the absolute worst case possible circumstances the core is made and the fuel is placed in such a way that it couldn't.

The problem comes when the fuel placement and core changes. Ie severe core dmg that ends up melting rods away or melting various peices of fuel that were seperated closer together or away from the rods etc. While more water for moderation would be helpful if melted right wouldn't be necessary. But good luck achieving that much melting with cooling restored and decay heat down to hardly anything now

This is why we have Boron injection. But you inject dissolved boron and it will flow into all those cracks and stick to stuff and add alot more neutron absorption which should keep it from starting back up.

I haven't done much research on the odds of a re-criticality event after boron injection... but that's partly because boron injections are just something that is never done. It's a very overpowering last resort. It works so good it's alot of work to recover so you can restart the reactor on purpose lol. So not sure if it's happened or if much testing has been done on it.

As far as an explosion... well there is enough poisons and such loaded in and made from the running of a reactor in the fuel that nuclear explosion would be impossible. Ever. In fact you a implosion is almost required for that anyways. As far as another steam or hydrogen explosion... doubtful but possible. But last I heard cooling had been restored making it alot less likely

Oh yeah it would be very very severe lol. Like... chernobyl :)

Shabba: DERP

Jaerik: I am disappoint. You forgot the double rainbows. :(

Maybe when this happens the world will actually turn into Pokémon and all my dreams and fetishes will finally come true.

Or you know the world could not play out like a Disaster B-movie.

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The quake which has just struck hit Ibaraki prefecture and registered magnitude 6.1, AFP says

that whole area might be unstable for months 6.1

no tsunami was created tho which is good

Hehe someone just showed me this. Here is a super dumbed down version of what is happening for the stupid masses out there getting stirred up by the media. Sadly though I believe this was made for kids I think this is how half the world needs to have it explained to them

I liked it where is said The poo won't fly, No Dice...

LOL'd

The Japanese have a witty side of humor about them, when they use bodily functions or things that have to do in a bodily manner.

That video was easily dumbed down so anyone can understand.

^^

She reminds me of
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And how off the wall do you have to be to make O'Reilly sound like the voice of reason?

To stave off people thinking the reactors themselves are poisonous (or are having a DOT effect... it is a FFXI forum), when he mentions poisons, Dasva is talking about adding a substance that absorbs neutrons.

"'Nuclear Ninja' Suicide Mission To Save Japan"

Clicky.

Anyone know where the reporter is getting their numbers/information from?

I'm trying to find the source, but a few days ago when two plant techncians were reported missing, a subsequent report stated they had been missing since the Tsunami on Friday. This is assuming the Sky News report is referring to those two plant operators, and not two different ones.

So the news is saying now that Tokyo tap water is now tainted with traces of Iodine. I wonder how that will get fixed.

MSN News re: Japan's ongoing crisis

I just wanted to show you all the webpage, as I was curious to bring some info with me, regardless if its news or reletive nonsense.

It is a intriguing thought.

The Associate Press originally started this story. Then the BBC reported on what they said and that the "the usual tests show nothing". The Japanese government said that if you drank a liter of water you would be getting 1/88th, which is less than a cat scan.
Somewhere here it is written.

EDIT: 1646, 1321 are the updates for drinking water in Tokyo

1828: An update on the six workers exposed to more than 100 millisieverts of radiation at the nuclear plant: "There has been no adverse effect on their health," one official from the Tokyo Electric Power Company told the AFP news agency. They are apparently still working at the plant but it is not known if they had been given different tasks.

Assuming they are referring to 131 since all 135 should be gone by now.

Didn't feel like sifting thru all just to find that tidbit... but 1 depending on the type and how they do it it can vary from like 100 mrem to like 4rem. I mean yeah it's more or less safe to get. But it's not something you want to get often. Depending on location and source the average per year from background is 240-360mrem a year. So yeah...

But don't know what part of the range they are using... what they are using to get how much you should get. Like the full amount of time it should last in your body including how the rate will lower as more of it decays away?

Figure you should drink around 2 liters a day.. hard to do the math since it is decaying... half life of about a week. And wont know how long more will be getting into the water and or how much etc. Or how much might get filtered out or diluted etc.

It's now 11:30 am central time and this is my only source of GOOD information. I a hoping I can still get updates here from time to time.

...and Dasva and Catastrophe are still doing excellent jobs on doing what they always have been.. bringing this into prosepctive!

Thanks guys! ^.^b

oops, I should add Jaerik too..( sorry mega boss..) LOL

Quick read, and totally worth it

Japan does NOT have an "Eggman" Nuclear Power Plant

I have read thru most of the posts and wonder......has anyone considered the problems they are gonna have with the soil of the farms now that they have been drenched in salt water? its always been my thoughts that seawater CANNOT be good for crops

iirc japan doesn't exactly have alot of viable land for agriculture to begin with. But interesting though. No salt is not good for most crops. Way way back in the day sometimes armys would sow salt into the farm land as a final FU. But not sure how much actually stays and gets deposited from this so who knows. Or how far inland it worked given the hilly nature of alot of the country