UPDATE: March 15
Units 2 & 3 leaking, core damaged (!!!)
Substantial damage to 2 more Fukushima reactors
. . . . The pressure vessel, a cylindrical steel container that holds nuclear fuel, “is likely to be damaged and leaking water at Units Nos. 2-3,” said (lying sack of sh*t) Junichi Matsumoto, Tepco spokesman on nuclear issues, in a news briefing Sunday. . .
http://www.marketwatch.com/story/substantial-damage-to-2-more-fukushima-reactors-2011-05-15-1218570
Japan nuke plant in trouble before tsunami
TOKYO, May 15 (UPI) — Readings taken immediately after the March earthquake in Japan suggest it was the shaking rather than the tsunami that crippled a nuclear power plant. . .
Japan govt body detailed tsunami risks before March 11: Documents
A government body conducted analyses on the damage tsunamis of various scale would inflict on a nuclear power plant, according to documents made public on Sunday, adding to allegations that Japan and its largest utility failed to heed warnings. . .
Daiichi reactor melting temperature came within hours of tsunami
March 14
Fukushima nuke plant worker tells of heat exhaustion, slipping safety standards
Contaminated nuke plant workers going back on job as safety regs go by wayside
Fukushima workers discover hole in reactor casing
Breach of vessel containing fuel rods increases likelihood that rods have been exposed and radioactive water has leaked
Witness Says Nuclear Crisis at Fukushima Plant Partially Man-made
The plant was built to only withstand waves of up to 5.7 meters high, so most of the buildings were left underwater. This resulted in a loss of power, which caused the plant’s cooling systems to fail and raised the risk that the fuel rods would overheat and melt. But when mobile electricity supplies arrived at the site that evening, workers came to face another major problem. They did not have the cables to connect the power supply to the nuclear reactor. . .
Japan warned against flooding N-plant
Experts say flooding a reactor whose pressure vessel has been leaked might cause a potentially dangerous radiation leak in the plant
In the No.1 reactor, uranium fuel rods partially melted after they were fully exposed during the 11 March quake and tsunami, and keeping the leaked fuel cool is going to be very difficult, the facility’s operator Tokyo Electric Power Co. (TEPCO) said.
Japan’s Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency said it believed partially melted fuel had fallen to the bottom of the pressure vessel, which holds the reactor core together, and may have leaked into its concrete base, known as the dry well.
Greenpeace has urged TEPCO to abandon plans to flood the container with water, given the likelihood that melted fuel has damaged it. . .
Tepco “Compensation” for Fukushima Nuclear Crisis is a Political Fraud
The top five feet of the core’s 13 ft-long fuel rods had melted down after being exposed to the air
Melted nuclear fuel casts doubt on credibility of TEPCO data
Fukushima Daiichi Design – Three types of Reactors used in the United States:
Listed by danger to environment (worst to least) << (note broken link fixed May 5 2012, goes to archive – F.C.)
Russia wants to move World Gymnastics Championships away from Tokyo
. . . . Russia’s gymnastics chief Andrei Rodionenko told Reuters last week: “Russia as well as the majority of European nations are firmly against sending their athletes to Japan.” . . .
5.7 Quake strikes Japan’s Fukushima region
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FUKUSHIMA = 2,000 Atomic Bombs
Killer Contamination Spreads Worldwide Without Opposition
Radioactive contamination equivalent to the Fukushima, Japan disaster in terms of the hated “Mushroom Cloud” Atomic Bombs is two thousand (2,000) 500 Kiloton Atomic Bombs.* Each 500kt Atomic Bomb is 33 times bigger than the American Bomb that destroyed Hiroshima on August 6, 1945. . .
http://www.veteranstoday.com/2011/04/22/fukushima-2000-atomic-bombs/
Fukushima Engineer Says He Helped Cover Up Flaw at Dai-Ichi Reactor No. 4
[Mar. 22] One of the reactors in the crippled Fukushima nuclear plant may have been relying on flawed steel to
hold the radiation in its core, according to an engineer who helped build its containment vessel four decades ago.
Mitsuhiko Tanaka says he helped conceal a manufacturing defect in the $250 million steel vessel installed at the Fukushima Dai-Ichi No. 4 reactor while working for a unit of Hitachi Ltd. in 1974. The reactor, which Tanaka has called a “time bomb,” . . .
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