Potential consequences: How a full-scale meltdown could affect the U.S. by flying across the Pacific Ocean
Breaking News // Circa 1974 General Electric designed reactors had similar backup failures on US Nuclear Plants. These same US Nuclear Plants are asking for US Operations Renewal from our Government.
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March 14, 2011 |
Last updated at 2:52 PM (UK time) on 14th March 2011
America was on alert today amid fears the nuclear fallout from the Japan earthquake could reach the West Coast of the U.S.
Scientists warned of a 'worst-case scenario' in which a meltdown could blast highly radioactive material into the atmosphere.
This would be then picked up by powerful 30,000ft winds carrying the debris across the Pacific and hitting America within four days. Link also provides a larger map. Daily Mail
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March 14, 2011 |
Fukushima Daiichi Unit 2 fuel core meltdown reported underway
7:39AM EST March 14---We have received a report from our Japanese colleagues that Tokyo Power Electric Company is reporting that Fukushima Daiichi Unit 2 has lost all cooling water and the fuel core is completed exposed. The fuel rods are very likely melting. There is no word on efforts to flood Unit 2 to avert an uncontrolled meltdown.
Two hydrogen gas explosions have already rocked Unit 1 and Unit 3. A third explosion is now likely in Unit 2 potentially releasing significant amounts of radiation into the atmosphere if the vessel fails followed by containment failure as the result of a possible full scale meltdown.
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March 14, 2011 |
A great piece by The Guardian's John Vidal. Here's the lead:
The gung-ho nuclear industry is in deep shock. Just as it and its cheerleader, the International Atomic Energy Agency, were preparing to mark next month's 25th anniversary of the Chernobyl accident with a series of self-congratulatory statements about the dawning of a safe age of clean atomic power, a series of catastrophic but entirely avoidable accidents take place in not one but three reactors in one of the richest countries of the world.
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March 14, 2011 |
"A gigantic science experiment, with the Japanese people as guinea pigs."
Read Michio Kaku on the spiraling nuclear disaster in Japan.
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March 14, 2011
Nuke rods fully exposed again
Posted at noon, March 14: A Japanese utility says fuel rods at a troubled nuclear reactor were once again fully exposed hours after authorities were able to stabilize a similar emergency. Tokyo Electric Power Co. says the exposure happened at Unit 2 of the Fukushima Dai-ichi plant because a steam vent wouldn't open Monday, causing a sudden drop of water. That reactor and two others at the plant are dangerously overheating and authorities are racing to prevent meltdown. AP
FOR MOR INFORMATION:
http://www.beyondnuclear.org/
FOR LARGER MAPS:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1366055/Japan-earthquake-tsunami-Navy-cr...
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