CHERNOBYL SCALE NUCLEAR EVENT

Submitted by Anonymous on Mon, 2011-04-11 12:27

THIS SHOULD WAKE EVERYONE UP TO THE SEVERITY - START STUDYING CHERNOBYL EFFECTS
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The Nuclear Safety Commission of Japan released a preliminary calculation Monday saying that the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant had been releasing up to 10,000 terabecquerels of radioactive materials per hour at some point after a massive quake and tsunami hit northeastern Japan on March 11.

The disclosure prompted the government to consider raising the accident's severity level to 7, the worst on an international scale, from the current 5, government sources said. The level 7 on the International Nuclear Event Scale has only been applied to the 1986 Chernobyl catastrophe.

Haruki Madarame, chairman of the commission, which is a government panel, said it has estimated that the release of 10,000 terabecquerels of radioactive materials per hour continued for several hours.

http://english.kyodonews.jp/news/2011/04/84721.html

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I've been saying this will

Submitted by Zamondo (not verified) on Mon, 2011-04-11 12:46.

I've been saying this will end up being worse than Chernobyl since day one. My reasoning was that the Japanese can't see what's going on inside the reactors, they can't even get close and they are still trying to cool them down. Plus the last line of defense, the outer containment structure on 3 of the reactors were blown to smithereens in the first few days.They keep on basing their response on a best case scenario, which just seems ridiculous when you're dealing with 3 broken reactors that you can't even get close to. If you saw the video of the original explosion and thought that couldn't do damage to the containment structure you must be crazy. To much faith in 40 year old safety technology.

My thoughts are that the Japanese should have issued a high priority international request for help immediately and assumed that the worst could happen, a meltdown in all three reactors, which looks like it's still on the plate.

If one of these reactor cores melt down to the water table and cause a hydrogen explosion under the power plant, how safe are the other 5 reactors? Shouldn't they be removing all the radioactive waste and fuel rods from all the reactors at the plant in case this happens? It seems that would be another priority, yet I've heard nothing about it.

Also as far as design of reactors goes, it looks like storing radioactive fuel rods, etc. above the reactor in cooling ponds is a really bad idea. How many US plants use this design. Apparently the highly radioactive material that was above number two reactor is gone. blown up into the surrounding area, ocean and sky.

Maybe the team could answer this, worse case scenario. One meltdown, hydrogen explosion below plant, unable to cool other reactors, possible 2 other meltdowns, including the plutonium reactor. What would we be looking at then. How much matter is on site and how much of this could be vaporized into the air.

We all hope for the best possible outcome, but the worst is still on the table. What could the worst case possibly consist of?

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Submitted by Webworker (not verified) on Mon, 2011-04-11 12:31.

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