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Title: Nuclear meltdown at Fukushima plant
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Telegraph
URL Source: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/wor ... ltdown-at-Fukushima-plant.html
Published: May 12, 2011
Author: Telegraph
Post Date: 2011-05-12 23:20:05 by go65
Keywords: None
Views: 10099
Comments: 19
Engineers from the Tokyo Electric Power company (Tepco) entered the No.1 reactor at the end of last week for the first time and saw the top five feet or so of the core's 13ft-long fuel rods had been exposed to the air and melted down. Previously, Tepco believed that the core of the reactor was submerged in enough water to keep it stable and that only 55 per cent of the core had been damaged. Now the company is worried that the molten pool of radioactive fuel may have burned a hole through the bottom of the containment vessel, causing water to leak. "We will have to revise our plans," said Junichi Matsumoto, a spokesman for Tepco. "We cannot deny the possibility that a hole in the pressure vessel caused water to leak". Tepco has not clarified what other barriers there are to stop radioactive fuel leaking if the steel containment vessel has been breached. Greenpeace said the situation could escalate rapidly if "the lava melts through the vessel".
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#2. To: go65 (#0)
Yeah... AND?
AND? We forget how ignorant you are, Eric and probably you don't know enough about physics and other such advanced concepts. It's what living in a trailer park does to a mind. The formaldehyde fumes from the trailer insulation I wager.
I am a qualified reactor operator, on two separate reactor designs. What's YOUR qualifications? Oh, that's right, you don't HAVE any... you know NOTHING about nuke reactors, and what it really means, when they say the core had a meltdown. For those of us who DO know and understand, the ultimate ramifications are... minor. Now STFU, you empty-headed twit.
You mean like Homer Simpson? By the way, if you realy are a qualified reactor operator that means you work for an industry that is linked to the govt. You in fact, are a socialist parasite by your own standards.
False logic. Typical.
That doesn't mean much unless you were a SRO. (senior reactor operator)
Capitalist Eric just outed himself, like most of the tea party cranks, he actually draws a salary from a govt linked institution. If he works for the nuclear power industry, then he works for directly or indirectly a govt owned or financed or underwritten entity. What a filthy hypocrite eric is.
I served in the military. I got out a long time ago. So what? Your attempts to twist this into something to be used as a weapon against me... are amusing. Utterly useless, but still amusing. What next, gonna' call me "doo-doo head," or something? (((smirk)))
Living off my tax dollars you socialist pig....
Typical stereotype of the limited govt conservative railing against socialism to be employed by the govt.
#17. To: Godwinson (#16)
(Edited)
Clearly, you're not the sharpest tool in the shed. But hey! You're still a tool.
Top • Page Up • Full Thread • Page Down • Bottom/LatestEngineers from the Tokyo Electric Power company (Tepco) entered the No.1 reactor at the end of last week for the first time and saw the top five feet or so of the core's 13ft-long fuel rods had been exposed to the air and melted down.
#3. To: Capitalist Eric, go65 (#2)
Yeah...
#6. To: Godwinson, go65 (#3)
We forget how ignorant you are, Eric
#7. To: Capitalist Eric, war (#6)
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I am a qualified reactor operator, on two separate reactor designs.
#8. To: Godwinson (#7)
By the way, if you realy are a qualified reactor operator that means you work for an industry that is linked to the govt. You in fact, are a socialist parasite by your own standards.
#9. To: Capitalist Eric (#8)
#10. To: Ferret Mike, Capitalist Eric (#9)
#13. To: Godwinson (#10)
he actually draws a salary from a govt linked institution.
#14. To: Capitalist Eric (#13)
#15. To: Godwinson (#14)
#16. To: Capitalist Eric (#15)
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