ahh i didn't know it was a bwr

but my point was actually about foundations

all the same i should have know looking at all of the cubes

other one in ca

http://www.bellona.org/imagearchive/...r_plant-1..jpg

hmm I can't verify this yet.
someone on the stream at Japan earthquake | Page 24 | Liveblog live blogging | Reuters.com

Says that Fukushima 1 Reactor 3 has Uranium and Plutonium fuel rods.

yeah known as MOX.

Did you read that blurb about fusion occurring?

No, I missed it. Link?

It's on the BBC link.

0419: Possible fusion in two reactors - AFP, quoting government

tee heee.. those buildings look like boobs.

****, what does that mean?

I'm not exactly sure but I know uncontrolled fusion = thermonuclear explosion.

It also releases a lot of energy.

its also the sun

It basically means its so hot that fusion is occurring in the reactors. That also means its going to melt straight down through pretty much anything, hopefully the containment building on top keeps it all in its hole.

fusion means it's going to create a bunch of helium in the air so everyone within a 10 mile radius is going to start talking funny

it's a tid bit nipply out there.

...the ****? There's fusion going on? Ok, I can understand things getting 'hot', but there's a difference between 'radioactive decay hot' and 'nuclear fusion' hot. Wouldn't the material need to be in a plasma state to fuse? I'm just not seeing how anything is going to accidentally get into that sort of condition...

Then again, I'm no fizzycist.

A runaway fission reaction can make that happen. How do you think it happens in an H-bomb?

Which could reach as far away as California.

Did you guys know that radiation doesn't show up as a giant green cloud? I sure didn't.

No, but it comes down as black rain.

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/...500_AA300_.jpg

Have you taken your potassium iodine today?

a giant green cloud just in time for St Paddy's day would be epic

IAEA update on Japan Earthquake

The IAEA website is basically saying it's no biggy.

Charlie Sheen is more of a risk to Japan.

It'll make for a great backdrop to a video game.

Call of Fukushima Daini

Well, I don't really believe this is an issue. The tsunamis did not damage the reactors at all. The failure of backup power (and backup backup power, and battery power, and several contingencies) to run the cooling systems is what seems to be causing the most problems.

I think another issue seems to be that most officials do not know what exactly is going on, so "experts" from outside Japan who also have no idea what is going on are called by the media to report, which is 100% speculation.

the IKEA website makes no mention of it, so that might suggest some type of cover-up

Welcome to IKEA.com

Ok, maybe I'm misunderstanding things here, but aren't reactors designed specifically to prevent a critical mass when they're "shut down"? Even so, you've got focused energy and pressure waves and whatnot.. What you're suggesting is that something that takes ridiculously complex science and engineering to produce (the fusion reaction in an H bomb) is happening accidentally, in a design which is largely concerned with preventing just such an incident from occurring?


Ok, I guess I over/underestimated the state of things, if that's the case.

Fusion should not be occurring.

These plants are powered down, which means that the reactions should be decaying. Unless of course uncontrolled fission is happening.

The only way for fusion to occur, if it is, is from a runaway fission reaction. It sounds like the control rods from reactor #1 are damaged or melted, so there isn't much stopping it now except the sea water and boric acid or whatever they're dumping on it.

I doubt fusion is occurring, but it is possible if it gets too much out of hand.

*Japan***8217;s chief cabinet secretary says there***8217;s a risk of explosion at the building housing Fukushima Daiichi no.3 reactor

*Report just in that TEPCO has begun to inject seawater to cool the Fukushima Daiichi no.3 reactor

there is a big difference between runaway fission reactions and nuclear detonation.

Other than the speed at which they occur, there really isn't that much a difference other than how the reaction is started. Atom and Hydrogen bombs both get their energy from runaway fission reactions.

hahahahah. get your facts straights.

Do you expect to see a mushroom cloud over Japan if a meltdown occurs?

BREAKING NEWS: Miyagi police chief estimates over 10,000 deaths in Miyagi: NHK


Everything will be back to normal next week though. Not a big deal, Japan was prepared for this.

It's all part of the apocalypse. Soon 3/4ths of the Earth shall perish and the rest of us will be battling the anti-christ :o

So... just how much fissile material would there likely be in those fuel rods? If this thing is in an uncontrolled (& uncontrollable) runaway, just how much fuel is going to 'go up' in the process?

...and if there's masses of seawater present, with the hydrogen & deuterium available there... then is significant amounts of fusion actually possible/likely?

I don't think anyone knows MC Hamster.

According to this:

Fukushima I Nuclear Power Plant - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia


Reactor 3 is bigger than Reactor 1. Also has a different designer.

Let***8217;s let LGBR stop trusting his friends, we stop giving him **** over it, and call it a lesson learned.
If anything, give **** to his idiotic American friends in Japan.

I***8217;m an American in Japan, and I wouldn***8217;t post ***8220;it***8217;s nothing***8221; on Facebook like a moron.


L. Spiro

You can't ever be prepared for something like this, but I will say that they are a **** load more prepared than we could ever hope to be.

The wrath of Miyagi

http://thebigredapple.net/wp-content...karate-kid.jpg

for making that ****ty version with will smith's kid.

is this the 5th shinra mako reactor?