Published: May 25th, 2011 at 3:04 pm ET
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Holes feared in two Japan nuclear reactors, CNN by Kyung Lah, May 25, 2011:
Two of the damaged reactors at the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in Japan may be riddled with holes, according to the facility’s owner.
The holes may be as big as 7 to 10 centimeters ( 2.8- 3.9 inches), Tokyo Electric Power Co. said in a 225-page document submitted to Japan’s Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency. [...]
A hole in the reactor’s containment vessel means there is a high probability of the leakage of radioactive material into the reactor building. [...]
Nuclear experts and scientists have long suspected this sort of damage to the containers of the reactors at the crippled plant, as well as a full meltdown of the fuel rods in reactors 1, 2 and 3.
Published: May 25th, 2011 at 3:04 pm ET
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You said it and with a Tropical storm Chedeng or Songda heading toward Japan who knows how unstable conditions will get as we approach the rainy season. I don’t know much. but I know one thing, this is a global disaster but Japan is really getting punched. No words.
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words can’t express the outrage, sorrow and yes, anger i feel… but safe to say that nuclear energy should be outlawed, those reactors should have never gotten off the drawing board, let alone been built. and do remember that radioactive fallout and radiation poisoning knows no limits, knows no boundaries, it doesn’t discriminate who or what its victims will be.
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Thanks CNN. Better later than never.
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Exactly. We were made aware of this on this site a couple days ago (actually 2 months ago, but was conjecture at that time). Thanks, enenews.
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Drudgereport linked an article on it today, too!
Go Drudge!
http://www.drudgereport.com
http://www3.nhk.or.jp/daily/english/25_20.html
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Hah! They are slow on the switch, must be the radionuclides in their lattes? We’ve asserted this reality since March, albeit not with a centimeter size or hole count. It wasn’t magic – it was study sourcing and Intermet search engine investigation. Crikey!
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I the radiation readings are any indication, Units 1 and 2 are a lot worse off than unit 3.
The previous data for unit 2 had shown it ramp up some then come back down. (Maybe when they decided the salt or boron was getting low and they got more?
I’m not sure that the reports on estimated hole area for unit 2 was actually new news. Since they didn’t actually go see something new, or even what was there before, I think they may have just been measuring the damage from the explosion in March. The water leaking after that pretty much confirmed it was down low somewhere.
http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&ie=UTF8&prev=_t&rurl=translate.google.com&sl=auto&tl=en&u=http://atmc.jp/plant/rad/
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Demand for radiation-measuring Geiger counters skyrockets in Japan
http://hken.ibtimes.com/articles/151687/20110525/geiger-counters-demand-skyrockets-japan-earthquake-fukushima-nuclear-plant-mass-radiation-measuring.htm
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It’s official. Main stream media is finally waking up. Finally.
So what now? US government steps into the fray big time, takes over recovery of the plants, deals with it swiftly, and saves the day. Just in time to boost Obama to re-election. Hey, it’s a theory. Ulterior motives aside, if it did play out like that, he’d get my vote, even though I’m Canadian.
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I’m favoring candidates that don’t drink the nuke lobby Kool-Aid too. That probably only matters to some in contested swing districts?
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Names please. What candidates are willing and able to keep their promises after being elected? What superhero will rise above the chaff, to take on the real challenges facing modern society, and not just talk, but walk? What visionary leader will remain true to noble cause, will have the courage to smash down barriers, overcome years of political stagnation, corruption, and maintaining the poison of status quo? What luminary will have courage to retire the old Generals, and start a real REVOLUTION, in every sense of the word, understanding that the future relies on all of these things? Names please. I’m very interested.
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Like
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the truth has been spoken.
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Names? Anybody?
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I’m not sure what makes you think the U.S. or anyone else could do that much more. No matter what happens it takes a long time for the amount of decay heat produced to get low enough to be able to back off on the cooling.
In the shape things are in, keeping up the cooling is messy, and it’s not that easily to be near highly radioactive areas and quickly build up equipment that can recycle, cool, filter, desalinate, borate, pump and inject hundreds or thousands of tons of coolant.
They do seem to get other countries involved when it helps (like the French for the water processing). This isn’t simple enough to just pour concrete or bring in a giant bulldozer..
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I perfectly understand and agree with what you’re saying. What I originally suggested was totally hypothetical. I have stated in other comments here that I believe this, and I quote ” is a problem created by the world, that will need to be solved by the world” …or something like that
Indeed, this is ALL of our responsibility for allowing this to happen in the first place. I’m not talking about us as individuals, I’m talking about the “Hard-learning” evolution of the whole of Humanity. Apes playing with fire. And we invented the iPod.
“Dance the Night Away”
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Obama doesn’t want it publicized because he already whored his energy policy out to nuclear.
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Thorium seems like a great alternative.http://youtu.be/eU3cUssuz-U or read http://www.thestar.com/specialsections/earthhour/article/960564–thorium-touted-as-the-answer-to-our-energy-needs
I guess because you can’t make it go BOOM nobody wants to use it. What a species.
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The articles about thorium reactors don’t explain why no one has built one and put it online commercially if they’re so good. If nothing can go wrong, why is it so hard to get one to work? The article says there’s no pressure. I’d like to know how one turns a turbine without pressure.
There may be no steam, but there’s a great deal of heat, and plutonium in there too. I’d have a hard time being convinced that with stuck control rods or something and downed lines from the generator (no way to send energy out as electricity) that one couldn’t get have a problem with melting.
It’s easy to say how nice it is that thorium decays to things that last “only” 300 years, but isn’t it cheating to overlook the plutonium that’s in there too? Are the worst of the others GONE in 300 or is that just the half-life?
Maybe some of the gloom and doom is to scare us into new reactors? Depending more on computers has it’s own potential problems. We can’t always trust people, but computers can screw up and not always show what they are really doing.
(I wish I had a link to the old Apple “Trust Me” ad, where PC says “this new version of Windows is going to fix everything….”
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What’s with the deal with a site name that looks almost like youtube but isn’t (it’s .be)? That kind of thing is a common trick to get people to go somewhere that infects their computers.
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Turns out it’s registered to Google actually. I think it’s just to shave off a few characters in the URL.
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There is a ton of info on Thorium. I encourage you to check it out. They have a page of Facebook and several Bills in Congress awaiting approval. Fukushima would not have happened if it had been a Thorium LFTR. China and India are building reactors using this Thorium. I think this is a viable option and has been around since 1950′s. I would rather live next to this reactor vs TMI .
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Kan says 20% of Japan’s energy to be from natural resources in 2020s
By Takuya Karube
PARIS, May 25, Kyodo
***Kan, however, said nuclear energy will remain one of the pillars of Japanese energy policy — by achieving the highest level of safety.
He explained to the audience that Japan is committed to fully investigating the cause of the Fukushima disaster and disclosing all necessary information to the global community, pointing out that an independent panel to this end was set up just prior to his departure Tuesday from Tokyo for a nearly weeklong trip to Europe.
”I believe that it is a historic responsibility of Japan to carefully analyze and examine the recent accidents, learn many lessons on nuclear safety which are new to humankind, and share those lessons with the rest of the world and with future generations,” he said.
He added that the situation at the crippled nuclear plant is now ”steadily stabilizing” and pointed out that Tokyo and other areas important for its economy remain safe.***
http://english.kyodonews.jp/news/2011/05/93369.html
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“… share those lessons with the rest of the world and with future generations”: already done!
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I remember when people referred to comments like that as a “bag of hot air.”
I like the ”steadily stabilizing” portion of the continual stream of lies and plan BS. He must know a few politicians … ya think?
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“The head of General Electric Co.’s (GE) energy business said Wednesday that he is optimistic on the long-term outlook for the nuclear-energy sector despite an obvious slowdown in the wake of the disaster in Japan.”
“…GE takes a “decades-long” view of the nuclear sector and remains committed to it, adding that nations such as China and India “are going to continue to move forward” with nuclear power.”
http://online.wsj.com/article/BT-CO-20110525-709117.html
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May be holes?
Waiting for the claim, that the reactor buildings may have been damaged. Oh. only a hydro poof, not a big deal.
The real assumption is that these death machines are riddled with all kinds of goodies. News, at eleven.
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After reading the article there is apparently nothing new to be said except the continual use of the word “may.” “May” have holes… “May” be this size… “May” whatever.
If you do not know, for sure, that there are holes, then how can you state that the holes “may” “be this big” or “may” be this size?
Then they say “report is not conclusive…” Thank you, I needed a little help with that one. Then… [...] “the report is making preliminary assumptions” [...] (I appreciate them holding my hand thru that part)
With that said, what was the purpose of this article in the first place??
Who writes this stuff?
(Glad to see the funny thumb things are gone)
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equivocal (ɪˈkwɪvək ə l)
— adj
1. capable of varying interpretations;
ambiguous
2. deliberately misleading or vague; evasive
3. of doubtful character or sincerity;
dubious
as in … The use of equivocal language appears to be an information management tool which may lead one to arrive at the possible conclusion but maybe not.
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Otherwise, Orwellian double-speak.
How to say something without saying anything.
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i also believe it’s the orwellian doublespeak route they are taking here. the people that run the show have ruined the planet, now they can only pretend to play mind games.. whilst our once beautiful and abundant planet dies an horrible death due to radiation poisoning, the greed of humankind, radioactive fallout, irreversible dna mutations, and almost certain death to the biosphere. quite sad.
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“A hole in the reactor’s containment vessel means there is a high probability of the leakage of radioactive material into the reactor building.”
HIGH PROBABILITY? Is the Law of Gravity still working?
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Is time travel possible? Is Time Linear? What is Time! One thing I do know is that this is our “TIME”
Question 1. How did one of the most successful bands in the world “The Killers” write and release a song about the Tiger Woods saga well over a year before the story broke???
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oBDncB-AGuc
Question 2. How did the biggest band in the world, “U2″ write a song over 20 years ago about Tokyo Electric Co?
“Earthquake 4. Nice and Slow. Useless scenes in old Tokyo. Useless scenes near Tokyo”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rrlPoiv8TrU
After the Rain the Sun comes out!!!!
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And the person who uploaded this tune on March 5th. Rather ironic. It was recorded during the TMI fiasco.http://youtu.be/r_mhqH8cpe0
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