Published: March 16th, 2012 at 10:32 pm ET
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Follow-up to: WaPo: US gov't emails reveal serious discussion of setting off explosives at Fukushima reactor
Title: U.S. side eyed blasting hole in reactor
Source: Kyodo
Date: March 17, 2012
An informal panel of experts in the U.S. Department of Energy discussed using military explosives to bring the crisis at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant under control, said panel member and physicist Richard Garwin, who pitched the idea.
“I wanted to make a hole through the great shielding slabs, which are more than a meter of reinforced concrete, and one of the opportunities was to use the military shaped charge,” Garwin said in a telephone interview, referring to the proposal he made to Energy Secretary Steven Chu at the panel meeting last April 5.
Although the idea was not adopted, such an extraordinary proposal of using a shaped charge, an explosive shaped to focus the blast energy in one direction, reflected the sense of alarm within the U.S. government that the situation at the Fukushima complex would worsen if the cooling system failed. [...]
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Published: March 16th, 2012 at 10:32 pm ET
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Umm… maybe they DID do this – to Reactor 4, that is (see http://enenews.com/fukushima-report-fire-created-8-square-meter-hole-wall-reactor-4)
Plan Nine
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I haven't seen any indication of that in the NRC FOIA docs…there is talk of punching a hole in reactor 2.
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It's funny how the truth leaks out in dribs and drabs – this is the first time I can recall "our" government ever mentioning that they even THOUGHT about doing anything at Fukushima…
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..just a hole… to relieve pressure in an nuclear reactor already in melt down….
…some sort of joint plan..it all is.
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Now that I think about it, this would certainly explain why two of the explosions were vertical and two were horizontal – and why clips of the two horizontal ones seem to have vanished off of the web…
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LOL Using a shape charge on a nuclear reactor in any direction could cause an explosion fueled by a myriad of chemical reactions that would run rampant in a matter of seconds. That would really have been the end of ALL northern Japan and Tokyo within a matter of seconds. It would have produces a mox fuel reaction that would produce an explosion the magnitude of which has never been done. The stupidity of even thinking of such a caveman way of controlling a nuclear reaction is astounding. A nuclear reactor is something you don't just blow something up around it's why we have such insane fire policy about reactors! GOD DAMN IT PEOPLE IN THE GOVERNMENT ARE GETTING DUMBER AND DUMBER EVERY DAY!!!!!
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The gentleman doth protest too much, methinks. And if they were faced with imminent hydrogen/nuclear explosions and resulting contamination either way, perhaps blowing holes in the containment was the (relatively) better alternative to doing nothing. Better, as in a having a 50 year ELE instead of a 25 year one.
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The explosions that stretched out sideways were due to the areas of the building they were located in not due to emergency measures to do anything at all. It would have been more likely that due to the structure on top of the fuel rods greatly contributed to the nature of the shape of the initial plumes. We do however know that all of the explosions were nuclear mox fission events unquestionably. Three are specs of yellow that a sun spectrum light emitting aka EMP shock that caused electric to go haywire. TEPCO has worked tirelessly to muddle facts and the nuclear shills seem to come to the site again. I wonder if it's Andrew Brietbart's ghost or something. May he rot in hell.
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