Published: March 30th, 2012 at 9:39 am ET
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Title: Water levels low in Fukushima reactor
Source: UPI
Date: March. 29, 2012 at 4:43 PM
Water levels in at least one reactor at Japan’s Fukushima nuclear plant are lower than estimated, putting it at risk of a new meltdown, the plant operator said.The report, the result of an internal investigation by Tokyo Electric Power Co., was released this week, The New York Times said. The company found cooling water in the containment vessel at the No. 2 reactor was only 2 feet from the bottom, when it had been estimated at 33 feet (10 meters) in December [...]
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Published: March 30th, 2012 at 9:39 am ET
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Does not sound like a COLD SHUT DOWN ANYWHERE AT FUKUSHIMA how many more LIARS are going to step up to the plate and lie cheat and steal for $$$$$$$$$$$$$$
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Never was, and will never be !
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How could be in danger of meltdown if everything has already melted?
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Cha-Ching! Give the man a PRIZE!
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Here is a photographic pictorial of our soon-to-be future:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2122554/At-worlds-end-Artists-reveal-stunning-post-apocalyptic-images-worlds-major-cities.html
Puts this whole crisis into perfect perspective.
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Life After People – a TV series covered this kind of future.
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So I'm interpreting this as we will soon be told 2 has also left the building. Half truths, half lives and half lies.
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??? how likely is it that the core is still in the containment vessel? I guess it still left the containment vessel the same way it left the pressure vessel … the only information to me, the cellar is still tight and that's why there are 60cm of water left in the containment. In my believe a new meltdown is not our problem, cause the core is still molten, it seems to be a question of weeks for the core to reach the underground. Is there any pressure above atmosphere in the containment vessel?
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Talktalk: Truth is likely that Corium 2 went out through the floor of the building about a year ago.
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Agreed. The concern is below, and not so much above.
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It takes all of 16 hours for a core to melt through the vessel, longer to get through the concrete below, but not all that long.
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So, then, JoyB, it has to be outside the containment already, right? Some still in the reactor, lots of it outside. If it weren't, i think it'd be a lot hotter. The fuel is exposed if there's only 2 feet of water. The fuel itself, stands at least 10, 12 feet per rod vertically?
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#Fukushima: Public forum on the future of nuclear power set for April 12 http://shar.es/pU4A9
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FB users go vote
How many days after Chernobyl, April 26, 1986, did you learn of it?http://www.facebook.com/groups/fukushima311watchdogs/
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ENENews Mainichi: Highest radiation level yet — 37 times gov't limit detected in river trout caught 40km from http://t.co/BXMxTFyq
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Like I said a while ago, it's just getting worse all the time. This is as serious a problem to human life as anything and it's not even on the news anymore.
Although I did see a story about a woman with 2 Vagina's and daily movie star/ pop star news.
…you know…important stuff
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Police state 'lite'.
Lots of stuff is not being reported in Canada/U.S.
Interesting to study.
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patman, what sort of "stuff"?
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While i do very much agree that in all likelyhood we are looking at three full melt-outs, i can't help but wonder.. If they are even close to the truth regarding the presumed whereabouts of the corium, we could be facing a far, far worse disaster than even most of us ENEnewsers believe. Remember, it is still debated how much of the core was actually released into the environment at chernobyl. Some estimates i have heard range from 4-10 percent! And none (of the serious ones at least) speak of more than half of that one core…
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@kongrufus – Amen to that, brother. Every time I read a run-down/summary of the total situation and/or the latest alarming development, I pretty much have to sit down and start in with the deep breathing and positive affirmations.
Next thought often has to do with throwing caution to the wind – which I have been doing rather spasmodically already – with regards to favorite indulgences – eat, drink, and be merry, etc. etc., in line with the 'OMG, we're-all-doomed, what's-the-use' response to it all – which has brought back my hypoglycemia, which for many years was totally under control… doubtless all those radionuclides I've ingested/inhaled FOR THE PAST YEAR!!! have played a role in this resurgence of the hypoglycemia…)
It just seems like an open-and-shut case that this is ELE-land we are living in… right thru Alice's looking glass or down the rabbit hole and complete with mad rulers and their servile yes-your-majesty sycophants…)
One thing I do wonder, and that is the stats on deaths from all causes, for the past year – I bet 'they' are sitting on a lot of that info. I bet that deaths, especially among the very young and the elderly and the chronically ill – have gone WAY UP and it is STATISTICALLY SIGNIFICANT.
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If they lost the ability to pump water in and out, there's nothing left to do. Biggest mistake man has ever made (by far) messing with atomic energy.
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Here come those secondary fission events that have already been reported on Enenews and seen on TEPCO cams. This time it's going to be a lot more violent of an explosion where 2 feet of water turns into a hydrogen surge then raw core touching atmosphere. Do I know what happens then? Not really. Am I anticipating it? Hell no. If this core touches the air and ignites the entire core could fission again. "An underground core fission event sounds like a nice new nuclear test our planet has never had before…lets do it guys! Ok man let me start up the HAARP and slam back this whiskey!" Palin 2012 Ignorance for victory!
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and they are dumping 9 tons (over 2000 gallons/day) of water thru this sieve. Where do YOU think the water ends up along with all the radioactive water-soluable elements?
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