Massive Quake Hits NE Japan

[Docfeelgood]

I wonder what would be there to make a second explosion?

[Hauldren Collider]

HYDROGEN, dumbass. HYDROGEN. The explosion was virtually identical to the first. It is very simple. Heat splits water into hydrogen and oxygen. Heat goes away, hydrogen and oxygen recombine---BOOM! Mini hindenburg. Now shut up.

[Docfeelgood]

HYDROGEN, dumbass. HYDROGEN. The explosion was virtually identical to the first. It is very simple. Heat splits water into hydrogen and oxygen. Heat goes away, hydrogen and oxygen recombine---BOOM! Mini hindenburg. Now shut up.

Damn, your so bright we should call you sun.

[Hauldren Collider]

Just like AAHZ, sun.

And it's YOU'RE you ****ing insistent ******.

[Docfeelgood]

Just like AAHZ, sun.

And it's YOU'RE you ****ing insistent ******.

How old are you?

[Docfeelgood]

I really feel for these people, wish there was something I could do to help.

[fetustoast]

[Docfeelgood]

"The bottom line is that we just don't know what's going to happen in the next couple of days and, frankly, neither do the people who run the system,"

I concur.

[Thoth]

I would not want Doc to leave. he is a good fellow. rampant ******.

OTOH his ravings wrt flu viruses are valuable public information.


Mercy kill? Y/N?

[germanos]

Good to DaShi posting. Are you in Japan? Are you OK?

[germanos]

Jesus: a second explosion and things are getting worse:

BBC
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0629: Urgent news: Cooling functions have stopped and water levels are falling in Reactor 2 at the Fukushima 1 nuclear plant - Jiji news agency, quoted by Reuters.

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0631: This is the first time today that we are hearing of problems in Reactor 2. This morning, there was a huge explosion at Reactor 3, and there was a blast at Reactor 1 on Saturday. But both of those reactors are said to be intact.

[Thoth]

THE SKY IS FALLING!!!!!1111!!oneone!!oneone!

Jesus: a second explosion and things are getting worse:

BBC
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0629: Urgent news: Cooling functions have stopped and water levels are falling in Reactor 2 at the Fukushima 1 nuclear plant - Jiji news agency, quoted by Reuters.

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0631: This is the first time today that we are hearing of problems in Reactor 2. This morning, there was a huge explosion at Reactor 3, and there was a blast at Reactor 1 on Saturday. But both of those reactors are said to be intact.

Queue Doc Feelpanicky.

[notyoueither]

Are most reactors built near large bodies of water? I can see why that might be so.

Seems a rather inconvenient coincidence that a tumbler nearby can swamp the machinery needed to make them safe.

Did nobody see this coming?

[Dinner]

The second explosion? Yes, ever since the plant got hit by first the earthquake and then the tsunami they've had problems with the cooling system. Yesterday the Japanese government said they now have problems with multiple reactors and if they had to do venting in the second reactor then they could get another hydrogen explosion and that seems to be exactly what happened.

[germanos]

Did nobody see this coming?

They probably did, just not this scale. By that I mean they probably disigned the Plant to withstand (lets say) a quake magnitude 8 and a tsunami of 8 meters. Then they were struck with mag 9 and a 10 meter wave.

As with all risk management it all boils down to probability. I've heard experts say this catastrophe is a once in a millenium event. Contingency planning (is that the right term?) was apparently lower.

Likewise here in Holland the coastal defense against flooding is also in the range of once a millenium. That means there are 'known' circumstances where they probably fail.