8.8 earthquake hits Japan

The graphite explosion in Chernobyl is IMPOSSIBLE in the Fukushima reactors. Radioactivity spread, small fires, small explosions, sure. Please don't join the panicky ignoramuses posting endless drivel here and keep it brief - not meaning to sound peremptory (sorry!) but the emperor is unfortunately right.

Quite possibly you are the one who is misinformed.

NOBODY is talking about a NEW TOTAL core meltdown, only spent fuel pools neutrons going haywire

SOMA, Japan -- The fuel rods in all three of the most troubled Japanese nuclear reactors -- each of which lost its cooling system in Friday's massive earthquake and tsunami -- appear to be melting, the nation's chief government spokesman said Monday.
"Although we cannot directly check it, it's highly likely happening," Chief Cabinet Secretary Yukio Edano told reporters.
Water levels dropped precipitously Monday inside a stricken Japanese nuclear reactor, twice leaving the uranium fuel rods completely exposed and raising the threat of a meltdown, hours after a hydrogen explosion tore through the building housing a different reactor


Read more: http://foxnews.com/world/2011/03/14/second-explosion-stricken-japan-nuke-plant/#ixzz1GnhjDH5u

I've finally lost patience with you and I will say this:

YOU are an IDIOT who can't calculate neutron flux to save his life. Neither can your source, but said source doesn't suggest he can. Goodbye, dumbo

What is worst-case scenario in Japan?

CIRINCIONE: The worst case is multiple reactor meltdowns. That means that the reactor core, the fuel, gets so hot that it fuses together into molten lava and that bursts right through the reactor container vessel, and right through the concrete containment box that is built around the reactor. Then radioactivity goes in the air, in the ground, in the water. It is a mess.

The danger is that it happens, not just at one reactor but two or three reactors at once. That means you have an arch of radioactivity over hundreds of squared kilometers contaminating, perhaps, possible thousands of square kilometers.

KAKU: The worst-case scenario is a steam/hydrogen gas explosion which blows the reactor vessels apart, sending uranium dioxide fuel rods and radioactive debris into the air. This might happen if the core is fully exposed for a few hours, which is a distinct possibility. This is what happened at Chernobyl, when such an explosion blew about 25 percet of the core's radioactive byproducts into the air

How far can the radiation travel in the worst case?

KAKU: [In the event of fuel rods and reactive debris being sent into the air,] a plume containing iodine, cesium, and strontium would rise above the reactor. The winds would blow it 20-50 miles downwind from the site. The plume, like a lighthouse beam, would be pencil-thin, about 15 degrees, and would sweep back and forth depending on the wind.

CIRINCIONE: A lot depends on weather and wind conditions. If the wind is blowing out to the ocean, as it usually does, then most of the contamination goes out there. If the wind shifts south, well then, some of the most heavily populated areas of Japan are at risk including Tokyo itself…

It is possible the fires could be so hot that it could send radioactive particles into the upper atmosphere, carrying it across the Pacific. It would hit the southern parts of Alaska and the west coast of Canada and the United States in about ten days

High Seas wrote:

I've finally lost patience with you and I will say this:

YOU are an IDIOT who can't calculate neutron flux to save his life. Neither can your source, but said source doesn't suggest he can. Goodbye, dumbo

We agree on one thing, at least.

He just likes to hear himself talk, and it's sad to say, but whatever threads he latches onto quickly become ruined.

Cycloptichorn

We agree on one thing, at least.

He just likes to hear himself talk, and it's sad to say, but whatever threads he latches onto quickly become ruined.

Btw, Banzai and Dai Nippon means Japan, 10,000 years