tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1765307840677473617.post5635614715504150502..comments2024-03-19T04:32:15.906-07:00Comments on EXSKF: Jiji Tsushin: NISA Ordered TEPCO Not To Talk About Rising Pressure in Reactor 3 on March 14, 2011 Because NISA Official Couldn't Reach His Supervisorarevamirpal::laprimaverahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10637620330944911600noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1765307840677473617.post-83753558975224085102012-08-13T22:14:56.928-07:002012-08-13T22:14:56.928-07:00I don't think it was a nuclear explosion, but ...I don't think it was a nuclear explosion, but it really doesn't matter. It was at least a Steam flash from an out of control critical nuclear reactor. And it did come from the core, not the spent fuel pool as they've been attempting to claim for over a year.<br /><br />And, as is now coming out, the pressure inside the RPV was over 1000 psi prior to the explosion. <br /><br />I think if it could have gone off like a nuclear bomb, it would have, and it didn't, so the good news is that Japan didn't vaporize that day, or any day since.<br /><br />Do you realize the Bombs on Dropped during WWII had about 15 pounds of nuclear fuel in them?<br /><br />And this reactor had something like 100,000 pounds of fuel in it! Yes, this single reactor has more nuclear fuel in it (by weight) than all of the atomic bombs that have ever been tested - combined. And that doesn't include the other reactors next to it - or the spent fuel pool 15 feet away.... That's the magnitude of the risk we are dealing with here.<br /><br />So no, it didn't go off like a nuclear bomb - if it had, we all would have been dead within minutes, if not seconds. <br /><br />Instead, it delivered it's load of Mixed Oxide Powder skyward - for all of us to suck down over the rest of our lives...<br /><br />James Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1765307840677473617.post-32267654972624655752012-08-13T18:19:53.355-07:002012-08-13T18:19:53.355-07:00Someday people will start to call this what it rea...Someday people will start to call this what it really and #3 was not a hydrogen explosion. I appreciate the reporting by JiJi, but we all saw a nuclear explosion. I read an article a while back that said nuclear plants cannot explode like a bomb. Do you trust your eyes when it comes to MOX and temperatures needed to aerosolize certain radionuclides? Chibaguynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1765307840677473617.post-48343184096219064432012-08-13T16:40:25.749-07:002012-08-13T16:40:25.749-07:00As soon as it was clear that there was at least on...As soon as it was clear that there was at least one reactor out of control (cooling lost for an indeterminate time), let alone four, evacuations should have been ordered as a precaution. Even taking into account the extraordinary situation, i.e., destruction caused by the earthquake and tsunami and hence the general chaos in the area complicating everything, I believe precautionary evacuations, at least on a voluntary basis, would have been the responsible and right thing to do. If it had turned out to be an unnecessary precaution, just the better.<br /><br />The "lets see if we can get things up and running again and, if not, lets see first how bad it gets" approach can, in my opinion, not be justified.<br />*mscharisma*Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1765307840677473617.post-30724483021458453252012-08-13T14:05:33.950-07:002012-08-13T14:05:33.950-07:00It seems there are a lot of "elite bureaucrat...It seems there are a lot of "elite bureaucrats" and "elite ministries" which had their fingers in this.<br /><br />Now we need to find a very roomy "elite penitentiary".<br /><br />I believe there is 20 km radius-unused territory already tightly guarded by police. Lots of empty dwellings immediately available and great opportunities for penitential labour for the next...500.000? years. m a x l inoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1765307840677473617.post-46381856357483144302012-08-13T13:37:47.051-07:002012-08-13T13:37:47.051-07:00This reminds me of the regular phenomenon in the T...This reminds me of the regular phenomenon in the Third Reich that decisions had to be postponed until Hitler got up.<br />Today's Japanese bureaucrats seem not to be much more courageous.Atomfritznoreply@blogger.com