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Japan Government Official Says 'Partial Meltdown' Likely Underway at Nuclear Plant

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  1. Dan82

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    http://www.foxnews.com/world/2011/0...anese-nuclear-plant-facing-possible-meltdown/

     
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    Re: Japan Government Official Says 'Partial Meltdown' Likely Underway at Nuclear Plan

    scary. =/ I'm scare of the nuclear power plants maybe 35 miles from my house... and im in california... earthquake prone land...
     
    #2 Austin, Mar 13, 2011
  3. Gothitil

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    Re: Japan Government Official Says 'Partial Meltdown' Likely Underway at Nuclear Plan

    This is just horrible. :/

    I have a friend in Fukushima, but luckily she already went to live with friends in Osaka.
     
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    Re: Japan Government Official Says 'Partial Meltdown' Likely Underway at Nuclear Plan

    Its extremely sad all this.
     
    #4 Just Adam, Mar 13, 2011
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    Re: Japan Government Official Says 'Partial Meltdown' Likely Underway at Nuclear Plan

    "Quake death toll 'to exceed 10,000'"

    It was 60.. now possibably(sp) 10,000? :/
     
    #5 Z3ni, Mar 13, 2011
  6. Gothitil

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    Re: Japan Government Official Says 'Partial Meltdown' Likely Underway at Nuclear Plan

    It takes time to find people, they don't just teleport into rubble to find people.

    Let's say..there was a nuclear explosion at a marine base. You don't know how many people died. But, you found one marine tag so far. That means, the death toll at the time you found that is 1. As you find more, it increases.
     
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    Re: Japan Government Official Says 'Partial Meltdown' Likely Underway at Nuclear Plan

    You're good. 35 miles is a ways away.

    When the earthquake hit the reactors went offline and they would have been ok. Without power the and the electrical lins damaged they had to rely on diesel generators to run the cooling pumps. When the tsunami took the generators off line they lost the cooling pumps so the reactors started to overheat. Plan C is to cool the reactor with sea water. Which they started but had to stop for a while. They have restarted cooling with seawater.

    So it really was just a series of very unfortunate incidents.
     
    #7 starfish, Mar 13, 2011
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