Live English stream from Japan

[malaise]

http://yokosonews.com/live

[joshcryer]

1. Nuclear reactor is not damaged at all.

[joshcryer]

2. Hydrogen contained between container and concrete caused the explosion.

[jannyk]

11. This is what BBC was saying hours ago...

#
1016: The BBC's environment correspondent Roger Harrabin says he understands the blast at the nuclear plant may have been caused by a hydrogen explosion - also one of the possibilities laid out by Walt Patterson of Chatham House. "If nuclear fuel rods overheat and then come into contact with water, this produces a large amount of highly-flammable hydrogen gas which can then ignite," our correspondent says.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-12307698

[joshcryer]

3. No effect on radiation release. After the explosion the radiation went down.

[joshcryer]

4. 2:00 PM we released pressure which caused the radiation to go up.

[Hannah Bell]

24. temporarily. the reactor isn't affected, levels have gone down since the release.

[joshcryer]

5. So be calm / think calmly. (Bad translation, going to stop now.)

[jannyk]

6. Going to cool it with 'ocean water'?

[joshcryer]

7. Bad translation, but they appear very very confident that the reactor CONTAINMENT VESSEL is fine.

edit: caps to clarify, not the "reactor as a whole" obiously it will be billions of dollars of repairs

[Cetacea]

8. So did the Russians, four days in.

Just saying.

[joshcryer]

10. Cite?

[jannyk]

15. No - seems definitely going with 'ocean water. Then asked about risks

of doing this. Answered 'this has yet to be analyzed'

edit:typo

[joshcryer]

17. Yeah, caught that in post #12.

[themadstork]

18. Yes!

What I've been waiting to hear! Unless another source contradicts this I think I'll finally be able to get some sleep.

Much love everyone, and stay safe. :)

[joshcryer]

9. I don't like that mixed signal. "Don't mean to minimize evac. plan, so please follow evac orders."

PARAPHRASED.

[malaise]

13. We have a proverb here

Make sure better than cock sure.

[Junkdrawer]

14. You're right, If they're going with the Big Lie strategy, they should follow it through...

Reactor is undamaged.... :rofl:

[joshcryer]

16. Reactor / container vessel mandated for every reactor after Chernobyl.

The reactor as a whole obviously is "not OK." Sorry if I didn't make that clear.

[Hannah Bell]

25. the containment is not the reactor.

[joshcryer]

31. I'm having a really hard time with terminology because he's translating...

...and I'm not exactly sure what he's saying, so I'm trying to just say what he says exactly.

[joshcryer]

12. Ahh, OK they're going to fill it with sea water. But they expanded evac. zone just in case.

[joshcryer]

19. The released the vapor to lower risk of meltdown.

[joshcryer]

20. That caused the increase in radiation. (2:00 PM)

[Hannah Bell]

28. which went down following the release. had the reactor been damaged,

levels would be increasing, not decreasing.

"by evening, radiation level went down to 70.5 micro SV from 1015, significantly dropped at 6:58 pm)

[joshcryer]

33. Welp, now we know who was right...

Wow what a night.

[malaise]

41. Three people exposed to radiation while

waiting to be airlifted

[joshcryer]

21. Unsure how it happened, but around 3:36PM hydrogen acumulated between...

[joshcryer]

22. ...reactor container and outer concrete building. Oxygen got in and caused an explosion.

[joshcryer]

23. ...but nuclear reactor itself (containment vessel) has no damage...

[joshcryer]

26. No relationship between explosion and radiation. Radiation was released purposefully.

[joshcryer]

27. ^- that's big, that means it's over, it's not continuing

[ElsewheresDaughter]

34. They are saying that steady release of radiation release every hour ....the core is exposed..

the buildings roof and walls are GONE

exposure to 1 hr is eaual to max lifetime amount of REM

[joshcryer]

35. No.

[joshcryer]

29. Radiation was 1015 microsevert, NOW it is 70.5 microsevert! At 6:58 PM.

[jannyk]

30. BBC had nuke expert saying Hydrogen Gas created if rods overheat

and then contact water.

"...also one of the possibilities laid out by Walt Patterson of Chatham House. "If nuclear fuel rods overheat and then come into contact with water, this produces a large amount of highly-flammable hydrogen gas which can then ignite," our correspondent says.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-12307698

[joshcryer]

32. Radiation was 1015 microsevert at 3:26 PM, 860 at 3:40 PM, now it is 70.5 microsevert!

[malaise]

36. Here's a Japanese link

http://www.ustream.tv/channel/tbstv

[joshcryer]

37. Thanks. 40k viewers. Wow.

[malaise]

38. We are fed up with the financial market talk

We are rescuing people. :applause:

[malaise]

39. Three of the four trains were found

Don't know more than that

[malaise]

40. Three more aftershocks

in ten minutes.
Another quake in Nagano

[jannyk]

42. people (# unknown) exposed to radiation if outside during explosion

were waiting to be evacuated from area.

Did you guys hear how many people?