Breaking on MSNBC: Meltdown likely underway at second reactor, Japan Government Says

[thewiseguy]

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/?ocid=twitter

FUCK!

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[Dennis Donovan]

2. I wish they'd be more clearer - one rod melting or a complete meltdown??

[nadinbrzezinski]

7. partial from what all of us can put together

well the Ambassador today put a happy face, nothing to see here, on CNN... that cesium was a figment of the sniffers imagination.

[ffr]

33. Hours earlier MSNBC host said just the opposite

MSNBC had Jack Spencer from the right wing Heritage Foundation as a nuclear expert this morning and while the explosion video was playing said that this proves how safe nuclear power is. ***My WTF??? moment***

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=439x629349

[AC_Mem]

3. Gee, I'd love to get the news from MSNBC

but when I tune in all I see is Lockup.

:/

[nadinbrzezinski]

9. well at least they have an excuse, they are NOT a nooz

channel.

By the way... I got NHK running on live feed, and RT News (where it makes sense to do it all the time... it is their backyard) on the tv

[liberalmuse]

13. Yeah, what's with that???

I turned it on MSNBC yesterday to catch the news and they start with that prison shit again. What the hell...?

[Control-Z]

15. Me too.

And I really hate Lockup.

[spanone]

4. damn......

damn

[aquart]

5. What if they all go?

There are ten at that site? Seven under distress? What if they all proceed to meltdown?

[Poll_Blind]

12. It'll be a hell of a mess and we'll probably have to find a new Pacific ocean.

PB

[IScreamSundays]

24. no. There are 6 at one site

three are off line. There are 4 reactors at the second site.

[Statistical]

32. Once fission is halted heat output of a reactor will only decline.

So time is a good thing. The longer the pumps remain operation the cooler the reactor core becomes. Eventually in about 3-4 days the fuel no longer has enough thermal energy to melt through the RPV (reactor pressure vessel).

The bad news with Reactor #1 is the pumps failed 1 hour into shutdown (when reactor is still very hot) likely from the Tsunami wave.

[Cetacea]

6. "Scale of disaster almost unimaginable"

That doesn't sound too promising...

[thewiseguy]

8. CNN Ticker: We are assuming a meltdown has occurred, Japan's chief cabinet secretary says

[roamer65]

22. Fukushima is now a level 6...IMHO.

This has gone beyond the TMI disaster, which was level 5.

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[roamer65]

29. I think tomorrow, nadin

They can hide this until the radiation shows up on Russian detectors. The Russians will spill the beans.

[LaurenG]

10. oh no

:cry:

[thewiseguy]

11. Meltdown in both reactors 1 and 3

[OhioChick]

14. Wow...

News just keeps getting worse.

[Control-Z]

18. And yet there's a guy over on

a thread I started lecturing me about how small the chances of a meltdown are and how I should take a tour of my local nuclear plant to ease my mind.

[dixiegrrrrl]

16. "It's first time a Japanese nuclear plant has ever experienced any level of reactor core melting"

Well, THAT is good news.
Kinda.

[meow mix]

27. yah glad to know i didnt miss out on any horrific nuclear meltdowns

wtf

[aquart]

30. Uh, they've been known to tell little nuclear lies before.

So people are saying but I don't know those people.

[Cetacea]

17. Bill Nye assumes meltdown occurred based on visuals and cesium

[nadinbrzezinski]

25. I assumed it based on Cesium

[roamer65]

19. Reactor #3 is running MOX fuel.

This reactor is running plutonium enriched MO fuel. Expect much more radiation output from it.

[FedUpWithIt All]

20. So a partial meltdown at #1 last night. #3 has rods exposed by 3 meters

and 2 is now also in meltdown?

Is this all current? I've been away much of the day.

[PADemD]

21. What to do if a nuclear disaster is immenent

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=439x623708

[itsrobert]

26. Lockup is still on

so it must not be that important. :sarcasm:

[madinmaryland]

28. FUCK! is right.

:scared:

[HCE SuiGeneris]

31. Shhhh.

Nuclear power is SAFE I tells ya... "Many liberals fear nuclear power the way (and for the same reasons) cons fear muslims" http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=439&topic_id=620088&mesg_id=621578

Seems the people that were castigating those of us last night are in need of a re-think.

This is horrible news coming out of Japan.

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