It would appear that one of the reactors in Japan has exploded.

[Aaria]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pAshVl3bJmk&feature=player_embedded


It starts late but loops again at the 50 sec mark.

Latr

[Boswell]

1. now that is an oh shit moment...

[virgogal]

6. Damn right. I pray for Japan.

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[el_bryanto]

11. Did you see the latest pictures of Oyster Creek, New Jersey?

OMG, you could see the cooling elements. It was amazing!

What's great about the information age is that even the most obscure fetishes can find a community. I mean I used to think I was a total freak for my collection of photos of Nuclear Power Plants (not to mention that rare cut of "Our Friend the Atom" (1972) with additional fusion footage). But thanks to the internet I know there are literally dozens of other nuke porn lovers out there.

Bryant

[itsrobert]

3. Just the containment housing

Nothing to be alarmed. That's the way they designed it. (not really)

[Kennah]

8. There was a guy from UCS on CNN this weekend

He said it was perhaps indicative of a hydrogen leak (from the core) which led to the explosion.

So, yeah, it was "just the containment housing" that exploded, as a result of a core leak.

[CoffeeCat]

15. These things happen all the time!

No worries. Remain calm. All is well! We just have to wait for the cooling to happen! Even the worst-case
scenarios are no big deal!*

*this message brought to you by the nuclear-energy lobbyists who are not responsible for
the disease, death, destruction and general mayhem that may result due to our cover-ups,
glossing over of the truth and general rainbow-unicorn-rosy depiction of a nuclear catastrophe.

[GodlessBiker]

4. This was yesterday's containment building explosion, no?

[leveymg]

5. Wish they had a timestamp on that. Is that yesterday or today?

It says Reactor 3, which was yesterday. Second explosion at #3?

[snappyturtle]

9. I don't think this is new, new but yesterday's. nt

[virgogal]

10. This was posted 2 days ago-seems to be the same thing.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FVwDnDo6BaM&feature=related

[csziggy]

17. The explosion in the video in the OP is MUCH larger

I've played both videos several times and they are different.

And if the outer containment structure is what blew up in the video from Saturday, what were the large chunks falling from the sky in the video from today?

Play the one in the OP and this one from Saturday - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kjx-JlwYtyE&feature=related

Definitely NOT the same explosion.

[muriel_volestrangler]

18. This is the one that happened late Sunday night, US time, and has been on the news ever since

It's 'new' as in 'more than 12, but less than 24 hours old'. There have been dozens of DU threads about it already.

[csziggy]

20. Yes, but it is not the one that virgogal posted a link for that I responded to

She posted a link to the explosion that happened Saturday, Japanese time and said it was the same as the one in the OP that happened Monday, Japanese time.

[nadinbrzezinski]

12. That is the hydrogen explosion in the secondary containnment

primary is STILL holding.

[leveymg]

13. This appears to be yesterday. Pull the thread until you confirm its a new explosion. Alerting.

[pintobean]

14. Alerting for what? This isn't LBN.

[leveymg]

16. The way the OP is phrased, it seems there was a new reactor explosion

There hasn't been since yesterday, thank G-d.

[dgibby]

19. The OP is correct.

Google is your friend.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/mar/14/japan-nuclear-explosion-second-reactor-fukushima