8.9 Quake hits off coast of Japan! Live Updates.

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This is crazy... Any one else hearing reports of further damage? Any one have links to the japan news sites which may be streaming?

Originally posted by SkipperJohn
wow they did remove the video. that is weird.

I had it saved in my favorites. And that link still works, Go to the user JapanEarthquake2011

www.youtube.com...

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That links dead for me, anyone else?

so they can sale a video just like that? that is a bunch of BS.

The BBC's Nick Ravenscroft was on his way towards Fukushima, but about 60km from the plant was stopped by the police and told it was too dangerous to proceed. He says there is lots of traffic coming in the other direction. Authorities in vehicles with sirens are making public announcements to the crowds.

This sounds bad

Now correct me if I'm wrong, I don't know much about this. But from the pictures I saw earlier today about the meltdown in Chernobyl, the reactor melted away the roof of the main core housing building. It didn't explode the building.

So the meltdown wouldn't it melt the elements because of the heat, not explode it?

I repeat 101.5 rems per hour, 50% fatalities after 5-6 hours, 100% after 9-11. I live in Scottsdale,AZ and I am starting to get worried about fallout.....

www.youtube.com...

Heres another vid of the explosion

THE NUCLEAR POWERPLANT...exploded

www.abovetopsecret.com...&addstar=1&on=10769594#pid10769594

Doesn´t look good at all

If anyone is having trouble with understanding some of the news feeds...here is a guy in Japan watching local news and translating into english...
he is doing the Press Confrence at this time

Link

Originally posted by johnthejedi24
I repeat 101.5 rems per hour, 50% fatalities after 5-6 hours, 100% after 9-11. I live in Scottsdale,AZ and I am starting to get worried about fallout.....

edit on 12-3-2011 by johnthejedi24 because: (no reason given)

I live in oregon my friend.....wondering if its time to break out the B.O.B....

There should have been a third failsafe in the reactor ( I am having trouble finding specs). Lead rods should drop into the vessel and effectively kill the reactor. My wonder is whether the failsafe was installed and if so, did it deploy as designed?

Nuclear fallout map. I live in California... In 10 days 750 RADS will reach us...

img405.imageshack.us...

I never thought it would happen.
I thought we'd sit here and talk about it and some how that would ward it off.
But it's happened.
I don't even know what to say...

Should I wake up people I know in Washington State and California and tell them???

What can they do?

Thanks all for keeping us posted...

peace

Weren't they saying earlier that the reactor had been shut down prior to all of this? I don't know doodley about Nuclear Reactors, but if I recall, the media was saying earlier they had shut it down to prevent this scenario from happening and am just wondering what happened between then and now.

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The explosion is likely to be the cooling system. I think it's the sodium metal coming in contact with water due to leakage. Sodium and water goes bang. Might be more to it.

almost afraid to go to sleep! rofl

Originally posted by twitchy
Weren't they saying earlier that the reactor had been shut down prior to all of this? I don't know doodley about Nuclear Reactors, but if I recall, the media was saying earlier they had shut it down to prevent this scenario from happening and am just wondering what happened between then and now.

its not that the reactor was running. When a reactor is shut down, coolant still has to be used to keep the temp down. The coolant systems failed.

Japan's NHK TV says officials measured the level of radiation at the entrance of the Fukushima-Daiichi plant at 1529 Japanese time. If people are exposed to this level of radiation for an hour they'd receive the same amount of radiation they normally would in a year, the report says

No confirmation on any explosion so far.