According to Gunther

[nadinbrzezinski]

TEPCO has confirmed a meltdown on reactor one, and core breach.

Contanments on units one, two and three are compromised

It's coming out as lava, and the interaction with the cement is producing CO2 and Hydrogen, pressure rising.

If you can catch the sound clip later.

Will wait for happy dancing now. After all this could not be happening, we were told...

Soon, almond milk for me...

[damntexdem]

1. But don't worry: nuclear power is perfectly safe.

;-)

[nadinbrzezinski]

2. It's just gerbils falling off their wheel

All be fine when gerbils get back on...tappy happy feet!

Can't wait for the real happy talk...soma anyone?

(Yes at this point I need to have a good sense of humor)

[snagglepuss]

3. Did he give any further details about Unit 3? Any idea of how bad it's compromised?

Thanks for posting this. I missed the interview.

[nadinbrzezinski]

4. Yes, that we need to assume it's compromised

He didn't go so-far as saying breached, but was highly implied.

[snagglepuss]

5. Forgive me if this is a dumb question but are there global consequences

if the MOX unit is breached? If not global would Japan be inhabitable?

[nadinbrzezinski]

6. No... And yes

The crap will go around the world in very small amounts. It will make the exclusion zone larger, especially if the wind is flowing the right direction. Japan can't afford this. The contaminated region is the bread basket. Food indelendence they just lost it. It will be worst. MOX is about what 5% of it? The OTHER reactors have already released some plutonium anyway. It is a byproduct of fusion.

[snagglepuss]

8. Are avoiding lettuce and other leafy greens? What about milk?

[nadinbrzezinski]

9. no milk, no leafy veggies

well we have still shelf stable

[Ozymanithrax]

7. If TEPCO could harness their upbeat happy talk for power...

Nuclear power would be obsolete.

The slow evolution of this story shows that it may be the most important story in the first quarter of this century. If it is no worse than Chernobyl, a sizable chunk of Japan will become a walled off national park for the foreseeable future.

And this will be the ruler against which all future nuclear development must be measured.

[nadinbrzezinski]

10. Add the pro nuclear industry people

JAYSUS, all they said could not, would not, happen... well it is worst than...

[nadinbrzezinski]

11. Here more info

TOKYO, Japan, May 13, 2011 (ENS) - Tokyo Electric Power Company, operator of the damaged Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, revealed Thursday that nuclear fuel at one of the reactors is in a state of "meltdown."

TEPCO officials said that most of the fuel rods in the Unit 1 reactor have melted and fallen to the bottom of the reactor. They said cooling water in this reactor has fallen to a level that would expose those fuel rods that are still intact.

Holes have been created by melted nuclear fuel in piping at the bottom of the reactor's pressure vessel, allowing tons of water the company has been spraying into the reactor to cool the fuel to escape.

http://www.ens-newswire.com/ens/may2011/2011-05-13-01.html

[flamingdem]

12. OH happy day

so i get to see my nuclear bunnies after all ....

[nadinbrzezinski]

13. Here

[flamingdem]

15. Happy Bunny disco Friday!

I like flopsy up there, good animation job.

[nadinbrzezinski]

16. Yep, I could not find tappy feet bunny though

[Fledermaus]

14. I wonder what the truth of unit 3 will be? BOOM!?!?!?!?

WHERE'S THE CORIUM NOW!?!? All three of them are F'd up. And TEPCO, the nuclear power industry, has done nothing to stop the contamination!!

They could have buried them in wet sand by now and froze their hearts with a cryogenic plant.

[bananas]

17. Gunther who? Sound clip from where? nt

[nadinbrzezinski]

18. Paul Gunter and thom Hartman this morning

[eqfan592]

19. What does this mean in the big picture?

Sorry, but this all sounds seriously scary, and I'm far to ignorant of the subject to put place it in any sort of perspective.

[nadinbrzezinski]

20. That we are quickly aproaching worst case for one reactor

(Unit One) we are pretty much there... two more are getting there... and Unit four topples... it won't be pretty.

In the big picture it means a larger exclusion zone in Japan and a far larger disaster.

All the pro nuke people have... but. but it is not as bad as Chernobyl. That talking point might be pining in them fjords soon.

In other words, this is very serious.

To the US we are still getting radiation from it... just much smaller amounts. The absolute worst in Reactor one would be an explosion that throws the crap into the atmosphere.

(Sorry, now I will be sent to the corner for being an alarmist noob)

Oh here

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=439&topic_id=1099679&mesg_id=1099679

[eqfan592]

21. Thank you for the info.

I'll be honest, I've spoken in support of nuclear power, both in my regular life and on this forum, in the past. But between this disaster and the advancements that have been made or that are on the verge of being made in both wind and solar power, I have had a change of position on the issue. Now I do believe it is my turn to go sit in the corner for a while...

[nadinbrzezinski]

22. This is one of those paradigm changing events

I think (and hope)

between the technological advances in OTHER energy production sources... and this... many people are realizing we need to think outside the reactor.

25 years ago, I'd be, probably... in the nuclear camp.

A few briefings given after a cat 1 accident in Mexico... and some training in that kind of response. I realized the dangers were greater than the rewards, LONG TERM.

Yes all kinds of incidents involving nuclear have to be reported... even when somebody misplaces an X-Ray core from your dentist chair in the local trash... true story... serious