(THE OTHER PLANT) All Fukushima No.2 plant reactors safely halted

[nadinbrzezinski]

(This is not the ones we are following, so three of the reactors that had an emergency are now within safe levels. This is GOOD NEWS... )

The operation of all 4 reactors at the quake-stricken Fukushima No.2 nuclear power plant has been brought to a halt.

Tokyo Electric Power Company says the 4th reactor at the No.2 plant was safely brought to a stop at around 7:00 AM on Tuesday. It also says the reactor's temperature dropped below 100 degrees Celsius after its cooling function was restored. The reactor's cooling system was damaged in Friday's massive earthquake and ensuing tsunami.

http://www3.nhk.or.jp/daily/english/15_24.html

[Poll_Blind]

1. Yay!

Some good news for a change!

PB

[nadinbrzezinski]

2. Yep that takes three out of the equation

and just leaves Fukushima 1 Station

[snagglepuss]

13. no I think that is incorrect. This clarification is from The Oil Drum.

There are two Fukushima plants. Fukushima Daiichi is Fukushima 1 and Fukushima Daini is Fukushima 2.

Fukushima 2 has four reactors and they have all been confirmed to be shutdown and safe.

Fukushiama 1 or Fukushima Daiichi has 6 reactors. Only 1-3 where running when the earthquake hit.

Fukushima daiichi 1 was the first to start to melt down and had a hydrogen explosion on Saturday.
Fukushima daiichi 3 was the next to go boom via hydrogen and did so on Sunday. This is the reactor with the Mox fuel.
Fukushima daiichi 2 had some sort of explosion that damaged the outer containment just a few hours ago.
Fukushima daiichi 4 which was shut down at the time of the earthquake is having problems with its spent fuel pool, a fire that was put out and just a couple of minutes ago a hydrogen explosion.

All the reports of radioactivity you are seeing are coming from the daiichi plant.

NHK is reporting that anyone within 30km of daiichi to remain indoors.







Source: The Oil Drum posted by Rethin on March 14, 2011 - 11:29pm


http://www.theoildrum.com/node/7646#comments_top


This gets very confusing.

[nadinbrzezinski]

16. Yes they are, also teh exclusion zone is

20 km for you need to leave NOW...

[Thegonagle]

6. I hope and pray this is not a bunch of BS

[nadinbrzezinski]

7. This is the other station

it is eleven km from their troubled number 1 plant

[Rex]

3. WOW!

Excellent!

[nadinbrzezinski]

4. It seems from time to time we can find good news

that is good news.

But Fukushima 1 is still in trouble

[Rex]

8. Better one than all four!

Yes good news right now for the people of Japan! Is there another plant somewhere else on the island with problems nadin? Or is #1 the only one left with problems?

[nadinbrzezinski]

14. As far as I can tell it is only Fukushima 1 at trouble now

(that has four reactors, three were operational, the fourth where they had the fire, was off for refueling)

[snagglepuss]

22. Its this plan, Fukushima 1 that has the MOX reactor and Unit 2 in partial meltdown.

so the news is still dire:(

[Rex]

24. That was what I was wondering about, read some of DUrs posts

on MOX reactors, yikes.

[nadinbrzezinski]

25. That still takes three reactors out of the equation

[snagglepuss]

29. True and reason to celebrate. Kudos to the workers who got those under control.

[Tx4obama]

5. How did they do that? Thought they evacuated 'ALL' the workers?

Edited to add:

Oops. The OP is about PLANT number two, not PLANT number one.

[Rex]

10. 50 stayed behind.

[nadinbrzezinski]

11. This is 11 km from plant number 1

which is the troubled one... they declared an emergency on two reactors at Fukushima Danai aka plant 2.

[Hannah Bell]

12. This is fukushima #2 plant, 10Km from #1 plant, and they didn't evacuate

all the workers, 50 remain pumping cooling & until recently putting out fire which is now out.

and i'm guessing they might rotate workers in & out of the zone as they accumulate dose.

[SpoonFed]

17. Wrong site, dude.

This is talking about the units at Daini not Daiichi.

[Tx4obama]

18. Yep. I believe everyone has already told me I screwed up ;) n/t

[nickyt]

9. how effin' weird, I was moments ago wondering about the status of No. 2 -

many thanks for this update -

[nadinbrzezinski]

15. It just went through the wire as it were

[snagglepuss]

20. Can you give a link? I can't find that anywhere,

[nickyt]

23. From Reuters:

http://live.reuters.com/Event/Japan_earthquake2

[nadinbrzezinski]

26. Link is in the op

to NHK

http://www3.nhk.or.jp/daily/english/15_24.html

[snagglepuss]

27. You might be getting the plants and the units confused. There are two

plants called Fukushima. Fukushima 1 has all the reactors on the verge of meltdown. It's the plant that has been in the news.

Fukushima Plant 2 has 4 reactors which have been shut down. However since Plant 1 still has all those issues Japn unfortunately isn't out of danger.

[jannyk]

19. k&r! Thank you.

[Tx4obama]

21. Some news about ''Plant No.1''

From MSNBC's Breaking News Twitter feed....

BreakingNews: No-fly zone set for 30-kilometer radius over Fukushima nuclear plant - Kyodo

http://twitter.com/BreakingNews

[suffragette]

28. Good news!

Thanks nadin