Fukushima warning: danger level at nuclear plant jumps to 'serious'

[malaise]

http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2013/aug/21/leap-fukushima-danger-ranking
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Japan is to issue its gravest warning about the state of the wrecked Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant since the facility suffered a triple meltdown almost two and a half years ago.

The new warning, expected on Wednesday, comes only a day after the nuclear watchdog assigned a much lower ranking when the plant's operator, Tepco, admitted about 300 tonnes of highly toxic water had leaked from a storage tank at the site.

The Nuclear Regulation Authority has now said it will dramatically raise the incident's severity level from one to three on the eight-point scale used by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) for radiation releases. Each single-digit increase in the scale actually represents a tenfold increase in the severity of a radiological release, according to the IAEA.

The leak is the single most dangerous failure at the plant since the 2011 meltdown, which warranted the maximum level of seven on the severity scale, putting it on a par with the Chernobyl disaster 25 years earlier.

[xchrom]

1. du rec.

[Puglover]

2. I have the feeling we have

just begun to hear about the affects of Fukushima.

[90-percent]

7. We may be hearing more

Once people on the west coast start suffering from radiation poisoning and the rates of cancer within a thousand mile radius of Fukashima start to skyrocket.

Or not. I wouldn't be surprised if this disaster plays out to the worst case scenario and still gets ignored by the corporate media.

-90% JIMMY

[sheshe2]

3. du rec!

[Katashi_itto]

4. Just give it enough time for the molten core to hit

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water table or a good sized pool of water


Then the resulting steam explosion will hurl thousands of pounds of radioactive steam in to the air.

OR if they make it to November (Coin toss now)

When they plan on removing the Rods MANUALLY from a wrecked core. (HAhahaha)

When removing rods from the core. They use computer guided arms JUST to remove rods from active cores when replacing or exchanging rods.

That is because a manual removal is WAY to dangerous.

That is from a working, laser-precise bundle where everything was as perfect as could be made (funny)

In this situation, they will be removing the rods from BURNT,MELTED,BROKEN, RADIOACTIVE, HOT, ALMOST MOLTEN HOT, WRECKED core.

It's an environment like those old disaster movies, out of control.

It's a fatal move.

What does need to be done, is Fire the TEPCO company, line the executives up and shoot them and hire the best Physiscts we have and hope they can come up with something.

[madokie]

5. When I see something nuclear and read the pro-nuclear screeds

that so many times shows up trying to explain this away it infuriates me. All nuclear power plants throughout the world should be shut down until they have a better grasp on how to handle a situation such as this. This is far from over and mark my words there will be many deaths to man and animals/fishes/birds to come from this incident alone.
Worst than Chernobyl, YES it is.

SPLCHK

[malaise]

6. I agree the scientists and not the corporations

need to be running this disaster and disaster it is.