Japan hit by powerful earthquake

[Olo401]

Watching NHK stream & from various news sources here's what I can tell right now:

Overnight the water levels inside Fukushima 1 Reactor 2 started to drop, so they started pumping seawater in. Several times the course of this, the valve they were using to inject water closed. The water levels then dropped low enough for an internal sensor to alarm. This sensor was set at about 3/4 meter below the top of the fuel rods, a level at which it's very likely that at the very least melting of the top of the core structure and possibly the top of the fuel rods has occurred. Water levels had been brought back up to cover the rods half-way, but then @~6:15am there was a third explosion inside the Reactor 2 structure, believed to have occurred near the torus (lower suppression pool below the reactor). This explosion did not damage the outer (secondary) containment. Afterwards the radiation levels outside the power plant spiked to about 8217 mSv, while the pressure inside the primary containment dropped from 3atm to 1atm. They believe the spike in radiation might have been caused by a release of radioactive steam from the primary cooling system.

[Kirbyprime]

I watched 10 seconds of the God is good video before I stopped. I'm pretty sure I would have been forced to buy a ticket to the states and slap her at the very least if I had watched the entire thing.

[Olo401]

Japanese PM is about to hold a press conference.. And right on time!

- Reactor 4 had a fire
- Reactors 1 & 3 had explosions, as earlier reported
- Radiation has been released
- All citizens within a 20km radius need to evacuate immediately (previous was 12km I think?). Everyone else should stay indoors.
- Reactor #2 is in a serious state.

Ok well that was short.

[Dimmauk]

I'm still LOLing at that video. Holy shit that is good stuff.

Hey Japan, god loves you....have some earthquakes, tsunamis, and Nuclear reactor fails.

Fantastic troll.

[DragonCloud64]

CNN saying the officials saying damage to containment vessel, and half of the rods were exposed, damn.

[Osede]

it was fully exposed before. But the pressure inside there is way too high that, no water able to pump into it. After the explosion, some radioactive steam manage to escape and they able to pump water into there. But you know what this mean...

[Boyiee]

Japanese PM is about to hold a press conference..

If the stream I'm watching is live, the PM just increased the evac radius from 20km to 30km from the one, and from 10km to 20km from the other. Also, there is a fire.

[Osede]

Omg, no.4 now is on fire...

[Olo401]

"A hole was observed in the #2 reactor"

uhhh... that really doesn't sound good

[Boyiee]

Now he is saying that areas close to the plant are now high enough to affect human health but he said only very close and downplayed it like it wasn't majorly high yet.

[Edelweiss]

If the stream I'm watching is live, the PM just increased the evac radius from 20km to 30km from the one, and from 10km to 20km from the other. Also, there is a fire.

It is live. NHK (and Asahi, TBS, etc.) always have "RECORDED" in the upper right corner if it's a replay. NHK World also ends live coverage/broadcasts at 10 PM JST.

[*Shinzon*]

This guy is full of it. These reactors and these buildings aren't containing the material. So it's been released and now based on wind patterns and speed people are going to be at risk to these highly radioactive particles. He keeps saying they're doing everything they can but you can obviously tell that they're starting to loose faith in the buildings ability to contain the material.

Also a separate plant is apparently structurally compromised and has released some levels of radiation.

[Mazmaz]

So fire from #4 caused some radioactive material being released, and too much pressure #2 also caused release of radioactive material.
They're telling from 20km to 30km to stay inside. At least that's what I've gathered so far.

[Olo401]

#4 was offline & had no active fuel rods in it, only spent fuel. Even in that case though if stuff fell into the containment pool, got close to the spent rods and started to react there's a chance it could also explode.

[Mazmaz]

On the bright side he did say pumping water into 1,2,3 is going smoothly.

[Osede]

But on the other size, radioactive leak from no.3 (or it is from no. 2?) is somehwat confirmed. They have measured about 400m Sv (not 400 micro Sv) around no.3 reactor

[Mazmaz]

400 milli near #4 I think he said?

EDIT nvm 400 near #3 100 near #4

[Lordender]

My uncle is on standby to go over to fukushima in japan, he's a nuclear physicist and has been all over the world working with the USA government when there is problems in other countries with nuclear power plant disasters, he has been to Chernobyl quite a few times in his career doing experiments/studies also been to other high profile areas when theres a clean up or a problem with nuclear plants.

He is getting briefed on when or IF his team is going, they're the best in the business so to speak. The only thing he told me when I spoke to him was that FOX news is blowing it up and is way off base in what they're reporting(big surprise eh?). He says the other news networks have it closer to what is really going on.

[Osede]

From NHK live, they were talking about measured for 400 mili around no.3

[Osede]

He is getting briefed on when or IF his team is going, they're the best in the business so to speak. The only thing he told me when I spoke to him was that FOX news is blowing it up and is way off base in what they're reporting(big surprise eh?). He says the other news networks have it closer to what is really going on.

No suprise at all. Even the media in taiwan and other countries also report some false info to attract more people watching them. This does results some hoax in Philippine yesterday, my friend just keep receive something about acid rain is going to rain in asia region lol...