Confirmed nuclear meltdown in Japanese reactor

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"It's now official the operator of Japan's stricken nuclear plant has admitted that there's probably been a meltdown in one of the facility's reactors.

TEPCO says water has leaked from one of the reactors, exposing fuel rods and trigging their meltdown. The news doesn't get any betterwith seawater samples near another reactor showing levels of radioactive caesium at 18-thousand times the legal limit."

http://www.radioaustralia.net.au/connec ... 216189.htm

Yeah, I've been watching the path of the fallout and I've suspected a meltdown for about a week, A source from a Japanese news agency says that both containers are breached and they don't know yet if plutonium got into the ocean. Fukushima 2 and 3 are likely to follow suit.

I figured that was bound to happen. I really feel bad for them as they worked so hard to prevent that from happening, but I guess it was enevitable(sp). Of course when I heard that they had 4 nuclear plants in Hirosima...I was suprised since I know they suffered much from WWII and the US nuking them. I thought they would be more wary of nuclear power than that. I really dont like nuclear power for that reason...it is run by machines and machines fail from time to time. However with the kind of power the sun can produce in a man-made machine...is just a receipe for disaster. Time has proven this to be true, time and time again...yet political leaders seem to think that it is a great idea.

I'm not a nuclear engineer, but you'd think they'd try to design the plant so that if the plant lost power it wouldn't melt down. It's like having car that bursts into flames when the battery becomes disconnected.

I'm sure there are technical reasons that that isn't so easy, of course. / Off to google the designs of newer nuclear power plants.

I think I read something about during the earthquake...the coolant for the plant was damaged and it leaked out, not just a po, er outage, but I cant be sure exactly, though

That's awful You'd think people would learn how dangerous nuclear power is from the whole Chernobyl incident, but no, apparently we know everything about this unstable stuff and can control it... Or not as Fukushima and various other nuclear incidents have shown...

I'm turning into a hippie now, peace out!

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So what's wrong with nuclear power? Isn't the Sun a nuclear reactor?

Nuclear power is fine. Unlike San Onofre, kind of near me, the engineers at Fukushima did not include a means to manually shut down the reactors cold in an emergency.

sorry 1 more point,

What if an incurable hideious disease could produce lots of energy, but there was no 100 percent proven way to prevent an outbreak in surrounding areas??? Is it ok then?? Because that is the same risks of nuclear power.

last i heard was reactor 1, the top third of the reactor was melted.
however, the water level is below that now.. and they've been dumping water into all three of them for a month...
so.. there's a lot left to explain that one..

there were also rumors that the control rods were not shoved in all the way.

there's still _thousands_ of unanswered questions.

I think they should have pulled earth moving equip from the strip mines in china, dug a hole, welded up a steel tank to fit in it, flooded that with water, then dynamited the buildings and pulled the reactors out of the buildings and put it in the pit.
this could have been done in a week or less.

If you want me to give you an example of a dangerous nuclear reactor the Sun is a perfect example of a nuclear death star.
The Sun's deadly heat radiation when trapped by greenhouse gasses is literally scorching the Earth and making life uninhabitable.