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Fukushima #3 nuclear reactor Explodes, situation under control, Really?
by staff report via gan - Reuters Sunday, Mar 13 2011, 11:17pm
international / environment / other press

5 'little' reactors (100 times more powerful than Chernobyl) standing in a row ...

I'm no double-talking politician or conservative scientist under political pressure, ALL I KNOW is WHAT I SEE and explosions do not indicate a situation 'under control!' Furthermore, the presence of poisonous radioactive Cesium in the atmosphere after the first explosion is a clear indication -- I have recently learned -- of a CORE MELTDOWN, but that was under-emphasised/reported at the time as is this latest 'trivial' explosion at Dai-ichi reactor #3, in one of the World's LARGEST nuclear power plants!

REUTERS -- A fresh explosion at Japan's quake-stricken Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power complex on Monday is unlikely to have led to a large escape of radioactivity, the government said.

Japanese Chief Cabinet Secretary Yukio Edano was speaking after a hydrogen explosion at the No.3 reactor in the plant, which sent a plume of smoke into the air.

Japan's nuclear safety agency later said, quoting a report from the facility's operator, Tokyo Electric Power Co (9501.T), that radiation near the No.3 reactor about 40 minutes after the explosion was about one-50th of that considered critical to human health.

The data suggests the explosion would not have damaged the reactor's containment vessel, a spokesman at the agency said at a news conference.

There were casualties, but the number or other details were not available, the spokesman said.

There is no wind near the plant near the ground and wind above the plant is blowing from the west or from the southwest, the spokesman added, meaning the wind is blowing toward the sea.

The direction of the wind is a key factor in judging possible damage on the environment from the radiation leaking from the plant, which was hit by Japan's biggest earthquake on record and a tsunami.

(Reporting by Elaine Lies and Risa Maeda; Editing by Joseph Radford)

© 2011 Thomson Reuters

http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/03/14/us-japan-quake-radioactivity-idUSTRE72D0W020110314

COMMENTS

didn't ya know?
by bear Sunday, Mar 13 2011, 11:29pm

of course it's a trivial matter, as are the allied fire bombings of Dresden and the atomic bombings of civilians in Hiroshima and Nagasaki. You could add over a million 'trivial' civilian deaths in Iraq to that insignificant list of criminal events -- none of which deserve a second mention because prosperity for the few and poverty for the many must be maintained at ALL costs!

i certainly do not wish to alert you to the fact that all the democracies of the western world have fallen victim to plutocrats and corporatist control and that your elected politicians serve minority interests while lying through their teeth to the people.

just keep watching TV and don't question the 'accurate, unbiased' media discourse -- thinking is definitely out of the question and acting verges on a capital offence.

have a nice soporific day, won't you! there's absolutely nothing to concern yourself about, America is in control of everything -- how wonderful!

Nagasaki