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Japan to raise Fukushima crisis level to worst - 7
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11/04/2011 21:48:18
Neil Mc Donald
Cencom Systems P/L
The Sun, Australia
 
 
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11/04/2011 20:02:58
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Hi,
The latest attempt to stop another Hydrogen explosion by injecting nitrogen into the reactor containment vessel shows that they are clutching at straws i.e. they are trying to use the the difference in the specific gravities to separate the hydrogen and oxygen.

In a static system it probably would work, but it will not work in a system that has active thermal convection i.e. stirring the mix.

I stated earlier that this would be worse than Chernobyl, you ain't seen nothing yet.

>There were a few on here who stated Fukushima could never get that serious and gave scientific reasons for it. Now, I wonder how honest or informed the experts were back then...
>
>>Greeeat. I wonder how honest they're being about how serious it is even with the level moved up to 7.
>>
>>>http://www3.nhk.or.jp/daily/english/12_05.html
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>>>The Japanese government's nuclear safety agency has decided to raise the crisis level of the Fukushima Daiichi power plant accident from 5 to 7, the worst on the international scale.
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>>>The Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency made the decision on Monday. It says the damaged facilities have been releasing a massive amount of radioactive substances, which are posing a threat to human health and the environment over a wide area.
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>>>The agency used the International Nuclear and Radiological Event Scale, or INES, to gauge the level. The scale was designed by an international group of experts to indicate the significance of nuclear events with ratings of 0 to 7.
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>>>On March 18th, one week after the massive quake, the agency declared the Fukushima trouble a level 5 incident, the same as the accident at Three Mile Island in the United States in 1979.
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>>>Level 7 has formerly only been applied to the Chernobyl accident in the former Soviet Union in 1986 when hundreds of thousands of terabecquerels of radioactive iodine-131 were released into the air. One terabecquerel is one trillion becquerels.
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>>>The agency believes the cumulative amount from the Fukushima plant is less than that from Chernobyl.
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>>>Officials from the agency and the Nuclear Safety Commission will hold a news conference on Tuesday morning to explain the change of evaluation.
Regards N Mc Donald
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