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Is the Biggest Story of the Year/Decade Being Silenced? World's Largest Nuclear Power Plant Damged by Earthquake
Mitch Battros
What should be the headlines of every nation in the world---is not. But why?
Could it be the world community has some sort of "time compression" memory loss and unable to remember what happened just 11 years ago at Chernobyl, and 17 years before that at Three Mile Island? And where is the global warming army? Why have they not gathered their troops demanding a new direction? Is it because the global warming zealots are actually staunch supporters of the proliferation of nuclear plants in the United States and all countries? And if this is true, what would be their motive to help silence the Japanese incident, and actually advocate the multiplying of nuclear reactors around the world? Ohhh, I get it, it would be a return to their true motivator as "evil doers"-----Fear and Greed.
Back to motives and agenda's later, but now let's take a look at the parts we do know of about what happened in Japan on Monday July 16th 2007.
The New 'Three Mile Island'; Worlds Largest Nuclear Reactor Breaks
The Japanese authorities on Tuesday shut down the worlds largest nuclear power plant after a radiation leak and other damage from an earthquake in the nation's northwest raised new concerns about the safety of Japan's nuclear industry. Tokyo Electric Power, which operates the nuclear plant near the city of Kashiwazaki, said it had found more than 50 problems had been caused by the 6.8 magnitude earthquake Monday. Most were minor, but the most serious involved 100 drums of radioactive waste that fell over. The lids on some of them opened, the company said, and the contents spilled out.
Tokyo Electric announced Tuesday that it had detected tiny amounts of radioactive material in an air filter in one of the plant's seven reactors, but the company said it was unlikely that the material had entered the atmosphere. Nuclear-safety problems can be a particularly sensitive issue in Japan, the only nation to be attacked with atomic weapons, in Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945. Safety experts said the authorities apparently feared the accidents Monday could raise new doubts about the 55 nuclear reactors that Japan relies on for about a third of its electricity and to lessen oil dependence on the Middle East.
"This will stir new debate about whether nuclear plants are safe enough," said Haruki Madarame, a professor in nuclear-safety engineering at Tokyo University. "Authorities will have to show the public that they are taking all reasonable steps to ensure safety."
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Three Mile Island; March 28th 1979
The accident at the Three Mile Island Unit 2 (TMI-2) nuclear power plant near Middletown, Pennsylvania, on March 28, 1979, was the most serious in U.S. commercial nuclear power plant operating history(1), even though it led to no deaths or injuries to plant workers or members of the nearby community. But it brought about sweeping changes involving emergency response planning, reactor operator training, human factors engineering, radiation protection, and many other areas of nuclear power plant operations. It also caused the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission to tighten and heighten its regulatory oversight. Resultant changes in the nuclear power industry and at the NRC had the effect of enhancing safety.
The sequence of certain events - - equipment malfunctions, design related problems and worker errors - - led to a partial meltdown of the TMI-2 reactor core but only very small off-site releases of radioactivity.
The accident began about 4:00 a.m. on March 28, 1979, when the plant experienced a failure in the secondary, non-nuclear section of the plant. The main feedwater pumps stopped running, caused by either a mechanical or electrical failure, which prevented the steam generators from removing heat. First the turbine, then the reactor automatically shut down. Immediately, the pressure in the primary system (the nuclear portion of the plant) began to increase. In order to prevent that pressure from becoming excessive, the pilot-operated relief valve (a valve located at the top of the pressurizer) opened. The valve should have closed when the pressure decreased by a certain amount, but it did not. Signals available to the operator failed to show that the valve was still open. As a result, cooling water poured out of the stuck-open valve and caused the core of the reactor to overheat.
Chernobyl; April 25th 1986
On 25 April, prior to a routine shut-down, the reactor crew at Chernobyl-4 began preparing for a test to determine how long turbines would spin and supply power following a loss of main electrical power supply. Similar tests had already been carried out at Chernobyl and other plants, despite the fact that these reactors were known to be very unstable at low power settings.
A series of operator actions, including the disabling of automatic shutdown mechanisms, preceded the attempted test early on 26 April. As flow of coolant water diminished, power output increased. When the operator moved to shut down the reactor from its unstable condition arising from previous errors, a peculiarity of the design caused a dramatic power surge.
The fuel elements ruptured and the resultant explosive force of steam lifted off the cover plate of the reactor, releasing fission products to the atmosphere. A second explosion threw out fragments of burning fuel and graphite from the core and allowed air to rush in, causing the graphite moderator to burst into flames.
There is some dispute among experts about the character of this second explosion. The graphite burned for nine days, causing the main release of radioactivity into the environment. A total of about 14 EBq (1018 Bq) of radioactivity was released, half of it being biologically-inert noble gases. See also appended sequence of events.
Some 5000 tones of boron, dolomite, sand, clay and lead were dropped on to the burning core by helicopter in an effort to extinguish the blaze and limit the release of radioactive particles. It is estimated that all of the xenon gas, about half of the iodine and caesium, and at least 5% of the remaining radioactive material in the Chernobyl-4 reactor core was released in the accident. Most of the released material was deposited close by as dust and debris, but the lighter material was carried by wind over the Ukraine, Belarus, Russia and to some extent over Scandinavia and Europe.
Well we know why the oil companies would certainly love to hear disaster stories like this one, but why would the global warming cabal keep silent? Because billions of dollars are invested in alternative energies full backed by the gw zealots, and nuclear reactors is at the top of their list. Have no doubt this is a tremendous set-back for the global warming army. Lets remember, their base mantra (chant) is POLLUTION. What greater form of deadly pollution is there than radioactive materials?
Oh my, what a quandary they are in. Remember their mandate: "you are either with me, or you are with the polluters. Now what's it going to be" (Al Gore). What we are quickly finding out is that it never was about pollution, it is about money money money money. Ya, what a shock----