Washington Post: Hydrogen explosion in Unit-3

Breaking News Alert: “Nuclear officials believe a hydrogen explosion has occurred at stricken Fukushima Daiichi plant. A massive column of smoke was seen belching from the plant’s No. 3 unit, the Associated Press reports. There’s no information yet on the extent of damage or whether the containment vessel was damaged.”

7 thoughts on “Washington Post: Hydrogen explosion in Unit-3”

  1. I hope so, too, Kyla, but I’m not counting on it. Look at what happened with the BP oil spill — it was the biggest oil spill catastrophe any of us have ever seen, and 9 mos after it happened they resumed issuing deep-well drilling in the Gulf.

    They just issued the new drilling permit a few weeks ago, with more to come.

    Bad. You know things are seriously broken when a huge catastrophe happens and we don’t get any lessons learned from it.

    I mean obviously you and I and other thoughtful people know what happened and know what needs to be done to keep it from happening again.

    But the system did not absorb that lesson. That’s how you know the system is broken — it doesn’t work even when there are extreme consequences from mistakes made.

    Same thing with the financial crisis. The system did not make any meaningful reforms, so it’s all set to happen again.

    Political/legal/regulatory/scientific system is completely broken and dysfunctional, it does not work any more. There will not be any meaningful changes in that direction. The system cannot fix itself.

  2. GG, yeah, I know what you mean. I think it is already changing everything, I think we are changed.

    One change I do hope to see is a deep change in any complacency about building more nuclear plants or relying on them as “clean energy” as the Obama admin has been promoting. Heck, if Joe Lieberman can change his spots, even to stop in his tracks and take another look-see, well, other changes of important policy are possible as well.

  3. Today 7:19 PM Tide Recedes 2 Meters In Hachinohe City
    BreakingNews @ BreakingNews : More on Hachinohe: City says tide has receded 2 meters; residents urged to go to higher ground – @HachinoheCity

  4. Wow. It just feels like this is going to change everything.

    The financial markets are going to nosedive tomorrow. And the Japanese officials are already saying this is going to be radiation emissions coming out of those plants for MONTHS.

    I’m afraid that tens of thousands of people in Japan and maybe china are going to get sick, maybe hundreds of thousands. And maybe radiation clouds will cross the Pacific and hit the U.S. west coast.

    Maybe everything is going to change from here.

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