{"id":35757,"date":"2011-03-14T19:45:09","date_gmt":"2011-03-15T00:45:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/?p=35757"},"modified":"2011-03-14T20:57:17","modified_gmt":"2011-03-15T01:57:17","slug":"big-problems-at-fukushima-daiichi-unit-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/daily-astrology\/big-problems-at-fukushima-daiichi-unit-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Big problems at Fukushima Daiichi Unit-2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is from <a href=\"http:\/\/nirs.org\">Nuclear Information Resource Service<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>UPDATE 7:30 pm, Monday, March 14, 2011. Tokyo Electric Power is holding a press conference at this hour. <a href=\"at http:\/\/www.ustream.tv\/channel\/nhk-gtv2. \">Video stream is here<\/a> [but seems the event is over].<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_35767\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-35767\" style=\"width: 365px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/325+web-fukushima-3-je20110314_atom19a.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-35767\" title=\"325+web-fukushima-3-je20110314_atom19a\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/325+web-fukushima-3-je20110314_atom19a.jpg?resize=375%2C250&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"375\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/325+web-fukushima-3-je20110314_atom19a.jpg?w=375&amp;ssl=1 375w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/325+web-fukushima-3-je20110314_atom19a.jpg?resize=300%2C200&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 375px) 100vw, 375px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-35767\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Explosion at Fukushima Daiiachi Unit 3.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>NHK TV reports that there has been an explosion at Unit 2 at Fukushima Daiichi. There is speculation that this explosion has damaged the primary containment (inside the concrete containment building, which is the secondary containment. Tepco is evacuating some non-essential personnel from the reactor site. 2.5 meters of the core are currently uncovered by water &#8212; which means it is almost certainly melting. Winds from the site are currently blowing toward the North. [End of NIRS update.]<\/p>\n<p>Previously there have been problems with Unit-1 and Unit-3, both of which experienced hydrogen explosions. CORRECTION &#8212; I reported that Unit-2 of this facility is different in that it is fueled by a MOX, a mixture of uranium and plutonium. So far only Unit-3 has been confirmed to have been recently refueled with MOX.<\/p>\n<p>Plutonium &#8212; a highly controversial atomic fuel &#8212; is far more lethal than uranium.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is from Nuclear Information Resource Service. UPDATE 7:30 pm, Monday, March 14, 2011. Tokyo Electric Power is holding a press conference at this hour. Video stream is here [but seems the event is over]. NHK TV reports that there has been an explosion at Unit 2 at Fukushima Daiichi. There is speculation that this &#8230; <a title=\"Big problems at Fukushima Daiichi Unit-2\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/daily-astrology\/big-problems-at-fukushima-daiichi-unit-2\/\" aria-label=\"More on Big problems at Fukushima Daiichi Unit-2\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"generate_page_header":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35757"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35757"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35757\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35757"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35757"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}