Radioactive substances being released from No. 4 reactor because of fire.

[originalpckelly]

It's spent fuel according to the guy on NHK!

[roamer65]

1. God be with them and all of us...if this is true it is a radioactive fire.

[originalpckelly]

3. Could it get any worse?

Aww fuck!

They need all the help they can get!

[originalpckelly]

2. He confirms that radioactive material has been released from No. 2 reactor.

Says it's a small amount though.

[Poll_Blind]

4. If it's a spent fuel fire- and I hope it's not- I don't think anything worse could happen.

Period.

PB

[calimary]

5. Dear God.

This is beyond awful. Those poor people... poor animals too (wonder how many of them perished too)...

[originalpckelly]

6. You know, it's things like this that show there is no God.

Just think of all the kids who will have shorter lives and die of cancer now.

[calimary]

9. Well if I start going there, then it'll be too much.

God has to be somewhere.

[hedgehog]

10. God didn't build the reactors.

[Bluerthanblue]

7. I read an article which said that fire in the spent fuel is most dangerous

Because of the fact that the radiation isn't released as steam, but as particulates- which is what happened at Chernobyl. - the nuclear materials burned-

The the spent fuel rods must be kept in water, if they aren't they will burn. If # 4 is burning- and it's the fuel rods which are burning... this is really, really bad.

I'll see if I can find the article and link it.

[Bluerthanblue]

8. link-

which talks about what a fire in the spent fuel rods could mean.

http://my.firedoglake.com/kirkmurphy/2011/03/14/nuke-engineer-fuel-rod-fire-at-stricken-reactor-would-be-like-chernobyl-on-steroids/

[flamingdem]

11. With wind heading towards Tokyo this must be causing big concern nt