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Fukushima reactor pressure may have hit 2.1 times capacity -METI

TOKYO, March 12 | Fri Mar 11, 2011 3:30pm EST

TOKYO, March 12 (Reuters) - Pressure inside a reactor at Tokyo Electric Power Co's quake-hit Fukushima Daiichi plant may have risen to 2.1 times its designed capacity, Japan's trade ministry said on Saturday, exceeding the 1.5-times level announced a few hours earlier.

Temperatures and pressure at the No.1 reactor have been rising since its cooling system was knocked out by the earthquake, the largest on record in Japan, raising worries about a possible radiation leak.

The company said it was preparing back-up generators to pump water and cool the reactor.

(Reporting by Risa Maeda; Editing by Edmund Klamann)

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swiftcall wrote:
My guess is the “extra coolant” is wet sand. If the reactor blows the top off of it’s containment dome (and exposes the nuclear pile to the atmosphere) our only real option is to try what the Canadians did at Chalk River and dump wet sand on the molten core.

The core will fuse the sand into glass, encasing itself.

Mar 11, 2011 4:46pm EST  --  Report as abuse
NadPauKucGraMcK wrote:
Never forget 9/11 lies.
Study prevailing winds.
Traditional cooling not possible.
Containment has been breached.
Dishonest governments never tell the truth.
Corrupt controlled media never tell the truth.

Mar 12, 2011 3:39pm EST  --  Report as abuse
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