Here's a clearer closeup of the post-explosion Plant No. 1.

dont know where they are getting that from..... Chernobyl was a 1000MW unit , and beleive the units in Japan are a maxium of around 750 MW....therefore smaller units than Chernobyl

List of Japanese reactors. And yes, 100 times is not likely.

the only one I could find. Hope it's live update

• (blue) Northwest 0-3 Bft.
• (green) East 4-5 Bft.
• (yellow) Southeast 6-7 Bft.
• (Red) West southwest > 7 Bft.
• (those with a little ring) report older > 3h

For updates look at this site http://www.windfinder.com/windreports/windkarte_japan.htm

Edited March 12, 201115 yr by elcent

Only the shell of the building remains after the explosion.

Thats not a reactor containment building....they are not built of structural steel, they are meter's thick concrete.....looking at this looks more like a turbine hall

A turbine hall couldn't create that kind of explosion. The reactor hall is inside that building.

Only the shell of the building remains after the explosion.

Thats not a reactor containment building....they are not built of structural steel, they are meter's thick concrete.....looking at this looks more like a turbine hall

A turbine hall couldn't create that kind of explosion. The reactor hall is inside that building.

it looked like this before

it looked like this before

The building that NHK is pointing to is to the LEFT of the tall tower structure... Your photo above appears to be showing a building to the RIGHT of the tower...

Japan nuclear plant update:Hourly radiation leaking f Fukushima is equal to amount permitted in 1year, official tells Kyodo /RT @BreakingNews

Thanks Elcent, it seems the wind is swirling, what they really need is a strong wind out to sea.

Japanese officials order evacuations of several coastal areas and warn that aftershocks may trigger 2-meter tsunami waves /RT @BreakingNews

Not sure if this has been posted -

Saturday wind forecast for Asia

http://images.intellicast.com/WxImages/Winds/seasi_day1.jpg

Japan has asked British government for assistance with rescue operation following earthquake and tsunami /RT @SkyNewsBreak:

Thanks Elcent, it seems the wind is swirling, what they really need is a strong wind out to sea.

It doesn't look good. You can also see a forecast when you click on the link and select the area or towns with updates and forecasts. http://www.windfinder.com/windreports/windkarte_japan.htm

Kyodo: Hourly radiation levels at plant matches allowable annual dose.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/events/japan-quake-2011/

Edited March 12, 201115 yr by Crushdepth

it looked like this before

The building that NHK is pointing to is to the LEFT of the tall tower structure... Your photo above appears to be showing a building to the RIGHT of the tower...

That's right, I should have circled it. It was the best image I could find with a quick search.

Reuters:

Italy's National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology said the earth's axis had shifted 25 cm as a result of the quake and the U.S. Geological Survey said the main island of Japan had actually shifted 2.4 meters.

The explosion-smoke caught on vid.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hFwsyD1ZCVc

I am not seeing a steel frame structure in these older pics like the one I see in the new picture

Reuters:

Italy's National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology said the earth's axis had shifted 25 cm as a result of the quake and the U.S. Geological Survey said the main island of Japan had actually shifted 2.4 meters.

Japan has moved by 8 feet

VIDEO: Explosion at Japan nuke plant: http://bbc.in/hyr4iD /RT @mpoppel:

The extent of the incident at the nuke plant is not known.. still very sketchy. Officials appeal for calm. /RT @mpoppel:

That's the point. The building at the far left, when looking from the inland out to sea direction, now no longer has walls, from the new photos.

Look at the before and after combo photos from NHK posted above.

I am not seeing a steel frame structure in these older pics like the one I see in the new picture

The explosion-smoke caught on vid.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hFwsyD1ZCVc

Thanks for the vid. Unreal!

I also heard our days got shorter by some crazy small amount as the earth actually contracted a bit.

That's the point. The building at the far left, when looking from the inland out to sea direction, now no longer has walls, from the new photos.

Look at the before and after combo photos from NHK posted above.

I am not seeing a steel frame structure in these older pics like the one I see in the new picture

Yes I agree, the building has been reduced to a steel frame. and by the video, that was a significant explosion.

WOW... the BBC footage is pretty jarring.... whatever happened was BIG! A screen cap of the smoke rising...

Video from BBC

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-pacific-12721498

But Walt Patterson, of the London research institute Chatham House, said "this is starting to look a lot like Chernobyl".

He said it was too early to tell if the explosion's aftermath would result in the same extreme level of radioactive contamination that occurred at Chernobyl.

The explosion was most likely caused by melting fuel coming into contact with water, he told the BBC.

it looked like this before

The building that NHK is pointing to is to the LEFT of the tall tower structure... Your photo above appears to be showing a building to the RIGHT of the tower...

That's right, I should have circled it. It was the best image I could find with a quick search.

Humbly stand corrected on an earlier post stating this plant is a PWR type reactor....its actually a BWR (boiling water reactor) which started operating in 1971.....:jap: ...On BWR's I have not direct experience only PWR's

Lastest report BBC states containment wall breached...

NHK reporting that evacuation area extended to 20 Km for both the Fukushima Daichi 1 and 2 nuclear plants.

Clearly from the BBC video, it's the same building as the wall-less one NHK is showing, at the far left of the group of structures, that goes up in the blast...Three screen caps in time series...

Edited March 12, 201115 yr by jfchandler

From Kyodo

BREAKING NEWS: Evacuation area expanded to 20-km radius from Fukushima plants (19:06)

The IAEA demands urgent explaination from Japanese authorities.

I understand that the building that was peeled off completely is(was) the last protection skin. Lets hope that the explosion was not directly from the reactor but something in between the reactor and the skin that built up some gasses during the attempts to get more cooling water into the reactor, - something in that line.

Otherwise it will be a parking space for millions of years and probably a very big one.

Edited March 12, 201115 yr by elcent

Looking at it from the sea, it's the one on the right which is slightly offset from the other three. Defo a reactor building as where there were four, there's now three!

As previous, hopefully it's just the skin gone. Would have thought the steel frame would be vapourised if the core went meltdown, with all that heat.