TEPCO officials refused to accept report of first reactor explosion: That's not possible."

[NNN0LHI]

http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/dy/national/T110609005186.htm

Jun. 10, 2011

NUCLEAR CRISIS: HOW IT HAPPENED / Hydrogen blasts at plant surprised experts

The Yomiuri Shimbun

Nearly three months have passed since the Great East Japan Earthquake triggered a nuclear crisis that shows little sign of ending any time soon.

This is the second installment in a series that looks into what has given rise to the unprecedented crisis, dealing a fatal blow to the myth of safety at nuclear power plants in this country.

"An explosion was heard at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant."

At 3:36 p.m. March 12, this information was conveyed from the Fukushima prefectural police via the National Police Agency to the government's crisis management center, located in the basement of the Prime Minister's Office.

But officials of the Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency and Tokyo Electric Power Co. who were at the Prime Minister's Office at the time refused to accept the information, some of them repeatedly saying, "That's not possible."

[MadHound]

1. They've got the Keystone Cops running the show,

Seriously, a hydrogen explosion is a possibility in most reactor designs, especially the older ones. Any sane, competent person who works in a nuclear facility knows that.

[Marblehead]

2. #3

was believed to be a nuclear explosion.

[RC]

4. That was a Hydrogen explosion, no matter how much you wish otherwise.

Nuclear bombs are high precision devices. That is why it is taking Iran and some others so long to get one.
Nuclear power plants are only heat sources. It takes time to ramp them up and back down.

[Marblehead]

6. not according to

Gunderson.

[RC]

7. Who is this Gunderson?

[leveymg]

3. The River Denial runs deeply throughout the nuclear industry, worldwide - "That's not possible" -

famous last words. Club Nuke is closed, by order of global public opinion.

Long live solar/wind/sustainable green power.

[Old and In the Way]

5. reminds me on the Condileeza defense.

'We never thought they'd use airplanes to crash into buildings" vs. "We never thought an earthquake and tsunami would be a problem with our siting a nuclear power plant on the coast in an earthquake zone."

[PhillySane]

8. Yep

Yep Yep Yep

[Ichingcarpenter]

9. Inconceivable says TEPCO!