Earthquake and Tsunami

That was the building ... hydrogen build up?

Right...?

 

yes , not reactor.

 

now they're saying all 3 are in danger!

Japanese officials say nuclear fuel rods appear to be melting inside all three of the most troubled reactors http://www.foxnews.com/

 

http://www.wral.com/business/story/9266111/
Now the third reactor at a nuclear power plant lost its cooling capacity.
If this turns into a full blown nuclear disaster the effects will be devastating and long lasting not just for Japan!

 

A really easy to understand explaination of what can and can't happen and why.


http://bravenewclimate.com/2011/03/13/fukushima-simple-explanation/

 

Thanks for posting this, it was somewhat reassuring. :cheers:

 

Quite the article,also very interesting comments following it!
One major difference between the Japanese and Russian nuclear plant is that the one in Russia was of a different design,there was no containment vessel constructed around the reactor. However it still makes me worry!

 

Quote from one of the comments:

Wakeup, on 15 March 2011 at 3:53 AM said:

The hydrogen explosions means the cores are at least partially melted. The very best case scenario is the containment vessel holds and they spend years cleaning up a highly contaminated sight with no good place to put the **** the clean up. That’s the BEST that can happen. If one of the containment vessels rupture it will be Chernobyl times 10.

And what’s this about it will be dissipated at sea. If it goes in the ocean it just magically disappears and everything is ok. Just like the oil from the BP spill magically disappeared. It certainly seems to work for France. They get most of their power from nuclear and have decided the best place to dispose of the waste is off the coast of Somalia (no messy governments to deal with there). Put it in the Ocean and it dissipates. It’s magic.

There is no safe technology. It all fails. If you run the timeline out far enough it becomes a mathematical certainty. But on a much shorter scale you can be certain humans will screw up. Constantly. And do things like build nuclear power plants on a subduction zone – with small containment vessels – and then put the power hookups for the cooling system in the basement. The cooling system which is the only thing that stands between them and a meltdown. It’s cheaper. Or extend the operating licenses of dozens of plants here and in Europe even though they are past there design lifetimes ( and some like Vermont Yankee are leaking radioactivity into the the ground water). It’s cheaper. Or the contractors that cut this and that corner.

Three mile island. Vermont Yankee. Chernobyl. Waste dumped off Somalia? Oh and Japan says everything is perfectly fine and no significant radiation has escaped. And the US says all the oil from the BP spill has magically been eaten. And now facebook tells me everything is perfectly fine. Well I’ll just go crank up the thermostat and turn up the lights then.

There is no safe technology. Our lifestyle is completely unsustainable especially in the US. I really can’t even imagine what will be left of the world in 100 years. I guess I won’t be around to see it anyway.

 

Nuke power is much like airplane travel....safest in the world ....but gets the headlines if there's ever a problem.

 

Chernobyl happened in the Ukraine and is devastating through today. I've been close to where it happened and still no vegetation. Pretty scary thought. Children and adults are still scarred from the fallout both north and west of the area. I did a lot of research on that area before adopting my daughter from Odessa, Ukraine.

Hope everything turns out better for the Japanese people.

Sherry

 

Unfortunately this comic nailed it

http://www.kchronicles.com/2011/03/15/japan-quake/

 

would you be willing to buy a house in Moncure next to the reactor and gamble your children's lives that it's completely safe?

 

sure.....just as easily as like I fly.

 

Heard today the water over there is a little nippy.

 

From an AP article:

Gives you an idea of just how much radiation we are exposed to daily, or a look at how much is really leaking

 

No better example than a cell phone against the head.

 

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


Some other good videos in the side bar as well.

Bet alot of people didn't know this either.

 

Talk about a sturdy house.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5j9kct4qCZE

 

Until Then: http://www.godtube.com/watch/?v=9CC9FFNU

 

Another earth quake ... tsumani warning in Japan

I can't imagine what these people are going through

http://www.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/asiapcf/04/07/japan.quake/index.html?hpt=T1&iref=BN1