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Japan Nuclear Crisis Part II


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Would you? If i was in the situation, I probably wouldn't.

I'm specifically referring to the 800 workers that are off-site and on the payroll. If they don't want to return then I would accept volunteers if any were available. I don't think I would for my power company either, all they do is send me bills....lol

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I know there are few comparisons but I dunno if Chernobyl is a valuable one anymore as we seem likely to either near or perhaps greatly top it. It went bad so fast the answers were easy. This is a slow burn.. and while some may "have seen it coming" they might also have been the same folks who thought a whole town of 70,000 was washed into the sea. It may actually be a fault of the current age that we feel like we have so many alternatives to try to keep it from going all the way bad that we waste time with them when there is really only one answer. Again, this feels sort of like watching them pump the well with golf balls when we knew it probably would not work.

Yeah, sometimes brute force is the only option. I remember that "junk shot" and "top kill" nonsense from the BP spill. It does seem similar to trying to tame a runaway nuclear pile with a fire hose. Funny how the answer to so many of our greatest man-made disasters is to entomb the whole thing...

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I'm specifically referring to the 800 workers that are off-site and on the payroll. If they don't want to return then I would accept volunteers if any were available. I don't think I would for my power company either, all they do is send me bills....lol

I am suprised they aren't sending in the military to assist. You would think they would have specialized NBC teams.

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I'm specifically referring to the 800 workers that are off-site and on the payroll. If they don't want to return then I would accept volunteers if any were available. I don't think I would for my power company either, all they do is send me bills....lol

They could offer free electricity for life to help. That would probably turn out to be a good deal for the power company.

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0201: Water spraying operations have been temporaily suspended and helicopters have left the area of the Fukushima Daiichi plant, NHK reports. A Tokyo police unit is set to use water spray vehicles to continue cooling operations. The Japanese defence minister is about to give an update on how the water drops went.

BBC

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-12307698

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Finally some good news

0209 : The power supply to the stricken Japanese nuclear plant could partially resume in the afternoon, the Kyodo agency reports

it could be...

wont do any good if they don't have any pumps...they kist said they are trying to build a makeshift pump that won't be damaged by seawater

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I'm not an expert, nor do I play one on TV, but I don't understand how this could be worst than Chernobyl.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/japan/8387051/Japan-nuclear-plant-Just-48-hours-to-avoid-another-Chernobyl.html

Japan has 48 hours to bring its rapidly escalating nuclear crisis under control before it faces a catastrophe “worse than Chernobyl”, it was claimed last night.

Francois Baroin, a French government spokesman, went further, saying: “In the worst of cases, it could have an impact worse than Chernobyl.” He added: “They have visibly lost the essential of control.”

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Even if they get power back they have to get people inside those buldings to fix and/or rebuild the pumps and those radiation levels are deadly. This is assuming the structures are physically safe enough after the explosions. Its not like you flick a switch, the pumps kick in, and everything goes back to the way it was.

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I'm not an expert, nor do I play one on TV, but I don't understand how this could be worst than Chernobyl.

http://www.telegraph...-Chernobyl.html

Japan has 48 hours to bring its rapidly escalating nuclear crisis under control before it faces a catastrophe “worse than Chernobyl”, it was claimed last night.

Francois Baroin, a French government spokesman, went further, saying: “In the worst of cases, it could have an impact worse than Chernobyl.” He added: “They have visibly lost the essential of control.”

Probably due to the high population density of Japan. Chernobyl was in the middle of nowhere (apart from Pypriat)

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So having power installed, how will that help cool down some of these reactors? Because looking at the damage, the pipes look wrecked, and the structure is warped. It is good news, but maybe there might be another idea.

Electricity can be good if the coolant system actually works. if it doesn't, than all of this hope is all for naught. I dunno.. if I were dying I would want a doctor to tell me straight up, give me a timeframe, tell me when and where and let me prepare for the worst. Somehow the people running this show here aren't doing that... they're trying to make it look like there's still hope. They have been wrong so many times, most if not everyone has lost faith in them. Either this time they have the ace up their sleeves or they're gambling and hoping for a miracle.

If I were a betting man, I would say that there is no full meltdown/explosion of the core of any of these plants. I don't think it's going to happen. I definitely think people should evacuate and get the hell out of dodge just in case.. but I just don't see it happening. I know everything else is pointing in the other direction, where a full meltdown could occur in one or more of the reactors, but my gut and my faith in G-d tell me it's not going to happen.

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Even if they get power back they have to get people inside those buldings to fix and/or rebuild the pumps and those radiation levels are deadly. This is assuming the structures are physically safe enough after the explosions. Its not like you flick a switch, the pumps kick in, and everything goes back to the way it was.

Exactly

I have a funny feeling that this is going to be just like the BP oil spill.. it gets huge coverage until the worst is over and then everyday it slowly moves back in the headlines until all the news agencies only cover it when there are major steps forward or nothing else to cover.. just like BP..

I noticed that CNN actually focused much more time on the Libya crisis today than previous days..

I do think the worst is over here..

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Exactly

I have a funny feeling that this is going to be just like the BP oil spill.. it gets huge coverage until the worst is over and then everyday it slowly moves back in the headlines until all the news agencies only cover it when there are major steps forward or nothing else to cover.. just like BP..

I noticed that CNN actually focused much more time on the Libya crisis today than previous days..

I do think the worst is over here..

LOL

are you watching CNN now? try again

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Isn't it awesome how awesome our country is?

Japan gets destroyed.. lets call the u.s

Haiti gets destroyed.. lets call the u.s

Chile miners gets trapped.. lets call the u.s

Meteor is coming.. lets call??? Maybe Russia

Honestly though we do everything for the world

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