Japan Earthquake News

[MrRiplEy[H]]

Ahh hyperbole at it's finest. You know there are other methods to generate electricity

Just to fill in the gaps in case you're not following. Not all 1.2 million people killed in car accidents used nuclear generated electricity. In fact quote a significant proportion didn't.

Nearly every country either has nuclear reactors OR buys electricity from an another country that produces it cheaply with nuclear reactors and sells it to countries that are too candy-assed to build their own.

If a reactor is connected to your power grid at any point, you're using a fraction of nuclear power from that moment on.

The cold hard fact remains that car travel kills nearly 1.2 million people more every year than nuclear energy related accidents has ever killed combined.

[MrRiplEy[H]]

You die in a car crash. The other people around the crash do not get cancer 40 yrs later from the crash.

No? Harmful particles get released from the crash that spread to environment. If the car burns, paint etc. chemical compounds in the car produce a large amount of dioxine and other superpoisons which are both toxic and cause cancer. All the hundreds of thousands of kilometers driven prior to the crash have caused MASSIVE amounts of dust deposits in the air containing heavy metals, tar, fine rock mist and other environmental pollutants which end up in the lungs of people - causing cancer or asthma. All the kilometers produce also exhausts which all contain cancer inducing agents. Several tons per year per car.

Car travel is causing statistically speaking 99.99% more cancers annually compared to nuclear power.

[Fishu]

You die in a car crash. The other people around the crash do not get cancer 40 yrs later from the crash.

A modern nuclear power plant is unlikely to cause cancer to anyone outside the perimeter. Fukushima was not a modern plant and was in fact at the end of it's life, one reactor scheduled to be shut down this month. Which is also the reason the power plant wasn't further modernized with technology that could have averted the current leaks.

It would be most beneficial to lobby the shutdown of the old plants and replace with modern plants.

[Sundowner]

Isn't failing to have foresight that a tsunami may come ashore and knock out your ground level backup generators 100% human error?

I mean c'mon, the plants are built near the sea smack dab in a high earthquake zone.

Why didn't the engineers elevate/isolate those generators to avoid being overcome by seawater coming ashore??   

Anyway, reports are now saying there may be another hydrogen explosion at reactor 3 like what occurred at reactor 1 yesterday.

"......Chief Cabinet Secretary Yukio Edano said an explosion could take place in the building housing the No. 3 reactor at the Fukushima Daiichi plant in northeastern Japan.

"There is a possibility that the third reactor may have hydrogen gas that is accumulating in the reactor (that) may potentially cause an explosion," he said.

An explosion caused by hydrogen buildup Saturday blew the roof off a concrete building housing the plant's No. 1 reactor, but the reactor and its containment system were not damaged in the explosion.

Edano said the No. 3 reactor would also likely withstand a similar blast, noting that workers had already released gas from the building to try to prevent an explosion......"
http://www.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/asiapcf/03/13/japan.nuclear.reactors/index.html?hpt=T1&iref=BN1



Here is a sobering interview with physicist Dr. Michio Kaku on the BBC yesterday.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5hfJQzxK4nU

Let's all pray they can get this situation under control.

Regards,
Sun





 

[Melvin]

I've got an idea. Why don't we reduce our power consumption?

The kids bedroom lightbulbs burned out a couple weeks ago, I'm not replacing them. Summer is coming and they have plenty of windows to let that glorious light in.

I'm hoping to see a dramatic reduction in the power bill due to the fact that they no longer hide in their rooms with lights, t.v., radio, dvd, dish, playstation, etc. turned on.

They've learned to come out of the caves and enjoy some good book reading or t.v. watching with old mom and dad.

It's a win-win. I recommend pulling the lights from your kids rooms.

GO NUKES!! or NUKE THE WHALES!!

[RoGenT]

Although the thought of it blowing up and the possibility of it, I am not fully concerned about it and feel they will get it under control. I just hope they can find survivors from all the devastion. And more grimly, body recovery.

[Meatwad]

Im more worried about how Rolex is doing instead of the pissing contest this thread has turned into

[Masherbrum]

Im more worried about how Rolex is doing instead of the pissing contest this thread has turned into

Absolutely the truth.   

[Strip]

Here is a sobering interview with physicist Dr. Michio Kaku on the BBC yesterday.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5hfJQzxK4nU

Let's all pray they can get this situation under control.

Regards,
Sun


Too bad that doctor is known for sensationalizing and over stating the facts, he is employed by the Discovery and History channel for Christ sake.

Strip




 

[Gh0stFT]

Too bad that doctor is known for sensationalizing and over stating the facts, he is employed by the Discovery and History channel for Christ sake.

Back to Topic Strip, so "Nuclear emergency declared at Japanese reactor " is nonsense and just sensationalizing
and the pictures on TV is just what?

[MrRiplEy[H]]

Back to Topic Strip, so "Nuclear emergency declared at Japanese reactor " is nonsense and just sensationalizing
and the pictures on TV is just what?

Sensationalizing at the worst. Do you see huge headlines on the bus accident in US that happened at the same time? Why not? It had 13 times the casualties compared to the reactor fault so far. Do you see huge headlines on the several environmental disasters that happen as we speak all around the world? Whole rivers poisoned to toxic waste in China? The nuclear hazard cannot even hold a candle to those events. But theyre caused by 'regular' poisons, you see.

Fear of unknown makes good media headlines and sells news.

[Megalodon]

They are talking about 8 reactors now, two 75mi from Tokyo.

[infowars]

Rolex can we get another update... ?

[Dichotomy]

Rolex is there anything we can do to help you?

[mbailey]

Rolex is there anything we can do to help you?

Agreed, What do you need sir...glad to send it your way, whatever it may be