Japan to be without nuclear power after May 5

[Ruah]

seriously awful science in here.

As for the nuke power in japan being shut down - I think it is a political ploy but there is a lot of solar and geothermal in Japan, but not enough yet.

[Slate]

  Lesson to be learned here is if you lose power to your reactor cooling system it melts. Don't lose power to your reactor cooling system. Imagine if your generators were in a waterproof location.

  What's the odds Japan will experience another earthquake and sunami? 

[PR3D4TOR]

Chernobyl: Life in the Dead Zone

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ud33w26qsWQ

Interesting documentary.

[Meatwad]

They are saying now that the Fukushima meltdown's radiation will spread to the whole earth.

Only report I have seen is that the radiation levels are so low that there will be no noticeable effects from it


But then some of the tree hugging chicken little sites claim that 20,000 people in the US will die from it

[Sundowner]

  What's the odds Japan will experience another earthquake and sunami? 

If this seismologist is correct they may have shut down the reactors just in time.

Regards,
Sun



Fears increase of big earthquake near Tokyo in the foreseeable future

Published 07 May, 2012 12:41:00 PRI's The World

A prominent Japanese seismologist rattled some nerves when he declared there was a 70 percent chance of a major earthquake in or around Tokyo -- in the next four years. Government scientists had proclaimed a similar risk, but over a longer timeframe, 30 years.

In a quiet room at Tokyo University, seismologist Shinichi Sakai points to steady, color-coded lines on a digital monitor. The screen displays real-time readings from Japan’s extensive network of seismometers.

This is one of the most seismically active countries in the world, and the flat lines show that all is quiet across the region, at least for the moment.

Then, as if on cue, two of the lines start to jump violently, splashing the screen with red and yellow pixels. They’re tracking a very small earthquake, centered just outside of Tokyo.

Sakai says small quakes like this happen about ten thousand times a year in Japan, and for geologists like him, even the small earthquakes are worth paying attention to. He says there’s been a fivefold increase in small tremors around Tokyo since the huge quake off Japan’s northeast coast in March last year. And that adds up to a mathematical omen for scientists like him.

In January, Sakai and the University’s Earthquake Research Institute crunched the new numbers and came up with a shocking prediction: There's a 70 percent chance a major earthquake will hit Tokyo within the next four years.

Sakai and his colleagues are among the country’s leading seismic authorities, so the prediction itself gave the country a jolt. The Japanese government has also predicted a similar chance of a major quake in the Tokyo area, but over a longer time period — sometime in the next 30 years......

http://www.pri.org/stories/world/asia/fears-increase-of-big-earthquake-near-tokyo-in-the-foreseeable-future-9764.html

[mbailey]

http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/map/

Found this link......real time earthquake data