Source = http://www.tepco.co.jp/en/press/corp-com/release/11031507-e.html
Posted on 03/14/2011 7:42:56 PM PDT by kristinn
eek......
Breaking : Radiation levels rise in Russian city of Vladivostok, 500 miles northwest of Japanese nuclear plant, but stay within normal
Another long term benefit of Hiroshima and Nagasaki is that for the entire period of the Cold War, Russia believed that mutually assured destruction was not a path to follow. I suspect that if those bombs had not been dropped, Russian reluctance to trigger a nuclear exchange would have been much less. I fear that the world and it’s young leaders are forgetting this. India/Pakistan for example.
This is a local (national) disaster physically- potentially a steaming dead zone the Japanese will have to manage for long term, affecting millions of people in Japan and possibly some neighboring countries in the prevailing wind pattern
but a global disaster economically if the entire Japanese economy goes off the grid
One bright thought maybe this will kick-start the world (the euro libs, Russians and maybe even the Chinese who benignly work round “sanctions” ) into acting with determination to make sure ideological primitives like Iran and North Korea are stripped of the ability to have nuclear facilities
Imagine North Korea or Iran trying to manage such an “incident”
Source = http://www.tepco.co.jp/en/press/corp-com/release/11031507-e.html
Yes, that is the Daini plant number 2 all the trouble is at plant I.
But while u brought it Reactor 4 at Daini is still not totally okay....in fact there remains a near local evacuation I believe.
Japan tells 140 thousand people to seal themselves up in their homes. A no-fly zone is in force around the plants. Plant workers are ordered to leave. Come on, people. NOTHING IS WRONG and everything is UNDER CONTROL. sarc/
I stand corrected. That said, the residual radiation apparently didn’t stick around too long at all based on the numbers I found.
Your reasoning is sound.
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