Posted on 03/15/2011 5:20:23 PM PDT by Eyes Unclouded
I think a good nickname for them would be “The Dragon Slayers”. Let's hope they can tame this beast.
Prayers and Godspeed.
Radiation surged from you’ll die within weeks to you’ll die within hours but after some minutes you won’t be in working condition anyway.
They are gonna have to either wait for things to cool down, send in robots, or just send in wave after wave. It isn’t like nuclear technicians grow on trees either.
You are familiar with that concept right? The idiots that started that mentality during WWII were the Japanese military elite, content on drumming the Japanese populace into a neo-bushido frenzy to fulfill their perverted goals.
It’s really sad that someone has to mention WWII to justify something about some Japanese plant workers that are willing to die to protect others.
Don’t worry, you don’t have to write a reply, I accept your apology.
Well said. Thank you for your perspective.
I heard somewhere - maybe Fox News - that they’re considering cooling the rods via channeling sea-water from helicopters. Not exactly sure how this works, or whether that will lesson radiation exposure.
God bless them.
Think Forrest fire fighting.
It's been a few years, but my recollection is that there are three types of radiation involved here: Alpha, Beta and Gamma. Alpha is stopped by just about anything (it's basically a helium atom IIRC), and Beta can be stopped by clothing or other similar 'armor'.
Gamma needs about 6 inches of concrete or a good heavy layer of lead plate to keep out. In other words, there are no suits that can protect you from gamma radiation. You just need to get the heck out of dodge when it comes to gamma radiation, and leave the clean-up to robots or extremely well-shielded bulldozers (like a main battle tank or something).
Reports have come in that the workers have been pulled out due to a sudden upswing in radiation levels. Let’s all still hope for the best possible outcome.
They are northern California, Oregon, Washington State and British Columbia heroes too.
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