Fukushima one week on: Situation 'stable', says IAEA | Shameful media panic

The Register - UK ^ | 18th March 2011 12:56 GMT | Lewis Page

[brityank]

This is a three page dissertation that lays out in very comprehensive detail the causes of the Fukushima power plants problems from both the quake and the resultant tsunami, and shows that these plants were by far safer than just about any other infrastructure in the region.

Yes, there are other things that can and maybe could have been done, but all in all they performed beyond their design specifications - and for that we owe a great deal of gratitude to the engineers and contractors from forty years ago.

[jersey117]

The usual culprits — Anderson and Shep — the disaster drama queens.

[brityank]

For your perusal.

Thanks for the good detail you have provided on the threads, I appreciate it.

[brityank]

Stateside - yes.

But the screaming faces in the rest of the world’s Maggot Media are just as bad!

[SteveH]

Yes, there are other things that can and maybe could have been done, but all in all they performed beyond their design specifications - and for that we owe a great deal of gratitude to the engineers and contractors from forty years ago.

I assure you this event has the attention of the retired nuclear enginner community. Like everyone else they are horrified by the crisis. I am certain they would be appreciative of your sentiment.

[kittymyrib]

Has Shep “The Drama Queen” Smith reported any cases of cannibalism yet, as he did during Katrina? Roger Ailes is a dimwit for paying this laughable “reporter.”

[GraceG]

After this reactor eventually gets dismantled they need to build a CANDU reactor to replace it.

CANDU reactors if they run out of water will simply shut down.

[jdsteel]

Thanks...great post!

[ScreamingFist]

Yes, there are other things that can and maybe could have been done, but all in all they performed beyond their design specifications - and for that we owe a great deal of gratitude to the engineers and contractors from forty years ago.

Can't be. I've been reading on FR for an entire week that this is Chernobyl times 6.

[Yardstick]

*bump*

[dynoman]

Good link. I just posted much the same thing here; http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2690669/posts?page=115#115

People need to drill down past all the emotional hype, extrapolations, imaginations, speculations, to objective primary sources to get the real story. When you get there you can see this nuclear disaster cannot rationally be put in the same catagory as Chernobyl. Some of the “windmills as giants” people have imagined would make Don Quixote insanely jealous.

[winoneforthegipper]

The moment nuclear plant chief WEPT as Japanese finally admit that radiation leak is serious enough to kill people

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1367684/Nuclear-plant-chief-weeps-Japanese-finally-admit-radiation-leak-kill-people.html#ixzz1Gydr1ECn

In truth this situation is not over....though signs are completely promising they are still just signs at the moment.

[mvpel]

Japanese oil refinery following quake:

I'd rather be near Fukushima, than this toxic stew.

[brityank]

Can't be. I've been reading on FR for an entire week that this is Chernobyl times 6.

Please -- take your screaming fist and smash those screaming faces! Thanks!!       ;^)

[brityank]

In truth this situation is not over....though signs are completely promising they are still just signs at the moment.

I don't see this being "over" for at least a couple of months. It will take at least that long to get the pools stable and cool, and clear away the damaged infrastructure to effect repair. It just needs time and treasure - eventually both will be found.

[brityank]

That’s a very good point. There is more damage to Japan’s environment from all of her other infrastructure than from all of the nuclear power plants in both Japan and the US for the past fifty years!

[ScreamingFist]

Please -- take your screaming fist and smash those screaming faces! Thanks!!

LOL! Well, I have been old FRiend. I will say that many FReepers that were in a panic a week ago went out, read, became informed and are now some of the better sources on what is currently happening. Other FReepers seem to love the doom and gloom and panic mongering. Thank you for the post.

[PA Engineer]

Can't be. I've been reading on FR for an entire week that this is Chernobyl times 6.

I gave up on the media immediately. My greatest disappointment was with some posters here. I came to realize that the green animists and end times flagellants were just different sides of the same coin. We will never know how many have died because of misinformation from the panic mongers.

[wendy1946]

But the screaming faces in the rest of the world’s Maggot Media are just as bad!

Including some who should know better like Mat Drudge apparently...

[ScreamingFist]

My greatest disappointment was with some posters here.

Agree completely. Apparently there are many FReepers that I have no desire to share a foxhole with if the S really does HTF.