Posted on 03/18/2011 8:36:57 PM PDT by Errant
The government turned down a U.S. offer of technical help to cool overheating nuclear reactors in Fukushima Prefecture soon after last week's massive earthquake because it believed the offer was "premature," The Yomiuri Shimbun has learned.
The reactors have since been hit by several explosions and radiation has leaked out. Some observers believe this could have been prevented if the government had accepted the U.S. offer.
(Excerpt) Read more at yomiuri.co.jp ...
You have the right idea in my opinion; just not deep enough. I'm thinking a mile or two inside a mountain, salt domes, underground in limestone formations and etc. :)
Whose fault is it that the U.S. doesn't have newer & better designs built? I guess if the government puts a halt on licenses, there can be no new plants built! Ya think?
And with all the MSM hysteria, I doubt this will change!
Need to make em God proof ...
Maybe we should offer the assistance of Homer Simpson? He's got industry experience.
Media hysteria is the big one. A few molten salt reactor designs seem promising to me. Thorium in particular. India is kicking our collective a$$ here IMO.
Do a Bing as well. It's all over the place now.
Based on what has been coming out the last few days, TEPCO does make an easy target.
There were no strings attached when Obama sent a Billion or so in financial aid to Hamas.
What they needed were large generators on site quickly.
The US military could have provided that in all likelihood.
That didn’t happen.
That fact is, they needed help as evidenced by the results.
C’mon. Japan doesn’t have generators? Seriously? The generators our navy uses were probably made in Japan.
Is Carol "Director of Socialists International" Browner still Climate Change Commissar?
Energy and Climate Change Nazi Browner to distraught Japanese, "Barak Hussein bin Obama al-Kenyata will send you aid to cool your nuclear reactors and prevent catastrophy to millions of people if you meet his political agenda extortion demands."
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You may not have noticed, a large part of Japan was heavily damaged by an earthquake and tsunami... It had a pretty big impact on what they could transport where and how...
We have heavy lift capabilities and could have brought in resources from beyond the damage zone quickly if pushed.
First and foremost, an offer to help does not mean that help will actually occur. Does American have some magic medicine? Fusion in a bottle they could have hooked up to the power point? Or maybe send over superman to use his super flutter kick down in the cooling pond? What, exactly, would they have done that the Japanese could not do?
Second, Japan botched this design. Unless I missed something, there was 1) reactor with a power plant to cool said nuclear material and 2) back up generators somewhere within tsunami range. More or less about right? Why no pads with hard point power hook-ups whereby a generator could not be air lifted into place, hooked to the hard point and then set to run? The generator does not stay there to a) protect it from any localized disaster and b) rot unused or not work when needed due to insufficient maintenance. Just a thought. If something is useful, maybe you don’t need a back up. If it is important, a back-up plan is good. If it is life and death critical, there is the plan, the back-up, the back-up to the back up and the oh sh%& back-up.
Obviously explaining it in a way that a kid can understand. Sounds like a good approach to a complex situation.
Never waste a crisis!
Use it to push your personal beliefs.
If true, it brings "never let a crisis go to waste" to an entirely new level.
Despicable, just as I would expect from the Obama regime...
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