The Largest Short-Term Threat to Humanity: The Fuel Pools of Fukushima

Zero Hedge ^ | April 7, 2012 | na

[winoneforthegipper]

Looks like Nevado has went a bit calmer.....

Time to pay attention these next six hours!

http://intranet.ingeominas.gov.co/ovsm/ew/heli/vnr.gif

[Errant]

Thanks!

[G Larry]

“The Largest Short-Term Threat to Humanity”

That would be OBAMA!!

[Errant]

He could be both!

[SierraWasp]

Hold on now!!!

Quit making this thread (and by estension, this site) look like Coast-to-Coast-AM.com!!!

I call pure, unmitigated BS!!!

Besides, there's no Homer Simpson working at that plant!!!

[aruanan]

The Largest Short-Term Threat to Humanity: The Fuel Pools of Fukushima

Oh geez. The amount of anything at Fukushima is minuscule to what's in a couple cubic miles of ocean. If it's highly radioactive, then it's not going to be around long. If its half life is in the millions of years, then it's not going to be doing a whole lot in the short term. It's so bizarre that radiation is the single most studied phenomenon in science but it is still employed as a horrible boogieman to steer people into supporting a political agenda.

[winoneforthegipper]

Nah....there's enough glowsticks in Fukushima right now to truly ruin the downwind game for many a day.

Personally I like the more Syfy channel scenario that could play out this summer.

Imagine a 10+ shake then a Cat 5 Cane.....Now there your talking Art Bell and beyond!

Seriously though....I don't agree with the wording used in the article but what lays in wait in Diachii is disaster.

[winoneforthegipper]

You might want to check your stats again. To make sure they jive with that reported by TEPCO just this past week.

[SteveH]

脳, 人間の脳 ...

[Nik Naym]

Brain the human brain? I don’t get it.

[SteveH]

sorry, maybe it should be 脳は、より脳 or brains, more brains as seen in the return of the living dead, which is an zombie movie. if it were translated into japanese and modernized with the inclusion of uncontrolled nuclear reactor spent fuel pools in the plot. and... oh, well... :-P

[TXnMA]

As soon as I saw that GE design, I asked, "What imbeciles designed concrete storage pools on an upper concrete floor -- such that any crack in the concrete would drain the pools of coolant/shielding water?"

As we say in Texas, "That's dumb@$$ engineering."

[SierraWasp]

Oh... Ok... I guess you're right after all. Here's the first evidence!

[SierraWasp]

Special ping just for you!!! (snort!)

[TXnMA]

"If the other 1200+ nuclear detonations that have taken place didn’t kill us..."

This is only a tiny sample of the nuclear test craters/slumps visible on Google Earth in the Yucca flats area of our Nevada test site. When you view the whole area, you wonder if your "1200+" number is high enough -- just for the U.S....

At least it helps to put one fuel storage pool on the other side of the planet into perspective...

[winoneforthegipper]

Lol....

Is that some sorta of demeaning way to express a point of yours that has no basis in reality?

Listen as I pointed out I do not believe in the extreme language that the author of this piece used nor was the one that posted it. However....Errant did ping me to it for he knew my interest in the Fukushima since last March.

That said...it is obvious you have no idea what you are talking about and just post to bring some sort of idiocy of your own to Free Republic.

Since the outset of this disaster I have seen many of your kind and many of the worldenders post on threads about the Diachii plant.

Guess what? the doomsayers were a helluva lot more inform than your ilk and I see that continues today.

The nuclear accident at Fukushima was worse than the so called Freeper experts ever allowed for and further is a disaster that is still unfolding.

So instead of talking about nuke weapons and bombsites and this and that learn the difference between the two and what lays a few feet from the surface at fukushima.

Then we can talk.

[Errant]

At least it helps to put one fuel storage pool on the other side of the planet into perspective...

Not exactly. IIRC, some of the test holes at Yucca Flats were almost a mile deep. Except for an accidental release or two of radioactive dust and gases, the radiation is contained underground.

At Fukushima, if the one fuel storage pool goes, workers will have to evacuate the entire Daiichi complex and the surrounding area. Without workers on site working the problem, many of the other five reactors and storage pools will begin to overheat and add significantly to the amount of radioactive materials escaping into the environment. This could go on for many, many years and easily exceed the level of contamination released at Chernobyl.

[Errant]

Hang in there partner! Maybe some of it is getting through their thick skulls... lol

[TXnMA]

Has Chernobyl killed you?

[aruanan]

Geez, it’s more than just unlikely that radioactive contamination from these plants could, after mixing in thousands of cubic miles of seawater, remained sufficiently concentrated to cause hair loss of polar bears due to radiation poisoning.