Posted on 03/11/2011 9:58:30 PM PST by tarpit
But I thought that the winds go east from Japan across the Pacific. Wouldn't the radiation reach our shores?
I had a roommate in graduate school and his thesis was measuring the spikes in radiation in mud sediment at the bottom on Western Washington lakes that corresponded to each nuclear bomb tests in Nevada and Nagasaki and Hiroshima attacks. It is slight, but has a world wide effect.
Have they ever tested for cesium before?
A wind coming from the west would take a radioactive plume towards the east! That means the Aleutians, Alaska, the USA.
Aren’t there really bad jet streams there that move in a northeasterly direction? At this time of year I remember how they would give us one heck of a tailwind going from Japan to the US West Coast.
They have a containment vessel, there isn’t going to be a violent radioactive event.
“Yep. Nukes are great for geologically stable locations, but building them in known earthquake zones is stupid.”
Does using them for forty years with much better technology available make it stupider?
Nuclear plant safety committee confirmed reactor core now exposed 1.7meter above water, speculating now fuel rod has started to melt.
and..upside .. we now have a potential large coal customer to ship to while they build new nuke plants
“They have a containment vessel, there isn’t going to be a violent radioactive event.”
Exactly. There isn’t going to be any China Syndrome. There isn’t going to be any Chernobyl.
This is just liberal scaremongering: “Scientists fear replay of Three Mile Island!”
Oh, you mean that minor event back in the 70s where nobody died or was even injured? Not that!
There is not supposed to be a failure of the backup for maintaining cooling. There is not supposed to be a melt down either. Stuff happens. I said in a worst case scenario.
A TEPCO spokesman told AFP that “we believe the reactor is not melting down or cracking. We are trying to raise the water level.”
Naoto Sekumura, a professor at the University of Tokyo says a major radioactive disaster is unlikely.
“No Chernobyl is possible at a light water reactor,” he told Al Jazeera. “Loss of coolant means a temperature rise, but it also will stop the reaction. Even in the worst-case scenario, that would mean some radioactive leakage and equipment damage, but not an explosion. If venting is done carefully, there will be little leakage. Certainly not beyond the 3 km radius.” http://www.theblaze.com/blog/2011/03/11/updates-on-japan-and-the-tsunami/
Six mile radius?
If that wasn’t the single stupidest statement I’ve ever heard in my life, I’d be laughing my rear off..
All I can say is OMG...
NHK World TV has reported that the workers had not been able to investigate any possible damage done to the containment building since the friday earthquake and have yet to determine if would successfully contain.
If those fuel rods go all melty and start a fire that destroys the site we’ll need more than potassium iodide.
Who needs a killer asteroid with what is currently going on? I keep wondering if this could be it for a big chunk of human life. A cloud of radioactive particles coming out of Japan would be all over the Left Coast in a week or two I figure. I’m no physicist or weatherliar but I think this threat is worth being worried about.
FEMA will become a bigger nightmare than Obama and TSA if the worst happens. I wonder what the protocols will be in that scenario?
Good for coal.
See post 33.
Man I hope you are right about that, I’m gonna trust your judgement on this because I don’t have the education to understand the implications.
Thanks....that link is slowwwww tonight
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