Posted on 03/11/2011 9:58:30 PM PST by tarpit
Here’s to hoping that is right. The worst case scenario in my head is pretty ugly.
I’m praying it is too. Looks like good news/bad news right this minute.
1:41 a.m. – Nuclear Update
Kyodo: “Pressure successfully released from Fukushima No. 1 reactor”
1:33 a.m. – Nuclear Update
Kyodo: “Japanese Prime Minister Kan does not rule out possible radiation leak from Fukushima No 2.”
http://www.theblaze.com/blog/2011/03/11/updates-on-japan-and-the-tsunami/
A nuclear reactor that had been on-line for only a few months was destroyed. The clean up took 14 years and cost nearly a billion dollars.
And I bet it 1970 tech, if we were to build a modern reactor it would be insanely reliable.
I guess it’s about time for another damn earthquake then.
My woman has family on Honshu and we have no idea of their status.
I can’t help wondering where they will get safe water to drink and wash with over there, you know anything coastal is wasted. This ain’t over yet, even if there are no more quakes or tusammis (that’s a joke y’all, I can speel).
That’s what I was thinking too. In a worst case scenario, six miles isn’t going to be nearly enough, even if there were no wind effects.
Those pictures were very eerie and made me feel spooky. I was watching one of the paranormal shows when they were allowed in that area. They wanted to get in, do their ghost thing and get out. They showed one of the schools which they said was very haunted and some of the area around that section. Don’t know about ghosts but they were plenty anxious. Who knows??? Oh, the music on one of the links was haunting and seemed very sad.
I’m praying hard for the best possible outcome. Please keep us posted on her family.
They already have started to melt. If it continues, it’s gonna get real real bad...
I still have the bejesus scared out of me from an Outer Limits nuclear aftermath creature I saw on TV as a kid.
It’s been a big crisis here because her mama-san has had a dead phone all week due to some f-up on Verizon’s watch where they “purged” her account over some idiocy. She pays her bill religiously but they cut her off over some stoopidity on their part. And she’s the only one who speaks Japanese and knows who to try and contact. Poor thing is over there crying her eyes out and chanting her Daimoku for the safety of her brothers and sisters. God, this hurts like Hell for people I care about.
What a mess. I just hope her folks are safe and this story will have a happy ending for our family. But there are doubtless several thousands of Japanese who will not be coming home tonight, or ever, to hug their loved ones.
The WSJ confirms that people within a six-mile (i.e. 10-kilometer) radius were already being shipped out hours ago. Also, an update on the control room, where radiation levels reached 1,000 times the normal rate earlier:
Radiation levels aren’t supposed to rise in a control room, which is designed to allow operators to continue working during emergencies and is equipped with filtration systems and other design features to protect workers from radiation exposure. Nevertheless, experts said that a level that is 1,000 times normal probably isn’t immediately harmful.
The technicians on the scene battling this thing must be signing years of their lives away, if not decades.
Reuters: Japan’s nuclear authorities said on Saturday that radioactive pressure was successfully relieved at the No.1 reactor at Tokyo Electric Power’s Fukushima Daiichi plant by opening valves.
If I remember correctly, they had to be out before sundown. I wonder why?
If I remember correctly, they had to be out before sundown. I wonder why?
There are thousands of people dead from fallen building bridges and drowned.
Probably tens of thousands injured from falling debris.
Possibly hundred of thousands homeless.
Billions of dollars lost in properties.
People accept all those acute deaths, injuries and losses as part of a devastating natural disaster.
Yet, let a few rads of radiation escape from a nuclear plant - something that at worse may cause a few people to receive an exposure similar to what you get flying cross country or living in a high elevation town like Denver, and the panic level shoots to the moon.
At worse this can be like three-mile-island, where nobody died or was injured (except when tripping as they were running away in the media generated panic!)
Compared to the other devastation, having some reactor fuel melt and a bit of radiation released is a picnic in the park.
I wish the media wouldn’t contribute to the hysteria by exaggerating the comparatively small danger. This is not Chernobyl! (Not that the damage and lives lost from that compares to the losses from this Tsunami).
I know ive took a nonstop flight from tokyo to new york if that helps hehe.
Totally agree, we are being held hostage by scifihorror and media hyped dangers
You do realize there is a state of emergency for 5 Nuclear reactors....and it’s ain’t goin so well,with not even one, so far, right?
And if you read what was said, it’s an EXTERNAL leak, not the internal one...
We are talking global nuclear fallout...because not even one of em is under control..
But of course they don’t want to panic the WORLD’S populations...
THEY mostly hunt at night. Mostly ... ;)
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