Posted on 03/15/2011 1:35:02 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
spoil sport
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What we need is someone good at explaining the difference between radiation emitted by the reactor vs radioactive fallout. Maybe even some decent drawings.
I personally describe the reactor as a lightbulb. The “light” emitted from it isn’t carried by the wind. Radioactive dust and smoke are carried by the wind.
In the meantime there was just another explosion in the past few minutes..
Don’t worry though, all is well.
There is no such thing, in the liberal mind, as a tragedy that can’t be exploited.
Remain calm. Everything is under control.
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I’m more worried about the return of Godzilla.
I’m still waiting for the seafloor to cave in after the BP spill. Or am I waiting to die because of the dispersant used?
I forget.
RE: In the meantime there was just another explosion in the past few minutes..
SOURCE:
IAN HORE-LACY OF THE WORLD NUCLEAR ASSOCIATION, AN INDUSTRY BODY REPRESENTING 180 COMPANIES IN THE NUCLEAR SECTOR
“It is obviously an hydrogen explosion ... due to hydrogen igniting. If the hydrogen has ignited, then it is gone, it doesn’t pose any further threat.”
“The whole situation is quite serious but the actual hydrogen explosion doesn’t add a great deal to it.”
He said it was “most unlikely to be a major disaster” and he also did not believe there would be a full fuel meltdown.
“That would have been much more likely early yesterday in the European time. We are now 24 hours into the situatiuon and the fuel has cooled a lot in that time and the likelihood of meltdown at this stage I would think would be very, very small.”
There is no such thing, in the liberal mind, as a tragedy that can’t be exploited.
Or run away from. TOTUS is off to Rio (opposite hemisphere, opposite side of the world) until this blows over and maybe Saudi invasion of Bahrain, and the war in Libya or Afghanistan, or the 10+% unemployment or failing financial system or ...
Thanks for the post. Bookmarking for later to see how the comments are rolling.
There an article on FR about people ordering Iodine Tablets like crazy. I wonder if we should buy some too.
Spent nuke fuel pool may be boiling, further radiation leak feared
The Media has finally gotten what it wanted....
“Panicked residents start to flee Tokyo”
FLY SOME MORE REPORTERS TO JAPAN.......Especially the ones that can’t speak the language, they won’t understand the insults from the Locals.
Let’s all chill out for a moment and think things through...
Remember, it is IMPOSSIBLE for a nuclear reactor to explode like an atomic bomb.
All that can happen is what amounts to a conventional explosion throwing radiaton from a melting core into the atmosphere. That would be a big roblem for Japan (although not the end of life as we know it—you may remember Nagasaki and Hiroshima).
It would not be a problem for the United States. We’re far away.
Remember, in the 1950s we tested HYDROGEN BOMBS in the Pacific. Yes, that was not a good thing. But it hardly caused any major problems in the United States.
This is a case of the media ( yes, Fox News included) simply trhowing out fear mongering to try to build an audience.
There is no excuse for it, and Fox engaged in the same kind of fear mongering in more important reports. INFORMATION is what the “news” should be about, and not fear mongering SPECULATION.
Sure, the nuclear plant situation in Japan is a problem, especially for Japan, but it is absurd to suggest that the “job” of the media is to HYPE the problem. The news should be about facts and information, and not about FEAR (and ratings).
I trust Katie.
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