Swap out the mini-gun with a pump and water cannon and send it in to fill up the storage pool. Robots don't have next of kin to worry about. And you could throw a couple of them on a C-17 and have them there by tomorrow.
Posted on 03/15/2011 7:39:54 PM PDT by Mr. K
Where is Halliburton when you need them? They can do about 1,000 hp per truck.
If they had HOWCO (Halliburton Oil Well Cementing Company) Saturday morning and offered them the pump job they would have carried the pumps in by hand if they had to, carry diesel in buckets and eat vienna sausage and RC Cola until reinforcements arrived!
Guaranteed. Too late now though.
In 1986, Soviets who disobeyed orders were shot.
Big difference.
LOL, I am very pro nuke but that statement is too much. The japanese didn’t properly anticipate a tsunami of this size. What happens when something not anticipated screws up the passive cooling scheme? Just had to ask.
http://finance.yahoo.com/intlindices?e=asia
The Asian markets are starting to turn down... click on the link - you’ll see the green numbers flashing red... it’s just staring down now.
Eh this is not that big of a deal. The experts have REPEATEDLY said that even if it totally melted down it wouldn’t be “that big of a deal” - this is NOT the same as what happened in the Soviet Union.
Sure there will be some radiation - but not that much and not that far away.
It could totally melt down - all of them and it would still be mostly contained.
Everyone is making much ado about nothing.
It’s not that big of a deal. What more do the experts need to tell us to get us to believe that?
This is not the same as what happened in the Soviet Union.
The focus of the media should be on the earthquake and the need of the people in Japan - NOT this story.
But - nobody seems to want to believe that.
Do we have a source for the headline change?
“Fail Safe” is a classic.
just damn ...
And 99% of all the radiation in a bomb is released within the fist minute of the blast. The other 1% is fallout blown up into the air.
A H bomb is a Bomb with a fission core, wrapped in heavy water then wrapped in a fission wrapping. A nuetron bomb is simply a bomb without the outer wrapping. Very clean and limited in blast capabilities.
The smoke and radiation is coming from plant 2 it is now thought and that makes sense.
The containment vessel was damaged yesterday and as explained yesterday, it would take roughly 24 hours for a core meltdown lava pool to eat through the steel encasement.
Sorry to say this is a very logical explanation given the fact it happened almost 24 hours to the minute.
Never give in--never, never, never, never, in nothing great or small, large or petty, never give in except to convictions of honour and good sense. Never yield to force; never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy.
-- Sir Winston Churchill, 1941
But all designs now need to be reviewed for safety.>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
The CANDU reactor used exclusively in Canada, employing heavery water ( H3O ), is very safe, but GE trumped CANDU in Japan.I bet they now wish they had CANDU reactors.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CANDU_reactor
Their reports are not scheduled. Reports are made as information becomes available.
http://nei.cachefly.net/newsandevents/information-on-the-japanese-earthquake-and-reactors-in-that-region/
Part of the briefing they just gave.
I have to ask, yes in the clarity of 20/20 hindsight for me but, how do you figure there could be a design earthquake without a Tsunami in a nation where one goes with the other with amazing frequency?
Anybody?
Yup. It doesn't get any bleaker than that. I remember back in the '80s, I had to have it special ordered on video from the store; no US TV network would touch it, so consequently there was little demand for it on video.
They are returning now - they only left for a little bit.
Headline was misleading. They did not “leave”
They pulled back
Again - not a big deal.
>> “this is NOT the same as what happened in the Soviet Union.” <<
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True!
The Russian reactor was a carbon block design, and the meltdown yielded massive amounts of radio active CO2 that was absorbed by crops and thus found its way into the food supply of Europe.
Only World Class talent should be involved.
I know that from being a critical path on the SQQ 89 anti-submarine project.
If there are too many cooks in the kitchen, just let the best chefs and assistants stay in the kitchen. The rest can get out of the way.
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