Japan Reactor is getting scary!
Karl2010
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Is anyone else sh1tting themselfs about this reactor in Japan? It looks almost guaruteed to melt down, and what if the weather carry's this radioactive censored all over the world, we are all going to be affected.
Of course our governments will play it all down, and we will never know the true scale of the dangers this reactor is causing.!
Of course our governments will play it all down, and we will never know the true scale of the dangers this reactor is causing.!
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There will not be a "china syndrome" with these reactors they have core catchers and a primary steel casing, we get updates at work on a regular basis and the radio-protection guys are pretty clued up. Long term again not too worried, but then again working in nuclear decommissioning and being based in Slavutich 40k from Chernobyl does put a different slant on it. Fumes from coal fired power stations in places like China kill more people every year than nuclear has in total, predicted deaths for Chernobyl 250,000 actual about 50.
Still not stuff you want to play about with though.
I found out today that the plant utilised plutonium 239 which has a half life of......24 thousand years. Thats almost as long as the blame wiggle thread. And doesnt the emperors head look at odds with his body.
momentarily from the herd and thinks for himself.
This hasn't yet happened at Fukushima and they are still coping.
Don't panic
Strava
I don't really get this. The media and internet are full of people proclaiming the worst, and nuclear experts covering the whole spectrum from not-that-bothered to it's-the-end-of-the-world-as-we-know-it.
There is literally more independent, uncensored information about what's going on in the plants and what it might mean than you could possibly hope to process. How is it exactly that you think the wool is being pulled over your eyes?
Probably of natural causes at a ripe old age.
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I still don't know who censored Bieber is and Chavez is a new name to me. I must be living in a feckin' bubble or something. Yayyyy, me!!!
I'm not at all worried about Japan's reactor. The Supermoon'sa different story. I kak myself at the thought that there are people who believe this censored !
I think its more a case of the government making a statement then post announcement having it challenged by 'independent' scientists and seeing a revision of said statement.
At the mo only a small group of people know whats happening at the plant and that info is self contradictory. Small wonder the japanese are reluctant to play follow my leader.
momentarily from the herd and thinks for himself.
All i know is radioative material released into Atmosphere = BAD.!
We will never truly know what the effects will be from this.
The information will have to be controled otherwise there will be wide spread panic.
To be fair if the worst did happen there isnt much we can do about it.
As for coal killing more people than Nuclear, well that does make sense.
Nuclear catastrophie's are few and far between, so that probaly why coal kills more people.
It is the long term affect that concerns me, like the radioactive material being carried around the globe by the weather, it will get in the ocean's where we fish, the feilds where grow food & live stock graze, basicaly it will get everywhere into the water supply and food chain.!
Who said the wool was being pulled over my eyes?
Get a grip, I guarantee that more people will have been killed by the tsunami and earthquake than will be by radiation from the power station in Japan. If you're worried about this you must sh!t yourself every time you get in a car or ride your bike.
That's sort of the point isn't it? The official version doesn't wash, and everbody knows it doesn't. The OP seems to think The Powers That Be are in a position to hush it all up, and that's demonstrably not the case.
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My fear is radioactive polution!
You lot just carry on, i wont be back!
The thing is, most of the engineers/scientists who know the full truth will be extremely busy working on solving the problems at hand, this unfortunately leaves a void for any number of "experts" (and actual experts) to come in and comment without full knowledge of the situation.
Then add a level of journalistic license on top of that, and you can get a very different story...
I mean one story could report that dangerous polololonium 424 (fictional by the way!) was leaking into the atmosphere, that it had a half life of over 1000 years and that as an alpha emitter, emitted the most ionising form of radiation.
Scary huh?
But what about if it's activity levels where such that it barely added to the background level of radiation, and what if it was pointed out that a scary alpha particle, is stopped by a big bad piece of paper! Suddenly the story is much more boring for one thing!
If those plants go boom or not you can't do anything and as has been pointed out Britain had it's disaster in 1957 which was a jolly bad show.I'm sure the Japanesepopulation are more worried than we are. I worry about some giant mutant squid appearing in about 10 years getting it's revenge or Godzilla being woken up. Look out downtown Tokyo!
I take it you don't remember Chernobyl?
That was a lot worse, a lot closer to the UK, and I seem to remember the general advice at the time was just to keep kids indoors.
We did a pretty good job of surviving that.
Strava
Story after story saying "We recon around 100,000 dead because of the tsunami and following humanitarian crisis" doesn't really grab people's attention in the same way as "NUCLEAR FALLOUT, WILL IT AFFECT US? most likely it won't" headlines.
It's an issue for the people involved in sorting the plant out and the people who live very near it, but even then, it's not a foregone conclusion it's a disaster for them (yet).
It's nothing like Chernobyl for many many reasons. There's very little burning (as far as we know) 80% of the radioactive content hasn't been blasted into the upper atmosphere (which is what needs to occur for nations elsewhere to be affected) etc etc.
It was concerning though when I saw the helicopters dropping bucketloads of seawater on the plant, as that seems rather imprecise... as if they simply wanted any quantity of water on it they could get.
This is a big deal. When reactors that aren't even on start popping there are large issues.
If we went back a fortnight and predicted that we'd cooling a nuclear plant with riot police water cannons I think we'd get some funny looks.
Nobody yet knows the scale of the disaster. It's unlikely to be another Chernobyl, but even the reactor's manager said it was possible that reactions could restart in the storage areas. So we just hope the helicopters and fire hoses make a diference.
Can you imagine the stress the guys in the station are under?
Strava
It's also a major strategic area which is why KAL007 got shot down some years back