Meltdown.

[Cry Havoc]

So, Agloco. Is that just regular water that they're dumping on the reactors?

They're picking it up from the sea and dumping it. Nothing special about it.

[CosmicCowboy]

[Agloco]

Um, no. I mean our President. I come to that conclusion cuz we have our idiotic surgeon general scaring people in California to buy iodide pills which in turn is making the pills fly off the shelves and completely selling out. Which in turn will make the people that haven't bought any iodide pills to freak out even more cuz they might get radiation poisoning cuz they have no pills. I know I may be entertaining to you and your crowd of dumb, I mean, one but I think if you want to put your own people at ease, their leader should do so. Yes, Obama is POTUS but I think he or one of his staff could pick up a ing phone and get some kind of straight answers and let us know what exactly is going. But, yeah, I know. He's a busy man. Is it really that hard to ing understand how I got to that conclusion Manny?

If you actually go through the trouble of looking......

This is a blog for the lay-person:
http://public-blog.nrc-gateway.gov/

This is the official NRC website:

http://www.nrc.gov/

If your fingers have enough strength, you might be able to click on the "Potassium Iodide in Emergency Planning" link under Key Topics to get some info on that as well. Caution: this requires reading. Are you up to the task?

This is a npr press release of the official NRC assessment on the ground:

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/s...ryId=134600420

Another caveat for you: Reading involved........

There's plenty more where that came from. Trouble yourself to learn a bit instead of politicizing everything.

[jack sommerset]

give the Man a break. It's march madness

He picked the 4 number one seeds to make final 4.

[Agloco]

So, Agloco. Is that just regular water that they're dumping on the reactors?

As CC stated, it's seawater. About 3% NaCl and various other goodies in there.

[Cry Havoc]

He picked the 4 number one seeds to make final 4.

He said he's never done that before, but yeah, I was scratching my head at that. This is a year that I could see ZERO #1 seeds making the Final Four. There are no dominant teams this year, and lots of parity.

[CosmicCowboy]

He said he's never done that before, but yeah, I was scratching my head at that. This is a year that I could see ZERO #1 seeds making the Final Four. There are no dominant teams this year, and lots of parity.

Hopefully Ohio State is the first to get upset tomorrow.

[LnGrrrR]

You insensitive bas !

You think that's bad, I joked that

INSENSITIVE JOKE ALERT




Japan will be the setting for the upcoming Fallout LARP.

[MannyIsGod]

Viva is the gift that keeps on giving.

[Cry Havoc]

You think that's bad, I joked that

INSENSITIVE JOKE ALERT




Japan will be the setting for the upcoming Fallout LARP.

I wonder how long it will be before the "Too soon" labels come off, and we see a tsunami in a moderately realistic game like Fallout.

[MannyIsGod]

Yeah. I'm not buying that nor am I put at ease over that statement. Especially after that earlier post saying there's no water in the spent rod reactor, if that's true. Someones gonna have to start wearing some big boy pants and tell everyone what exactly is going down. Dare I say, Mr President?

Um, no. I mean our President. I come to that conclusion cuz we have our idiotic surgeon general scaring people in California to buy iodide pills which in turn is making the pills fly off the shelves and completely selling out. Which in turn will make the people that haven't bought any iodide pills to freak out even more cuz they might get radiation poisoning cuz they have no pills. I know I may be entertaining to you and your crowd of dumb, I mean, one but I think if you want to put your own people at ease, their leader should do so. Yes, Obama is POTUS but I think he or one of his staff could pick up a ing phone and get some kind of straight answers and let us know what exactly is going. But, yeah, I know. He's a busy man. Is it really that hard to ing understand how I got to that conclusion Manny?

Number one, its a Japanese problem. Obama isn't responsible for that happens in Japan and the fact that you want him to start figuring out this crisis for you is amusing as .

Second of all, you made no mention of California on your initial post but I suspect you realize just how stupid you sounded so you played it in.

You also make some stupid assumptions that Obama isn't trying to get informed. But why wouldn't you? I'm sure there was a picture with him and a bracket sometime in the past few days so that means he's obviously not getting information on the subject.

You notice how pretty much every post you make ends up with you being ridiculed? Yeah, I guess thats just the crowd of dumb and not you being a complete ing moron.

[hater]

"It's like a squirt gun, using a squirt gun against a raging forest fire. They're overwhelmed, they're floundering, they don't know what to do,"

[LnGrrrR]

I wonder how long it will be before the "Too soon" labels come off, and we see a tsunami in a moderately realistic game like Fallout.

Two, three years at most.

[Cry Havoc]

"Excuse me, Mr. Prime Minister? I know you're busy trying to recover the bodies of tens of thousands of your citizens, restore power to the most populous city on Earth, rebuild your completely disintegrated northern infrastructure, AND contain a nuclear disaster that could kill or poison tens to hundreds of thousands of more people if it melts down fully, but could you spare some resources to spoon-feed some information to regurgitate to our press that our own NRC has already stated so that our citizens won't get all scared? People are worried over here that they might wake up with a nominal dose of radiation."

Viva, trying to hold Obama's feet to the fire.

[mouse]

The problem with radiation is not what the wall mart meters detect on your shoes it's the in your lungs that gets past the radio shack devices that will give you Cancer.

You people just don't get it. Maybe 30 years from now when they are removing one of your testicles you will.

[hater]

"Six tons of Plutonium in reactor 4 - it takes only 0.015 tons to build a nuclear bomb. It takes only a single Plutonium Atom to cause cancer. "

[Cry Havoc]

The problem with radiation is not what the wall mart meters detect on your shoes it's the in your lungs that gets past the radio shack devices that will give you Cancer.

You people just don't get it. Maybe 30 years from now when they are removing one of your testicles you will.

Great scientific analysis.

[Cry Havoc]

"Six tons of Plutonium in reactor 4 - it takes only 0.015 tons to build a nuclear bomb. It takes only a single Plutonium Atom to cause cancer. "

"Finally!"

[Agloco]

"Six tons of Plutonium in reactor 4 - it takes only 0.015 tons to build a nuclear bomb. It takes only a single Plutonium Atom to cause cancer. "

Theoretically, it only takes one of anything to make things go awry. To be quite honest, you're at much greater risk from background radiation than from one Pu atom.

Oh, and assuming you're taking about weapons grade Pu for a bomb (those 6 tons you mentioned are reactor grade), it takes roughly 10 lbs to reach criticality (.005 tons).

[RandomGuy]

The problem with radiation is not what the wall mart meters detect on your shoes it's the in your lungs that gets past the radio shack devices that will give you Cancer.

You people just don't get it. Maybe 30 years from now when they are removing one of your testicles you will.

Carcinogenic chemicals are much more likely to get you. Especially if you are a heavy smoker.

[Agloco]

The problem with radiation is not what the wall mart meters detect on your shoes it's the in your lungs that gets past the radio shack devices that will give you Cancer.

You people just don't get it. Maybe 30 years from now when they are removing one of your testicles you will.

Relax mouse. Relax.

Take a chill........err a potassium iodide pill.

[Agloco]

Carcinogenic chemicals are much more likely to get you. Especially if you are a heavy smoker.

Indeed, although you do get a few more chest x-rays from smoking as cigs are radioactive as well.

[mouse]

Carcinogenic chemicals are much more likely to get you. Especially if you are a heavy smoker.

Sorry but smoking a pack of Kool's everyday doesn't produce this.

[mouse]

Great scientific analysis.

Only those born with testicles would understand so your exempt by default.

[Cry Havoc]

Sorry but smoking a pack of Kool's everyday doesn't produce this.

Fortunately I live a kinda far away from Pripyat or Fukushima.