Meltdown.

[CosmicCowboy]

Might as well start burying the plant. Those pumps are probably gonna be fried from the seawater and more than likely the explosions have breached other piping.

[RandomGuy]

What we can learn from the Japan earthquake is that the forty-year old nuclear power plant design performed better than expected. And, like the Fukushima Daiichi plant is far advanced and a completely different design than Chernobyl. Today’s Generation III and IV reactors are literally generations ahead of their predecessors. In the US we have twenty-one applications for new reactors.

Finally, a cooler head prevails.

I don't doubt for a second that newer=safer

What I highly doubt is:
newer=economically viable

For that matter, NIMBY is not known to be all that subject to no matter what data on safety one might have.

Nuclear energy is, after all is said and done, simply one alternative of many when it comes to energy, and its main drawback, i.e. the consequences of catastrophic failure, is not something that will ever be fully remedied in my mind.

[RandomGuy]

Nuclear plant chief weeps as Japanese finally admit that radiation leak is serious enough to kill people

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...#ixzz1GyKSxekW

He said officials should have admitted earlier how serious the radiation leaks were.

I dont' think anybody really thought they were getting the full skinny on this.

As I noted much earlier, no official pronouncement when it comes to nuclear accidents ever proves to have been 100% forthcoming.

[LnGrrrR]

But, I thought WC and Yoni said it wouldn't be that bad?

[Drachen]

I feel sorry for that guy, he is probably going to go kill himself.

[mouse]

Saying that is kinda like saying your pot will get hot when you turn on the stove. Hardly ownage.

Then why didn't you say it?
Agloco don't worry about picking the radiation scabs off your penis when your 50, you have to have one first.

Mouse was simply regurgitating information from the Chernobyl disaster without knowing anything about it.

Is there another nuclear accident I should have used to learn about something that has not happened? How can someone talk about a subject if there is no evidence it ever took place? You guys get to talk about Evolution, the Bible thumper's talk about Noah's ark with no real evidence but some books, and I can't talk about a subject that had actual video?

WTF is wrong with some of you? Instead of Cry Havoc just giving props were they may be due he continues to stay firm and join hands with the other lame mouse haters and ride the raft of ignorance down the river of stupidity.

Completely different scenarios.
.

So true neither one involved nuclear reactor damage or radiation leaks.

how does your foot taste?

[George Gervin's Afro]

I dont' think anybody really thought they were getting the full skinny on this.

As I noted much earlier, no official pronouncement when it comes to nuclear accidents ever proves to have been 100% forthcoming.

I blame Obama for the Japanese misinformation

sincerely,

WC, Yoni, Darrins

[MannyIsGod]

Cherynoble didn't really happen it was faked in a nasa studio.

[CosmicCowboy]

Cherynoble didn't really happen it was faked in a nasa studio.

[baseline bum]

Cherynoble didn't really happen it was faked in a nasa studio.

[TeyshaBlue]

Let me quess....nasa used thermite to produce the f/x?

[DarrinS]

Number of dead from ratiation: 0

Number of dead from water: 10,000+

[mouse]

Cherynoble didn't really happen it was faked in a nasa studio.

You have proof?

[MannyIsGod]

Did did you read the Chernobyl Comission Report? Everyone knows reactors don't just fall apart by themselves.

Have you ever actually seen Chernobyl with your own eyes, Mouse?

[MannyIsGod]

Number of dead from ratiation: 0

Number of dead from water: 10,000+

Also, the amount of radiation let loose so far would not fill the Superdome.

[CosmicCowboy]

Also, the amount of radiation let loose so far would not fill the Superdome.

Damn Manny...you are on a roll today...

[nkdlunch]

Also, the amount of radiation let loose so far would not fill the Superdome.

you have a link for this?

[MannyIsGod]

Damn Manny...you are on a roll today...

I had a balanced breakfast and these mother ers provide endless stupid content to be exploited. Its a great world.

[nkdlunch]

since small amounts of radiation are reaching West Coast. I think the amount of radiation spread from Japan must be huge.

And no, it won't kill anyone here. But I don't understand why ppl claim that to be a good thing. The point is these quan ies of radiation released are the biggest since Chernobyl. That is huge. Nobody thought this could be possible in this day and age.

[nkdlunch]

Number of dead from ratiation: 0

Number of dead from water: 10,000+

•More than 125 elderly Japanese patients, many comatose, were abandoned by medical staff at a hospital six miles from the damaged Fukushima nuclear plant, The Guardian reported. At least 14 subsequently died.

•At least 11 men and women perished inside a retirement home in Kesennuma, where for six days they faced freezing temperatures, according to the Guardian.

•Fourteen senior citizens died after being moved to a temporary shelter in a school gym because their hospital was in the evacuation zone near the damaged Fukushima nuclear power plant, The Associated Press reported.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/42150705...s-asiapacific/

[MannyIsGod]

since small amounts of radiation are reaching West Coast. I think the amount of radiation spread from Japan must be huge.

And no, it won't kill anyone here. But I don't understand why ppl claim that to be a good thing. The point is these quan ies of radiation released are the biggest since Chernobyl. That is huge. Nobody thought this could be possible in this day and age.

Its not that huge. The amounts reaching us here are extremely low. This is what I mean about people not understanding these figures very well at all. I'm fairly surprised all the particle weren't precipitated over the pacific because they never even reached a large height but you don't need a huge release to detect it elsewhere given the proper conditions.

[nkdlunch]

Its not that huge. The amounts reaching us here are extremely low. This is what I mean about people not understanding these figures very well at all. I'm fairly surprised all the particle weren't precipitated over the pacific because they never even reached a large height but you don't need a huge release to detect it elsewhere given the proper conditions.

tell me a previous man-made event that is not Chernobyl or a nuclear bomb that released more radiation.

[TeyshaBlue]

[RandomGuy]

Also, the amount of radiation let loose so far would not fill the Superdome.

(self-referencial humor for insiders)

For the uninitiated,

"So far there isn't enough oil leaking from the Deepwater Horizon to fill the Superdome" was given as a reason not to be concerned by DarrinS I think (Wild Cobra?).

[RandomGuy]

•More than 125 elderly Japanese patients, many comatose, were abandoned by medical staff at a hospital six miles from the damaged Fukushima nuclear plant, The Guardian reported. At least 14 subsequently died.

•At least 11 men and women perished inside a retirement home in Kesennuma, where for six days they faced freezing temperatures, according to the Guardian.

•Fourteen senior citizens died after being moved to a temporary shelter in a school gym because their hospital was in the evacuation zone near the damaged Fukushima nuclear power plant, The Associated Press reported.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/42150705...s-asiapacific/

None of those deaths was attributed to radiation, to my knowledge.

Most of them, as noted died from hypothermia or similar.

It takes very little exposure or neglect to kill your average nursing home resident, sadly.