Nuclear Power Plants

[heironymouspasparagus]

One of the kids has one, so I am safe.  I'll just borrow that one.

[Teatownclown]

Breach suspected at troubled Japanese power plant

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110325/ap_on_bi_ge/as_japan_earthquake

Some workers exposed to radiation levels 10,000x normal levels, these guys going in there are true heros.

[Conan71]

That's  Fukushima'd up.

[nathanm]

Fukuoku?

[Teatownclown]

Not funny...take it from a real clown.  

Japan Radioactive Iodine Releases May Exceed Three Mile Island by 100,000 Times
Institute Calls for More Intensive Contingency Planning by Japanese Authorities; U.S. Should Move as Much Spent Fuel as Possible to Dry Storage to Reduce Most Severe Risks, Suspend Licensing and Relicensing During Review

http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2011/03/25-3

We can't let Libya drown this out. THIS is far more important.

[nathanm]

We can't let Libya drown this out. THIS is far more important.

An attempt to wipe out the entirety of a country's political opposition using violent means is absolutely positively less important than minor radioactive contamination that will likely dissipate in months, which is absolutely less important than tens of thousands of people dead from an earthquake and tsunami and the resultant people still starving to death because supplies can't reach them due to the devastation.

[Teatownclown]

We not talking high levels of radiation in a puddle or a pool.

We're talking high levels of radiation in the open ocean three hundred yards from shore.

That's incredibly awful.

http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2011/03/26-0

Level of Iodine-131 in Seawater Off Chart
1,250 Times Higher than Normal; Contamination Spreading

The horror!   

[heironymouspasparagus]

Nathan,
We support that all the time - the  wiping out of political opposition - and when we don't support, we at least talk about it (Chavez in Venezuela.  As in regime change of the democratically elected leader.)  So how is that more important than even good intestinal regularity??

[Teatownclown]

This discussion started BEFORE Fuckushima. It's now the end of the thread and the endof nuclear power as an option.

Oh the irony at TNF

Japan's Nuclear Rescuers: 'Inevitable Some of Them May Die Within Weeks'

Beyond horror....more like dead earth. Can you believe I am citing a Faux News link? That's how bad this is.....

http://www.foxnews.com/world/2011/03/31/japans-nuclear-rescuers-inevitable-die-weeks/

[Conan71]

This discussion started BEFORE Fuckushima. It's now the end of the thread and the endof nuclear power as an option.

Oh the irony at TNF

Japan's Nuclear Rescuers: 'Inevitable Some of Them May Die Within Weeks'

Beyond horror....more like dead earth. Can you believe I am citing a Faux News link? That's how bad this is.....

http://www.foxnews.com/world/2011/03/31/japans-nuclear-rescuers-inevitable-die-weeks/

God bless these brave souls.

[patric]

God bless these brave souls.

+1.

Is there actually any credible agency that does daily radiologic monitoring in Oklahoma?

This  http://www.ok.gov/health/Organization/Office_of_Communications/News_Releases/2011_News_Releases/OSDH_Statement-OSDH_Continues_to_Monitor_Japan_Radiation_Situation.html
is out of date, and vague.

[Teatownclown]

+1.

Is there actually any credible agency that does daily radiologic monitoring in Oklahoma?

I saw a story yesterday that over %50 of detectors are not working due to lousy EPA testing of sensors during the past 10 years (imagine that).

It's ok, Russellville is downwind and Carey Dickerson saved us from having radiation in our back yard with a little help from liberals Jackson Browne and Bonnie Raitt.

[Teatownclown]

Crews 'facing 100-year battle' at Fuckushima'

http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2011/04/01/3179487.htm

50 to 100 years of high levels of radiation leaking in to the Pacific?

Have we now lost The Gulf Of Mexico and the Pacific Ocean to Corporate greed?

[Cats Cats Cats]

Crews 'facing 100-year battle' at Fuckushima'

http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2011/04/01/3179487.htm

50 to 100 years of high levels of radiation leaking in to the Pacific?

Have we now lost The Gulf Of Mexico and the Pacific Ocean to Corporate greed?

This isn't about greed.  It is about poor contingency planning.  The lack of information is about saving face.  Watch freakonomics. The Japanese have a 97 or 98% murder solving rate.  Know why?  If they can't find a killer it is an "abandoned body". That is why everyday they make a report.  Then say it was wrong.  Either they are trying to save face or they are too incompetent to use nuclear power.

[Teatownclown]

This isn't about greed.  It is about poor contingency planning.  The lack of information is about saving face.  Watch freakonomics. The Japanese have a 97 or 98% murder solving rate.  Know why?  If they can't find a killer it is an "abandoned body". That is why everyday they make a report.  Then say it was wrong.  Either they are trying to save face or they are too incompetent to use nuclear power.

What? The Japanese have a high rate of solving murders because as a preventative measure nobody has guns!

IT'S NOT THE JAPANESE IT'S THE COMPANY THAT OWNS THE REACTOR THAT HAD NOT SPENT THE APPROPRIATE FUNDS TO PREVENT THIS HORRID NIGHTMARE! POOR CONTINGENCY PLANNING HAS A DIRECT INVERSE RELATIONSHIP TO SPENDING!

IT'S ALL ABOUT GREED (aka cutting costs, saving money whatever you wish to call it)! Who pushes the cutbacks in regulations and oversight?