Fukushima Daini nuclear plant

thebattle · Post by **thebattle** » Sunday Mar 13, 2011

Has anybody been following this? I think this is some serious scary stuff. It could be chernobyl all over again.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/42056237/ns ... ?GT1=43001

For thos of you that have no clue what chernobyl is

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UQJO0VKxmuU

its a 6 part bbc documentary

Slothkill · Post by **Slothkill** » Monday Mar 14, 2011

U.S. Support ships are backing off. I do think The Japanese will "control" the situation more so than the Russians did with Chernobyl.
I'm more concerned with the whole ring of fire in the Pacific as far as eathquakes go. March 19th is a supermoon, the oon will be only about 220 thousand miles from Earth. Some think this could cause even more devastation.
And check this out.
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2011 ... unami.html

thebattle · Post by **thebattle** » Monday Mar 14, 2011

well i heard on the news yesterday that they detected radiation 100miles off the coast from a us ship. I dont think they are going to be able to handle the situation either. I do belive there lying about it also ... Look at chernobyl how much they lied to cover up the damage and 24 hrs was too late its hard to say how many mags are being read over there i think it takes like 500 or something to be fatal.

songsmith · Post by **songsmith** » Monday Mar 14, 2011

I think it's fortunate that winds are carrying everything out to sea, as opposed to blowing everything onshore. What a mindbending disaster this is. The pictures are almost beyond what your mind can picture. Tom Rhodes posted an incredible video on Facebook with cars "flowing" down a street. I've seen pictures of a fighter jet nosed into a house, an oil tanker on it's side in an empty parking lot, and a commercial ferry on top of an office building. The mind just boggles at the destruction.

Slothkill · Post by **Slothkill** » Monday Mar 14, 2011

Winds are carrying everything to the West Coast

Post by **Jim Price** » Monday Mar 14, 2011

As far as the "ring of fire," I saw one expert explain that it could be a chain reaction of seismic events that started last year with the Chile earthquake, continued last month with New Zealand and now Japan. The eastern edge of that tectonic plate - and the eastern rim of the "ring of fire" - run along the west coast of North America. If the seismic activity is a domino effect, the next activity could be in the Pacific northwest (impacting Vancouver and Seattle with an earthquake and/or tsunami), or southern California. It's not a sure thing, but there is concern; and this same expert said that it's likely that the west coast will see another major earthquake within the next 30 years.

songsmith · Post by **songsmith** » Tuesday Mar 15, 2011

Last I saw, our people were saying there was no forseeable scenario that would have any real danger reaching America... there's thousands of miles of open ocean to dilute it. It's not like Chernobyl, where the winds carried the radiation over populated areas. Chernobyl was also designed and built by idiots, whereas the Japanese have as much nuke-power experience as we do.
I do believe it's a little worse than they're letting on, though. I read where there would be worldwide FINANCIAL issues from a meltdown that would have more bad effects than the radiation. The energy sector is stretched tight as a drum with over-speculation, and it could burst that bubble. Oil is already headed south.

f.sciarrillo · Post by **f.sciarrillo** » Tuesday Mar 15, 2011

There was a guy on the news today saying that anyone who is saying that the nuclear issue will turn out like Chernobyl are fear mongering. My only concern is the people of the country, they had another quake today.

Banned · Post by **Banned** » Tuesday Mar 15, 2011

songsmith wrote: Chernobyl was also designed and built by idiots, whereas the Japanese have as much nuke-power experience as we do.

The Japanese plants were built by GE.

Colton · Post by **Colton** » Tuesday Mar 15, 2011

tick... tick... tick... tick...

thebattle · Post by **thebattle** » Tuesday Mar 15, 2011

Colton wrote:tick... tick... tick... tick...

thats basically all it is . It appears that as the days go by the worse they get another fire broke out today.

thebattle · Post by **thebattle** » Tuesday Mar 15, 2011

The plant has been evacuated of workers b/c of radiation levels being too high to work in so that leaves 4 reactors too melt down i think it should be a lvl 7 now.

Banned · Post by **Banned** » Wednesday Mar 16, 2011

http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/fukushima ... d=13141287

This is not good news.

RobTheDrummer · Post by **RobTheDrummer** » Wednesday Mar 16, 2011

On a related note.....the radiation has had some other effects...

I know, that's fucked up....