Japan Disaster! Hit By 9.0 Earthquake, Huge Tsunami, Nukes Meltdown

Ah, but water isn't dangerous! I have a glass of it right on my desk! See, it's not even moving! I can even drink some of it without ill effects!

So there is no danger folks... just keep moving along, nothing to see here... it's only water. Water is SAFE, don't let those water haters tell you otherwise!

- This message brought to you by the water industry...

 

Let's see, so far Germany has now put on hold its recent decision to allow Germany's old nuke plants (like the ones in Japan) to continue in operation another 10 years. This was a done deal before the tsunami. Last Saturday was a huge anti-nuke protest in Berlin over this very issue.

Switzerland now says it will review the status of all its nuke plants before allowing any more to go thru the approval process.

I think the US has or is thinking about doing exactly the same.

Whether these reviews will result in any operating nuke plants being shutdown remains to be seen. But the worse this situation becomes, the less likely it is for these types of reactors to stay in service.

Time to put all this nuke money into renewable non-polluting sources of energy!

 

Are these meltdowns in anyway connected to that Sheen meltdown we've been witnessing?

And talking about chain reactions...

Think about this chain reaction...A huge quake far underneath the surface of the ocean sets off a tsunami, which slams into the coast of Japan, sweeping away most man-made trifles, and taking out parts of a nuclear plant that has several reactors with their own chain reactions going on... Then one by one, pumps start failing providing vital cooling water to the reactors... The water vaporizes exposing dangerous radioactive rods containing uranium and plutonium... They flood the reactors with sea water, which releases hydrogen, which then gets released into the outside air, and upon contacting oxygen there are huge explosions that destroy the secondary containment buildings...and it's not over yet...

So hows that for a chain reaction of events, all of it beyond human control (or made worse due to human stupidity).

But don't worry folks, it's all UNDER CONTROL! They meant to do that. They study every scenario, including this one, no doubt and they made sure such scenarios would never present a problem or danger to anyone...

Yes, some say there is nothing to worry about. Like the plant director of the San Onofre nuclear power plant who was just interviewed on CNN who said his plant could withstand a bigger quake than what hit Japan... Of course San Onofre is located right on a fault line by the sea with a 32 foot high seawall...

Experts now say this crisis is worse than Three Mile Island. So this is now the second worse nuclear plant disaster ever.

 

CNN is reporting that the inner containment unit of reactor #2, is the third reactor to blow, releasing high radiation. The outer containment has not blown, but may be leaking. Things are going downhill fast, apparently...