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

Discussion in 'Latest Hip News Stories' started by skip, Mar 11, 2011.

  1. 6-eyed shaman

    6-eyed shaman Sock-eye salmon

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    All that sea water flowing over all those crop fields and orchards. I can't imagine that soil could be fertile again for the next few years after all that salt seeps its way in. The nuclear meltdown will just make things all that much worse in the soil.
     
  2. sentastorm

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    Its just awful, shocked beyond belief.
     
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  4. SunLion

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    The radiation from a meltdown is actually less harmful than emissions from a perfectly operating coal plant.




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  6. dan17

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    this is really a disaster just cross our finger that won't happen again and pray for those victim
     
  7. sunfighter

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    That is extremely misleading. What is your motivation for white-washing nuclear?

    The high smokestack of a coal plant spreads the cancer-causing material far and wide, essentially diluting it. There is some radioactivity, but it's mostly toxic metals.

    After a meltdown, the land will be cancer-causing for 10,000 years, forcing a huge area to be abandoned essentially forever. Not to mention the near-term cancer deaths from radiation exposure.
     
  8. sunfighter

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    From listening to CNN this morning, it seems pretty clear that we have a worst-case scenario. The containment vessel at Reactor #2 has a breech, which will force the withdrawal of all the workers fighting bravely to manage the problems at the other reactors, which may well lead to other meltdowns, unless the workers decide to work to death and this being Japan with a samurai tradition, that may happen.
     
  9. relaxxx

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    That is just beyond stupid! You get some radioactive particles on you that can potentially end your life a thousand times faster than natural aging and I guarantee you'll be shitting yourself to get cleaned up.



    I've lost track of the explosions now. CNN saying this morning "Another explosion - Dangerous radiation leaked" and they show the same old clip of the first explosion 3 days ago...
     
  10. willedwill

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    During Chernobyl's accident which was one broad explosion into the atmosphere the problems in water contamination and dangerous levels of ground emissions were due to local organisms at a range of a 500 miles radius passing around isotopes in the ground water. Food became suspect in much of eastern Europe, even if the atmosphere took altering readings to the human body. Yet people were constantly coming to the hospitals for check ups.

    France, Scotland had an extraordinarily high range of radioactivity concentration when the air became still there, but people came out I guess well because of the better clinic treatment and medicine. Sweden was another interesting weather phenomenon.

    And eventually people were dying from cancer (terrible death), just the statistics would show more often.
     
  11. FireflyInTheDark

    FireflyInTheDark Sell-out with a Heart of Gold

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    It's not quite the same as asking, say, the people of Louisiana, who have a whole country they could migrate to instead of rebuilding the levees to keep their below-sea-level town from being moved over by hurricanes year after year. Japan isn't incredibly huge. They have limited space and lots of people. There aren't really too many other places for people to go...

    I love your posts. Seriously, we should make a book compilation of just your quotes. We could sell it in the inspirational section. It would make millions.

    lol

    I tried googling "plutonium isn't dangerous" after that particular claim was made just to see what would come up. I didn't get very far.
     
  12. McLeodGanja

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    Maybe now, but 80 years ago?
     
  13. wa bluska wica

    wa bluska wica Pedestrian

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    the most civil people on earth...
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  14. McLeodGanja

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    What's that some kind of mark of respect or spiritual offering, or are they placed there to warn people that the pavement is uneven?
     
  15. skip

    skip Founder Administrator

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    Guess they didn't have those orange cones handy...

    Meanwhile the nuclear incident is now rated at six out of seven for severity of the nuclear disaster (it was originally rated a four). Stay tuned this might change.

    I hear all the workers have left the plant now cause its too dangerous due to radiation levels. But that's OK, it's all under control. Nothing to worry about. Move on folks, time to go back to worrying about Sarah Palin...
     
  16. stinkfoot

    stinkfoot truth

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    ...and Charlie Sheen- please don't forget that media hyped domestic meltdown- already in progress.

    The shit in Japan could be of biblical proportions.
     
  17. skip

    skip Founder Administrator

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    I take it back, there are still some workers at the plant according to this report:
    It must be pretty bad if they are wearing protective gear and are still worried about exposure...

    I'm surprised that nobody here has yet mentioned the words "China Syndrome"...

    Please note this is NOT the complete scenario from the movie "China Syndrome" which posits the radioactive mass might fall thru the earth and reach China. That cannot happen for various reasons. But the danger is real for a lot of nuclear contamination on a wide scale.
     
  18. wa bluska wica

    wa bluska wica Pedestrian

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    perhaps a little of both?

    i think it's to warn people of the crack, and i love how there's bonsai involved

    i'm still gonna move there when some rich fuck dies and accidentally leaves me a bunch of money . . .
     
  19. stinkfoot

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    Gravity would guide the radioactive mass no further than the core- in the absence of any other arresting factor. To me that's akin to a laceration to a body exposing the beating heart... likely with similar grave consequences, metaphorically.

    This gives new meaning to the phrase, drill baby drill.
     
  20. skip

    skip Founder Administrator

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    About those US military flights that have gone thru the radiation. They say another set of crews had to be decontaminated today after flying thru radiation. They tried to downplay the amount of radiation they were exposed to, but look at this, they are in sealed planes (or perhaps choppers that aren't), they are wearing some gear to minimize the exposure, they only pass thru the radiation for a short time, not even an hour which they used to estimate exposure. What if they'd only passed thru the radiation for a minute or two? And they were at elevation, so the radiation had already diminished. So this is a minimum exposure scenario.

    Imagine the situation on the ground... And with rain/snow soon to be coming down, it will set the radioactive materials into the ground to accumulate and radiate for thousands of years...

    Oh, and the reason why things are worse now, than after the first explosion is because the first reactor only had uranium, the other three have uranium and plutonium, which radiates neutrons and gamma rays when it reaches critical mass. The neutrons and gamma rays are far more dangerous than the plutonium itself.
     

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