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The freezniks are going to come out of their mommie's closet that they've been in since the 1980's claiming that nuclear power (once the salvation of mankind) will kill us all... again.
A freak disaster and suddenly, it's Malthusian Time! Break out the Pinwheels, Mirrors and Moonshine! It's time to wear hemp and live in grass huts while hunting and gathering again.
Rachel Maddow did a thorough discussion of the situation. It's pretty scary.
Obviously you're seeing something that may or may not be there. Please elaborate on how a National catastrophe is an international one.The freezniks are going to come out of their mommie's closet that they've been in since the 1980's claiming that nuclear power (once the salvation of mankind) will kill us all... again.
A freak disaster and suddenly, it's Malthusian Time! Break out the Pinwheels, Mirrors and Moonshine! It's time to wear hemp and live in grass huts while hunting and gathering again.
You realize this could be an international catastrophe?
Madcow is a propagandist, not a news source.Rachel Maddow did a thorough discussion of the situation. It's pretty scary.
The freezniks are going to come out of their mommie's closet that they've been in since the 1980's claiming that nuclear power (once the salvation of mankind) will kill us all... again.
A freak disaster and suddenly, it's Malthusian Time! Break out the Pinwheels, Mirrors and Moonshine! It's time to wear hemp and live in grass huts while hunting and gathering again.
The freezniks are going to come out of their mommie's closet that they've been in since the 1980's claiming that nuclear power (once the salvation of mankind) will kill us all... again.
A freak disaster and suddenly, it's Malthusian Time! Break out the Pinwheels, Mirrors and Moonshine! It's time to wear hemp and live in grass huts while hunting and gathering again.
Its' not a "freak" disaster, sport.
It was an earthquake in a place where earthquakes are a well known, well understood and completely NORMAL event.
Obviously the safegards put into place to deal with this earthquake and Tsuami just weren't good enough.
The solution isn't
Break out the Pinwheels, Mirrors and Moonshine! It's time to wear hemp and live in grass huts while hunting and gathering againMake those safeguards better.
it is to make even better safeguards.
It might behoove mankind NOT to put nuclear plants in active eathquake zones, too, don't you think?
The freezniks are going to come out of their mommie's closet that they've been in since the 1980's claiming that nuclear power (once the salvation of mankind) will kill us all... again.
A freak disaster and suddenly, it's Malthusian Time! Break out the Pinwheels, Mirrors and Moonshine! It's time to wear hemp and live in grass huts while hunting and gathering again.
Its' not a "freak" disaster, sport.
It was an earthquake in a place where earthquakes are a well known, well understood and completely NORMAL event.
Obviously the safegards put into place to deal with this earthquake and Tsuami just weren't good enough.
The solution isn't
Break out the Pinwheels, Mirrors and Moonshine! It's time to wear hemp and live in grass huts while hunting and gathering againMake those safeguards better.
it is to make even better safeguards.
It might behoove mankind NOT to put nuclear plants in active eathquake zones, too, don't you think?
I actually agree that building nuclear reactors in earthquake zones is not such a great idea. However, how bad an idea is likely to be known soon. So far Japanese authorities seem confident that the containment building will be the big problem, not a Chernobyl type problem. Given the catastrophe they are operating under, if they are correct, I expect nuclear power will become more prevalent not less, outside of earthquake zones.
Radiation down at Japan nuke plant after blast
By YURI KAGEYAMA, Associated Press Yuri Kageyama, Associated Press 32 mins ago
TOKYO Japan's government spokesman says the metal container sheltering a nuclear reactor was not affected by an explosion that destroyed the building it's in.
Yukio Edano says the radiation around the plant did not rise after the blast but instead is decreasing. He added that pressure in the reactor was also decreasing.
Pressure and heat have been building at the nuclear reactor since an earthquake and tsunami Friday caused its cooling system to fail.
An explosion Saturday blew out the walls of the building housing the reactor. The government has ordered people within a 12-mile (20-kilometer) radius of the plant in Fukushima to evacuate the area...
That's always a possibility...and if the worst happens, who could blame them?The freezniks are going to come out of their mommie's closet that they've been in since the 1980's claiming that nuclear power (once the salvation of mankind) will kill us all... again.
A freak disaster and suddenly, it's Malthusian Time! Break out the Pinwheels, Mirrors and Moonshine! It's time to wear hemp and live in grass huts while hunting and gathering again.
A bit of 'good' news?
Sure...if we use the same stringent regulations and safety checks.A bit of 'good' news?
I hope so, but I'm more inclined to think it is a false positive, or a logistical abnormality.
That wasn't a small explosion. And it appeared to come with no warning at all.
But I will say this.....
If this plant comes through this without releasing a major amount of radiation through a period of almost complete blackout, logistical paralysis, and total isolation, we need to build these things on every street corner we can find.
I'm more inclined to think the situation is much worse than they are letting on. And I can understand why they would try to keep it quiet at this time. Once their infrastructures have recovered sufficiently, I suspect the story will be different.
Sure...if we use the same stringent regulations and safety checks.A bit of 'good' news?
I hope so, but I'm more inclined to think it is a false positive, or a logistical abnormality.
That wasn't a small explosion. And it appeared to come with no warning at all.
But I will say this.....
If this plant comes through this without releasing a major amount of radiation through a period of almost complete blackout, logistical paralysis, and total isolation, we need to build these things on every street corner we can find.
I'm more inclined to think the situation is much worse than they are letting on. And I can understand why they would try to keep it quiet at this time. Once their infrastructures have recovered sufficiently, I suspect the story will be different.
Sure...if we use the same stringent regulations and safety checks.A bit of 'good' news?
I hope so, but I'm more inclined to think it is a false positive, or a logistical abnormality.
That wasn't a small explosion. And it appeared to come with no warning at all.
But I will say this.....
If this plant comes through this without releasing a major amount of radiation through a period of almost complete blackout, logistical paralysis, and total isolation, we need to build these things on every street corner we can find.
I'm more inclined to think the situation is much worse than they are letting on. And I can understand why they would try to keep it quiet at this time. Once their infrastructures have recovered sufficiently, I suspect the story will be different.
I take it they have not restored the cooling systems yet? Does anyone know?
Radiation leaked from a damaged Japanese nuclear reactor on Saturday after an explosion blew the roof off in the wake of a massive earthquake, but the government insisted that radiation levels were low.
The blast raised fears of a meltdown at the facility north of Tokyo as officials scrambled to contain what could be the worst nuclear disaster since the Chernobyl explosion in 1986 that shocked the world.
I take it they have not restored the cooling systems yet? Does anyone know?
From what I'm reading and understanding, emphasis on the second as a matter of warning; no, they've not stopped the heating, but seems they have contained the problem within the building. As you said, we'll know more soon. Even those islands are not insulated, remember that I believe it was the Swiss that picked up the radiation levels with Chernobyl, not the USSR.