Thoughts on Japans nuke plant blowing up....

bad, very bad..

 

All online potassium iodine pills are gone - that tells me something

 

yea, not a big thing. They can flush thier surfaces to aid in ridding contaminants .Not sure on carriers, but on subs we all wore dosimeters,think we called em TLD's. They build the vessesl with non radioactive materials , so any radiation they find is a leak or something else. When i say nonradioactive materials , im refering to any stone product has radiation , we live with it daily , its not acceptable on a nuclear ship.

 

Just tuning in..

is there a 3rd reactor now in partial meltdown? or did one of the previous 2 reactors have a full melt down?

 

KK so recap:

Reactor 1: Partial Melt down
Reactor 2: Cooling system failing which proceeds partial meltdown
Reactor 3: Partial melt down
Reactor 4: Shut down for safety

thats what I got out of the news

 

Thanks, you recap better than CNN at this point. Theyre talking to the Danish Prime minister.

 

It's what I'm here for

I'm not going to lie, as tragic as this is, my mechanical curiousity is glued to the news screens. Besides the physical nuke core, I work with and operate any and all of thier secondary systems and instumentation. I love big machines.

 

Crap. Why do I have to live so far north?

It's okay, my house was built in 1922, it's probably got enough lead and asbestos to bounce that sucker back across the Pacific.

 

I need to move back to Beijing

 

I spoke to my father about this last night. He is a retired Army Corps of Engineers general officer, a West Point (B.S. in Civil Engineering), and M.I.T. grad (M.S in Nuclear Engineering). He built the first reactor in North America located in Alaska named SM1A.

He says this is much-ado-about-nothing. Not comparable in the least with Chernobyl. These Japanese engineers and scientists are arguably the best in the world and the risks being put out by the mass media are overblown. The biggest threat to the Japanese people is a lack of adequate/clean fodd, water, shelter, and medical response.

May God bless them all. They need our prayers.

 

They are built to handle earthquakes, but nothing like this.You have to remember this quake was 6000 times stronger than the New Zeland one. Also just to show the strength the entire country of japan has now moved 8ft east. Also the day is now shorter since the Earth is now spinning faster.

 

True and good point. However, despite the enormous risks, containment can be adequately controlled under most catastrophic conditions. Admittedly, there are many unknowns and being untrained and not on the ground there, we are all just speculators and spectators. The best we can do is pray. I still believe that nuclear power is a far better source of energy than solar or wind--very efficient and every industry has its risks. Solar and wind are great ideas but hardly cost-effective... they are inefficient on a large scale. Look at Ethanol ... it has been a complete bust. It costs more to produce that crappy gas than the energy it produces, not too mention, very bad for combustion engines over the long haul.

Continued prayers for Japan.

 

They should built these things with huge factors of safety, but money and time doesn't grow on trees. I am confident that designers thought these could handle anything.

 

If the shoe was on the other foot , in a similar earthquake and tsunami , I would hazard to guess that even the American nuclear plants designed by German engineers would have similar issues .

 

Is this gonna be worse than Chernobyl?

 

Yep. When a plant blows it will open up a black hole swallowing the earth and the sun which will eat the earth and hopefully kill us instantly. If we don't die instantly you will be slowly burned to death as you are crushed to death by the enoumous gravity of the black hole. Haha we will be fine. We have much less to worry about than the japanese. In the absolute worst case I don't see that much radiation release.

 

Hehehehehhehehehe......

 

The shoe might be on the other foot Oz:

"And the quake, said to be the largest to hit Japan in more than 100 years, is a "mirror image" of what is predicted to happen on the west coast of North America -- off Canada's West coast from Vancouver along the coast to Northern California -- sometime within the next 100 years, he said. "It is expected to occur every 500 years, scientists are quite certain there will be another earthquake, we don't know when," he said.
One last struck in North America off the west coast about 310 years ago and there are predictions of another shaker within the next 100 years, he said."

Source:http://www.bradfordtimes.ca/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=3017847