Thoughts on Japans nuke plant blowing up....

Hmm. The numbers are wrong or the distribution is wrong or it's just flat BS?

 

whole fallout maps bs

 

OK. I just read the snopes thing.

The distribution looks like it's plausible when compared to any of the WX RADAR maps and ocean currents in the area though.

 

I hope this one incident doesn’t cause a problem for US nuclear electricity. Because right now this is the cleanest way to efficiently produce electricity at least until they invent a sustainable fusion reactor. Coal is dirty and produces a lot of hazardous wastes especially the left over ash (yeah and there is a lot more of that produced than nuclear waste). Not to mention all of the mercury it’s putting in the sea life and ozone emissions. Oh and it takes hundreds of pounds of coal to put out the same amount of energy a couple of pounds of low grade uranium can do.

 

My biggest worry is they started with one reactor bad, now they're up to 3 explosions and 4 reactors failing... I just hope they arn't fighting a losing battle :S

 

TRUE THE LIFE IS ABOUT 8 SEC BUT ONCE IN COMES IN CONTACT WITH DEBREE AND DUST IT CAN GET IN THE WIND AND TRAVEL GREAT DISTANCES... NOT A GOOD THING AND THE WORST THING IT WILL AFFECT PPL FOR MANY MANY YEARS.....

 

where are you getting 8 seconds from? thats not true at all..

 

"Dangerous levels of radiation leaking from a crippled nuclear plant forced Japan to order 140,000 people to seal themselves indoors Tuesday after an explosion and a fire dramatically escalated the crisis spawned by a deadly tsunami."

http://www.kob.com/article/stories/S2014407.shtml?cat=500

 

"Japan's nuclear crisis escalated ominously following a third and more dangerous hydrogen explosion early Tuesday local time that may have damaged part of the reactor's primary containment shell, and a fire at a fourth reactor building that caused a major new release of radioactive contamination."

http://www.nytimes.com/cwire/2011/0...sion-rocks-fukushima-nuclear-plant-19902.html

just keeps getting worse...

 

but the latest NEI update sounds optimistic...

http://www.nei.org/newsandevents/information-on-the-japanese-earthquake-and-reactors-in-that-region/

decreasing radioactivity rates

 

It does almost sound like they are fighting a losing battle :s

 

good point brought up by my dad..

"Their position is usually assuming that everybody does their job and that equipment will work.
Yesterday, the operators let the fire pump that was delivering sea water to the reactor #2 run out of diesel fuel. As a result, the hot core boiled off all the water and the hot fuel rods were left uncovered for almost two hours. Up until then, reactor #2 was almost under control.
There's a good chance that part of that core melted or warped so it lost its physical geometry and cooling it is harder to do. Now they are having difficulty cooling it and keeping the pressure down. As a result, they blew out a valve or something that is now allowing water to leak out and that makes it harder to keep the water levels up.
They might be under a little pressure so I can understand them making a mistake here and there, but that was a pretty big mistake.
The longer they can hold on, the better off everything will be, but they need to keep pumping water for a few weeks until the residual heat in the core is low enough to stop making steam."

 

THEY LET THE PUMP RUN OUT OF FUEL???!!

Wow, I'm in no position to be criticizing a natural disastor but that was kinda re-donkulous..

 

Latest:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-pacific-12749444

Reactor #1: Coming under control
Reactor #2: Latest blast damaged containment, leaking 400 Miliseiverts of radiation currently.
Reactor #3: Coming under control
Reactor #4: Shutdown for maintenance due to nuclear fuel being spent, near zero hazard
Reactor #5:Temperatures raising slightly
Reactor #6:Temperatures raising slightly

 

The daiichi plant that has all the issues has 6, not sure about the rest

 

There are 17 nuclear power plants in Japan with a total of 55 nuclear reactors.

 

http://www.foxnews.com/world/2011/0...ses-agency-says-radiation-leaking-atmosphere/

Has anyone heard about this yet? I really hope they are able to get this situation under control.