Fukushima - Here We Go!

[jiminphilly]

I'd like to hear from Reggie White on this.

[Jay in Phoenix]

The Japanese and other Asians are inventive, you go to any Asian country and they can turn a television into a watch. They can also turn a power plant into Hello Kitty Funtime...or death. I get those two confused.

[LTS TRN 2]

The most chilling aspect of this dire moment is that the company conducting this crucial mission is none other than TEPCO,the same fuckups who let it get this bad in the first place. And you're absolutely right in suggesting this as a pivotal event in modern history. Notice how it's basically being ignored by our corporate mainstream media.

[Jay in Phoenix]

Dead on the mark LTS. The fact that the mainstream media has just completely ignored this story and event is preposterous. Worse still, is the environmental disaster that is happening, unchecked and growing more insidious by the day. TEPCO is guilty of murder, pure and simple, and their failed attempt to cover it up is a joke. The fallout from this will be felt for decades. Horrifying. Get ready west coast, this is going to be ugly.

[Shlomart Ben Yisrael]

Get ready west coast, this is going to be ugly.

Lady X, my offer still stands...

[Left Seater]

Dead on the mark LTS. The fact that the mainstream media has just completely ignored this story and event is preposterous. Worse still, is the environmental disaster that is happening, unchecked and growing more insidious by the day. TEPCO is guilty of murder, pure and simple, and their failed attempt to cover it up is a joke. The fallout from this will be felt for decades. Horrifying. Get ready west coast, this is going to be ugly.

That will rack.

[The Seer]

Great opportunity for some payback.

[poptart]

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After all that, the partial meltdown did not breach the containment vessel and release of radiation was minimal.
This is not a nuclear disaster story. It is a nuclear success story.

- mvscal



I wonder if mvscal would like to revisit this take.

[Wolfman]

Check this out. I remember the well publicized radioactive rain from ChiCom H- tests. Break out the lead umbrellas?

http://www.ki4u.com/transpacific.htm

[Felix]

Yale University professor Charles Perrow wrote about the number 4 fuel pool this year in the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists.

He said one pool contains 10 times the amount of radioactive caesium present in the Chernobyl disaster and warned one slip-up with the removal could trigger a chain reaction.

"This has me very scared," he told the ABC.

10 times the amount of radioactive caesium as Chernobyl?

look for eight eyed walking fish coming soon to a Red Lobster near you.....

[mvscal]

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After all that, the partial meltdown did not breach the containment vessel and release of radiation was minimal.
This is not a nuclear disaster story. It is a nuclear success story.

- mvscal



I wonder if mvscal would like to revisit this take.

Why not? Well, let's see. How many people have died? Nobody?

There is no doubting that TEPCO has been completely dishonest and totally incompetant. Their entire management should be invited to commit seppuku. That doesn't change the FACT that this incident is hardly the environmental Armeggedon that certain hysterical activists would have you believe.

[Felix]

Why not? Well, let's see. How many people have died? Nobody?

I'm sure there will be no adverse effects to the general population from the radiation that's leaked out (and is currently leaking) from the Fukushima site....Plant 4 isn't the problem, it's Plants 1, 2, and 3 that are the problem....the cores have melted and the radiation levels are so high no one can even get near them.....they have no idea how they're going to dismantle those plants....

There is no doubting that TEPCO has been completely dishonest and totally incompetant. Their entire management should be invited to commit seppuku. That doesn't change the FACT that this incident is hardly the environmental Armeggedon that certain hysterical activists would have you believe.

yeah, well we'll see what happens when they start extracting fuel rods....
why Japan is leaving this up to TEPCO is beyond me......

[mvscal]

yeah, well we'll see what happens when they start extracting fuel rods....
why Japan is leaving this up to TEPCO is beyond me......

The DoE is there in, at least, an advisory capacity. Hard to say what exactly their role might be. They could very well be running the show with the media minimizing their presence to save face for TEPCO. Who really knows? Getting honest, reliable information out has been most significant problem since the incident happened.

TEPCO shouldn't be allowed to do so much as pedal bicycle operated generators to power mud huts.

[Mikey]

Yeah, no worries. Just dump all the rods and contaminates into the Pacific. What could go wrong.

Not that dumping all the trash in the ocean is the best answer, but there is a concept normally referred to as "dilution".

[Screw_Michigan]

As I stated before - nothing wrong with nuke power - as long as you don't stick the fuckers on earthquake-prone zones. Simple as that. This shit could be VERY serious. However, our press is seemingly convinced that NFL players being politically correct is far more important.

Go figger.

Liberal northeast pukes, right?

[Dinsdale]

Hanford, WA doesn't have earthquakes... oh wait, yeah they do.

You never hear much about that fucker, even though it's currently leaking, without an earthquake.

It's also the site of the largest public works project in US history. They figured out a way to encapsulate the radioactive waste in glass. So far, after many, many years, and many billions spent, they've currently produced exactly zero of the glass thingies.

[Felix]

They figured out a way to encapsulate the radioactive waste in glass. So far, after many, many years, and many billions spent, they've currently produced exactly zero of the glass thingies.

Bechtel is all over it......

don't forget to sign up for the Hanford Tour, I hear it's a real hoot......while they don't provide radiation suits, I hear the lunch buffet is to die for.....

http://www5.hanford.gov/publictours/

[Mikey]

I live about 18 miles downwind from San Onofre. When they found out about the problems with the steam generators the drug stores all started featuring iodine pills.

[Mikey]

Hanford, WA doesn't have earthquakes... oh wait, yeah they do.

You never hear much about that fucker, even though it's currently leaking, without an earthquake.

It's also the site of the largest public works project in US history. They figured out a way to encapsulate the radioactive waste in glass. So far, after many, many years, and many billions spent, they've currently produced exactly zero of the glass thingies.

Glass is famous for being earthquake resistant.

[Jerkovich]

Pacific and Gulf seafood is now off the menu.

[Dinsdale]

Isn't that incredible? You can't turn the TV on any channel without seeing that non-story, yet you couldn't find 1 person out of 100 who's seen or read anything about Fukushima since the tsunami.

Or the biggest nuke facility in the country leaking profusely into one of the biggest rivers in the country, upstream from a major metro area.

But Incognito said some bad words.