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I don't have a good feeling about this...

Midlife

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My concern is about the Japanese nuclear power plant that has lost power to its cooling system after the earthquake and tsunami. My fear is that this will turn into either a 3 Mile Island or a Chernobyl. We should know within a day or two.
 
Bush's fault...errrr climate change, no, global warming. Can't just be simple plate tectonics.

I thought that the Japanese were on the cutting edge of earthquake readiness? Not being sarcastic for a change, I really thought they were way ahead on that. I hope they can get the reactors under control, that could be a very bad situation.
 
"silverblueBP" said:
I thought that the Japanese were on the cutting edge of earthquake readiness? Not being sarcastic for a change, I really thought they were way ahead on that. I hope they can get the reactors under control, that could be a very bad situation.
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That what several news reports were saying, Japanese are the best prepared for earthquakes. That being said , according to reports the 2 backup power systems (diesel generators, battery power) both failed. There is a theorem (can't recall the name) that postulates huge catastrophies are the result of a sequence of small failures which combine at the most inopportune times to result in tradgedy.

If the plants turn out to be OK, I don't want this to be a nagative on our Nuke industry. If anything, we need to expand plant production and open Yucca Mountain for waste disposal. (I'm not trying to get too political here.)
 
"SAC69" said:
I don't want this to be a nagative on our Nuke industry.
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I haven't heard anything positive about "our" nuke program in, well, ummm, never. This, regardless of outcome, will do nothing to help it. Yeah, it sucks.
 
"SAC69" said:
That what several news reports were saying, Japanese are the best prepared for earthquakes. That being said , according to reports the 2 backup power systems (diesel generators, battery power) both failed. There is a theorem (can't recall the name) that postulates huge catastrophies are the result of a sequence of small failures which combine at the most inopportune times to result in tradgedy.

If the plants turn out to be OK, I don't want this to be a nagative on our Nuke industry. If anything, we need to expand plant production and open Yucca Mountain for waste disposal. (I'm not trying to get too political here.)
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+1
 
Things are not looking any better...gawd, I feel for the poor Japanese citizenry in this time of terrible tragedy.
 
I agree, I can't imagine the shit they are/will be going through for some time.
 
Terrible tragedy. I lived in Misawa Japan from 1993-1995, just up the road to the north of Sendai. A few contacts I have there say the power is out and it's supposed to snow tonight. Where they live is in a higher elevation, so the surge didnt reach them. This will be a tough year for all the Japanese - God bless them.
 
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