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They buried Chernobyl by dumping concrete, and now sand over the thing. As for dangerous? Who knows? I wonder if Chernobyl is still reacting.
As for shocking experience, I imagine water would turn to steam pretty quick and go into the atmosphere. After that, maybe it will work?
My strictly uneducated guessing.
uummmmm Where in the world is Shepard Smith? He's been in Tokoyo and been on the air for his show every day. Now I know Friday is usually his "day off" and there is a stand-in but being that he's in Tokoyo and there is a crisis there - I would think he would report. And no sign of him at all. None. So, is he back enroute to the US? Is he headed to the Libya area? I just don't think anyone (reporter-wise) would head off to that region when we are threatening air strikes - but who knows.
I just wonder where in the world Shep went.
REALLY REALLY REALLY good point about Denver and elevation. Notice there are 3 clustered real tight there in Denver and there's one I can't see cause the other 2 are on top.
Would really like to know the elevation of that one in Denver and is it high enough to be picking up the upper atmosphere winds. Upper atmosphere winds are a totally different animal than the "regular wind" that everyone is thinking about the radiation floating in on.
Ikhns.......well if you found anyone quoting levels - actual numbers - you are doing better than me. I can't find any anywhere. Oh, duh......never mind I mis-read your post. Gotcha!
We have a health concern/radiation hot line here in CA that people can call with their concerns.They played the outgoing greeting last night on the radio as the hotline keeps regular office hours and was closed. It was a bit comical to hear the voice refer to it as Nuc-u-lar instead of nuc-le-ar.
While that doesn't promote confidence,LOL, I am not concerned about the amount of radiation that is making its way here to SoCal.
I understand where you are coming from - I'm a child of WWII, born right before Pearl Harbor. Believe me, I DO understand.
Now, I may get a TO, but that isn't anything new for me, I'm not at all PC. I remember a lot of bad things about the war, read a lot more about the cruelty of Japan. Prior to this I did mention Bataan death march. If none of you know, look it up. In the past few years I even turned down a trip to Japan while my son was there in the military. I wanted nothing to do with these people; I refused to feed the economy or acknowledge it in any way.
However, right now I am ambivalent. I know the tears are only 'cause they got caught and lost face. I guess falling on swords is outdated or illegal now, but I really don't know. Even so, right now, I'm trying so hard to come to terms with this and it ain't easy. I have a lot of stored up memories from WWII, and bad feelings, but I'm trying to come to terms with them. It isn't easy. Being a child during WWII wasn't easy, it was damned hard, and to hear Obama say they were our dear friends, GAG, only because they had little choice after the war (that's why they have no military), I was appalled.
I always do this, but somehow at the end of all my posts I try to sum up what I'm saying, and it is this - I do not love the Japanese people because I remember very well what happened in WWII, and it was ugly beyond belief, although most here don't know that. I am trying so hard to believe the mindset in Japan has changed, that I can relate to them as a people, not as robots of the Emperor. I want them to feel as me and you feel, I want to cry for their dead, I want to forgive and forget. I don't know if I can, totally, but I want to cry for his dead, my dead, all the pain of humanity.
Time to stop. I hope you all look into history, evaluate your humanity, and maybe, just maybe we can come together and cry. Maybe, I don't really know.
Well, it's nice to hear that George H. Bush has found a job!
Interesting...Shepard Smith is now back in studio in NY.
Report from Greg Palkow in Japan doesn't sound hopeful. Sounds pretty much like everything that is being done is a last ditch effort. Hope to have power to reactor 2 sometime over the weekend,but they have no idea if the pipes are damaged or not.
I think its just not front and center because Libya is now coming to a head.
Disaster in Japan: Latest developments
Excerpt:
* The reactors and surrounding spent fuel pools have been revealed to contain plutonium, a far more deadly element than the uranium used in the plant, reports the Associated Press. Unit 3 has the highest concentration of plutonium - approximately 5 to 10-percent - according one physicist from the Union of Concerned Scientists. Plutonium is a byproduct of fission and is detectable in all of the Fukushima reactors.
This just spiked up to 61 in LA... (from 28)
http://www.enviroreporter.com/2011/03/enviroreporter-coms-radiation-station/#comments