Japan: 9.0 Earthquake-Tsunami-Nuclear Reactor Developments #2

[ScorpRising]

I hope this works...

Keep in mind, I was 1 at the time of TMI... as were most of my friends. These are the 1999-2003 stats. There is NO link to the radiation... Please remember that... It's all in our heads.

I am one of at least 10 girls I know that had cervical cancer...

 

[Wise Old Owl]

Well the Ronald Reagan decontaminated those copters and our soliders yesterday so I would think they have the facilities on board

 

[Adrienne37]

Japan crisis worse than Three Mile Island, experts say

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/42084187/ns/world_news-asiapacific/

SOMA, Japan — The nuclear accident at an earthquake-damaged nuclear plant in Japan can now be classed as level six out of an international scale of one to seven, experts said Tuesday.

 

[nursebeeme]

[ame="http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=1n&tag=watchnow"]Live Video - CBS News Video[/ame]

live event: energy secretary stephen chu testifies on Japan's nuclear crisis

 

[Trident]

I was really young I don't remember any jokes about it...

There were plenty, we called them "hate" jokes, but we all laughed - not at the people, or the horror of what happened, just to simply get past the tragedy in any way we knew how. I believe that is what he meant. If we can't laugh at ourselves, and death, then I know I couldn't go on.

One of my best friends burst out laughing when the doctor told her she had cancer. She already had rheumatoid arthritis and some other stuff. You have to laugh to keep on going - well, some of us do.

 

[Wise Old Owl]

FOX said that Germany is shutting down most of its reactors and France has order an inspection of ALL of its nuclear facilities

 

[Quiche]

Food Sunday: The Glow in the Dark Edition

Excerpt:
Sort of tough for people who buy their fresh fruits and veggies at the grocery store:”California produces more than half the nation’s fresh fruits and is the leading producer of fresh vegetables…California plants more than 80% of the nation’s broccoli acreage. California also produces 75% of the nation’s spinach, 75% of the nation’s fresh tomatoes, and 95% of tomatoes used for processing….Apples, strawberries, grapes, oranges and peaches made up 69 percent of the value of US fresh market production. California is the leading producer of all these fruits except apples; Washington State accounts for half the nation’s supply.”
West Coast Green

and

But again – back to food. At the moment, if I lived on the West Coast, I’d be buying up whatever canned goods I could and whatever fresh produce I could find and freezing it or home canning it as quickly as I could. What is on the shelves and out in the fields TODAY is fine. Two weeks from now will be another deal entirely. I have not seen any discussion yet about fruits and veggies grown in greenhouses or in high tunnels; keep your eyes out about that. Ditto on dairy produced in closed systems (which California is the king of, by the way – most cows in California do not see the light of day or green grass… ever). If you have infants at home on formulas, stock up now.

Remember: ingested radioactivity is actually more dangerous than the stuff on the skin that can be washed off.

 

[Trident]

I hope this works...

Keep in mind, I was 1 at the time of TMI... as were most of my friends. These are the 1999-2003 stats. There is NO link to the radiation... Please remember that... It's all in our heads.

I am one of at least 10 girls I know that had cervical cancer...

OMG, is this the study from Limmerick?

 

[Wise Old Owl]

Food Sunday: The Glow in the Dark Edition

Excerpt:
Sort of tough for people who buy their fresh fruits and veggies at the grocery store:”California produces more than half the nation’s fresh fruits and is the leading producer of fresh vegetables…California plants more than 80% of the nation’s broccoli acreage. California also produces 75% of the nation’s spinach, 75% of the nation’s fresh tomatoes, and 95% of tomatoes used for processing….Apples, strawberries, grapes, oranges and peaches made up 69 percent of the value of US fresh market production. California is the leading producer of all these fruits except apples; Washington State accounts for half the nation’s supply.”
West Coast Green

and

But again – back to food. At the moment, if I lived on the West Coast, I’d be buying up whatever canned goods I could and whatever fresh produce I could find and freezing it or home canning it as quickly as I could. What is on the shelves and out in the fields TODAY is fine. Two weeks from now will be another deal entirely. I have not seen any discussion yet about fruits and veggies grown in greenhouses or in high tunnels; keep your eyes out about that. Ditto on dairy produced in closed systems (which California is the king of, by the way – most cows in California do not see the light of day or green grass… ever). If you have infants at home on formulas, stock up now.

Remember: ingested radioactivity is actually more dangerous than the stuff on the skin that can be washed off.

I am so glad that I've already planted my spring garden here and everything is growing very nicely - I have tomatoes, brocolli, spinach and pole beans

Plus I think I'm far enough away to not have to worry.

 

[ScorpRising]

FOX said that Germany is shutting down most of its reactors and France has order an inspection of ALL of its nuclear facilities

BBM

I believe that is overkill... Yes, this is a tragedy but it wasn't from faulty reactor or containment design.

The world is taking a step backwards in regards to nuclear power. All plants, at least in the US, are shut down and inspected every 18 - 24 months...

 

[eileenhawkeye]

I'm not a political person, and I don't believe this man's jokes were political. But...do you know how many thousands died in the Bataan death march?

This in no way equates to that, he was just making jokes, and quite frankly, I would rather laugh at death, and myself, than cry. Life will go on, no matter what.

What does the Bataan death march have to do with jokes about the earthquake and tsunami in Japan? Those are two separate events. It's easy to laugh/be optimistic when you are thousands of miles away. It's not like your whole family just died or you're homeless, etc.

 

[not_my_kids]

I hope this works...

Keep in mind, I was 1 at the time of TMI... as were most of my friends. These are the 1999-2003 stats. There is NO link to the radiation... Please remember that... It's all in our heads.

I am one of at least 10 girls I know that had cervical cancer...

My friend Rebecca grew up in the S-kill (I can't spell) area, and at 26 was struck with a form of ovarian and uterine cancer that they do not see in women under 35...
Just stating fact, not saying that her exposure to the non-existent radiation could possibly have had anything to do with that. :twocents:

 

[Trident]

What does the Bataan death march have to do with jokes about the earthquake and tsunami in Japan? Those are two separate events. It's easy to laugh/be optimistic when you are thousands of miles away. It's not like your whole family just died or you're homeless, etc.

I guess maybe death is death, no matter how you slice it.

 

[nursebeeme]

The March 11, magnitude 9.0 earthquake in Japan may have shortened the length of each Earth day and shifted its axis. But don't worry—you won't notice the difference.

Using a United States Geological Survey estimate for how the fault responsible for the earthquake slipped, research scientist Richard Gross of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif., applied a complex model to perform a preliminary theoretical calculation of how the Japan earthquake—the fifth largest since 1900—affected Earth's rotation. His calculations indicate that by changing the distribution of Earth's mass, the Japanese earthquake should have caused Earth to rotate a bit faster, shortening the length of the day by about 1.8 microseconds (a microsecond is one millionth of a second).

http://www.nasa.gov/topics/earth/features/japanquake/earth20110314.html

 

[ScorpRising]

OMG, is this the study from Limmerick?

I don't know who did the study. I know Limerick is closer than TMI but it didn't have any "accidents" that I know of...

 

[Reality Orlando]

Wow, maybe it will work, but all aboard are sacrificed, imo. :sick:

The article says "But for now, the spent fuel pool is being cooled by police and firefighters on ground" so aren't they being exposed to the radiation? How sad.

 

[ScorpRising]

My friend Rebecca grew up in the S-kill (I can't spell) area, and at 26 was struck with a form of ovarian and uterine cancer that they do not see in women under 35...
Just stating fact, not saying that her exposure to the non-existent radiation could possibly have had anything to do with that. :twocents:

That's about the right age... I was 25. My bff was 26...

 

[tehcloser]

The people that are at the reactor site working on this are heroes. Plain and simple. They are putting themselves in the danger zone for everyone else....bless them and their loved ones.

 

[not_my_kids]

MSNBC reporting that a company that sells potassium iodide sold out of 10000 pills on Saturday, at a rate of 3 orders per minute. Their normal orders for potassium iodide? Three per week.

Panic may be an understatement.

 

[Quiche]

Holy cow!

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/marvin-resnikoff/fukushima-nuclear-meltdown-japan_b_835932.html

Excerpt:
How much cesium-137 is contained in a fuel pool?

The amount of cesium contained in the fuel pool is typically measured in curies or becquerels, but these assessments are meaningless unless you are a physicist. An easier way to look at it is in relation to the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima at the end of World War II, where 100,000 Japanese where killed. Cesium is a semi-volatile material that has been detected in the air downwind of the Fukushima reactors. How many Hiroshima bombs worth of cesium-137 are contained in the fuel pool?

In work for the State of Nevada, we estimated that 10 tons of irradiated (what the industry calls "spent") nuclear fuel was equivalent to 240 times the amount of cesium-137 released by the Hiroshima bomb. Ten tons is the amount of irradiated fuel that would be contained in a shipping container or cask used to transport the fuel. Why so much more cesium than the Hiroshima bomb? Because an atomic explosion occurs in milliseconds, but a nuclear reactor operates continuously for years. Many more fissions means much more fission products, including cesium You do the math. If Unit 4 operated for 35 years and produced 30 tons of irradiated fuel per year and each ton is equivalent to 24 times the amount of cesium-137 produced by the Hiroshima bomb, then each fuel pool could contain on the order of 24,000 times the amount of cesium-137 produced by the Hiroshima bomb, if all the produced irradiated fuel remains in the fuel pool..