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

[nursebeeme]

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.

they sure are!!!!

during chernobyl cleanup they called themselves "bio robots"....


the radiation was so strong at the cleanup site that that had to use men ((bio robots)) to do the work because the mechanical robots malfunctioned from the radiation.

truly heros... anyone who can put themselves on the line like this...

 

[tehcloser]

My Daughter is on the hunt for iodine or betadine in the metroplex, (Dallas/Ft.Worth,Tx.) Three Wal-Marts later, she still has not found any, they are sold out..........

 

[Reality Orlando]

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:

Are you trying to spell Schuylkill as in Schuylkill County? It's a tough one.

 

[Quiche]

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.

Yes, but imagine the amounts above the fire. Incredible amounts...perhaps very quickly deadly amounts. mo

 

[Wise Old Owl]

My Daughter is on the hunt for iodine or betadine in the metroplex, (Dallas/Ft.Worth,Tx.) Three Wal-Marts later, she still has not found any, they are sold out..........

When DD finally shows her face this AM - her and I will ride over to our Walgreens here to scope it out. I've found that South Florida peeps are very naive and mostly unconcerned about anything that goes on outside of South Florida. So, I bet I find them in abundance. We'll see.


ETA: Where in the store would I find them? Are they in the "iodine" isle (first aid)?

 

[Trident]

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...

No, Limmerick didn't have any accidents that I know of, but...there was a half-finished study which I'm wondering about - then they dropped their pens and paper and ran.

When I first came to the area, roughly 20+ years ago, there were some very strange-looking (I kid you not) people running around the streets, and no, that wasn't funny. I locked my doors and windows.

 

[peeples]

My Daughter is on the hunt for iodine or betadine in the metroplex, (Dallas/Ft.Worth,Tx.) Three Wal-Marts later, she still has not found any, they are sold out..........

My hubby is downtown dallas right now.. i think he's gonna look for some after work.. I haven't tried looking here in Iowa.......

 

[nursebeeme]

I grew up in the part of ohio termed the leukemia belt ((very high incidence of blood and lymph cancers))...

interestingly enough I had hodgkin's lymphoma at age 15 and precancerous cervical cells before the age of 22

makes me seriously ponder the nuclear accidents in the US that could have created that leukemia belt that I grew up in....

 

[Quiche]

Youtube of the fire at #4

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/tec...fter-third-reactor-explosion-at-the-fuku.html

 

[ScorpRising]

No, Limmerick didn't have any accidents that I know of, but...there was a half-finished study which I'm wondering about - then they dropped their pens and paper and ran.

When I first came to the area, roughly 20+ years ago, there were some very strange-looking (I kid you not) people running around the streets, and no, that wasn't funny. I locked my doors and windows.

I didn't know about that study. Now you got me interested.

I have no link to the following statement, it just sticks in my memory. When the Simon Kramer Cancer Institute was first announced, they stated that they picked Schuylkill County as there are some very rare cancers in the area and wanted to provide people with the best possible care.

 

[JBean]

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

I think the reactor in my area just completed their big inspection on 3/9/11. It is built to withstand a 7.0 directly underneath it. I find that comforting and do feel pretty good about san onofre. Well as good as one can feel about a nuclear reactor anyway. LOL

 

[gibby207]

I completely agree. I have a pretty wicked sense of humor, most everyone here knows that. I am not always in good taste, but I try to be pretty PC most of the time. The day after the quake, one of my Facebook friends, and also RL friend, posted on Facebook to the effect of "Haha, stupid Japan". When I asked him what in the holy blue blazes that was supposed to mean, he said that they didn't get to higher ground and that was just stupid of them...
I believe that he and many others, just can't grasp the scope of this. I told him that Japan was pretty well prepared for this and if he thought we would fare much better, then he was being pretty dumb himself. He said he would "wait it out on the roof." A thirty foot high wave of water, and he says he would wait it out on the roof of his one story house...

So many people are just unable to comprehend.

Cookie cutter definition of "normalcy bias."

 

[peeples]

Just saw france is withdrawing all staff out of Japan.....
It's on the breaking news ticker on this page at the top

http://english.kyodonews.jp/news/

Ok now it says radio france.. I don't know if that is a company or if they heard it on the radio lol

 

[QueenD]

When DD finally shows her face this AM - her and I will ride over to our Walgreens here to scope it out. I've found that South Florida peeps are very naive and mostly unconcerned about anything that goes on outside of South Florida. So, I bet I find them in abundance. We'll see.


ETA: Where in the store would I find them? Are they in the "iodine" isle (first aid)?

Sorry for this question, but just concerned.......

Why do we need it here in the US.? Will it effect us? Or are you just being concerned in case of an accident here?

Just want to know in case I need to hit the Walmarts here.

 

[nursebeeme]

cnn live:

they are saying that the rods were completely exposed to the air for six hours!

1 fukashima di ichi
2 fukashia di ni

((they said they will refer to tower one and two as above now)))

 

[tehcloser]

lol, CVS employee told my Daughter good luck......she said they are getting slammed by phone calls and people looking for as she put it, "anything iodine". Which is scary in itself.....people need to be careful using other stuff. Good grief.

 

[Wise Old Owl]

Sorry for this question, but just concerned.......

Why do we need it here in the US.? Will it effect us? Or are you just being concerned in case of an accident here?

Just want to know in case I need to hit the Walmarts here.

We've just been discussing it all. Japan is handing out iodine tablets to people within the vicinity of the plant. Our members on the West Coast here are saying that ioding tablets are being scoffed up rapidly. So, I just thought I would go look here. that's all.

 

[Trident]

I grew up in the part of ohio termed the leukemia belt ((very high incidence of blood and lymph cancers))...

interestingly enough I had hodgkin's lymphoma at age 15 and precancerous cervical cells before the age of 22

makes me seriously ponder the nuclear accidents in the US that could have created that leukemia belt that I grew up in....

BBM First off, I am NOT a medical anything - I hate blood - but almost every woman I know has gone through the same PRE-cancerous cervical cell thingee. Either this is a cottage industry to make money for the medical complex, or something is wrong with their diagnositic methodology. MOO, since I went that root myself. SURPRISE, there's nothing wrong with you. No, but you guys got your money, NO?

 

[tehcloser]

Queen D......here is what I told my Daughter, if it makes YOU feel better, go get the stuff. Who knows what, if ANYTHING is going to head this way, just do what you need to do to feel better about the situation.

 

[nursebeeme]

http://www.livescience.com/13220-nuclear-power-expert-explains-japan-crisis.html

very good q/a article with an expert