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

[tehcloser]

CNN......Breaking news, New Fire At Nuclear Plant, NHK: smoke could be rising from #3 or #4.

 

[Wise Old Owl]

I was going to make a pope reference but thought better of it.

better watch it JBean - Gilbert Gottfried got fired for "making references" just today.

:floorlaugh: :floorlaugh:

 

[Quiche]

More reactor trouble: Fukushima No. 5 loses coolant

http://content.usatoday.com/communi...eactor-trouble-fukushima-no-5-loses-coolant/1

 

[tehcloser]

NEWS ADVISORY: TEPCO unable to confirm temperature at No.3 reactor's spent fuel pool (11:02)
NEWS ADVISORY: Pool stores 514 spent fuel rods at Fukushima No.3 reactor: TEPCO (11:00)
NEWS ADVISORY: Smoke may be coming from No. 3 reactor's fuel pool: TEPCO (10:53)

http://english.kyodonews.jp/news/2011/03/78387.html

 

[Reality Orlando]

That's what I'm getting at JBean, I think if they put up a simple side by side chart, it would calm people down. Every site you look at uses different terms for levels and it's quite confusing for most people. IDK why they don't make it simple.

I agree. I think people just want to hear someone in charge and with knowledge tell us what is expected to happen. I'm not going to hold them to it. I just want someone to brief the American people on what's happening, what's being done to keep us safe and what is expected at this point. If there are containment units around the cores that are expected to contain the radiation, then tell us that. If there's no way for the radiation to travel thousands of miles and affect the West Coast then tell us that. It would sure go a long way to calming people down.

 

[JBean]

Not a comparison of the ACCIDENTS, only the radiation levels. Plain and simple, nuttin' fancy.

My post was really clumsy and I am sorry.
What I was guessing was that maybe if one event had a radiation level of 10 and one event had a radiation level of 9, one might assume that the 10 was worse, but that may not be the case;due to other variables. So, possibly, posting side by side levels could be misleading or subject to misintepretation. I have zero idea I am just brainstorming an answer to your question.

 

[JBean]

I agree. I think people just want to hear someone in charge and with knowledge tell us what is expected to happen. I'm not going to hold them to it. I just want someone to brief the American people on what's happening, what's being done to keep us safe and what is expected at this point. If there are containment units around the cores that are expected to contain the radiation, then tell us that. If there's no way for the radiation to travel thousands of miles and affect the West Coast then tell us that. It would sure go a long way to calming people down.

Radiation hot line open for concerned Californians; health officials reassert that there's no risk expected

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What we’re being told is that there is no threat to California at this time,” said Mike Sicilia, a spokesman for the California Department of Public Health. “It’s a matter of distance. Dangerous radioactivity could not cross the 5,0000 miles of the Pacific without petering out.

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Potassium iodide poses a risk to pregnant and nursing women, those with thyroid problems, allergies to iodine and shellfish, Sicilia said.

“We are not recommending it. Don’t take it. It’s useless,” he said.

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lan...icials-who-say-no-risk-expected-to-state.html

ask and you shall receive.

 

[trigger]

CNN......Breaking news, New Fire At Nuclear Plant, NHK: smoke could be rising from #3 or #4.

TY I'm watching it. Ahhhh my stomach is in knots watching that new video of people running to safety.


raying:

 

[tehcloser]

My post was really clumsy and I am sorry.
What I was guessing was that maybe if one event had a radiation level of 10 and one event had a radiation level of 9, one might assume that the 10 was worse, but that may not be the case;due to other variables. So, possibly, posting side by side levels could be misleading or subject to misintepretation. I have zero idea I am just brainstorming an answer to your question.

lol, my "brainstorming" has turned into "light brainshowers" at this point. :floorlaugh:

 

[Nova]

My post was really clumsy and I am sorry.
What I was guessing was that maybe if one event had a radiation level of 10 and one event had a radiation level of 9, one might assume that the 10 was worse, but that may not be the case;due to other variables. So, possibly, posting side by side levels could be misleading or subject to misintepretation. I have zero idea I am just brainstorming an answer to your question.

I think you're right, actually. An equal amount of radiation released in an urban area might be catastrophic, but relatively minor if released in a rural area, etc. and so forth. There may be no way around a certain amount of subjectivity in classifying nuclear disasters.

 

[JBean]

better watch it JBean - Gilbert Gottfried got fired for "making references" just today.

:floorlaugh: :floorlaugh:

It is against TOS to out a member's true identity. :innocent:

 

[Adrienne37]

Tue Mar 15, 2011 10:06pm EDT

(Reuters) - Another fire broke out on Wednesday at an earthquake-crippled Japanese nuclear plant that has sent low levels of radiation wafting into Tokyo and triggered international alarm, suggesting that the crisis may be slipping out of control.


http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/03/16/us-japan-quake-idUSTRE72A0SS20110316

 

[Nova]

better watch it JBean - Gilbert Gottfried got fired for "making references" just today.

:floorlaugh: :floorlaugh:

You know, I've never found Gottfried particularly funny and certainly he could have showed more restraint over the past few days.

But that's what makes funny people funny: they walk the line between good taste and bad. We have to expect them to step over that line every once in awhile.

Somehow, I think Gottfried's tweets are way down the list of the world's problems this week...

 

[tehcloser]

My only thought of trying to make it simple was you can "speak to the people" or "AT the people". They seem to be talking AT us right now.

 

[tehcloser]

Anderson is hearing the workers have suspended operations...........trying to get it clarified if it was the only ones left or what. He said he would be shocked if that were the case. (CNN)

 

[Herding Cats]

Anderson Cooper saying that the 50 workers have been called off.

Unable to confirm just yet, but if that's so...

Maybe I need to rethink those Iodide tablets.

God bless all of us.

Best-
Herding Cats

 

[JBean]

You know, I've never found Gottfried particularly funny and certainly he could have showed more restraint over the past few days.

But that's what makes funny people funny: they walk the line between good taste and bad. We have to expect them to step over that line every once in awhile.

Somehow, I think Gottfried's tweets are way down the list of the world's problems this week...

Well sadly that UCLA student's rant about Asian people actually surpassed the google or youtube hits on the situation in Japan! This issue has been number one for the past few days of course and that [unusual person]'s ridiclous youtube was the first thing to pass it up. How embarrassing for mankind.

 

[bessie]

• BREAKING NEWS: Radiation level briefly tops 2 milisievert at Fukushima plant: TEPCO (11:24)
• BREAKING NEWS: Radiation levels at Fukushima plant rose after 10 a.m.: Edano (11:23)
• NEWS ADVISORY: Edano urges public to stop panic buying of fuel (11:22)
• NEWS ADVISORY: TEPCO can't check smoke at Fukushima plant as radiation is too high (11:16)

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

 

[tehcloser]

By Shinichi Saoshiro and Chisa Fujioka
TOKYO | Tue Mar 15, 2011 10:06pm EDT
(Reuters) - Another fire broke out on Wednesday at an earthquake-crippled Japanese nuclear plant that has sent low levels of radiation wafting into Tokyo and triggered international alarm, suggesting that the crisis may be slipping out of control

http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/03/16/us-japan-quake-idUSTRE72A0SS20110316

 

[peeples]

• BREAKING NEWS: Radiation level briefly tops 2 milisievert at Fukushima plant: TEPCO (11:24)
• BREAKING NEWS: Radiation levels at Fukushima plant rose after 10 a.m.: Edano (11:23)
• NEWS ADVISORY: Edano urges public to stop panic buying of fuel (11:22)
  [*]NEWS ADVISORY: TEPCO can't check smoke at Fukushima plant as radiation is too high (11:16)

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

Ruh roh