Japan Declares Nuclear Emergency after massive quake.

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Pretty powerful before/after website:

Satellite Photos - Japan Before and After Tsunami - Interactive Feature - NYTimes.com

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I have CNN on, the lady was talking about these "cool" before and after images. then she says "i hate to use the word cool but it is pretty cool technology if it wasnt so sad".

fucken moron

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Japan's nuclear safety agency confirms 3rd explosion heard at Fukushima Daiichi No.2 reactor

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Its now confirmed that radioactivity has been release and 4 of the 6 reactors at Fukoshima 1 are in trouble, 20km exclusion zone and people beyond up to 30km told to stay indoors

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Fucking Japanese! No body is telling the truth about the fucking reactors. US ships are repositioning themselves because of radiation exposure. News said they are 100 kilometers away from the plant and they still got radiation on them.
Now they are saying rods are partially exposed. and how much fucking sea water they need to cool those fucking things?
Buell since you are an expert you'll know.

by now everyone has seen via media the basics of a nuclear reactor and while i have none whatsoever exp on a nuke the basics are the same and what the release or at least some of it is as mentioned earlier is operator induced to bring down psi and in the big scheme also helps the temp issue. with that said i agree with u guys with that the folks in charge are not telling the complete story..how much does it take to cool the pot, honestly i am as u guys are learning alot as of late about the nuke reactor but my guess is that since the reactor farm is off line ...maybe days?. one thing is as u guys also know if there is a complete melt the temp and in some ways psi will breach the vessal and all that nasty will come out .. of top ? of bottom ? out the sides ? who the fuck knows and lets hope for the best.

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"Radioactive material will reach Tokyo but it is not harmful to human bodies because it will be dissipated by the time it gets to Tokyo," said Koji Yamazaki, professor at Hokkaido University graduate school of environmental science. "If the wind gets stronger, it means the material flies faster but it will be even more dispersed in the air."


I wouldn't feel so confident hearing this if I lived there. It sounds like they are playing this down so much instead of being forthright and protecting their people.

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i agree blm. bunch of BS its not harmful.

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This morning it's reported that one of the reactor rods is failing because it hasn't been kept cool properly. WTF are they doing over there?

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I just feel like they are doing the same thing as the US did during the gulf oil spill. Down playing it and acting like everything is fine.

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starting to sound like Chernobyl to me..

"Tokyo Electric says may drop water by helicopter onto Daiichi No.4 spent-fuel cooling pond"

next thing we know, they will be dropping carbon...

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starting to sound like Chernobyl to me..

"Tokyo Electric says may drop water by helicopter onto Daiichi No.4 spent-fuel cooling pond"

next thing we know, they will be dropping carbon...

Source for that quote? Seems like they have some dumb American writing headlines and trying to sound Asian. The headlines yesterday regarding the same subject were just terrible. I had to read them a few times to even grasp what they were stating.

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Source for that quote? Seems like they have some dumb American writing headlines and trying to sound Asian. The headlines yesterday regarding the same subject were just terrible. I had to read them a few times to even grasp what they were stating.

Reuters front page

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Japan crisis worse than Three Mile Island, experts say
No-fly zone imposed near stricken nuclear site; 140,000 people told to seal themselves indoors

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.

France's ASN nuclear safety authority's assessment came after Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan said radiation had spread from the four stricken reactors of the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear plant along Japan's northeastern coast.
Two reactors exploded on Tuesday at the plant after days of frantic efforts to cool them.
Level seven was used only once, for Chernobyl in Ukraine in 1986. The 1979 accident at the Three Mile Island nuclear power plant in Pennsylvania was rated a level five.

"It is very clear that we are at a level six, which is an intermediate level between what happened at Three Mile Island and Chernobyl," ASN president Andre-Claude Lacoste told a news conference in Paris. "We are clearly in a catastrophe."
On Three Mile Island, the radiation leak was held inside the containment shell — thick concrete armor around the reactor. The Chernobyl reactor had no shell and was also operational when the disaster struck. The Japanese reactors automatically shut down when the quake hit.

The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) imposed a 30-km (18-mile) no-fly zone around the Fukushima site Tuesday.

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tried to keep up on the latest and it seems the latest is as one expert said( there is a lot of speculation and not quite sure what is going on)..my gut feeling is that we may have under estimated the checks and balances and as shitty as it may seem all might be well in regards to the nuke phantom , and not to underscore the devastation which is really fuckin shitty...

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Radiation levels surge at reactor

(Reuters) - Japan's nuclear crisis appeared to be spinning out of control on Wednesday after workers withdrew briefly from a stricken power plant because of surging radiation levels and a helicopter failed to drop water on the most troubled reactor.

Workers briefly abandon Japan nuclear plant as crisis worsens | Reuters