Except for Jack Kennedy, VP candidate Joe Lieberman & for the last two categories, of course, Barack Obama.
They had a nuke expert on CNN today. He says they are pumping sea water into the core in order to cool the core and rods. The expert explained he never heard of a plant doing it and it is not part of the protocol. He thinks it smacks of desperation.
They have evacuated a 20 KM zone around the plant.
Kennedy was the only one, and God smote him good. Lieberman was right out.
The Second Stone is our hero,
hero of the nation.
The only thing he suffers from is
[del]nuclear radiation[/del] mental retardation.
Oh my god! They must be doing the same dangerous work done by insulation installers! :eek:
Sad but true.
Not only that, but we have a Catholic Vice President right now.
They get their information from tv and from enviro-weenies (who, I suspect, also get their information from tv). I’ve come to the conclusion recently that if we all want to keep eating for the rest of our natural lives, we are going to have to make nuclear power our main power source, and right quick.
That’s my fear, too - all we’re going to hear for the next month is “Nuclear power bad! Look what happened in Japan!”
There’s a big nuclear explosion going on all the time - right up there in the sky! And it’s deluging us every minute of every day with radiation!
That’s a different issue.
However, it seems that this particular plant already had cooling issues recently.
The building itself has been destroyed, the containment dome hasn’t been.
I have no knowledge of what the Japanese reactors’ systems are, but from my experience with ones in Kankuistan, a reactor core isolation cooling system (i.e. flooding with external water) is used when the make-up water condensate system (i.e. the top-up of the regular circulating water that normally transfers heat from the reactor to the turbines) can not provide enough cooling. Desperation and not part of protocol? I doubt it very much, but such protocol is only used if the shit has hit the fan, as one would expect with a massive earthquake and tsunami. My guess is that their protocol was to flood in the event of a partial-meltdown causing the temp to get too high, as opposed to being desperate and jury-rigging a sea-water flood for lack of a protocol.
If we are discussing long term damage (and many researchers report that CO2 and other GW gasses are already affecting us), yes it is.
The OP could make similar threads for mine collapses, airplane crashes, sunk boats, derailed trains, chemical spills, crop failures, or the metric fuckton of particulates pumped into the air from coal plants or automobile exhaust. Industrial civilization is messy – bring a bib.
That’s a nonsentical statement. I understand you’ve decided that anybody worried about the risk caused by this accident must be mocked, but stating “there are also atoms in your body” is a ridiculous comparison.
Not even a little.
Are you talking about the CANDU Reactors that are supplying approximately 15% of Canada’s electricity needs?
I believe the major problem at the moment is widespread DHMO contamination.
Just ran across this: Japan’s nuclear power operator has checkered past.
They’re increasing the size of the evacuation area, and authorities are planning on distributing iodine.
Those damned enviro-weenies!!1! How’d they pull this off?? How???
Yup. Here in Ontario, it’s a tad over 50%.
Read an essay by Isaac Asimov called “The Enemy Within”, about the inescapable radioactive isotopes that permeate human DNA, as well as the environment in general. Cancers and other illnesses need not have an external triggering event.