# Rantings about stupid nuclear reporting, and I want to bitchslap somebody, also other crap **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [March 26, 2011, 7:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rantings-about-stupid-nuclear-reporting-and-i-want-to-bitchslap-somebody-also-other-crap/576077 "2011-03-26T19:11:37Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 52
**Author:** ![Knorf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/58956e/32.png) [@Knorf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knorf)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2011, 8:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rantings-about-stupid-nuclear-reporting-and-i-want-to-bitchslap-somebody-also-other-crap/576077/1021 "2011-08-06T08:09:11Z")
> [@Bryan\_Ekers](#): > > You’re not telling the truth, making us laugh, in danger, or Oscar Wilde? > > One could argue for any of those. Indeed, I’d argue that all of those things are entirely accurate in this case. ---
**Author:** ![Gary\_Kumquat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/4491bb/32.png) [@Gary\_Kumquat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gary_Kumquat)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2011, 8:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rantings-about-stupid-nuclear-reporting-and-i-want-to-bitchslap-somebody-also-other-crap/576077/1022 "2011-08-06T08:22:47Z")
> [@Knorf](#): > > Indeed, I’d argue that all of those things are entirely accurate in this case. Oh come on, the “cigarettes only became cancerous after world war 2” line was hilarious. ---
**Author:** ![Knorf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/58956e/32.png) [@Knorf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knorf)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2011, 8:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rantings-about-stupid-nuclear-reporting-and-i-want-to-bitchslap-somebody-also-other-crap/576077/1023 "2011-08-06T08:30:06Z")
> [@Gary\_Kumquat](#): > > Oh come on, the “cigarettes only became cancerous after world war 2” line was hilarious. Touche. ---
**Author:** ![FinnAgain](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/finnagain/32/12500_2.png) [@FinnAgain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FinnAgain)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2011, 10:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rantings-about-stupid-nuclear-reporting-and-i-want-to-bitchslap-somebody-also-other-crap/576077/1024 "2011-08-06T10:33:15Z")
I’m waiting till the troll starts posting links in Korean. Then I might be able to puzzle some of them out a bit… at least easier than Japanese. ---
**Author:** ![FXMastermind](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fxmastermind/32/7289_2.png) [@FXMastermind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FXMastermind)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2011, 1:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rantings-about-stupid-nuclear-reporting-and-i-want-to-bitchslap-somebody-also-other-crap/576077/1025 "2011-08-06T13:06:58Z")
Wait till I start bitchslapping global warming alarmists. That shit is hilarious. ---
**Author:** ![FXMastermind](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fxmastermind/32/7289_2.png) [@FXMastermind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FXMastermind)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2011, 1:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rantings-about-stupid-nuclear-reporting-and-i-want-to-bitchslap-somebody-also-other-crap/576077/1026 "2011-08-06T13:13:07Z")
“When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.” ---
**Author:** ![FinnAgain](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/finnagain/32/12500_2.png) [@FinnAgain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FinnAgain)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2011, 1:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rantings-about-stupid-nuclear-reporting-and-i-want-to-bitchslap-somebody-also-other-crap/576077/1027 "2011-08-06T13:48:02Z")
You are to Hunter in intellect, writing ability, sexiness and pure cool as I am to spiderman in my ability to stick to walls. ---
**Author:** ![FXMastermind](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fxmastermind/32/7289_2.png) [@FXMastermind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FXMastermind)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2011, 1:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rantings-about-stupid-nuclear-reporting-and-i-want-to-bitchslap-somebody-also-other-crap/576077/1028 "2011-08-06T13:59:06Z")
You must be awesome. ---
**Author:** ![FXMastermind](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fxmastermind/32/7289_2.png) [@FXMastermind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FXMastermind)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2011, 10:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rantings-about-stupid-nuclear-reporting-and-i-want-to-bitchslap-somebody-also-other-crap/576077/1029 "2011-08-08T22:35:02Z")
Someday, years in the future, we may find out what happened at Fukushima. For now, speculation is about as close as anyone can get to explaining what happened. [http://channel6newsonline.com/2011/08/report-japans-fukushima-reactor-possibly-melted-twice/](http://channel6newsonline.com/2011/08/report-japans-fukushima-reactor-possibly-melted-twice/) ---
**Author:** ![XT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/xt/32/456_2.png) [@XT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/XT)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2011, 10:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rantings-about-stupid-nuclear-reporting-and-i-want-to-bitchslap-somebody-also-other-crap/576077/1030 "2011-08-08T22:41:35Z")
Damn, that sounds really serious. Of the reported (in your cite) “23,482 people were killed, while 8,069 people remain missing”, how many died or are missing due to radiation poisoning and it’s effects, again? Is it lots? I forget. What is the figure at now? -XT ---
**Author:** ![FXMastermind](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fxmastermind/32/7289_2.png) [@FXMastermind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FXMastermind)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2011, 10:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rantings-about-stupid-nuclear-reporting-and-i-want-to-bitchslap-somebody-also-other-crap/576077/1031 "2011-08-08T22:44:00Z")
I’ve noticed all over internets nuclear idiots have adopted a meme. It’s so bad that even Wikipedia is infected with it. It’s like they actually believe if a hurricane that caused 20 billion dollars of damage, and left 20,000 people homeless, that it isn’t a bad hurricane, because everybody evacuated and nobody died. ---
**Author:** ![FXMastermind](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fxmastermind/32/7289_2.png) [@FXMastermind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FXMastermind)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2011, 10:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rantings-about-stupid-nuclear-reporting-and-i-want-to-bitchslap-somebody-also-other-crap/576077/1032 "2011-08-08T22:45:38Z")
So to the nuclear moonbat 120,000 displaced people isn’t any big thing, the loss of vast agricutural areas, entire towns, and countless pets and livestock just isn’t important to them. Only if somebody died. And there is no educating them. The ignorance is total. ---
**Author:** ![XT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/xt/32/456_2.png) [@XT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/XT)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2011, 10:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rantings-about-stupid-nuclear-reporting-and-i-want-to-bitchslap-somebody-also-other-crap/576077/1033 "2011-08-08T22:46:29Z")
So…zero then? Still? -XT ---
**Author:** ![FXMastermind](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fxmastermind/32/7289_2.png) [@FXMastermind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FXMastermind)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2011, 11:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rantings-about-stupid-nuclear-reporting-and-i-want-to-bitchslap-somebody-also-other-crap/576077/1034 "2011-08-08T23:05:21Z")
I swear I did not pay him to say that. ---
**Author:** ![XT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/xt/32/456_2.png) [@XT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/XT)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2011, 11:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rantings-about-stupid-nuclear-reporting-and-i-want-to-bitchslap-somebody-also-other-crap/576077/1035 "2011-08-08T23:10:32Z")
As I didn’t pay you, even though you can’t buy comedy this golden. 😛 But please, continue to bump your thread with more astounding new facts that you find. It just keeps the fun going. -XT ---
**Author:** ![FXMastermind](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fxmastermind/32/7289_2.png) [@FXMastermind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FXMastermind)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2011, 11:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rantings-about-stupid-nuclear-reporting-and-i-want-to-bitchslap-somebody-also-other-crap/576077/1036 "2011-08-08T23:36:30Z")
Unlike the trolls, who never offer anything but their own voice, which they love more than anything. I find you amusing. It helps counter the disastrous disasters, for fools will always speak their folly, even when faced with reality, they never let facts get in the way. ---
**Author:** ![FXMastermind](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fxmastermind/32/7289_2.png) [@FXMastermind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FXMastermind)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2011, 11:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rantings-about-stupid-nuclear-reporting-and-i-want-to-bitchslap-somebody-also-other-crap/576077/1037 "2011-08-08T23:37:56Z")
**Nagasaki mayor: We must do away with myths and face reality** Since the disaster at the Fukushima No. 1 Nuclear Power Plant began, I have wondered constantly, “What mistakes did we make, where did we make them, and why?” I have thought not just about factors directly related to the nuclear plant, such as its location or safety, but also about possible causes in our society or ways of thinking. One of them is the problem of myths. The myth that nuclear plants are completely safe has crumbled because of the Fukushima plant disaster. [http://mdn.mainichi.jp/mdnnews/news/20110808p2a00m0na004000c.html](http://mdn.mainichi.jp/mdnnews/news/20110808p2a00m0na004000c.html) ---
**Author:** ![XT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/xt/32/456_2.png) [@XT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/XT)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2011, 11:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rantings-about-stupid-nuclear-reporting-and-i-want-to-bitchslap-somebody-also-other-crap/576077/1038 "2011-08-08T23:41:56Z")
The ‘disastrous disasters’ that has thus far cost no lives and less than a tenth the cost of the ACTUAL disaster that has cost between 20-30 THOUSAND lives and hundreds of billions or even trillions (in USD) in projected costs? THAT ‘disastrous disasters’? Yeah, I can see why you are so worked up about it. This would be a lot more fun if you had two brain cells to rub together and the ability to read and comprehend English…or any other language. As opposed to your standard Google vomit and fear crazed horseshit. As it is, you are still mildly amusing, especially with your accusations of trolling. 😛 -XT ---
**Author:** ![FXMastermind](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fxmastermind/32/7289_2.png) [@FXMastermind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FXMastermind)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2011, 4:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rantings-about-stupid-nuclear-reporting-and-i-want-to-bitchslap-somebody-also-other-crap/576077/1039 "2011-08-09T16:00:12Z")
[http://www.klimaatkeuze.nl/wise/monitor/574/5441](http://www.klimaatkeuze.nl/wise/monitor/574/5441) > [@](#): > > **Tepco scandal deepens** > While cover-up scandals have broadened to include other Japanese utilities, the allegations against Tepco, the original utility affected, have become more and more serious. They affect all 10 BWRs at Fukushima, plus some of the 7 at Kashiwazaki-Kariwa. > > Cracks were covered up not just in core shrouds - the original focus of the investigation - but also in a whole variety of other reactor components. These include steam dryers (which dry the steam before it leaves the reactor), access hole covers, and components associated with the jet pumps, which circulate cooling water inside the reactor. In these cases, the inspections had been carried out by General Electric International Inc. > > **Faked pressure test** > > Yet in the most serious case of all, Tepco officials are alleged to have faked a pressure test designed to test the integrity of the containment building. The test involves pumping nitrogen gas into the building to increase the pressure to about three times atmospheric pressure, then taking pressure readings to measure the leak rate. > > Regulations state that the leak rate must be less than 0.45% per day. However, at Fukushima I-1 in 1992, the company conducted its own tests before the government inspectors turned up, and discovered that the building might not pass the test. One source quoted in the Daily Yomiuri said that leak rates fluctuated from 0.3% to 2.5% per day. > > Documents found at Hitachi by Tepco’s own investigative team describe a method to fake the test by secretly pumping in extra air from the main steam isolation valve. At the time, Hitachi had a contract to check Tepco equipment. It is alleged that Tepco officials followed this procedure when the government inspectors were checking the leak rate. ---
**Author:** ![FXMastermind](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fxmastermind/32/7289_2.png) [@FXMastermind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FXMastermind)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2011, 4:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rantings-about-stupid-nuclear-reporting-and-i-want-to-bitchslap-somebody-also-other-crap/576077/1040 "2011-08-09T16:01:17Z")
What a fucking surprise. Huge wealthy company in bed with regulators, putting an entire country at risk with their bullshit. Nuclear moonbats, they are everywhere. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rantings-about-stupid-nuclear-reporting-and-i-want-to-bitchslap-somebody-also-other-crap/576077.md?page=51) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rantings-about-stupid-nuclear-reporting-and-i-want-to-bitchslap-somebody-also-other-crap/576077.md?page=53)