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try 500k, and i don't think that includes infant mortality.

this crisis is a non-issue. yesterday it was a semi-issue, the day before it was a crisis.

y'all are late to the worry party.

I think you're right about Korea being the closest. I'd be sweating if I was them.

i'd hate to come across as a know-it-all but if this is a worst case scenario as dirtywhiteboy has said, there will be nowhere to hide. it doesn't matter if you are russian or american the radioactivity would cover the globe.

chernobyl covered the northern hemisphere, maybe more.

thta being said, this event is past tense. japanese have a fail-safe on every reactor- flooding it with seawater. guarantees stopping any meltdown.

from what i read the seawater is just evaporating.

they won't run out of sea water.

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/15/wo...uclear.html?hp

The plant’s operator, Tokyo Electric Power, said late Monday that repeated efforts to inject seawater into the reactor had failed, causing water levels inside the reactor’s containment vessel to fall and exposing its fuel rods. After what at first appeared to be a successful bid to refill the vessel, water levels again dwindled, this time to critical levels, exposing the rods almost completely, company executives said.

Workers were having difficulty injecting seawater into the reactor because its vents — necessary to release pressure in the containment vessel by allowing radioactive steam to escape — had stopped working properly, they said.

The more time that passes with fuel rods uncovered by water and the pressure inside the containment vessel unvented, the greater the risk that the containment vessel will crack or explode, creating a potentially catastrophic release of radioactive material into the atmosphere — an accident that would be by far the worst to confront the nuclear power industry since the explosion of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant 25 years ago.

In reactor No. 2, which is now the most damaged of the three at the Daiichi plant, at least parts of the fuel rods have been exposed for several hours, which also suggests that some of the fuel has begun to melt. If more of the fuel melts before water can be injected in the vessel, the fuel pellets could burn through the bottom of the containment vessel and radioactive material could pour out that way — often referred to as a full meltdown.

“They’re basically in a full-scale panic” among Japanese power industry managers, said a senior nuclear industry executive late Monday night. The executive is not involved in managing the response to the reactors’ difficulties but has many contacts in Japan. “They’re in total disarray, they don’t know what to do.”

I skimmed most of this thread, but an article posted 40 minutes ago from the AP said the rods are again exposed...

Meltdown threat rises at Japanese nuclear plant


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right..once the sea water starts boiling turning to steam...hide yo kids hide yo wife, they nuckin ereything up in here

temporary issue for one reactor. the seawater flooding already worked for reactor #1 and from what i've gathered from several sources, has always been a part of the strategy to cool the cores. it kills the reactor though, i.e. $ billions lost x ever reactor.

if you think "only" one reactor melting down isn't bad you've lost all sense of perspective.

US military is reporting radiation 60 miles away now

Now there's some great fucking news.

twitter search has the best info now was news orgs post the latest stories there.

is this directed at me?

The shit be melting down as we speak. The hail-mary seawater bullshit ain't working. Guarantee this will end very fucking badly. :2 cents:

#3 explosion, wonder how many people it killed?
Working "frantically" to stop a meltdown, How come no reports of deaths from the explosions?

Cover up Underway: Who could possibly be in there working on it. The place is blowing up for christ sake.

To get close to it is a death sentence. There's nobody in there working on anything.

Fucked. :2 cents:

is your vehicle filled with gas?






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Use black-hole technology to force the reactors to implode upon themselves.

sure is! why, wanna go for a joyride?

Obviously the situation is not good and a reactor meltdown is a very bad scenario...... but I fail to see how that translates into 4 million deaths on the US West Coast.

jet stream..

I am aware of the wind patterns.... but Chernobyl spread a radioactive cloud over all of Belarus and most of northern Europe and the death toll was a lot closer to 400 than to 4 million. 4 million dead on the West coast of the US? Sounds like sheer nonsense to me. :2 cents:

...and 24 hours later..the shit blows up w/ fuel rods exposed.

http://huffingtonpost.com

Or get that giant 'Simpson's' bubble out!

no thanks bro...

as soon as my moms goes to sleep i am going to hijack her wheels and go cruise the strip looking for hot girls out past their curfew... :thumbsup

maybe you wanna come with me?





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4th explosion
at 4th reactor
A fire has erupted in a fourth reactor at the damaged Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, top Japanese official says.

believe they're pulling those numbers from the original nuclear attacks.. something like 10% died over long term from exposure (population of west coast about 47 million)

seems far fetched, i agree, but from what i have read things don't actually get fully reported

There will be no American deaths in America even if the reactors have a total meltdown.. People are just fear mongering.

German news is currently over the top. They are talking about shutting down some of the German reactors because of Japan. I don't follow it.

If they got old outdated plants, prevention shutdown is wise than wait till something bad happens with them.

Tuesday / 06.10. The second reactor exploded. The core protection was damaged and now radiation is leaking down easily. In Japan suburbs radiation is 30-40 times bigger than usual.

Why? Whats the significance of him being a troll and also..... is there a GFY Instant Nuclear Physicist course that these so called "trolls" have been taking?