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| -Signs, Portents, and the Weather- | |
| Japan nuclear disaster at Fukushima | |
| 2011-03-17 | |
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| Posted by:Steve White |
| #6 In the 97th Congress, the House was controlled by Democrats. The Republicans won the Senate for the first time since 1953 under Reagan. |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2011-03-17 17:01 |
| #5 Years of procrastination in deciding on long-term disposal of highly radioactive fuel rods from nuclear reactors is now coming back to haunt Japanese authorities as they try to control fires and explosions at the stricken Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station. Breeder reactors utilize nuclear wastes. Japan has one breeder reactor. France, Germany, India have breeders. We have no operational breeder reactors in the U.S. Jimmy Carter put the kibosh on breeder reactors and the Congress under Reagan in 1982 starved the Cinch River Breeder Reactor program of funds. |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2011-03-17 16:57 |
| #4 Years of procrastion paying off at Fukushima (NY Times): Years of procrastination in deciding on long-term disposal of highly radioactive fuel rods from nuclear reactors is now coming back to haunt Japanese authorities as they try to control fires and explosions at the stricken Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station. Japan, like the United States, has kept ever larger numbers of spent fuel rods in temporary storage pools at the power plants, where they can be guarded with the same security provided for the power plant. Nuclear engineers around the world have been expressing surprise this week that the storage pools have become such a problem. “I’m amazed that they couldn’t keep the water in the pools,” said Robert Albrecht, a longtime nuclear engineer. |
| Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 2011-03-17 15:37 |
| #3 In a crisis like this there are many unknowns and considerable uncertainty. Since the Obama administration has demonstrated nearly total incompetence in just about everything; I would take with a grain of salt anything a spokesman from BO administration says. The Japanese have reported what is ongoing and actions taken. They have been a bit busy lately. The speculation has been left to others in the news media and talking heads. |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2011-03-17 09:58 |
| #2 FREEREPUBLIC > JAPAN NUCLEAR PLANT: JUST 48 HOURS TO AVOID ANOTHER CHERNOBYL. Looks like "LEVEL SIX" NUC EMERGENCY is about to become a FULL-FLEDGED "LEVEL SEVEN"??? |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2011-03-17 03:27 |
| #1 See also FREEREPUBLIC > "THEY'VE LOST CONTROL":FRENCH CRITICIZE JAPAN IN HIDING FULL-SCALE OF [Fukushima= Nuclear] DISASTER. * CHINESE MILITARY FORUM > JAPAN GOVT. LOSING PUBLIC TRUST AS NUCLEAR CRISIS WORSENS. * NEWS KERALA > JAPAN QUAKE DISASTER ROCKS CHINESE ECONOMY. Quake-Tsunami-Nuclear woes affecting Rising China's #1 trading partner, + hence China. * PEOPLE'S DAILY FORUM > RADIATION HOAX SPARKS PANIC IN THE PHILIPPINES. Panicked Schools rush the Kiddies home. * SAME > {British Geological Society = BGS] JAPAN TSUNAMI "COULD BE A [periodic] THOUSAND-YEAR EVENT". to naturally occur again + again. Last was likely the 869 AD "JOGAN" QUAKE-TSUNAMI EVENT. * SAME > JAPAN TSUNAMI: THOUSANDS OF SEABIRDS KILLED NEAR HAWAII [Midway Atoll's NWR]. Besides dead fish, many 00's or 000's of dead Laysan Albatrosses, Bonins Pentels, + Sea Turtles? Affect on Laysan Ducks, Monk Seals not yet determined. * C2CAM > [National Geographic] JAPAN EARTHQUAKE NOT "THE [feared] BIG ONE", which most Perts had predicted to occur in or generally around the TOKYO AREA. ARTIC = 1923 TOKYO = "KANTO" QUAKE, whose Magnitude was less than the 03/11/2011 SENDAI QUAKE, KILLED 142,000 PEOPLE. |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2011-03-17 02:16 |