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defendandprotect (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-02-11 03:12 PM Original message |
Crews 'facing 100-year battle' at Fukushima |
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RC (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-02-11 03:32 PM Response to Original message |
1. Melted fuel rods? Eh, no. |
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Bluebear (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-02-11 03:33 PM Response to Reply #1 |
2. Yes, it's all fear mongering. Please continue shopping. |
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TheWraith (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-02-11 05:24 PM Response to Reply #2 |
19. Actually, yes, it IS all fearmongering. |
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defendandprotect (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-02-11 08:01 PM Response to Reply #19 |
21. Evidently they were too busy to "tell us" about the potential for disaster we now have in Japan!! |
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girl gone mad (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-03-11 02:49 PM Response to Reply #19 |
29. Actually, no.. |
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Blues Heron (397 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-02-11 03:37 PM Response to Reply #1 |
4. so what melts then, the cladding? |
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RC (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-02-11 04:02 PM Response to Reply #4 |
9. The tubes can melt. Then the pellets, depending on reactor design, |
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girl gone mad (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-02-11 09:36 PM Response to Reply #4 |
26. It looks like a pretty good model of events.. |
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Warren DeMontague (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-02-11 04:22 PM Response to Reply #1 |
12. Stephen Chu: Reactor #1 core damage likely "70%" |
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girl gone mad (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-02-11 04:56 PM Response to Reply #1 |
18. Actual physicists who actually studied BWR failure scenarios.. |
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girl gone mad (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-03-11 12:55 PM Response to Reply #1 |
27. Just kicking.. |
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Octafish (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-02-11 03:37 PM Response to Original message |
3. May they get control of the situations ASAFP. |
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RC (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-02-11 03:58 PM Response to Reply #3 |
7. Chernobyl was literally a pile of graphic blocks. |
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Warren DeMontague (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-02-11 04:18 PM Response to Reply #7 |
11. The long-term poisoning of the environment doesn't give a shit how it happened. |
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intaglio (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-02-11 04:26 PM Response to Reply #7 |
14. Quake and tsunami initiated the Fukushima disaster |
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Warren DeMontague (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-02-11 04:40 PM Response to Reply #14 |
15. "It exceeded the specifications we built for in our worst case scenario" |
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marions ghost (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-02-11 08:09 PM Response to Reply #15 |
24. +++++ |
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defendandprotect (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-02-11 08:04 PM Response to Reply #14 |
22. PLUS Global Warming is increasing earthquakes and their severity .... and probably |
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Warren DeMontague (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-02-11 08:33 PM Response to Reply #22 |
25. No, it's not. |
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JVS (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-03-11 12:57 PM Response to Reply #25 |
28. Gaia is angry! |
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aquart (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-02-11 04:00 PM Response to Reply #3 |
8. Same contingency plan BP had for the Gulf? |
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Warren DeMontague (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-02-11 04:41 PM Response to Reply #8 |
16. Somehow I think both "contingency plans" involved spending the first 72 hours shredding documents. |
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Karenina (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-03-11 03:15 PM Response to Reply #3 |
30. They're not doing very well, are they? |
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ixion (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-02-11 03:42 PM Response to Original message |
5. "As the water leaks out..." |
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jwirr (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-02-11 03:50 PM Response to Original message |
6. They have about 300 volunteers right now. Are they going to be able |
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RC (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-02-11 04:05 PM Response to Reply #6 |
10. The Japanese have a different mindset than we do. |
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Warren DeMontague (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-02-11 04:43 PM Response to Reply #10 |
17. Why would they need more volunteers? Sounds like the whole thing is a walk in the park! |
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jwirr (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-02-11 06:39 PM Response to Reply #10 |
20. It is a must of course. The world has no choice but to carry this out |
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defendandprotect (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-02-11 08:08 PM Response to Reply #20 |
23. That's the really sad part ... especially that we have 103 nuclear reactors in America !!! |
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KT2000 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-02-11 04:24 PM Response to Original message |
13. Oh yes - let's leave it |
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