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Japan Asks US To Help Stop Reactor Meltdown
Sky News ^ | March 14, 2011 | Sky News

Posted on 03/14/2011 1:45:20 PM PDT by americanophile

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To: americanophile

“.....considering possible replies......” Yes, this is typical of this kind of administration..... Any decent real American President would have had those people that are needed already there. This President is a F@CKING disgrace to humanity.


121 posted on 03/14/2011 3:02:52 PM PDT by Gaffer
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To: crz

It’s considered standard practice to ping those that you decide to disparage. But you are a limp wrist and choose to flame people and like a baby, run to someone else and ‘whine’.

You have blown my comments out of context because you seem to have a problem with reading comprehension. I’m sorry for you. You seem to be one of those that think they are a ‘legend...(in their own mind)’ and just can’t understand when the rest of us don’t see this amazing characteristic in you.

Wow...what a guy.


122 posted on 03/14/2011 3:03:11 PM PDT by Outlaw Woman
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To: Lazamataz

Don’t you mean: “Ph’nglui mglw’nafh Obama W’ton wgah’nagl fhtagn”?


123 posted on 03/14/2011 3:03:19 PM PDT by Gondring (Paul Revere would have been flamed as a naysayer troll and told to go back to Boston.)
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To: Red Badger

Monday, March 14 2011

All Times ET

10:20 am The President visits a classroom
Arlington, Kenmore Middle School, Virginia
Travel Pool Coverage
Gather Time 9:20AM – North Doors of the Palm Room

10:40 am The President delivers a speech on reforming education
Arlington, Kenmore Middle School, Virginia
Open Press

11:55 am The President meets with senior advisors
Oval Office

Closed Press
12:30 pm Briefing by Press Secretary Jay Carney
James S. Brady Briefing Room
Open Press

1:45 pm The President holds a bilateral meeting with Prime Minister Rasmussen of Denmark
Oval Office
Closed Press

2:25 pm The President and Prime Minister Rasmussen of Denmark deliver statements to the press
Oval Office
Pooled Press
Gather Time 2:10PM – Brady Press Briefing Room

3:00 pm The President meets with General Petraeus
Oval Office
Closed Press

7:30 pm The President attends a DNC event
DC, St. Regis Hotel, Washington
Closed Press

******

Mostly closed Press. Really open about everything isn’t he./s

His schedule stops most days around 2 - 3pm. Wish I had a schedule like that!


124 posted on 03/14/2011 3:03:31 PM PDT by kcvl
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To: swain_forkbeard
"Is uranium still fissioning there?"

Out of the 10s of millions, if not billions of words written and spoken about this issue over the last 3 days, this is the ONE SINGLE SUBJECT that no "expert" has addressed.

It's one thing to have residual heat after shutdown...it's a whole 'nuther program when that residual heat melts the fuel rods and the molten fuel pools at the bottom of the Containment Vessel.

Yes, they should be able to measure whether there is still fission going on.

125 posted on 03/14/2011 3:05:12 PM PDT by Mariner (USS Tarawa, VQ3, USS Benjamin Stoddert, NAVCAMS WestPac, 7th Fleet, Navcommsta Puget Sound)
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To: EBH

I heard some expert say today that it could take months for the rods to be cooled down.


126 posted on 03/14/2011 3:05:46 PM PDT by Netizen
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To: americanophile
The call has gone out. We must respond. Time to get this government moving:

Are you so sure? GE has huge investments in "green energy" at stake here.

127 posted on 03/14/2011 3:06:34 PM PDT by Carry_Okie (The environment is too complex and too important to manage by central planning.)
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To: matt04
From my understanding Fukushima 1 is a GE reactor from the 70’s.

I'd say "60s" is a better characterization.

128 posted on 03/14/2011 3:06:34 PM PDT by Gondring (Paul Revere would have been flamed as a naysayer troll and told to go back to Boston.)
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To: crz

>>These people think this SOB is going to blow up like a nuke bomb and level the whole GD earth.

I dealt with one of those this AM. I was being told to read On the Beach, which is a post-apocalyptic novel set in the Cold War time frame, about survivors of a massive U.S.-USSR nuclear war. This in order to better understand what might happen with regards to current events in Japan.

Some people are just idiots and believe the media hype. Is this a serious situation? Damn right! Are we all gonna die!? Hell no, not even close. I place the likelihood of my needing to open the bottle of KI that is in my basement at about 0.0001%, which means I don’t expect any sort of fallout event here.

Oh, and worth repeating:

“Just as with the Gulf oil spill, the devastation caused by Big Press will dwarf the actual problem.”

- Freeper Balding_Eagle


129 posted on 03/14/2011 3:07:24 PM PDT by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: Outlaw Woman

Like I said. Quit your whining and get your ass out there and volunteer.


130 posted on 03/14/2011 3:07:43 PM PDT by crz
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To: KansasGirl

We probably did offer any or all assistance, but it seems asian culture can find that a delicate problem.


131 posted on 03/14/2011 3:09:03 PM PDT by Amberdawn
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To: americanophile
Obama will fix it for them.
132 posted on 03/14/2011 3:10:02 PM PDT by omega4179
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To: ArmstedFragg
Keep it in place, the reaction has stopped...

Maybe I wasn't clear. I'm only suggesting this as a possible LAST resort. Hopefully it never gets that far. The reactions are still occurring.

133 posted on 03/14/2011 3:10:28 PM PDT by Errant
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BREAKING NEWS: Partial defect found in No.2 reactor’s container: Edano (06:58) - Kyodo News english.kyodonews.jp


134 posted on 03/14/2011 3:10:28 PM PDT by SE Mom (Proud mom of an Iraq war combat vet)
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To: humblegunner
THIS is the time we should be praising his apathy and ineptness.

Stay out of it, Obama!

Thank you. A voice of reason isn't always appreciated.

135 posted on 03/14/2011 3:11:20 PM PDT by re_nortex (DP...that's what I like about Texas.)
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To: swain_forkbeard

You are correct. The uranium is not a problem. It is the radioactive byproducts of fission that are still generating heat. And will for about 10 days.


136 posted on 03/14/2011 3:12:01 PM PDT by DManA
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To: FreedomPoster

In the early 80s i bought a book called “Life After Doomsday” By Dr Bruce Clayton. It explained all the falsehoods and explained in laymens terms what is to be expected in disasters..mostly nuclear. And the 3 mile disaster was in fact, a news media event. As this is..


137 posted on 03/14/2011 3:14:38 PM PDT by crz
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To: americanophile

Seems to me Russia would be the folks to ask for technical help as they’ve had the most recent experience with this type of thing.


138 posted on 03/14/2011 3:14:50 PM PDT by sonofagun (Some think my cynicism grows with age. I like to think of it as wisdom!)
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To: Gator113
He is hardly a muslim.

Yeah, but that's how O'Bambi seems to treat Buddists.

139 posted on 03/14/2011 3:16:00 PM PDT by Fido969 ("The hardest thing in the world to understand is income tax." - Albert Einstein)
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To: MeganC

Compared to the consequences implied by this and other stories, a Chernobyl type explosion, the probable outcome is indeed bright.

There is very little chance even with a complete melt down that the contents will escape the multiple containment chambers.

Not that a complete loss of a VERY expensive generator and the prospect of 10 years of clean up isn’t horrendous. But at least it a financial disaster, not a human life disaster.


140 posted on 03/14/2011 3:16:23 PM PDT by DManA
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