The jet stream (travelling at up to 200mph) could quite easily take that radioactivity from Japan over vast parts of the North America.
Musing about worst case scenarios: a “news” sellers dream.
Told you...
They have me quaking in my shoes./sarc
It might be a financial disaster, but no member of the public has been hurt, and I doubt anybody will be.
Funny, none of the newscasters lead with this line!
Chernobyl was many orders of magnitude worse. As long as they aren’t dumping tons of radioactive dust and smoke into the atmosphere we’ll be fine. Chernobyl was a different type of reactor that produced enormous amounts of dust and smoke for some 10 days before the even admitted there was a problem.
Worst case scenario would be a full scale meltdown and we’re already ahead of the game on that score. In the event of a full scale meltdown they can bury the thing under sand and concrete like they did chernobyl.
Not saying I plan on camping in the shadow of the containment building but there’s a lot of hype being pushed here.
So much for building any new nuke plants in this country, not that we were going to anyway. Back to tilting at windmills for the U.S.
Was anyone up in the wee hours last night who heard the interview with the Prime Minister’s spokesman? We now have a Tokyo Bob - nothing to see, we’re doing fine, it’s normal daily routine, move along. Normal? Evacuating for miles around, handing out iodine, and pumping sea water into the reactors is not normal, it’s a last ditch hail mary manuver.
Well, these guys will never see the talk-show circuit money.
They have no idea of how to write a worst case scenario!
How about mentioning the possibility of a meteorite strike or alien invasion to spice things up a little?
An absolute tragedy in Japan but the MSM, environmental extremists, and sheeples always start their hand wringing. Can’t wait for all the has been opportunistic entertainers to start their “funding” concerts.
“The steel vessel is four inches thick, and they could always put seawater around the vessel, and that would keep it cool, so it can’t melt. If you put a frying pan in water, you could put a blowtorch on the other side and it won’t make any difference. Then you have the other containment vessel, with a concrete faceplate underneath that’s between four and 10 feet thick. But melting through that is hypothetical beyond normal reasoning.”
But isn’t the concrete container for reactor #1 essentially gone? How can they put seawater *around* the steel vessel?
Notice they don't talk about the "LIKELY SCENARIO" since it isn't exciting.
This is nothing but fearmongering journalism. I'm sure the "MIT Nuclear Expert" is a lefty that is enjoying the fear growing in the populace. He's probably really a "nuclear expert" as in an "anti-nuclear expert".
I’ll worry that something went wrong when Godzilla starts rampaging through downtown Tokyo.
Jack.
Ron calmly covers the facts of the situation while the eco fecal freaks go absolutely apesh!t. Did CNN have him on?/s
CNN actually had some ‘expert’ d!ckhead on yesterday, saying the control rods were made of cesium. They were so anxious to get every anti-nuke pus chancre on, that I’m sure they never bothered to check credentials.
These nuclear power plants could have been hit by an asteriod. The horror. They were a stones throw away from the epicenter of one the biggest quakes in recorded history with a subsequent massive Tsunami and survived.
The fact that everything is undercontrol is absolutely amazing.
We need to start building thousands of nuclear power plants in the U.S. The states need to give the middle finger to the federal government and start building.
A must-read from an MIT scientist, “Why I am not worried about Japan’s nuclear reactors.”:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/bloggers/2688107/posts
WEll lets hope so.