Posted on 06/07/2011 5:47:57 PM PDT by Kartographer
The radioactivity in the water is slightly above background, but nothing to indicate difficulties with their fishing industry.
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“I have said it’s worse than Chernobyl and I’ll stand by that.”
Complete bullshit.
“There was an enormous amount of radiation given out in the first two to three weeks of the event.”
‘enormous’ amount of magnitude was 4 factors lower radiation than released at Chernobyl.
“And add the wind blowing in-land.”
Umm, prevalent winds were out to the Pacific.
“It could very well have brought the nation of Japan to its knees. I mean, there is so much contamination that luckily wound up in the Pacific Ocean”
Yeah, and that’s because the prevalent winds were that way, contradicting the previous statement.
“But now the winds have turned, so they are heading to the south toward Tokyo”
Here’s something you need to know. If all the Fukushima plants were to go, then the radiation would affect an area of 100 square kms. That’s not going to happen. We aren’t going to see any of the plants explode as in Chernobyl, and the 50 km zone won’t be breached. Remember, doubling the distance takes 4x as much radiactivity. Inverse square law.
“We are well beyond where any science has ever gone”
Bullshit. The cores have stabilized and are below boiling temperature. The fuel that has melted is contained in the containment structure.
“at that point and nuclear fuel lying on the ground and getting hot is not a condition that anyone has ever analyzed.”
Complete bullshit. The fuel is still in the containment vessel, which is still under the nuclear cap that protects the containment vessel and the core.
“When you see hydrogen explosions, that means that the outside of the fuel has exceeded 2,200 degrees and the inside is well over 3,500 degrees. The fuel gets brittle, it burns, and then it plops to the bottom of the nuclear reactor in a molten blob like lava.”
The Hydrogen comes from the water, when the water heats up it disassociates into hydrogen gas. This caused the earlier explosion. From what we know the core temperature was high enough to melt the fuel which is still in the reactor vessel. This fuel has since cooled off and solidified.
“There was essentially a blob of lava on the bottom of the nuclear reactor. So I have to separate this – a nuclear reactor - and that is inside of a containment.”
Inside the containment vessel, underneath the nuclear cap. So there are two more barriers. However, the temperature inside the vessel has cooled off and the melted core has solidified.
“That’s where we are today. We have no reactor essentially, just a big pressure cooker.”
Bullshit, the reactor is intact and the temperature has cooled.
“The molten uranium is on the bottom of the containment. It spreads out at that point, because the floor is flat. And I don’t think it’s going to melt its way through the concrete floor.”
It won’t melt because it’s cooled off. It ain’t going anywhere.
Lmqo!!!!!!
Ah, you are so smart! And convincing.
I bow to your vast, great, inarguable superiority, and most especially, well sourced and intelligent arguments, and to top it all off, gentlemanly demeanor.
No, I don’t want K1 tablets. I wouldn’t get thyroid cancer in time to kill me before I die of old age. And who knows what level of radioactive iodine is in my environment, the US ain’t testing any more from what I’ve read.
Since you Know All, what a great comfort to have you here on FR tellings us we’re stupid and full of “bullshit”.
Wait!
This is Barry’s hometown?
OMG! The horrors!
They ain’t supporting his BS position that there are rainbows everywhere?
Peddling lies and fearmongering is hardly gentlemanly.
I’ve got an idea. Read a few pp of the thread linked below and prove those articles wrong. Ping me with your sourced refutations. TIA.
Oh, and btw - my point was the ongoing - yes, not finished yet - devastating destruction at Fukushima will affect the US economy.
Link below is to an ongoing Fukushima thread on TimeBomb2000 which has very good newshounds.
Read Tonight Bump!
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