Posted on 06/12/2011 5:37:01 PM PDT by TigerLikesRooster
Big Mess
Damaged equipment and piping are shown on the fourth floor of the No. 4 reactor building at Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in Okuma, Fukushima Prefecture, in this photo released Sunday by Tokyo Electric Power Co (TEPCO).
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Where to start?
service masters ?
This is the former Warner & Swasey Company where they used to make lathes.
Micheal Crichton, Eaters of the Dead
After the Japanese or after the Unions??
Yea! Don’t blame the Japanese or Chinese. They are on the other side of the World. Look closer to home for the failure of U.S. industry. Your average WalMart shopper makes the decision on who’s working.
The average U.S. home contains many major items that are imported. The foreign manufacturers didn’t make the purchase decisions.
Wonder what the spent fuel pools look like?
Can you imagine working at a power plat with six nuclear reactors while four of the six are blowing up. I'll bet those guys walk funny. They got big ones!
My worry is what is happening to the ocean? Chernyobl x 4 = the dead sea?
I read here on FR that nuke plants were meant to blow up and the end result of this disaster is no worse than working on a banana plantation.
http://ex-skf.blogspot.com/2011/06/radiation-in-japan-date-city-in.html
It’s actually a good sign that they were able to send people to take the pictures and access the damage.
Looks a lot like one of the backup generator rooms where I used to work after the Northridge earthquake.
Nuke plants aren’t meant to blow up. But fear and panic will kill more than the radiation will, when fear mongers have the field. Fortunately, they don’t. Rational adults are working this one through.
By the way, what are the risks and mortality rates of working on a banana plantation, or were you just blowing steam?
Most of the photos I’ve seen but it’s been a while since I’ve read about this, were taken by robot. It would be interesting to know if humans are going in there now.
The Chinese government has manipulated their currency so that their exports were 40% cheaper than they should have been if it were really a free market. That is like an invisible 40% tax on American manufacturers.
Of course weakened manufacturers has meant less political power for manufacturers and thus weakened power for job creators. Hence the insane regulations, Obamacare and all the other burdens on producers.
China will crack within the next two to three years and lose the ability to manipulate exchange rates as inflation hits. When that 40% burden comes to an end, manufacturing will return to America. Power will return to the producers. Regulations will be cut. Prosperity and jobs will return to America.
Fine, so long as the Japanese aren't expecting the arsenal of democracy to defend them from the Chinese - it doesn't exist anymore.
Do you know where your core is?
The Chinese haven't done anything the Japanese have done for 40 years.
Sure, there is plenty of blame to go around for the collapse of American industry, but the Japanese were only too happy to scoop up the business behind a closed market.
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