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Japan: Big Mess (photo of completely destroyed 4th Floor of #4 Reactor Building at Fukushima Plant)
Japan Today ^ | 06/13/11

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).

(Excerpt) Read more at japantoday.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Health/Medicine; Local News; Science
KEYWORDS: fukushima; hydrogenexplosion; radiation; reactor4
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1 posted on 06/12/2011 5:37:05 PM PDT by TigerLikesRooster
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To: TigerLikesRooster; sushiman; Ronin; AmericanInTokyo; gaijin; struggle; DTogo; GATOR NAVY; Iris7; ...

P!


2 posted on 06/12/2011 5:37:42 PM PDT by TigerLikesRooster (The way to crush the bourgeois is to grind them between the millstones of taxation and inflation)
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To: TigerLikesRooster

Where to start?


3 posted on 06/12/2011 5:43:09 PM PDT by samtheman
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To: TigerLikesRooster

service masters ?


4 posted on 06/12/2011 5:46:41 PM PDT by maine yankee
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To: TigerLikesRooster
That's nothing - here is what the US machine tool industry looks like after the Japanese.

This is the former Warner & Swasey Company where they used to make lathes.


5 posted on 06/12/2011 5:48:26 PM PDT by Last Dakotan
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To: TigerLikesRooster
"It is what you cannot see that should terrify you."

Micheal Crichton, Eaters of the Dead

6 posted on 06/12/2011 6:05:09 PM PDT by Diogenesis (Nothing surpasses the complexity of the human mind. - Leto II: Dar-es-Balat)
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To: Last Dakotan

After the Japanese or after the Unions??


7 posted on 06/12/2011 6:08:08 PM PDT by DTogo (High time to bring back the Sons of Liberty !!)
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To: Last Dakotan

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.


8 posted on 06/12/2011 6:33:30 PM PDT by CharlyFord
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To: TigerLikesRooster

Wonder what the spent fuel pools look like?


9 posted on 06/12/2011 6:38:22 PM PDT by ransomnote
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That's some heavy metal building parts and concrete laying around on that floor. The explosion that destroyed that building was a whopper. And, there were people on site when those explosions happened. They were trying to get the facility under control.

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!

10 posted on 06/12/2011 6:40:26 PM PDT by CharlyFord
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To: TigerLikesRooster

My worry is what is happening to the ocean? Chernyobl x 4 = the dead sea?


11 posted on 06/12/2011 6:41:47 PM PDT by BigFinn
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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


12 posted on 06/12/2011 6:51:36 PM PDT by Razzz42
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It’s actually a good sign that they were able to send people to take the pictures and access the damage.


13 posted on 06/12/2011 7:25:50 PM PDT by CharlesWayneCT
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To: TigerLikesRooster

Looks a lot like one of the backup generator rooms where I used to work after the Northridge earthquake.


14 posted on 06/12/2011 7:32:28 PM PDT by T. P. Pole
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To: Razzz42

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?


15 posted on 06/12/2011 7:38:54 PM PDT by bvw
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To: CharlesWayneCT; TigerLikesRooster

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.


16 posted on 06/12/2011 7:58:19 PM PDT by little jeremiah (Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point. CSLewis)
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To: CharlyFord

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.


17 posted on 06/12/2011 8:06:16 PM PDT by helpfulresearcher (Bipartisanship: The PC Term for Collaboration with the Enemy)
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To: CharlyFord
Yea! Don’t blame the Japanese or Chinese.

Fine, so long as the Japanese aren't expecting the arsenal of democracy to defend them from the Chinese - it doesn't exist anymore.

18 posted on 06/12/2011 8:12:18 PM PDT by Last Dakotan
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To: bvw

Do you know where your core is?


19 posted on 06/12/2011 8:28:19 PM PDT by Razzz42
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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

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.

20 posted on 06/12/2011 8:32:32 PM PDT by Last Dakotan
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