Posted on 12/30/2013 9:07:12 AM PST by RaceBannon
Turner Radio Network (TRN) has issued a report regarding Fukushima Diachi Nuclear Plant that is expected to affect the entire Northern Hemisphere. According to the report: “Persons residing on the west coast of North America should IMMEDIATELY begin preparing for another possible onslaught of dangerous atmospheric radiation from the Fukushima nuclear disaster site in Japan.” TEPCO has confirmed that via camera surveillance, that steam has begun to pour from Reactor 3, although they have “not been identified abnormal plant conditions.” TEPCO are reporting that “radioactive steam has suddenly begun emanating from previously exploded nuclear reactor building #3 at the Fukuishima disaster site in Japan.”
If you were half as sceptical of non-industry sources, what humor would there be on these threads?
Your posts supply all the unintentional humor one could hope for.
Thanks for the follow up. I have been sparingly on an off FR of lately.
Huge radiation spikes in Hawaii??
Weird source and I am not to sure about those pics....those seem pretty old.
However something to keep an eye on!
1. TEPCO's live stream shows no steam, so if I didn't think I was safe, then...
2. Google Earth shows intact buildings. So everything must be Ok, 'cause the government said it was.
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You're all about to get a crash-course on the truth about radiation (if you care), despite the preachings of idiots like the poster that accused me of abject drama with her defective training.
I, for one, understand radiation. But I won't preach it anymore; you're on your own.
Next time you see a seagull in the sky near the west coast, if you happen to have a detector handy, take a reading of its droppings. Even if the airborne isotopes don't make things hairy over here in Oregon, the coast will become a no-man's land, seagulls will spread high levels of contamination & create hotspots all over the state. Tourism will drop dramatically overnight, agri-business exports will all but come to a halt.
And that's not the bad news...
Agree.
I wonder if this will cut somebody’s vacation short?
I don’t need to be an expert to see that the benefits of a nuclear power plant are not worth the risk. Fukushima is verification of the bad economics of nuclear. I understand from your comment that your personal economics may have a vested interest in the nuke industry. That does not give your opinion much weight politically these days. If your opinion counted, San Onofre would be firing up instead of decommissioned.
Question, can we store the waste from San Onofre in you garage seeing as how it is safe?
Finally, using curse words is not a substitute for legitimate debate. I sympathize with your frustration but do hope we can hold to FR standards. Or should I look for a mod to decommission your post?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x5tZi-eO-_I&feature=youtube_gdata_player
No offense, but the source of that video is a hack. The image he uses of the steam is from April 2011.
It's this kind of crap that makes it so difficult to glean real info out there.
I’m advocating for taking in information. Even a nut job is right some of the time. Don’t play twisted games with me during these discussions.
And the worst part of it is that Chernobyl was a semi-contained disaster; Fukushima is currently poisoning daily the ecosystem that supports a quarter of the population of the planet.
Exactamundo! Lasing...
My dad was one of the start-up engineers on San Onofre NGS One. I have lived my life since 1965 near nuclear power plants- much safer than most other places.
There is absolutely no reason to store nuclear waste. It should be recycled and used as fuel in other nuclear facilities. It was President Jimmy Carter who screwed that up; now we argue over storing it, when there was a perfectly adequate solution provided by Bechtel Engineering around 1970.
Bovine excrement. (Is that better? Still describes your post very well.) You know nothing. There is no stream of radiation pouring out of Fukushima, polluting the west coast of North America.
Even more than curse words, FR hates liars. You should be more careful who you go after.
ok then back to my opriginal point
if the whole thing melts, and gets distributed and spread out through cracks in the earth, won’t it cool off instead of continuing to melt down to the center of the earth as one blob of overheated goo?
(hows that for techinical terms?)
Spare we doomed again?
“Radiation moves far and wide.”
You don’t know what you’re talking about, which is why the EPA can come out and say all kinds of things which may look frightening but really is not.
I will give you an analogy using uranium and dog feces. A pile of uranium, which is an atomically unstable element that emits radiation in a process known as ‘decay’, is like a pile of dog feces emitting, or radiating, stench. Neither is nice to be around.
Radiation travels in a straight line. It can be shielded by three things: time, a barrier such as concrete or lead or water, or distance from the radioactive source.
I live in southwest Washington State. I like oysters and eat those harvested from Willapa Bay on the Washington coast. They haven’t been contaminated, and if radioactive particles were in abundance in the sea water, as filter feeders oysters would show evidence. The State of Washington is keeping notice.
Cesium 37 was put into the atmosphere by Chernobyl. It is a problem in the northern latitudes of Scandinavia and obviously is being monitored in the northeast U.S.A. Cesium 37 has a half-life of 30.7 years so it is decaying and I would expect it to be more difficult to find with time. Wikipedia has a good section on the subject; you will find the entry about Fukushima interesting, no doubt.
The large concrete domes collapsed, which isn’t the same thing as “blowing up”. No cesium 37 blasted into the air as happened at Chernobyl when the steam lines ripped apart and pulverized the fuel rods.
That sounded like a threat. Did you mean it to or is it in the vein of I should be careful who I debate with because of your superior knowledge on the subject of nuclear energy.
I’m actually laughing at your posts because the have relied on school yard debating tactics. I’m next expecting you to accuse my mother of wearing army boots.
Either way its not worth a fight with you. I’d much rather reflect on the small part I played in the political movement that shut down San Onofre.
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