Yawn... we’ve been subjected to so much of this chicken little BS over the past few decades that it is hard to take seriously anymore. Even Chernobyl didn’t live up to the billing.
Here's all you need to know about this guy's "creds":
"The Institute for Public Accuracy is a Washington, D.C.-based organization that encourages mainstream news media to interview alternative sources."
Forbes is quoting anti-nuke hysterics from a leftwing whorehouse. Dumb shits at Forbes.
What in the world has happened to Forbes.
The family turned the magazine publishing over to a new entity and the quality of the articles and the news is down to tabloid quality.
He’s full of crap.
Chernobyl was a graphite-moderated reactor. The situation was made MUCH worse there when the graphite caught fire. Their plant design lacked a hard containment vessel as western plants have. And their problems were operator-induced.
These plants are right on the seacoast. If they make a decision to flood with seawater, they have plenty of it nearby. Unlike Chernobyl, where they had to airlift sand to smother the fire that resulted.
Of note:
Kevin attended Earlham College, a Society of Friends (Quaker) school in Richmond, Indiana, as well as Kalamazoo College in Kalamazoo, Michigan, where he studied biology and chemistry, respectively.
Gee, that's somebody who's opinion I REALLY want to trust!
BS, all of it.
Not worth responding in more detail. See credible sources for information if you want to know the facts.
Sounds like bulls*** to me, theyre pumping seawater and boric acid into the containment area which should cool it down. All they have to do it keep it below 1000C.
At time of explosion, 3 people were 1 km north waiting for helicopter and were exposed to the radiation.
Of course it is! Waste no crisis!
“Risk of Nuclear Catastrophe Escalates in Japan – ‘Worse than Chernobyl’”
Oy. Where to start?
Well, let’s start off saying that the Chernobyl actuality wasn’t/isn’t a risk*, that the Nuclear situation in Japan *is* means that it, by definition, cannot be worse than Chernobyl. (It may, however, have the potential to be worse than Chernobyl.)
* There actually was a higher risk-factor with Chernobyl before the disaster because they were not employing [proper] safety protocols.
Folks, we have to keep it in perspective.
If all of the nuclear reactors in Japan went critical, melted down and lit up simultaneously, it would do less damage to our country than the current administration.
Just sayin’
Didn't need to go much past there. Anything with THAT name probably isn't, like the "Center for Science in the Public Interest" which is a whacko far-left vegan group, or the "National Association for Women" which couldn't find the time to help women like Juanita Broaddrick.
Another perspective:
PROF PADDY REGAN, PROFESSOR OF NUCLEAR PHYSICS AT THE
UNIVERSITY OF SURREY
“It looks as if the coolant pumps had initially stopped working. They shut down automatically when the reactor shuts down, but there is a backup system running off a diesel generator — it looks as though that’s the bit that failed.
“As a result there is no way of pumping heat out of the reactor, so it has to cool naturally. If the reactor gets too hot, in principle this means the fuel rods can melt - but it looks unlikely this has happened to any great extent in this case.
“To reduce the pressure, you would have to release some steam into the atmosphere from the system. In that steam, there will be small but measurable amounts of radioactive nitrogen - nitrogen 16 (produced when neutrons hit water). This remains radioactive for only about 5 seconds, after which it decays to natural oxygen.”
Per NHK press conference on nuclear reactors:
They are in still in process of putting sea water to cool the nuclear reactor. They will use that as a seal.
Even if that fails, they do not expect a problem within 20km which is why they increased the evac area.
When explosion happened, 4 people got injured. they we near the turbine of the containment and they are at hospital right now.
The sky is falling agenda.
If that a division of the "Ministry of Truth" or something?
So the reactor cooling system is running on battery power. This horrible, end of the world disaster will only happen if all the resources of Japan, and their many technically capable allies cannot deliver some working generators to plant, or repair the ones already there before the batteries run down. YAWN
“The Institute for Public Accuracy”
Already the red flag has gone up. Public is one of those clue words which usually translates to leftwing psuedoscience when used in this context.