No repeat of Chernobyl disaster for Japan

Alert Net ^ | 12 March 2011 | Elizabeth Piper

[Nobel_1]

URL http://www.trust.org/alertnet/news/no-repeat-of-chernobyl-disaster-for-japan-experts/

[SteamShovel]

Japan should not expect a repeat of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster

CNN is deeply saddened...

[BenLurkin]

bttt

[TigerClaws]

Aren’t there multiple reactors in danger? If several blow that’s not a Category 7 disaster (highest possible for nuclear events).

I think the Japanese gov’t is trying to save face and prevent widespread panic.
If pumping in sea water — the salt has a corrosive effect and they are writing off ever using it again — this is far worse than we’re being told.

[ColdOne]

hehehe!

[REDWOOD99]

I could be wrong, but if this article proves to be true and the clean-up isn’t horrendously expensive, this “accident” could be the single best argument FOR nuclear power.

[Mr_Moonlight]

CNN is deeply saddened...

CNN is like the dog chasing a car ... once the dog catches up to the car he don't know what to do with it!!!

[Georgia Girl 2]

Of course Fox News just announced a little while ago that now the Japs are saying there is an emergency with the other reactor on that site. Bu they are not elaborating at the moment.

[barbarianbabs]

I actually heard a cnn reporter ask ‘Is there widespread LOOTING going on????’ The man in Japan said ‘Uuuh, no.’

[eyedigress]

The word earlier was this plant was scheduled to go offline this year.

[John W]

msnbc.com may have to downsize today’s giant font for this story.

[NRG1973]

I think the Japanese gov’t is trying to save face and prevent widespread panic.

I think posters on the internet are letting their vivid imaginations run wild. The reality is that the Japanese have many "tools' available to them to respond to this situation. They know what to do and will react in a far better manner than many internet posters are.

[eyedigress]

It’s not what Lincoln wanted to eradicate.

[barbarianbabs]

lol
there will be 0 looting in Japan

[eyedigress]

I believe the most that is required will handle this. It involves mass destruction and possible effects. This is a terrible event yet the world will do the best they can, That’s all.

[FReepaholic]

...If pumping in sea water — the salt has a corrosive effect and they are writing off ever using it again — this is far worse than we’re being told...

These reactors are 40 years old and were actually scheduled to be taken offline permanently later this month.

[cantfindagoodscreenname]

I could be wrong, but if this article proves to be true and the clean-up isn’t horrendously expensive, this “accident” could be the single best argument FOR nuclear power.

That's exactly what I was thinking!

[RayChuang88]

Here are the two big problems that made the Chernobyl problem worse:

1) When the graphite moderators on that reactor overheated, it started to burn and became HIGHLY explosive.
2) There was no containment structure to stop the spread of the radioactive fallout from the reactor explosion.

That's why when Chernobyl exploded it easily spread as much fallout as that from a medium-yield nuclear bomb explosion.

[eyedigress]

A Nuc neighbor took me through a 40’s reactor when I was 14. It was not operational. The Cooling was still in place. This was Oak Ridge, TN. He advised us to not jump into the pool.