Interest rates in the US will rise because of this. Japan will by necessity stop financing US debt. China's already getting cold feet about US fiscal policy. In order to attract other investors, the US will have to raise the interest rates.
Posted on 03/12/2011 12:02:10 AM PST by rawhide
Just in:
Explosion at Tepco's Fukushima Daiichi plant heard around 0630 GMT
NHK footage shows steam-like smoke coming from Tepco's Fukushima plant
(Excerpt) Read more at live.reuters.com ...
However, it is readily taken in by the body and specifically the thyroid gland. Hence, the therapy of sodium iodine tablets, which displace it from the gland.
In about 80 days, it will be gone as in undetectable.
For perspective, consider that all of the lead on earth was once uranium...
I didn’t say it was real, just looking for info. However acute radiation sickness is a little more impressive than panic symptoms. Barfing up chunks of dead intestine is not a panic symptom. Neither is pooping out chunks of bloody intestine. A reasonably competent medical person can tell the diffence.
Much better than that ridiculous "The Day After."
You can say the same thing of any technology that has ever been invented. Your statement makes no point, and proves nothing. May as well say that water is wet.
Even Threads was way too optimistic. The friendly Soviets by then had refrigerated smallpox ICBM’s that would’ve killed off the survivors.
One thing about Threads, in the bunker they hear another nuclear blast a few days after the initial one. That was realistic.
However, people above ground still went on. England would’ve had very, very few survivors 5 years later. Maybe none.
I agree with you. Basic and universal religious principles teach sobriety, care, realizing that everything belongs to God and should be used appropriately with care. Humans aren’t the lords of all they survey, and a rapacious attitude of greed and exploitation and hedonism is far from conservative.
“Downwind” would be BAD.
Exactly, and it was the stark absence of that kind of attitude in Communist Russia that led directly to the Chernobyl reactor's primitive, slipshod design and its eventual destruction.
So you are playing the part of “the radio” in these films?
Please stop being a reactionary unless you know what you are talking about
and can come and observe the situation for yourself. I’m in Tokyo, and you are....where? The only thing we know at this point is that there is a lot we don’t know, and we’ll have to ride it out for a few more days. Please write again when things get settled.
No, from what I heard people explaining the Chernobyl one was so big because they didn’t shut down the nuclear reactor. In Japan they did so they are not worried about a core meltdown. But they still had to control the pressure in the reactor and the coolant system apparently failed, so even though it’s shut down there’s still a lot of energy and heat and pressure. It isn’t the same kind of explosion. The nuke expert guy I was watching said it makes this a 3-mile island type of thing (steam with a little radioactivity) rather than a meltdown-Chernobyl type thing.
Glad to learn you are safe and well!
Still feeling aftershocks where you are? What are your observations? You are living thru history FRiend!
Interest rates in the US will rise because of this. Japan will by necessity stop financing US debt. China's already getting cold feet about US fiscal policy. In order to attract other investors, the US will have to raise the interest rates.
listenhillary said:
You can’t fix stupid.
Eh! I resemble that remark!
Hi PennsylvaniaMom. I am in a suburb of Tokyo. We had severe and scary shaking at the office on Friday, and I watched out the 14th floor of the office as several fires burned across the city.
No one was injured or hurt in Tokyo for the most part, but I heard 6 people died in Tokyo due to industrial accidents that occurred as a direct result of the earthquake.
I actually stayed at the office working and assessing the situation for the next four hours, and finally left at 7pm, and just went to a pub with my co-worker to have some fun and conversation and drinks until the trains started running again. The only thing affected by the quake in Tokyo was the train schedule, and it will be that way for the next couple days as well.
We have all our electricity, but have been told to expect rolling outages should there be residual problems with power generation, such as the further shutting down of reactors, or discovering new damage that could influence municipal services.
The grocery stores have been hit moderately for supplies, but remain very well stocked. I noticed all the cup noodles, chocolate, and other easy to prepare, or emergency energy items were sold out or low, but there is no panic whatsoever. Most stores are still open, including all convenience stores, and people on the streets are going about their regular weekend business in Tokyo.
The towns and villages that were erased are localized disasters, and we all feel for them, but overall, everything outside of the destroyed areas is running as normal.
I fully expect to be back at work on Monday unless something else happens to change that.
There have been hundreds of aftershocks of 5.4M or more. Please see this map for an idea of what we are going through. Anything less than a nearby 6.8M is run of the mill throughout Japan though, so we ignore those and go about our daily business.
I’m sorry, I forgot to post the link:
http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/recenteqsww/Maps/10/140_35.php
Amazing how people can get used to just about anything.
I only experienced the merest "push" of a tremor one time when I was in a Tokyo hotel (it was over ten years ago), and that was more than I cared to handle...
Keep me posted, but I'm doing a "honey-do" shopping day today.
Life goes on, even in the land of Earthquakes and Obaama.
I heard the 190 people with radiation sickness as well. It is extremely hard to know what is trustworthy information at this point.
Already in the reporting you can see various agendas filtering through and coloring reporters thinking and presentation of information. What’s distorted, what’s outright lies and what’s a fact? No one knows right now.
And unfortunately our country is heading quickly in the same direction and has for some time. Crony Crapitalism untouched by moral principles and also more and more poisoned with socialism and old boy-ism and supported with whatever goes on in DC - Disctrict of Criminals - won’t be much different, in the end.
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