No repeat of Chernobyl disaster for Japan

Alert Net ^ | 12 March 2011 | Elizabeth Piper

[Nobel_1]

Japan should not expect a repeat of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster after an explosion blew the roof off one of its nuclear power plants that had been shaken in a huge earthquake, experts said on Saturday.

Japan's Daiichi 1 reactor north of the capital Tokyo began leaking radiation after the 8.9-magnitude earthquake triggered a tsunami, and swiftly prompted fears of a nuclear meltdown.

But experts said pictures of mist above the plant suggested only small amounts of radiation had been expelled as part of measures to ensure its stability, far from the radioactive clouds that Chernobyl spewed out when it exploded in 1986.

"The explosion at No. 1 generating set of the Fukushima nuclear plant in Japan, which took place today, will not be a repetition of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster," said Valeriy Hlyhalo, deputy director of the Chernobyl nuclear safety centre.

He was quoted by Interfax news agency as saying Japanese reactors were better protected than Chernobyl, where just over 30 firefighters were killed in the explosion. The world's worst civilian nuclear disaster, Chernobyl has also been blamed for thousands of deaths due to radiation-linked illness.

"Apart from that, these reactors are designed to work at a high seismicity zone, although what has happened is beyond the impact the plants were designed to withstand," Hlyhalo said.

"Therefore, the consequences should not be as serious as after the Chernobyl nuclear disaster."

[eyedigress]

Speaking of the days....when I got stationed at Luke the signs around the Superstition Range was good enough.



I guess I need to scan some photos and get them going on the web.

[fred2008]

Thanks.

By the way, here ar ethe site I use to provide some perspective on this:

http://energyfromthorium.com/2011/03/12/japanese-earthquake-qa1/

http://bravenewclimate.com/2011/03/12/japan-nuclear-earthquake/

http://uk.reuters.com/article/2011/03/12/uk-japan-quake-experts-idUKTRE72B1KP20110312

[SteamShovel]

No, the japs are civilized when it comes to this....I shudder to think how our dependent class would behave.

In situations like this, the behavior of the crowd "rises" to the behavior of the lowest dominant value set.

In our case, the dependent class is close enough to parity with the non-dependent class that it would become one of two value sets in a heated competition. Thuggery would rear it's ugly head.

You can't ignore since if it is allowed to rise un-checked it will overtake you. You have to fight back to preserve some sense of fairness. At that point, you have war in the streets. To an outsider, it would simply look like riots and lawlessness when in fact it is a war between good and evil.