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Japan temporarily pulls backs workers from Nuke Plant
fox news

Posted on 03/15/2011 7:39:54 PM PDT by Mr. K

Fox news saying they left the plant


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: japaneathquake; japannuclearplants; radiation
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To: meyer

Where is Halliburton when you need them? They can do about 1,000 hp per truck.

If they had HOWCO (Halliburton Oil Well Cementing Company) Saturday morning and offered them the pump job they would have carried the pumps in by hand if they had to, carry diesel in buckets and eat vienna sausage and RC Cola until reinforcements arrived!

Guaranteed. Too late now though.


161 posted on 03/15/2011 8:25:58 PM PDT by Sequoyah101 (Half the people are below average.)
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To: redreno
The Russians didn’t run. Just say’in....

In 1986, Soviets who disobeyed orders were shot.

Big difference.

162 posted on 03/15/2011 8:26:04 PM PDT by buccaneer81 (ECOMCON)
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To: Dead Dog

LOL, I am very pro nuke but that statement is too much. The japanese didn’t properly anticipate a tsunami of this size. What happens when something not anticipated screws up the passive cooling scheme? Just had to ask.


163 posted on 03/15/2011 8:26:13 PM PDT by east1234 (Cut, Kill, Dig and Drill!)
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To: Professional

http://finance.yahoo.com/intlindices?e=asia

The Asian markets are starting to turn down... click on the link - you’ll see the green numbers flashing red... it’s just staring down now.


164 posted on 03/15/2011 8:26:23 PM PDT by GOPJ (http://hisz.rsoe.hu/alertmap/index2.php - It's only uncivil when someone on the right does it.- Laz)
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To: norcal joe

Eh this is not that big of a deal. The experts have REPEATEDLY said that even if it totally melted down it wouldn’t be “that big of a deal” - this is NOT the same as what happened in the Soviet Union.

Sure there will be some radiation - but not that much and not that far away.

It could totally melt down - all of them and it would still be mostly contained.

Everyone is making much ado about nothing.

It’s not that big of a deal. What more do the experts need to tell us to get us to believe that?

This is not the same as what happened in the Soviet Union.

The focus of the media should be on the earthquake and the need of the people in Japan - NOT this story.

But - nobody seems to want to believe that.


165 posted on 03/15/2011 8:26:26 PM PDT by silentknight
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To: All

Do we have a source for the headline change?


166 posted on 03/15/2011 8:27:03 PM PDT by John W (Natural-born US citizen since 1955)
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To: yup2394871293

“Fail Safe” is a classic.


167 posted on 03/15/2011 8:27:17 PM PDT by buccaneer81 (ECOMCON)
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To: glock rocks

just damn ...


168 posted on 03/15/2011 8:27:29 PM PDT by GOPJ (http://hisz.rsoe.hu/alertmap/index2.php - It's only uncivil when someone on the right does it.- Laz)
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To: east1234

And 99% of all the radiation in a bomb is released within the fist minute of the blast. The other 1% is fallout blown up into the air.

A H bomb is a Bomb with a fission core, wrapped in heavy water then wrapped in a fission wrapping. A nuetron bomb is simply a bomb without the outer wrapping. Very clean and limited in blast capabilities.


169 posted on 03/15/2011 8:28:38 PM PDT by crz
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To: All

The smoke and radiation is coming from plant 2 it is now thought and that makes sense.

The containment vessel was damaged yesterday and as explained yesterday, it would take roughly 24 hours for a core meltdown lava pool to eat through the steel encasement.

Sorry to say this is a very logical explanation given the fact it happened almost 24 hours to the minute.


170 posted on 03/15/2011 8:28:44 PM PDT by winoneforthegipper ("If you can't ride two horses at once, you probably shouldn't be in the circus" - SP)
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To: NormsRevenge
The engineers will return to do what they can when they're allowed back. Let's hope it's soon.

Never give in--never, never, never, never, in nothing great or small, large or petty, never give in except to convictions of honour and good sense. Never yield to force; never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy.

-- Sir Winston Churchill, 1941

171 posted on 03/15/2011 8:28:44 PM PDT by glock rocks (I am Dyslexis of Borg. Your ass will be laminated.)
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To: stripes1776

But all designs now need to be reviewed for safety.>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

The CANDU reactor used exclusively in Canada, employing heavery water ( H3O ), is very safe, but GE trumped CANDU in Japan.I bet they now wish they had CANDU reactors.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CANDU_reactor


172 posted on 03/15/2011 8:29:04 PM PDT by Candor7 (Obama . fascist info..http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/05/barack_obama_the_quintessentia_1.html)
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To: FreeAtlanta
Remember this thing from Howe and Howe tech.

Swap out the mini-gun with a pump and water cannon and send it in to fill up the storage pool. Robots don't have next of kin to worry about. And you could throw a couple of them on a C-17 and have them there by tomorrow.
173 posted on 03/15/2011 8:29:26 PM PDT by GonzoGOP (There are millions of paranoid people in the world and they are all out to get me.)
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To: FreeAtlanta; UCANSEE2; Jedidah
The web site of NEI (Nuclear Energy Institute) does not appear to have an agenda about the disaster.

Their reports are not scheduled. Reports are made as information becomes available.

http://nei.cachefly.net/newsandevents/information-on-the-japanese-earthquake-and-reactors-in-that-region/

174 posted on 03/15/2011 8:29:41 PM PDT by TYVets (Pure-Gas.org ..... ethanol free gasoline by state and city)
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To: John W

Part of the briefing they just gave.


175 posted on 03/15/2011 8:30:03 PM PDT by Ingtar (Together we go broke (from a Pookie18 post))
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To: east1234

I have to ask, yes in the clarity of 20/20 hindsight for me but, how do you figure there could be a design earthquake without a Tsunami in a nation where one goes with the other with amazing frequency?

Anybody?


176 posted on 03/15/2011 8:30:11 PM PDT by Sequoyah101 (Half the people are below average.)
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To: dfwgator
You want depressing? Try "Threads."

Yup. It doesn't get any bleaker than that. I remember back in the '80s, I had to have it special ordered on video from the store; no US TV network would touch it, so consequently there was little demand for it on video.

177 posted on 03/15/2011 8:30:10 PM PDT by buccaneer81 (ECOMCON)
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To: Candor7

They are returning now - they only left for a little bit.

Headline was misleading. They did not “leave”

They pulled back

Again - not a big deal.


178 posted on 03/15/2011 8:30:10 PM PDT by silentknight
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To: silentknight

>> “this is NOT the same as what happened in the Soviet Union.” <<

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True!

The Russian reactor was a carbon block design, and the meltdown yielded massive amounts of radio active CO2 that was absorbed by crops and thus found its way into the food supply of Europe.


179 posted on 03/15/2011 8:30:30 PM PDT by editor-surveyor (Going 'EGYPT' - 2012!)
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To: Justa
Schedules are short here as well as with Apollo 13.

Only World Class talent should be involved.

I know that from being a critical path on the SQQ 89 anti-submarine project.

If there are too many cooks in the kitchen, just let the best chefs and assistants stay in the kitchen. The rest can get out of the way.

180 posted on 03/15/2011 8:30:41 PM PDT by topher (Traditional values -- especially family values -- are the values that time has proven them to work)
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