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Originally posted by huckleberryhoundBad enough for the foreign correspondents to be told to get away but the locals...."ah don't worry we have it under control".
First time i've been able to get to the Interwebs since i came to China on Holiday. We don't have cctv9 (the english speaking chinese channel) so i don't know how bad it is with the meltdown in Japan....how bad is it?
Originally posted by huckleberryhoundreactor 1: exploded. 70% of fuel destroyed. cooled with seawater. pressure normal.
First time i've been able to get to the Interwebs since i came to China on Holiday. We don't have cctv9 (the english speaking chinese channel) so i don't know how bad it is with the meltdown in Japan....how bad is it?
reactor 2: meltdown imminent, 33% of fuel destroyed, protective shield feared to have broken. cooled with seawater.
reactor 3: exploded. highest radiation levels, has plutonium unlike others, attempted cooling by dropping water with choppers failed.
reactor 4: used fuel storage. attempts at cooling with water.
reactor 5 & 6: problems with cooling systems, but so far relatively ok.
foreigners fleeing tokyo (240km from the plant), but as I understand the japanese not so much. so far it still seems (to me) that the nuclear problem is absolutely dwarfed by the scale of other problems. yet the media is having an orgasm with the nuclear plant stuff of course.
Originally posted by huckleberryhoundI've been noticing the same thing, the panic seems to be more a western thing. I guess they've experienced so many smaller earthquakes, tsunami warnings, and lived with the idea since childhood, that it's not like they didn't see it coming. afraid and worried, sure, but no panic. people acting in orderly fashion and doing what they can.
Our Japanese friends made it over and seem unpreturbed by the whole event...it may just be his reserved demeanour though.
that's been my impression anyway.
Originally posted by wormwoodThanks. I haven't tried to check world news agencies as i took it for granted that they would be blocked. No chance of the wind changing and the brain tumour soup coming over to China then? I know there is an automatic shutdown that happens with these things that makes it different from Chernobyl.
reactor 1: exploded. 70% of fuel destroyed. cooled with seawater. pressure normal.
reactor 2: meltdown imminent, 33% of fuel destroyed, protective shield feared to have broken. cooled with seawater.
reactor 3: exploded. highest radiation levels, has plutonium unlike others, attempted cooling by dropping water with choppers failed.
reactor 4: used f ...[text shortened]... ale of other problems. yet the media is having an orgasm with the nuclear plant stuff of course.
Off to a 5 star Buffet for dinner and going for a massage/dinner/hotel combo tomorrow...It's a hard life.
Oh...and i got the biggest news i'm going to get for a long time today...but i'll leave that just for my friends (they can ask and i will pM them when i next get to the PC).
Originally posted by huckleberryhoundCongrats on the news of the late this year/early new year arrival from mummy.
Oh...and i got the biggest news i'm going to get for a long time today...but i'll leave that just for my friends (they can ask and i will pM them when i next get to the PC).
😉
Count is still working. 🙂
-m.
Originally posted by huckleberryhoundso far every time I've seen they've been talking about the wind blowing either towards sea (I take that means east) or south towards tokyo. but I have no idea if that's in any way prevailing winds or not. anyway, I haven't heard of any real radiation problems outside the actual plant.
Thanks. I haven't tried to check world news agencies as i took it for granted that they would be blocked. No chance of the wind changing and the brain tumour soup coming over to China then? I know there is an automatic shutdown that happens with these things that makes it different from Chernobyl.
Off to a 5 star Buffet for dinner and going fo ...[text shortened]... leave that just for my friends (they can ask and i will pM them when i next get to the PC).
and china is so far I really doubt there's much chance of meaningful amount of fallout, even if some worst case scenario took place. they could drop a nuke there and it still probably wouldn't matter except within a couple dozen kilometre radius. and even the smallest bomb yields just have to be hundreds or thousands of times worse than any nuclear plant meltdown. all that dirt getting blown up to sky etc.
how far from populated areas were the old U.S. detonations, anybody have an idea? I bet they could've almost hit the closest town with a rock back then.
Originally posted by wormwoodI shudder and cringe imagining what a disaster like that in the US might result in. We don't handle that stuff too well.
I've been noticing the same thing, the panic seems to be more a western thing. I guess they've experienced so many smaller earthquakes, tsunami warnings, and lived with the idea since childhood, that it's not like they didn't see it coming. afraid and worried, sure, but no panic. people acting in orderly fashion and doing what they can.
that's been my impression anyway.
Originally posted by Sunburntprobably something like what happens in south park every time something goes slightly wrong. 🙂
I shudder and cringe imagining what a disaster like that in the US might result in. We don't handle that stuff too well.
here too. people have been buying the stores empty from iodine to protect themselves from possible japanese fallout. somebody sold a bottle of pills on the web for 500 euros! 😀 crazy stuff... didn't matter that the radiation and nuclear safety authority centre people explained that it's completely unnecessary, people just went crazy right of the bat.