Post: Japan nuclear plant: Just 48 hours to avoid 'another Chernobyl'
Options
03-16-2011, 11:24 PM
#1
DEREKTROTTER
You're Goddamn Right
Japan nuclear plant: Just 48 hours to avoid 'another Chernobyl'
Pretty serious now, Japan has 48 hours to bring its rapidly escalating nuclear crisis under control before it faces a catastrophe “worse than Chernobyl”.
You must login or register to view this content.
This image made available from Tokyo Electric Power Co. via Kyodo News, shows the damaged No. 4 unit of the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear complex in Okumamachi, northeastern Japan
10:52PM GMT 16 Mar 2011
Originally posted by another user
Nuclear safety officials in France said they were “pessimistic” about whether engineers could prevent a meltdown at the Fukushima power plant after a pool containing spent fuel rods overheated and boiled dry.
Last night radiation levels were “extremely high” in the stricken building, which was breached by an earlier explosion, meaning that radiation could now escape into the atmosphere. Tokyo Electric, the owners of the plant, said five workers had been killed at the site, two were missing and 21 had been injured.
Last night a US nuclear safety chief said that the Japanese government had failed to acknowledge the full seriousness of the situation at the Fukushima plant and that warnings to citizens had been insufficient and understated.
Gregory Jaczko, the chairman of the United States Nuclear Regulatory Commission, warned that if “extremely high” radiation levels increased it would become impossible for workers to continue to take “corrective measures” at the plant as they would be forced to flee.
As Japan resorted to increasingly desperate measures — including dumping water on the site from helicopters — there were accusations that the situation was now “out of control”.
Last night radiation levels were “extremely high” in the stricken building, which was breached by an earlier explosion, meaning that radiation could now escape into the atmosphere. Tokyo Electric, the owners of the plant, said five workers had been killed at the site, two were missing and 21 had been injured.
Last night a US nuclear safety chief said that the Japanese government had failed to acknowledge the full seriousness of the situation at the Fukushima plant and that warnings to citizens had been insufficient and understated.
Gregory Jaczko, the chairman of the United States Nuclear Regulatory Commission, warned that if “extremely high” radiation levels increased it would become impossible for workers to continue to take “corrective measures” at the plant as they would be forced to flee.
As Japan resorted to increasingly desperate measures — including dumping water on the site from helicopters — there were accusations that the situation was now “out of control”.
You must login or register to view this content.
lets hope they can fix this
The following user thanked RICHIE209 for this useful post:
03-17-2011, 09:58 AM
#22
CEXREXDEX
DAILY LOBBIES
Originally posted by DEREKTROTTER
Japan nuclear plant: Just 48 hours to avoid 'another Chernobyl'
Pretty serious now, Japan has 48 hours to bring its rapidly escalating nuclear crisis under control before it faces a catastrophe “worse than Chernobyl”.
You must login or register to view this content.
This image made available from Tokyo Electric Power Co. via Kyodo News, shows the damaged No. 4 unit of the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear complex in Okumamachi, northeastern Japan
10:52PM GMT 16 Mar 2011
You must login or register to view this content.
lets hope they can fix this
Let's hope they fix it for sure
If there is a Nuclear Disaster In Japan Will it spread around the world ??
(Probably a dumb question but i wasn't sure)
R.I.P to the dead in Japan
:O
03-17-2011, 12:03 PM
#23
NeedaLifeSoon
Retired Life
Originally posted by DEREKTROTTER
Japan nuclear plant: Just 48 hours to avoid 'another Chernobyl'
Pretty serious now, Japan has 48 hours to bring its rapidly escalating nuclear crisis under control before it faces a catastrophe “worse than Chernobyl”.
You must login or register to view this content.
This image made available from Tokyo Electric Power Co. via Kyodo News, shows the damaged No. 4 unit of the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear complex in Okumamachi, northeastern Japan
10:52PM GMT 16 Mar 2011
You must login or register to view this content.
lets hope they can fix this
My biggest issue with this crisis is Japan's handeling of the communications concerning it.
They have a responsibilty, as a world leader and major proponent of neucular energy, to be completely open and forthcoming about the details and potential consequences of the accident.
They are destroying the worlds trust in the viability of neucular energy by showing that no government can be honest when something goes wrong.
They are ignoring the fact that the news media SELLS news now and is going to talk about every worst case senario to get ratings.
They need to call in every leading expert( they probably have) and have regular briefings on what is going on and plans to confront the problem and it potential effects on Japan and the rest of us.
It is now obivious that these plants should not be built near major fault lines or near enough to the sea to be effected by tsunamis.
It is still an effective alternative to fossil fuel power generation but their handeling of this crisis is jeapordizing its future.
Thank god these plants sit next to a 3000 mile ocean with prevailing winds that will carry this fallout to sea.
The following 2 users say thank you to NeedaLifeSoon for this useful post:
03-17-2011, 12:24 PM
#24
-Rhys-
Guest
Originally posted by NeedaLifeSoon
My biggest issue with this crisis is Japan's handeling of the communications concerning it.
They have a responsibilty, as a world leader and major proponent of neucular energy, to be completely open and forthcoming about the details and potential consequences of the accident.
They are destroying the worlds trust in the viability of neucular energy by showing that no government can be honest when something goes wrong.
They are ignoring the fact that the news media SELLS news now and is going to talk about every worst case senario to get ratings.
They need to call in every leading expert( they probably have) and have regular briefings on what is going on and plans to confront the problem and it potential effects on Japan and the rest of us.
It is now obivious that these plants should not be built near major fault lines or near enough to the sea to be effected by tsunamis.
It is still an effective alternative to fossil fuel power generation but their handeling of this crisis is jeapordizing its future.
Thank god these plants sit next to a 3000 mile ocean with prevailing winds that will carry this fallout to sea.
They have a responsibilty, as a world leader and major proponent of neucular energy, to be completely open and forthcoming about the details and potential consequences of the accident.
They are destroying the worlds trust in the viability of neucular energy by showing that no government can be honest when something goes wrong.
They are ignoring the fact that the news media SELLS news now and is going to talk about every worst case senario to get ratings.
They need to call in every leading expert( they probably have) and have regular briefings on what is going on and plans to confront the problem and it potential effects on Japan and the rest of us.
It is now obivious that these plants should not be built near major fault lines or near enough to the sea to be effected by tsunamis.
It is still an effective alternative to fossil fuel power generation but their handeling of this crisis is jeapordizing its future.
Thank god these plants sit next to a 3000 mile ocean with prevailing winds that will carry this fallout to sea.
Exactly.
Something like this happened a few years ago in Japan. The Japanese authorities didn't say very much. Now the Japanse citizens don't trust the authorities and what they're reporting may not be entirely true.
Reactor No.2 could of already gone into a meltdown and we wouldn't know until 2 million people died.
03-17-2011, 01:20 PM
#25
Cryptic
Former Staff | Content Manager
Originally posted by Racketeer
Well shit. Where will all the PS3's come from now???
Hopefully no where. Buy Xboxes, support Microsoft, and piss Sony off.
As for the Nuclear incident....Who the hell is going to control it? There is no man power left to do it. Hello Chernobyl 2. Glad I'm able to be alive to see this one. I wasn't yet born for the first one.
03-17-2011, 01:58 PM
#28
+tA.Daisho
Crumpets and tea?
The fact of the matter in all of this and i guess will be huge debate when this crisis is over is that the power plants should never have been placed there in the first place. It is a geologically unsafe environment and to place them on the coastline vunerable to the waves is plain crazy. Of course the water would have caused havoc as the emergency generators broke down due to the flooding. The UN should debate this and pass an International/Global law banning the use of nuclear power in countries that are geologically unstable. But in doing so provide those countries with funds to use green fuels ie wind, sun, hydro/water power.
I really do think that things may well change post nuke disaster in Japan, what ever the outcome. This could be the global wake up call the world needs in regards to the use of Nuclear Power and perhaps usher in a New Age of power consumption? Perhaps nuclear power will even be abandoned altogether! Dangerous and dirty technology.
I really do think that things may well change post nuke disaster in Japan, what ever the outcome. This could be the global wake up call the world needs in regards to the use of Nuclear Power and perhaps usher in a New Age of power consumption? Perhaps nuclear power will even be abandoned altogether! Dangerous and dirty technology.
Copyright © 2026, NextGenUpdate.
All Rights Reserved.
