OT – Nuclear Fallout Map

[ILoveRegulation]

Pretty good story and video:

http://bigthink.com/ideas/31595

It sounds like we are past three-mile island at this point and entering into Chernobyl territory where cancer rates are going to spike within a certain radius. Unfortunately, it sounds like there are more reactors at risk here — up to 5 — so this could be a mega-nuclear disaster on top of a mega-natural disaster.

[KSMountain]

That article was sensationalist and misleading in my opinion. Exclamation point in the title should have been an immediate clue I guess.

He says “The failsafe systems failed” without ever mentioning that the control rods dropped automatically, as they were supposed to.

Not to imply the situation isn’t very serious…

I’ve been trying to follow this super closely. If anyone has a link to an agenda-free site with detailed current information, I’d love to know about it.

[KSMountain]

That article was sensationalist and misleading in my opinion. Exclamation point in the title should have been an immediate clue I guess.

He says “The failsafe systems failed” without ever mentioning that the control rods dropped automatically, as they were supposed to.

Not to imply the situation isn’t very serious…

I’ve been trying to follow this super closely. If anyone has a link to an agenda-free site with detailed current information, I’d love to know about it.

[KSMountain]

That article was sensationalist and misleading in my opinion. Exclamation point in the title should have been an immediate clue I guess.

He says “The failsafe systems failed” without ever mentioning that the control rods dropped automatically, as they were supposed to.

Not to imply the situation isn’t very serious…

I’ve been trying to follow this super closely. If anyone has a link to an agenda-free site with detailed current information, I’d love to know about it.

[KSMountain]

That article was sensationalist and misleading in my opinion. Exclamation point in the title should have been an immediate clue I guess.

He says “The failsafe systems failed” without ever mentioning that the control rods dropped automatically, as they were supposed to.

Not to imply the situation isn’t very serious…

I’ve been trying to follow this super closely. If anyone has a link to an agenda-free site with detailed current information, I’d love to know about it.

[KSMountain]

That article was sensationalist and misleading in my opinion. Exclamation point in the title should have been an immediate clue I guess.

He says “The failsafe systems failed” without ever mentioning that the control rods dropped automatically, as they were supposed to.

Not to imply the situation isn’t very serious…

I’ve been trying to follow this super closely. If anyone has a link to an agenda-free site with detailed current information, I’d love to know about it.

[ILoveRegulation]

Poster Common Sense from this article seems like the real deal:

Japan’s Nuclear Emergency Explained

So it sounds like possibly two of the reactors are in meltdown and the question is whether the meltdown will be contained in the containment facility or whether it will actually ‘melt through’ and cause some type of radioactive explosion.

Common Sense expects the meltdown to be contained in the containment facility. However, he says the entire core melted down at Three Mile Island, but wikipedia says that only part of the core melted down.

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

Further, the Three Mile Island reactor is different than the Japanese reactors. Supposedly, the Japanese reactors are 40 years old and it’s not clear how well they can withstand a meltdown.

[ILoveRegulation]

Poster Common Sense from this article seems like the real deal:

Japan’s Nuclear Emergency Explained

So it sounds like possibly two of the reactors are in meltdown and the question is whether the meltdown will be contained in the containment facility or whether it will actually ‘melt through’ and cause some type of radioactive explosion.

Common Sense expects the meltdown to be contained in the containment facility. However, he says the entire core melted down at Three Mile Island, but wikipedia says that only part of the core melted down.

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

Further, the Three Mile Island reactor is different than the Japanese reactors. Supposedly, the Japanese reactors are 40 years old and it’s not clear how well they can withstand a meltdown.

[ILoveRegulation]

Poster Common Sense from this article seems like the real deal:

Japan’s Nuclear Emergency Explained

So it sounds like possibly two of the reactors are in meltdown and the question is whether the meltdown will be contained in the containment facility or whether it will actually ‘melt through’ and cause some type of radioactive explosion.

Common Sense expects the meltdown to be contained in the containment facility. However, he says the entire core melted down at Three Mile Island, but wikipedia says that only part of the core melted down.

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

Further, the Three Mile Island reactor is different than the Japanese reactors. Supposedly, the Japanese reactors are 40 years old and it’s not clear how well they can withstand a meltdown.

[ILoveRegulation]

Poster Common Sense from this article seems like the real deal:

Japan’s Nuclear Emergency Explained

So it sounds like possibly two of the reactors are in meltdown and the question is whether the meltdown will be contained in the containment facility or whether it will actually ‘melt through’ and cause some type of radioactive explosion.

Common Sense expects the meltdown to be contained in the containment facility. However, he says the entire core melted down at Three Mile Island, but wikipedia says that only part of the core melted down.

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

Further, the Three Mile Island reactor is different than the Japanese reactors. Supposedly, the Japanese reactors are 40 years old and it’s not clear how well they can withstand a meltdown.

[ILoveRegulation]

Poster Common Sense from this article seems like the real deal:

Japan’s Nuclear Emergency Explained

So it sounds like possibly two of the reactors are in meltdown and the question is whether the meltdown will be contained in the containment facility or whether it will actually ‘melt through’ and cause some type of radioactive explosion.

Common Sense expects the meltdown to be contained in the containment facility. However, he says the entire core melted down at Three Mile Island, but wikipedia says that only part of the core melted down.

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

Further, the Three Mile Island reactor is different than the Japanese reactors. Supposedly, the Japanese reactors are 40 years old and it’s not clear how well they can withstand a meltdown.

[KSMountain]

This seems to be a site that “Brings Data”:

Discussion Thread – Japanese nuclear reactors and the 11 March 2011 earthquake

There seems to be some good info in the comments.

The site overall appears to have a pro-Nuc slant, but that may be because folks in the biz are hanging out there.

[KSMountain]

This seems to be a site that “Brings Data”:

Discussion Thread – Japanese nuclear reactors and the 11 March 2011 earthquake

There seems to be some good info in the comments.

The site overall appears to have a pro-Nuc slant, but that may be because folks in the biz are hanging out there.

[KSMountain]

This seems to be a site that “Brings Data”:

Discussion Thread – Japanese nuclear reactors and the 11 March 2011 earthquake

There seems to be some good info in the comments.

The site overall appears to have a pro-Nuc slant, but that may be because folks in the biz are hanging out there.

[KSMountain]

This seems to be a site that “Brings Data”:

Discussion Thread – Japanese nuclear reactors and the 11 March 2011 earthquake

There seems to be some good info in the comments.

The site overall appears to have a pro-Nuc slant, but that may be because folks in the biz are hanging out there.

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