03-16-2011, 12:11 PM
Well now even the mainstream news is talking Chernobyl.
My son (the doomsayer) told me a couple days ago about the immense stockpile of spent fuel rods in the containment pools that are going to be uncovered. He showed me reports already on the net before the quake, concerned with how Japan was storing this stuff. I was skeptical, but today CNN is onto the spent rod pool.
Aside from that, there are numerous reactors that are now in the lethal radiation zone, CNN says -- which means those reactors will go too, and the spent rods. There is plutonium in the rods at least one reactor. It's all going to blow ...
Cesium isotypes, like Chernobyl, will be released. They cannot even get to these plants and cement them over as they did Chernobyl.
I feel for Anderson Cooper, reporting from Tokyo. He is a good guy, and the radiation is quadrupled in Tokyo already. He says the Japanese people no longer believe the government is being straight with them (those who are not trying to deal with pure survival issues, and are able to think).
I know this is a Hawai'i only board, but this is a global disaster. Parts of Japan could be uninhabitable for a long time. The West coast of the USA is a huge concern. I am not comforted much by thinking of my own pocket of relatively low concern.
"She's got everything she needs, she's an artist, she don't look back." — Dylan
My son (the doomsayer) told me a couple days ago about the immense stockpile of spent fuel rods in the containment pools that are going to be uncovered. He showed me reports already on the net before the quake, concerned with how Japan was storing this stuff. I was skeptical, but today CNN is onto the spent rod pool.
Aside from that, there are numerous reactors that are now in the lethal radiation zone, CNN says -- which means those reactors will go too, and the spent rods. There is plutonium in the rods at least one reactor. It's all going to blow ...
Cesium isotypes, like Chernobyl, will be released. They cannot even get to these plants and cement them over as they did Chernobyl.
I feel for Anderson Cooper, reporting from Tokyo. He is a good guy, and the radiation is quadrupled in Tokyo already. He says the Japanese people no longer believe the government is being straight with them (those who are not trying to deal with pure survival issues, and are able to think).
I know this is a Hawai'i only board, but this is a global disaster. Parts of Japan could be uninhabitable for a long time. The West coast of the USA is a huge concern. I am not comforted much by thinking of my own pocket of relatively low concern.
"She's got everything she needs, she's an artist, she don't look back." — Dylan