Nuclear Meltdown?
 

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JAPAN'S quake-hit nuclear power plant Fukushima No.1, about 250km north-east of Tokyo, "may be experiencing nuclear meltdown", local media says.
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That'll be those new-fangled 'safe' nuclear reactors being all environmental then. :blink:

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Oh fukushima.

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Any idea which way the wind is blowing?

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Seriously, it's terrible :(

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Damn straight it is ... the authorities reckon that if it does happen then it won't affect any humans outside a 10km radius.

Why do I find this hard to believe? It's the same kind of authority that said that the plants were unaffected yesterday ...

Aside for the immediate damage from the quake/tsunami which is bad enough, man has to invent new ways of compounding the problem.

My sympathies to all involved obviously but this nuclear thing is beyond madness.

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Beyond madness...exactly...I despair.

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It's ok, they're only releasing "slightly radioactive" vapour.

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Well, that's OK then, it'll only be slightly cancerous.

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Indeed.

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Reuters article on it

http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/...72B04C20110312

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sounds pretty safe - i mentally noted there were about 5 different "if's" that had to occur before anything left the plant. Ie the ultimate fail safe is the 5 foot thick concrete wall containment building built to stop radiation leak even if the reactor itself fails all its other safety scenarios.

That article is pants - this might happen, then that may happen, then it'll be three mile island. Another example of great journalism.

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Do you not think we need to consider the "ifs"?

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yeah but when we're at IF #4 and the blokes have all done a runner, then its time to panic.

right now it just looks like its a planned for event type failure and they're dealing with it as per the process.

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I hope you are correct.

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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-pacific-12720219

Now that's not good.