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Originally posted by randyvs
This is way out of hand and we're still generating power this way. I'm appaulled at being human. Sickened already
as if I swallowed the crap were dumping in the pacific.edit on 2-2-2012 by randyvs because: (no reason given)
Originally posted by SoulVisions
Originally posted by Ophiuchus 13
Now imagine somehow power going out globally with all the reactors on shut down and not being able to be cooled and YES this tech should be shelved ASAP...
How could this possibly ever happen? Meteors? Global earthquake? Killer flying squirrels?
If a worldwide event such as this were to occur, somehow breaking or shutting down every single reactor at the same time, then something FAR more deadly would have already occurred and we'd all be dead by that point anyway.
Originally posted by theshepherd2
Fukishima is the worst nuclear tragedy in history and we have not even begun to see the consequences of such copious amounts of nuclear pollution.
Expect cancer rates to spike.
Originally posted by SoulVisions
Originally posted by Ophiuchus 13
Now imagine somehow power going out globally with all the reactors on shut down and not being able to be cooled and YES this tech should be shelved ASAP...
How could this possibly ever happen? Meteors? Global earthquake? Killer flying squirrels?
If a worldwide event such as this were to occur, somehow breaking or shutting down every single reactor at the same time, then something FAR more deadly would have already occurred and we'd all be dead by that point anyway.
Originally posted by YouAreLiedTo
It's actually worse than your worker friend is making it out to be.
300 tons of nuclear waste were dumped into the pacific the first week of the disaster. Just imagine how much has been introduced to the ocean by this point.
Here, a thread about the water currents and what it means for the planet.
Btw, seals in Alaska already have radioactive poisoning.
Just wait, you haven't heard anything yet...
www.abovetopsecret.com...
Tokyo Electric Power Co (TEPCO) began the release of some 11,500 tons of radioactive water into the Pacific Ocean Monday from a waste treatment facility at the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, and said it would begin draining more radioactive water from reactor Nos 5 and 6 within hours.
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Of particular concern to many is the plutonium that will enter the sea when water from reactor No 3 – which runs on mixed plutonium and uranium oxide, or MOX, fuel. But Bøhmer said that is less of a concern than other more transient radioactive elements.
“The plutonium will settle in the sediment at the sea bottom, much like it has in the Irish Sea,” near Britain’s embattled Sellafield nuclear site, which has dumped waste into the ocean, said Bøhmer. “What we don’t know is how much more transient radioactive isotopes will be dumped, and how much contamination will occur along the coast – it will be considerable.”
Originally posted by Blaine91555
reply to post by PageAlaCearl
Don't any of you find it odd that when they conducted the bomb tests in the Pacific, that the contamination dissipated quickly and did not spread very far, but some how hysterical people are making claims like this? When they talk about readings showing up in the Sea Life it's such tiny amounts as to be meaningless. If you had one X-Ray, you have far more to worry about.
I wonder how much the fear mongers are making off their peddled goods on this one? How many ran out and bought stuff they don't need or even worse bought measurement devices at highly inflated prices out of fear?
I prefer reality and truth and the denial of ignorance. Yes this is terrible, but exaggerating to the point of lying is utter nonsense. The Japanese Government told a lot of whoppers, but this is a local problem in Japan and very nearby.
Is it that needless fear and spreading panic is like a drug?
Originally posted by MESSAGEFROMTHESTARS
www.reuters.com...
"TOKYO (Reuters) - More than 8 tonnes of radioactive water leaked from a reactor at Japan's Fukushima nuclear plant but none reached outside the reactor building, Tokyo Electric Power Co said on Thursday as it strives to ensure damaged reactors are stable enough for work to start on dismantling them.
Originally posted by SoulVisions
Back on topic, however, the U.S. atomic agency has put in a number of safeguards since the Japan incident. A lot was learned from the tragedy.