I'm just curious, the Japanese government is telling their people to stay indoors, is, at best, a brick wall going to save them from radiation poisoning? It sounds kinda like duck and cover to me.



Lawrenceville, GA

Duck and cover... And take your iodine pills.

What gets me (and I'm only going by what I have read) is they need to cool the "core" but in order to pump the water they need electricity for the electric drivers (or steam for the turbine drivers) WTF... They can't generate electricity or steam without the reactor. Sound like a fail safe system to me... That is why they are running electrical lines from an external source???

Sounds like they need some fossil fuel drivers, like some Y-Blocks to spin their generators. (Sorry, had to get Y-Blocks in somewhere).

Sorry for the rant, but this pisses me off. I used to work in a Cogen Plant at a West Coast Refinery. We supplied our own electricity because we could not rely on outside sources. Our generators ran on Electricity, 850 Pound Steam and/or Jet Engines that could burn just about anything we threw at them from natural gas to Jet Fuel.

Once again sorry for the rant.

Oh, wait. one last thing, the Japanese said a least the wind is blowing the radioative material offshore so the levels are dropping. Guess what, it is blowing toward Hawaii and our West coast. Don't know if it will make it this far, but you have to like the mentality.

Happy Saint Paddy's day everyone, I need a Beer.

"The Master Cylinder"

Enjoying life at the beach in SOCAL

I'm a little suprized that they didn't have emergency power onsite. The Japanese are usuall very good about safety and rendundancy in their systems. The lack of major building damage is a testament to their earthquake awareness in construction. I'll bet if they get through this one they will have enough generator power to run a battleship by the next time! Chuck in NH

I just hope we all get through this without major problems around the world.

Don't forget there are Y-Blockers in Japan too!

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they had power on site.diesel powered generators in the basement.wrong place for a flood.

I live 50 miles from the coast, as the crow flies.  Tonight as the sun sat behind the mountains there was an eery luminescent glow.  Well not really. 

From what everyone who is supposed to know tells us, we wont have a problem.  I believe them, and feel for the devastated Japanese.  

For some reason it feels good that our Navy is right there, bumping and prodding the country to action, ready to bring in big pumps at a moments notice.

Mike, located in the Siskiyou mountains, Southern, OR 292 powered 1946 Ford 1/2 ton, '62 Mercury Meteor, '55 Country Squire (parting out), '64 Falcon, '54 Ford 600 tractor.

314, had not heard about the diesel powered generators, unfortunate placement. But after looking at some videos of the tsunami, I wonder where they could have been placed out of harm. I guess we should all hope for the best for the Japaneze and like Chuck said for all of us.



Mike, do you really believe "From what everyone who is supposed to know tells us, we wont have a problem." I don't, not anymore after all the lies we have been fed about our current financial situation...

"The Master Cylinder"

Enjoying life at the beach in SOCAL

The west coast of the US will be fine. As widespread as the Chernobyl disaster was, the distance from Japan to the US is far greater and the events in Japan should not be nearly as devastating as that which occurred in Ukraine. Let's hope it is not.

I think it has already surpassed the Three Mile Island incident as far as the released radioactive material goes.


Lawrenceville, GA

Not a physicist but I am radioactive!

I did work in Maine Yankee before changing out a reactor coolant pump. 9000 hp motor 9 ft diameter pipe in and out and there are 3 pumps each pumping 164,000 gallons a minute. that helicopter carrying 30 tons of water is not going to make much headway, it would equal 81 helicopters a minute to cool what the pumps do. IMHO this place is melting down and there is not much they can do about it.

Sorry, in china and do not have any stations in english but looking at the pictures of the plant, it is getting worse all the time. I was told when I worked there that 1 exposed rod could wipe out an area 2 cities away. i think they have more than 1 exposed rod.

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Guys,

Planet earth is a fish bowl and what they get we get. Nuclear power is the most dirtiest form of power. I hate to be the greeny but what the f**k do you do with waste that last 200k years. These babies fail every few years. The more the merrier.

At least we knew where we were with fossil fuels.

Glowing

Warren

Grizzly (Aussie Mainline)

could Homer help out??

sorry but these situations scare the hell out of me, and i think what are we leaving for the kids?...the only way i cope is making light

stuey