2011-03-14, 06:11 PM
I would not say that the Japanese are incompetent. This 41 year old nuclear reactor got hit by a 9 magnitude earthquake, slammed with a 20 ft. tall wave and an explosion due to the buildup of hydrogen gas that blew off the freaking roof of the building. Yet the core was, at that point, intact and contained. It was, for a small amount of time after the distilled water went under a certain level, under meltdown. However, they did not reach up to the 3000 degree Celsius which is required to melt uranium. Therefore, only cesium and iodine was released during a very short amount of time. If you were at the top of the chimneys when the Cesium and Iodine isotopes came out, you would probably have to quit smoking in order to get the average life expectancy back, but that's roughly about it.
Surely, earlier events may have been incompetence, but that does not prove the current event is not handled professionally. All of the reactors are under control - the only reason seawater isn't put into all the reactors is because it will make the reactor unusable for some years - if not half a decade.
Surely, earlier events may have been incompetence, but that does not prove the current event is not handled professionally. All of the reactors are under control - the only reason seawater isn't put into all the reactors is because it will make the reactor unusable for some years - if not half a decade.
Anonymous Moose Wrote:Also, if you knew anything about nuclear radiation, you'd know that in most cases it takes time for radiation poisoning to kill and it's effects last decades. It will take time for us to start seeing the death toll from radiation.We will not see any radiation poisoning or any suffering from radiation here.
Regarding the man that died of fright, link?