Japanese nuclear plant may only have a few hours....

[MRoCkEd]

Eh, by aggregating social network comments, you can easily find a bunch of idiots. I'm sure that's a small minority.

But then again, I bet a lot of people would be cheering on some disaster in the Middle East saying the "terrorists" deserve it.

 

[Feeding the Abscess]

I'm actually going to go out on a limb and say that that's NOT a small minority. A healthy 20% (or more) of the population would say something similar. You kind of referenced it with your terrorists observation. We have arguments and whatnot with each other on these forums, but we're generally a civil, affable group. We are more likely the small minority, not the pricks represented in that photocap.

There are a lot of jerks in the world. Never underestimate the stupidity of society.

 

[blabam]

How depressing.

Just shows that an interventionist foreign policy doesn't work... People who get bombed don't forget that easily. Still these people are retarded.

 

[Chieppa1]

@BreakingNews: 6.4 magnitude aftershock hits near stricken Fukushima nuclear plant, USGS and local media report http://1.usa.gov/gn3hzy

 

[Chieppa1]

Fukushima nuclear plant does NOT have a combustible graphite core like Chernobyl. A total meltdown should flow into underground containment.

 

[jtstellar]

Fukushima nuclear plant does NOT have a combustible graphite core like Chernobyl. A total meltdown should flow into underground containment.

well good news i guess.. i live in cali and don't want to evacuate

what's the good of that iodide thing anyway.. it only saves your thyroid. what's the use when every other organ you have is failing.

 

[FrankRep]

Quake moved Japan coast 8 feet; shifted Earth's axis four by nearly 4 inches

http://www.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/asiapcf/03/12/japan.earthquake.tsunami.earth/index.html?hpt=T1

 

[steph3n]

nuclear things should have never existed, bombs or nuclear reactors. They are nothing but trouble.

right....

 

[Carson]

 

[Carson]

I cannot attest too, or verify this image..... scary thought though

Sounds about right according to the way the ballon bombs traveled during WWII.

http://web.mst.edu/~rogersda/forensic_geology/Japenese%20vengenance%20bombs%20new.htm

 

[specsaregood]

How depressing.

Indeed.

 

[pcosmar]

Quake moved Japan coast 8 feet; shifted Earth's axis four by nearly 4 inches

http://www.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/asiapcf/03/12/japan.earthquake.tsunami.earth/index.html?hpt=T1

Question
A shift in the earths axis has been predicted (and is apparently happening) Was it caused by the earthquakes? Or are the earthquakes the result of the earth shifting?

Which is the cause and which is the effect?

 

[angelatc]

well good news i guess.. i live in cali and don't want to evacuate

what's the good of that iodide thing anyway.. it only saves your thyroid. what's the use when every other organ you have is failing.

I'm not a doctor, but my understanding is that if the radiation enters the thyroid, it spreads through the entire body.

 

[One Last Battle!]

I'm not a doctor, but my understanding is that if the radiation enters the thyroid, it spreads through the entire body.

Depends on the kind of radiation. Gamma radiation spreads through the whole body, beta radiation doesn't IIRC.

 

[UtahApocalypse]

Fukushima nuclear plant does NOT have a combustible graphite core like Chernobyl. A total meltdown should flow into underground containment.

Oh yeah?

Anyone who cant see that is a explosion needs glasses

 

[Carson]

I'm not a doctor, but my understanding is that if the radiation enters the thyroid, it spreads through the entire body.

Here is a link to some articles on the topic.

http://thyroid.about.com/od/radiationnuclearexposure/Radiation_Nuclear_Exposure_as_Triggers_or_Causes_of_Thyroid_Disease.htm

P.S. I think the basic idea of Potassium Iodide is that it fills up your body with Iodine and then when the radioactive iodine comes along your body doesn't absorb any more. Some of the byproducts of a nuclear reaction are Iodine-131 and Iodine-129

 

[steph3n]

Oh yeah?

Anyone who cant see that is a explosion needs glasses

that explosion doesn't mean meltdown.

Now, it is VERY concerning the lack of news since that explosion!

 

[specsaregood]

Fukushima nuclear plant does NOT have a combustible graphite core like Chernobyl. A total meltdown should flow into underground containment.

Oh yeah?

Anyone who cant see that is a explosion needs glasses

That doesn't dispute his comment. Unless you can somehow prove that explosion was the core and a meltdown was not being contained.

 

[00_Pete]

Oh yeah?

Anyone who cant see that is a explosion needs glasses

Yeah. You can see a little "fire" in the explosion clearly indicating that it was a hydrogen explosion and not a steam thing after all. Yikes!!! Thats very bad.

From here: http://library.thinkquest.org/17940/texts/nuclear_disasters/nuclear_disasters.html

"During the day hydrogen gas began to accumulate inside the reactor and caused an explosion later in the afternoon. This explosion did not damage the containment systems, however. Two days later, the core was still not under operator control. A group of nuclear experts were asked to help evaluate the situation. They figured out that a lot of hydrogen gas had accumulated at the top of the core. This gas could have exploded, like the explosion on the first day of the accident, or it could have displaced the remaining coolant in the reactor, causing a complete nuclear reactor meltdown. No one really knew what to do about the hydrogen build-up. A hydrogen recombiner was used to remove some of the hydrogen, but it was not very effective. However, hydrogen also dissolves in water, which is what the coolant was composed of. Thus, over time the hydrogen that had collected at the top of the core completely dissolved in the coolant. Two weeks later the reactor was brought to a cold shutdown and the accident was over."

I beleive that the reactors in Three Mile Island were also built by GE.

 

[angelatc]

Here is a link to some articles on the topic.

http://thyroid.about.com/od/radiationnuclearexposure/Radiation_Nuclear_Exposure_as_Triggers_or_Causes_of_Thyroid_Disease.htm

Thanks! I also found this in an article:

After the nuclear accident at Chernobyl, Lyman said there were over 6,000 cases of childhood thyroid cancers, and it was later determined if the children had taken stable iodine a few hours before being exposed to the radiation it would block the intake of the radioactive material in the thyroid. "That has been shown to reduce exposure significantly," he said.