Japan Nuclear Plant Explodes

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  1. Scaramoosh

    Scaramoosh Well-Known Member

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    Is it unsafe? How many people have died from it? The safety features on this plant worked and we'll never see another Chernobyl because it worked on an old style of reactor. Besides hardly any deaths can actually be pin pointed to Chernobyl anyways.

    I bet way more people die generating other forms of energy. We're only just tapping into the potential of Nuclear power, lets enhance it and make it even better and safer.
     
  2. MidianGTX

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    In terms of powering cars and similar things, we just need to completely master the hydrogen cell and we're sorted. There's enough of that to last... way longer than we need to care about and the only exhaust is water vapor.
     
  3. sawusawme

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    Feel sorry for those victims!And hope no more explosion ~ If the cooling sys meldown without notice,then other regions will be affected as well.Then through the airflow,and landflow,our city our earthand our ocean will be polluted by nuclear waste!What a disaster!:eek:
     
  4. levelone

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    #44 levelone, Mar 16, 2011
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    Well, this is really a hot topic.
    First, I think Japan is the leader of disaster preparation especially for earthquake. In 1981 Japan updated its building guidelines with an eye to earthquake science. Even at the local level, preparedness is a priority: from 1979 to 2009, Shizuoka prefecture alone poured more than $4 billion into improving the safety of hospitals, schools and social welfare facilities. Though Japanese cities often shake, they rarely topple. But the plant explosion is unexpected.
    Second, it's unnecessary to complain about nuclear energy which is the best energy source at the moment to meet modern society's needs, and it's nonpollutant in fact if dealt and kept safely and well.
    Last but foremost, let's pray for them!:)
     
  5. starjimstar

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  6. levelone

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    Wow! but what does it mean?
     
  7. MidianGTX

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    The whole 2012 conspiracy is indeed hilarious, but considering the recent disaster in Japan I'm not sure shouting "go go go!" in a topic like this is in very good taste :rolleyes:
     
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  9. bigrand1

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    A friend of mine was so paranoid about the radiation coming across the ocean all the way to the L.A. area here, he went to the health food store and bought up all the Potassium Iodide he could get, then, when they ran out, he ordered a lot of it online for his family! Later, after learning it wouldn't be necessary, he's now selling it on Ebay for $300.00 a bottle! People can't get enough of it! There's like 14 pills in each bottle that he paid $6.00 for, and, with 30 bottles, just-like-that, he's making $9,000.00 after putting out $180.00! Can you say, 'cha-ching'? Wish I would've thought about it!
     
  10. singaporegirlone

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    日本に早くよくなってを願う:cool:
     
  11. MidianGTX

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    Japanese to English translation
    I hope well soon in Japan :cool:
     
  12. Vovin

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    Hmmm... All the "nuclear power is safe"-preachers went suddenly silent...
     
  13. MidianGTX

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    I guess it depends on how you look at it. Road vehicles cause more deaths than nuclear power does... some things are just a necessary evil.
     
  14. Vovin

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    #54 Vovin, Mar 21, 2011
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    Nuclear power plants are more than vulnerable, if you take into account that some terrorist guy hijacks an airplane, enters the exact coordinates into the board computer and lets the plane simply fly into such a power plant. Poof!, explosion, tenthousands dead.
    It was no problem for these guys to hit the Twin Towers exactly with two large planes, a nuclear power plant would be an easier target.
     
  15. MidianGTX

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    Maybe we should ban planes and stop them flying into anything ;)
     
  16. Spamcan

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    You're suggesting that flying a few jets into the cooling towers of a nuclear power plant will result in a nuclear explosion? Most buildings are made of steel beams and panes of glass, not solid concrete. Even in this hypothetical scenario terrorists would still have to enter the plant and shut down multiple safety systems to cause any kind of nuclear fallout to spread and it's impossible for it to become a nuclear explosion. I say coal power plants are less safe because they can transform into giant robots and attack nearby cities.
     
  17. Vovin

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    #57 Vovin, Mar 22, 2011
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    Nuclear plants are intrinsically vulnerable to terrorist attacks because they are delicate systems that can be easily disrupted through violent means. At some U.S. plants, detonation of an explosive device at a single location could be sufficient to result in a core meltdown.
    Thanks to modern navigation systems in aircrafts, an autopilot can target and hit spot-on.
     
  18. sid187

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    if they are buying over the counter table salt. this will not help. do not even waste your time with it.

    chris.
     

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