Jimothy Posted 13 March 2011 Posted 13 March 2011 I think he was referring to the guys attitude as he walk over the bridge being nonchalant, as if ships and cars being swept along and smashed to pieces was an everyday occurrence.
MikeyT Posted 13 March 2011 Author Posted 13 March 2011 I think he was referring to the guys attitude as he walk over the bridge being nonchalant, as if ships and cars being swept along and smashed to pieces was an everyday occurrence. Ahhh now you see, that would make sense.
OzFox Posted 14 March 2011 Posted 14 March 2011 I think he was referring to the guys attitude as he walk over the bridge being nonchalant, as if ships and cars being swept along and smashed to pieces was an everyday occurrence. Indeed I was. Cool customer that bloke. The bridge is still there so hopefully he got away with it
Christoph Posted 14 March 2011 Posted 14 March 2011 There goals another 20 years of coal powered energy instead of nuclear ::
ACF Posted 14 March 2011 Posted 14 March 2011 The one that gets me is there are 10,000 people missing in one town. That's half the population of said town. Scary.
Jon the Hat Posted 14 March 2011 Posted 14 March 2011 The question remains why the Japanese, with all their intellligence and knowledge, would build most of their nuclear power plants close to shorelines. Is it because of the ability to use seawater to cool the reactors if necessary? As I recall Nuclear power stations use vast amounts of water on a everyday basis to cool the stream which drives the turbines and makes the electricity.
Bob Weasel Fox Posted 14 March 2011 Posted 14 March 2011 Best Wishes to all those poor suffering souls in Japan to the mo. Good Luck coping with it all, the pictures on tv etc - its awful
Jackirius Posted 14 March 2011 Posted 14 March 2011 The one that gets me is there are 10,000 people missing in one town. That's half the population of said town. Scary. Yep, did you see the pictures of the town? Virtually disappeared in a few hours. I wish they wouldn't use the word 'missing' it gives people false hope. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-pacific-12733393 This is not looking good at all. If that goes tits up then depending on the wind could spread all over Japan.
MikeyT Posted 14 March 2011 Author Posted 14 March 2011 One of my friends on Facebook found it highly amusing that there was a placed called Fukushima. Seriously, grow the f*** up!. <_<
Austin Posted 14 March 2011 Posted 14 March 2011 Genuinely horrible, haven't turn the news off for days! Just wouldn't wish this on anyone.
StanSP Posted 14 March 2011 Posted 14 March 2011 Anyone else freaked out but at the same time fascinated by this video?! http://www.wesh.com/r-video/27185323/detail.html
Northants Fox 3 Posted 14 March 2011 Posted 14 March 2011 Anyone else freaked out but at the same time fascinated by this video?! http://www.wesh.com/r-video/27185323/detail.html That was freaky, he was so calm about the whole thing.
The Doctor Posted 14 March 2011 Posted 14 March 2011 Yep, did you see the pictures of the town? Virtually disappeared in a few hours. I wish they wouldn't use the word 'missing' it gives people false hope. http://www.bbc.co.uk...acific-12733393 This is not looking good at all. If that goes tits up then depending on the wind could spread all over Japan. aye, the sheer power of nature is incredible.
StanSP Posted 15 March 2011 Posted 15 March 2011 Third blast in 4 days Around 9pm GMT yesterday (14th March). Tokyo Electric officials say that one hour of exposure at the nuclear plant would be equivalent to eight times at what a person might experience naturally during the year.
MikeyT Posted 15 March 2011 Author Posted 15 March 2011 http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-12740843 Radiation from Japan's quake-stricken Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant has reached harmful levels, the government says. The warning comes after the plant was rocked by a third blast which appears to have damaged one of the reactors' containment vessels for the first time. If it is breached, there are fears of more serious radioactive leaks. Officials have extended the danger zone, warning residents within 30km (18 miles) to evacuate or stay indoors. The crisis was sparked by a 9.0-magnitude quake and tsunami on Friday. 'Don't go outside' On Tuesday morning, reactor 2 became the third to explode in four days at the Fukushima Daiichi plant - 250km (155 miles) north-east of Tokyo. A fire also briefly broke out at the plant's reactor 4 on Tuesday and is believed to have led to radioactive leaks. Reactor 4 had been shut down before the quake for maintenance but its nuclear fuel rods are still stored on the site. Radiation levels in the Japanese capital were reported to be higher than normal, but officials said there were no health dangers. In a televised address, Prime Minister Naoto Kan said: "There is still a very high risk of more radiation coming out." He added that the last remaining people within the existing 20km (12 mile) exclusion zone around the plant must leave. Those living between 20km and 30km were also at risk and should not leave their homes. "Now we are talking about levels that can impact human health," said Chief Cabinet Secretary Yukio Edano. He told residents: "Please do not go outside. Please stay indoors. Please close windows and make your homes airtight. "Don't turn on ventilators. Please hang your laundry indoors." Radiation levels around Fukushima for one hour's exposure rose to eight times the legal limit for exposure in one year, said the plant's operator, the Tokyo Electric Power Co (Tepco). The radiation reading at 0831 local time (2331 GMT) climbed to 8,217 microsieverts an hour from 1,941 about 40 minutes earlier, Tepco said. The annual legal limit is 1,000 microsieverts. Japan's PM says there is a 'very high' risk of further radiation leaks Shares on the Tokyo stock exchange plummeted 14% before recovering slightly. The leading Nikkei index ended the day 10.55% lower. It had already fallen by 7% on the previous day. On Monday, a hydrogen blast at the Fukushima plant's reactor 3 was felt 40km (25 miles) away. It followed a blast at reactor 1 on Saturday. All explosions have followed cooling system breakdowns. Engineers are trying to prevent meltdowns by flooding the chambers of the nuclear reactors with seawater. Japan's nuclear safety agency said it suspects Tuesday's blast may have damaged the vessel that holds reactor 2. The BBC's Chris Hogg in Tokyo says that would make it a more serious incident than the previous explosions, which were thought just to have damaged the buildings that housed the reactors.
MC Prussian Posted 15 March 2011 Posted 15 March 2011 ****ing Tchernobyl revisited - what a tragedy. I still fail to grasp what this would mean for the people in the vicinity of those power plants. There's an estimate of 100'000 homeless and parentless children in the Chiba region. A lot of people have started leaving Tokyo for Osaka amongst others, there's hardly any foreign reporters in the capital any more. They have also measured radiation 25 times the regular average in the Tokyo area.
Trav Le Bleu Posted 15 March 2011 Posted 15 March 2011 I was watching an "expert" playing down news that dangerously high radiation levels had been reported at Fukushima. He was saying that if these readings were taken in the core then there's nothing to worry about, it perfectly normal. YOU COMPLETE AND UTTER DICKWAD! If the readings had been taken in the core then it would hardly be reported as dangerously high - that would be 'normal', cos that's what it always is. None of the presenters pointed out this obvious fact. It just annoys me when people go, "but he knows what he's talking about." Clearly he does, as he's pulling the frikking wool over your eyes! Next they'll be telling us Godzilla has been woken.
Jackirius Posted 15 March 2011 Posted 15 March 2011 If they would act now and bury the core quickly then it would be fine, they are still trying to preserve it which is what annoys me. If it does take a turn for the worse the resulting radioactive cloud could spread throughout Asia depending on how bad it is and the wind. 'Japan has also announced a 30-km no-fly zone around the plant to prevent planes spreading the radiation further afield.' - Taken from the BBC. Doesn't really make sense as planes wouldn't spread radiation http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-pacific-12749444 Apparently the levels have fallen though.
Asha Posted 15 March 2011 Posted 15 March 2011 'Japan has also announced a 30-km no-fly zone around the plant to prevent planes spreading the radiation further afield.' - Taken from the BBC. Doesn't really make sense as planes wouldn't spread radiation Maybe not, but radioactive material in the air would bring them down.
StanSP Posted 15 March 2011 Posted 15 March 2011 Dumb bint. Does she think that the whole of the world is full of atheists? What about the bible-bashers that are in the countries which she wants God to shake? What a bitch. She needs a slap.
MC Prussian Posted 15 March 2011 Posted 15 March 2011 And this is why Religion can go **** itself. I think this video was meant to mock Christian fundamentalists. I appreciate the effort, but somebody please point out the humour in it all.
Finnegan Posted 15 March 2011 Posted 15 March 2011 Of course they're playing down the severity of it, they don't want to create mass hysteria do they? And fair enough. They're evacuating the area, what more do you expect them to be doing? With the greatest respect, what the fuck do any of us know about nuclear protocol? They're not a collection of retards, I'm sure they know what they're doing.
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