**** Just Got Real in Japan

[surfsatwerk]

If the water table gets irradiated we should build a huge purification plant in the Jefferson Memorial.

Seems a poor location if you ask me. Vulnerable to attacks by Super Mutants if you ask me.

 

[rcpratt]

Insert "if only GE had thought of BiMAC 50 years ago" comment here.

Surprised they have actual pictures of the RPV in a public report.

edit: I still don't believe it's actually going to melt through the containment, btw.

 

[AMCRambler]

Man, sucks to be living there right now.

This meltdown serves to remind us how dangerous nuclear power can be. The Japanese are probably one of the most stringent and careful when it comes to managing their plants. If it can happen to them, it can happen to any of us. One thing I don't seem to be hearing a lot of is "This could have been avoided" which tells me they did everything right and still got hosed. That really sucks.

 

[Imp]

Seems a poor location if you ask me. Vulnerable to attacks by Super Mutants if you ask me.

Psh... Just need a giant robot to clear the place out. Lucky for Japan, they have a life-sized Gundam relatively close by.

 

[IceBergSLiM]

nuke it from orbit and be done with it.

P.S. not enough threads linking to japanese PDFs

 

[OutHouse]

well nothing on the major networks about this. so until then im calling shens. and i hope its shens because if this is true its a big fucking deal.

 

[spidey07]

nuke it from orbit and be done with it.

P.S. not enough threads linking to japanese PDFs

Um, it's being nuked as we speak, from the ground.

 

[IceBergSLiM]

Um, it's being nuked as we speak, from the ground.

double nuke it from orbit.

 

[Krazy4Real]

double nuke it from orbit.

just to be safe

 

[rasczak]

silly question, but wouldn't this molten core just continue on until he reached the earth's core and disintegrate in that?

 

[ultimatebob]

Man, sucks to be living there right now.

This meltdown serves to remind us how dangerous nuclear power can be. The Japanese are probably one of the most stringent and careful when it comes to managing their plants. If it can happen to them, it can happen to any of us. One thing I don't seem to be hearing a lot of is "This could have been avoided" which tells me they did everything right and still got hosed. That really sucks.

Well... they did put the backup generators for the reactor cooling system in the basement of the friggin power plant, even though it was in a tsunami zone. That wasn't very smart.

 

[FelixDeCat]

2012

 

[lord_emperor]

silly question, but wouldn't this molten core just continue on until he reached the earth's core and disintegrate in that?

It probably can't melt bedrock. So it's going to stop unfortunately right in the ground waters.

 

[rasczak]

It probably can't melt bedrock. So it's going to stop unfortunately right in the ground waters.

Will the amount of nuclear material be sufficient enough to poison a water table? Aren't we talking millions of gallons of water?

 

[MarkXIX]

Secretly the Japanese are hoping this will bring about real life tentacle porn in their population, freeing their animators up for new and even more disturbing visuals.

 

[rcpratt]

Will the amount of nuclear material be sufficient enough to poison a water table? Aren't we talking millions of gallons of water?

Um, yeah, it'd be very measurable and very bad if uranium/plutonium/other fission products got into the water table.

 

[OILFIELDTRASH]

I quit reading after it said it would melt all the way through the U.S.

This is like the late night AM radio show that always talks about aliens and abductions. Usually a slack jaw yokel calls in saying 'I done been probed.'

 

[rasczak]

Um, yeah, it'd be very measurable and very bad if uranium/plutonium/other fission products got into the water table.

Though the impact worldwide should be minimal since the water tables are isolated anyway correct?

 

[zinfamous]

Right when I read the title I knew it was going to be about the nuclear reactor.

Can anyone explain to me how serious this is? I keep hearing things about how oooo... IT is not as serious as three mile island or Chernobyl.

It is officially more serious than 3 Mile Island, but not quite as serious as Chernobyl.

Though....maybe it will out-serious Chernobyl?

 

[Anonemous]

Woot Sharktopus vs. MegaShark

 

[BrunoPuntzJones]

well nothing on the major networks about this. so until then im calling shens. and i hope its shens because if this is true its a big fucking deal.

PDF is directly from the utility company.

 

[FelixDeCat]

They can all just move to China. The air and water are perfectly clean there.

 

[surfsatwerk]

Um, it's being nuked as we speak, from the ground.

There's your problem. Pull out and nuke the site from orbit, it's the only way to be sure.

 

[Modelworks]

well nothing on the major networks about this. so until then im calling shens. and i hope its shens because if this is true its a big fucking deal.

They don't even have a release of the pdf in english so not surprising.
They are concerned you can read the status pages of the company. They increased both water and nitrogen .
http://www.tepco.co.jp/en/press/corp-com/release/11120210-e.html

 

[BoomerD]

I quit reading after it said it would melt all the way through the U.S.

This is like the late night AM radio show that always talks about aliens and abductions. Usually a slack jaw yokel calls in saying 'I done been probed.'