kyledude Posted March 16, 2011 Share Posted March 16, 2011 The last remaining employees at the plant have fled - like rats from a sinking ship. I wonder how authorities will spin this one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Captain Bob Posted March 16, 2011 Share Posted March 16, 2011 The last remaining employees at the plant have fled - like rats from a sinking ship. I wonder how authorities will spin this one. I don't seem them leaving if it's safe. Pretty sure if they secured the area they would hang out just to make sure nothing comes up. This can't be good. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sharpshooter Posted March 16, 2011 Share Posted March 16, 2011 Washington state has a reactor and not to mention the nuclear powered aircraft carriers and submarines they have in port. Richland's facility is 544 km's away.....and to the southeast of us.....even it went 'Chernobyl', we'd be alright in the lower mainland....the wind blows north to south and west to east, and no water sources come our way from there. Nuclear vessels have an unlimited source of water to cool their rods down.....and have the stringent safety measures and redundancies known to man....that and the fuel could be ejected into the water and stay cool and stable if the containment/coolant system ever was in danger of failing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SarcasticPerson Posted March 16, 2011 Share Posted March 16, 2011 Keeps on getting worse. Can't put it any other way. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oh captain my captain Posted March 16, 2011 Share Posted March 16, 2011 Anyone else disappointed with CNN? Major news going on with the workers leaving, and they are just repeating what they showed in the last hour. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NightHawkSniper Posted March 16, 2011 Share Posted March 16, 2011 Anyone else disappointed with CNN? Major news going on with the workers leaving, and they are just repeating what they showed in the last hour. CNN always repeats, just like they did when there was the oil spill. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
-Vintage Canuck- Posted March 16, 2011 Share Posted March 16, 2011 Survivors of Friday's earthquake and tsunami in Japan walk under umbrellas through the leveled city of Minamisanriku. (David Guttenfelder/Associated Press) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kurtis Posted March 16, 2011 Share Posted March 16, 2011 Time to build sarcophagus over them just like the Russians did.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Donky Posted March 16, 2011 Share Posted March 16, 2011 Regardless of the current crisis, nuclear power done correctly is an excellent form of energy production. They should be building these in Alberta to power oil production instead of burning coal. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shattenkirk's Bald Spot Posted March 16, 2011 Share Posted March 16, 2011 Twitter: Anderson Cooper Workers withdrawn from #japan nuke plant. Very concerning. "We're in unchartered territory," The hits just keep coming. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Justin. Posted March 16, 2011 Share Posted March 16, 2011 BBC's take: Staff working to douse reactors at the stricken Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant have had to be withdrawn because of a spike in radiation levels.Japanese authorities are investigating the source of white smoke seen billowing from reactor 3 at the plant, which was damaged in Friday's earthquake and tsunamiA new fire that broke out inside reactor 4 on Wednesday morning at the plant is apparently out, but radiation levels remain too high for workers to approach the four reactors Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kurtis Posted March 16, 2011 Share Posted March 16, 2011 Regardless of the current crisis, nuclear power done correctly is an excellent form of energy production. They should be building these in Alberta to power oil production instead of burning coal. I agree... A lot Cleaner overall! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Captain Bob Posted March 16, 2011 Share Posted March 16, 2011 BBC's take: Staff working to douse reactors at the stricken Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant have had to be withdrawn because of a spike in radiation levels.Japanese authorities are investigating the source of white smoke seen billowing from reactor 3 at the plant, which was damaged in Friday's earthquake and tsunamiA new fire that broke out inside reactor 4 on Wednesday morning at the plant is apparently out, but radiation levels remain too high for workers to approach the four reactors CNN reported earlier that the fire just burned out and wasn't put out. Hopefully they are correct that it's out, and not just dormant. If it starts burning again there will be no one to extinguish it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kyledude Posted March 16, 2011 Share Posted March 16, 2011 Cooper and Gupta are on CNN right now and they look shaken up. This is really, really bad. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kyledude Posted March 16, 2011 Share Posted March 16, 2011 Don't know how accurate this is, but I'll post it anyway: http://www.realnewsreporter.com/?p=843 Hurray for fear mongering! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Captain Bob Posted March 16, 2011 Share Posted March 16, 2011 Don't know how accurate this is, but I'll post it anyway: http://www.realnewsreporter.com/?p=843 Hurray for fear mongering! Quoting article so peeps can read it here. EARTHQUAKE WARNING FROM RUSSIAN INSTITUTE of PHYSICS of the EARTH Posted by Real News Reporter on March 12th, 2011 A new report released today in the Kremlin prepared for Prime Minister Putin by the Institute of Physics of the Earth, in Moscow, is warning that the America’s are in danger of suffering a mega-quake of catastrophic proportions during the next fortnight (14 days) with a specific emphasis being placed on the United States, Mexico, Central America and South American west coast regions along with the New Madrid Fault Zone region. This report further warns that catastrophic earthquakes in Asia and the sub-continent are, also, “more than likely to occur” with the 7.3 magnitude quake in Japan today being “one of at least 4 of this intensity” to occur during this same time period. Raising the concerns of a mega-quake occurring, this report says, are the increasing subtle electromagnetic signals that are being detected in the Earth’s upper atmosphere over many regions of the World, with the most intense being over the US Western coastal and Midwest regions. Important to note are that Russian and British scientists are at the forefront of predicting earthquakes based on these subtle electromagnetic signals and have joined in an effort to put satellites in space to detect more of them. More ominously in this report are Russian scientists confirming the independent analysis of New Zealand mathematician and long-range weather forecaster, Ken Ring, who predicted the deadly Christchurch quake and this week issued another warning of a quake to hit on or about March 20th. Ring explains his methodology for predicting earthquakes as follows: “The planets very much affect the earth, indirectly, by having an effect on the Sun. Some planets are very large. If the Sun was a basketball the gas giants Jupiter and Saturn would be the size of grapefruits, and the Earth would be, on that scale, the size of a peppercorn. Jupiter and Saturn cause extra tides on the Sun when they get on either side of the Sun (as with Moon – Earth-Sun when the moon is full) and when these gas giants get on the same side as the Sun, (as with Earth -Moon – Sun when the moon is new). These greater solar tides become sunspot activity and solar flares and can be understood as akin to the increase in tides caused by the Moon when it too gets alongside Earth or opposite Earth. At the moment we have Jupiter and Saturn on either side of the Sun and creating a tug of war with Earth in the middle. That started last September and will continue until about May. In September the Earth was right in line with Jupiter, Saturn and the Sun too. That’s why there were several 7+ earthquakes around, it wasn’t just us. For instance there was one in Pakistan on the same day as Christchurch. This Jupiter/Saturn alignment continues until about May, and the Earth comes back into line as well in March. It is why there may be an extreme event, perhaps a large earthquake, around 20 March, which is when the Moon may be again in a trigger position.” According to this report, however, where Ring is correct in assessing blame for our Earth’s earthquakes on the Sun and Planets, his substituting of Perigean Spring Tides (also known as King Tides) for the low pressure systems associated with them may be incorrect. The mention in this report of massive low pressure systems being associated with catastrophic earthquakes is especially dire to the United States Midwestern region, which even today is continuing to be pounded by horrific rainfall amounts, and most especially impacting the New Madrid Fault Zone State of Arkansas which has suffered over 800 earthquakes in the past 6 months alone. Equally in danger, this report continues, is the South American Nation of Bolivia which has, likewise, suffered catastrophic low pressure system storms that in the past week have killed over 52 people. Most ominous in this report, though, is its warning that the fault-riddled State of California may be about to suffer its most catastrophic earthquake in decades as new reports for this region show the mass death of millions of fish [photo bottom left] is now occurring, and just like the mass stranding of whales on New Zealand beaches days prior to the February 22nd destruction of Christchurch. Making the situation for our Planet even grimmer are the reports that our Sun is continuing to spew forth massive solar flares, the latest warned to hit our Earth today or tomorrow thus prompting the Hermanus Space Weather Warning Centre (SWWC) to issue a Solar Flare warning for the Southern Hemisphere. Interesting to note in all of these events is the United States Army announcing this week that it is holding a rare training event involving the US Military, the CIA, Canadian officers, US Treasury and State departments, the US Agency for International Development, the Defense Threat Readiness Agency and the International Red Cross between March 21-25 at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, and which should the worst happen they will certainly be prepared for it. As this report concludes, that as of yet, “no firmly reliable” method for predicting earthquakes has been scientifically recognized, it is well worth noting the too many to be ignored anomalous coincidences leading up to catastrophic mega-quakes are breaking out all over the World and should only be ignored at ones peril. In other words, it is always best to be prepared should disaster strike, wherever the warning comes from. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
-Vintage Canuck- Posted March 16, 2011 Share Posted March 16, 2011 Another quake warning - shaking felt in Tokyo Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Femme.Canuck Posted March 16, 2011 Share Posted March 16, 2011 (edited) Significant aftershock right now in Japan-- you can see it from the violent shaking on NHK Mito cam. Preliminary magnitude of M6.0 hits east Japan according to reuters. According to a reporter in Japan, this one was "10 feet in depth, pretty shallow thus the significant shaking we felt from Tokyo to Fukushima" Edited March 16, 2011 by P.OneOh Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
-Vintage Canuck- Posted March 16, 2011 Share Posted March 16, 2011 The earthquake the Tokyo area felt about 10 minutes ago was measured at M6.0 off the east coast of Chiba at a depth of 10km. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blackberries Posted March 16, 2011 Share Posted March 16, 2011 (edited) Why would the workers evacuate. This make me so mad. This is Toyko Electrics fault and now they are going to cut and run? Edited March 16, 2011 by pinecone Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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