Captain Bob Posted March 12, 2011 Share Posted March 12, 2011 US airforce has already transported critical coolant to the reactors: Amazing the difference 60 years makes. 60 years ago they were trying to kill them with it and now they are helping them make sure they aren't killed by it (well them, and the rest of the world.). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Terran Posted March 12, 2011 Share Posted March 12, 2011 Amazing the difference 60 years makes. 60 years ago they were trying to kill them with it and now they are helping them make sure they aren't killed by it (well them, and the rest of the world.). given the huge economic tides that's hardly a surprise Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Conservative Posted March 12, 2011 Share Posted March 12, 2011 This nuke reactor stuff is being hyped up wayyyyyy too much. They only evacuated them like 2miles. if there was a real danger for a thermonuclear meltdown people would be moved much further... the explosion could reach very very far. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Femme.Canuck Posted March 12, 2011 Share Posted March 12, 2011 How do you guys embed videos?? I have one and I have nooo darn clue how to upload it! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
-Goose- Posted March 12, 2011 Share Posted March 12, 2011 Amazing the difference 60 years makes. 60 years ago they were trying to kill them with it and now they are helping them make sure they aren't killed by it (well them, and the rest of the world.). It's kind of a damned if you do, damned if you don't situation for the US. And that link I posted was updated Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rampage Posted March 12, 2011 Share Posted March 12, 2011 This nuke reactor stuff is being hyped up wayyyyyy too much. They only evacuated them like 2miles. if there was a real danger for a thermonuclear meltdown people would be moved much further... the explosion could reach very very far. I thought they moved them 10kms Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
silverpig Posted March 12, 2011 Share Posted March 12, 2011 This nuke reactor stuff is being hyped up wayyyyyy too much. They only evacuated them like 2miles. if there was a real danger for a thermonuclear meltdown people would be moved much further... the explosion could reach very very far. It's impossible for any nuclear plant to have a nuclear explosion, let alone a thermonuclear explosion. There's also no such thing as a thermonuclear meltdown. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
-Goose- Posted March 12, 2011 Share Posted March 12, 2011 This nuke reactor stuff is being hyped up wayyyyyy too much. They only evacuated them like 2miles. if there was a real danger for a thermonuclear meltdown people would be moved much further... the explosion could reach very very far. AFAIK, there's no such thing as a "Thermonuclear Meltdown" - We don't have a fusion reaction being carried out here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
van_ws Posted March 12, 2011 Share Posted March 12, 2011 Late to comment on this.... but absolutely shocked after seeing the news this morning. Very very sad. Prayers and thoughts go out to Japan. I know some friends that are over there, glad to hear that they are okay. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
-Goose- Posted March 12, 2011 Share Posted March 12, 2011 It's impossible for any nuclear plant to have a nuclear explosion, let alone a thermonuclear explosion. There's also no such thing as a thermonuclear meltdown. This Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
drunkmunky88 Posted March 12, 2011 Share Posted March 12, 2011 How do you guys embed videos?? I have one and I have nooo darn clue how to upload it! you copy the url of the video vid you have and in the post editor thing you click on the insert media(the little picture with three photographs) and paste your link into the media url box Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Justin. Posted March 12, 2011 Share Posted March 12, 2011 I've always thought that Van is one of those places that just won't be hit with this kind of disaster... There's a lot of things going right for us geographically (so I've been told). I hope that's the case before I become the loon preaching disaster to my friends doing this in response-> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Don't.Mess.With.Kes<3 Posted March 12, 2011 Share Posted March 12, 2011 I've always thought that Van is one of those places that just won't be hit with this kind of disaster... There's a lot of things going right for us geographically (so I've been told). I hope that's the case before I become the loon preaching disaster to my friends doing this in response-> No one ever thinks these kind of things can happen to them. We just have to be prepared as much as we can Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Madness Posted March 12, 2011 Author Share Posted March 12, 2011 So what exactly are they looking at if this Nuclear plant problem gets worse? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aquiace Posted March 12, 2011 Share Posted March 12, 2011 It's definitely not over. I'm on a live video chat right now with my family and as we were talking the wall cracked on a powerful aftershock. This was right after she showed me the other wall cracking not even an hour ago. This could go on for some time. There were reports of aftershocks in Chile many months after the quake hit there. Compromised buildings could still face possible collapse. Thankfully the Japanese design their buildings well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aquiace Posted March 12, 2011 Share Posted March 12, 2011 (edited) This nuke reactor stuff is being hyped up wayyyyyy too much. They only evacuated them like 2miles. if there was a real danger for a thermonuclear meltdown people would be moved much further... the explosion could reach very very far. Actually, they upgraded the emergency level and increased the evacuation area to 10km. They're trying to control the pressure through ventilation. The primary objective is to get the cooling systems functional because they're relying on secondary cooling which isn't as effective. Unlike Chernobyl, they are fully aware of the situation before it becomes an unstoppable reaction so there is a lower chance of it reaching meltdown. Edit: Also, FYI, the term "meltdown" comes from when the fuel rods melt. The temperature is so high that when it comes into contact with vapors such as air or water, it explodes. The heat is a natural by-product of critical mass and the only way to stop the reaction is with a doping element such as enrich boron. The danger comes from if fuel rods do melt, they burn at very high temperatures and are extremely difficult to put out. It burns so hot that sand actually melts into glass. The smoke and particles that come out are very radioactive and spread for thousands of kilometers in the atmosphere. Actually, we'd be in trouble because the jet stream could carry the radioactive material towards us. Edited March 12, 2011 by Aquiace Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Femme.Canuck Posted March 12, 2011 Share Posted March 12, 2011 Havent gotten to embedding the videos just yet, but the tsunami advisory has been canceled for Washington, British Columbia and northern Oregon according to the NOAA and the Provincial Emergency Program. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
-Vintage Canuck- Posted March 12, 2011 Share Posted March 12, 2011 ┳╮┳╮╱╭╮╮╭╱┳┓╭╮┳╮ ┣╯┣┻╮┣┫╰┫╱┣╱┃┃┣┻╮ ┻╱┻╱┻┗┗╰╯╱┻╱╰╯┻╱┻ ╱╱┳╭━╮┳━╮╭━╮┳╮┳╱ ╱╱┃┣━┫┣━╯┣━┫┃┃┃╱ ╰━╯┻╱┛┻╱╱┻╱┛┻╰┻╱ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Common sense Posted March 12, 2011 Share Posted March 12, 2011 It's definitely not over. I'm on a live video chat right now with my family and as we were talking the wall cracked on a powerful aftershock. This was right after she showed me the other wall cracking not even an hour ago. This could go on for some time. There were reports of aftershocks in Chile many months after the quake hit there. Compromised buildings could still face possible collapse. Thankfully the Japanese design their buildings well. The cracked walls beg to differ Glad to know internet connection, of all things, is still alive. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Master 112 Posted March 12, 2011 Share Posted March 12, 2011 That's terrible. ┳╮┳╮╱╭╮╮╭╱┳┓╭╮┳╮ ┣╯┣┻╮┣┫╰┫╱┣╱┃┃┣┻╮ ┻╱┻╱┻┗┗╰╯╱┻╱╰╯┻╱┻ ╱╱┳╭━╮┳━╮╭━╮┳╮┳╱ ╱╱┃┣━┫┣━╯┣━┫┃┃┃╱ ╰━╯┻╱┛┻╱╱┻╱┛┻╰┻╱ What? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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