Comments on: Nuclear Meltdown

By: CherryPie

CherryPie — Sun, 20 Mar 2011 23:00:26 +0000

Your comment about the American’s made me smile. It reminded me of a holiday I once had in Yugoslavia (you can tell how long ago that was ). The Yugoslavian people had some comments along those lines that made me chuckle.

By: CherryPie

CherryPie — Sun, 20 Mar 2011 22:57:47 +0000

I agree if anyone can the Japanese with their stoicism will be able to.

By: ivan

ivan — Sun, 20 Mar 2011 20:18:55 +0000

I hate to say this but my experience is that the Americans like to have everything bigger and better than everyone else, be it a small problem with a reactor to the latest gulf oil explosion and its aftermath which turned out to be not as bad as the president made out.

By: Janice

Janice — Sun, 20 Mar 2011 16:22:33 +0000

Three Mile Island (TMI) had no quake, no tsunami, no power outage, only 1 reactor involved and only one explosion which did not breach the containment wall – it was classified as a level 5 accident. It’s amazing that the Fukushima Daiichi plant has 6 reactors in stress, many explosions, an earthquake, a tsunami and finally a lot of damage and it too is considered only a level 5 by the Japanese. Yet one cannot help but forgive this mistake in light of the extreme devastation now facing this nation after the one two punch just received from the quake and ensuing tsunami. How overwhelming it all must be. If anyone can rebuild from this it is the Japanese whose strength and courage are well known..

By: CherryPie

CherryPie — Fri, 18 Mar 2011 19:12:58 +0000

Very interesting articles, thank you. I had forgotten how good The Register is to read. I used read it often for public sector articles and technology.

The loss of lives, homes and the difficulties they are experiencing are appalling to me. I am told though that the Japanese take such things in their stride because it is part of their life. I got that information from a friend of my who lived in Japan for a number of years. So perhaps that goes back to your comment about the atomic bombs too.

By: ivan

ivan — Fri, 18 Mar 2011 01:30:14 +0000

Yes those are the links.

One other thing that should be considered – the Japanese reactors are not the graphite moderated type so there can not be a Chernobyl type of escape of radioactive material.

By: CherryPie

CherryPie — Fri, 18 Mar 2011 00:53:11 +0000

My initial thoughts are that MSM media in the reports I have read, have played the situation down. This is natural, people don’t want to here the truth they want to feel safe. I have not seen any reports that predict a nuclear disaster apart from the one I post here that suggests a more proactive response to the problem which I think has been played down by the media in general.

I think these are the links from your post -

I will take time to read them before I comment.

Thank you

By: ivan

ivan — Fri, 18 Mar 2011 00:06:38 +0000

I would have thought the Japanese were the best people to judge on nuclear fallout – after all they are the only people that have had two atomic bombs dropped on them.

The Americans are very good at making atomic bangs and little else in the nuclear field. The French have nuclear power and are making a big fuss about it, which to me says that EDF wants more money – oh look, it’s dangerous. Our government has whackey Hune going for a ‘lights out’ green power generation policy and the MSM is pushing ‘nuclear disaster’ for all it’s worth and almost ignoring the loss of life and homes of the people as well as the loss of a very large proportion of Japan’s agricultural output.

For those that are interested in a rational outlook at the power stations then a read of these from the Register co uk are a must:
2011/03/14/fukushiima_analysis/
2011/03/15/fukushima_update_tuesday/
2011/03/16/fukushima_wednesday/
2011/03/17/fukushima_thursday/
Sorry these are a bit messed up but the spam filter doesn’t like full URLs.