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Nuclear plants operators in Japan, are quieting

Posted 14 months ago|8 comments|510 views
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Nuclear plants operators in Japan, are quieting,
50 operators are abandoning there jobs as Nuclear plant operators, because the radiation levels are out of control, they have already absorbed enough radiation to kill them, all of the staff have already left, the stress and lack of sleep is just to much for them.

They have requested special radiation suits from the United States, but so far no words on the US being able to meet their demands, the senior staff have been in the past, slow on giving information on argent situations and have been known to falsified records.

It has been reported that the primer of Japan, is so upset about the inefficacy of the senior staff, that he used obscenities in a phone conversation with them.

The question is, is it verdant that a meltdown will occur with one or more nuclear plants?
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14 months ago: evident (mistake)
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14 months ago: The world's first nuclear meltdown happened 30 miles from downtown Los Angeles, and released hundreds of times as much radiation as Three Mile Island. And I'm betting you've never heard of it.

Sorry for the selling errors (quitting & evident)
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Eugene, OR
14 months ago: Ed it would be nice if you added some links that verified your claims.

While it may be true that the workers at the plant are being removed because the radiation levels are too high, I doubt that they have received lethal doses of radiation. These brave heroes were rotated in and out of the area and were in the worst areas for short periods only. There are probably hundreds of individuals but only 50 there at any one time, 24 hours around the clock. They were removed before the levels became too dangerous.

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/15/scienc...

The situation in Japan is indeed dire and the government and industry has a history of downplaying the actual danger and damage to keep the public from panicking. In both Three Mile Island and Chernobyl we didn't learn the extant of the damage until several days afterwards. At this stage things keep getting worse and no one knows how bad it will get.

In the meantime we here in America are not in danger. In the absence of a nuclear explosion which would throw radioactive debris miles up into the jet stream, the radioactive iodine and other elements will settle out long before it crosses 6,000 miles of ocean.
14 months ago: Al,

What do you mean by "settle out." Where does the stuff go? Atmosphere, water or does it dispers to the point of being "safe"? I'd like to know.

The BP thing was bad enough, this whole situation is really bothering me.
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14 months ago: Huey,

The radioactive particles, mostly iodine 131 and cesium 137, should settle into the ocean before they get here, and will combine with salt in the ocean to form sodium iodide and cesium chloride. That's provided there is a low humidity environment, with no airborne water droplets for the particles to adhere to.

Any contaminated cloud formations that make it across the ocean and rain on the US will be raining radioactive particles.
14 months ago: Link: http://www.cnn.com/

on the front page.
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14 months ago: Why would the west coast USA be in danger of Fallout?

The prevailing jet stream winds are blowing from Japan directly across the Pacific ocean to the west coast of the United States. Any airborne radioactive Fallout would make its way across with the jet stream, reaching the U.S. in approximately 36 hours, depending on the actual speed of the jet and how quickly the particles mixed in with the jetstream.

http://modernsurvivalblog.com/nuclear/we...
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Eugene, OR
14 months ago: I am not a nuclear expert and am just guessing but it seems to me that the reason we don't have much to worry about, is that we won't have a mushroom cloud to hoist stuff into the jet stream.

It will probably not be as bad as Chernobyl because they had no containment domes and the stuff went straight up. The containment domes in Japan even if breached will limit how high the debris gos. The biggest problem may be the used fuel rods in reactor #4 because while the used fuel rods are not as hot as the ones in the active reactors there are 4-8 times as many of them and they are all clad in zirconium which tends to burn and explode when the water gets boiled off.

Anyway Chernobyl radiation pretty much settled within a thousand miles and we have 6000 miles of ocean to protect us and disperse and dilute whatever gets across.

PS if all of the KI pills are gone if a cloud does reach here, you can paint a little bit of Mercurochrome on your skin instead, and the iodine will be absorbed. Don't drink it - it's poison.

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