16-03-2011, 09:06 AM
Just saw videos of helicopters dropping water on the reactors - certainly a last-ditch effort [I'm afraid will not prevail]. I don't know if they are adding boric acid [which absorbs radiation] in the sea water; but at 'best' the sea water dumped on an active fire in at least one reactor will turn to steam - and very radioactive steam! Many in Tokyo who can, are planning their leaving for other locations...but Japan is a small island nation and the winds can and do keep changing directions. Reactors #2 and #3 have open vessels [not exploded - but cracked open]. The entire idea of a containment structure is to NEVER be open and NEVER let the radioactives inside out.
Incredibly, the two reactors that had long been shut down before the quake [#5 and #6] are now experiencing partial burning and overheating of the stored spent fuel rods [highly radioactive]....another ominous event - as if more are needed. At this point it might take a miracle to control the situation. They have no plan and few persons on site to even do anything IF they had a plan! They have, for the most part, 'abandoned ship' and leaving physics to do what physics does.....
Kudos to GE's Mark I containment vessels! - now available on eBay at great markdowns.....slightly used, sold 'as is', without warranty.
Incredibly, the two reactors that had long been shut down before the quake [#5 and #6] are now experiencing partial burning and overheating of the stored spent fuel rods [highly radioactive]....another ominous event - as if more are needed. At this point it might take a miracle to control the situation. They have no plan and few persons on site to even do anything IF they had a plan! They have, for the most part, 'abandoned ship' and leaving physics to do what physics does.....
Kudos to GE's Mark I containment vessels! - now available on eBay at great markdowns.....slightly used, sold 'as is', without warranty.
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"Civil disobedience is not our problem. Our problem is civil obedience! People are obedient in the face of poverty, starvation, stupidity, war, and cruelty. Our problem is that grand thieves are running the country. That's our problem!" - Howard Zinn
"If there is no struggle there is no progress. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and never will" - Frederick Douglass
"Civil disobedience is not our problem. Our problem is civil obedience! People are obedient in the face of poverty, starvation, stupidity, war, and cruelty. Our problem is that grand thieves are running the country. That's our problem!" - Howard Zinn
"If there is no struggle there is no progress. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and never will" - Frederick Douglass