Article: World's worst nuclear accidents

[Arthur]

The reason the media are going on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on about the nuclear thingie is because being anti-nuclear is all part of a package of values and positions that tie into the Leftist-Green-EviroLoon agenda. One can't give an inch (or a millirem) when socialism is at stake! For them it matters not a jot if people die or are maimed by natural disasters (in fact they relish Gaia taking revenge, and the more people eliminated the better, in their view) but they will take every opportunity to show what a disaster capitalism + western technology is for the planet. After three hours of BBC, CNN, NBC, ABC, TF1 yesterday (I have a C-band dish) I nearly puked - the tv reporters and anchors were spewing more garbage than a hundred Fukushima Daiichi reactors over their entier lifetime. The only semi-sane comment came from a Brit expert interviewed on CNN (how he slipped past the commissars is another story - I wonder if he'll ever be on again). You can view Malcolm Grimston's comments here in the video snippet called "Nuclear expert: This is no Chernobyl" in the left margin. Of course within an hour of his interview the enviroloons had tweeted and posted at all the usual places to make sure his credibility is attacked. Some of these people are really evil.

 

[killadoob]

In addition, the Navy said the U.S. 7th Fleet has temporarily repositioned its ships and planes away from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant after detecting low-level contamination in the air and on its planes in the area, the Navy said.

 

[Alan]

In addition, the Navy said the U.S. 7th Fleet has temporarily repositioned its ships and planes away from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant after detecting low-level contamination in the air and on its planes in the area, the Navy said.

It was only the equivalent to a month's dose of background radiation. I'm surprised that far from suppress info on the disaster officials are making such a big deal out really very small almost insignificant exposures.

 

[The_Assimilator]

All the anti-nuclear fools posting in this thread: until you can build a facility capable of surviving a 8.9-magnitude quake, and accompanying tsunami, without damage - I suggest you STFU and stop spreading paranoia. The people of Japan do not need your BS right now.

 

[killadoob]

It was only the equivalent to a month's dose of background radiation. I'm surprised that far from suppress info on the disaster officials are making such a big deal out really very small almost insignificant exposures.

160km's offshore they detected it, bud that is not insignificant that is damn scary .

160km's offshore alan.

"We are not optimistic but I think we can inject water once we can reopen the valve and lower the air pressure," a Tepco official told reporters, according to the AFP news agency.

Exposure for too long a period of time can damage the fuel rods and raise the risk of overheating and possible meltdown.

Japan's Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency said workers were also battling rising pressure within the reactor. They have opened vents in the containment vessel, which could release small amounts of radiation.

Chief Cabinet Secretary Yukio Edano said there were signs that the fuel rods were melting in all three reactors at Fukushima Daiichi.

"Although we cannot directly check it, it's highly likely happening," he told reporters.

Ok if the company trying to get things under control are not confident i guess everything must be under control

 

[Alan]

160km's offshore they detected it, bud that is not insignificant that is damn scary .

160km's offshore alan.

Offshore as in out to sea an amount that is harmless. You'd probably get zapped more flying to Tokyo in an airliner.

"We are not optimistic but I think we can inject water once we can reopen the valve and lower the air pressure," a Tepco official told reporters, according to the AFP news agency.

Exposure for too long a period of time can damage the fuel rods and raise the risk of overheating and possible meltdown.

Japan's Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency said workers were also battling rising pressure within the reactor. They have opened vents in the containment vessel, which could release small amounts of radiation.

Chief Cabinet Secretary Yukio Edano said there were signs that the fuel rods were melting in all three reactors at Fukushima Daiichi.

"Although we cannot directly check it, it's highly likely happening," he told reporters.

Ok if the company trying to get things under control are not confident i guess everything must be under control

It's a very serious situation and looks like it's actually getting worse. As I said there hasn't been a major radiation exposure. That might well change in the future. Lets hope not.

 

[Hard Rain]

In addition, the Navy said the U.S. 7th Fleet has temporarily repositioned its ships and planes away from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant after detecting low-level contamination in the air and on its planes in the area, the Navy said.

This is the same navy which had no problem exposing tens of thousands of sailors to island nuclear tests for decades?

 

[Alan]

Ironic...

Along with Aug. 6 and Aug. 9, 1945 — the dates of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki atomic bombings — March 1, 1954, is an important date. Fifty-five years ago, residents of the Marshall Islands in the Pacific Ocean and the 23 crew members of the Daigo Fukuryu Maru (Lucky Dragon No. 5), a 140-ton tuna fishing boat from Yaizu, Shizuoka Prefecture, were exposed to fallout from the test explosion of a U.S. hydrogen bomb on Bikini Atoll.

The Daigo Fukuryu Maru tragedy touched off a movement against nuclear weapons among housewives in Tokyo's Suginami Ward — a harbinger of later organized antinuclear weapons movements in Japan. The boat now sits in the Tokyo Metropolitan Daigo Fukuryu Maru Exhibition Hall as a monument.

On the early morning of March 1, 1954, the fishing boat was operating about 160 km east of Bikini Atoll when a white substance rained on it for several hours. It was fallout from the explosion of the Bravo bomb, 1,000 times more powerful than the atomic bomb dropped over Hiroshima.

The boat returned to Yaizu on March 14. The crew members, suffering from nausea, headache, burns, pains in the eyes, bleeding from the gums, etc., were diagnosed with acute radiation syndrome and admitted to two Tokyo hospitals.

On Sept. 23, chief radio operator Mr. Aikichi Kuboyama, 40, died — the first Japanese victim of a hydrogen bomb. He left these words: "I pray that I am the last victim of an atomic or hydrogen bomb." It is said that several hundred more tuna fishing boats and their crews were exposed to the Bravo fallout.

From 1946 to 1958, the U.S. carried out 67 nuclear tests at Bikini and Enewetak atolls, and some 840 Marshall islanders are believed to have died of health problems caused by the tests. As of the end of 2003, more than 1,000 islanders were suffering from symptoms believed related to radiation exposure.

U.S. President Barack Obama, during his campaign, said the ultimate goal of U.S. nuclear policy should be to eliminate all nuclear weapons. Japan should work together with the United States toward creating a world free of nuclear weapons.

I'll also add for Killa that most of the U.S was exposed to radiation fallout from nuclear air tests.