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Merged nuclear power safe?

timhau said:
That's the stock market for you. Panicking in the morning is a great reason to panic in the afternoon.
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Amusing* that one of my worst hit stocks is a coal miner. You'd think is ANYONE was going to do well out of this......




*When I say amusing, I mean aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaarrrrggghhhhhhh my savings are being destroyed by city ****ers who wouldn't know a nuclear power plant from a hard boiled egg!!!!!!!
 
Belz... said:
Yes it is. Or do you make the same statements about the safety of air travel whenever a plane crashes ?



Indeed. Don't you'd rather live ?
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ever saw a reportage about the children in Chernobyl? living that way you mean? ..........
 
Last of the Fraggles said:
Amusing* that one of my worst hit stocks is a coal miner. You'd think is ANYONE was going to do well out of this......
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Equally amusing* is the fact that my largest single investment is in a company that manufactures heavy-duty natural gas and diesel engines and power plants. They were down 4% earlier in the day, but have now recovered to about -2%.

*AAUUUGH!
 
The tipping is that this will be a level 6 incident, worse than Three Mile Island, but not as bad as Chernobyl. Be able to say that it's not as bad as Chernobyl is not really something to be that proud of, IMHO, given that Chernobyl is about as bad as it can get.
 
This is now a level 6?

Criteria for levels 5 and 6, according to Wikipedia (AFAIK fulfilling even one of them puts an incident into this category)

Level 6: Serious accident

Impact on People and Environment
Significant release of radioactive material likely to require implementation of planned countermeasures.


Level 5: Accident with wider consequences

Impact on People and Environment
Limited release of radioactive *material likely to require i*mplementation of some planned* countermeasures.
Several deaths from *radiation.

Impact on Radiological Barriers and Control
Severe damage to reactor core.
Release of large quantities of radioactive material within an installation with a high probability of significant public exposure. This could arise from a major criticality accident or fire.
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Wikipedia says Fukushima is level 6, but the only source of that is this -- a Telegraph article citing "French experts".
 
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DEATH WIND HEADED FOR TOKYO JAPAN


Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaargh!


The wind of death is coming!

If I was in Tokyo, I'd be tentacle-raping every young girl in school-uniform that I could get my...uh...tentacles on.

Because this is it. The end. Game over.

It was nice knowing you.

I'll be in the basement with my canned food, shotgun and vintage Playboy collection.

Goodbye.
 
Puppycow said:
There are now multiple threads on this issue and I haven't read all posts in them, but I don't think anybody ever said it was 100% safe. The point is that other forms of energy are also unsafe in other ways, much more unsafe for coal in particular.

We are seeing a particularly bad scenario unfolding and obviously it has caused some deaths already, but these events are rare. Lots of people are killed by coal every year.
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And also on coal, there's the idiocy of the Victorian state government, which decided to run the major highway east from Melbourne right next to several large coal mines in the Latrobe Valley. The highway has recently cracked in several places, because it was sitting right on top of the seam of coal they were mining. A 50 km section is now closed. Not to mention that one of the power stations, Hazlewood, is notorious as one of the dirtiest in the world.
 
I read that the some pools in which they keep the spent fuel are in the open air. (And now drying up)

Seriously?

That can't be right, can it?
 
On CNN they just said the radiation at the gates of the plant was 400 million seaverts, but that as you go away from the plant, the radiation decays and it isn't as bad.

Does it work like that? The radiation falls off with distance? Why is radioactivity dangerous then?
 
BenBurch said:
Sigh.

People like being scared, and the news media likes accommodating that.

A lie will be a thousand miles away while truth is still pulling on it's pants.
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I think this is pithier:

A lie can get half-way round the world before the truth gets its pants on.


:)
 
r-j said:
On CNN they just said the radiation at the gates of the plant was 400 million seaverts, but that as you go away from the plant, the radiation decays and it isn't as bad.
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I've only come across these terms in the last few days but I can tell you that that number is NOT right.
 
BenBurch said:
Sigh.

People like being scared, and the news media likes accommodating that.

A lie will be a thousand miles away while truth is still pulling on it's pants.
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what lies???

you got some credible information? the vessel is not damaged? the radiation is not rising? why dont you open a news station?
 
Well I checked online and what he was saying is "millisieverts", which means it is 400 millisieverts, which is bad, but not anything to worry about. That seems to be only about 1000 times as much as you get naturally in a year.
 
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r-j said:
Well I checked online and what he was saying is "millisieverts", which means it is 400 millisieverts, which is bad, but not anything to worry about. That seems to be only about 1000 times as much as you get naturally in a year.
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They just reported that according to Japanese Media the radiation at the plant has rissen so much the workers are not able to stay at the controll rooms.
 
Eddie Dane said:
DEATH WIND HEADED FOR TOKYO JAPAN


Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaargh!


The wind of death is coming!

If I was in Tokyo, I'd be tentacle-raping every young girl in school-uniform that I could get my...uh...tentacles on.

Because this is it. The end. Game over.

It was nice knowing you.

I'll be in the basement with my canned food, shotgun and vintage Playboy collection.

Goodbye.
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As much as I want any excuse I can find to start tentacling all the chicks in their school uniforms the woman on the video DID point out that while the radiation level had been measured at 8000 microsieverts it would take a million microsieverts to cause radiation sickness (100 Rem?). So it wasn't complete "Death Wind OF DEATH!!!1!" reporting.
 
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