Fresh on the heels of disaster
Fresh on the heels of disaster
Withheld data, a massive propaganda campaign and scant objective analysis of the Fukushima Daichi catastrophe…
U.S. N.R.C. grants final approval to TOSHIBA reactor design
Wall Street Journal - BUSINESS - By REBECCA SMITH - DECEMBER 23, 2011
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142405297020446440457711462209874449...
U.S. Clears Reactor Design
Approval of Toshiba's AP1000 Sets Up Possible Nuclear-Power Revival
The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission gave final approval to Westinghouse Electric Co.'s newest reactor design Thursday, clearing a path for the sale of the reactors in the U.S. and a revival of domestic nuclear power construction.
A prominent technical expert at the NRC, Dr. John Ma, filed an opinion in November 2010 that challenged Westinghouse's analysis of shield building strength, as well as the views of the commission's other staff. He asserted that "structural integrity cannot be assured" if the shield were hit by a tornado, earthquake or any of several other known hazards "because it has not been demonstrated that the building can absorb and dissipate energy."
Disaster is underestimated
Disaster is underestimated
Japan continues to significantly underestimate the scale of the disaster
http://www.chron.com/news/article/No-man-s-land-attests-to-Japan-s-nucle...
No-man's land attests to Japan's nuclear nightmare
DAVID GUTTENFELDER, Associated Press, ERIC TALMADGE, Updated 11:13 a.m., Tuesday, December 27, 2011
IWAKI, Japan (AP) —
For those who lived on the perimeter of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant, fliers used to come in the mail every so often explaining that someday this might happen. Most recipients saw them as junk mail, and threw them away without a second glance. For those who did read them, the fliers were always worded to be reassuring — suggesting that although a catastrophic nuclear accident was extremely unlikely, it could require evacuating the area.
Never was it even hinted that the evacuation could last years, or decades.
The total amount of radiation released from the plant is still unknown, and the impact of chronic low-dose radiation exposures in and around Fukushima is a matter of scientific debate.
Recent studies also suggest Japan continues to significantly underestimate the scale of the disaster — which could have health and safety implications far into the future.
Check your stocks for winners and losers
ELE for Japan. Portfolio adjustment 'opportunity' for the leisure class.
Japan will either quickly deflate or implode. The paddles will stop working. GAME OVER will flash briefly. The score will show Japan, its people and the investors that were slow in getting away as the ULTIMATE losers.
Eventually the bankers will yank the cord and encourage rubberneckers and loiters to exit.
Nukes are worse that dead. The flogged horse is beginning to decompose.
More ponderous hyperbole,
More ponderous hyperbole, pontificatory prattle and hysterical histrionics masquerading as informed fact.
Fukushima's been the gift that keeps on giving to the legions of professional doomsday entrepreneurs and Armageddon hucksters. Nowhere has that been more apparent than the BRAWM Forum, Ground Zero for the enthusiastic "On the Beach" set.
"More ponderous hyperbole,
"More ponderous hyperbole, pontificatory prattle and hysterical histrionics masquerading as informed fact"
There you go, projecting again Mr. Forum Stalker Shill... this is a perfect description of your commentary in just about every thread. We've got your number, baby... LOL!!
Gifts that keeps on giving
Gifts that keeps on giving
Agreed, Fukushima and Chernobyl are ‘the gifts that keeps on giving’, 24/7/365/10,000.
The Fukushima Daichi nuclear disaster will ‘give the gifts’ of IUFD, infant mortality, immune system failure, leukemia, kidney failure, lung cancer, bone cancer, food contamination, poisoned groundwater, genetic anomalies and Pacific Ocean pollution for 10,000 years or perhaps 10 billion years.
Giving and giving and giving ...
Gifts
The radiation will subside. Collections and accumulations of radionuclide waste will be dispersed, swept up, paved over, flushed and diluted. Affected populations will adjust. In a few short generations the health effects and memories will start to statistically fade.
Let us learn as much as we can from this event. While the odds are there will be more nuke disasters let us hope they all pale in comparison. Three full melts in one place, one with a MOX load, may not be repeated.
Fukushima, though a messy hotspot, is also an amazing research opportunity and should become an international research facility.
Fallout comes in all shapes and sizes. Turning Fukushima into an international project would mitigate some of the political and economic fallout from this disaster.
lemons
lemonade
BRAVO! BRAVO!!
Fukushima's been the gift that keeps on giving to the legions of professional doomsday entrepreneurs and Armageddon hucksters. Nowhere has that been more apparent than the BRAWM Forum, Ground Zero for the enthusiastic "On the Beach" set.
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Well said!!! Very well said!!!
How about we wait awhile, and see how the story plays out.
Then everyone can see the vacuous mountain the hucksters have made out of this molehill; for their own political agendas.
The truth will eventually be known. Do the spin-meisters really think they can fool us for the indefinite future?
You crack me up how you
You crack me up how you applaud your own posts!!! Quite often, in fact! LOL!!
new rank
promotion to spin-meister
way cool
spin-meisters?
Do the spin-meisters really think they can fool us for the indefinite future?
......................................................................................................................................... It has been expressed that there is an organized, big boogeyman pro or anti-nuclear agenda here on this blog. The reality is concerned individuals asking serious questions and being insulted by rude name calling, at face value unacceptable.
"The reality is concerned
"The reality is concerned individuals asking serious questions and being insulted by rude name calling, at face value unacceptable"
AMEN! But it won't stop. We've got quite a character on this forum who specializes in the rude name calling quite often... and quite a bully sometimes.