You've got that right. I always make sure I'm geared up and never take any chances......EVER. When you're dealing with things that can leave you looking like the elephant man, or drop you dead in literally a second, (depending on PPM) it's safety first.

yeah. We didn't really hold much of a grudge, but there's a good reason why there's still a bit of Chinese-Japanese feelings and tension even today.

You'll need to define livable. It has become something of a wildlife preserve there, thousands of workers basically live half the year there even if they don't officially live there (4 days on, 3 days off), and hundreds of people (not counting squatters) who were several miles away from any hotspot either refused to evacuate or insisted on returning soon after evacuating. A lot of them are still there all these decades later, seemingly not all that much worse off. It is not a good idea to drink the water or eat whatever is growing there, but the background radiation a few miles away from the hotspots is not that high.

And, again something like Chernobyl is almost impossible to reoccur where you need to permanently advise people to evacuate 20 miles. Nuclear power should not be overly criticized or abandoned because of safety.

It should be abandoned because it is just too damned expensive. Just burn natural gas and coal for electricity, we've got tons and tons of coal and natural gas within the USA. Save that expensive nuclear power for subs and aircraft carriers.

Reports coming out of Japan now say they finished building the power cable to the reactors. I'm no electrician, but apparently there's still several hours or maybe a day of work to get that cable ready to transmit power before they basically flip the switch. If the primary cooling systems are undamaged and still work at all reactors, then this could be over as early as tomorrow evening.

I'm a little confused like others on this thread though. I takes almost a week to put up an electrical cable that can transmit power a couple miles? I know thats usually hard but in a huge national emergency couldn't you bring in the army, engineers, hoards of volunteer labor, whoever and knock that out in just a day or two?

Look up "Unit 731" and you won't feel guilty anymore. Guaranteed.

Agreed. Completely baffling.

I'd been wondering that myself. When the power company managers were prioritizing where to reinstate power, you'd think that "nuclear plant about to meltdown" would pretty make the top of the list without a whole lot of disagreement.

I think we may have finally identified the problem.

According to CNN, there are no words in Japanese for "imminent nuclear meltdown". The nearest translation is, "Young flowers illuminated by burning rain."

And, apparently, there are also no words in their language for, "Hide yo kids, hide yo husband, they's meltin' down everybody 'round here."

FAX

As I understand it the problem was they had a three-prong socket and only had two-prong cord.

That's not really a problem, it's when you have a two-prong socket and only have a three-prong cord that the trouble begins, because you have your own personal nuclear meltdown when you can't remember where in the **** you put the damn adapter thingy.

don't worry, Obama is monitoring the situation.

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Without watching the video, I'd bet that's the Sword of Damocles speech. Even if it's not, Kennedy is full of shit for giving it, because the man ran on the idea of a missile gap that both he and his advisers knew was false.

Hamas, What do you make of this? Apparently that radiation cloud is helping fuel a giant storm in the pacific.

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http://www.intellicast.com/Storm/Hur...x?animate=true

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http://www.weather.gov/view/prodsByS...ype=discussion

2012 is coming!