| JD10367 |
03-13-2011 08:48 PM |
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Originally Posted by alnorth
(Post 7486294)
well, better them than us. Even in California, we only have to deal with one major fault. The island of Japan is in the middle of the horrifying dreaded "ring of fire" with 3 major active continental faults.
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Yeah, and the San Andreas runs right up into the even scarier and totally ignored Cascadia fault line, which probably hit Japan with a killer tsumani hundreds of years ago and also may have given birth to the Native legend of the "Thunderbird". I would bet that when "the big one" hits it's going to trigger both the San Andreas and Cascadia faults, which will basically destroy everything from Vancouver to Ensenada Mexico. People joke about the west coast falling into the ocean, but that's pretty much what would happen.
Of course, on the other hand, the east coast is due for a quake too. And because of the solid rock, they say if an L.A.-style quake hit Atlanta it would be felt up in New York City... and since the buildings in the east aren't built for it, we're ****ed.
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Even if Japan goes total Chernobyl with thousands exposed to high radiation, we'll learn a lot from their mistakes and design even safer reactors from this valuable experience. This should not discourage us ***at all*** from nuking up the entire United States, except maybe near the west coast and near the new madrid fault close to St. Louis.
Japan is a crappy place to build a nuclear reactor, but there are lots and lots of tectonically stable places far from any ocean in the US where nuclear reactors would be absolutely perfect and ideal.
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There is so much misinformation and fearmongering going on in the media right now. Nothing modern will "go Chernobyl" because Chernobyl was an unshielded piece of shit, whereas the modern reactors found in places like the U.S. and Japan are heavily shielded. Nuclear energy is pretty cheap, so they spend a good deal of money on the containment buildings. Short of an earthquake ripping the containment building apart, even a "meltdown" is probably going to be contained within the building. Sure, it'll be unusable, but it's not going to result in humans within 1000 miles turning into Swamp Things. But, yes, we can "learn a lot from their mistakes", in terms of, "Don't build your ****ing nuclear reactor on the coastline when you know there's a very good possibility of a tsunami." |
HUGE ****ING EARTHQUAKE HITS JAPAN 8.9 MAGNITUDE FOLLOWED BY 7.5 AFTERSHOCK
(https://chiefsplanet.com/BB/showthread.php?t=242583)