Japans Nuclear Situation - check this out.

[rfeiller]

uf just got back from visiting there and you can see by his new avatar the effects of the leak, he use to have black hair!

[badflash]

Once the media found out they over hyped this thing and that mass deaths from radiation sickness weren't materializing, they focused on more important things like if Osama was really dead, or was it Elvis or JFK...

OK, I'll bite....what's the deal with the NUKE CRISIS in Japan...suddenly I don't hear anything at all on the news about what's going on over there.

[urbanfarmer]

[tyrtaeus]

Man...what a mess...!

Another interesting thing that doesn't entirely compute (perhaps because I have not settled in to compute it):

Chernobyl is still a ghost town (some of the photo essays are amazing), there is a small birth defect cluster around the area, and the Germans can't hunt wild boar because the radiation is still elevated 20 years after the fact.

But Hiroshima and Nagasaki, which did not have the advantage of "modern" cleanup and sequestration methods, seem good to go.

[urbanfarmer]

My guess is they blocked the radiation from passing up through the ground. Cement of adequate quantity, density, and composition can block gamma radiation.

[Onthefly]

I see its been over 2 months since the last post on here. With all the admissions and revelations from Tepco and Japan Gov recently and opinions by the likes of Arnie Gunderson, does anyone have a new perspective on this matter?

[Onthefly]

Sorry, a little over a month since last post.

[keith_r]

i think the plan to "encase" it is so typically short-sighted
but then nobody really thinks long term, we're such teenagers as a race

[Onthefly]

.....and you know what teens tend to do. From what I understand it is almost impossible to encase with concrete at this location. Earthquake prone, problems with salt and not to mention how many reactors are involved. It may be their only solution at this time which their saying will take several years and I agree it is a hail mary at this point. It is estimated that by the time Chernobyl is not "Hot" in 25k years the encasement will be the size of Luxembourg due to the never ending need to expand the encasement due to the deterioration of the concrete. Sooooo how long do we think the human race will be around?

[keith_r]

shaking my majic eight ball


"the outlook is not favorable"