Radiation Levels Surge Outside Two Nuclear Plants in Japan

So much for the idea that nuclear power is green power.......

Nuclear power will be on the back burner for another 25 years.

There are just too many bodies.

Hundreds of dead have washed ashore on Japan's devastated northeast coast since last week's earthquake and tsunami. Others were dug out of the debris Monday by firefighters using pickaxes and chain saws.

Funeral homes and crematoriums are overwhelmed, and officials have run out of body bags and coffins.

Compounding the disaster, water levels dropped precipitously inside a Japanese nuclear reactor, twice leaving the uranium fuel rods completely exposed and raising the threat of a meltdown, hours after a hydrogen explosion tore through the building housing a different reactor.

A senior nuclear industry executive, speaking to the the New York Times, said that Japanese nuclear industry managers are "basically in a full-scale panic". The executive is not involved in managing the response to the reactors' difficulties but has many contacts in Japan. "They're in total disarray, they don't know what to do," the executive added.

http://www.aolnews.com/2011/03/14/japan ... l-scale-p/

10 reactors at the site....all similar configurations GE BWRs. Will be interesting to watch.

It is horrible. I have cried more than once over the last few days.

We will see - filthy coal is not a prudent alternative.

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Ah, that's why I'm lost. I thought it was the brownies....

deltamrey wrote: We will see - filthy coal is not a prudent alternative.

throwing worthless fiat US dollars at solar and wind is not a prudent alternative. I'll take coal all day long!

The radiation network. I don't know what this will do for you but to each his own.

http://www.radiationnetwork.com/RadiationNetwork.htm


MB, what's the word on your daughter?

Her job is requiring her to remain. She is in no danger of any radiation from the power plants. She assures me that the power plants pose no problem at the moment and my visions of Chernobyl are overly dramatic. The weather is still blowing in from the west.

She has my nerves calmed for the moment. But I will work myself into a frenzy in a couple of days and will have to talk to her again to get sane again.