Radiation Levels Surge Outside Two Nuclear Plants in Japan

Stubborn kids. I am thinking she will be fine. But why would her company take that risk? I feel for you. {{hugs}}

She works for the NSA. I do not know why she is Japan.

Global warming is happening in Japan. Got Coal? Obama says build more nukes!

Looks like it is time to begin poring lots of cement.

285 Road Crew wrote: A similar topic was merged into this thread.

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Why? Just a retorical question but it is a pet peave of mine carried over from another site.

MB....I will be thinking of you and your daughter......I know it is harder on you than your daughter, she is there doing "whatever".....you are here worrying. My daughter and her husband are here in AZ this week, she is currently waiting on word if her National Medical/Disaster team will be deployed to Japan, hers is the only team that is certified in decontamination, including radiation.....I would not want her to go as she is 3 months pregnant.....but it is not for me to decide. She will be given a choice, but knowing her she may well decide that she should. She assures me that the team compound is always set up well away from any radiation risk, they manage the decon of workers and aid personnel who may have been contaminated..... like that makes me feel any better. I do know she won't do it if her doctor thinks there is any risk to her pregnancy.

archer wrote: MB....I will be thinking of you and your daughter......I know it is harder on you than your daughter, she is there doing "whatever".....you are here worrying. My daughter and her husband are here in AZ this week, she is currently waiting on word if her National Medical/Disaster team will be deployed to Japan, hers is the only team that is certified in decontamination, including radiation.....I would not want her to go as she is 3 months pregnant.....but it is not for me to decide. She will be given a choice, but knowing her she may well decide that she should. She assures me that the team compound is always set up well away from any radiation risk, they manage the decon of workers and aid personnel who may have been contaminated..... like that makes me feel any better. I do know she won't do it if her doctor thinks there is any risk to her pregnancy.

Well Archer, that is how you brought her up, to care and help those in need. Seems like personal risk are secondary to a great extent.

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archer wrote: MB....I will be thinking of you and your daughter......I know it is harder on you than your daughter, she is there doing "whatever".....you are here worrying. My daughter and her husband are here in AZ this week, she is currently waiting on word if her National Medical/Disaster team will be deployed to Japan, hers is the only team that is certified in decontamination, including radiation.....I would not want her to go as she is 3 months pregnant.....but it is not for me to decide. She will be given a choice, but knowing her she may well decide that she should. She assures me that the team compound is always set up well away from any radiation risk, they manage the decon of workers and aid personnel who may have been contaminated..... like that makes me feel any better. I do know she won't do it if her doctor thinks there is any risk to her pregnancy.

Well Archer, that is how you brought her up, to care and help those in need. Seems like personal risk are secondary to a great extent.

Yeah, her personal risk would be secondary, but her unborn child is a whole 'nother story.....she won't risk that. But she will be most unhappy if she cannot go and do what she does best. We talked until late last night about the situation in Japan and compared it to her experiences in Louisiana during Katrina and Rita. Very few people realize the network of doctors/medics/nurses across the nation who are organized into specialized teams who are ready at a moments notice (ok, they usually get about 4 hours notice) to travel around the country or the world when disaster happens. These are people with fulltime jobs who train together many times a year so they can do this.

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285 Road Crew wrote: A similar topic was merged into this thread.

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Why? Just a retorical question but it is a pet peave of mine carried over from another site.

Because having two topics with the same subject is confusing and then you have to look up two threads for the information. This is a common practice to keep the forums organized. Bumping the original is much more effective. We are just into organization.

It looked like the exact same topic to me? And no content was removed. :thumbsup:

The fire it seems in the forth (4/6) reactor is in a pool used to store spent fuel. They must also have lost cooling to the pool. Actually a melt down can also easily happen in used fuel it it is not kept covered by water. ALL of our 104 plants have similar pools and massive amounts of fuel are stored all over the USA at each site (this is part of the Yucca Mountain discussion. Dry cask storage is now also used as the pools have become full at many sites.