I knew you knew, I just wanted to poke you in the eyeball. *wipes eyeball juice off finger*

I knew you knew I knew, I just wanted and excuse to wear an eyepatch :whisper:.

Arrr...I can poke you in the toe with a rusty nail, thus giving you an infection and causing you to have it amputated, if you'd like us to call you Stumpy The Seafaring Pirate. :unsure: Or just Stumpy for short...

What has this to do with Japans nuclear ridden air/sea water rushing to West Coast American shores? I will call my friend Stumpy to sail over here and rescue me, should this come to pass.

The funny thing about nuclear reactors: they are specifically designed to withstand massive impacts.

I could see it now:
"What sort of weapon do we have that can damage a nuclear reactor core?"
"A nuke, sir."
"That's totally redundant! I love it!"

Fixed.

Heehee, you know that saying, "Her face could launch a thousand ships" ? I know some faces that could damage a nuclear containment vessel. :unsure:


Mine would be one of them.

We can bury the waste for now, at least until we can figure out a better solution....

Or we just put more money into cold fusion nuclear power, and get that off the ground......<----best solution.

I was reading about 4th and 5th generation nuclear power plants and they will not be ready for production till sometime after 2030. Seems like a long time huh?

All in all I am not overly worried. However I do hear the officials form the power plants have misled people many times in the past about safety, radiation and repairs and only later admit the real issues when they were caught.

As much as I agree that the media looks for new ways to scare us, at the same time I also feel they easily swallow the official reports, or don't question them enough. I can not really blame them. If you start questioning the creditability of the officials, then you undermine the recognized authority figures effectively neutering the leadership. Its a fine line.

it would not surprise me if one major reason for not telling the public the whole truth is they don't have a solution. Full disclosure would add to the discontent and fear. If there are bits of radioactive debris that flew off and scattered across the ocean, making its way around the worlds water supply... could you really stop it anyway. Its best to say the effect will be negligible and let us go on with our lives.

From the Chernobyl blast some official "UNSCEAR" reports stated that only about 4000 deaths were caused up to 2004. However many other less official reports and studies put the total number closer to 985,000 deaths due to various illness caused by the radiation. Thats is a darn big gap. The truth is still not known.

reading through this and the only bit that I can think to add is the...physics / chemistry that radiation traveling through water has so much more other mass to disperse against compared to through air. It really shouldn't be a huge problem over distance, regardless of the type of actual problem that is occurring.

Think,what to you get when you add radiation, hollywood and japan? Godzilla.
If anything we should be killing all the lizards and building battlements around Tokyo before its too late.

Uranium ore is not nearly as radioactive as the enriched fuel used in the powerplants.



But what if they aren't evil? You wouldn't want to take the risk of slowly killing brain meltingly cute puppy-eyed space kittens, would you :teehee:

Seriously, space elevators are still science fiction. And even then there are things that could go wrong, a launch gone wrong and you have a high atmosphere radiation bomb.

Besides, we have to think about the archeologists of the future! They'll probably be dumb enough to break into even the most secure underground waste storage site looking for pretty 21st centruy baubbles.

:facepalm:
Not this again...
If you're in Japan, i'd suggest you to get out of there while you still can. If you live somewhere else, then I've got something to say for you...
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