Quote: sootyj @ March 14 2011, 1:12 AM GMTEnjoy your carbon monoxide
It's yummy.
Quote: DaButt @ March 14 2011, 1:14 AM GMTI lived about 30 miles from this one in the late 80s: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diablo_Canyon_Power_Plant
And then I lived near this one when a few years ago: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Onofre_Nuclear_Generating_Station
Coooooool.
'Diablo Canyon' - ace name.
And remember that my father participated in more than 50 above-ground nuclear weapons tests back in the 50s and he's in good health even though he was sometimes no more than 3 or 4 miles from the blast.
Quote: zooo @ March 14 2011, 1:18 AM GMT'Diablo Canyon' - ace name.
Naming the facility after Satan was probably riskier than building it near a fault.
Quote: DaButt @ March 14 2011, 1:21 AM GMTNaming the facility after Satan was probably riskier than building it near a fault.
Quote: zooo @ March 14 2011, 1:04 AM GMTWould you choose to live near a nuclear plant in a place that gets constant earthquakes?
I f**king wouldn't.
(Although I wouldn't live in a place that gets earthquakes anyway.)
The Japanese reactors are apparently built in extremely strong concrete boxes which are stronger than the surrounding rocks/earth. In the event of a major earthquake as just now, the whole box stays intact while the earth moves under it. What has happened in this case is that the pipes & pumps that feed the cooling water have broken, and possibly the reserves of cooling water have been contaminated with sea water.
The same sort of thing would occur with any power station & the possibility of explosions would be much worse in one powered by natural gas or oil.
Emergency provision & plans seem to have been on hand to use sea water coolant in case like this as a last resort. The use of sea water will terminate the life of a reactor due to the possibility of corrosion, so the reactor will have to be decommissioned. So such a decision was not taken lightly.
Another reactor had a hydrogen explosion a short while ago.
This is terrible news: Approximately 2,000 bodies found Monday in Miyagi Prefecture on Japan's east coast, Kyodo News Agency reports.
Operating from a remote patrol base in Helmand, two British snipers were responsible for killing 75 Taliban fighters in just 40 days. In one remarkable feat of marksmanship, two insurgents were dispatched with a single bullet.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/8376808/Dead-Men-Risen-The-snipers-story.html
When's the film out?
I still think nuclear power is madness. Things seem to be getting worse and worse in Japan. Maybe man just isn't smart enough to handle nuclear.
Quote: keewik @ March 15 2011, 10:50 PM GMTI still think nuclear power is madness. Things seem to be getting worse and worse in Japan. Maybe man just isn't smart enough to handle nuclear.
But there haven't really been that many nuclear mishaps over the years. Major ones are still very rare.
Quote: DaButt @ March 15 2011, 10:45 PM GMTThese photos are shocking.
This one is amazing.
But they do so much damage when they do happen. I'd find it horrific to live near one. People are blasé because most don't have it on their doorstep.
We all live close enough to one that we'd be quite f**ked if anything really bad happened. 
(Well all people in Britain, certainly.) So I wouldn't be overly extra scared to live next to one.
But as I've already said, I wouldn't be too keen in an earthquake prone place. But we've been over that.
Too true.
Not good news at all: Workers at Japan's damaged nuclear power plant have suspended operations and evacuated, chief Cabinet secretary says.
