Typical American drama / overreaction. The level-headed calm approach taken by Japanese is very refreshing.
I loved your remark about Christy Whitman. You are right about down-playing the nuclear event initially. But there is always some journalist whoâs idle speculation about a politicianâs remark that will spark the news debates over how bad the nuclear fall-out will really be. From then on itâs a circus in the morning papers to the evening news as speculation builds as expert after expert is paraded before our noses telling us dooms day scenarios about where this fall-out will land and how to protect yourself and your children. This is how media works today. Get the ratings or sell the copy of the rag. Then later deal with the ethics of the panic they instill in many of us.
Worst case scenario of a nuclear meltdown is possible but unlikely. Even so, any cloud of radioactive material that makes its way over the Pacific will have an extremely negligible effect on people, land and livestock. Remember, that radioactivity is all around us - its not the bugaboo that the media sensationalizes it to be.
Level headed calm doesn't sell. American news TV is all about money, not the hard facts, they often get in the way...........
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I think the American media are downplaying the event. If you don't like 24/7 news and repetition of the most important story, don't watch 24/7 news. But what they are actually saying in their coverage, especially on CNN, is very low key considering the actual danger from those 5 nuclear plants, 2 of which are clearly melting down and out of control.
He's not he's a dipshit. From what I've heard. Right now they are trying to maintain core cooling using the onsite de-mineralized water. If for some reason they cannot maintain cooling using the internal loop most plants have emergency cooling connections to an alternate source (the river/bay) in which they are connected. These stations are usually outfitted with a Standby Liquid Control system which inject Sodium Pentaborate (a neutron absorber) to poison the core killing all reactions. Either of the two options mentioned would essentially permanently shut down the plant as the contamination on the Nuclear Steam System would be irreparable. These are the next options and will be used as a last resort and will stop the reaction and maintain cooling.
It looks like it was a hydrogen explosion on the generator cooling system, actually looking at the explosion video I noticed two things no white steam cloud and no black smoke, both would have indicated steam circuit or transformer oil etc. The explosion was clean i.e. hydrogen oxygen mix. The trouble they have is I can imagine that most of the control systems, electrics for pumps are f&^$ed. Nukes have fail safe designs .....but not for total control system electric power destruction. They need to get cooling water into containment area and spent fuel pond soon.