Earthquake Of The Day
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- ernexbcn0
'Reporter to spokesman: "We don't want to know how you FEEL; tell us what's going on. How was today's explosion different from earlier ones?"'
Japanese press demanding questions from the authorities.
- benfal990
Those nuclear plants should be build with over-extra standards against earthquakes and shit... seriously, we fail on so many levels as human being.
- Pixter0
How BAD can it be? 40km?
- dbloc0
Documents from Tokyo Electric, the operator of the Japanese nuclear plants in crisis after Friday's devastating quake and tsunami, reveal that the company tested the Fukushima plant to withstand a quake up to magnitude 7.9. That threshold is well below the force of Friday's quake, recently upgraded to 9.0.
- lesson: make that shit strong enough to withstand a 12.0 earthquakedbloc
- Damn straight..
It's really puzzling why they would build these right on the water where earthquakes are commonRamanisky2 - are commonRamanisky2
- lesson: leave Japan thenPixter
- They build them on the water because they need water to workgraham
- dbloc0
This is encouraging......
Southern California's San Onofre nuclear plant, near fault line and sea, built to withstand less than Japan plant
http://www.boingboing.net/2011/0…
I live about 10 miles from this plant.
- Pixter0
Title says it all
- ********0
What about solar and wind and all that? Is it really so unworkable after years of study and effort?
Someone help me feel positive about the future o_O
- its not unworkable the fossil fuel companies are just telling you that********
- its not unworkable the fossil fuel companies are just telling you that
- BusterBoy0
^^ Solar and wind power are nowhere near advanced enough to generate the huge power demands of modern society unfortunately.
- ********0
If they were feasible, wouldn't we be using them? It's not like people love setting up nuclear power plants, especially a country that has been through nuclear holocaust.
- i'm not sure you understand what sort of power the oil and coal companies have grabbed since the 1900s********
- and nuclear companies ofr that matter, either way solar has been suppressed bigtime********
- dodec is right. they are feasible ABT, and free, and infinite. but corps dont make money off elec, but they do oil.Hombre_Lobo
- i'm not sure you understand what sort of power the oil and coal companies have grabbed since the 1900s
- ernexbcn0
If the nuclear plants were designed for a 7.9 earthquake and the earthquake was of 9.0 then they took 10 times the pain they were designed for, and that's without considering the tsunami that followed.
- benfal990
All atomic plants should have zero-risk degree installations. We all failed at this.
"bah, cost too much money"
"a super big earthquake? its not gonna happend"
"a terrorist attack? not gonna happend, we have security guards"We are so stupids.
- BusterBoy0
Dodecahedron, I like where you are coming from but solar and wind just don't cut it at the moment. I have friends in both industries and they all say we are a long way away from those technologies being able to satisfy demand for large populations. I wish it wasn't the case but it is.
Of course they have their place and are needed to help progress the technology...sometimes the conspiracy theories are just a little off the mark.
- solar is weak, tidal and geothermal is very effective. but oil is big money, so no one cares alternatives.Hombre_Lobo
- mg330
benfal99,
I don't have time to find all the info, but from what some people have stated on TV, any nuclear plant being built now is even better than the ones in Japan. The new ones have fail-safe mechanisms that would still allow them to be cooled and access their usual water source. I can't remember the details, but the person being interviewed basically said that, the Japanese plant construction of the ones currently online is far better than the Chernobyl era plants; they're very good and obviously this is a massive event that has shut them down.
But the newer ones, he said, go even further in their technological ability to keep the core safe and isolated from catastrophic damage. Keep in mind that probably ever plant that could be built now or has been built recently can withstand an attack from a commercial jet.
- aldebaran0
not sure if these links have been posted here, they offer some good info about what may be occurring at the power plant
- ********0
terrorist attack...that's another problem with nuclear
- ********0
- sephil0
- who's laughing nowbenfal99
- Sorry, but I lol'ed and then my drink shot through my nose.Ramanisky2
- autoflavour0
Fire at Building 4 reactor..
fire bad.
- number for is a storage facility for spend fuel..
autoflavour
- number for is a storage facility for spend fuel..
- ernexbcn0
Reactor 4 is now on fire...
- FFS - Anyone within a 30-kilometer radius should remain indoors, an official said.utopian
- Anyone who is still within a 30 km radius is fucking insane********
- there is 40 years of spent fuel at the site.. if it all catches on fire, its going to make chernobyl look like a holidayautoflavour