Japan rocked by 8.9 earthquake

[Taurus]

The tsunami that resulted from the earthquake was traveling inland at between 40 and 50 mph according to a report I saw on CNN yesterday. I don't belive Anupam can run that fast and if he can, he should enter the next Olympics as he is sure to win every runners event.

Radiation contamination is enough to make the U.S. Navy 7th fleet move out of the down wind direction of the compromised nuclear facilities in Japan.

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/14/wo...ry.html?src=mv

[garth]

Originally Posted by Taurus

The tsunami that resulted from the earthquake was traveling inland at between 40 and 50 mph according to a report I saw on CNN yesterday. I don't belive Anupam can run that fast and if he can, he should enter the next Olympics as he is sure to win every runners event.

I heard Anupam can walk faster than 50mph, so who knows how fast he could run. Has science even developed apparatus capable of measuring the speed of Anupam running at full tilt?

[torres-no-tan-magnifico]

Of all the images of carnage in Japan this has to be one of the most amazing photos:

http://uk.news.yahoo.com/18/20110314...7fcbba42f.html

[wdhpr]

Originally Posted by Taurus

Radiation contamination is enough to make the U.S. Navy 7th fleet move out of the down wind direction of the compromised nuclear facilities in Japan.
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/14/wo...ry.html?src=mv

I wore a personal dosimeter for about ten of my twenty years of service. I accumulated very close to what I would have received if I lived ten years on a island on the equator. This also includes the time working in the reactor space. The article you linked to also stated the dose they received was very low. The ships will move away as a precaution in the event things get worse

“They received very, very low levels of contamination,” Commander Davis said in a telephone interview from Japan early Monday."

Like I mentioned this could escalate into a major problem, but its not there yet. Lets keep our fingers crossed

[garth]

What i'm starting to find a little disturbing in all this is the way the news media is trying to conjure up a story that just isn't there. As if things aren't bad enough for the people of Japan right now, the media seems to to be wishing some sort of huge scale nuclear catastrophe on them into the bargain. My TV screen is emblazoned with phrases like "nuclear meltdown", and the media seems to be deliberately trying to paint some apocalyptic vision of imminent nuclear devastation, yet listening to every nuclear scientist they interview i gather the chances of this vision becoming reality are relatively small. Over and over they air the footage of the explosions in two of the reactor housings, speculating on the potential radiological nightmare to follow, yet according to every authority on the subject i have heard so far, the metal shells that actually contain the nuclear fuel rods remain intact and are in little imminent danger of being breached. I don't know why i'm surprised by this, but i just wish the media would spend a bit more time reporting and a bit less time speculating on subjects they don't understand.

[wdhpr]

Originally Posted by torres-no-tan-magnifico

Of all the images of carnage in Japan this has to be one of the most amazing photos:

http://uk.news.yahoo.com/18/20110314...7fcbba42f.html

All I can say is wow.
A picture is worth a thousand words

[bo.elam]

To put it into perspective, the nuclear situation in Japan is at level 5, Three
Mile island was 4 and, Chernobyl, the worst of all nuclear accidents was at
level 7. Due to Chenobyl, to this day, at least 200000 people have died,
the dead toll for TMI go from zero to the official total of 31.


Bo

[bo.elam]

Originally Posted by bo.elam

To put it into perspective, the nuclear situation in Japan is at level 5, Three
Mile island was 4 and, Chernobyl, the worst of all nuclear accidents was at
level 7. Due to Chenobyl, to this day, at least 200000 people have died,
the dead toll for TMI go from zero to the official total of 31.


Bo

Ooops. Japan is 4 and TMI was 5.

Bo

[Jojoyee]

Meltdowns that have occurred:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear..._have_occurred

[garth]

Originally Posted by bo.elam

To put it into perspective, the nuclear situation in Japan is at level 5, Three
Mile island was 4 and, Chernobyl, the worst of all nuclear accidents was at
level 7. Due to Chenobyl, to this day, at least 200000 people have died,
the dead toll for TMI go from zero to the official total of 31.
Bo

Since my last post the situation has evolved and the possibilities of meltdown have increased. The point i was trying to make was about how the media seemed determined, from the moment of the first explosion, to make the worst case scenario into the only possible scenario, despite what the scientists were telling them.