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In reply to the discussion: Michio Kaku on Pacifica Radio 5/11 - status of #4 reactor - dire situation at Fukushima [View all]Logical
(22,457 posts)46. Illogical? The dire predictions of what COULD happen is what is amazing.....
Let's act like the worst case possibility is going to happen! Let's just assume a 7.5 earthquake will hit the reactor!
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Michio Kaku on Pacifica Radio 5/11 - status of #4 reactor - dire situation at Fukushima [View all]
flamingdem
May 2012
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Plume-gate: Secret documents prove global cover-up of continued Fukushima radiation pollution Lea
flamingdem
May 2012
#1
Sorta like this administration covered up the extent of, and damage from, the BP oil spill...?
villager
May 2012
#5
Fukushima meltdown ignored by GE-NBC, et al. That tells me things are beyond control, and we're
leveymg
May 2012
#2
Funny you mention GE. General Electric designed the Mark I reactors used at Fukushima.
Selatius
May 2012
#6
Senator Wyden and Robert Alvarez, former senior advisor under Clinton with dire warnings about SFP #
flamingdem
May 2012
#4
Any radioactive stuff from Japan heads straight towards the West coast of the United States.
xtraxritical
May 2012
#16
Ohhhhh, can't wait until Captain Atom and the NewQueLur Defenders chime in on this thread. nt
DCKit
May 2012
#9
Are there really any of them left? They're so far down on my Ignore List I forgot their names now.
freshwest
May 2012
#10
That's not unlikely in Japan, and if it's less the building lacks structural integrity
flamingdem
May 2012
#53
One, Fukushima is certainly a slow motion nightmare and a massive enviro-clusterfuck.
Warren DeMontague
May 2012
#32
I remember A. Gunderson saying similar stuff about spontaneous fission 6 months ago.
Warren DeMontague
May 2012
#36