Japan has a nuke plant event

[ensho]

http://hisz.rsoe.hu/alertmap/index.php?smp=&lang=eng


Kansai Electric Power Co plans to shut the 1,175-megawatt No.2 reactor at its Ohi nuclear plant in western Japan later this week for an unplanned inspection to examine a possible radiation leak. Japan's second-largest utility said in a statement on Monday that it had found higher levels of gas in the unit, but that it had no impact on the outside environment. A company spokesman said the length of the shutdown had yet to be determined and that the utility had enough reserve power capacity to offset the shutdown.
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just so you know

[Statistical]

1. Always glad to see nuclear safety protocols working as planned.

[SidDithers]

2. +1...nt

Sid

[Bonobo]

3. +2

Whew.

[Codeine]

4. Excellent.

Once again the smallest hint of a possible problem resulted in immediate action and zero consequences. One wishes the hundreds of thousands of fossil plants all over the globe operated in such a clean, efficient, and safe manner.

[EOTE]

5. 1,175 megawatt?!?!?!?

Isn't that awfully close to 1.21 gigawatts? Just an eensy weensy bit more power and you've got enough to power a flux capacitor! I've got the DeLorean. Let's make this happen, people.

[Statistical]

6. Maybe that is why the shut it down. Can't have reactors going back in time.

[SIMPLYB1980]

8. LoL!

:popcorn:

[Codeine]

7. It is your density. nt

[EOTE]

9. Ummm, what? Your sentence makes no sense given what you're responding to.

And it's also a sentence fragment considering you're not answering a question.

[greyl]

10. -->

Lorraine Baines: Wait a minute, don't I know you from somewhere?
George McFly: Yes. Yes. I'm George, George McFly. I'm your density. I mean... your destiny.

[EOTE]

12. Ahhhh, much thanks :)

Sorry, a bit slow on the uptake today :) I guess I need to brush up on my BttF quotes.

[Codeine]

11. It was a play on the "Back to the Future" reference.

Evidently not a successful one! :blush:

[EOTE]

13. You're a better quotesmith than I.

As much as I love that movie, that particular one escaped me.

[Blackhatjack]

14. I Understand They Have A Call In To SNL's Garrett Morris To Come Clean It Up...Bring Bucket!

(Homage to A Favorite SNL Skit where Garrett Morris is in drag as a cleaning lady and is asked to take her mop and pail into the damaged Three Mile Island reactor containment unit and 'clean it up' --as if it were just a water spill).

[SIMPLYB1980]

15. LoL! Was looking for a video, but here is the transcript.

http://snltranscripts.jt.org/78/78ppepsi.phtml

Two Mile Player #1: < pantomimes along > "I'm energy! Everybody wants me!"

Two Mile Player #2: < pantonmimes along as well > "I'm a short-sighted consumer! I'm against nuclear energy! But I still want my stereo, and my electric guitar!"

[Blackhatjack]

17. Thanks! That was Great! n/t

[EOTE]

16. GOOD NIGHT AND HAVE A PLEASANT TOMORROW!!! NT