They're evacuating around the Japanese Nuke plant. State of Emergecy declared.

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

Safe, cheap, and efficient, huh?

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110311/ap_on_bi_ge/as_japan_quake_power_plant

TOKYO – Japan's massive earthquake caused a power outage that disabled a nuclear reactor's cooling system, triggering evacuation orders for about 3,000 residents as the government declared its first-ever state of emergency at a nuclear plant.

Japan's nuclear safety agency said pressure inside one of six boiling water reactors at the Fukushima Daiichi plant had risen to 1.5 times the level considered normal. To reduce the pressure, slightly radioactive vapor may be released. The agency said the radioactive element in the vapor would not affect the environment or human health.

After the quake triggered a power outage, a backup generator also failed and the cooling system was unable to supply water to cool the 460-megawatt No. 1 reactor, though at least one backup cooling system is being used. The reactor core remains hot even after a shutdown.

The agency said plant workers are scrambling to restore cooling water supply at the plant but there is no prospect for immediate success.

[Hannah Bell]

1. kr.

[NightWatcher]

2. "slightly radioactive vapor"...I'm sure that a paper mask will protect from any prob

[nadinbrzezinski]

5. Japan is far more sensitive to this than most

due to hiroshma and nagasaaki, realize that they cannot get away with this as easily.

IF they have a meltdown... there will be hell to pay in more ways than one.

[NightWatcher]

8. given hiroshima and nagasaki, I dont understand how "nuclear" sounded like a good idea for anything

"hey guys, remember that stuff that killed a shit ton of us? we're going to starting using it here for electricity"

[nadinbrzezinski]

11. They have no coal, they got no oil, they import all of that shit

they want to be a modern economy... and no place for solar or wind either,.

[nadinbrzezinski]

3. They might upgrade to 9.1 quake

realize that no codes and all that, ALL stations would have failed by now... and you would be looking at millions of death

[Rex]

4. They are safe, cheap and efficient. Until something like an earthquake

comes along. Then they can be as dangerous as the radioactive waste they produce. I have faith in the Japanese getting this under control. The state of emergency was a good idea.

[peacebird]

6. "Just give me the warm power of the sun, Give me the steady flow of a waterfall,

POWER
(John and Johanna Hall)

CHORUS:
Just give me the warm power of the sun.
Give me the steady flow of a waterfall.
Give me the spirit of living things as they return to clay.
Just give me the restless power of the wind.
Give me the comforting glow of a wood fire;
But please take all of your atomic poison power away.

Everybody needs some power, I'm told,
To shield them from the darkness and the cold.
Some may see a way to take control when it's bought and sold.

I know that lives are at stake:
Yours and mine and our descendants in time.
There's so much to gain, so much to lose,
Every one of us has to choose.
CHORUS

We are only now beginning to see
How delicate the balance of nature can be.
The limits of her ways have been defined
And we've crossed that line.

Some don't even care or know that we'll pay,
But we have seen the face of death in our day.
There's so little time to change our ways.
If only we together can say:
CHORUS

All of your atomic poison power,
All of your atomic poison power away.

[dixiegrrrrl]

7. "No one could have foreseen........"

[nadinbrzezinski]

9. If this was a 9.1 those are really rare

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

10. Right. Like who could have known that Japan has earthquakes.

Or, experiences tsunamis?

Obviously, it was a closely guarded secret.

[hunter]

12. Gas & oil fires, burning people up on television.

Not a word.

:cry: