The latest I read was that the salt water used to cool the reactor is now starting to really build up. It's like the mineral deposits in a humidifier. As the sea water boils away, the salt is left behind. The number I saw was 57,000 pounds of salt are now coating the insides of the reactor. That salt insulates the rods and makes it harder to cool them down.

Interesting.

Yeah. Their skin was burned and their bone marrow damaged, if I heard correctly.

Like Gandhi on the beach!

UMMMMM. ANYONE? BUEHLER?

Standing in water hooking up electric. ANYONE?

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Who cares about this electric, of which you speak. We have atomic problems here. Getting electricuted won't mean doodly-squat if the atoms get out!

I"m so confused. WHY would they care about a slow death from cancer when they're going to fry and split like a Ball Park Frank on the grill?

I'm missing something.

They were professionals. They had things covered.

IM - normally when you work on electrical lines, there's no electricity running in them.

heeeheee

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Oh D'OH. :blush:

Thanks, that's what I was missing alright. I am decidedly NOT smarter than the average bear.

That pic is great. Every time I see it I wonder if they really put juice to it or if it was staged.

That picture demonstrates what management was thinking when they murdered seven Challenger astronaunts. Their reasoning - we have backup O'rings. No problem.

Japan has three disasters. An earthquake made irrelevant by good planning. A tsunami that nobody could have averted. And a nuclear nightmare because TEPCO management did not appreciate and would not address the problems when best solved. The third demonstrates how problems are directly traceable to top management.

No problem. Power is provided by a GFCI. It will always work. No problem. Backup O'rings stopped all previous O'ring failures and explosions. No problem. All reactors still have battery power.

None were accidents.

Problems occur in threes. All three happened at once. Japan has nothing more to worry about. Making it a save place to live. And plenty of new jobs will be created.

This sounds like superstition and not a typical tw post. Can't you have a problem occur in a pair? drought/fire or earthquake/landslide

No, I think he's on to something. Bush/Cheney/Rumsfeld and Obama/Pelosi/Reid are cited as examples of disasters from different groups and they are grouped in 3's. And then if you're an atheist you might see the Father/Son/Holy Spirit idea as a disaster.

Nevermind, there were 4 twilight movies so let's just scrap this theory of 3.

You know what though? Celebrities die in threes, as we've seen lately. And I don't mean celebrities like Bobert Bob McBobberson that no one outside of Bob County in Bobsylvania has ever heard of...I mean the biggies.

I expect great returns on my celebrity death predictions.