Quake/Tsunami - Page 7

glatt · 03-24-2011, 10:16 AM

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.

Spexxvet · 03-24-2011, 10:18 AM

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I heard a bit of that on the radio. I think they said those workers got exposed to 150 mSv, which on this handy radiation chart is the equivalent of 3 years maximum permitted dosage for workers at a nuke plant and is more than enough to be clearly linked to an increased cancer risk.

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

Spexxvet · 03-24-2011, 10:20 AM

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As the sea water boils away, the salt is left behind.

Like Gandhi on the beach!

infinite monkey · 03-24-2011, 10:31 AM

UMMMMM. ANYONE? BUEHLER?

Standing in water hooking up electric. ANYONE?

Spexxvet · 03-24-2011, 10:34 AM

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UMMMMM. ANYONE? BUEHLER?

Standing in water hooking up electric. ANYONE?

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!

infinite monkey · 03-24-2011, 10:39 AM

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.

glatt · 03-24-2011, 10:54 AM

They were professionals. They had things covered.

Pete Zicato · 03-24-2011, 10:56 AM

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

infinite monkey · 03-24-2011, 10:58 AM

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They were professionals. They had things covered.

heeeheee

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

Oh D'OH.

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

TheMercenary · 03-24-2011, 08:59 PM

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

tw · 03-25-2011, 09:55 AM

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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.

tw · 03-25-2011, 10:03 AM

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.

glatt · 03-25-2011, 10:57 AM

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Problems occur in threes.

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

lookout123 · 03-25-2011, 11:04 AM

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.

infinite monkey · 03-25-2011, 11:37 AM

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.

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Pete Zicato Turns out my CRS is a symptom of TMB. Join Date: Jan 2010 Location: Chicago suburbs Posts: 2,916	IM - normally when you work on electrical lines, there's no electricity running in them. __________________ Talk nerdy to me.

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TheMercenary “Hypocrisy: prejudice with a halo” Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Savannah, Georgia Posts: 21,393	That pic is great. Every time I see it I wonder if they really put juice to it or if it was staged. __________________ Anyone but the this most fuked up President in History in 2012!

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lookout123 changed his status to single Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: Right behind you. No, the other side. Posts: 10,308	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. __________________ Getting knocked down is no sin, it's not getting back up that's the sin

03-24-2011, 10:16 AM	#91
glatt ™ Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: Arlington, VA Posts: 27,717	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.

03-24-2011, 10:31 AM	#94
infinite monkey Person who doesn't update the user title Join Date: Mar 2011 Posts: 13,002	UMMMMM. ANYONE? BUEHLER? Standing in water hooking up electric. ANYONE?

03-24-2011, 10:39 AM	#96
infinite monkey Person who doesn't update the user title Join Date: Mar 2011 Posts: 13,002	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.

03-25-2011, 10:03 AM	#102
tw Read? I only know how to write. Join Date: Jan 2001 Posts: 11,933	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.

03-25-2011, 11:37 AM	#105
infinite monkey Person who doesn't update the user title Join Date: Mar 2011 Posts: 13,002	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.

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