Nuclear Aftershocks by canttakesky

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Nuclear Aftershocks

POSTED BY: CANTTAKESKY
UPDATED: Monday, January 23, 2012 07:15
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Saturday, January 21, 2012 7:21 PM

PBS Frontline aired Nuclear Aftershocks on Jan 17, 2012. There is shocking footage of the Fukushima disaster.

The entire program can be viewed online here.

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/nuclear-aftershocks/

I'm not back, but I know there is interest on this board on this topic.

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Sunday, January 22, 2012 4:45 AM

AURAPTOR

America loves a winner!

Look like you're back to me.

" I do not love the bright sword for its sharpness, nor the arrow for its swiftness, nor the warrior for his glory. I love only that which they defend. "

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Sunday, January 22, 2012 6:23 AM

SIGNYM

I believe in solving problems, not sharing them.

The pictures are indeed shocking but this program is full of erroneous or misleading statements. For example, the program focuses on the tsunami, but one of the reactors was so damaged by the earthquake it would have melted down anyway

Quote:
As the data from the Fukushima reactor is being reviewed, it looks like the meltdown happened much earlier: 'The fuel rods in the No. 1 reactor were completely exposed to the air and rapidly heating five hours after the quake.' Apparently, the earthquake had caused a crack in the containment vessel.

which means the water didn't have time to boil off, it actually leaked out.
http://peswiki.com/index.php/Directory:Nuclear_Meltdown

The explosion in Unit No 3 appears not to have been a simple hydrogen explosion, but may actually have been a nuclear chain reaction, caused when spent fuel rods were accidentally "reconfigured" (jostled close together)... a "prompt criticality" accident.

The safe exposure level that Japan set (20 milliSieverts per year) is not "conservative" by any stretch of the imagination; that WAS the radiation threshold set for (healthy male) nuclear power workers which was translated to the entire population including the very young, very old, sick, and pregnant. Also, it doesn't take internal contamination into account. The dose is only for exposure to exogenous radiation.

Not a very good job reporting, I'm afraid. PBS must get a lot of funding from GE.

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Sunday, January 22, 2012 7:24 AM

NIKI2

Gettin' old, but still a hippie at heart...

Brrrr...continues to be scary. What a shame it is that, all too often, news reports stuff it hasn't properly checked out or doesn't fully understand. There are so many of us who would like to understand things like Fukushima, but we can't know if the info we're getting is right or not. Thanx for pointing out the flaws (good to see you, too, and to know you're still "out there' somewhere).

Wow, from a 66% approval rating for nuclear in Japn to a 25%...speaks volumes. I marched against nuclear in my younger years, when being against it was frowned on (well, it still is to a degree, certainly among politicians!), because of exactly what that woman said: Man shouldn't be building things he can't control. Looks like that's come true in Japan, and is coming true in other places, like our outdated plants. Seems to me more disasters are pretty inevitable. But then so are more oil spills; we need something that doesn't endanger people or the planet, but I don't see anything on the horizon that will do it. Maybe the best we can hope for is a bunch of things which work, each in their individual ecosystem, but I don't look for it to happen in my lifetime.

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Sunday, January 22, 2012 9:12 AM

BYTEMITE

Idiots out here in Utah want to put a nuclear power plant over a fault that's due for a 7 plus magnitude earthquake any time now, out in the middle of no-water any-frikkin'-where. Their plan to do this is to divert yet more water from the overdrawn Colorado River.

Oh yeah, this is gonna go great. /Zoe

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Sunday, January 22, 2012 7:44 PM

RIONAEIRE

Beir bua agus beannacht

I saw part of the program when it aired last week. It was not as interesting as it could have been and it didn't seem to capture the magnitude of the disaster fully.

"A completely coherant River means writers don't deliver" KatTaya

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Monday, January 23, 2012 7:15 AM

NIKI2

Gettin' old, but still a hippie at heart...

Byte, I'd hate to tell you how many things we've got built right on the San Andreas around here! Hospitals, schools, hell, SLAC is right on it--imagine how much fun THAT's gonna be when she pops! Humans are particularly stupid about building on faults...not to mention many, many other places they shouldn't!

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