9.0 in Japan
POSTED BY: canttakesky
UPDATED: Monday, August 24, 2026 01:23
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Originally posted by Niki2:
I haven’t heard it go past 8.9...where did you hear/read that?
http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/recenteqsww/Quakes/usc0001xgp.p
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Yeah, I hadn't listened to the TV much yesterday (bad girl; too much internet time), but last night I heard it had been upgraded to 9.0. Jezus, each tenth is actually a BIG upgrade...a nine is something else!
Hippie Operative Nikovich Nikita Nicovna Talibani,
Contracted Agent of Veritas Oilspillus, code name “Nike”,
signing off 
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Fukushima reactors 1,2, and 3 have had explosions.
# 2 appears to be the worst, with the inner containment shell likely being breached ( serious high grade suck here )
# 4 reactor building is now on fire.
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This explains things fairly well, I think...
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http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110315/ap_on_bi_ge/as_japan_earthquake
For those old enough to remember Hiroshima and Nagasaki, I can't imagine what they are going through.
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Sorry CTS, I didn't mean to misunderstand. It did seem odd that you would say that in malice or meanness. I think you're right about people who survived the atomic bomb, this has got to be especially scary for them because they know first hand what can happen.
The news says that everyone has been evacuated from within 20 miles of the plant and everyone is supposed to stay inside until otherwise specified.
Niki, as for your cover up examples, unfortunately that is all too common, people cut corners, crossing their fingers that they won't get caught, but sometimes disasters happen and that's when they get caught red handed. Its sad that people do this but I think it happens everywhere, probably because of laziness/carelessness.
"A completely coherant River means writers don't deliver" KatTaya
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Riona, of course I know that...look at the Gulf spill. But when it comes to NU-CLE-AR (gawd I'm sick to death of the damned REPORTERS saying nucular!), the dangers are huge, and it's the responsibility of the government to make sure things are done properly. It's why I'm pretty convinced, given ALL six of the reactors/fuel rod housings are having such serious problems, that it's the government that needs to be held accountable, along with TEPCO.
Businesses will cut every corner possible to increase profits, many of them have no conscience about the safety of the public OR their employees. I'd like to hear anyone anti-government come up with a VIABLE way to at least TRY to ensure that they obey the law and behave responsibly. Sure, the government doesn't do nearly as good a job as it should and sometimes does it WRONG...but tell me what OTHER method--VIABLE method--there is to keep them in check.
Most recent news I'm hearing (aside from further fires/explosions--there have been so many it doesn't seem worth keeping track anymore--is that they're ROTATING crews of 50 to deal with it, and again the mention that last night they evacuated everyone for a short time. That's a...what, "relief"?...at least to know they're not just abandoning it.
What a horrific situation, poor Japanese people, they've actually been hit FOUR times: earthquake, tsunami, nucLEAR, volcano. Their karma sure has gone to shit!
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Quote:
Originally posted by Niki2:
Businesses will cut every corner possible to increase profits, many of them have no conscience about the safety of the public OR their employees. I'd like to hear anyone anti-government come up with a VIABLE way to at least TRY to ensure that they obey the law and behave responsibly. Sure, the government doesn't do nearly as good a job as it should and sometimes does it WRONG...but tell me what OTHER method--VIABLE method--there is to keep them in check.
CLASSIC Dunning-Kruger effect going on here. These comments have Z-E-R-O to do w/ the events at hand.
9.0 earthquake - reactors held. Power goes out, back up power kicks in.
Several meters high tsunami hits, knocks out power to secondary cooling system. The wave submerged the diesel engine which provided power.
A third back up system fails, due to lack of water...
Where the hell does heartless, big business cutting cost have any damn thing to do with this catastrophe ?
You live in a fantasy world, where government either does or does not exist , and that some how a massive 6 reactor nuclear plant gets built and inspected , then goes on line w / out any say so by ANY governing body,what so ever.
And as for being hit 4 times, you left out one... an earthen dam burst, washing away hundreds of homes. And also there was an oil refinery engulf in flames.... I think selling Japan a bit short in the misery meter.
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I guess you didn't read Niki's post up above, which, I guess makes sense, the two of you do fight a lot.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TEPCO#Scandal
Sounds to me like faults that were covered up in the containment were a big part of why it's failing so bad right now. The cut off of the diesel power to the coolant engine was just the catalyst, this was always an accident waiting to happen.
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