9.0 in Japan
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UPDATED: Monday, August 24, 2026 01:23
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...Yes, because I'm clearly very pro-government. Look, maybe you're still a little miffed because I corrected you on something on another thread, but I apologized once already and this is more important than that.
So, entry on the wikipedia article for the company in question that says in big letters "SCANDAL." Any thoughts on that?
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Originally posted by BYTEMITE:
...Yes, because I'm clearly very pro-government. Look, maybe you're still a little miffed because I corrected you on something on another thread, but I apologized once already and this is more important than that.
So, entry on the wikipedia article for the company in question that says in big letters "SCANDAL." Any thoughts on that?
I was referring to Niki, not so much you. So, not miffed. Not at you.
Thoughts ? Yeah, the Fukushima plant was doing fine, until there was a 100 year quake and massive tsunami.
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Originally posted by AURaptor:
I was referring to Niki, not so much you. So, not miffed. Not at you.
Thoughts ? Yeah, the Fukushima plant was doing fine, until there was a 100 year quake and massive tsunami.
'Kay. I know it can get rough here for you. I do actually try not to add to that, anymore than I try to avoid adding to other people who are regularly in the line of fire.
Yeah, I mean obviously the earthquake and the tsunami had an impact, but it also concerns me that the reactor in question has had a critical accident years before, and it was hushed up.
Of course, that only works if both government and the industry were in on it, because it's not as if the government isn't inspecting this stuff and aware. Rather like in the gulf.
Still. It's an issue, and one that I think is going to have some tragic consequences over the next days or weeks.
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Ignoring the rest of your bullshit:Quote:
It's a viable question, given their problems and cover-ups in the past. JUST like BP. Where there is a record of accidents minimized and covered up, it's only natural to question, when 6 out of 6 plants have problems, if there might be something to it.
Where the hell does heartless, big business cutting cost have any damn thing to do with this catastrophe ?
"What Byte said". There's nothing fantasy or stupid about it. The government was involved in some of the cover-ups, and the Prime Minister has been reported as being FURIOUS at TEPCO for things having to do with the current problems.
Also, that's the second mention I've seen about you and I fighting. They're right; I shouldn't bother. Henceforth I will try HARD to respond to your faleshoods and idiocy ONCE; beyond that is just a waste of effort.
Hippie Operative Nikovich Nikita Nicovna Talibani,
Contracted Agent of Veritas Oilspillus, code name “Nike”,
signing off 
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I think what Niki, me and Byte are trying to say is that Japan is prone to earthquakes and difficulties of that variety, now granted this was bigger and badder than anything before, but you'd think they'd have a lot of backup/emergency systems for those reactors, they'd have to or else they'd be really stupid. So all I can conclude is that the horrible natural disasters killed the main protection systems and the backup plans/systems weren't maintained properly the way they should be in case of this kind of thing. I agree that the company probably isn't telling the world all that is really going on because they are embarassed, they know this is partly due to their poor maintainance practices and they don't want the world to know that they made horrid mistakes. I agree that it is the earthquake that has caused the disaster, but I think poor maintainance of emergency systems has greatly compounded it so its as bad as it is now.
God save Japan.
"A completely coherant River means writers don't deliver" KatTaya
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Shit happens. Man can no more control nature than.... Obama can stay off the golf course. It's just not gonna happen.
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LOL
You do have a point. Build a plant to withstand anything we can think of and then shit happens. They should just build all n.plants to withstand 9.9 earthquakes and tsunamis. That works for me. End of story.
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(ETA: Hey USB, did you edit your post to make it clearer? When I read it the first time I thought you were poopooing preparedness, but now it's clear that you're onboard. Sorry, I missunderstood!)
I think it's pretty reasonable to demand a nuclear reactor in Japan to be able to withstand a 9.9 earthquake, which if you're in Japan is practically guaranteed to come with it's own tsunami. Where does one set the upper limit of preparedness? 6.0? 7?
Here's the thing: This meltdown could end up killing more people than the tsunami. And be killing people for years to come. It's something, in short, that you never want to have happen. Unlike an earthquake, it's something we have real control over. An earthquake of 9 or above is, pretty much, inevitable, in Japan--it's gonna happen at some point. So it happens once in 100 years. Y'know, a hundred years goes by pretty quick in the lifetime of a corporation. Did TEPCO have some plan to shut the reactor down after 50 years or some such that we haven't heard about to avoid any 9+ earthquakes? Building a reactor where they did was courting disaster.
I think nuclear reactors should be able to withstand inevitable natural occurrences, or they should not be built. I'm not talking about a "freak accident" here, I'm talking about the inevitable.
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