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Comment Re:Sensational! (Score 0, Troll) 537

You are. The issue is that Reactor No.3 uses MOX fuel. Nuclear power is sick but using plutonium is insane. Japanese guys didn't watch enough of those nice japanese animes about humanity, insanity and technology :-/. If No.3 has a melt down and really leaks or does not get under full control (e.g. continues to pollute the atmosphere) the impacts will be horrible for dozens of years.

Comment Re:Sensational! (Score 4, Informative) 537

I wonder how far it will go though... Chernobyl actually really "exploded" and thus in contrast to what the officials say there is only very little radioactive material within the chernobyl sarcophagus (they say there is 97% left inside, but you can walk inside with little protection, check youtube - there are many videos of the inner sanctum of the sarcophagus ... there is only little left. the rest is spread around the ukraine, russia and europe mostly). Most of the material was pushed into the air when it exploded. As there are no real (trustable) sources in terms of the Japanese nuclear catastrophe it wouldn't suprise me if there is a complete melt down of No. 3 and no public information available on the real scale of the disaster (e.g. plutonium 235, its byproducts and other radioactive material and spreading across continents and oceans).

Comment Re:Sensational! (Score 0) 537

How can this be rated 5? Ignorant technophile trolls? Reactor 3 is actually leaking. Essentially that's kind of like a nuke - cause it uses plutonium. Even the euros have higher radiation levels, not to speak of Silicon Valley. http://www3.nhk.or.jp/daily/english/25_29.html "It said 3.9 million becquerels of radiation was detected from 1 cubic centimeter of water sampled from the floor of the building. The radiation level was about 10,000 times higher than the water inside a normally operating nuclear reactor. The agency said the water sample indicated it is highly likely the leak comes from the reactor itself, not from the pool storing spent nuclear fuel. According to the officials, pressure inside the reactor core is stable and the agency doesn't believe the reactor is cracked or broken. But it says it is highly possible that radioactive materials are leaking from somewhere in the reactor."

Comment Re:discrepancy (Score 5, Informative) 752

Maybe you wanna check this: http://www3.nhk.or.jp/daily/english/12_45.html or this http://slashdot.org/submission/1496534/JapanCaesium-measured-melt-down-may-have-started ... steam was released HOURS ago. Two isotopes are now being measured which hints at a melt down. It was stated that the batteries run for a few hours and they got station blackout. Maybe you check your sources again.

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