Kind of a shaky video, but a few times through and you will begin to
get a feel for just how extensive the damage there is. In reactor
number three, you can see massive amounts of exposed rebar, indicating
the concrete was blown right off the reinforcement rods of the
containment vessel. Steam is coming from what appears, to me, to be
the hole left where the containment cap blew off. It's kind of hard to
make out clearly in this video. I believe the reactor vessel itself is
exposed. If it wasn't, the recent videos of helicopters flying loads
of seawater to dump on it would make no sense. They are dumping it
right on the exposed reactor vessel and into what is left of the
primary containment.


http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=d9d_1300379014

There is another version of this video on LL too. More shaky then this
one, but close to the end they film what appear to be spent fuel rods
scattered all over the ground, said rods probably having been ejected
from the cooling pools above reactor 3.

This is an accident that now is much worse then even Chernobyl. A
major portion of the Japanese mainland has been rendered uninhabitable
for the next 20,000 years of so.
Dave

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/4713398.stm

France has been Europe's most enthusiastic devotee of nuclear
power, constructing dozens of reactors since the 1970s oil crises
spurred on its desire for energy independence. It has become the
world's biggest net exporter of electricity, and is also a major
exporter of nuclear technology. In 2006, the government also
announced the start of the design process for a prototype
fourth-generation, sodium-cooled fast reactor, with the aim of
having the technology ready for industrial deployment and export
after 2035-40.

Aren't the French afraid of nuclear proliferation?
They are over there near the terrorists.

HOW DOES IT FEEL TO BE MORE PUSSY THAN THE FRENCH?!

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/s...toryId=5369610

France has 58 nuclear plants like this which meet 80 percent of
its total electricity needs - and allow it to export power to
Britain, Germany and Italy. France began beefing up its civil
nuclear program after the 1974 oil crisis.

http://www.ieer.org/ensec/no-1/glbnrg.html

France
Nuclear as Percentage of Gross Electricity Generation
78%
Global Electricity Generation - by Type
FOSSIL FUEL, HYDRO, NUCLEAR
35366, 67894, 368188

http://www.umich.edu/~gs265/society/nuclear.htm

In France for example, from 1980 to 1986, SO2 and NOX emissions in
the electric power sector were reduced by 71% and 60% respectively,
causing reductions of 56% and 9% respectively, in total SO2 and NOX
emissions in France (Trudeau 160). In the 1980s, total pollution
from the French electric power system dropped by 80-90 percent.

http://www.eia.doe.gov/cneaf/nuclear...n/gensum2.html

More charts.

http://www.world-nuclear.org/info/inf40.html

France derives over 75% of its electricity from nuclear energy.
This is due to a long-standing policy based on energy security.
France is the world's largest net exporter of electricity due to
its very low cost of generation, and gains over EUR 3 billion per
year from this. France has been very active in developing nuclear
technology. Reactors and fuel products and services are a major
export. It is building its first Generation III reactor and
planning a second. About 17% of France's electricity is from
recycled nuclear fuel.

Nuclear power is the most important technology in the foreseeable
future. Learning about nuclear power by using it is the best way
to learn how to handle it and to cope with the related issues. The
countries that have the balls to master nuclear power will own the
pussies who don't.



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Kind of a shaky video, but a few times through and you will begin to
get a feel for just how extensive the damage there is. In reactor
number three, you can see massive amounts of exposed rebar, indicating
the concrete was blown right off the reinforcement rods of the
containment vessel. Steam is coming from what appears, to me, to be
the hole left where the containment cap blew off. It's kind of hard to
make out clearly in this video. I believe the reactor vessel itself is
exposed. If it wasn't, the recent videos of helicopters flying loads
of seawater to dump on it would make no sense. They are dumping it
right on the exposed reactor vessel and into what is left of the
primary containment.


http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=d9d_1300379014

There is another version of this video on LL too. More shaky then this
one, but close to the end they film what appear to be spent fuel rods
scattered all over the ground, said rods probably having been ejected
from the cooling pools above reactor 3.

This is an accident that now is much worse then even Chernobyl. A
major portion of the Japanese mainland has been rendered uninhabitable
for the next 20,000 years of so.
Dave

John Doe wrote:

Learning about nuclear power by using it is the best way
to learn how to handle it and to cope with the related issues.

Japanese are very fortunate to have this learning experience, eh?

dav1936531 is.invalid wrote:

Kind of a shaky video, but a few times through and you will begin to
get a feel for just how extensive the damage there is. In reactor
number three, you can see massive amounts of exposed rebar, indicating
the concrete was blown right off the reinforcement rods of the
containment vessel. Steam is coming from what appears, to me, to be
the hole left where the containment cap blew off. It's kind of hard to
make out clearly in this video. I believe the reactor vessel itself is
exposed. If it wasn't, the recent videos of helicopters flying loads
of seawater to dump on it would make no sense. They are dumping it
right on the exposed reactor vessel and into what is left of the
primary containment.

http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=d9d_1300379014

There is another version of this video on LL too. More shaky then this
one, but close to the end they film what appear to be spent fuel rods
scattered all over the ground, said rods probably having been ejected
from the cooling pools above reactor 3.

This is an accident that now is much worse then even Chernobyl. A
major portion of the Japanese mainland has been rendered uninhabitable
for the next 20,000 years of so.

John Doe wrote:
Beryl fourl rd.net wrote:

John Doe wrote:

Learning about nuclear power by using it is the best way to learn
how to handle it and to cope with the related issues.

Japanese are very fortunate to have this learning experience, eh?

You don't give a **** about the Japanese.

So you're shaking your head No?