Apparently, the spent fuel rods that are being stored in cooling ponds near the reactors, are also very dangerous because these pools are losing water, and if these spent fuel rods are exposed to air, there is a significant danger that even without melting down the radioactive secondary materials like cesium will become airborne (without even melting or boiling the spent fuel rods). Apparently the chemistry of the spent fuel rods is different from the new fuel rods that only have pure uranium.
http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/2011/0315/ ... y-a-threat"
The problem is that these cooling pools contain a lot of spent fuel rods that have been accumulating for many years, equivalent to several reactor cores.
Major Earthquake Hits Japan
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Re: Major Earthquake Hits Japan
by Colonel Sun » Wed Mar 16, 2011 5:06 am
Never criticize anyone until you've walked several kilometres in their shoes.
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Re: Major Earthquake Hits Japan
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Spent fuel rods near the reactors
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Re: Major Earthquake Hits Japan
by Colonel Sun » Wed Mar 16, 2011 6:04 am
Never criticize anyone until you've walked several kilometres in their shoes.
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Re: Major Earthquake Hits Japan
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Re: Major Earthquake Hits Japan
by Colonel Sun » Wed Mar 16, 2011 1:23 pm
Never criticize anyone until you've walked several kilometres in their shoes.
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Re: Major Earthquake Hits Japan
by Sennacherib » Wed Mar 16, 2011 1:48 pm
Our aim is victory — victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory, however long and hard the road may be; for without victory, there is no survival.
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Re: Major Earthquake Hits Japan
by Sennacherib » Wed Mar 16, 2011 1:50 pm
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Re: Major Earthquake Hits Japan
by skyhook77sfg » Wed Mar 16, 2011 11:47 pm
from another forum for you.....
Has it occured to anyone that The disasters in Japan have been created by mother nature?
Whales and Dolphin have been brutally slaughtered by the Japanese fishing industry and now they've had enough!
Whales and dolphins have been found to hold great intelligence in scientific studies. No one knows how intelligent they actually are but it has been thought that they may be on Par with the human race. Its possible whales and dolphins have gotten to the point twhere they are tired of their companions being murdered in cold blood and have found a way to strike back.
No one knows what exactly lies at the bottom of the pacific ocean, is it possible whales and dolphins have harvested Atlantean/Alien technology to utterly destroy Japan with a quake/tsunami? I really believe we need to start looking closer into the connection of the slaughter of these beautiful intelligent animals and the disaster that struck Japan.
hell hath no wrath like a womans scorn..
and mother nature is the baddest B*tch you'll ever meet.
Has it occured to anyone that The disasters in Japan have been created by mother nature?
Whales and Dolphin have been brutally slaughtered by the Japanese fishing industry and now they've had enough!
Whales and dolphins have been found to hold great intelligence in scientific studies. No one knows how intelligent they actually are but it has been thought that they may be on Par with the human race. Its possible whales and dolphins have gotten to the point twhere they are tired of their companions being murdered in cold blood and have found a way to strike back.
No one knows what exactly lies at the bottom of the pacific ocean, is it possible whales and dolphins have harvested Atlantean/Alien technology to utterly destroy Japan with a quake/tsunami? I really believe we need to start looking closer into the connection of the slaughter of these beautiful intelligent animals and the disaster that struck Japan.
hell hath no wrath like a womans scorn..
and mother nature is the baddest B*tch you'll ever meet.
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Re: Major Earthquake Hits Japan
by cincinnatus » Thu Mar 17, 2011 12:33 am
Probably poor taste, but...
F-ck you whale! F-ck you Dolphin!
F-ck you whale! F-ck you Dolphin!
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Re: Major Earthquake Hits Japan
by Mr. Perfect » Thu Mar 17, 2011 1:21 am
Wow. Even I would have passed on that one.
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Re: Major Earthquake Hits Japan
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Re: Major Earthquake Hits Japan
by Colonel Sun » Thu Mar 17, 2011 1:29 pm
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Never criticize anyone until you've walked several kilometres in their shoes.
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Re: Major Earthquake Hits Japan
by Sennacherib » Thu Mar 17, 2011 1:37 pm
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Re: Major Earthquake Hits Japan
by Demon of Undoing » Thu Mar 17, 2011 2:29 pm
Don't know if it's been mentioned here , but the truly pathetic things about whatever jokes even the boldest of we here may make , there are actually Americans out there that are buying potassium iodide and linking the events of today to motives from seventy years ago. And they live in Florida.
Weep , weep for America. It has been struck with something worse than a tsunami. You can't rebuild stupid.
Weep , weep for America. It has been struck with something worse than a tsunami. You can't rebuild stupid.
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Re: Major Earthquake Hits Japan
by Colonel Sun » Thu Mar 17, 2011 2:33 pm
Never criticize anyone until you've walked several kilometres in their shoes.
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Re: Major Earthquake Hits Japan
by Yukon Cornelius » Thu Mar 17, 2011 2:40 pm
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More seriously...
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