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Thursday, March 17, 2011
You know I watch Rachel Maddow because her command of the pertinent facts usually has a calming effect on me. This is not keeping me calm.
When you add up the reactor fuel (560 tons) and the spent fuel (680 tons) you get a total of 1,240 tons. If Chernobyl was only 180 tons, Japan's disaster could be almost 7 times worse than Chernobyl.
When I was watching Rachel last night I was thinking I know of no other news source that could explain this in such an educated way. Rachel really is must see TV during this crisis.
She does not have "command of the pertinet facts" here. #4 reactor had all the rods covered with water. #3 which has plutonium and low water was the one that needed priority attention. #5 and #6 were off line at the time of the earthquake. The temperatures are rising, but slowly so far. They have electricity to #2 and are now spraying due to daylight, tonight they will work on the electrical hook ups again. There is a lot of misinformation and people making assumptions and then stating them as facts. Then the others don't do fact checking themselves and repeat it.
This is irresponsible reporting of the highest degree. We're apparently left to come to the conclusion that Anonymous at 3:00am came to. It might be nice of Rachel to mention that the Chernobyl plant had a combustible graphite core and no containment building. The plant in Fukushima has a completely different design. Even in the event of a full meltdown, it will not spew radioactive material into the open air as was the case at Chernobyl. So to compare the amount of radioactive material at the plants as if this tells us anything meaningful is nothing more than scare-mongering.
I say we rachet it back about 6 clicks and wait for the people on site (or maybe our people looking over their shoulder) to tell us what the actual circumstances are. At the point, having some nuclear background, I feel Rachel and her crew have done a yeoman's job of educating us all.
I for one do not want to lose sight of the Wisconsin thing. The Republicans are happier than heck that Japan happened and the folks in Haiti are saying aw crap!!
When you add up the reactor fuel (560 tons) and the spent fuel (680 tons) you get a total of 1,240 tons. If Chernobyl was only 180 tons, Japan's disaster could be almost 7 times worse than Chernobyl.
ReplyDeleteWe could all be royally fucked.
When I was watching Rachel last night I was thinking I know of no other news source that could explain this in such an educated way. Rachel really is must see TV during this crisis.
ReplyDeleteI saw this too. I must say it showed how heroic the workers in the plant are -- and it shows the stupid on the Right for wanting *less* regulation.
ReplyDeleteAnon 3:00, this will never be like Chernobyl since that was an operational reactor when it blew and had NO containment- big difference.
ReplyDeleteShe does not have "command of the pertinet facts" here. #4 reactor had all the rods covered with water. #3 which has plutonium and low water was the one that needed priority attention. #5 and #6 were off line at the time of the earthquake. The temperatures are rising, but slowly so far. They have electricity to #2 and are now spraying due to daylight, tonight they will work on the electrical hook ups again. There is a lot of misinformation and people making assumptions and then stating them as facts. Then the others don't do fact checking themselves and repeat it.
ReplyDeleteThis is irresponsible reporting of the highest degree. We're apparently left to come to the conclusion that Anonymous at 3:00am came to. It might be nice of Rachel to mention that the Chernobyl plant had a combustible graphite core and no containment building. The plant in Fukushima has a completely different design. Even in the event of a full meltdown, it will not spew radioactive material into the open air as was the case at Chernobyl. So to compare the amount of radioactive material at the plants as if this tells us anything meaningful is nothing more than scare-mongering.
ReplyDeleteI say we rachet it back about 6 clicks and wait for the people on site (or maybe our people looking over their shoulder) to tell us what the actual circumstances are. At the point, having some nuclear background, I feel Rachel and her crew have done a yeoman's job of educating us all.
ReplyDeleteI for one do not want to lose sight of the Wisconsin thing. The Republicans are happier than heck that Japan happened and the folks in Haiti are saying aw crap!!