On 21 March 2015 at 09:22, John Clark <[email protected]> wrote: > In Fri, Mar 20, 2015 at 'Chris de Morsella' via Everything List > > > Just in case anybody wanted to pretend that the Fukushima disaster is >> behind us; here is this piece of bad news, based on recent telemetry using >> muon detectors for imaging the reactor vessels. The core of reactor units 1 >> appears to have melted through both the reactor itself and the outer >> containment structure. This is also the likely situation for units 2 and 3 >> as well. A total meltdown is not a good scenario – and that is a huge >> understatement. > > > I disagree. Assuming the above is true, and it probably is, that would be > WONDERFUL news. In a water cooled reactor, the sort that is used everywhere > ( except for Chernobyl and other reactors in the former USSR which used > graphite) a core meltdown is as bad a disaster as it gets, and having the > fourth largest earthquake ever recorded right under the plant caused > billions of dollars of damage, but Fukushima killed NOBODY. So apparently > the worst that can happen to a water cooled nuclear power reactor is bad > but not all that bad. The death toll from the huge earthquake was 20,000, > but the death toll from Fukushima was zero. > > As far as we know. I've seen pictures of a radioactive plume of water spreading out from that area, which might mean the food chain is (slightly more...) contaminated. Personally I now get my tuna from Italy, in case that's safer ... (god knows if it is)
I doubt that any excess cancer deaths will reach 20,000, but who knows? ... Nobody, which is the problem. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
