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  • tsunami warning @ Fukushima
  • Klunk
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    http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-38059371 Haven’t finished clearing up after the last one 😯

    wwaswas
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    Live feed here http://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/live/ You can see all the ships leaving port and heading for deeper water.

    jambalaya
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    scotroutes
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    3 metres projected

    wwaswas
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    They just showed a clip of the nuclear plant during the quake. Bloody hell.

    seosamh77
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    just heard them say already passes the time it was expected to hit. so fingers crossed.

    wwaswas
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    Saying 60cm so far on the live feed. Certainly lots of water moving when it was still before.

    legend
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    They also just said they’re expecting the biggest waves are still to come (morbidly fascinating stuff)

    wwaswas
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    Waters all gone – not looking good.

    theotherjonv
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    waters flowing back in now..

    nonk
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    Why don’t they know when it will hit ?
    To many variables?

    Klunk
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    flowing back out again now 😕

    theotherjonv
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    commentary was saying they are observing it offshore but they can’t predict height as it increases once it hits shore

    Ming the Merciless
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    Water cooling system has stopped at Fukushima plant !

    onandon
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    Yep. 2455 rods now not being cooled

    bigjim
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    Nuclear is perfectly safe…

    seosamh77
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    water in the pool is sufficient to keep the rods cool, for now.

    mikewsmith
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    bigjim – Member
    Nuclear is perfectly safe…

    It is, building plants on an exposed coastline that is susceptible to seismic activity is not. Remember the facts of what happened last time
    http://www.livescience.com/39110-japan-2011-earthquake-tsunami-facts.html

    tjagain
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    No it isn’t MIke – it may be relatively safe ( I disagree) but it is not perfectly safe as we can all see. Windscale, 3 miles island, chernobyl. Fukoshima

    Greybeard
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    It’s building anything on an exposed coastline that’s dangerous. The last time 16000 people died from the tsunami directly, and none from the nuclear station (evacuation did more harm to some than leaving them would have). So they closed the nuclear stations until they’d built 20m walls – but people kept on living in the towns, unprotected.

    sweepy
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    I can’t understand why people are still driving both ways on that road on the live feed, they cant all be running away

    mikewsmith
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    Windscale was a rushed 1940’s military project to get the bomb, using bleeding edge tech copied/borrowed from the US as they pulled cooperation. It has no resemblance to the current (or last 40 odd years of nuclear tech)
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_Mile_Island_accident
    For such a major diaster the impacts were probably less than living next door to a coal fired power station.
    Chernobyl – Again a massively outdated design with inherent flaws and process that do not exist in the modern world.

    But what about Chernobyl ?
    The World Health Organization study in 2005 indicated that 50 people died to that point as a direct result of Chernobyl. 4000 people may eventually die earlier as a result of Chernobyl, but those deaths would be more than 20 years after the fact and the cause and effect becomes more tenuous.

    He explains that there have been 4000 cases of thyroid cancer, mainly in children, but that except for nine deaths, all of them have recovered. “Otherwise, the team of international experts found no evidence for any increases in the incidence of leukemia and cancer among affected residents.”
    Fukoshima – still in the scale of destruction of the area a minor impact or blip.

    As for my comment I was quoting bigjim’s obviously sarcastic line about “perfectly safe” as for relatively safe coal kills 161 people per TWh Nuclear 0.04. There will be updates post all of this again but the figures will still be exceptionally low

    mikey74
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    It’s building anything on an exposed coastline that’s dangerous.

    It’s not just coastlines: Flood plains are pretty bad places to build as well. The UK is as bad as anyone for that.

    jivehoneyjive
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    There will be updates post all of this again but the figures will still be exceptionally low

    Is wide scale water contamination factored in? How long term are the effects?

    mikewsmith
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    Is wide scale water contamination factored in? How long term are the effects?

    Yes, go take a read and see if you can get it up to 1 person per TWh if you want another nuclear thread then start one but remember to bring facts.

    jivehoneyjive
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    What’s the half life of a TWh?

    mikewsmith
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    It doesn’t have one it’s a unit of energy terra watt hour. Like your kwh on your electric metre

    ninfan
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    Windscale, 3 miles island, chernobyl. Fukoshima

    Like the man said:

    [video]https://youtube.com/watch?v=ob1rYlCpOnM[/video]

    mikewsmith
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