Emergency at Onagawa nuclear plant, radiation 700 times over normal
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Uploaded by RussiaToday on Mar 13, 2011
Follow latest updates at http://twitter.com/rt_com and http://www.facebook.com/RTnews Japan has declared an emergency alert at another nuclear power plant in the north-east of the country. Radiation levels of about 700 times higher than normal have reportedly been detected at the facility in Onagawa. Authorities are currently investigating their source. For more opinion on the threat of a nuclear crisis in Japan, RT talks to Harvey Wasserman, who's written on the subject of a sustainable green-powered Earth.
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There are 23 working nuclear generators of the same type in the US. How scary is that? Some of them without backup power to keep the reactors cool should they lose their main power. Do you really think you're safe?
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The information is readily available, all you have to do is look for it.
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@Son37Lumiere well, how do you know what your saying.... are u a nuclear engineer?
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Storage is a real problem for spent rods. Like I said, exhaust from from coal plants (at least in the US) is captured and contained. You cannot compare minute radiation leakage under normal operating conditions and then write off situations like this, Chernobyl and Three Mile Island that release millions of times the amount of radiation.
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Nuclear reactors rely on coolant, usually in the form of water. This coolant becomes highly radioactive as does the plant itself. Obviously they are designed to contain the radiation, however in situations like this that radiation leaks in massive quantities. The vast majority of spent nuclear fuel is not recycled and is stored on the premises of the plant. This fuel has a half life of many thousands of years and breaks down containment after only a few decades.
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@Son37Lumiere nuke plants release .03 mrads/ year, and coal releases .6 mrads/year
europe recycles their spent rods too
the coal contains some uranium, whereas almost all the gamma radiation in a reactor is contained
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And now they are planning to re-start this plant!!!
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@watkiada Japan is a lot bigger than California. And for the record there is a reactor in San Clemente that is built right on top of the San Andreas fault. The population of that area: 7 million. The Fukushima plant is not in an area with a population that large.
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@genoark
I'm judging you based on your dullwitted comments. You actually think God created the death and destruction in Japan to make them 'humble' and grovel to Jesus? A wrathful god is no God of mine.
Son37Lumiere 11 months ago 5
@WisenedGnome what do you mean IF it explodes???
Didn't see that mushroom?
Where d'you think they store the waste???
right ................
in the building that went up.
people are really calm about this....
just wait a couple of days....
seaofbeer13 11 months ago