japan

[Russ24]

... they new this?


i take back my thoughts about japan being clever nation.. thats just stupid.. we are one step closer the the world of fallout 3 that i dream of.


like balancing a hot cup of coffy on a table .. knwing it has a wobbly leg...


any one fancy a nuclear winter?



cheers twiss.. just knocked this up know.

[ScottieJ]

That's some interestingly bad information there I think this is going to change the whole worlds views on nuclear power, which although it comes off the back of a disaster like this is a good thing.

I really don't think jokes about this are acceptable either, its just too much of a disaster to joke about IMO so I will remove anything I feel is said in bad taste.

I remembered earlier that one of the girls I work with has a brother in Japan living in one of the towns that was hit by the tsunami, he has not long got out of hospital with a life threatening condition...............

And he flew out to Hong Kong the day before the earthquake how lucky is that

[Tramp]

He was Really lucky! I'll lay off the bad jokes...

making the most of a bad situation (and only trying to think positivly about this) I work at a coal fired power station, If they decide to cancel all the plans to build new nuclear means I should be in the job for a while longer

[dominic]

I just cant understand why on earth did the japanese government agree to build nuclear power stations on the east coast , so near a major fault line ???
Even i would of known that would be a bad idea.

Every time i see the news im shocked

[xiztrn]

Radiation from Japan's quake-stricken Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant has reached harmful levels, the government says.

The warning comes after the plant was rocked by a third blast which appears to have damaged one of the reactors' containment vessels for the first time.

It seems our worst fears may be coming true.

This is not good, and most certainly nothing to joke about.

[twiss]

Officials have referred to a possible crack in the suppression chamber of reactor 2 - a large doughnut-shaped structure below the reactor housing. That would allow steam, containing radioactive substances, to escape continuously.

This is the most likely source of the high radioactivity readings seen near the site. Another possible source is the fire in reactor 4 building - believed to have started when a pool storing old fuel rods dried up.

The readings at the site rose beyond safe limits - 400 millisieverts per hour (mSv/hr), when the average person's exposure is 3mSv in a year.

A key question is whether this is just a transient spike, which might be expected if number 2 is the source, or whether the high levels are sustained.

In the meantime, the key task for workers at the plant remains to get enough water into the reactors - and, now, into the spent fuel pools - with the poor resources at their disposal.

Not good! :(

[xiztrn]

Germany's Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle says that what we are witnessing in Japan is an "apocalypse".

Its now an apocalypse!

[twiss]

[xiztrn]

Not a laughing mater... but lol. Love the different shoes

[twiss]

The situation isn't a laughing matter, but the picture sort of is.

I think I have been very restrained as far as jokes are concerned...
In comparison to me regularly