Absolutely! I'm a former Marine Mustang. (Enlisted then went Officer later after College.) I was in Okinawa for six months, and enjoyed it there. Now the locals didn't particularly care for the Corps back then as there were some "issues" on the Island that the locals held grudges over. None the less, mostly good people there.
BREAKING NEWS: NUCLEAR ACCIDENT JUST UPGRADED TO LEVEL 6, out of 7.
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Absolutely! I'm a former Marine Mustang. (Enlisted then went Officer later after College.) I was in Okinawa for six months, and enjoyed it there. Now the locals didn't particularly care for the Corps back then as there were some "issues" on the Island that the locals held grudges over. None the less, mostly good people there.
These 50 workers also remind me of the 9/11 first responders. They ran into that building knowing they would not be coming out. Truly remarkable people.
Yes, truly remarkable people! There are good people in the World. They really shine during times of desperation, and are Heros in every way.
I was flipping through the channels and passing by msnbc I read a news clip that stated some plant workers at fukushima are starting to become ill. (No, I don't like msnbc. Just caught my eye as I was flipping.) I will be praying for the Heros walking into a plant that they pretty much know is going to either kill them now, or shortly thereafter so that others may live...
Not the same.
In the military you have people who are unemployable or just plain adrenaline junkies. I'm talking more so about the lower levels. In the military you often ordered to take risks simply because the commanders are uninformed or simply don't care about losses (+civilian casualties). Also, often fighting for the wrong cause simply because you have to.
In this case, the reactor engineers and electricians - they are fighting for the right cause and truly trying to save people and the environment. They deserve admiration.
I thought those men came back out unsuccessful.....did they go back in?
The IAEA has released information about the temperature of the water in the spent fuel storage pools inside reactors 4, 5 and 6 at Fukushima Daiichi.
Spent fuel that has been removed from a nuclear reactor generates intense heat and the water is usually kept below 25C. The IAEA says that the temperature of the pool at reactor 4 was 84C on Tuesday morning.
On Wednesday morning, it was 62.7C at reactor 5 and 60C at reactor 6.
Current reports say the pools at both reactors 3 and 4 are boiling. Reactor 4's pool may even be dry.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-12307698
Spent fuel that has been removed from a nuclear reactor generates intense heat and the water is usually kept below 25C. The IAEA says that the temperature of the pool at reactor 4 was 84C on Tuesday morning.
On Wednesday morning, it was 62.7C at reactor 5 and 60C at reactor 6.
Current reports say the pools at both reactors 3 and 4 are boiling. Reactor 4's pool may even be dry.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-12307698
The wiki page has a nice summary of the situation (based on reported data, no doubt) :
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fukushima_I_nuclear_accidents#Reactor_status_summary
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fukushima_I_nuclear_accidents#Reactor_status_summary
Wonder what happened to the radiation from the 100 nuclear bombs dropped in tests over the USA in the 1950's ? Seems to me stocks surged during this time. It's all perception
In a previous post, I posted......
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Reactors contain years worth of uranium fuel. Nuclear bombs contain a lot of nuclear fuel too but it's almost entirely consumed in producing the explosion, bomb fallout is actually stuff like bomb casing material and dirt and building debris that is irradiated by the gamma wave blast. It's pretty radiaoactive for a while but is gone after a few months. A nuclear reactor meltdown wouldn't consume the nuclear fuel, so the area around it would be poisoned for centuries by a large amount of long half-life radioactive material.
Hope this helps."