BREAKING NEWS: NUCLEAR ACCIDENT JUST UPGRADED TO LEVEL 6, out of 7.

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Is everyone still alive today?
Got to hand it to the media, they can turn 80% of you lot into breakdown drama queens.
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+1 here. People watch too many Hollywood disaster movies and add the panic inducing news to the mix, then confuse reality with fiction and people start talking about "evacuating Japan". Although I do agree that TEPCO and the Japanese nuclear safety agency should be seriously grilled over this, there were serious lapses in oversight and safety procedures.
 
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I Posted this yesterday morning

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My father was a nuclear technician on a Soviet Submarine, Real Facts for Japanese Reactors.

Breach of containment has definitely happened as you can see from recent sat photo. Notice the white smoke this is a 100% sign that Cesium and others are escaping and have already escaped in mega numbers

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My father says that Japanese government has only one card they play. Because Winds are taking the radiation into pacific toward Hawaii Japanese can say there is no radiation.

The Fact is if winds were taking radiation westward entire Japan would already be irradiated and Authorities wouldn't be able to lie

My father guarantees that you will be able to see higher radiation in Hawaii a week from now and even higher than normal radiation on West coast of United States
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and where the F##k do these guys come out from, registered 2 days after the earthquake, "My father was a nuclear technician" posts like mad for 3 days, then poof!
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Here is a video that shows you the size (height) of the wave that came in. Did this inundate the reactor complex to the same extent? Yikes. No wonder we're talking about possible containment damage. That was an immense mass of water.

Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xOfy1CoxrMo
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A cubic foot of water weighs 62 pounds... 5' x 5' x5' cube of water is nearly 10,000 pounds, it bulldozes things pretty well...
 
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Here is a video that shows you the size (height) of the wave that came in. Did this inundate the reactor complex to the same extent? Yikes. No wonder we're talking about possible containment damage. That was an immense mass of water.

Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xOfy1CoxrMo
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TEPCO reported that the tsunami at Fukushima Daiichi was 14m in height.

From reports I have read, the design requirements for the plant were to withstand a tsunami of 5.7m. Presumably this was approved by the regulator. There will be lots of questions to be answered and one of them must be - why was the maximum likely tsunami so badly underestimated?
 
Quote from dcraig:

TEPCO reported that the tsunami at Fukushima Daiichi was 14m in height.

From reports I have read, the design requirements for the plant were to withstand a tsunami of 5.7m. Presumably this was approved by the regulator. There will be lots of questions to be answered and one of them must be - why was the maximum likely tsunami so badly underestimated?
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I suspect that magnitude 9 for multiple minutes translates into a huge motion in the sea floor which is what generates the wave pulse. I'm guessing that no-one expected it.

Kind of like whatever brings this market rise to a halt - obvious only in hindsight.
 
Cost per kilowatt hour of electricity. Source MIT:

Nuclear: $0.08

Coal: $0.06

Gas: $0.07

Projected $/megawatt hour of electricity in 2016

Conventional natural Gas: $75

Conventional Coal: $105

Wind: $102

Nuclear $125

Clean coal: $145

Solar PV: $210

Myth 1: Nuclear power is a cheap alternative to fossil fuels.

Fact 1: Nuclear energy is a very costly business.

Myth 2: The main issue surrounding Nuclear power is safety.

Fact 2: The cost is the main issue.

Bloomberg Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fD40J45zjIM
 
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