Japan 8.9 earthquake

Sounds like the cooling systems have stopped. This doesn't look good.

Wow, 4 trains missing.

More footage:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/japan/8378631/Japan-earthquake-tens-of-thousands-missing-as-full-devastation-emerges.html

Thats one of the worst ones I have seen. Those things that weight 2 tons + look like rubber ducky's in the bath tub when were kids.

There was a second hydrogen explosion at the nuclear plant.

Yup, just read that. Chernobyl, here they come.

Originally posted by Rogue Jedi
Yup, just read that. Chernobyl, here they come.

It doesn't seem likely to get that bad. The only people still in the danger zone are working on the plant.

Do hope at least that other countries who use nuclear-plants (like the US) use this tragedy as a learning tool and fortify their own nuclear-plants to better deal with natural disasters. Cos that shit in Japan is ****ed, poor, poor bastards.

Originally posted by Robtard
Do hope at least that other countries who use nuclear-plants (like the US) use this tragedy as a learning tool and fortify their own nuclear-plants to better deal with natural disasters. Cos that shit in Japan is ****ed, poor, poor bastards.

how much do you want to bet nothing is done because the issue is just going to polarize into "nuclear will mutate your children"/"green power is for fops"

Inimalist, always the cynic.

Originally posted by inimalist
how much do you want to bet nothing is done because the issue is just going to polarize into "nuclear will mutate your children"/"green power is for fops"

I blame liberals and immigrants.

Originally posted by Robtard
I blame liberals and immigrants.

Originally posted by Robtard
Do hope at least that other countries who use nuclear-plants (like the US) use this tragedy as a learning tool and fortify their own nuclear-plants to better deal with natural disasters. Cos that shit in Japan is ****ed, poor, poor bastards.

QFT x 100 🙁

11:25am:

"Worrying news, this: The operators of the damaged Fukushima nuclear plant say it's possible that cooling water at one of the reactors has evaporated, Reuters reports. The company says it can't rule out the possibility that the nuclear fuel rods in Number 2 reactor were now exposed and could be at risk of meltdown."

11:31am:

"Amid heightened fears about the possibility of a nuclear melt-down at Fukushima, the grim relief effort continues apace. About 2,000 bodies have been found washed ashore on beaches in the Miyagi region in north-east Japan. A thousand were found on the Ojika peninsula and another 1,000 in the town of Minamisanriku, which was flattened by the tsunami. Tens of thousands are still unaccounted for. Many remote towns and villages remain cut off and have had no help since Friday's earthquake."

11:38am:

The New York Daily News is reporting that radioactive contamination has been found in 17 US Navy crewmembers off Japan.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-12307698

I wonder how this will effect the stock market.

Well to add to the bedlam a Volcano has started errupting again, theShinmoedake volcano in the Kirishima range decided to join the party on Sunday.

So they could get a Volcanoe dust cloud, laced with radioactive poison going over the country.

Originally posted by Deja~vu
I wonder how this will effect the stock market.

Down for Japanese companies. Up for people who make equipment that is likely to be used in rescue operations.

Apparently some French minister made a comment to the effect that the Japanese turmoil would somehow benefit the French economy.

Originally posted by RE: Blaxican
Inimalist, always the cynic.

within hours of the event, greenpeace was on AJE bashing nuclear power and there were articles being printed about how this was actually a victory for the safety of nuclear power

rational, even-headed discussion about major issues is not something I expect the political establishment to produce

Originally posted by inimalist
within hours of the event, greenpeace was on AJE bashing nuclear power and there were articles being printed about how this was actually a victory for the safety of nuclear power

rational, even-headed discussion about major issues is not something I expect the political establishment to produce

I think you should like those Greenpeace peeps know that a nuclear power-plant likely supplied the power to the Toyota factory that produced the Priusus (Priusi? What's the plural for Prius?) they drive around with airs of superiority.

Originally posted by inimalist
within hours of the event, greenpeace was on AJE bashing nuclear power and there were articles being printed about how this was actually a victory for the safety of nuclear power

rational, even-headed discussion about major issues is not something I expect the political establishment to produce

Yep in Germany they started protests and all that, now there´s a big review of the power stations, they might even shut the older ones down.

So many earthquakes in Germany then🙂