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Current Events => The DUmpster => Topic started by: GOBUCKS on March 11, 2011, 10:00:32 PM
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Javaman (1000+ posts) Fri Mar-11-11 06:25 PM
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Oh ****. Tokyo electric power company... Reuters just tweeted...
#Tokyo Electric Power Co. reporting they have lost control of pressure in No. 1 & 2 nuclear reactors with temps rising - Reuters
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=439x618278
somone (1000+ posts) Fri Mar-11-11 06:27 PM
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2. Very bad news if true
DUmmy somone is among that select group of DUmmies, like hippywife, who misspelled their own username when they registered at the DUmp.
JuniperLea (1000+ posts) Fri Mar-11-11 06:29 PM
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6. God help us...
I hope it doesn't get into the jetstream... we're all ****ed.
Sorry, DUmmy JuniperLea, if it were that bad, we would all have died decades ago after hundreds of atmospheric nuclear explosions. Worst case here will be a microscopic fraction of the radiation released in the 40s, 50s, and 60s nuclear testing.
JuniperLea (1000+ posts) Fri Mar-11-11 06:54 PM
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30. I have family in WA...
I was thinking the same thing.
Be safe... sounds hollow... damn... there really are no words for what I'm feeling right now. So much and so many at stake.
DUmmy JuniperLea knows all about nuclear reactors. She saw "China Syndrome", and had it explained by Jane Fonda.
elfin (1000+ posts) Fri Mar-11-11 06:33 PM
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8. Soooo - nuclear energy destroyed Hiroshima and Nagasaki--
-- and is now poised to have a calamitous effect on them AND the world??
DUmmies get all their information on nuclear power from "China Syndrome" and Saturday Night Live. I'm surprised no one has suggested sending Jimmy Carter to solve the problem. He got it done on SNL.
tekisui (1000+ posts) Fri Mar-11-11 06:38 PM
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16. Gulf Oil leak last year, potential nuclear fallout this year. Let's go clean!
Aside from democrat propaganda, no problem from either incident so far.
PhillySane (713 posts) Fri Mar-11-11 07:46 PM
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38. We protested the shit out of nuclear in the 70's
Now you know why. Three Mile Island was no joke,
The TMI "disaster" resulted in zero injuries or deaths. It was a disaster only in that it gave democrats propaganda ammunition to prevent more development of inexhaustible nuclear power.
For anyone who was wondering whatever happened to the Las Vegas Lardass, here he is! That heroic heart, laboring mightily to provide sustenance to over a quarter-ton of blubber, has apparently not exploded quite yet:
Systematic Chaos (1000+ posts) Fri Mar-11-11 06:45 PM
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22. Yanno...SERIOUSLY!
Modern nuclear power plants are built to withstand a lot.
It's a given that even they won't be able to whistle on through an almost 9.0 ****ing earthquake without bad things happening.
But I must ask: Where is all the ****ing outrage as fossil fuel refinery after fossil fuel refinery literally explodes, and releases millions of tons of radioactive soot into the air?
Good luck convincing me that the death toll from the refinery explosions won't be many times higher than whatever radioactivity gets released from the nuclear plants.
Misguided hysteria much, people?
What's he talking about? I have no idea whatever, and I'm sure he doesn't either. What we do know is that he's back to making moonbat posts, and has deserted the fat forum at his scam doctor's site since January. That's pretty sound evidence that the Las Vegas Leviathan is back north of five large, and gaining. Coach thought he was on the verge of gainful employment, but that's now officially a pipe dream.
Systematic Chaos (1000+ posts) Fri Mar-11-11 07:03 PM
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33. Pollution Causes 40 Percent Of Deaths Worldwide, Study Finds
Chernobyl is a walk in the park compared to how many millions die from mostly fossil fuel-based air pollution every year.
And while we're at it, care to tell me how many reactors using the Chernobyl design are operating today?
The Chernobyl disaster was all but a guarantee. Today's reactor designs are orders of magnitude safer. Capiche?
I think that if I were on the husky side of 500 freaking pounds, I would not see pollution as the main hazard to my health.
Javaman (1000+ posts) Fri Mar-11-11 06:52 PM
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29. time and place. now is neither the time nor place.
Systematic Chaos (1000+ posts) Fri Mar-11-11 06:55 PM
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32. With all due respect, it certainly is the time and place.
The death rates from fossil fuel pollution have been posted in Environment/Energy more times than I can count.
Until people are every bit as outraged by all those exploding refineries as they are about all this "what if" and "maybe" total ****ing bullshit about the reactors, then I simply will not sit idly by and not challenge it.
Think what you want of me. I'm honestly not trying to be an asshole here. I just think that this discussion needs representation by more than one side.
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I seriously want to barf. Seriously. The apathetic cowardly crap has just gotten to me I suppose. Sh!t or get off the pot for the love of God! These people who are suffering, who have lost their homes, their families, their town do not need you to just sit and type on the frickin pc about your damn vibes and your "supreme knowledge about all things nuclear." God Bless! I loathe these armchair quarterbacks. I. really. friggin. do.
The self absorbence is absolutely sickening.
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DUmmies--I've forgotten more about nuclear power than you'll ever know.
Call me out, I'm begging you please.
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DUmmies--I've forgotten more about nuclear power than you'll ever know.
Call me out, I'm begging you please.
Sparky, I'VE forgotten more about nuclear power than all the DUmmie will ever know, and I milked cows and drove a truck for most of my life.
I didn't see "China Syndrone", but I have drove by Three Mile Island.
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Sparky, I'VE forgotten more about nuclear power than all the DUmmie will ever know, and I milked cows and drove a truck for most of my life.
I didn't see "China Syndrone", but I have drove by Three Mile Island.
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My BIL went up to help shut down TMI and says there never was any "great" danger...just some concern.
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LVL does have a somewhat valid point here. The likelihood of a full meltdown at that plant is still very low regardless of the nitrogen explosion. An overheating event will cause a shutdown with only some venting of radioactive material. The radioactive material released would be similar in amount to the amount released by a coal fired plant over a two week period. It's a concern, but not a long term life threatening event.
If LVL wants a DOTY, he's going to have to start trying much harder.
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Sparky, I'VE forgotten more about nuclear power than all the DUmmie will ever know, and I milked cows and drove a truck for most of my life.
I didn't see "China Syndrone", but I have drove by Three Mile Island.
HA!
I drive by a Holiday Inn Express twice a day. So that qualifies me to know more than the DUmmies about....well just about anything. :fuelfire:
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I see all these treehuggin' hippies talking about "going green" ....
My question is why don't they.
If they were so keen on green energy then surely they'd have installed a solar array and a wind turbine ,then gone off the grid, right ?
Oh wait - "green" energy is totally uneconomical and unreliable in addition to being unaffordable.
They advocate the same systems be used on a nationwide scale that they wisely avoid on a individual scale knowing that it's a pipedream.
Morons.
Utter Morons.
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For anyone who was wondering whatever happened to the Las Vegas Lardass, here he is! That heroic heart, laboring mightily to provide sustenance to over a quarter-ton of blubber, has apparently not exploded quite yet:
What's he talking about? I have no idea whatever, and I'm sure he doesn't either. What we do know is that he's back to making moonbat posts, and has deserted the fat forum at his scam doctor's site since January. That's pretty sound evidence that the Las Vegas Leviathan is back north of five large, and gaining. Coach thought he was on the verge of gainful employment, but that's now officially a pipe dream.
I think that if I were on the husky side of 500 freaking pounds, I would not see pollution as the main hazard to my health.
Thanks for the update, sir; I haven't seen him myself, and as we all know, since we're decent and civilized people, we like to know how the gigantic primitive's doing in his quest to lose weight.
Especially since we're paying for him riding the disability gravy train, first-class tickets, and a suite.
Since the gigantic primitive hasn't posted lately, it's reasonable to assume he hasn't been losing any weight, and perhaps has added some on.
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Systematic Chaos (1000+ posts) Fri Mar-11-11 06:45 PM
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22. Yanno...SERIOUSLY!
Modern nuclear power plants are built to withstand a lot.
It's a given that even they won't be able to whistle on through an almost 9.0 ****ing earthquake without bad things happening.
But I must ask: Where is all the ****ing outrage as fossil fuel refinery after fossil fuel refinery literally explodes, and releases millions of tons of radioactive soot into the air?
fossil fuel soot is radioactive?
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fossil fuel soot is radioactive?
Haven't you noticed?
When you put a match to it, it glows in the dark.. :-) :rotf:
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I'm sure that Systematic Chaos is well experienced in taking raw materials and turning them into radioactive waste.(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v11/tucker13/emoticons/e31c1d7b.gif)
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fossil fuel soot is radioactive?
Yes. There are radioactive isotopes in fossil fuel. Coal is the worst, and there is currently no filtration of these isotopes so as LVL states, there is some radioactive output from a coal fired plant.
It's the same as lead and other heavy metals having some traces of radioactivity in them.
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Yes. There are radioactive isotopes in fossil fuel. Coal is the worst, and there is currently no filtration of these isotopes so as LVL states, there is some radioactive output from a coal fired plant.
It's the same as lead and other heavy metals having some traces of radioactivity in them.
Yes, but the Las Vegas Lardass makes it sound as if all fossil fuels are heavily irradiated before being consumed, so as to spread radiation all over the Earth.
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Heavy metals tend to concentrate in fat tissue, so I guess that's why the LVL is so passionate. Most of the LVL IS fat tissue.