Video of new explosion at Fukushima nuclear plant

[Joe234]

Riot police to deploy water cannon on Reactor 4

http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/...292406650.html


11 water cannon trucks were on their way to the site to focus their efforts on reactor No.3.

http://www.northcountrypublicradio.o...uclear-reactor

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[Joe234]

Helicopters drop water on reactors

[Bigblue1]

The billion dollar question is, why aren't they making these things concrete tombs yet?

[Joe234]

The billion dollar question is, why aren't they making these things concrete tombs yet?

You mean like the Chernobyl Sarcophagus?

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&s...&aqi=&aql=&oq=

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[justintempler]

The billion dollar question is, why aren't they making these things concrete tombs yet?

You can't just bury those things in concrete. Chernobyl's Sarcophagus was/is a disaster and is going to have to be replaced.

http://www.chernobyl-international.c...rcophagus.html

[sgreger1]

50 Japanese nuclear engineers are staying behind at the Fukushima Power Plant to try and prevent a nuclear meltdown. They are getting the same amount of radiation per hour that a nuclear engineer receives in his/her ENTIRE career. Heroes.

Still will take 10 years before they die, but it's basically a suicide mission.

[Bigblue1]

You can't just bury those things in concrete. Chernobyl's Sarcophagus was/is a disaster and is going to have to be replaced.

http://www.chernobyl-international.c...rcophagus.html

Interesting article. And I understand that it is not a permanent solution, but it did help for the last 25 years. Why they haven't done anything since is the 2 billion dollar question.....

[EricHill78]

Now it's 180 workers who are alternating according to Mr Anderson cooper

[Joe234]

You can't just bury those things in concrete. Chernobyl's Sarcophagus was/is a disaster and is going to have to be replaced.

http://www.chernobyl-international.c...rcophagus.html

Dr. Michio Kaku on Japan's Nuclear Crisis: We May Have To Bury it Like Chernobyl.

Dr. Michio Kaku : Call in Air Force. Hit it with Concrete, Sand and Boric Acid.

[Joe234]

Video of helicopters water-bombing nuclear reactor, close-up shots of Fukushima

[sgreger1]

The radiation isn't even that bad and the workers who are in there right now will go on to live happy lives. Some of them will have a pretty increased risk of cancer 10 or more years down the line, but that's it and even then it isn't for sure. This is not a suicide mission though (well, sort of though, they increase their risk of getting sick later on).


They aren't burrying it in concrete yet because the situation doens't call for it. There is no threat of it melting down like chernobyle and the amount of radiation it's leaking is minimal. It's enough to where you don't want to stand around it but not enough to kill everyone in the area or anything. The point is that it can still be salvaged. If they bury it in concrete than they admit defeat and they know that will spell doom for the nuclear industry.


Notice 1 thing, all of the real nuclear physicists are saying that this is like 3 mile island and not to worry. Then notice that the media then takes it to