Japan Earthquake/Tsunami

Im not one to jump on the fox news hate. All news stations are biased and not 100% truthful.

That being said, i heard them saying how obama was working on his NCAA picks and how thats bad and oh my god what a horrible mean guy.

I hate how people are expecting everyone to be thinking about japan 100% of the time. He took 30 minutes to go on ESPN and say his picks...what a horrible guy.

In Fox's defense, they're not doing anything but spinning a crisis into political commentary like any other cable news station in the country.

Meanwhile, they praise Bush for not making the children panic after a couple of planes ran into some of our most important buildings, including what amounts to Central goddamn Command for the Military.

Im not really sure what your point is there....

Shouldnt our el presidente be more concerned.... What exactly did he do during the oil leak/spill? Wasnt he on some sort of vacation at that time as well? Obama could really use some good PR right now.


Hey even Putin got into a helicopter and was putting out two wildfires with it in Russia. Yes, he flew it himself.

Just pointing out that it's not what you know, it's who you blow. It's like console Fanbois, they'll ride their pick down the toilet and take everyone and everything with them they can grab on to. It's all childish clubs, nothing else.

OMFG these local news programs are just making this so called "impending radioactive cloud" that is supposed to reach So Cal a major catastophre....

Should we go outside, will this harm our computer programs, is it gonna harm our elderly, cancer patients.....

and will the rain make the "cloud" worse?

Should we be wearing gas masks?

ROFL this is what is being broadcasted on the local news here in Los Angeles......

This from a people who prolly run 2-3 max wattage microwaves daily, go thru screening at LAX, sit in front of their pc's for hr on end all while monitoring their pacemaker....

Gimme a freakin break already

fairness doctrine wru

I believe he had training in the Red Army way before now...I mean I'm sure hhe flew helicopters as part of his training.

I especially like Glenn Beck saying the coverage of the crisis and Obama's inaction is a conspiracy by George Soros to increase resistance to nuclear power.

But it's not just Fox guys. I picked on them because it was the first that sprung to mind. MSNBC has been using the crisis to take swipes at Republicans for days as well.

Putin was an ex-KGB agent, speaks fluent German and also knows some Sambo. Not sure as to what else he can do.

Hehe, I know, just searched for term and wasn't sure which one to use xD
So "contamination meter" seemed more universal to me xD
Source: http://dict.leo.org/?lp=ende&from=fx3&search=geigerz%C3%A4hler

What Can't Putin do? He's a certified hardass.



Ah, they've upgraded it to "Radioactive" cloud. This morning it was a "Nook-u-ler" cloud.

Probably didn't occur to any of them that we essentially live in a radioactive cloud known as background.

Evacutation route....

I saw the lead ins for both of them, so I get what you're saying. I didn't hear the actual segment.

As far as Neil and Hannity go, I don't watch them. I barely pay attention to anything after Fox & Friends.

Fox blaming Obama for this?!
/shocked

lol

So im watching ABC news atm and they make it look on the verge of a nuclear disaster, and that US is ready to the rescue of the "fail" JP.
Folks on here said that the situation is under control>

Even Glenn beck in the link posted above basically played down the whole incident(except the conspiracy theory lol).

Also reports on the BBC werent that much dramatic.

Now, is ABC News a reliable source at all?

P.S. also trying to create alarmism on USA, not actually saying anything but kind of implying that radiation could come to US

Unfortunately in events like this, you see all the news people jump in and try and tell the "real" story which in turn makes them sound like complete idiots. :/ If you don't know what your talking about, you shouldn't open your mouth about it.

People are stupid, and because they are stupid they believe everything they hear, even if its the farthest thing from the truth :|

Edit: This forum is lucky to have as much accurate information as it does. Between Cata, Dasva and Jaerik, we get a better idea of what we're really seeing. ^^ So thanks to you guys.

Yeah but there is rather specific criteria for those codes. 5 is debatable but 6 is kinda pushing it. Even 5 says several deaths.



Gen 4 are decently farther away than that. Even the closest one. Right now they are kinda in theory/planning stage for most.

Also they aren't upgrades really. All the designs are well radically different than gen 2. Some pretty cool stuff but jesus it's kinda crazy the things they are coming up with. Coolants ranging from molten salt to gas to liquid metal to super critical water. Much much higher operating temps to name a few things. So basically pretty much just rebuild or build new plants not upgrade lol

The International Atomic Energy Agency has confirmed the reports from TEPCO and the Japanese government, with a senior official saying the situation appears to be "relatively stable."

Similarly, surveillance flights by US scientific planes have confirmed that the radiation does not appear to have extended beyond the 20km exclusion zone that was originally evacuated.

Aerial photographs of the spent fuel rods in reactor four indicates that contrary to worst case scenarios feared, the water has not boiled off and the rods were not exposed.

Meanwhile, power has been reconnected to reactor #2 via a newly completed power line. It will take upwards of 15 hours to hook it up to the remaining reactors, and in the mean time, efforts to keep the reactors cool with water cannons will continue.

Radiation levels right next to the reactor itself are on the order of 100-400 milli Sievert, and outside at the main gate, it's about 6 micro Sievert.

Glad things are improving, and they will drastically improve once power is re-established , though i hope they've verified that the water works to the cooling units are "ok".

Great update Jaerik. Very reassuring and a bit calming for the worriers. Sounds like its starting to go their way.

If I understand right, the pumps operated on battery power for hours after the tsunami took out the generators, so everything should be mostly intact.

I think things are looking way up. Hopefully Japan can focus purely on recovery instead of worrying about the reactors (as much) now.

That's awesome