Earthquake in Japan....9.0...ouch!

I'm wondering if China have been weighing up an invasion whilst Japan are at their weakest. If you think Pearl harbor was bad then you might not realise just how badly the Chinese fared under Japanese occupation. They haven't forgotten and I don't think they have forgiven - and with the powers so stretched with Afghan, Libya, Haiti. And ivory coast who could stop them?
 
Well this is very hot news:

1106: The BBC's Shelagh Fogarty tweets: "Stopped off at a Tokyo watering hole. It's practically empty but determined to find people to talk to."
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Could be that people are in the middle of a huge disaster and have better things to do. ;)
 
When they say exposed, I assume they mean the water levels have dropped to such a level that they are no longer cooling the fuel rods?

The media make it sound like the core has been breached and is exposed to the outside environment.
 
The Running Man said:
I'm wondering if China have been weighing up an invasion whilst Japan are at their weakest. If you think Pearl harbor was bad then you might not realise just how badly the Chinese fared under Japanese occupation. They haven't forgotten and I don't think they have forgiven - and with the powers so stretched with Afghan, Libya, Haiti. And ivory coast who could stop them?
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It wouldn't be a good idea for China to invade the 3rd largest economy. Too much to lose financially.
 
simulatorman said:
I’ve just got sick and tired of listening to all the experts being wheeled in to tell us about the reactors. I would have thought the whole country could recite what they've all been saying. I nearly threw a book at the telly when some fool told us it wasn’t a mushroom cloud.

They are very blasé about the whole situation. What seems to have been forgotten is the scale of the disaster and what is being done to rescue and recover the situation. This is what the news is and sadly we are lacking it.
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Explosions at nuclear plants and talk of nuclear reactors get people interested(/hard) so they stay tuned for the info. Then they can throw in the odd lovely story about a guy being rescued 15km out at sea or information about the rescue operation.
 
PhillyDee said:
Fuel is removed and replaced periodically anyway, so the fuel that is used up would have been sent to reprocessing.
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Didn't Japan previously ship its spent fuel rods to Sellafield for reprocessing. Anyone know if that is still the case? Didn't BNFL screw up royally on one order? falsifying records or something?
 
Saw another 2000 bodies found near the coast at Miyagi..

Been watching most of news channels, sky and beeb but also cctv and cnn which have been quite good for coverage.
 
VaderDSL said:
When they say exposed, I assume they mean the water levels have dropped to such a level that they are no longer cooling the fuel rods?

The media make it sound like the core has been breached and is exposed to the outside environment.
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Well leaving them exposed for a while certainly won't lead to good things :)
 
simulatorman said:
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Dear God :( . Used to seeing cars on top of cars after these kind of events but to see a building on top of another building just puts things in perspective.

Personally I think their estimates or c.10,000 dead is going to fall way short.
 
-BA- said:
Dear God :( . Used to seeing cars on top of cars after these kind of events but to see a building on top of another building just puts things in perspective.

Personally I think their estimates or c.10,000 dead is going to fall way short.
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It honestly wouldn't surprise me if the death toll hits at least 30,000.
 
The Running Man said:
I'm wondering if China have been weighing up an invasion whilst Japan are at their weakest. If you think Pearl harbor was bad then you might not realise just how badly the Chinese fared under Japanese occupation. They haven't forgotten and I don't think they have forgiven - and with the powers so stretched with Afghan, Libya, Haiti. And ivory coast who could stop them?
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Too much US millitary in Japan. They'd be worried about getting nuked as well.
 
Khaaan! said:
I wouldn't want to be in a chopper flying over an exposed reactor, remember the video from chernobyl?
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Wasn't that just bad flying? Didn't it fly into the crane?

EDIT: Seems I'm totally wrong.

A radiation cloud caused the pilot to faint as he flew directly over the reactor. All the men in the helicopter were experienced war pilots, and would NEVER have made such an error under different circumstances.
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For those who want to see the video, here it is. I shall link, not embed.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q2QWSAn4zjI
 
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