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

But how does the water look when it comes out? does it all get turned into steam? and if so, is the steam radioactive and where does it go?

I guess the problem with putting one 100m under the ground is, in the event of an earthquake, or tsunami, how do you get to it to fix it if the area becomes impassable to get down to it? And if it does leak out into the rock around it, how does this impact the local eco system? At least wit5h it being on the deck level you can get to it, as hazardous as that might sound to try to recover the situation.
 
Energize said:
It's not as if people are going to be going back to school just after half the country has been destroyed in a tsunami.
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Why not? They have to get back to normal as soon as possible, those that lost their homes and families are probably jobless anyway (and they obviously have other problems now). On the other hand, Tokyo has to recover fairly quickly so the economy of the country doesn't suffer too much.

One day off is reasonable though, without the constant electricity supply and the overall rescue efforts on the coast, with damage assessment in the city and people moving around the country, it may indeed be hard to get back to normal within the next couple of days.
 
Its gonna be weeks before even Tokyo returns to anything resembling normality - entire towns, communities, supply/trade lines, infrastructure has been obliterated or disrupted.
 
A lot of people were trying to get into work, a lot of people did go to work.

Did people in London not go to work when huge parts of the country were flooding and people were dying? Much of Japan is worried but ultimately not hugely effected, I don't mean not effected as in, electricity going out, production in manufacturing plants stopping, lots will grind to a halt. But people are working in supermarkets, doctors, nurses, power plant teams, rescue teams, they are all "at work". I've seen quite a few interviews with people talking about how long it took to get to work, but they still made it.

Frankly people at work with something to do will panic less and think about potential disasters less. Its one of those things, not every single last person can just sit and watch the news all day long, life goes on, after every tragedy life has gone on, painfully quickly.
 
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A senior nuclear industry executive has told the New York Times that Japanese nuclear power industry managers are "basically in a full-scale panic". The executive is not involved in managing the response to the reactors' difficulties but has many contacts in Japan. "They're in total disarray, they don't know what to do," the executive added.
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20:07: Steve Nagata in Tokyo tweets: "The quake just now felt more like a sudden jerk. Was that because the epicenter was in Tokyo bay? Very unsettling. Closest quake so far"

20:06: Lee Chapman tweets: "That was a big quake. I thought these aftershocks were supposed to be getting smaller..."
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5UB said:
A senior nuclear industry executive has told the New York Times that Japanese nuclear power industry managers are "basically in a full-scale panic". The executive is not involved in managing the response to the reactors' difficulties but has many contacts in Japan. "They're in total disarray, they don't know what to do," the executive added.
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I doubt a "senior nuclear industry executive" would say such a think - if he did he's in the wrong job.
 
Ricochet J said:
I doubt a "senior nuclear industry executive" would say such a think - if he did he's in the wrong job.
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There were two experts on BBC News a couple of hours ago, one in the studio was comparing the current situation to Chernobyl and said that a large explosion is possible, adding fuel to BBC's sensationalist approach (although the presenters were asking some good questions).

The other claimed that the biggest problem for Japan atm is lack of electricity.
 
drunkenmaster said:
Did people in London not go to work when huge parts of the country were flooding and people were dying?
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You say that as though it is even remotely comparable to the effect of a magnitude 9 earthquake and 10m tsunami. When we had a bit of flooding it did not cause a state of emergency with nuclear plants melting down, loss of power and tens of thousands dead.
 
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