Japanese Earthquake - nuclear disaster

[LooPrEvil]

There has been an explosion this morning at the Fu-kushima Number 1 nuclear power plant. This is leading to fears of risk of radiation contamination / poisoning.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-pacific-12720219

Knowing that the area is subject to earthquakes why was the plant ever built, this was bound to happen.

Radiations levels had already gone up by 1000% after the earthquake, what will they now be after the explosion has occured?

 

[LooPrEvil]

I had to put a 'hyphen' in the towns name otherwise the forum system seems to see it as vulgarity and replaces it with asterisks!

 

[raebhoop]

There has been an explosion this morning at the Fu-kushima Number 1 nuclear power plant. This is leading to fears of risk of radiation contamination / poisoning.

Knowing that the area is subject to earthquakes why was the plant ever built, this was bound to happen.

Not just one..."Japan is an earthquake-prone archipelago, and lining its waterfront are 54 nuclear plants. It's been like a suicide bomber wearing grenades around his belt," said Katsuhiko Ishibashi, a professor emeritus at Kobe University.

 

[empip]

I had to put a 'hyphen' in the towns name otherwise the forum system seems to see it as vulgarity and replaces it with asterisks!

Fukushima Easy does it.

 

[Nige F]

There has been an explosion this morning at the Fu-kushima Number 1 nuclear power plant. This is leading to fears of risk of radiation contamination / poisoning.

Knowing that the area is subject to earthquakes why was the plant ever built, this was bound to happen.

Not just one..."archipelago, emeritus at Kobe University.

Couldn`t get that through spellchecker Why was it built - Commerce

 

[LooPrEvil]

I had to put a 'hyphen' in the towns name otherwise the forum system seems to see it as vulgarity and replaces it with asterisks!

Fukushima Easy does it.

yeah I know:

Fukushima !!

 

[ladylola]

why was the plant ever built,

Problem the Japannese have is their country isn't awash with oil and coal, nuclear was about the only option left open to give them anything like the energy they needed and not be wholly dependant on imports.

 

[LooPrEvil]

why was the plant ever built,

Problem the Japannese have is their country isn't awash with oil and coal, nuclear was about the only option left open to give them anything like the energy they needed and not be wholly dependant on imports.

Thanks - but there is talk now that oil prices may fall due to less demand from Japan.

 

[ladylola]

there is talk now that oil prices may fall due to less demand from Japan.

Looking at all the cars and vans bobbing around in that tsunami I'd be surprissed if there were many left around to drive and burn the oil,

 

[raebhoop]

why was the plant ever built,

Problem the Japannese have is their country isn't awash with oil and coal, nuclear was about the only option left open to give them anything like the energy they needed and not be wholly dependant on imports.

The main reason for them going to war against America 70 years ago...They desperately needed raw materials from outside their own territory.Especially when the Americans placed an embargo on oil supplies.

 

[ladylola]

Indeed yes there was an American embargo on oil to Japan which prompted their entry into WW2., but funniliy enough when they invaded Manchuria in 1931 America or the League of Nations (forerunner of the UN) didn't put any sanctions into place as the hope then was Japannese expansion would reflate their economy and thus help reflate the world economy which was in the period known as the great depression

 

[libby lou lou]

Think it's going to get worse, worse than what we are allowed to know.

No use causing panic.

 

[sooey]

No one knows better about the risks of tsunami's following earthquakes than the japanese. So why didn't they build their backup generators at high level.

 

[AndrewSchofield]

The BBC are quoting a Japanese engineer who helped design the reactor core containment vessels, a Mr Goto, who has said the containment vesells were built to withstand earthquakes or Tsunamis and the developer knew this at the time. Give the location of these nuclear plants, this can raise only one queston - "Why on Earth not?"

BBC reporting that fuel rods in reactor No. 2 are currently fully exposed, with no cooling, for the second time.

 

[JohnD]

have you missed a "not" or something out?