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Message started by ente per ente on Mar 15^th, 2011, 5:35am

Title: Disaster...
Post by ente per ente on Mar 15^th, 2011, 5:35am

I think that everyone around knows about what's happening after the terrible earthquake and tsunami in the Pacific...

What had occurred in Japan is really terrible, worse than 1923 earthquake, undoubtedly in a way...but I think the Japanese people will find the way to work it out, they always do...so I hope!!!
For sure, given modern technologies, there is not much you can do against a tsunami, that is waves of such proportions against the coast, unfortunately...

By chance, all the people I know in Japan (panpals, friends and their families) are fine now, as they live in the south of the country or in Hokkaido...as far as I know...
But I just can't imagine the worst case if the nuclear plants can't be stopped, it is an unprecedented situation...that would be the worst nuclear event in history and that would affect an area much wider than expected, I mean not in Japan only but all over the world cause of the winds and the ocean streams...I mean, not only Asia or Russia, but also the southern part of the Pacific area and the West Coast...
I hope all the tecnicians at work understand how important their task is...
Maybe an extreme solution- as it happened in Chernobyl, that was stopped thanks to some heroes, not to the local authorities... - should be taken into consideration, that is groups of some fire fighters/expert technicians working on the site and afterwards the construction- who knows..- of a lead sarcophagus to prevent further escape of radiation....I mean, Chernobyl (which was anyway an older kind of plant and no so efficient...) was stopped thanks to the sacrifice of the men who made everything possible to intervene inside the nuclear plant, not to a miracle...
Just one thing...if such an earthquake had happened in Italy, or in most countries in southern Europe, no single building would have survived...And I just can't figure out what could have happened here if we had gone on building new nuclear plants...as recently only a Richter 6 eartquake almost completely destroyed a town in the middle of the country...and only a few buildings stood still...nothing here around would have ever survived a Richter 8 eartquake indeed...

Title: Re: Disaster...
Post by J. Davidson Hero on Mar 15^th, 2011, 12:05pm

It has been a horrific natural disaster and the final outcome of the nuclear situation, whether it is better or worse than expected, is bound to have a lasting impact on the future of nuclear power around the world.

I can't imagine what those 50 or so employees remaining in the power plant must be experiencing. To remain at a job in the face of such peril is truly heroic.

Sergio, I'm glad that your friends in Japan are all safe.

Hero

Title: Re: Disaster...
Post by ente per ente on Mar 15^th, 2011, 11:18pm

For J. Davidson Hero:

Quote:

I can't imagine what those 50 or so employees remaining in the power plant must be experiencing. To remain at a job in the face of such peril is truly heroic.

It is,indeed...they do it for their country and that's one of the most important thing they can do , as it happened in Chernobyl...
But what they do -anyway- is not only for their country, as everyone understands that otherwise the impact could turn out to be terrible for all the nearby countries, too, and given the ocean streams and winds, all the rest of the world is "nearby"...

But the problem is that they must succeed anyway...and that has to be made soon...