Update on Sunday March 20, 2011 @ 11:20am EDT:
Radiation chart:
Click to enlarge. (For Educational Purposes Only)
Explanation here:
http://blog.xkcd.com/2011/03/19/radiation-chart/
More good info here:
http://wattsupwiththat.com/2011/02/16/going-bananas-over-radiation/
—End of Updates—
Excellent article can be found at this site. Please take the time to educate yourself about nuclear power plants.
Fukushima 1 Nuclear Power Plant
Why I’m Not Worried about Japans Nuclear Reactors
Here is an exert from the above link.
I am writing this text (Mar 12) to give you some peace of mind regarding some of the troubles in Japan, that is the safety of Japan’s nuclear reactors. Up front, the situation is serious, but under control. And this text is long! But you will know more about nuclear power plants after reading it than all journalists on this planet put together.
There was and will *not* be any significant release of radioactivity.
By “significant” I mean a level of radiation of more than what you would receive on – say – a long distance flight, or drinking a glass of beer that comes from certain areas with high levels of natural background radiation.
I have been reading every news release on the incident since the earthquake. There has not been one single (1) report that was accurate and free of errors (and part of that problem is also a weakness in the Japanese crisis communication). By “not free of errors” I do not refer to tendentious anti-nuclear journalism – that is quite normal these days. By “not free of errors” I mean blatant errors regarding physics and natural law, as well as gross misinterpretation of facts, due to an obvious lack of fundamental and basic understanding of the way nuclear reactors are build and operated. I have read a 3 page report on CNN where every single paragraph contained an error.
We will have to cover some fundamentals, before we get into what is going on.
Construction of the Fukushima nuclear power plants
The plants at Fukushima are so called Boiling Water Reactors, or BWR for short. Boiling Water Reactors are similar to a pressure cooker. The nuclear fuel heats water, the water boils and creates steam, the steam then drives turbines that create the electricity, and the steam is then cooled and condensed back to water, and the water send back to be heated by the nuclear fuel. The pressure cooker operates at about 250 °C.
More great links with Photos and Graphics if you’re interested Really Educating yourself.
http://bravenewclimate.com/2011/03/13/fukushima-simple-explanation/
http://uvdiv.blogspot.com/2011/03/new-photos-of-reactor-building-partial.html
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GE Reactor Diagram
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Respectfully submitted by SilenceDogood2010 this Thirteenth Day of March in the Year of our Lord, Two Thousand Eleven. And Thanks to “Morgsatlarge” for this information.
“Why I’m Not Worried about Japans Nuclear Reactors”
Time that someone tells this moron who wrote the text that this is absolute nonsense. People are dying due to radioactivity in Japan, and many more will die, and your answer is that you dont worry. Great!
Radioactivity Sucks,
If you can provide some FACTS to verify your statement, I will be more than happy to look at it.
From the ‘TONE’ of your statement though, it appears to me that you have gathered your info/Education on Nuclear Power Plants from a Supermarket Tabloid….or was it a Fictitious Comic Book read by Bart Simpson? (aka Radioactive Man)
http://www.comicbookbin.com/artman2/uploads/5/BestRadioactiveManEver.jpg
Respectfully submitted by SD2010.
One really simple question to the “Specialist” who wrote the text:
How many people have to die until he starts to worry?
For sure there is a reason that the new hoster of the text changed not only the text, but also the topic, and especially they dissociate themselves from the text…
What an inhuman statement!