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Radiation Leak Feared At Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant As Radiation Level Rising
Per CNN: Radiation level rising in Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant turbine building, Kyodo News Agency reports.
That's not good.
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Century meltdown is almost here
http://dawnwires.com/politics/red-alert-japan-declares-emergency-as-nuclear-plant-may-meltdown-anytime-century-first-nuclear-disaster-on-hold/
"Japan declared a nuclear emergency as Nuclear plant may “meltdown” anytime."
Give me a break... Give real news sources, not fear mongering web sites with 0 reputation run by some kid in his mom's basement.
http://news.blogs.cnn.com/2011/03/11/live-blog-japan-earthquake/
"Radiation level rising in Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant turbine building, Kyodo News Agency reports."
http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/03/11/japan-quake-tepco-pressure-idU...
"Tokyo Electric Power Co said pressure inside the No.1 reactor at its Fukushima-Daiichi nuclear plant has been rising..."
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/12/world/asia/12nuclear.html?_r=1&adxnnl=...
An analyst with the World Nuclear Association, a major international nuclear power group, told Reuters that he understood fresh cool water was now being pumped into the cooling system at Fukushima, reducing the threat of a meltdown.
"We understand this situation is under control," the analyst said, adding that he understood that a back-up battery power system had been brought online after about an hour and began pumping water back into the cooling system, where the water level had been falling.
It's my understanding that the plant was already down for maintenance and subsequently had a reduced capability to provide the electrical power needed for backup when offsite power tripped. The NYT article references USAF flying something in, which I suspect, if true, was a backup gnerator.
The report of rising radiation inside the turbine building links to Kyodo news as an "urgent" news item, but to read it you have to register....
http://english.kyodonews.jp/news/2011/03/76871.html
Any good news is great news.
Update: Fukushima-Daiichi is a 6-unit site, three units were already down for maintenance. Fukushima-Daini is a 4 unit site. The referenced unit was apparently up and was shut down by/during the quake. All are BWRs.
http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/03/11/japan-nuclear-idUSL3E7EB26V201...
Still trying to figure out the issues, but I'm guessing they lost offsite power as well as had problems with onsite EDGs and couldn 't pump water into the reactor. BWRs produce steam for the turbine right off the fuel, so inability to add water to remove decay heat is an immediate and serious issue. Rising rad levels in the reactor building wouldn't surprise me under these circumstances, as there is less water on top of the fuel.
Nuclear plants are designed to withstand earthquakes. Still not sure exactly what happened here.
Terrible, terrible stuff and yet the TD'ers can't wait to post their sophmoric comments.
Of which you have just proudly joined the ranks.
And jumped in at the top no less. Oh to be so holy.
Sorry, it wasn't intentional. I forgot how serious you are about your show business career here.
Grin.
And now if we can just get the most serious of us all, that is to say Ben Bernanke, out of the freshmen ranks and into the sophomore class. ;-)
NUCLEAR MELTODOWN = Green Shoot
ARAB REVOLUTION = Green Shoot
OIL OVER $100 = Green Shoot
TWO VOLCANIC ERUPTIONS IN RUSSIA = Green Shoot
TSUNAMI DAMAGE = Green Shoot
50,000 PEOPLE MISSING AND UNACCOUNTED FOR = Green Shoot
Correct
Correct
Correct
Correct
Correct
Correct
Congratulations! You win 10 trillion Zimbabwe dollars!
AND NOW ANOTHER VOLCANO ERUPTS! THIS TIME IN INDONESIA! heres a link for the cry babies
http://www.theweatherspace.com/news/TWS-3_11_2011_volcano.html
That makes 3 today! WOW! 3/11/11 mark it down as the day the world changed forever...
looks like the market is about to celebrate with a earthquake, tsunami, radiation leak rally. it's the disaster capitalism trifecta.
Well, after all, the earthquake was magnitude 8.9 when expectations were for 9.0.
"Well, after all, the earthquake was magnitude 8.9 when expectations were for 9.0."
LOL
So wrong, and I am so very sorry. Gallows is all I got these days.
of course it was initially 7.9 then revised later...
...and the 'whisper' number was 9.3....
The markets are happy because 50,000 Japanese won't need to collect social security and eat. Prices of rice have collapsed. BEnron Happy. Obamie Happy. Happy world. Market Rally. Earthquake Good. More Earthquake please, says Mr. Market.
The line in the sand, dude.
You just crossed it.
That's not a lot worse than a few posts with suggestions about what we should do with our Boomers. Not that it makes it OK.
Watch we will learn that Halliburton now owns the top nuclear disaster remediation company in addition to the top oil well disaster remediation company.
Long Chinese solars!
We knew the battery power would only last so long .... Not sure who's heading in that direction anymore trying to fix it.
Don't Japanese live in Vault-Tech facilities already?
I really hate to encourage you but that was actually pretty funny right there.
Hey thats Bigger D!kus's icon -- you are all the same - LOL -- Harry, Hamy and BD -- the truth comes out. Man of 1,00 masks but one bad line of stay away from PM's - HAHHAAH
they have already had two citys nuked, now a 3rd......
As is typical with any authority, early this morning around 5 AM EST the Japanese authorities were telling everyone there were no problems. Yet the alternative media were already talking about problems with one of the plants.
Then the news began talking about "low cooling water levels" but there were no problems, everything was OK. Now we are getting news there are leaks of radiation........soon I'm sure to be followed by "everything will be OK".
No wonder we all act like children since we are treated like children.
"No wonder we all act like children since we are treated like children." I think it's the other way around
No he got it right. I see it every day at work. Our employees are babied and treated like children, and what do you know? They act like children. People take the path of least resistance in the environment the leadership creates. Don't preach personal responsibility in an environment where the so called leaders of society are on the take.
Waitin for the day Obama comes on and says
"You're all fucked. I know that a lot of the American people are frightened right now, and you should be. You should definitely start to panic, NOW!"
People sense they are not being told the truth. When they hear bullshit they suspect it's bullshit, but given nothing else, they descend into a child like state and wish to believe the bullshit. When finally told the truth, all the worse fears that they've kept bottled up and repressed come storming out and people panic.
There have been well documented psychological studies of groups of people who have been consistently told the truth over long periods of time. They do not panic when told ugly truths because they have always been told the truth. It's the non-credibility of the source, which suddenly becomes credible when the truth finally is told, that causes panics.
The news is spoon fed to people to control people, not inform people.
That explains a large number of the Ron Paul nay-sayers. The truth is painful so it is easier to simply attack the messenger. Hardly anything is taken at face value and objectivity any more.
Well of course. i knew this was coming.
Fantastic, Great Oracle. Then you can also tell us when it will be over.
Pressure 150% above design specs. Vessel rupture imminent.
Probably worth +100 on the Dow.
Edit: yep. Nice 3:30 spike.
They are just trying to hold the information back until the U.S. markets close.
That way they can declare a National Emergency here in the U.S. due to problems in Japan and close the markets all week...followed shortly after...a Bank Holiday?
Anyone know of any way to get out of Japan???? My uncle is there on business but cannot find a way out. Please if any one has any inside info????
It's an island... you either take a boat or a plane.
Thanks Captain obvious.
Some people just can't lay off the sarcasm no matter what the circumstances. Hit Girl is obviously one of those people.
This is just hypothesis, but if he's american, maybe try getting to Okinawa and getting a US military flight out of there
He is American and that is a very good idea. Thank you
Or Yokosuka. There's a Navy base there.
Thank you for another option. Much appreciated everyone. Keep em' coming!!!
Pronounced yo-kooska. Dunno why.
There is also Yokota Air Force Base.
Again, thank you. To make matters worse his interpreter is nowhere to be found.
Here's some directions: http://maps.google.com/maps?f=d&source=s_d&saddr=japan&daddr=china&hl=en&geocode=FRhxKAIdfJI9CCkvGX_XD05nNDFEUmZ81HVC9Q%3BFZw0IwIdReU1BinBQsblZI5QMTFvNp80fKodlQ&mra=ls&sll=37.0625,-95.677068&sspn=50.823846,78.837891&ie=UTF8&z=5
Step 42 is the most important.
Hey gurl, look at your map. wouldn't s korea be a little more feasible?
Yeah, but step 42 is what makes it funny.
At least there is mass concreate surrounding the core unlike the Chernobyl plant - if the worst happens the radiation will be contained in the local area.
Not sure if thats how it will play out ....
It won't play out that way. What will probably happen is they will get backup cooling sorted out, and then make repairs to the facility and finally they will turn it back on after recertification.
It will be a nightmare.
Wind pattern:
http://www.intellicast.com/Global/Wind/Forecast.aspx?region=chjap
Thanks Mein Herr. We needed more good news today. At least Tokyo gets a wiff of the problem.
very not good
also, North Korea fired all its missiles and Kyushu is sinking. Buy buy buy!!!
If numerous Japanese reactors are shut down for a period this will not help to cool energy prices unless there is a collapse in the Japanese economy - needless to say this is not good.
Correct - just don't confuse "not good" and Bullish
"Pressure in the containment vessel going up" - BBC
HFT bots don't give a fuck!!
Market up and all green.
Hate those fuckers!
I guess they got the server fixed
Let us wait to hear from our financial parasitic class...how radiation leaks are bullish. I assure you, one of these brain trusts will attempt it.
And as long as the attempts continue, the longer we will linger here, losing our purchasing power, watching taxes rise, witnessing government agencies grow...we, the nation's people, just slippage beneath the wheels of our incompetent ruling class.
Perp walks. Mass terminations in financial services. Government resignations...these are truly the bullish signs we should be watching for.
If there were mass terminations we wouldn't need the perp walks...
Oh you meant lay offs - sorry
If this market closed green today im gonna need a new Johnnie Walker.
John,
I don't think so...but if it is the case, I'll be joining you with a giant martini at 4:01 est.
C freakin Dad
My glass is chilled and the olives are already out.
+1
red or green
"Let us wait to hear from our financial parasitic class...how radiation leaks are bullish. I assure you, one of these brain trusts will attempt it."
Mutation. Call it a growth story.
It's a subprime radiation leak, and it's all contained.
the parasites will run up the price of oil because of the earthquake in japan ... any excuse to manipulate will do
You have to love those algo's -- "dollar down, buy futures". Fast forward -- Jamie steps onto the jet headed for uruguay, algo's .."dollar crashing, buy futures faster.."
north korea just bombed south korea.
link?
His bung-hole
Hey, anybody know if Guam tipped over in the tidal wave?
I believe all boots on the ground were ordered to stand inside pre-positioned footprints which were painted on the ground to evenly distribute the weight.
*wipes sweat off brow*
Thank god they planned ahead for such a capsize.
Radiation bitchez
I can't find a good ETF for that.
map
http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=Fukushima+++...
and directions from NYC to Fuku
http://bit.ly/hgQkqa
So interesting, nuclear radiation leak. Japan. Hiroshima. Nagasaki.
Wedded to nuclear power, building plant upon plant in the world's most geo-active region, both in number of earthquakes and their intensity.
Hubris? Poor planning? Plain dumb?
I don't know. The US has been trying for years to put their nuclear waste in Yuca mountain, on top of an active fault line.
Pretty dumb species we are, it seems.
ORI
http://aadivaahan.wordpress.com/2011/03/11/axis-trembles/
Yes, stupid. And to make it worse, all the "waste" (admittedly I'm not totally familiar with the whole thing) that would have gone there, has to be stored locally to the plants that produce it. Where as the yuca mountain was a central location for ALL the waste. So now we conceivably have multiple sites with radioactive material.
Perhaps someone can correct me if I'm wrong on that.
Yucca mountain is irrelevant. Spent fuel should be reprocessed, not stored. The whole idea of storing spent fuel as waste is ridiculous. The only real waste in spent fuel is the fission products, of which some have value in medical, research, and industrial areas. The remainder of the waste, which is >90% by mass is either fissile or fertile and can still be burned in another reactor. If this was done, or better still, we had VHTRs, there would be no nuclear waste problem. What's more, we would extend the energy available from fission by an order of magnitude.
If this was done, or better still, we had VHTRs these materials weren't extremely dangerous for incredibly long periods of time, there would be no nuclear waste problem.
Fixed it for you.
No, what I said was correct. The "incredibly long periods of time" you refer to are transuranics, NOT fission products. Transuranics can still be burned in a VHTR, MSR, or FBR. Either you know not what you speak of, or your comprehension skills are short. Not sure which, but my condolences.
Bill Gates just talked about this on Ted TV. I really hope that he isn't just trying to get Windows into the next gen nuclear plants.
Yea, I understand he threw a bunch of money into a company developing a few different GenIV and GenV cores. I read a story about it a while back. I hope it works out.
Most industrial stuff is run using SCADA systems, nukes are no different. MS systems run the interface between the SCADA backend and the user. A few months back you may recall the Iranian project being disrupted by a worm. That worm targetted SCADA from Windows. The M$ insecurity problem is a real problem.
MSFT all over the place, including in the computers in the control room. - Ned
I'm holding out for a nukular powered iPad.
8.9 Earthquakes - bullish
ME riots - bullish
Nuclear meltdown - Bullish(obvious)
WWIII - VERY Bullish
Am I the only one that got the Brnanke memo today?
To be ultra-bullish, we need 9.9 earthquakes in China instead.
So far for the clean, safe, hassle-free energy.
We greenthinking Germans know why we want to get rid of all nuclear power plants.
Still big users of gas though.
Let us know how that works out when oil is $200 and gas is about $15.
Germans have led the way with solar (even tho they're so far north and so cloudy/rainy) and wind. They haven't replaced previous demand, but they have nearly offset all demand growth with alt sources. Much more to be done, of course, but you never get there if you don't try.
scram that mfer, no? Don't they have the guy up there with the bucket of borax?
spot on! if anything borax would be used to stop sodium buildup on primary intakes. This is minor and the reactor is small.Sounds like a heavy water/breeder reactor.
Why is Obama talking about green tech in the context of a speech about Japan's earthquake? In fact, why is Obama speaking at all? He cannot even put together a feasible budget...and yet he speaks on television every single day.
What happened to us? Where is the shadow of our former self? Our president should not be speaking now...but his head hung low in shame.
Ancient Rome redux, bitchez!
He is speaking to divert attention from Libya, Egypt, Somalia, Wisconsin, the economy, and all of his other recent screw ups.
On Wisconsin
+1000
His speach was probably ready yesterday when he gave the approval to use HAARP.
You blame Obama for Libya, Egypt and Somalia?
Gotta blame someone. That's what Presidents are for. You got a better use for them?
REALLY? WWIII is 'VERY' bullish?
Must be in body bag sales.
Obama pledging aid no one has.. QEinfinity
Evacuation started at the plutermal (MOX) plant.
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/12/world/asia/12nuclear.html
If this gets worse than Godzilla... I am watching YCS...
Godzilla: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o7gFlSGXt_k
YCS: http://finviz.com/quote.ashx?t=YCS
CNBC - "President Obama: US Is Watching for Any Potential Manipulation in Oil Markets (story developing)"
Haha!!! Seriously - the entire market is manipulated and controlled by computer algorithms... But DONT SCREW WITH OUR OIL!!!
well not yet exactly.
The japanese may be radiated but they're still active.
Potassium Iodate bitches.
Indeed, The radiation goes for the thyroid like a pit bull.
Another idea. Too flaschy? Heat ranges are low.
It's pronounced:
Fuk-a-sami Nuclear Power PlantTimeline of events leading up to quake (Marshall Plan come? Already got one coming in the GCC...)
1. Reported Japanese national trying to dump Treasuries in Swiss
2. The North Korea boat sinking which occurred right about the height of the Okinawa basing issues
3. Japan’s Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama broke a key campaign pledge to move bases – gov’t collapses and Kan takes helm
4. Kan, 63, was finance minister under the unpopular Yukio Hatoyama, who stepped down Wednesday amid plunging approval ratings over broken campaign promises and a political funding scandal
5. Kan fends off challenge from heavyweight Ozawa in Sept-10 with Ozawa espeousing more stimulus and a much more indy foreign policy
(2009) http://seekingalpha.com/article/143462-strange-inconsistencies-in-the-134-5-billion-bearer-bond-mystery
(Mar-10) http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1260975/BREAKING-NEWS-South-Korean-ship-100-board-sinking-torpedo-attack-North-Korea.html
(May-10) http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/8662582.stm
(May-10) http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=127082604
(Jun-10) http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2010/06/04/world/main6546405.shtml
(Sep-7-10) http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/sep/19/china-japan-contacts-detained-trawler-captain
(Sep-14-10) http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2010-09-14/japanese-prime-minister-kan-defeats-ozawa-to-stay-as-head-of-ruling-party.html
(Feb-11) http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1355197/U-S-national-military-strategy-focuses-complex-challenges-East.html
(Mar-11) http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/66f55fb2-4ac9-11e0-82ab-00144feab49a.html#axzz1GJK0m3QF
Glow in the dark sushi ...
6. ….Ozawa this week has called for new negotiations with Washington over Okinawa: “The [US] alliance isn’t a relationship of subordination, but it’s an equality partnership.” Ozawa has already indicated his support for closer ties with China, by leading a huge delegation of politicians and businessmen to Beijing last December. Ozawa called for the fulfillment of the DPJ’s 2009 election promises and renewed stimulus spending as the economy again slowed in the second quarter.
7. The confidence vote and reelection of Kan – now at 20% approval – and the rejection of Ozawa (see policy preference above)
8. Kan government in disarray over his proposed budget and debt issuance/austerity
9. China trawler collided with two Japanese coastguard ships near uninhabited islands in the East China Sea that are claimed by both countries. The two countries have a long history of tensions over territory, resources and other issue
10. US announces ASIAPAC centric military strategy: U.S. military is moving beyond focusing on the war in Afghanistan to addressing the developing threat from the East as the region's wealth and power continues to soar.
11. US under secretary from State is removed a few days ago. FT says: The US has replaced a top official who was accused of describing people from Japan's southern island of Okinawa as “lazy” and “masters of manipulation and extortion".
12. Kan Gov’t is falling apart over debt issues/ministers defecting – recent foreign minister to quit was touted as a US hawk and welcomed as taking strong stand against China
13. This past week, Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan said on Friday he has no plan to call a snap election to break a deadlock in parliament
Is anyone else following this press conference? Good lord, someone please just turn the teleprompter back on...this guy cannot form thoughts in an extemporaneous way. This is not great thinker here, sad to say. A man of limited intellectual ability.
Where did we leave ourselves? In some Federal closet somewhere? Maybe in a pit of our own self-absorbed despair, some chip on our shoulder about not having been breast fed.
How does one explain it to his sons? Maybe without words. Maybe teach him smelting skills...maybe how to can tomatoes...maybe gunsmithing?
Listen to this man fiddle...while the nation burns...good grief!
he speechificates well...like Raygun did.
Its not the radiation you should worry about! It is the contamination I'm worried about.
Listen, you should not worry at all. The criminal syndicate known as Wall Street is going to explain to you just how bullish radiation is. Of this, you can be sure...and you can also be just as sure that, since Obama has just explained how there is no radiation leaking, radiation is probably freakin' pouring out of that reactor in a way so as to top Chernobyl!
Just get your martini shaker ready, man...mix a drink as the nation burns. And by the way, Obama has now moved on to talking about my clunker of a car. Great! Someone give him some freakin' Ritalin already...and turn the teleprompter back on...good grief.
The Japanese don't have good luck when it comes to nuclear. I think they should find a new hobby.
fuk-ed Nuclear Power Plant
Reminder. Nuclear Energy is not Clean energy. If it leaks you can't smell it, see it, feel it, taste it. You'll just die slowly from it. If it leaks, therefore, you'll not be told about it. You think all this financial criminal conduct that's covered up wouldn't be the same out of the NRC? And least we forget the stock piles of radiated waste currently sitting in 55 gallon barrel drums that don't last 50 thousands years, as does the radiated contents.
Get a NukAlert keychain. And a Geiger counter. And there's no such thing as clean energy, not when the costs of production are factored in.
Long term problems, short term solutions.
That's the way they solve problems in contemporary economics, so why not with nuclear waste as well?
Sickening.
+1
Fukushima 1 is a BWR, so steam that goes through the turbine returns as water directly to the core as feedwater. This is the old GE design (BWR 1, Mk I) that either Hitachi-san or Toshiba (can't find reference yet). Someone did a good job updating the Wiki to almost real-time.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fukushima_I_Nuclear_Power_Plant
Residual Heat Removal cooling seems to have failed. Lots of ways to get water into the core for feed-bleed cooling. Isolation valves for e.g. main steam leads are x2, failure of both is highly unlikely (like in 10E-6/year range). So the Turbine Building radiation leak seems unlikely.
Similar to what happened at Browns Ferry 1 in '75, e.g.:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Browns_Ferry_Nuclear_Power_Plant
and http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/doc-collections/gen-comm/bulletins/1975/bl...
Or, as one of my friends in Knoxville said to me, "Ned, that's what happens when you let Rednecks play with nuclear things."
- Ned
"Hey, y'all. Watch this." ;)
Redneck's last words! I do miss Jerry Clower:
http://www.bing.com/videos/watch/video/jerry-clower-examples-of-a-rednec...
- Ned
{hey, we got drive-by junked. I'll call my Vol friend and let him know ;-) }
Unbelieveable!
After incinerating everyone in two Japanese cities and more recently assassinating over one million innocent Iraqui civilians you all are pretending to be worried about a miniscule radiation leak.
Give us a break, amerrikan.
wow...
so a bunch of people who weren't even ALIVE in 1945 are now somehow responsible for the actions of people who are LONG DEAD?
Hell, many here didn't even have ancestors IN THE COUNTRY in those years.
WTF is wrong with the idiots on this planet?
The big big disaster would be a breach of the main coolant pipes that penetrate the reactor vessel. These are massively thick but are vulnerable in an earthquake. If these broke the only thing left to hold the system together would be the reactor containment dome. It's unlikely, however, because if that had happened all the personnel would have driven away in a hurry.
Stuck: fixed a couple of 'em for ya.
... but have been designed to withstand a seismic event at the end of the design life, plus margin.
actually, it is the whole containment structure.
The emergency personnel and the operating crew would remain in the protected area and maintain the reactor shut down. And this is a little guy, so source term isn't too big.
- Ned
All smiles over at BP today...
"We just had our Air Force assets in Japan transport some really important coolant to one of the nuclear plants," Clinton said at a meeting of the President's Export Council. http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20110311/pl_nm/us_japan_quake_nuclear_clinton
Borated water, I heard earlier.
Boron=wanton neutron absorber, used for SCRAM operations in a pinch. If they have to they will just dump this into the reactor and it will quickly provoke non-criticality.
Meltdowns only come from failure to recognize the scope of the accident and unwillingness to go to shutdown right away.
I have Japanese television on here.
NHK is reporting a 3 mile evacuation zone around the plant. They have advised people to wear clothing that completely covers their bodies, and to cover their faces with a dampened towel.
Rads don't descriminate. It ain't sunlight. It's gamma rays. Bleached!!
AP now reporting that radioactive steam to be vented.
The agency said the radioactive element in the vapor that will be released would not affect the environment or human health.
If so, then feed-n-bleed to atmosphere. N-16 has a half life that is really short, but energetic (5 MeV gammas).
That's why the red-white-red-white... stacks are there, to mix and discharge gasseous rad waste.
- Ned
I hope a lot of these cunts who enjoyed their moment of schadenfreude about the Japanese live on the West coast of America. It doesn't look like it right now, but if one of those reactors did a Chernobyl, then this is where much of the radiation will end up (Latest Jet Stream map):
http://squall.sfsu.edu/gif/jetstream_pac_init_00.gif
Anyone still laughing? I am.
Notice how it spares SF? Apparently Rev Phelps is wrong.
True story:
A few years ago, when three hurricanes criss-crossed Florida and their paths mapped to within 50 miles of each other, one of the hurricanes was forecast to head straight up the west coast of Florida. A Catholic priest in Tarpon Springs claimed credit for his prayers being answered that the hurricane not hit the Tampa Bay area. It hit the Port Charlotte area instead.
What an idiot.
You could picture him at Mass the next Sunday, index and middle fingers extended, making the sign of the cross. "Sucks to live in Poooort Charrrlotttte..."
And to think we got opposable thumbs for this?!??
CW
...all news is good news....last time I checked my silver mining companies produce large amounts of lead as a bi-metal...every cloud has its silver lining...
Well as we know this is what would happen if they can't cool it down (from CNN)
"If they can't restore power to the plant (and cool the reactor), then there's the possibility of some sort of core meltdown," he said.
http://www.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/asiapcf/03/11/japan.nuclear/index.html?hpt=T1