And its going to get worse not better. By this time in the disaster Chernobyl was capped by a concrete dome theoretically keeping any future emissions contained. Since there are 3 melted cores vs 1 (and a hot storage pond) there is just too much radioactivity to build a new containment structure. The Japanese government is stuck now..maybe for decades poring water into those cores to cool them until they are finally cool enough to approach. If something stops that very ad libed cooling process the disaster could start all over again.
Monday, April 11, 2011
Reaching 7 and beyond
And its going to get worse not better. By this time in the disaster Chernobyl was capped by a concrete dome theoretically keeping any future emissions contained. Since there are 3 melted cores vs 1 (and a hot storage pond) there is just too much radioactivity to build a new containment structure. The Japanese government is stuck now..maybe for decades poring water into those cores to cool them until they are finally cool enough to approach. If something stops that very ad libed cooling process the disaster could start all over again.
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Do you mean Japanese children. Not Korean children. That picture is horrible.
Read the story. The radiation is getting into the weather and falling in Korea. 1000s of gallons of radioactive water is constantly being dumped into the pacific ocean and going god knows where. This disaster will be still be being clean up in 100 years. We'll start to see the global health effects in 10.
The pig is beautiful on the inside, right ?
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