Comments on: Happy Anniversary Nuclear Power Core Meltdown at Three Mile Island!

By: Giliell

Giliell — Sat, 02 Apr 2011 09:34:09 +0000

because a single plant among many couldnt handle a once in a thousand year natural event.

You seem to have a strange idea of “once in a thousand years” since only in the last century there were 4 more severe earthquakes that the Japan one and I can remember a tsunami that killed 100.000 people from this century.
A thousand years pass extremely quickly sometimes…

By: Greg Laden

Greg Laden — Fri, 01 Apr 2011 23:21:35 +0000

You weren’t listening. You were hearing what you wanted to hear.

By: Renolds

Renolds — Fri, 01 Apr 2011 22:28:00 +0000

Its strange that Maddow would give a litany of successful shutdowns due to backup systems and then criticise the backups because a single plant among many couldnt handle a once in a thousand year natural event.

By: healthphysicist

healthphysicist — Fri, 01 Apr 2011 20:34:38 +0000

Giving incorrect data isn’t lying.

In everyday life, people give incorrect data frequently.

After an earthquake, a tsunami and while in the midst of a nuclear accident…..expect incorrect data more frequently.

That’s not lying.

By: bks

bks — Fri, 01 Apr 2011 20:27:12 +0000

TEPCO are the liars as NISA continues to point out, e.g. in this 1 April story from Kyodo News:

“Hidehiko Nishiyama, a spokesman for the governmental Nuclear Industry and Safety Agency, said it was ”extremely regrettable” that TEPCO had given incorrect radiation data at the plant. The agency has strongly warned the operator over the matter and urged it to take steps not to do so again, he added.”

http://english.kyodonews.jp/news/2011/04/82624.html

You should read the ISIS report. The only reason that they don’t say “lying weasels” is because they didn’t think of that exact phrase.

–bks

By: healthphysicist

healthphysicist — Fri, 01 Apr 2011 19:27:07 +0000

bks –

The ISIS took their information from TEPCO and never referred to them as liars or weasals.

Who’s the liar?

By: bks

bks — Fri, 01 Apr 2011 19:00:22 +0000

TMI was over in four days. We’re three weeks into Fukushmia and this was in my morning paper:

Japan’s damaged nuclear plant may be in danger of emitting sudden bursts of heat and radiation, undermining efforts to cool the reactors and contain fallout. Limited, uncontrolled chain reactions are among the phenomena that might occur at the plant, Chief Cabinet Secretary Yukio Edano told reporters in Tokyo yesterday.

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/g/a/2011/03/31/bloomberg1376-LIXG396K50YH01-6E85C18IU9EOCLTS7EMUKR96K3.DTL

Good stuff in this ISIS evaluation of those lying weasels at TEPCO:

http://isis-online.org/uploads/isis-reports/documents/Accident_Sequence_Fukushima_31March2011.pdf

–bks

By: Greg Laden

Greg Laden — Fri, 01 Apr 2011 18:00:04 +0000

Yes, yes, I know, “healthphysicist” … you got food poisoning once so nothing bad that happens to a nuclear power plant could possibly ever mater.

What was the day you got that food poisoning? I want to make sure to commemorate it in a blog post because it is so fucking important.

By: healthphysicist

healthphysicist — Fri, 01 Apr 2011 17:36:37 +0000

All those deaths!!!

(I would type more, but I’m using solar power and