{"id":24911,"date":"2011-03-16T21:55:52","date_gmt":"2011-03-16T21:55:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/2011\/03\/16\/a-glowing-irony\/"},"modified":"2011-03-16T21:55:52","modified_gmt":"2011-03-16T21:55:52","slug":"a-glowing-irony","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2011\/03\/16\/a-glowing-irony\/","title":{"rendered":"A glowing irony"},"content":{"rendered":"

As I write this, I’m told that there are eleven water cannon vehicles heading to the disaster-stricken Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, to attempt to cool down nuclear material that is exposed and exuding (I dare not use the word “leaking” lest I be thought an alarmist) radiation at a rate that seems to be as alarming to the engineers and nuclear experts on the scene as it is assuaging to the arm-chair nuclear engineers in the US and elsewhere who are telling us that Fukushima is no more dangerous than eating a seedless grape.<\/p>\n

The following conversation was heard in the Japanese Police Department’s motor vehilce shop where the water cannon vehicles are kept.<\/p>\n

“What are you doing?”<\/p>\n

“I’m arming these water cannon vehicles.”<\/p>\n

“What for?”<\/p>\n

“The police have been ordered to take these 11 vehicles out. They need to be ready immediately.”<\/p>\n

“What are they use for?”<\/p>\n

“This:”
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“We use the water cannon on protestors. Government bought several new water cannons during the big protests here several years ago.”<\/p>\n

“What were the protestors protesting?”<\/p>\n

“The New Nuclear Power Plants”<\/p>\n

“Good thing there were a LOT of protesters!”<\/p>\n

“Why?”<\/p>\n

“So that they bought a lot of water cannons. They’re going to need them all to keep this nuclear power plant from Going Chernobyl!”<\/p>\n

For more information and essays about the Earthquake, Tsunami and Nuclear Reactor problems in Japan CLICK HERE<\/a>. <\/em> <\/strong><\/p>\n

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As I write this, I’m told that there are eleven water cannon vehicles heading to the disaster-stricken Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, to attempt to cool down nuclear material that is exposed and exuding (I dare not use the word “leaking” lest I be thought an alarmist) radiation at a rate that seems to be … Continue reading A glowing irony<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[1423],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-6tN","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24911"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24911"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24911\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}