http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6IQWuXtX...re=related

Interesting documentary. 
Evil Dragon, you will like.

Anyway, Chernobyll it's still not safe, each 5 years the radioactive dust get in deeper in the soil. Another documentary show many deformed fetus from animals in the area.

I conclude animals and plants survive more than imagined, but also with a lot of mutations and problems.

but again, I never said it was a Chernobyl !!!

But this nuclear accident was on Japan, with a lot of great technicians, fast polictic desicions, fast acting of authorities, great care for their people.

You can say that was safe on Japan, and even so need to ignore the initial fails that lead to the problem.

But I imagine if was on my country, with a bunch of evil rats on politic, crap security, crap corrupt inspectors, technicians that play soccer instead of take care of security, no good plans for case of emergency.
And we have two nuclear power plants here. 

My concern even to the responsible countries is more to the breeding reactors, that they are building in India, and if I remamber well one in Japan too.  They aore cooled by liquid sodium, that explode in contact with water or air.  Much more dangerous than standart reactors.

But had no emergency plan for that, and the auto lock function created this condition leading toi the explosion.

Sorry, you're wrong there, there was no nuclear explosion there. There was only a possibility of meltdown (which is NOT the same as explosion!), and now even that seems to be under control. Calm down.

You're wrong there too. This accident proved that it's SAFER than people believe it is. There was no big radiation leaks on a large scale like Chernobyl. Safety measures were in place. I'm gonna repeat this link for you: http://blog.seattlepi.com/theethicist/2...-how-safe/

If NASA managed to lost or erase the original Moon Landing recordings, letting only inferior quality copies...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_11_missing_tapes

Maybe some guy on NASA recorded football game over the master tapes.  Háaaa háaaa....

Any crap is possible.  That's why some things are too dangerous and human too weak or confuse to manage very safely.

But It was still a almost dumb accident, cause they know the area was prone to tsunami, and could damage the unprotected generators.  But had no emergency plan for that, and the auto lock function created this condition leading toi the explosion.

If they had power line already semi connected in case of emergency, to send energy from one reactor to other, it would also avoid much of the problem. 

Japan it's really great, and they are very intelligent, extremely organized, punish crime with rigor, have honor, and even the few corrupt they have at least have the decency of commit suicide when they are caught...   
I wish my country had halp of that.... especially the suicide in case of corruption.

But they are not perfect and this accident prove nuclear power plant it's still dangerous somehow.  They will need to revaluete all safety measures about the nuclear reactor around the world.

The breeding reactor, that can put a end in nuclear trash and solve the problem of limited uraniun mines, it's much more prone to a explosion, as use liquid sodium, that explode in contact with air or water.  If they intend to build one in a country prone to earthquakes and tsunamis...     I doubt anyone can built a safe instalation for such thing there.

See, toldya.

Read this a bit: http://blog.seattlepi.com/theethicist/2...-how-safe/

The situation wasn't danger, but they chaged the status of the accident from level 4 to level 5.  Things got worse in the last day.

I hope they solve if, but I'm still concerned somehow.  It will not be a new Chernobyl, but a fraction of the Chernobyl disaster it's already quite bad.

The problem will be solved, it might take some time, but it will, I'm confident in Japanese brains. Just let them be.

And the situation in the nuclear power plants it's worse than the japanese authorities believed.

I don't understan...   Sounds dumb.  If one reactor it's ok, why not use the energy produced to feed the water pumps that cooled the other reactors with problem ???

The iodine saturate the tyroid, avoiding tyroid to absorb any radioactive iodine, cause such iodine could lead to tyroid cancer.

I watched a documentary, called "Fear of Radiation", or something like that, and thay said that radiation it's not so dangerous to health like they thought beore, at least in low dosages. 
In the 40's and 50's the thought was the opose, and even  carcinogenic radiation doses was thought to be safe. today they think about revalue and find a middle term.
They get a study and find that low doses of radiation could reduce cancer incidence.  Radiation is higher in high altitudes, and they studied people who live in high places, and compared cance incidence.

For other side, we now that women who work as stewardess in airplanes that fly in very high altitudes, have higher chances to get a baby with Down's Syndrome. Such flights get a ose of radiation like a torax X-ray per day. 
They tried to trace a graphic, showing at which doses radiation was effective to good and for bad.

The documentary also traced sopme things about Chernobyl, and the low deads compared to the early predictions.

And one man, who was in charge of testing Chernobyl reactor, can be blame for the explosion, as he ignored the international security standart of the test, pushing the reactor too much, as he imagined it could handle.  The reactor was not well built (not just the bad design problem and lack of protection barrier) and have no automatic mode to avoit the problem they got, and all this help to disater happen.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qe_sD7bP...278277EDD2

Beto-Music wrote:

Well, this statement makes clear it's impossible a reactor explode like a NUKE.  So why the documentary about Chernoby said the whole thing could explode like a nuclear explosion????  Hoax ???

Nope, no hoax. Chernobyl didn't run on depleted uranium. It didn't even run on depleted plutonium. It was very rich plutonium, hence BOOM!

just some thoughts on Chernobyl:

The situation at the Fukushima Daiichi plant is regarded as the worst nuclear
incident since Chernobyl, but experts agree that the situation is unlikely to reach
anywhere near the level of Chernobyl. William Tucker writes in a Wall Street
Journal editorial that Chernobyl suffered two crucial design flaws: 1) It used
graphite to moderate the neutrons making possible a nuclear reaction (the
Fukushima Daiichi plant uses water instead); and 2) Chernobyl did not have a
containment structure (as Fukushima plant does) to contain the radioactive
explosion.

A report released in 2005 by the Chernobyl Forum, which is made up of 8 UN
specialized agencies, estimated that of the 600,000 people exposed to
radioactive material, 4,000 could eventually die of radiation exposure. However
as of the time of the Chernobyl Forum’s report, which was 20 years after the
disaster, fewer than 50 deaths had been directly attributed to the disaster. Even
in the worse case scenario we would expect the fallout in Japan to be less than in
Chernobyl. Unlike Chernobyl, the areas surrounding the Fukushima Daiichi plant
were evacuated prior to a full scale meltdown. The Japanese government has
currently evacuated a 12 mile radius surrounding the plant and has
recommended that those in an 18 mile radius should leave the area or remain in
doors.

You have probably heard that people in the Nuke plant area are taking a regimen of iodine.  we learned how well that worked to prevent thyroid cancer from its use after chernobyl.  amazingly low-tech solution.

Old buildings? Even the old Japanese knew about earthquakes and how to make buildings which would withstand them! Buildings constantly get renovated too.

I bet SOME buildings were damaged. But as I said, they're all very well built. Much better than paper-wall buildings in USA.

I'll say it again. Japan is one brilliant nation. So much above the rest of the world, it hurts. THAT is the reason they are withstanding one of the biggest earthquakes ever with so little casaulties. The rest of the world needs to watch them and LEARN.

CNN had some amazing video of some very tall skyscrapers swaying back and forth due to the quake. It was quite amazing to watch them absorbing the shock by acting that way. Like you say, they are designed to behave just that way and are very well built.

In the USA, with the exception of modern nuke plants, the only place I know of where buildings are designed to withstand earthquakes is California. And that is a mixed bag as well.

I hope all is ok with our PT friends who may be from Japan.

I bet SOME buildings were damaged. But as I said, they're all very well built. Much better than paper-wall buildings in USA.

I'll say it again. Japan is one brilliant nation. So much above the rest of the world, it hurts. THAT is the reason they are withstanding one of the biggest earthquakes ever with so little casaulties. The rest of the world needs to watch them and LEARN.

But the fact of all buildings resisted...     No old building on Japan??? 

What about the historic buildings ?   Why no one get down?    Strange... specially for one of the strongest earthquakes.