Beats the heck out of spending all day drowning a WORM! And I get dinner and a snapshot with my friends to boot! :lol:

 

got top of n.z. just after 7am this morn saterday bout foot high they said .did you notice how there buildings ok workers felt safe busy trying to save stuf inside them unlike ours where they fell down. , that bloody tidal wave amazing good photograhy

 

for got to say there a weather predicter over here who does weather a year ahead and he says Wellington N.Z isz going to be flattened on 20 of march this year .oops his weather predictions are pretty good.Ken Ring

 

Good point. And on an island nation no less.

 

I can't say that I've heard of any reliable means of predicting a volcanic eruption. That last eruption in Iceland came along without any warning. They'd be monitoring an active volcano, wouldn't they? If they're going to blow, they're going to do so warning or not. Seems that the same goes for quakes.

 

Last I heard, a thousand dead, or more. And, more than one town washed away.

Actually, they managed to shut the reactor down when the shaking first started. There isn't likely to be any meltdown. However, there is still a huge amount of heat in the reactor core and they may have to vent steam in order to relieve the pressure. That means radiation released. Still, not anywhere near Chernobyl.

The problem could be a bit more than just the flooded generators. It could also be other flooded electrical systems, Things like relays and solid state controls don't react well to salt water. Turning them on, if they got wet, would start a chain reaction that would disable the whole system. I'm quite sure that there are other generators in Japan that could easily be transported to the location. I suspect it's more than just the engines that are flooded out.

Wonder what the fires at their refineries will do to our fuel prices....:roll:

 

last i heard there was 14 generators there that they had just set up. but i got up this morning and checked yahoo.com and it said there was a explosion at a plant. i jsut woke up and not too good for reading right now so i'll assume something bad happend over night.

 

They had Battery Powered Generators that were running low on juice which means they can't cool the reactor which leads to a meltdown of it. The Japanese Army was hustling more batteries to this particular plant, ***u, but a 2nd one was also in danger with the same problem. The ***u plant was rocked by an explosion of a reactor building but it appears it was a good thing. Radiation levels are decreasing as the leak seems to be decreasing also. The explosion did not penetrate the reactor wall.

Authorities are still looking for 4 trains that may have been hit by landslides or tossed off the tracks from the shaking or tsunami. Those trains would have been packed full since the rail system in Japan is the world's most used and most efficient 24/7.

 

Thank you CAD news service! I remember Chernobyl well, People 1000 miles away hiding in thier homes from the radioactive cloud and rain; Couldnt drink milk for weeks, produce and meat contaminated.... If this happened in California, the cloud would go east, contaminate our fields. Enjoy.

 

Btw. the reactor core did melt down reguardless of what the news sais atm....radioactive Ceasium has been detected. That comes from the fuel rods having melted and the metal boiling.