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No, everything is fine here.
Unfortunately all the "We will all glow in the dark – Run for your lives!" idiots are already spouting off about what they know nothing about. I have heard more references to Chernobyl and Three Mile Island along with that ridiculous movie "The China Syndrome" in this last week since the Japan 8.9 quake than I ever thought I would hear.
I know a thing or two about the Japanese people since I have spent quite a lot of time over there during my military career. I have been to Hiroshima and Peace Park with a good friend who was a Hiroshima A-bomb survivor. I know beyond the shadow of a doubt that the engineers and scientists who designed and built those nuclear power plants built them to withstand anything that has ever happened to Japan in its recorded past. If there is one country on this planet that knows and respects nuclear power, it is Japan. The Japanese people would never stand to allow something like a nuclear reactor to be built without all of the safeguards that are humanly possible to be in place. The containment vessels that hold the reactors are about as indestructible as a human can build, and that anything short of a nuclear weapon having a direct hit on them just will not destroy them.
The Chernobyl reactor was put into operation after having been built without a containment vessel. Three Mile Island does have a containment vessel and even though that reactor did melt down, it is still in that vessel and it will never open up to the atmosphere.
The China Syndrome is a movie – a figment of someones imagination. Even though Chernobyl does not have a containment vessel and it did in fact melt down through the floor of the reactor building, it is not melting down through the earth to China.
To this day, the safest and cheapest source of electrical power is nuclear.
What caused the problems at the Japanese nuclear plants was not the earthquake, but the Tsunami that followed it destroying the diesel generators that were in place to provide back up power to the reactors cooling system. There is no doubt in my mind that after this is all over with, the Japanese engineers and scientists will have a backup system to the backup system in order to prevent this from ever happening again.
I just hope and pray that the people of the U.S.A. do not fall for the false rhetoric of all those "We will all glow in the dark – Run for your lives!" doom and gloom idiots. We need to continue to build and use nuclear power plants in this country.
Well, there you have my not-so-humble opinion. B)
It should only affect the plants in earthquake zones.
"Doctor I was bitten by a radioactive Japanese hooker! What kind of super powers did I get?"
"It appears the growth in your balls is testicular cancer."
"Super human sized balls? Best super power ever!"