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Nuclear Emergency Declared At 2 Plants In Japan

Posted by timothy on from the good-place-to-avoid-the-china-syndrome dept.

Hugh Pickens writes "CBC reports that Japan has declared a state of emergency and called for mass evacuations near two nuclear power plants following cooling systems failures that led to radiation escaping from a reactor at one location. The emergency declarations, which include five reactors at the two plants, followed Friday's 8.9-magnitude earthquake off the country's northeast coast. In a troubling announcement, Japan Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency official Ryohei Shiomi said a monitoring device outside the plant detected radiation that is eight times higher than normal and an evacuation zone has been expanded from three kilometres around the plant to 10 kilometres."

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  1. I've done this before! by InsertWittyNameHere · · Score: 5, Funny

    We need to bulldoze the plant before it blows and build a new one!! Is fusion available yet?

    1. Re:I've done this before! by Samantha+Wright · · Score: 4, Funny

      Disaster! We won't get those until 2050! And microwave power plants aren't available until 2020, either!
      On the plus side, the forest arcology unlocked eleven years ago.

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    2. Re:I've done this before! by Jafafa+Hots · · Score: 4, Funny

      Exactly. The power lines are all set up for fission electrons. You can't just go pumping fusion electrons through them!

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  2. Nukes is for real men. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Funny

    Keep those girlyman windmills that can only crush a tractor or chop up a couple of birds.

    I want a MANLY power plant that can create a 30-100 km dead zone of mutants and a death plume that has a global reach.

  3. Godzilla incoming ! by Reez · · Score: 1, Funny

    Japan ? Check.
    Nuclear stuff ? Check.

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

    'nuff said.

  4. Re:So much for the safety of nuclear energy by jimicus · · Score: 3, Funny

    Captain "Piece of jewellery worn on a necklace"?

  5. Re:NHK World is reporting serious emissions by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    Did he not just just say that was per hour?

    Look, you can hardly expect a bloke to read all the way to the end of the sentence. If you've got important facts put them near the beginning, where they've a better chance to be read.

  6. Re:NHK by Paradise+Pete · · Score: 4, Funny

    i'll now go and try to buy iodine tablets. I do not plan to move.

    I knew the Japanese had some clever shopping inventions, but wow, telekinesis!