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Things Get Worse at Fukushima
An anonymous reader writes "Radiation levels are skyrocketing around Japan's Fukushima nuclear plant as reports indicate that a radioactive core has overheated and melted through its containment vessel and onto a concrete floor. Radiation levels inside reactor two were recently gauged at 1,000 millisieverts per hour — a level so high that workers could only remain in the area for 15 minutes under current exposure guidelines."
This has been drearily and horrifyingly predictable.
I'm nearly certain when this is all said and done, Japan will have an uninhabitable zone, comprising 10% of the land mass on the principal island.
And 3-headed babies.
"Flyin' in just a sweet place,
Never been known to fail..."
Nice troll, but no cigar. If they were that interested in repairing and re-using those reactors, they would not have been so quick to pump seawater into them in an effort to cool them down. Seawater is not nice to reactor components, and renders them pretty well unuseable. Not to mention the reactors were scheduled to be decomissioned in the next couple of years anyway.
But still, "Cool story, bro!"
to tell us how unimportant and ridiculous the concern is, and everything is perfectly fine, its all just media hype?
let me be clear: the false alarmist is, indeed, a form of fool. hysteria, fear: it's adrenal glands on overload, not intelligence
but i assert that there is a second form of fool, that you often see posting on slashdot, on a number of different topics. "the sheeple are running and screaming about this, hahaha": the falsely complacent. equally foolish. the sky is not falling, indeed. but have you heard of hail? tornadoes? hurricanes? blizzards? lightning? rare. but not nonexistent
true intelligence rides a delicate moderate path between alarmism and complacency. the guy who freaks out too easily, and the guy who never worries at all: equally foolish idiots in my book. unfortunately, you often see the latter posting on this website smugly, all the time, on a range of topics. not intelligent people
intellectual property law is philosophically incoherent. it is your moral duty to ignore it or sabotage it
Right now this fucking assholes at Fukushima that messed up on the safety revisions should bring out the wazikashi and do what honor demands.
NO SIG