Don't worry about it, they're the safest things in the world. Only a couple have gone ape**** out of control, ever.

It's ironic because they get so bent out of shape every time we have a nuclear naval vessel dock in Japan.

The legal limit for radioactivity has been passed at the Fukushima plant, AFP says, quoting Japan's Kyodo news agency.

Uh oh, they're in violation, they HAVE to stop now!

I expect a strongly worded letter from the UN!

Well... in the face of an offshore 9.1 quake, any beach is a "tsunami beach"... and an awful lot of Japan is beach, and Nuclear plants need a lot of water.

And with the amount of power that Japan consumes, and the amount of real estate it consumes, it's not particularly viable to power the nation by wind farms. Nuclear plants provide a lot of power in a small footprint.

I think Japan's actually slated as the site for the world's first "commercially viable" fusion plant, last I checked.

maybe a documentry. might go viral.

holy ****
Anguish siting

Obamanomics.

Whats wrong with putting it near an inland body of water? Why not make a man made body of water for cooling like we do on a lot of plants here? The whole west coast of Japan is known for Tsunamis probably more so than anywhere else on Earth.

Even if you did put it on the beach like they did, why not raise the backup generators for cooling well above a tsunami's reach? I know one plant in Cali is exactly the same way, you see it driving between San Diego and LA, so if Cali ever has a major tsunami the same situation is likely to arise.

ruh roh......

Top of MOX fuel rods 3 meters above water.

radiation at 1,204 micro sievert.

:shrug: cost?

I'm not trying to defend it, just suggesting some of the reasoning that might have gone into the decisions. No matter where you put it in Japan, there's going to be problems, and I don't think there's much around that's designed with disasters of this magnitude in mind.

BREAKING NEWS: AP: Meltdown likely under way at second reactor, Japan government says

They're wrong. LGBR said everything will be fine. I take his word for it since some girl he ****ed said so. HE HAS THE WORD FROM THE STREETS DAWG!

i thought it was based on his american facebook friends that don't wake up until the middle of the afternoon over there.

God damn.

And apparently in California, Santa Cruz's harbor got wrecked along with Crescent City.

Tsunami Figures from Santa Cruz Harbor - Santa Cruz, CA Patch

Either way, he's got the inside scoop on what's really going on over there. Just like how he had the inside scoop of how credit cards work in that big thread before.

Heh funny looks like CNN used a PWR not a BWR graphic