tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-164759447914108865.post6329377870914226323..comments2024-01-17T02:56:13.783-06:00Comments on Random Human Neural Firings: Remember What I Said About Japan Still Not Having It Quite As Bad As Port Royal?Aaron Allermannhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16678903790678189466noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-164759447914108865.post-83191045409229773712011-03-15T01:02:03.423-05:002011-03-15T01:02:03.423-05:00I'm not really the best on nuclear energy, to ...I'm not really the best on nuclear energy, to be honest. I've always been kinda clouded by the Chernobyl/Three Mile Island stuff and no amount of 'but look at all these safety measures and updated designs' has been able to shake me out of it.<br /><br />However, what I've seen at Fukushima Daichi, strange as it is, actually kind of reassures me to a degree on the concept. I mean, you've got an 8.9 earthquake, a ginormous tsunami, fires, explosions, Japan basically transformed into a Jerry Bruckheimer movie... and this is ALL that's happened. If you told me, before anything had happened, that a nuclear plant was going to get pounded with what it has, I'd probably think that you'd have radioactive chunks of stuff coming down halfway to Hong Kong. But that hasn't happened. They've still got a chance at avoiding meltdown.<br /><br />And apparently, from what I'm being told, this is itself an obsolete plant.<br /><br />If a plant like that can take that kind of beating and not go kablooey, really, what is it going to take?Aaron Allermannhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16678903790678189466noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-164759447914108865.post-31519812228597114442011-03-14T23:17:17.939-05:002011-03-14T23:17:17.939-05:00Indeed. Maddow and CNN are obviously covering the ...Indeed. Maddow and CNN are obviously covering the potential nuclear catastrophe, but an additional perspective that isn't constrained by commercial breaks and the top of the hour would be nice. For instance, is my use of the word "catastrophe" justified, or hyperbole? I honestly don't know anymore.Pinyanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06428397215278760136noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-164759447914108865.post-47187175589542139482011-03-14T20:00:22.280-05:002011-03-14T20:00:22.280-05:00Are you planning to cover the reactor situation at...Are you planning to cover the reactor situation at all? Despite the horribleness of the quake/tsunami no one around me can stop talking about the reactors.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com