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FBaggins

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35. Lol... I've only give you facts.
Wed Apr 18, 2012, 02:33 PM
Apr 2012
Or offered up anything approaching any reality of the situation. Offered no official reports. You are just mumbling.

Can you tell me which of your posts includes those official reports, etc?

But hey... this shouldn't be hard. Here's one from almost a year ago.

US: spent fuel pool never went dry in Japan quake

Water used to cool radioactive waste at the stricken nuclear complex in Japan did not dry up, as earlier feared, U.S. regulators said Wednesday in a reversal of a claim that pitted U.S. officials against Japan in the days after that country's nuclear disaster.

U.S. officials, most notably Nuclear Regulatory Chairman Gregory Jaczko, had warned that all the water was gone from one of the spent fuel pools at Japan's troubled nuclear plant, which would have raised the possibility of widespread nuclear fallout.
http://www.nuc.berkeley.edu/node/4626

The science that has been released says that the rods having been exposed to air created hydrogen gas which exploded.

Close, but no cigar. It says that the overheating rods in the cores (and not "exposed to air&quot created hydrogen gas which exploded after it was vented from containment. It nowhere says that fuel in the spent fuel pools had anything to do with the explosions. Nor does any report say that broken piping caused the pools to drain.

The entire scenario exists only in your imagination.

BECAUSE THEY DON'T KNOW


You can't use a lack of clarity on things that can't yet be known as an excuse to posit just any theory you like. You can't just make up BS about spent fuel rods exploding if they're exposed to air in less than ten years. You can't say that "plutonium spread around the world" when they have yet to identify any plutonium off the reactor site in concentrations higher than what existed pre-fukushima.

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thank you Senator Wyden n/t grasswire Apr 2012 #1
all the pro-nuclear folks should pay a visit Voice for Peace Apr 2012 #2
Creativity really isn't the problem. kristopher Apr 2012 #7
I guess what I meant is that the people in power Voice for Peace Apr 2012 #10
I really don't understand . . . Richard D Apr 2012 #3
So true. Maybe they are minimizing the raouldukelives Apr 2012 #6
Because as per Rachel Maddow last week... Javaman Apr 2012 #8
Thats the part that sticks in my crawl madokie Apr 2012 #11
Like the unsinkable Titanic? RobertEarl Apr 2012 #13
It was their arrogance that did us all in... Javaman Apr 2012 #19
Because it's not a threat to the world jeff47 Apr 2012 #9
We have us ANOTHER expert, eh? RobertEarl Apr 2012 #12
If you want to claim a threat, do the math. jeff47 Apr 2012 #14
wow RobertEarl Apr 2012 #15
Detecting a molecule is easy. Getting harmed by it, not so much. jeff47 Apr 2012 #16
wow again RobertEarl Apr 2012 #17
So kids and especially female kids live in lead-lined safes? jeff47 Apr 2012 #22
I know you Javaman Apr 2012 #23
Feel free to cite any incorrect fact. (nt) jeff47 Apr 2012 #40
Wrong again. FBaggins Apr 2012 #24
Oh? RobertEarl Apr 2012 #26
Yes. FBaggins Apr 2012 #27
So robots will save us all! Javaman Apr 2012 #20
You are aware that people invent new stuff, right? jeff47 Apr 2012 #21
robots are going to save us all!!! Javaman Apr 2012 #38
Well, considering your claim is we have to abandon Japan for the next few hundred years jeff47 Apr 2012 #39
Where did I say that? Javaman Apr 2012 #41
More.... abelenkpe Apr 2012 #4
Big technical hurdle to be overcome RobertEarl Apr 2012 #18
Well... it looks like you spelled that correctly FBaggins Apr 2012 #25
Guess this is news to you? RobertEarl Apr 2012 #28
It would be news to anyone FBaggins Apr 2012 #29
it was dumb RobertEarl Apr 2012 #30
You're really pro-nuke, aren't you? FBaggins Apr 2012 #31
What.... RobertEarl Apr 2012 #32
Thanks for making it so easy. FBaggins Apr 2012 #33
that is sad, FBaggins RobertEarl Apr 2012 #34
Lol... I've only give you facts. FBaggins Apr 2012 #35
Your one fact RobertEarl Apr 2012 #36
Claiming it's "asinine" just puts your own ignorance on display. FBaggins Apr 2012 #37
Check this JEB Apr 2012 #5
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