The plant was actually built on top of an underground aquifer, they designed it to fuck the Pacific if a meltdown occurred. Of which 3 have, reactor cores melted into the groundwater that flows to the ocean. The plant is at the base of a funnel valley at the base of a mountain and a river was diverted to build the plant. The river moved but the aquifer still flows there, and the cores have burrowed down into or maybe past them even. Why anyone would build a nuke plant there astounds me.
Shows how little you know about geology.
Aquifers are basically everywhere, especially on an island. Almost the entire island of Japan lays atop one aquifer or another. Would've been tough for them to NOT build on top of one. You make it sound like some devious plot. I regret to inform you that the logic here doesn't add up.
maybe the radiation will make the place inhabitable for a new form of beings...some mutated freaky things. pretty sci-fi-ish but hey life.. will go on...one way or the other.
and squiggs, this is very dire..Fuka will effect he entire globe and all living creatures.
I agree that it will effect the entire globe--I disagree about exactly how dire it is. That remains yet to be seen or quantified.
It's certainly not good, no one with a brain would say that. However, I think it's SIGNIFICANTLY less bad than someone like fractal is
assuming. At the same time it is likely orders of magnitude worse than, say, the Japanese government is letting on.There are a lot of stakeholders here coming from many different angles so the reality is that it will be difficult to sift through the data and to even collect good data in the first place.
Just based on my own knowledge of how radiation works, how it causes cellular damage, how that damage is repaired, and important considerations about total dose and dose rate and what the interplay is between these and the extent of damage--my guess is that this is mostly a disaster for the people of Japan.
That doesn't mean this isn't going to potentially indirectly cause the death of some Americans. I'm not trying to say this is safe and good or what-have-you. I'm saying we're not likely to be looking at something that is going to bring about the end of humankind. Frankly, it would seem to me that after 200 years of turning around every 5 seconds to confront the next source of our pre-assured destruction only to then realize shortly thereafter that we'd overreacted would be cause to maybe think about being a little more cautious when it comes to jumping headlong into the unforgiving inescapable abyss that is our beliefs about when and how the world will end.
Americans get high on that shit, though.
Personally if the end of the world is coming, I'd rather not harp on it anyway. Or I'd rather at least be positive and attempt to avert it sensibly (read: not with panic, fear, and virtually baseless assumptions).
Rest assured, that is what the scientific community and the global community is doing when it comes to Fukishima. We're putting our best heads together to see if we can minimize or put a stop to the leakage. If and when that becomes a reality the risk will be virtually at an end.
Fukishima would have to keep doing what it's doing for 5,000 years to kill off our species, I doubt we're going to let it ride that long.
