Tokyo Earthquake (I am Living it)

"disaster-free England" ignorance is bliss , nowhere is 100% natural disaster free.. nowhere.

L-Spiro, Earth is with you and your country , good luck , stay safe and hang on. Dont loose hope .

We all should be thankful for those amazing engineers making builds say:

Mother nature used earthquake!... it wasn't very effective.

Looks a little like our office after a busy day... :3

It seems you guys really know how to build earthquake resistant stuff. Don't want to know how my city would look after a quake like that. Rumors are our cathedral should be a heap of rubble if you apply the math - without earthquake. On the other hand it has been around for more than 1000 years. So far so good...

[insert brand of printer here] (I'm guessing HP), we are earthquake proof.

Watch yourself mate !

If you wanna see how much damage the tsunami and earthquake have caused check out this link

http://www.abc.net.au/news/events/japan ... eafter.htm

My cousin is now in Tokyo for clean up.

Huh, looks like I'm going to make a mature decision on my birthday. Only ask for $60 of what I'd normally receive (for Brink) and have my parents send the rest of what they'd give me as a donation for relief in Japan.

Donating money to one of the richest countries in the world...
Not saying it's a bad thing, but come on.

**** move, I know, but I'm being honest.

The country may be rich, but not everyone living in it is.

Their GDP is still lower than the US's and they just got hit by one of the biggest earthquakes in recorded history...

My problem with charity is that about 1/10 of the money you give actually finds it's way to the people it needs to. To give the people in Japan a tenner, I'd have to give 100 and have the other 90 seized by whoever the hell wants it. And I'm just not okay with that.

What do you base that on?

I'm not stalking you, it's just you post nonsense everywhere and I feel like I want to reply.

lolumad

Damn. Not much else to say except:

That sucks. Glad to see you're, well, alive. And, 2012 MUTHA *****.

I no longer know how well I am.
My coworkers and I have all reported feeling sick/dizzy since yesterday.
The radiation levels may be just above normal, but the media may also just be under-reporting the facts so as not to cause panic inside the most populated city on earth.

In either case, the radiation is prominent enough that it can be felt and is causing side-effects.

I, unfortunately, have nowhere to go.


L. Spiro

This makes me really nervous. Please stay safe.

Not too sick and dizzy to come on the mnc forums though eh?

For as long as radiation levels do remain anywhere near normal, and by that I mean within about 2 orders of magnitude of natural levels, any sickness/dizzyness people are feeling will be either due to something else or psychological.

Acute symptoms from radiation are not felt until you suffer multiple orders of magnitude more than the natural background dose.

To help install faith in the media claims, I can assure you that the pressurised water reactor design is fundamentally different to the reactor type of Chernobyl and unlike Chernobyl it is very unlikely to result in widespread radiation emissions. A reasonably realistic worst case scenario is that a core becomes critical again. The heat it would give out will cause it to melt into the foundations of the reactor. There are bad implications of this, but it is highly improbable that significant levels of radiation will be sent up into the atmosphere.

If you should ever discover that there is a lot of radiation in the air, travel upwind in the opposite direction of the source of radiation release.

Send your sympathies and thanks to the workers who are volunteering to get close to the reactors to pour on the water. Their doses could become significant.

Heard they poured in salt-water to cool the reactors. That was a bold move, makes me feel that they are both taking extreme measure to prevent radiation (salt water contaminates the place, meaning they need to replace it after they get it under control), yet they haven't taken very extreme measures yet so the United Nations has to feel that this isn't violently out of control yet.

Good luck in either case. Being out of the wind trail of the reactor until you know for sure may be a good idea.

From the way it sounded to me, it actually gave me more faith in nuclear power. 40 years ago, human error cause chernobyl. Now, not even an earthquake causes any problems the people can't control. Nuclear power is a bit more practical and less dangerous with modern technolody. Imagine how much safer those power plants would be on solid ground away from fault lines, like in America's "breadbasket", than people say they are?

If I recall correctly, the reactors were built in the 70's and are near due for decommisioning anyway. None of them will ever be turned on again. Still, the sodium in the sea water will become radioactivated and 23Na decay is nasty stuff, but it doesn't hang around very long....one of the reasons reactors are built near the sea is because of this eventuality, I wouldn't class pouring sea water on them bold.