aerospacemango Posted March 18, 2011 Posted March 18, 2011 From el reg. Ben Yayyyyyy! So, when the big one hits East Anglia, I can just pop up the road to Sizewell! So....I'm safe....what about the rest of you??
somabc Posted March 18, 2011 Posted March 18, 2011 Oh dear I bet they are regretting the decision to have 2 different incompatible power grids now. http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/cb/Power_Grid_of_Japan.PNG 1
tommej Posted March 18, 2011 Posted March 18, 2011 They have Britain and America to blame for that. They were each assigned a different side of the country to reconstruct after World war 2 and both installed a different system. 1
somabc Posted March 18, 2011 Posted March 18, 2011 I think you'll find we installed the RIGHT system and they installed the WRONG system. 1
johnj1710 Posted March 21, 2011 Posted March 21, 2011 I think you'll find we installed the RIGHT system and they installed the WRONG system. Well said! No mincing of words... Just the truth!
MattGibson Posted March 21, 2011 Posted March 21, 2011 Hi Guys, Its funny how a lot of people don't know about the UK Government Cover up in Cumbria... UK Government covered up nuclear reactor blaze which caused death and cancer | Mail Online
mats Posted March 21, 2011 Posted March 21, 2011 From the Daily Fail Sensationalist Rag Indeed. Just living can "cause" cancer without the DM attributing it to everything else they can think of. Was anybody else surprised to see that they have a science correspondant? I didn't check for qualifications, mind.
aerospacemango Posted March 21, 2011 Posted March 21, 2011 (edited) Hi Guys, Its funny how a lot of people don't know about the UK Government Cover up in Cumbria... UK Government covered up nuclear reactor blaze which caused death and cancer | Mail Online I would disagree with that view. Although it has not been heavily publicised, except for the last week or so, Windscale was a well-known fact. The problem with something that happened 54 years ago, is that is IS history. You can go back and read about it, but it's hardly going to crop up in EVERY History lesson, as it wasn't THAT big a deal. By the time the early 80's came round, and I was doing history at school, it was referred to , but we had the much more recent "3 Mile Island" disaster to talk about. Just because it's not overtly talked about, doesn't mean that it's being covered up. Of course, at the time, they would have covered it up....and in much the same way that the Japanese are covering up the worst of the Fukushima problems....but that's BIG Government for you. *EDIT* It may also be worth reading some of the "Comments" section to see how much of a cover-up there was! Daily Mail strikes again! Oh, and did you know that house prices are going through the floor, because of the nuclear fll-out from Fukushima? Source: Daily Mail (Probably!!) Edited March 21, 2011 by aerospacemango
sonofsanta Posted March 22, 2011 Posted March 22, 2011 BBC Headlines: Lying to you to push an agenda and keep you safe! Headline: BBC News - Nuclear power support in UK falls over Japan fears First paragraph: "More Britons support the building of new nuclear power stations than oppose it, despite the crisis at Japan's Fukushima plant, an opinion poll says." Which suggests that the better headline might well be "Support for nuclear power still strong after Japan earthquake" or similar. Talk about picking an angle and writing to that...
Martin Posted March 22, 2011 Posted March 22, 2011 BBC Headlines: Lying to you to push an agenda and keep you safe! Headline: BBC News - Nuclear power support in UK falls over Japan fears First paragraph: "More Britons support the building of new nuclear power stations than oppose it, despite the crisis at Japan's Fukushima plant, an opinion poll says." Which suggests that the better headline might well be "Support for nuclear power still strong after Japan earthquake" or similar. Talk about picking an angle and writing to that... ...and the survey was commissioned by Friends of the Earth (who are against nuclear power), who made the statement "This poll shows that the government's plans for a major expansion of nuclear power in the UK are out of step with public opinion" when their own figures say that 35% either strongly or slightly support a programme to replace the UK's existing reactors, with 28% either strongly or slightly opposed. Aaarrrggghhhhhh! mb
difinity Posted March 22, 2011 Posted March 22, 2011 In case you haven't seen it there is an excellent chart comparing levels of radiation. http://xkcd.com/radiation/ 3
CHR1S Posted March 22, 2011 Posted March 22, 2011 In case you haven't seen it there is an excellent chart comparing levels of radiation. http://xkcd.com/radiation/ Perspective
Martin Posted March 23, 2011 Posted March 23, 2011 BBC Headlines: Lying to you to push an agenda and keep you safe! Headline: BBC News - Nuclear power support in UK falls over Japan fears I notice that the BBC have sneakily changed the headline to "UK nuclear support partially survives Japan crisis", although it still says "22 March 2011 Last updated at 04:38" so you would never know that they changed it! mb
sonofsanta Posted March 24, 2011 Posted March 24, 2011 One of our ex-students, now at UCL, has just had her first piece of (unpaid) journalism printed on the global reaction to Fukushima and the negative impact on plans for new plants... she needs good viewing figures for whatever reason, it's only a short piece and I certainly tend to agree with it, if you can give it a read and award it some stars at the bottom it'd be doing someone out there a favour! Japan’s Nuclear Fallout | The Urban Times
JJonas Posted March 24, 2011 Posted March 24, 2011 One of our ex-students, now at UCL, has just had her first piece of (unpaid) journalism printed on the global reaction to Fukushima and the negative impact on plans for new plants... she needs good viewing figures for whatever reason, it's only a short piece and I certainly tend to agree with it, if you can give it a read and award it some stars at the bottom it'd be doing someone out there a favour! Japan’s Nuclear Fallout | The Urban Times Tweeted with hashtags #fukushima #nuclear 1
sonofsanta Posted March 24, 2011 Posted March 24, 2011 Tweeted with hashtags #fukushima #nuclear Ooh grand, thanks a lot!
sonofsanta Posted March 24, 2011 Posted March 24, 2011 lets hope they are nice to her... I suspect that if she wants to go into journalism, she is going to have to grow a thick skin sooner rather than later anyway... more exposure can only really be a good thing for her at this point anyway, I'm sure she'll be happier with large viewing figures than with a nice comments thread cos only her Mum read it.
JJonas Posted March 24, 2011 Posted March 24, 2011 Japan nuclear crisis: Fukushima Fifty pictures from inside nuclear power plant | Mail Online Im amazed at the road reconstruction. We still have pot-holes left over from winter.
tommej Posted March 24, 2011 Posted March 24, 2011 It's annoying that now things are going relatively smoothly and are mostly under control this isn't considered front page news.
Flakes Posted March 24, 2011 Posted March 24, 2011 Personally i support nuclear power allot more after this incident, people forget that it managed to survive a tsunami and earthquake, i know that people were injured/died/may die in future, who helped save the plant however with all energy production there is the same risks, i would think more people die a year mining oil than die per year in Nuclear plants. the problem is the long lasting effects if it does go wrong, and i think that is what most people are against even if they dont realise it.
tommej Posted March 24, 2011 Posted March 24, 2011 Personally i support nuclear power allot more after this incident, people forget that it managed to survive a tsunami and earthquake, i know that people were injured/died/may die in future, who helped save the plant however with all energy production there is the same risks, i would think more people die a year mining oil than die per year in Nuclear plants. the problem is the long lasting effects if it does go wrong, and i think that is what most people are against even if they dont realise it. In china in 2004, 6000 people were killed mining coal in one year. Only one person has died on the site of these reactors (while being in a crane cab during the tsunami), it is likely no one else will die as a result of what happened at these plants. The worst long lasting affects are going to be the cost of cleanup, the lack of power for the foreseeable future (especially during summer) and the damage to the nuclear industry by terrible and uniformed reporting.
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