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Earthquake and Tsunami in Japan !!!!!
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Various car related forums have started fundraising efforts for those affected by the Earthquake and Tsunami in Japan.
Here is a direct link to the American Red Cross fund that is targeted towards the Quake/Tsunami related relief efforts:
https://american.redcross.org/site/Donation2?idb=0&5052.donation=form1&df_id=5052
Here is a direct link to the American Red Cross fund that is targeted towards the Quake/Tsunami related relief efforts:
https://american.redcross.org/site/Donation2?idb=0&5052.donation=form1&df_id=5052
I'm really worried about the 6 nuclear reactors. No one really knows what's going on or how serve is the radiation levels. I'm preying for a positive outcome from this.
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I was about to post this link. Good guy!
Today, they announced a $10 million contribution. But it needs much more! Please keep giving, right now!
Thanks to all who supported!
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Same here.
Currently, it's reading about 15-20 micro-sievert per hour in areas that's about 60-70 km away from the plant. Places like Tokyo is measuring slightly higher than normal values, but either way, it's nowhere near problematic to human body yet. This is according to NHK. US is also going to conduct radiation measurement in Japan.
It's laughable that people on the west coast are running to buy potasium iodine pills. If you have money to buy those pills, donate that money to redcross instead!
This is probably the most factual, unbiased info:
http://www.nsxprime.com/forums/showpost.php?p=1409388&postcount=5
Dave
E-mail from co-worker and friend:
As you may or may not know, my son, Evan, is one of the Navy helicopter pilots flying support missions in Japan. A fellow pilot friend of his sent an email to his dad this morning (who forwarded it to me) with what they have been doing, and he mentioned Evan. Here’s an excerpt of what he said:
Things are crazy here. I’ve been flying about 6 hours a day doing just about everything you can think of. We are primarily doing medivacs, search and rescue, and hauling supplies inland to stranded villages. This is the most rewarding flying I’ve ever done and we’re really making a difference in these people’s lives. Evan Knock is out here too and I see him all the time. Things are a lot worse in person than they appear to be on the news.
Go Navy!
Great to see our military powers helping out such a humanitarian cause.
As you may or may not know, my son, Evan, is one of the Navy helicopter pilots flying support missions in Japan. A fellow pilot friend of his sent an email to his dad this morning (who forwarded it to me) with what they have been doing, and he mentioned Evan. Here’s an excerpt of what he said:
Things are crazy here. I’ve been flying about 6 hours a day doing just about everything you can think of. We are primarily doing medivacs, search and rescue, and hauling supplies inland to stranded villages. This is the most rewarding flying I’ve ever done and we’re really making a difference in these people’s lives. Evan Knock is out here too and I see him all the time. Things are a lot worse in person than they appear to be on the news.
Go Navy!
Great to see our military powers helping out such a humanitarian cause.
I kind of had a feeling that CNN was doing a little sugar coating on the situation. It can't be too good when Japsnese government haven't taken over. The true hero's are the military search / rescue teams and the 50 civilian reactor employees.
The following is a post that was forwarded to me that appears credible; I thought I would share it. I am not sure if it is true as I am not a scientist, but I hope so:
Anti-Nuclear Press Puts Japanese Lives at Risk
March 15, 2011 4:18 P.M.
By Robert Zubrin
Japan currently faces a real emergency. As a result of the earthquake and the ensuing tsunami, thousands of people are dead, and tens of thousands more are missing and may be trapped under rubble, severely injured, and in danger of death by thirst or suffocation. There are over 500,000 people without shelter, with a blizzard on the way, and even the as-yet unscathed could soon face death from epidemics caused by thousands of unburied corpses.
At such a time, nothing could be more scandalous than the current campaign by much of the international press to spread panic over trivial emissions of radiological material from several disabled nuclear power stations.
Let us be clear. Compared to the real disaster at hand, the hypothetical threat from the nuclear stations is zero. The reactors in question were all shut down four days ago. The control rods have been inserted, and the cores have been salted with boron. It is physically impossible for them to sustain a fission reaction of any kind at this point, let alone cause another Chernobyl. Only the fission-byproduct decay heat remains, and it is fading fast as the short half-life material (which accounts for most of the radioactivity) performs its decay reactions and ceases to exist. At this point, the total heating power in the reactors is only about 0.3 percent of what it was when the reactors were operating. That means that a system previously capable of generating 1,300 megawatts of heat would now yield 4 megawatts thermal — about the same as that emitted by a dozen 100-horsepower automobile engines. The Japanese engineers can certainly deal with that with water cooling. And even if they were to stop, there just isn’t enough heating power in the system anymore to generate a dangerous plume of radioactive materials, which is doubly impossible at this point since all the more active short half-life stuff is already gone.
No, the threat does not come from the power plant, but from panic spread by press misinformation. After Three Mile Island, the press spread hysteria as well, but at least there conditions in the rest of society were normal, and so the only victim of the press campaign was the nuclear industry.
But there is a real emergency in Japan right now, of epic proportions, which has to be dealt with as effectively as possible. That emergency is not nuclear radiation, but the need to rescue the trapped and the injured, shield the homeless from the elements, and to prevent an epidemic. In this case, panic induced by press misinformation could cause the deaths of multitudes of people, both by inducing them to take unwise actions, as well by scaring away those who might otherwise try to rescue them.
By diverting people from the real emergency at hand, this radiation scare could kill thousands.
— Dr. Robert Zubrin is the president of Pioneer Astronautics and the author of Energy Victory: Winning the War on Terror by Breaking Free of Oil. He holds a Ph.D. in nuclear engineering.
Anti-Nuclear Press Puts Japanese Lives at Risk
March 15, 2011 4:18 P.M.
By Robert Zubrin
Japan currently faces a real emergency. As a result of the earthquake and the ensuing tsunami, thousands of people are dead, and tens of thousands more are missing and may be trapped under rubble, severely injured, and in danger of death by thirst or suffocation. There are over 500,000 people without shelter, with a blizzard on the way, and even the as-yet unscathed could soon face death from epidemics caused by thousands of unburied corpses.
At such a time, nothing could be more scandalous than the current campaign by much of the international press to spread panic over trivial emissions of radiological material from several disabled nuclear power stations.
Let us be clear. Compared to the real disaster at hand, the hypothetical threat from the nuclear stations is zero. The reactors in question were all shut down four days ago. The control rods have been inserted, and the cores have been salted with boron. It is physically impossible for them to sustain a fission reaction of any kind at this point, let alone cause another Chernobyl. Only the fission-byproduct decay heat remains, and it is fading fast as the short half-life material (which accounts for most of the radioactivity) performs its decay reactions and ceases to exist. At this point, the total heating power in the reactors is only about 0.3 percent of what it was when the reactors were operating. That means that a system previously capable of generating 1,300 megawatts of heat would now yield 4 megawatts thermal — about the same as that emitted by a dozen 100-horsepower automobile engines. The Japanese engineers can certainly deal with that with water cooling. And even if they were to stop, there just isn’t enough heating power in the system anymore to generate a dangerous plume of radioactive materials, which is doubly impossible at this point since all the more active short half-life stuff is already gone.
No, the threat does not come from the power plant, but from panic spread by press misinformation. After Three Mile Island, the press spread hysteria as well, but at least there conditions in the rest of society were normal, and so the only victim of the press campaign was the nuclear industry.
But there is a real emergency in Japan right now, of epic proportions, which has to be dealt with as effectively as possible. That emergency is not nuclear radiation, but the need to rescue the trapped and the injured, shield the homeless from the elements, and to prevent an epidemic. In this case, panic induced by press misinformation could cause the deaths of multitudes of people, both by inducing them to take unwise actions, as well by scaring away those who might otherwise try to rescue them.
By diverting people from the real emergency at hand, this radiation scare could kill thousands.
— Dr. Robert Zubrin is the president of Pioneer Astronautics and the author of Energy Victory: Winning the War on Terror by Breaking Free of Oil. He holds a Ph.D. in nuclear engineering.
Bet ya, this guy wouldn't stake his life on his above statement. Looks like they are now detecting high concentrations of cesium -137 at the site from the spent rods at #4 that now have NO water on them. Working at the plant has now official become a suicide mission. Another Chernobyl. :frown:
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Situation at Unit 3 seems to have taken a turn for the worse as the core may have been breeched. Let's pray for the people of Japan today as they have been through so much in the past 2 weeks. What impresses me is their ability to pull together as a people and help one another.
Here is part of an article I found in the news today which brought a lump to the throat: :frown:
In Soma, a hard-hit town along the Fukushima prefecture coast, rubble covered the block where Hiroshi Suzuki's home once stood. He watched as soldiers dug into mounds of timber had been neighbors' homes in search of bodies. Just three bodies have been pulled out.
"I never expected to have to live through anything like this," he said mournfully. Suzuki is one of Soma's lucky residents, but the tsunami washed away the shop where he sold fish and seaweed. "My business is gone. I don't think I will ever be able to recover," said Suzuki, 59.
Still, he managed to find a bright side. "The one good thing is the way everyone is pulling together and helping each other. No one is stealing or looting," he said.
"It makes me feel proud to be Japanese."
Here is part of an article I found in the news today which brought a lump to the throat: :frown:
In Soma, a hard-hit town along the Fukushima prefecture coast, rubble covered the block where Hiroshi Suzuki's home once stood. He watched as soldiers dug into mounds of timber had been neighbors' homes in search of bodies. Just three bodies have been pulled out.
"I never expected to have to live through anything like this," he said mournfully. Suzuki is one of Soma's lucky residents, but the tsunami washed away the shop where he sold fish and seaweed. "My business is gone. I don't think I will ever be able to recover," said Suzuki, 59.
Still, he managed to find a bright side. "The one good thing is the way everyone is pulling together and helping each other. No one is stealing or looting," he said.
"It makes me feel proud to be Japanese."
I think I forgot to post this here. I kept seeing videos of the tsunami thinking, that wave looks tiny so spent some time trying to find one that gives a bit of a better perspective on how big it was. I finally found this one which I haven't seen on any news media.
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