8.8 earthquake hits Japan

Thanks, and this being your thread I trust you'll take care ...

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We agree on one thing, at least.

He just likes to hear himself talk, and it's sad to say, but whatever threads he latches onto quickly become ruined.

Jeeze, next thing you know, Cy, you'll be calling Hawkeye a troll.

One who wasn't an idiot would be able to discern that Hawkeye wasn't "talking".

He, in fact, provided material where he was completely silent. That material was from, according to an American network, two experts who gave an account that seems to call into question High Seas' widely vacillating pontifications.

I didn't read anything that he posted in this thread; I just agree with HoT that he's an idiot.

If I, or most posters here, knew your location, Marburg, I would drop a thermonuclear weapon right on your head. Looked to see who "user ignored, view" was in the only post following latest nuclear info - and for the record, not only was the US perfectly justified in Vietnam, so were the French

As I see it, the EVENT in Japan was the earthquake/tsunami, Not the nuclear reactors. while the media is 99% focused on "the nuclear" (pretty scary stuff) the devastation in Japan is from the tsunami, the untold dead, the incredible havoc is not not nuclear related. The damaged reactors are collateral damage (at this point in time) The media has magnified the nuclear issue simply because "nuclear" is a real giant among scary words.

The media must sell advertising in our system, and scares do seem to sell better than scientific fact

Carter was a naval officer on Admiral Rickover's first nuclear sub, Nautilus.

He, in fact, provided material where he was completely silent. That material was from, according to an American network, two experts who gave an account that seems to call into question High Seas' widely vacillating pontifications.

WASHINGTON — The chairman of the United States Nuclear Regulatory Commission gave a significantly bleaker appraisal of the threat posed by Japan’s nuclear crisis than the Japanese government, saying on Wednesday that the damage at one crippled reactor was much more serious than Japanese officials had acknowledged and advising Americans to evacuate a wider area around the plant than the perimeter established by Japan.

The announcement marked a new and ominous chapter in the five-day long effort by Japanese engineers to bring four side-by-side reactors under control after their cooling systems were knocked out by an earthquake and tsunami last Friday. It also suggested a serious split between Washington and Tokyo, after American officials concluded that the Japanese warnings were insufficient, and that, deliberately or not, they had understated the potential threat of what is taking place inside the nuclear facility

Your claim that no one is talking about core melt down is obliterated by this link...

WASHINGTON, March 16 (Reuters) - The top U.S. nuclear regulator warned on Wednesday that one pool holding spent fuel at Japan's stricken nuclear plant may have run dry and a second could be leaking, something experts say could accelerate the release of radiation.

"We believe at this point that Unit Four may have lost a significant inventory, if not lost all, of its water," Gregory Jaczko, head of the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, told lawmakers at a House energy and commerce subcommittee hearing.

Officials in Japan have not said how much water remains in the pool.

Jaczko said there was the possibility of a crack in the spent fuel pool in reactor No.3, "which could lead to a loss of water in that pool".

The NRC chairman also said the spent fuel pool level in reactor No.2 "is decreasing."