Massive Quake Hits NE Japan

[Asher]

It's the pure maple coolant -- best neutron absorber out there.

It's also the karmic factor. Everyone likes the Canadians, especially Mother Nature.

[ColdWizard]

IMHO.
We were promised clean energy without risk. If this is not true then somebody is not being truthful. If radiation has a government allowed exceedance then, I have made up my mind, nuclear energy is not worth the risk. I will not argue for nuclear power no more.

If you're living a risk free life, you're already dead. Natural gas can explode, dams can fail, and everyone but Asher thinks burning coal is bad.

[Asher]

If you're living a risk free life, you're already dead. Natural gas can explode, dams can fail, and everyone but Asher thinks burning coal is bad.

If everyone thought burning coal was bad, then why is the US building so many new coal burning plants?

Natural gas is better, and more profitable for Alberta, though.

[The Mad Monk]

Burning coal beats burning trees.

[Docfeelgood]

GE built the ones on the eastern coast (the ones we're talking about), IIRC. But the Japanese are actually among the world leaders in reactor design, I think. Canada is one of the leaders as well. No Canadian reactors have had meltdowns, partial or otherwise, and they're used all over the world.

WOW! Asher, you knew that info? you posted a reply in under a minute.

[Docfeelgood]

If you're living a risk free life, you're already dead. Natural gas can explode, dams can fail, and everyone but Asher thinks burning coal is bad.

May cough and gag, but when you pee it won't glow.

[ColdWizard]

If everyone thought burning coal was bad, then why is the US building so many new coal burning plants?

Natural gas is better, and more profitable for Alberta, though.

Because after 50 years of nuclear weapons testing we have absorbed to much radiation to build new nuclear plants

[Asher]

WOW! Asher, you knew that info? you posted a reply in under a minute.

The media in Canada tends to focus on facts rather than hysteria, so I probably know lots more relevant things about the disaster than your average Texan, for instance.

[Docfeelgood]

If everyone thought burning coal was bad, then why is the US building so many new coal burning plants?

Natural gas is better, and more profitable for Alberta, though.

Natural gas

[ColdWizard]

May cough and gag, but when you pee it won't glow.

That just means you don't have to turn on the light

[Asher]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fukushima_I_Nuclear_Power_Plant

The reactors for Units 1, 2, and 6 were supplied by General Electric, those for Units 3 and 5 by Toshiba, and Unit 4 by Hitachi. All six reactors were designed by General Electric.[1] Architectural design for General Electric's units was done by Ebasco. All construction was done by Kajima.[2] Since September 2010, Unit 3 has been fueled by mixed-oxide (MOX) fuel, rather than the low enriched uranium (LEU) used in the other reactors.[3][4] Units 1–5 were built with Mark I type (light bulb torus) containment structures, Unit 6 has a Mark II type (over/under) containment structure.[5][6][7]
Unit 1 is a 460 MW boiling water reactor (BWR-3) constructed in July 1967. It commenced commercial electrical production on March 26, 1971, and was initially scheduled for shutdown in early 2011.[8] In February 2011, Japanese regulators granted an extension of ten years for the continued operation of the reactor.[9] It was damaged during the 2011 Sendai earthquake and tsunami.[10] Unit 1 was designed for a peak ground acceleration of 0.18 g (1.74 m/s2) and a response spectrum based on the 1952 Kern County earthquake.[5] All units were inspected after the 1978 Miyagi earthquake when the ground acceleration was 0.125 g (1.22 m/s2) for 30 seconds, but no damage to the critical parts of the reactor was discovered.[5]

[Ogie Oglethorpe]

I don't think there's anything inherently wrong with the reactor designs themselves. The problem was they built it on the coast where it was vulnerable to a tsunami, and the fuel supply for the diesel backup generators were not secure enough and were tainted by sea water from the tsunami. Build them inland more, problem solved.

I can also say, but without any shred of evidence and beyond a reasonable doubt, that if they used Canadian reactors none of this would have happened.

Canadians and their plutonium and tritium generating reactors. WMD prolifigators.

[Docfeelgood]

The media in Canada tends to focus on facts rather than hysteria, so I probably know lots more relevant things about the disaster than your average Texan, for instance.

Ok, I want to know how much influence did the Americans have on building these plants, so close to the coast and not able to predict the ramifications of an eq and tsunami effecting these plants?

[Asher]

Canadians and their plutonium and tritium generating reactors. WMD prolifigators.

Jealousy is not kind to you.

We also supply a ton of the world's medical isotopes as a result.

[Docfeelgood]

If you're living a risk free life, you're already dead. Natural gas can explode, dams can fail

but you can still move back home afterward and rebuild in the same spot.