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@Angie I've become so cynical. This has really opened my eyes.

How did the General Electric (GE) Mark 1 BWR reactors create such a world-wide tragedy? www.faDepeirewinds.com

TEPCO drowning in dealing with tons of radioactive water www.asahi.com

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This is the playback link to the American Medical Association Japan Webinar on
Medical and public health implications of a radiation emergency

With the potential for a nuclear disaster at Japan's Fukushima Dai-ichi power plant, learn about the medical and public health implications of radiation events by participating in this American Medical Association (AMA) webinar.

"Crisis in Japan: medical and public health implications of a radiation emergency," explores scenarios involving individual- and population-based exposures. The program also addresses the different types of ionizing radiation, relative medical and public health consequences of radiation exposure, and diagnostic and treatment considerations for acute radiation syndrome. The program provides information for physicians and other health professionals to advise patients and the public on necessary steps to prepare for a radiation emergency.

Upon completion of this webinar, participants will be able to:
- Identify the different types of ionizing radiation and relative medical implications
- Discuss the diagnosis of and treatment considerations for acute radiation syndrome
- Advise individual patients and citizen groups of the necessary steps to prepare for a radiation emergency
- Identify both the immediate and long-term public health roles in a radiation emergency

@bo....Wired magazine had a pretty awesome article on Thorium reactors a few months back that probably wouldn't be too hard to dig up

@wrshpr and @lillymunster thanks, I will pass these things on to the listener.

Another spectacular example of ridiculously boring headline. Sheesh. "More-than-expected damage found at Japan reactor" hosted.ap.org

@lillymunster Does a Thorium reactor have to be sodium cooled?

@Pedro Jesus Legal e eu Brasileiro. Um Prazer

Thorium

AP article on reactor problems..... hosted.ap.org

Hi all! Finally finished cleaning up after dinner. Forgive if this was posted already. Found an article with the full monty on it. www.theatlanticwire.com

And with a real headline. Only downplayed a little. (Passive voice)

@radioguy I know...pathetic isn't it. For two months they've been trying to calm people by saying it was only a partial meltdown. You would think the press would go for the jugular. Oh well.. I guess it's just not as sexy as war.

"worse than expected damage"

@all Last August, Beyond Nuclear’s radioactive waste watchdog, Kevin Kamps, was invited by Green Action Japan and their local Fukushima anti-nuclear environmental allies to travel to Fukushima specifically to speak about the risks of storing MOX high-level radioactive waste in storage pools.

“If the citizen groups had not been successful, there would have been a 33% load of MOX at Fukushima Daiichi 3 instead of the current 5% and there would have been MOX in the spent fuel pool,” said Kamps. “The activists have saved countless lives by preventing what might have been a worse disaster than is already taking place.”

nuclearhistory.wordpress.com Question to pose for consideration is this: If only 5% had been loaded into the reactor, where would TEPCO be storing the remaining MOX assemblies, and would these be kept on site?

@Panserbjorne9 "The rods are probably not in their original configuration." That still has to be the classic.

@Panserbjorne9 They banked on that (literally) when they self-insured in June of 2010 (after seeing how well it worked out for BP) just before installing MOX in September.

@Majjham Zazen Legal terrorists have no fear.

Bye, @smoss. Thanks a lot.

@all I would say this. In many ways we are not as dependent on the mainstream media as we might think. They have never covered nuclear issues well. Even while the US press sang triumphantly about the bombing of Hiroshima, many people had more complicated feelings. People didn't learn the truth about TMI for years, and many never heard the final truth about the fuel melt. But still, no new licenses were issued after that. These issues have an indirect way of penetrating into people's consciousnesses. Even if all the headlines screamed "Meltdown!" today people would forget tomorrow. But humans have a very deeply rooted fear of poison and contamination, and this incident will stick in everyone's head, no matter how accurate the details. Everyone knows the name Fukushima by now. It has joined the all-star groups of names they know: Chernobyl, Three Mile Island. That is a done deal. We should all continue our work here and trust that it will all enter into the group consciousness and discourse in varied and indirect ways. Regardless of what the press does, this will have a devastating impact and will be part of our culture for a long time. This knowledge has a longer half-life than the GOJ or TEPCO knows, or can affect. My two cents.