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Someone mentioned Japan as having one of the main fishery industry in the world. How safe will the seafood supplies be if the radiation steam is going out to sea or even after having gone through this tsunami?
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Great show! Thanks for keeping eye on Libya
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I remember waching tons of wet cement being dumped on the site in Chernobyl..can't that help in Japan at the melt-down sites? Drones to fly over with loads of water or cement?
Good Night Everyone! Tonight has been any eye opening!
At Chernobyl, the reactor did not have a containment building and threw highly radiated particles high into the atmosphere when it exploded and burned. The containment buildings are helping to prevent that here so far.
Great reporting, as always. Keep up the great work, and stay safe from radiation! I hope those water canons work, because it sure doesn't look like those aerial dumps could have possibly cooled those spent fuel rods for very long. Hopefully they can restore electricity soon.
Anderson,
This is a sad situation. You should do a segment on the honor and respect the Japanese people are showing each other in this trial. I'm concerned that if this would have happened here in America we would be discussing looting, violence, police killings...think of Katrina. The Japanese are setting an example.
Dear Andersen, How long will the Japanese have to continuously pour water on the reactors before they will "lose power" enough to dismantle?
Stay safe Gary, Dan, Sanjay & Anderson and the 360 crew.
Good night Emily, Mike, Starr, Nancy in Oregon, Nicole, Casey, & Megan.
Gary Tuchman always finds the most interesting stories.
Thank you and good night Anderson & Team 360 in the field and in studio.
I very much appreciate the two hr. blogs and show. I learn so much more.
Good night fellow writers. I wish All a safe and peaceful day tomorrow.
I am surprised the Pakistan let that contractor go.Wonder who paid the "blood" money?
Liz... the oil doesn't come from the center of the earth which is several thousand miles from the crust..the oil is only 3-5 miles from the surface..and the oil is mixed with sand and minerals.. it;s not a pool/lake of oil.
I hold a lot of honor for the Japanese people for they had to deal with a 9.0 earthquake and tsunami and now the reactors. Not knowing where some of their loved ones are, no food, no shelter, no water. I don't feel the US could handle all of this with such grace.
I just want to bring up the point that i dont understand. Why is it that we as a World, have been using nuclear power for over 40 years, have the knowledge to develop this use of materials that can destroy the world, but yet we didnt develop a way to neutralize the fuel rods and reactors or the radiation created in a disaster like in Japan.That is just ignorant and a horrible mistake.
Here's an idea. Maybe, instead of using helicopters to dump water, the city of New York can lend their fire boats to Fukushima. They would then have an endless supply of water directed onto the reactors and the ships would remain at a safe distance to avoid radiation poisoning.
I meant to say the "Peninsula Shield" in my comment who are the G.C.C. troops from Saudi Arabia.
Night Anderson and staff, be carefull and take care. We want you back safe.
Have a good night everyone, it was nice to be with all of you tonight. Sorry I couldn't contribute much trying to catch up on missed homework.
I have heard many people in the U.S. complaining about the level of involvment in relief, assistance, and millitary personel in Japan. People bring up politics and finances in their argument; however this is not about either. This is about humanitarian assistance.
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they have more concrete than Idaho has Potatoes filling is less risky, with lead plates making walls on the surrounding outside contain it will, put a quick issue to sleep,while getting salvegeable reactors on line
Wow! That so hard for search and rescue find people during snow..... Yikes!
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Arlene...Why is Japan allowing the company who owns the power plant have any authority? The same reason's BP had alot to say about the oil spill in the U.S.A.
On US reactors we need to make sure there is triple redundancy for the cooling water systems and there should be equipment offsite that can brought in within hours. From an engineering point of view this whole problem is negligence. Tsunami is a word coined in Japan, the power co. should be prepared.
Great program tonight, Anderson–I hope you are able to get some rest, and stay safe!
At least the snow will knock the radiation contaminates out of the air in those areas.
Salt is extremely corrosive.
Why are the water cannons still en route? Where are they coming from? The helicopters are carrying and inaccurately dropping 7.5 tons of water. Would they not be better used to transport the water cannons?
Kudos to your entire team and the Fairfax County Search and Rescue Team. The pictures are heart breaking. Thanks guys, for being our eyes and ears. Stay safe.
Someone needs to ask if they were over capacity on the storage pools.
How can the head of the NRC suggest there is no water in #4 spent fuel rod pool and that excessive radiation was present?
You can't rack rods so as to create a nuclear reactor in the fuel pools even with no water where they offer no containment.