Big earthquake in Japan

[MMM]

Originally Posted by GoNative

If you want to see some of the best examples of a people that come and work together in a time of crisis you should come to Japan right now. Can't think of many other places in the world where the people would remain as calm and united in the face of such destruction.

Truer words have never been said. I was living just 12 miles from the epicenter at the 1995 Great Hanshin Earthquake, and although my apartment was OK (though I didn't have water for weeks and gas for about a month) I had a immediate support system that I got into. I helped friends clean up, and they would feed me. If I could buy 3 bottles of water, I shared 2 of them, and the same was true in my immediate neighborhood. Is that true in other places. I think of the looting in New Orleans and Haiti. You don't see that in Japan.

[termogard]

Not sure that any of containments are completely intact....
Perfaps, they should to increase a level 4 of emergency till 5 or even 6....

[protheus]

We are so lucky to have so many nuclear specialists around here on the forum... What would the Japanese do without them or their help.

Even a few can tell from merely some aerial photos that a country should raise their alert level, others know that no more fish is edible, others with wonder moisturizers can make the radiation disappear... Lucky for the Japanese that us, the users from JapanForum, exist in this world.

[SHAD0W]

BBC News - Japan earthquake: UK rescue team 'foiled by red tape'

Typical British lack of organisation...

[tipsygypsy]

Self defensive force gave up discharging water from above

[termogard]

Originally Posted by protheus

We are so lucky to have so many nuclear specialists around here on the forum... What would the Japanese do without them or their help.

Even a few can tell from merely some aerial photos that a country should raise their alert level, others know that no more fish is edible, others with wonder moisturizers can make the radiation disappear... Lucky for the Japanese that us, the users from JapanForum, exist in this world.

Bud, your poisonous sarcasm isn't appropriate. This forum is a place to discuss and we can share opinions without advices of various smart asses

As for work of japanese nuclear specialists :

Japan asks IAEA for help in nuclear crisis

VIENNA: Japan has officially asked the UN atomic watchdog to send a team of experts to help in the current nuclear crisis, International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) chief Yukiya Amano said on Monday.

Rest of article

How many days Japan has problems with four nuclear reactors?

By comparison, in Chernobyl Soviets immediately gathered a huge group of heavy Mil-26 helicopters, day-to-day dropping tones of boric acid, sand and cement upon a single damaged reactor.

[godwine]

Originally Posted by protheus

We are so lucky to have so many nuclear specialists around here on the forum... What would the Japanese do without them or their help.

Even a few can tell from merely some aerial photos that a country should raise their alert level, others know that no more fish is edible, others with wonder moisturizers can make the radiation disappear... Lucky for the Japanese that us, the users from JapanForum, exist in this world.

Leave the forum if you don't like what you see... this is a DISCUSSION FORUM... there won't be any discussion if we are experts and are always right.

Most of us are no expert, thats why we ask questions, no one is making recommendation on how to solve this. Others are merely suggesting things base on a surface level understanding of what happened in Chernobyl, nobody wish for something like that to happen again,.

All we can do is sit behind a TV, watching the heroic workers saving the day, praising and admiring what they are doing for the country....

My prayers with the workers and their family.....

[termogard]

Originally Posted by godwine

Leave the forum if you don't like what you see... this is a DISCUSSION FORUM... there won't be any discussion if we are experts and are always right.

Most of us are no expert, thats why we ask questions, no one is making recommendation on how to solve this. Others are merely suggesting things base on a surface level understanding of what happened in Chernobyl, nobody wish for something like that to happen again,.

All we can do is sit behind a TV, watching the heroic workers saving the day, praising and admiring what they are doing for the country....

My prayers with the workers and their family.....

Couldn't agree with you more......

[GoNative]

This is not overly scientific or anything but makes for a reasonable read

Some Perspective On The Japan Earthquake: MicroISV on a Shoestring

[protheus]

I live pretty close to Chernobil, I had 2 brothers who died from leuchemia because of that (one was under a year old, the other 3 and a half), so I should know about the effects, but to scare the c...p out of people isn't a discussion. That's exactly what the media does, exaggerating everything, and it isn't helping the people. You're comparing something like Chernobil to this?