Nov
12
2011
Japanese Workers Sacrificing Lives To Prevent Nuclear Meltdown
By Solar Expert
Cenk Uygur gives an update on attempts to prevent a nuclear meltdown Japan days after the massive earthquake and tsunami struck. Explosions have led to a number of missing workers and radiation concerns at nuclear power plants. On Facebook: www.facebook.com On Twitter: twitter.com TYT Mobile: bit.ly Subscribe: bit.ly www.theyoungturks.com Read Ana’s blog and subscribe at: www.examiner.com Read Cenk’s Blog: www.huffingtonpost.com
Video Rating: 4 / 5
So… any of them dead yet?
Funny how this video is next to “Japanese Workers Are Weak-Sauce!!!” when you search TYT for Japan.
@ry967 How am I being an idealist just for saying I believe nuclear energy is good? Name-calling is not a flattering attribute.
@ry967 Ya, I wish I could be more polite about it, honestly, but I have found that polite messages get ignored or yelled at by the sheeple. Someone actually screamed at me that building pools of rods above the reactors was the most intelligent and safe plan ever. That moron doesn’t understand you are storing bullets in boxes made of TNT and pretending that BECAUSE it’s TNT you have nothing to worry about. That person must have hit himself in the head with a hammer every day.
@ImMichaelTaylor “The 75 tonne lid was thrown through the ceiling” That’s an error, sorry. I meant 2000 tonnes.
@ry967 Every last man in the chernobyl #4 building and all of the first responders were either lethally irradiated or had their health ruined for life. You could literally taste the nuclear fuel in the fucking air. Thousands in pripyat were effectively sentenced to death, before the soviet authorities even told them anything was wrong.
Tepco haven’t done the best job, and the reactor was old, maybe even faulty, but comparing it to chernobyl is either ignorance or deceit.
@ry967 Overheated subcritical fuel bubbling away the water behind three layers of containment and releasing contaminated steam and hydrogen is categorically not the same as the massive power excursion and rapid supercriticality at chernobyl.
Chernobyl ruptured the reactor vessel instantly. There were zero additional layers of containment. The 75 tonne lid was thrown through the ceiling. The fuel and moderator caught fire and could not be put out.
@ry967 How many more people had been lethally irradiated at this point during the chernobyl accident? (how many more than 0 that is.) How many times the area and how many times the number of people have been exposed to levels of radiation that could raise cancer risk by 1% ? How many tonnes of nuclear fuel were vapourised and poured into the air at chernobyl, compared to how many (ounces) at fukushima ?
It is not the same at all.
@ry967 Have you actually made any attempt whatsoever to objectively compare the quantity and type of radio isotopes released?
It’s bad enough without pretending it’s worse than it is. If you only believe the most scary and dramatic claims, told to you by people who get rewarded based on how exciting their coverage is, do you think that would be conducive to accuracy regarding the physical facts? I rather think not.
Some familiarity with the physical reality involved would serve you better.
@ry967 “moron”
Unless you’re quantitatively comparing the extent and intensity of exposures, any judgement as to the relative severity of those two nuclear accidents is pointless.
The concentration of bioavailable radionuclides in the smoke released from the chernobyl explosion was orders of magnitude more radioactive than the airborn contamination from fukushima. And nobody told the residents of the town it drifted straight over.
You speak out of ignorance. Find out about chernobyl.
@zassounotsukushi
i agree, but at the same time i disagree, because allthough it is not nice what is happening and i feel deeply sory for the people there the video and comments are true
@ImMichaelTaylor
“no meaningfull determination can be made”
i dont like calling people idiots, really dont like calling them stupid but you are the most stupid idiotic insane moron that i have ever heard. how can you be so ignorant to say this when you have clear evidence that people got cancer after chernobyl and many people died. and they have allready said that this is as bad as chernobyl (so it will be worse, because thats what governments do, play it down).
@MotorCityMachineGunn
idealist
@ytgv3fc7
i agree with you, you put it a bit sharp but what you say is true, people dont like it beacuse they will not face up to fact and want everything to be ideal