Japan Earthquake and Tsunami

its a 40 year old power plant that was going to be retired, new designs use passive cooling method , no need for a back up power supply to safely cool down the core.

the media have been using the word meltdown, well meltdown to most people represent massive explosion resulting in wide area of nuclear contamination, likes of Chernobyl , this is impossible to happen with the design of this plant.

if anyone wants to be educated a little instead of reading the sensationalizing of the media here is some links to read

www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424052748704893604576198421680697248

and

morgsatlarge.wordpress.com/2011/03/13/why-i-am-not-worried-about-japans-nuclear-reactors/

Taiji, Japan

Agree with you... but 2 wrongs do not make 1 rite! I wish my tax payer money was better spent! have we our priorities rite??? ask my next door neigbor on a single old age pensio!!!

Haha, took two days to work that one out eh

You got moderated

Ha ha.

Was Charlie Sheen making perfect sense to you the day before the above two days?

Except for the one day I felt sheepish (yesterday), I'm glad I hijacked your dumb thread.

Charlie Sheen and the teenager at the centre of the Saints nude photograph scandal are my heros. I know most of you squares, will disapprove, and frown on me, but I can't wait till I see her spread in Ralph or Zoo magazine.

I'd prefer turning on the news and seeing Ricky Nixon in his jocks changing the tv station or Brendan Fevola's fat brother telling the media to go away rather than watching all these disasters unfold, one after the other, with thousands of lives lost - far too depressing for me to get my head around.

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These are reasonable questions but the gas giants are a lot different to the earth/moon system. They have huge planets with (relatively) tiny moons. For example Io continually has volcanos erupting on it thanks to the tidal stresses from Jupiter's gravity - can't say the same for our moon.

As for supermoons and earthquakes, the data just doesn't seem to support any correlation between them. So not much chance of giant waves tomorrow chaps.

Without reading any other posts. I'm told now and in the next few days is the closest the moon will ever be to the earth. And they expect the earth to warped by the gravitational pull and **** like japan to go down.

thommo, you missed the one on 12 Dec 2008 which was closer than the 2005 one - 356,567 vs 356,571 km respectively. The 90 and 93 approaches were even closer - 356,526 and 356,548 km respectively.

As you can see from the numbers though, there isn't much in it. There was a very distant approach in 1991 at 357,600 km so the difference between a close and a distant one was about 1,000 km ... bang on 0.3%

(.)(.) I think you are the fifth funniest guy I know - I laugh my socks off whenever you make those symbols that look like breasts. (!)

I was thinking hard, and you are probably third or fourth funniest on my list. Hasn't been to much to laugh about lately. Ricky Nixon, Brendan Fevola's brother are first and second.

maybe there could be a reactor down Wonthaggi {vic] way as there will be a desalination plant opening soon that will be available to provide the water required for cooling purposes!

A nuclear power plant specified Gnangara as a possible location in the 70's, it is on the Gnangara mound.