French claim japan is hiding full scale of nuclear disaster what are your views on that article?

Leonardville

French claim Japan is hiding full scale of nuclear disaster as emergency teams desperately fire water cannon at reactors from long rangehttp://www. dailymail. co. uk/news/article-…



Chireno

@ ATSI agree with you, damned if the Japanese do and damned if they do not. Such a shame you had to spoil your answer with an anti French message!



Eden

Quite possible. Japan is a very advanced country, technologically speaking, and its a bit of an embarressment for them. The Nuclear power station is question is quite old and newer ones are built very differently, which is why things have gone as wrong as they have. French and American experts are more worried about whats going on, dispite what the Japanese are saying. Even the Japanese people and Emperor are very concerned. The Japanese government is doing everything it should be, and can be, while trying to keep its people calm. If you think any other government would tell its people of a possibly catastrophic event, you'd be naive. The British Scientists by the way, are saying phrases like "the Japanese are doing what they should be", and talking about things in the present tense. Any attempt to ask what will happen is met with an answer about the present, not the future. So the British experts are avoiding the issue. And thats probably so as not to add to any panic. Right now the 4th reactor has blown, making a full set, there's too much activity to have anyone on site any longer. They are currently dumping water on the reactors via helicopter. This wont work. Its a last ditch effort for forest fires, and the reactors are much much hotter than that. Next step should be to set dozens of hose into the reactor buildings and pump tons of sea water into the reactors to try to cool them down. If that doesn't steady the problem enough to advance solving it, the last step is to dump thousands of tons of concrete on all 4 reactors and encase the radiation is dozens of metres of concrete. After that, there is nothing that can be done.



Cohasset

the facts speak for themselves - after a series of fires and explosions, the workers have been forced back and are resorting to desperate measures with helicopters and long range fire hoses. Radioactive fuel is on fire. The thing appears to be utterly out of control. It is turning into a second Chernobyl. At Chernobyl one un-contained reactor was blown to pieces, but in Japan there are six plants I believe in serious peril, but the reactors are contained - however the spent fuel on fire is not contained and is highly radioactive. I always thought it was worse than they said from the start.



North Wildwood

FIrstly, it is far too easy for our French "friends" to be critical at such a long distance. What would they do - shrug their shoulders, and get back to Frog's Legs and Pernod? Oh no, I forgot, they are very proficient at evacuation aren't they, especially Asylum Seekers across the Channel. What exactly are the Japanese Government supposed to state - damned if they do, damned if they don't. The past 5 days has been a disaster of epic proportions, and surely Governments across the world should be asking "what can we do to help", rather than casting vitriol.



Natchez

10 Germans flee Japan's quake-hit nuclear plant Ten German employees of nuclear giant Areva were conducting maintenance work atJapan's Fukushima plant during Friday's massive earthquakeUS Navy Detects Radiation 200 Miles From Japan Nuclear Planthttp://www. legitgov. org/US-Navy-Detects-Radiation-200-Miles-Japan-Nuclear-PlantMore US military crews were exposed to radiationhttp://www. time. com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,2058716_2058711_2058935,00.htmlJapan PM: radiation spreads from stricken reactorshttp://news. yahoo. com/s/ap/20110315/ap_on_bi_ge/as_japan_earthquake_172US help needed to contain nuclear disaster, Tokyo saysUS sending a second nuclear team to JapanWashington: The US is sending a second team of nuclear experts to help JapanJapan's PM : 'What the hell is going on?' http://www. nationalpost. com/todays-paper/What+hell+going+Japan/4446271/story. htmlRadiation Levels Force U. S. Aid Ships To Change CourseThirteen US Naval vessels have been deployed to help provide humanitarian assistance to the northern part of Japan, http://www. npr. org/2011/03/16/134585527/Radiation-Levels-Force-U-S-Aid-Ships-To-Change-CourseJapan's emperor addresses nation in rare speech: Don't give up hopehttp://www. cnn. com/2011/WORLD/asiapcf/03/16/japan. disaster/index. html



Smithville

Well it wont surprise me as the last thing they need after this horrible devastation is mass panic in the streets, being French myself (thanks to Ats-Abraxas for his cheap insults towards me and my country of origin) I have always found that the press in France would get it right when making such announcement (if they have done of course)Unfortunately it does not look very good for the future of the survivors of this awful tragedy



Shorewood Hills

Not hiding but not disclosing. A judgement has to be made about these things. No-one wants mass panic. The authorities are evacuating those nearest to the nuclear plant.



Elk Grove

The French can't talk.. after trying to cover up radioactive material leaking into lagoons after their last nuclear tests...claiming it was 'insignificant' amounts. pfft.



Northboro

It probably is worse than is being let on but do you think the British government would be totally truthful in the same circumstances cos I don't



Fairbury

Daily Mail. Ignore it.



Oneida

It's just the Daily Mail being anti-French and taking things out of context.



Muleshoe

For heaven's sake! It's The Daily Mail!!!!!

Why does the reactor in the fukushima daichis nuclear plant have to be cooled to prevent another catastrophe?

Vidette

... in Japan? Is the atomic reactor manufacturing more performance than it be compelled? Does temperature influence the production in the know about nuclear energy? Is the nuclear mill at the risk on to exploding?(Just a note to say I'm willy-nilly being unsympathetic to the tragedy that unhappily Japan is facing in this very difficult spell. On the snappish. I'm trying grate on nerves conceive it better. I'm benevolent grate on nerves the Japanese people plus I aspiration they vanquish this as soon as possible).



Seward

first of all...all those reactors were attempted to being placed on shut down mode, that means many things1) No more electricity is being produced until the reactors and the radioactive isotopes within them can be controlled2) The temperature must be controlled also, it must be kept under 35 deg Celsius to minimize producing unwanted radioactive ions in the cooling water. 3) The water within the reactor is suppose to have a minimum height from the top of the cores to the top of the water of 200 inches. (When that 35 deg Celsius reaches 80 to 100 deg Celsius, this is the point when simmering and boiling off of the cooling water takes place AND when all the water is boiled off into steam, then the core becomes exposed. Then temperatures really start to rise as in FUKUSHIMA Reactor 3 which exploded and the top of the roof fell into the exposed core, which now makes it more difficult to get water on top of it. Radiation levels are much too high to get close to it so the Japanese govt and TEPCO are trying to get tons of Boric acid on top of it.) All their measures are almost too late. The top of building 3 has 250 times the lethal radiation dosage allowed to humans and 100 times within a dozen meters of it. They have a few chances left: they need to get that Boric acid in there to help absorb all the neutrons that are flying around out of control. The whole area should be placed off limits to humans for the next 50000 years. This is double the half life of Plu ton ium 239 which is one of the many isotopes that the reactor cores contain. Last thing they should do is pour 1 million tons of concrete over all the reactors. Then the people in Tokyo may have a chance at low cancer rates.