Originally posted by SunburntI was kind of imagining people not missing the business opportunity and selling lots of cheap tacky 'I surfed The Tsunami' T-shirts and glow in the dark nuclear reactor posters and such like. Have I got you all wrong?
I shudder and cringe imagining what a disaster like that in the US might result in. We don't handle that stuff too well.
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Apparently there has been panic buying of Iodine and (yes this is true) Salt. There is a false rumour here that traces of iodine in the salt can help against radiation, and areas closer to the japan have even been stock piling food...this is despite WHO assurances that there is no chance of radiation reaching here. The Chinese government have set up radiation tests, and the winds will be blowing towards the pacific for the next 3 days. ( I have access to CCTV 9 now).
Something i bet you all didnt know...the day before the Japan earthquake there was a 5.4 earthquake here in China (Yunan province) killing 27 people.
Originally posted by huckleberryhoundYunnan is a chronic quake zone. According to Chinese news sources, there have been 1,200 tremors
Something i bet you all didnt know...the day before the Japan earthquake there was a 5.4 earthquake here in China (Yunan province) killing 27 people.
below 5.0 magnitude in Yunnan since January 1. That's roughly 15 a day, or one every hour and a half.
Originally posted by huckleberryhoundChina gets hit by a dozen or more earthquakes a year above richter 5 and much more. It aint nothing to shout home about.
Apparently there has been panic buying of Iodine and (yes this is true) Salt. There is a false rumour here that traces of iodine in the salt can help against radiation, and areas closer to the japan have even been stock piling food...this is despite WHO assurances that there is no chance of radiation reaching here. The Chinese government have set up ...[text shortened]... he Japan earthquake there was a 5.4 earthquake here in China (Yunan province) killing 27 people.
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Originally posted by Ragnorakfukushima can't burn out like chernobyl did, different type of reactor. if that's what you're thinking. - in the chernobyl the reactor produced TOO much power, and ran away with it. in fukushima it's (kinda) the opposite, the reactors have been shut down since day 1.
Please let the Japanese know, stat!
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Originally posted by wormwoodThat's what i've been talking about, but brains of Ballygo backwards there can't think for himself. A shutdown system is in place in all nuclear plants since Chernobyl to prevent disasters of a similar scale.
fukushima can't burn out like chernobyl did, different type of reactor. if that's what you're thinking. - in the chernobyl the reactor produced TOO much power, and ran away with it. in fukushima it's (kinda) the opposite, the reactors have been shut down since day 1.
I had an interesting conversation with a 15 year old cousin last night. After the wedding his family had Korean BBQ with us and the wedding family (Japanese groom and brother), his parents were keen to have him practice his English with a westerner (wai guo ren).
He started off quiet and tentative enough, but eventually started asking about what i thought about people like Winston Churchill andf Stalin. He told me he really liked History and Chinese boxing then he asked the question"What kind of people do you hate?"
I knew what was coming as i pieced together what he thought from his answers and questions before. I told him i disliked dishonest people and people who would try to hurt my family....he said he disliked...Japanese Soldiers.
His father was a bomber pilot in the Chinese arifrce and he wanted to follow in his Father's profession...he was actually a really nice kid 🙂
Originally posted by huckleberryhoundni hao!
Thanks. I haven't tried to check world news agencies as i took it for granted that they would be blocked. No chance of the wind changing and the brain tumour soup coming over to China then? I know there is an automatic shutdown that happens with these things that makes it different from Chernobyl.
Off to a 5 star Buffet for dinner and going fo ...[text shortened]... leave that just for my friends (they can ask and i will pM them when i next get to the PC).
automatic shutdown!?!?