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brataccas
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Joined: Thu Apr 23, 2009 9:14 pm Posts: 5664 Location: Scotland
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theyre just sheep, whos to say who attacked first anyway? theres apparent reports of USA provoking the japanese into attacking them but it doesnt sound credible (to me) due to what japan did to china in 1933? I think,
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Sun Mar 13, 2011 2:35 pm |
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Paul1965
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Joined: Thu Apr 23, 2009 8:29 pm Posts: 5975
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Difficult to separate the trolls from the genuinely ignorant.
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Sun Mar 13, 2011 3:25 pm |
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jonbwfc
What's a life?
Joined: Thu Apr 23, 2009 7:26 pm Posts: 17040
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It's irrelevant. It was nearly seventy sodding years ago, virtually everybody involved in either the bombing of Pearl Harbour or the destruction of Hiroshima and Nagasaki is long dead. Anybody who thinks it's got anything to do with current events is an utter twat.
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Sun Mar 13, 2011 4:32 pm |
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brataccas
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Joined: Thu Apr 23, 2009 9:14 pm Posts: 5664 Location: Scotland
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and this is why I hate americans so much, and my bad it was 1937 when japan invaded china.
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Sun Mar 13, 2011 4:42 pm |
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Amnesia10
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Joined: Fri Apr 24, 2009 2:02 am Posts: 29240 Location: Guantanamo Bay (thanks bobbdobbs)
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Sun Mar 13, 2011 4:48 pm |
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Paul1965
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Interactive satellite photos before/after tsunami.Use the sliders in between each pair of photos to show/hide damage.
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Sun Mar 13, 2011 8:19 pm |
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Fogmeister
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Joined: Thu Apr 23, 2009 7:35 pm Posts: 6580 Location: Getting there
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Natori  Tbh they're all shocking.
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Sun Mar 13, 2011 9:04 pm |
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Amnesia10
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Yes and thousands are missing. I wonder how much worse it could have been in a third world country.
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Amnesia10
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A video of the impact of the tsunami on a town. At first it looks minor then just keeps coming until you see whole buildings disappear. http://video.l3.fbcdn.net/cfs-l3-snc6/8 ... cd6dc12abf
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Mon Mar 14, 2011 12:47 am |
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adidan
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You're not wrong, it just seems relentless... Just glad to see no people getting swept away.
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Mon Mar 14, 2011 7:30 am |
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Spreadie
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Joined: Fri Apr 24, 2009 6:06 pm Posts: 6355 Location: IoW
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Second explosion at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear planthttp://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-pacific-12729138That one looks more worrying than the first, as there are clearly large lumps of debris thrown high into the air.
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Mon Mar 14, 2011 9:35 am |
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adidan
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It's also uses MOX fuel unlike the first.
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Mon Mar 14, 2011 10:40 am |
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Spreadie
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-pacific-12733393Now, I'm not familiar with the design of Nuclear Power Plants, but the two underlined comments seem contradictory to me. 
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Mon Mar 14, 2011 4:36 pm |
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belchingmatt
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I think by exposed they are talking about the fuel elements being open to air rather than water, but still sealed within the reactor vessel.
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Mon Mar 14, 2011 4:53 pm |
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Fogmeister
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I saw a quick diagram on Channel 4 which helped explain it to me. The reactor is a huge steel drum (it looks a bit like the hot water storage tank in your house) and it's built inside a huge concrete building. Inside the drum the reactor rods are positioned vertically and used to heat water inside the drum. (Again a bit like a hot water storage heater thingy). The reactor rods are normally fully submerged in water and the level of the water is adjusted to control the heat of the rods and the rate of decay. (If they are too hot they add more water, if they are too cool the take the water out). When they say they have been fully exposed they mean the rods have been completely out of the water. This is bad because they will be heating the gas inside the tank to very high levels and thus increasing the pressure inside the tank. However, the second bit means that so far the steel drum has remained in tact and so has contained the radiation as much as possible.
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