Your views about Fukushima Dai-ichi?

We haven't heard from him lately. If anyone would know what to do, he would.

The Japanese Government were negligent in allowing the nuclear industry to build nuclear plants along the Japanese south coast due to the high level risk of earthquake and tsunami occurrences. Obviously money and greed ruled over safety of the Japanese people and their environment. I hope they learn from this huge error.

Never play with the forces of nature and respect the environment around you. They would be utterly stupid not to invest in safer and true green energy alternatives now or the same disaster will happen again. Not even the power of the nuclear industry can fight the forces of mother earth.

We often times learn our best lessons from our biggest mistakes. Assuming that domestic nuclear power in the U.S. Survives the political hail storm that is likely to follow, I think our already safe operating plants will learn and apply lessons learned during this terrible event in Japan, and emerge even safer.

The best energy strategy is one that includes a mix of sources including oil, gas, coal, wind, solar, and nuclear.

Right, they have tons of room to grow corn for alternative fuel. Or they could have a guy on a bicycle pedaling to power the country. Exactly what area of the planet is completely free from natural disaster?

Oh and Brothers-handmade, even smarter, you don't think the worlds 3rd largest economy, 2nd up until last year, uses a mix of oil gas, coal wind solar and nuclear?

OMG People. You knows who the dumb ones are...

Heck. Rockmike3 flew over there and came back and reassured all of us that things were AOK. He does seem to be a little quiet on the Western Front since all the latest news contradicts him.

In all seriousness: I am scared to death! If the Japanese minds and powers that be planned this poorly, then you can bet others (us too) have as well. Very frightening to think about.

Yes, RockMike3 said that he had just gotten back and wanted to check in with us. He went into detail of how he got his orders and what they did while there. He came "home" and told us there was absolutely nothing to worry about and he wished he knew how he could convince us of that fact.

You must go back and read the past posts. Some people say RockMike3 posts under as many as 21 akas. I recognize a few, but not 21.

Anyway, Rockmike has always treated me with respect and I have had several conversations with him, but after this last few posts....well....I'm beginning to have my doubts about a lot of things where he is concerned. Did you get that Isis link from me yet?

Rocmike3 Answered: I got back from Yokuska a few hours ago. People, there is nothing to worry about. Of the five plants we toured there, only one had a leak and that leak was very small.In an overflight of their facilities, we found only one leak: 125 rads total radiation output, and that was in 2/He\5,6.

It is an inert gas, has a halflife of about 6.333...X10^-3 seconds, and is definitely not a hazard. That dosage of radiation might cause hair loss on one person but would not do much worse. Even that tiny leak was contained within a barium-iron-lead shielded pressure vessel.

These folks know what they are doing, let me assure you. I will say that things could have gone very nasty if the Soviets had designed and built their facilities. Chernobyl was not a joke: it spread 94/Pu\239 halfway around the world within 24 hours.

Within 96 hours, the antiquated carbon-core reactor had spread 62 times the radioactive particulates that we had ever shot in atmospheric nuclear weapons testing. The Soviets were decidedly careless with their program. Not so the Japanese.

I just wanted to check in with you folks. What does it take to prove that there is nothing to worry about?

Rocmike3 We don't let grass grow under our feet here. The first quake hit Tokyo about 11:06 our time Friday, and by 11:20 we were in the plane. About all that any of us packed were a spare set of underwear and our toothbrushes.

The plane is always fueled up and ready to go against just this sort of emergency. We arrived at Yokuska 6-1/2 hours later, with the Treaty hot off the fax onboard. It didn't take long to overfly their N-sites.

Their physicists answered all our questions very candidly. We spoke with a few of the powers that be and then got out from under foot ASAP. There wasn't much call for us to hang around so with the engines on our Gulf Stream II still spinning we returned.

I must say that Yokuska Naval Station took a beating but that is for the US and Japanese Navy to deal with, not Department of Energy. We would have stayed longer if there had been room or the call to stay. As there was neither, we returned here about 11:30 our time.

I don't think I even re-set my watch.

I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.