Guest 696- Registered: 31 Mar 2010
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Well done, Philip, polar bears!
So we're not talking here of mass nuclear disaster, and the possibility that there may be a collapse of a nuclear reactor full of plutonium rods, of an ongoing nuclear meltdown, of enormous quantities of nuclear-contaminated water, that has to go somewhere, and will remain contaminated, and could - or has - started spreading into the sea.
NOOO! W're talking of polar bears!
Ross Miller
- Location: London Road, Dover
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The reality is we are probably talking about neither
"Dream as if you'll live forever. Live as if you'll die today." - James Dean
"Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength,
While loving someone deeply gives you courage" - Laozi
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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does this mean that the 10 grand i paid for a nuclear shelter from that very nice nigerian prince over the internet was money down the drain?
Guest 745- Registered: 27 Mar 2012
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May be its true or maybe its not, but it did seem to have an effect on the German government over nuclear generation
Guest 725- Registered: 7 Oct 2011
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You paid 10 grand? Ha ha Howard they must have seen you coming. He only charged me 5 grand. Next time don't be so gullible.
Speaking of gullible this Fukashima business has sparked my interest. Reading one website leads to another and another and another until you find yourself at the first one you started reading in the first place. Readers comments are highly entertaining and makes the Guardian's comment is free seem like normal people talking to eachother which is saying something.
Tin foil hats, conspiracy theorists, Icke devotees, Israel haters, extreme enviros, Oreganos against nuclear power, blind black lesbians against fox hunting - they're all there en masse taking on the world.
Don't worry everyone it'll all die down over the next few days till the next Carrington event and something else will replace it to worry the world.
I often wonder how frustrating it is when someone who really believes in lizards running the world and all that must feel when they're trying to tell, say, the guy serving drinks at the bar how the world is really run and the barman merely rolls his eyes and hands over the guys change.
Terrible thing the internet, at times.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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you're right there philip, the internet is christmas and birthday rolled into one for fruitcakes.
they can now roam freely, no newspaper editors to consign their drivel to the bins or radio phone ins that have a 30 second delay mechanism to delete their utterances.
incidentally does anyone on here know the cooling off time limit after a purchase under nigerian law?
Brian Dixon
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 23 Sep 2008
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cant help you there howard.
are these fruitcakes dangerous dog type thingies.
Guest 696- Registered: 31 Mar 2010
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Wikipedia is rather reliable in describing events. Here a brief extract:
"The Fukushima incident has led to trace amounts of radiation, including iodine-131 and caesium-134/137, being observed around the world (New York State, Alaska, Hawaii, Oregon, California, Montreal, and Austria). Large amounts of radioactive isotopes have also been released into the Pacific Ocean."
Back to my views again: What would happen if another quake struck the crippled Fukushima plant is another question.
It could lead to masses of plutonium entering the sea.
Economic consequences: Japan relies heavily on seafood as part of the national diet. They would need to import fish from elsewhere. But, the plutonium, isotopes et al would rapidly spread to all seas, and so sea fish in general would be polluted with uranium, and much fish would die anyway as a result.
Alternative food would need be supplied to all countries relying on seafood, so rice, grain, meat and vegetables would soar in price.
A ripe old fruitcake thee, then!
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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no alex wikipedia is chronically unreliable, a while back they described our m.p as being educated at an essex public school.
some of my bizarre utterances have gone on there as fact too.
So that WAS you!!!???
Guest 725- Registered: 7 Oct 2011
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Wiki - over the years wags of a certain age hear of the death of some high (and low) profile personality and march over there to make a few minuscule changes such as birth date or school attended. Invariably this is then reported as fact in the mainstream media.
Cut and paste journalism at it's finest.
It was me Howard who took of the two noughts at the end of your annual earnings on Wikipedia making you appear somewhat poorer than you really are. I thought I was doing you a favour.
Guest 696- Registered: 31 Mar 2010
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So much to isotopes, then
Guest 725- Registered: 7 Oct 2011
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Your'e right Alex there is indeed a major problem to the area around Japan but the sea is a big place and any radiation will be somewhat dispersed and shouldn't pose a major risk to the world especially on a scale described in the original article featured at the beginning of this thread.
This highlights how important energy policy really is. Environmentalists don't want coal, gas, oil, nuclear and other traditional methods of energy production. They think that the world will run on solar, wind, biofuel, tidal and other madcap schemes.
Do away with nuclear and the only option is fossil fuel. Other methods won't cut it. Never, ever. We would have to cover the world with wind turbines and solar panels over the oceans and land mass in order to achieve this and even then we wouldn't.
See what I've been getting at all this time? Has the penny dropped?
Wait and see the lights go out over the next few years in the UK.
Guest 696- Registered: 31 Mar 2010
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There is an alternative, Philip, to produce clean energy (electricity), but it is secret, safely stowed away! It can't even be found on paper, nor on any recorded message.
It's all in my mind! Now this latter phrase has two meanings.
By the way, this ain't a joke either