[NEWS] Japan Earthquake/Tsunami/Nuclear Crisis 2011

**Reach** · 03-14-2011, 07:22 AM

An explosion that causes the spread of nuclear material is NOT a nuclear explosion...!

A nuclear explosion involves a nuclear reaction where typically a very critical mass of enriched uranium atoms are smashed together or compressed to cause a fission ('splitting') reaction, or hydrogen atoms are fused together.

A nuclear power plant is not capable of ever causing this specifically because it doesn't carry the specific materials necessary for the reaction, nor is the reaction ever going to undergo the appropriate conditions necessary for exponential fission/fusion required in say the atom bomb.

The difference between this reaction and a nuclear power plant exploding and spreading nuclear waste is that of energy. Obviously a nuclear explosion releases exponentially more energy than a traditional explosion, because of the exponential nature of the fission reaction.

Though, as a scary little tidbit of information, the energy released from this current earthquake is somewhere around 1,000,000 times more than that of the bomb that was dropped on Hiroshima. Thankfully most of that energy dissipates into the ground, but that doesn't help much.

(For those skeptical of this claim, Japan Earthquake converted to an explosion: http://meyerweb.com/eric/tools/gmap/...00&zm=9&op=156 . Here, however, is the Hiroshima bomb: http://meyerweb.com/eric/tools/gmap/...1&zm=12&op=156 )

Anyway, it's clear that there are serious misunderstandings about nuclear plants here.

For the record, Japan's nuclear safety agency has said there is "no possibility" of a Chernobyl-style disaster at the Fukushima 1 plant, local media quotes national strategy minister Koichiro Genba as saying.

The US Seventh Fleet has moved its ships and aircraft away from the stricken Fukushima plant after discovering low-level radioactive contamination, Reuters reports. The aircraft carrier USS Ronald Reagan was some 160km offshore when its instruments detected the radiation in a plume of smoke and steam released from the crippled plant. But officials said the dose of radiation was about the same as one month's normal exposure to natural background radiation in the environment.

The catch being that this amount of radiation is largely irrelevant. You get just as much when you go to the dentist.

03-14-2011, 07:22 AM	#11
Reach FFR Simfile Author Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: Canada Age: 39 Posts: 7,471	Re: Massive 8.9-magnitude quake hits Japan An explosion that causes the spread of nuclear material is NOT a nuclear explosion...! A nuclear explosion involves a nuclear reaction where typically a very critical mass of enriched uranium atoms are smashed together or compressed to cause a fission ('splitting') reaction, or hydrogen atoms are fused together. A nuclear power plant is not capable of ever causing this specifically because it doesn't carry the specific materials necessary for the reaction, nor is the reaction ever going to undergo the appropriate conditions necessary for exponential fission/fusion required in say the atom bomb. The difference between this reaction and a nuclear power plant exploding and spreading nuclear waste is that of energy. Obviously a nuclear explosion releases exponentially more energy than a traditional explosion, because of the exponential nature of the fission reaction. Though, as a scary little tidbit of information, the energy released from this current earthquake is somewhere around 1,000,000 times more than that of the bomb that was dropped on Hiroshima. Thankfully most of that energy dissipates into the ground, but that doesn't help much. (For those skeptical of this claim, Japan Earthquake converted to an explosion: http://meyerweb.com/eric/tools/gmap/...00&zm=9&op=156 . Here, however, is the Hiroshima bomb: http://meyerweb.com/eric/tools/gmap/...1&zm=12&op=156 ) Anyway, it's clear that there are serious misunderstandings about nuclear plants here. For the record, Japan's nuclear safety agency has said there is "no possibility" of a Chernobyl-style disaster at the Fukushima 1 plant, local media quotes national strategy minister Koichiro Genba as saying. The US Seventh Fleet has moved its ships and aircraft away from the stricken Fukushima plant after discovering low-level radioactive contamination, Reuters reports. The aircraft carrier USS Ronald Reagan was some 160km offshore when its instruments detected the radiation in a plume of smoke and steam released from the crippled plant. But officials said the dose of radiation was about the same as one month's normal exposure to natural background radiation in the environment. The catch being that this amount of radiation is largely irrelevant. You get just as much when you go to the dentist. __________________ Last edited by Reach; 03-14-2011 at 08:50 AM..

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