Re: SPAWAR UPDATE: Japan Earthquake and Associated Tsunami
One real issue is trying to keep one of their nuclear reactors from going viral.
“We just had our Air Force assets in Japan transport some really important coolant to one of the nuclear plants,” Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said at a meeting earlier Friday.
The scram occurred without electrical power to run the coolant pumps and residual heat was creating a pressure situation. They evac'd 2000 people and vented the containment, but they still have a problem. Not good.
Re: SPAWAR UPDATE: Japan Earthquake and Associated Tsunami
Although the second reactor meltdown is termed partial, it is only a matter of time until it too will fail explosively. The third reactor may indeed follow suit. A catastrophe that will forever change the view of nuclear power in the world.
Some interesting pics and videos from damage at Kona, Hawaii. Wiped out the road beside the pier and along the waterfront. Devastated many of the buildings along the waterfront including the newly remodeled
ground floor of one of the hotels. There are now houses floating in the bay where Capt. Cook made landfall.
http://www.everbluefreediving.com/TsunamiNews.html