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by hartror 16y ago
And it would seem they have decided to take the risk. NHK reporting Japan self-defense forces are preparing to pour water on Daiichi No. 3 reactor from helicopter.
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by hartror 16y ago
Really? I've seen a couple of docos where the firefighters and such said they had no idea what they were getting themselves into . . .
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by hartror 16y ago
Right. Most of the radiologicals that have been released with the steam have very short half lives so the radiation levels drop rapidly (relatively speaking).
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by hartror 16y ago
"2:53 PM - Workers ordered to leave the Fukushima plant have been allowed back after radiation levels fell, the Japan nuclear agency said. Pumping of seawater at reactors at No. 1, 2 and 3 was proceeding smoothly, it said. (Reuters)" http:
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by hartror 16y ago
Any child that cannot get around parental control software shouldn't be trying to read TechCrunch.
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by hartror 16y ago
You don't need a helicopter to deliver boric acid into the reactors.
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by hartror 16y ago
Which is exactly what I refered to in my post. sigh
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by hartror 16y ago
They ruled out using helicopters as anything but a last resort in the press conference. They said it was too risky to dump lots of water on the already fragile reactors.
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by hartror 16y ago
False attention grabbing title. They have not abandoned it, they said in the press conference just passed that they had suspended operations due to a radiation peak but they expected to resume again without much delay. Edit: The workers h
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by hartror 16y ago
They strive very hard to appear trustworthy which while admirable really proves nothing and everything they (and others) print should still be taken with a grain of salt. What they are trying to do is prove a negative to their readers i.e t
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by hartror 16y ago
Sure, but those hordes who designed it didn't spend time training him to set it up and run it correctly. Just face that it is a horrible analogy and move on.
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by hartror 16y ago
You trust corporates more than you trust the government? At least the government is in theory suppose to look after your best interests, corporations have no such requirement. Either way the best solution is maintaining strict privacy laws
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by hartror 16y ago
I consider myself a leftie greenie politically, and I am pro nuclear (with some small reservations). It pisses me off no end to see the same people campaigning for action on climate change campaigning against the one proven at scale technol
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by hartror 16y ago
Who said they were sacrificing their lives, the plant workers are well prepared, equipped and drilled for this.
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by hartror 16y ago
I don't get the impression the article suggests things are under control, more that the risks have been greatly exaggerated. The main points seem to be these: 1. The engineers working at the plant have more options they can fall back on to
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by hartror 16y ago
They're not in full melt down . . .
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by hartror 16y ago
1. The building on 4 is on fire, not the spent fuel rods. 2. The hydrogen explosion on 2 may have damaged containment.
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by hartror 16y ago
From wikipedia: "Fukushima I – 1 BWR First criticality: March 26, 1971". So it isn't a "modern" reactor, not sure what the fail safes are but I have read from some sources all the fail safes are older generations which require power.
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by hartror 16y ago
A nuclear explosion? No chance, it will "simply" leak, worst case it catches fire and goes Chernobyl but spreads its radiation over a more populated area, which is probably worse that a nuclear weapon going off.
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by hartror 16y ago
But that is a good thing for me!
651.
by hartror 16y ago
I've had a few doctors in my family say the same thing.
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by hartror 16y ago
My cat just got more annoying. Though I wonder how hard it would be to deal with given the kinetic can see outlines . . .
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by hartror 16y ago
I think this article is preaching to the wrong crowd here on HN. A entrepreneur is by definition an upstart, an usurper who is out to break the conventions. You can't do this by being a quite yes man. That said what percentage of entreprene
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by hartror 16y ago
I'm sure they have ever since Nokia aligned themselves with Microsoft.
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by hartror 16y ago
Sounds more like a procedural issue being created by poor programmers and bad management. Not testing it on a production-like environment is a capital offense whether you are using a development server or apache/lighttpd/nginx.
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by hartror 16y ago
Other factors include things like larger components might use cheaper materials and factories need to be tooled up to produce newer components.
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by hartror 16y ago
This isn't entirely a crazy idea. Seeing as they were already setting the bar for tablets they could afford to make it thicker that they needed to. In all likelihood it was more of an economic consideration, larger components being cheaper,
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by hartror 16y ago
The fact this has been announced so early on in the piece and has received such wide publication does not bode well. In all likelihood this game is a couple of years away from release. So it is going to be hard to live up to the expectation
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by hartror 16y ago
I take the post as more of a commentary on TC. This is arguably the most powerful startup news source, and it is posting silly gotcha quotes?
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by hartror 16y ago
This makes TechCrunch come across really childish, if it was in the context of an post sure go ahead and post it. There was talk of TechCrunch having jumped the shark a couple of weeks ago. Is this another sign of that? Certainly seems that

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