More North Korean Nuclear Madness
brianlux
Posts: 42,052
Nuclear madness on at least a couple of levels:
-stockpiling nuclear weapons
-restarting a reactor designed in the fifties
-putting themselves and everybody down wind in danger of radiation poisoning
What is wrong with these people!? :roll:
http://news.yahoo.com/north-korea-resta ... 59906.html
Russia on Thursday warned of a potential "man-made catastrophe" if North Korea restarts an aging plutonium reactor to boost its stockpile of nuclear weapons, after US experts spotted steam rising from the Yongbyon facility.
The reactor, which was completed in 1986, is outdated and North Korea could suffer a major disaster if it is restarted, a Russian diplomatic source told the Interfax news agency.
The warning came after researchers at the US-Korea Institute said Wednesday that satellite images taken on August 31 showed plumes of white steam rising from a building next to the reactor.
"Our main concern is linked to a very likely man-made disaster as a consequence. The reactor is in a nightmarish state, it is a design dating back to the 1950s," the Russian source said.
"For the Korean peninsula this could entail terrible consequences, if not a man-made catastrophe."
-stockpiling nuclear weapons
-restarting a reactor designed in the fifties
-putting themselves and everybody down wind in danger of radiation poisoning
What is wrong with these people!? :roll:
http://news.yahoo.com/north-korea-resta ... 59906.html
Russia on Thursday warned of a potential "man-made catastrophe" if North Korea restarts an aging plutonium reactor to boost its stockpile of nuclear weapons, after US experts spotted steam rising from the Yongbyon facility.
The reactor, which was completed in 1986, is outdated and North Korea could suffer a major disaster if it is restarted, a Russian diplomatic source told the Interfax news agency.
The warning came after researchers at the US-Korea Institute said Wednesday that satellite images taken on August 31 showed plumes of white steam rising from a building next to the reactor.
"Our main concern is linked to a very likely man-made disaster as a consequence. The reactor is in a nightmarish state, it is a design dating back to the 1950s," the Russian source said.
"For the Korean peninsula this could entail terrible consequences, if not a man-made catastrophe."
“The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man [or woman] who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.”
Variously credited to Mark Twain or Edward Abbey.
Post edited by Unknown User on
0
Comments
Couple that with Japan’s ongoing leaking, radioactive disaster impacting the world’s oceans, fun times ahead.
I would not put it past their govt
Not today Sir, Probably not tomorrow.............................................. bayfront arena st. pete '94
you're finally here and I'm a mess................................................... nationwide arena columbus '10
memories like fingerprints are slowly raising.................................... first niagara center buffalo '13
another man ..... moved by sleight of hand...................................... joe louis arena detroit '14
I know this will sound self-centered as hell... and, well, I suppose it is... but the radiation from Japan and North Korea heads west to the west coast where I live. Shit, man, pretty soon I won't need a flash light to see my way around in the dark. I'll be my own glow light.
We have introduced so many bad things
As for glowing...i like glow sticks. Especially with paintball guns at night.
Maybe JonnyPistachio will chime in here a bit on glowing, eh?
This page is a bit depressing:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_nuclear_reactors
I don't understand nuclear power well enough to know if all of these reactors are disasters waiting to happen...but if so...wtf are we doing?
Yeah, it's pretty nuts and scary. And that's not to say I haven't read some intelligently written pro-nuclear arguments. The convincing parts of the arguments make safe nuclear sound plausible, but how many really will be safe? In theory, it actually sounds great but we're just not that good at maintaining shit, the earth moves, mistakes are overlooked and things go wrong. And who is going to monitor outdated and flawed facilities in less well off countries hungry for electrical power or international influence? So, I sometimes wonder if some of the intelligent scientists who cite pro-nuclear power arguments overlook the human factor... not to mention the possible end results of mishaps.