Tsunami in Japan

[Mordac]

I believe BBC Online are based at White City Media Centre.

They are indeed (or at least they were when I was there a couple of years ago).

[fullyautomatix]

Sell, sell, sell!



A banker, a Daily Mail reader, and an immigrant are sitting at a table sharing a plate of 12 biscuits.

The banker takes 11 of them and then whispers to the Daily Mail reader "Watch out for that immigrant - he wants your biscuit!"

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Classic!

[Alf W]

Uh oh. A couple of the nuclear power plant reactors are starting to play up.

[shaunbhoy]

They are indeed (or at least they were when I was there a couple of years ago).

Fookie Nell!! Mordac's back!! Long time no hear!!

[shaunbhoy]

A mate of mine just texted to say that this business in Japan is terrible. Mind you, he also said that the last time he had 9 aftershocks, he couldn't find his house afterwards either!!

[TimberWolf]

Uh oh. A couple of the nuclear power plant reactors are starting to play up.

They've been looking at thorium reactors partly for that reason:

However, the principal reason why Japan is leaning towards developing Thorium-MSR is because these reactors will be under normal pressure in a normal pressured container, unlike the high-pressure in a closed container for the current solid fuel class of reactors. Japan is situated in a high-risk earthquake zone and pressurized reactors were accepted reluctantly. In case of the Th-MSR, even if the thorium molten-salt were to be released from the container, it would glassify quickly posing no danger to anyone.
Japan Developing Its Own Thorium Reactor