Reply to: Would blowing up Fukushima help?

[singhr]

How about pumping water in to keep the radioactive stuff cool until the proper cooling systems can be restored, then decommissioning the reactors in a controlled manner once it has all cooled down?

When is the next earthquake/tsnunami due?

[doodab]

How about pumping water in to keep the radioactive stuff cool until the proper cooling systems can be restored, then decommissioning the reactors in a controlled manner once it has all cooled down?

[OwlHoot]

Plan C :

1. Transport a couple of dozen giant bulldozers to the site by sea, and I mean those ones with thirty foot diameter wheels they use in open cast mines.

2. Blast and excavate (as necessary) a huge trench along the side of each building on the landward side, and several hundred feet deep. Pile the removed earth on the far side of the trench to the building.

3. Plant explosive charges along the base of the trench on the side of the building, with the aim of collapsing that side of the trench so the building tumbles into the trench.

4. bulldoze the previously excavated earth and rock over what remains.

[Peoplesoft bloke]

Would blowing up Fukushima help?

Yeah - Nuke it !

Oh hang on....

[Dearnla]

I vote for Bedford.

Didn't BP open a website for people to send in their suggestions on how to stop the Gulf Oil leak?

I think the Japanese government should do the same - there's some brilliant ideas on here.

Although I'm going to keep quiet on the debate about population reduction, as I've only spawned 5 kids....

[singhr]

And how shall we accomplish this "reduction"? Spread diseases? Ask people nicely to stop *******?

I've no idea how to keep the population down and having done my bit for increasing it over the years really shouldn't be talking about it, but I don't think importing overseas workers to wipe our sh*tty ars*es in care homes, who in turn generate another generation who will need their ars*es wiping, is sustainable.

I quite like Martin Amis's suggestions on the subject myself

[Board Game Geek]

Fair enough. Perhaps we should ask for volunteers for our population reduction program. Some people are bound to put their hands up.

(currently sitting very carefully, 2 days post-op)

[EternalOptimist]

Fair enough. Perhaps we should ask for volunteers for our population reduction program. Some people are bound to put their hands up.

mmm. thinking outside the box eh ? ok i thought about it, now im off for a sh@g.

[doodab]

Credit where it's due Doodab,

he's thinking outside the box. Something we should all do now and then

Fair enough. Perhaps we should ask for volunteers for our population reduction program. Some people are bound to put their hands up.

[DodgyAgent]

At singhr's house.

singhr's SO : "Darling, I hate to tell you, but you've left a floater in the upstairs WC"

singhr : "No worries. Right on it." <packs WC with 2 kilos of semtex>

[EternalOptimist]

Credit where it's due Doodab,

he's thinking outside the box. Something we should all do now and then

[doodab]

Jeeze - what a mess. Imagine if this was happening in Cumbria right now. The only good thing that will come out of this is for people to take a very long look at what politicians and experts are proposing on UK plc's energy policy. Is this our last chance to turn away from nuclear power and instead re-focus on renewables and population reduction? I really hope so. As a kid who grew up in the 60's fearful of nuclear war, I wouldn't wish that nuclear cloud hanging over the heads of generations to come just because this generation was so selfish.

And how shall we accomplish this "reduction"? Spread diseases? Ask people nicely to stop *******?

[BlasterBates]

looks like the global warming movement might take a blow:

How Japan’s tsunami threatens the global warming movement | Herald Sun Andrew Bolt Blog

[doodab]

Thinking about it, a better solution to comprehensively bury the whole mess would be to skip the TNT but drill a ring of much smaller holes deeper, perhaps half a mile, round the landward side of each building about quarter of a mile away.

Then plant a 10 kiloton nuke at the bottom of each. Again, if these were detonated in the right pattern, it would raise a huge assymetric mound of earth that would plonk itself over the entire site to a depth of perhaps several hundred yards.

Obvously it would help if the molten (and radioactive) rock from the explosion didn't reach the surface in significant amounts (although I suppose some vapour would inevitably jet through the disintegrating higher layers); but by calculating the depth correctly one could ensure the right amount and direction of earth displacement with no craters being formed.

And I'm being serious here - It's amazing what can be done with coordinated explosions, and if the alternative is a festering smoking radioactive ash heap they may have to consider something like that.

I believe you are being serious. I really really hope you don't deal with anything remotely related to public safety for a living.

You aren't going to be able to move a "huge asymmetric mound of earth" without letting a load of radioactive tulip out, because in order to avoid letting the radioactive tulip out you need to ensure that the explosion is buried deep enough that all you get is a sealed in cavity underground that may or may not collapse at a later date leaving a crater on the surface.

[BlasterBates]

Here is an update:

Fukushima Status

From what I understand a handful of people have been irradiated with levels comparable Aberdeen background radiation levels.

Of course I do agree with everyone that this is an absolute catastrophe and we should immediately close all Nuclear power stations and sit in the dark, with paper bags over our heads.