Comments by "Rob Fraser" (@krashd) on "FRONTLINE PBS | Official" channel.

  1. They didn't give their lives though, they risked their lives. A person has to die for his life to be considered "gave" and every member of the Fukushima 50 is still alive except for the Manager of the plant who was one of the oldest involved and died from lung cancer in 2015.
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  2.  @aorusaki  Nowhere did I say they deserve less respect than they got, I simply stated that they did not die. In fact they likely did give their lives since pretty much all of them likely now have a shorter lifespan due to what they endured. It still doesn't change the fact that they survived the accident and are still living. Also I respect those men more than you could know, regardless of whether they died or not they are still heroes. I am not criticising your countrymen - they are some of the bravest people I have ever heard of!
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  3.  @pleiadiblu2365  Possibly, but the admin buildings and the emergency bunker were still built on the higher elevation which allowed the people there to co-ordinate efforts still, had these things been constructed down beside the plant they would have been wrecked too and the disaster would have been a million times worse because half of the Fukushima 50 were engineers and managers in these buildings who co-ordinated the effort to get water into the cores until help arrived.
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  4.  @pleiadiblu2365  *lung cancer. He was a lifelong smoker.
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  5. This is about the nuclear disaster, not the tsunami. Only 2 of the 20,000 people who died that day died at the power plant.
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  6. Two people have died, they were the two workers maintaining one of the diesel generators when the tsunami washed into the basement drowning them. The Manager of the plant died around 2015 but that was lung cancer I believe.
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  7. Because they had no need to be. The only gamma emitters in power plants are the core and workers never come face to face with the core.
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  8. I can't, Fukushima is by far the worst nuclear disaster of the past 21 years...
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  9. Fast Action Radiation Team.
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  10.  @nootstoroots8068  2,129 people who mostly died from disease, hunger or exposure to the elements due to 6 years of trying to survive in an area with no electricity, gas, clean water or sanitation. If you were accustomed to a modern way of living but refused to evacuate when all of your utilities and buildings were lost you would likely accidentally kill yourself within the first year by eating a poisonous fruit or plant, just like Christopher McCandless did.
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  11. Incidentally there is a Korean movie called Pandora about a disaster at a nuclear power plant.
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  12. In the future we will be opening the containers and using the waste from them as fuel in Generation IV reactors. Current reactors only produce waste because they are inefficient but each generation of reactor has produced fewer by-products than the previous generation.
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  13. No, not even close, both disasters are ranked a 7 on the INES scale but that is only because that's the top of the scale, if the scale kept going then Chernobyl would be at least 15 while Fukushima would remain at 7. The explosion of the reactor at Chernobyl was the worst possible thing that could ever happen at a nuclear power plant - the explosion of an actual core. Fukushima on the other hand had three structures built above the cores explode, but the cores themselves stayed in tact and just partially melted. Radiation released at Fukushima was a million times less than Chernobyl and didn't harm anyone, though gullible people or people who enjoy spreading misinformation will tell you otherwise.
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  14. Japan doesn't want to put any nuclear waste in the ocean, they want to put tritiated water in the ocean. They encapsulate their nuclear waste just like every other country does.
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  15.  @namename9998  You will never find it because it is likely something Tahoe read on a conspiracy theorist's "truth" website.
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  16. Just to clarify that Einstein made that quote about nuclear weapons and not nuclear power.
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  17. Koreans make some incredible movies.
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  18. No reactors exploded at Fukushima, just the upper floors of three of the reactor halls.
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  19.  @bonehand87  2011 was 30 years ago?
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  20.  @pleiadiblu2365  Obviously we do know, do you think that no one ever scanned those 50 men? It would be the first thing at the next medical check up they had.
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  21.  @pleiadiblu2365  He never said there was a safe location, he said it was the safest location.
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  22. No, that's like several hundred trips in a Hercules transport plane from a flooded part of Japan to a non-flooded part of Japan. They were rescuing people, not abducting them.
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  23. "It doesn't agree with what I believe, it must be lying!" What a scary mentality for someone to have.
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  24. You are friends with a conspiracy theorist who purposely spreads misinformation for profit. You should pick your friends better.
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  25.  @folkblueswriter  People who spread misinformation are one of the greatest cancers on this planet.
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  26. Nuclear power plants do not tend to come with runways so your plan would require clearing the nearest runway of debris and repairing it if necessary, and then cleaning and repairing every mile of road between the runway and the plant. This is actually what they did but it took weeks to accomplish and the plant did not have weeks, it had days.
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  27. Fukushima Daiichi NPP began construction in 1967, five years before Chernobyl NPP began construction... We've known how to make safe reactors (Generation III) since 1996, but that doesn't stop older first and second generation reactors having accidents.
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  28. Thorium is safer, but it's not safe.
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  29. A reactor won't melt immediately if cooling is stopped, it will only start to overheat, this gives people time to restore cooling but they have to be quick. You have a few hours to avoid damaging a billion dollar machine (partial meltdown) or you have a few days to avoid the core melting out of its container (full meltdown). Fukushima has three partial meltdowns due to the fact they could not restore cooling for over a day, while Chernobyl has one full meltdown due to the fact the core exploded destroying all of the cooling infrastructure with it. The critical difference between the two is that a partially melted core does not interact with the environment, the inside of the reactor will be melted and mangled but the containment vessel itself is in tact and that allows for cold water to be pumped into it and the "hot" water taken back out and stored. With a fully molten reactor the only two choices are to let it melt it's way into the ground where it might contact groundwater or to spray it with cold water knowing you can't easily recapture the now irradiated water and it will seep into the ground anyway.
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  30. Energy Source Mortality Rate (deaths/trillionkWhr) Coal – global average 100,000 (41% global electricity) Coal – China 170,000 (75% China’s electricity) Coal – U.S. 10,000 (32% U.S. electricity) Oil 36,000 (33% of energy, 8% of electricity) Natural Gas 4,000 (22% global electricity) Biofuel/Biomass 24,000 (21% global energy) Solar (rooftop) 440 (< 1% global electricity) Wind 150 (2% global electricity) Hydro – global average 1,400 (16% global electricity) Hydro – U.S. 5 (6% U.S. electricity) Nuclear – global average 90 (11% global electricity w/Chernobyl & Fukushima) Nuclear – U.S. 0.1 (19% U.S. electricity) Are you a professional at spreading misinformation or do you just dabble in it from time to time?
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  31. No they don't, fuel rods remain active for decades and require active cooling for at least three years to stop them being a fire hazard.
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  32. Not when every road for 100 miles is strewn with debris.
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  33. Chernobyl happened in the 20th century, we are in the 21st century.
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  34.  Anonymer Nutzer  I hate to be that guy but this century actually started in 2001 😉
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  35. I would say the largest event ever seen by man would be the Boxing Day tsunami of 2004. Others would probably say D-Day or Pompeii, or even the moon landing.
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  36. Yes, by a huge margin. Mortality rate per trillion kWh produced: Coal: 10,000 (in the US alone from respiratory illnesses and allergies) Natural gas: 4,000 (globally, due to respiratory illnesses or gas thief accidents) Nuclear: 90 (all situated in Ukraine or Belarus because of Chernobyl) Even renewables kill more people every year than nuclear. Mainly due to construction accidents
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  37. They have been capturing it since 2011, there is something like 90,000 tanks at the site which you can see in modern images, a decision has been made to start discharging some of them into the ocean in small amounts now that they are running out of storage.
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  38. No, it doesn't, it was captured for over 10 years in 90,000 tanks at the site, they have only recently made the decision to start discharging some of the tanks into the sea at regular intervals.
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  39. People who spread misinformation are a cancer on this world. Karma will get you.
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  40. You folks are dangerous! Ignorance and gullibility are the worst combination.
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  41. I do, it happens all the time, you are either ill-informed or ignorant.
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  42. The real threat to western plants is the anti-nuclear agenda. The Japanese, French and Koreans are pro-nuclear so they have been building new plants and closing old plants. The US and UK on the other hand have plants that were built in the 70's and 80's and instead of being replaced they are getting life extensions because our countries know how difficult it is to build new plants when there are hippies with placards standing in front of construction vehicles just because they watched The China Syndrome and it became their favourite movie.
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  43. Three of the reactor buildings exploded, but none of the reactors.
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  44. Ahh, the mysterious "they" who should provide people with answers. The truth is on the internet, where it always is, you just have to look for it without any bias.
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  45. NONE, at least until they start discharging some of the 90,000 tanks at the power plant which starts either this year or next. I wish people spreading misinformation on the internet was NOT AN OPTION.
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  46. It was avoidable, the managers at Tepco had been warned three times that the flood barrier walls around the plant were not high enough.
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  47. No one in the documentary said it was, they said it was the worst of this century so far and they are correct.
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