WTF?

Why not just use some of the fast setting hydraulic cements that work in wet conditions?

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> Its good to know that the only think standing between the Japanese people and an unprecedented radioactive disaster is sawdust, old newspapers and adult diapers.

Now that is funny. In both the funny ha ha category and the funny, geez-o what the hell's wrong with this supposed high-tech world of ours category

Your last sentence was more politcally correct than WTF.

To be WTF it should have said, "Its good to know that the only think standing between the Japanese people and an unprecedented radioactive disaster is a sanitary napkin." Followed with a dissuasion of the half life of both.

WHATEVER WAY U LOOK THE SITUATION IS SADLY A BLOODY MESS...

radu

WHATEVER WAY U LOOK THE SITUATION IS SADLY A BLOODY MESS...

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Radu

>WHATEVER WAY U LOOK THE SITUATION IS SADLY A BLOODY MESS...

Fully agree. It's far from being over and the immediate and long term affects are still unknown. This could domino into something much worse than we could even imagine.

i guess there are no experts in how to handle a situation like this because it happens so rarely. it seems like they are making it up as they go along and are lacking strong leadership. when these disasters happen it becomes apparent very quickly that the "contingency plan" was not thoroughly thought out.

Sounds like the gulf oil spill on steroids.... I hope they figure this one out soon

One domino affect I noticed..Salted lands

While viewing the tsunami footage I saw that a lot of the area affected was agricultural land. Below is a quote someone made on HuffPost that says it better than I could.

>“Heartbreak­ing and that soil, that land is all salted up and covered with debris now. Those were probably more than someone's vegetables­. They may have been market crops. Japan has many small growers. This is some serious devastation­n.”

Sometimes back up plans don't work that well if there are no REAL LIFE previous problems to be based on. The Japanese have a different culture when it comes to what "They" think and have had experience with.

For instance....there was a plant in Chesapeake Virginia (Client...you guessed it...a Japanese firm) the building pad had quite a bit of moisture that did not drain well and threatened the stability of the building. The pad was sand. The underlying soil was blue clay (not really absorbent). The solution was to remove all the sand and replace with volcanic ash.

The real solution, given the conditions and the continent.....weep sleves placed at intervals along the sand pad set below the blue clay to allow water to drain from the pad. The response from the six Japanese engineers was....why do you use sand when you can use volcanic ash. The result.....we all learned something.

Those folks will learn...again... things we will be wanting to learn later. Let them figure things out and handle it. There has been a bunch of folks jumping in to help.

We will all watch and learn from this.

As far as the threat to the rest of the world (or surrounding countries) they will respond. Helpful or not they will respond.

Take your note pads out....and record.

WTF? - Craig

Up until this accident happened I thought that anything the Japanese came up with would be safe and sound and completely researched for all possible circumstances, as much as a human being can prepare for, but my opinion on that has done a big 180°.

WTF? - Craig

Kind of short sighted and naive to be finding fault with what has been an honest attempt to control and correct something none of us ever expected and therefore have no experience to deal with. Sometimes we learn from unpleasant experiences. Unfortunate that those times are rare today and the lessons are quickly forgotten. Kind of like forgotten about the danger of placing all of your assets in one basket and only considering cost and profit. This country would be showing a worse example if this had happened here. I doubt anyone would be risking their lives to attempt a correction, but you can rest assured that the streets would be full of protesters and the attorneys would be drawing hazard pay from the risk of being trampled by their own. Japan has firsthand knowledge of the danger and effect of radiation, those finding fault have none. Modern technology does not always provide everything and is often an obstruction to finding the right solution, Tampons just might be the most effective way correct this part a huge problem facing the Japanese. As noted above, take notes and learn, can't do that when finding fault, especially from a position of self inflicted and opinionated ignorance.
jud

WTF? - Jud

>Kind of short sighted and naive

You forgot gullible Jud. I can only see today and yes I am naive.