BS: Japan Nuclear plant disaster, 2011

Subject: RE: BS: Japan Nuclear plant disaster, 2011
From: Donuel
Date: 04 Apr 19 - 08:24 AM

...another book I'll never write.

Still, pondering the guesses what we were about by future people is a potential subject of absurd humor.

Subject: RE: BS: Japan Nuclear plant disaster, 2011
From: robomatic
Date: 04 Apr 19 - 09:37 AM

I recall a (sort of) humorist doing a future archaelogical recount of excavations at Pound-Laundry (Washing-Ton).

There's also a book of anthropological sci-fi done in the 70s that has a good song reference. An anthropologist (or archaelogist) comes to a heavily devolved area and gets injured is rescued by the inhabitants and is not likely to live, but he keeps hearing them sing:
Balasamo balasamo
Sarnacoparno!
Bino Mosha
Sada Rosha
Chu Mila
Balasamo

As the light dies, he realizes he's been hearing a rendition of:

Bless 'em all, bless 'em all
Sergeants and Corporals all
There'll be no promotion
This side of the ocean
So cheer up my lads, bless 'em all!

Subject: RE: BS: Japan Nuclear plant disaster, 2011
From: Donuel
Date: 04 Apr 19 - 03:08 PM

What will be left in 6,000 Years? Deep in sealed concrete bunkers there will still be a plastic bottle. There will be no railroad tracks, no locomotives, all will be buried mounds of rust. What we call ancient ruins will often survive longer than our modern architecture.

The Pentagon will be in unrecognizable ruins and will be suspected of being a temple.

Subject: RE: BS: Japan Nuclear plant disaster, 2011
From: Donuel
Date: 06 Apr 19 - 09:07 AM

May 6th HBO begins the untold true story of Chernobyl.

Subject: RE: BS: Japan Nuclear plant disaster, 2011
From: Jack Campin
Date: 21 May 19 - 11:15 AM

Meanwhile in the same ocean...

US bomb test waste leak risk

Subject: RE: BS: Japan Nuclear plant disaster, 2011
From: Jack Campin
Date: 21 May 19 - 12:02 PM

...and from looking at an ocean currents map, it seems most of that American waste will end up splattered along the east coast of Australia.

Subject: RE: BS: Japan Nuclear plant disaster, 2011
From: Jack Campin
Date: 22 May 19 - 11:17 AM

And yet more from the other team...

Semipalatinsk, 1956

Subject: RE: BS: Japan Nuclear plant disaster, 2011
From: Jim Martin
Date: 19 Sep 19 - 08:35 AM

"Experts: Fukushima Water Is Too Dangerous to Dump Into the Sea"

https://futurism.com/the-byte/fukushima-water-dangerous-dump

Subject: RE: BS: Japan Nuclear plant disaster, 2011
From: Jack Campin
Date: 19 Sep 19 - 05:57 PM

That is a taster for something I've been thinking about lately and haven't seen anyone else commenting on.

We appear to be headed for catastrophic global warming with all the world's ice melting. That would push sea levels up by about 200 feet, and the rise is likely to be accelerating in metres per century.

Most of the world's nuclear power stations are near sea level and will be inundated in a century or so. Nuclear waste stores like Windscale pose an even more extreme hazard.

So. We already have a mass extinction on the way from climate change and habitat destruction. Now add the likely effects of ALL the nuclear waste humanity has ever made being let loose into the global ecosystem - any survivors of the collapse of civilization will have no way to stop it.

What would survive? Any multicellular organisms at all?

Subject: RE: BS: Japan Nuclear plant disaster, 2011
From: Jack Campin
Date: 28 Feb 20 - 11:52 AM

Meanwhile in the country that brought you the Strugatsky Brothers' "Roadside Picnic" (filmed by Tarkowsky as "Stalker")...

Fires and the Mafia

I doubt Japanese organized crime can be far behind.

I wonder who's had a house extension built from unusually cheap timber?

Subject: RE: BS: Japan Nuclear plant disaster, 2011
From: Donuel
Date: 28 Feb 20 - 12:00 PM

At xmas time suspicious white birch fireplace wood from EU has found its way to the US. Shipping cheap firewood half way around the world could be profitable if it were "free".

Subject: RE: BS: Japan Nuclear plant disaster, 2011
From: Jack Campin
Date: 14 Apr 20 - 04:56 AM

Radioactive forest fires at Chernobyl

Subject: RE: BS: Japan Nuclear plant disaster, 2011
From: Jack Campin
Date: 13 Feb 21 - 11:11 AM

Smaller but still scary Fukushima quake:

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/japan-earthquake-fukushima-b1801876.html

Subject: RE: BS: Japan Nuclear plant disaster, 2011
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 13 Feb 21 - 01:25 PM

Whilst some precautionary measures have been taken apropos of liquid nuclear waste, there's been no tsunami warning. The earthquake was deep and was about 40 miles off the coast.

Subject: RE: BS: Japan Nuclear plant disaster, 2011
From: Jack Campin
Date: 11 Mar 21 - 04:24 AM

BBC 'ten years on' documentary