Saturday, March 19, 2011

Japan Nuclear Crisis


If you're at least somewhat up to date with current events then you've heard about the earthquake and potential meltdowns of a few of Japan's nuclear reactors. Due to the loss of electricity from the tsunami, the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant has been unable to pump water to the fuel rods which continue to build up heat and energy. As long as they do not burn through the barriers containing them and combust with the outside air, a major catastrophe can be averted for the most part. What better way to explain the disaster than a little metaphor. Even in the midst of such a predicament Japan finds an oddly hilarious way to inform people about the incident. Am I a bad person for finding this video funny?

7 comments:

  1. How bad do you think its going to get in Japan?

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  2. Sigh.... very eye opening. Thanks.

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  3. The whole situation is so scary. I prey for them every day.

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  4. Wish I had money to donate....

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  5. I saw this video It's cool that they want to explain the problem to the kids at their level...
    I'm about to donate some big money but I don't exactly know where to donate it to...

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  6. God dammit japan, stop messing with me.

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  7. I can't believe we carry on nuclear anyway. Geothermal looks the next technology.

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