nuclear accident in japan could it afect hardware prices ?

[skywalker[TSG]]

let us pray for the people in japan over this terrible accident they say that the situation is under control wich is good but could this affect hardware prices ?

[KillerBug]

Nuclear accedent? I have not seen the news today.

[skywalker[TSG]]

well turn on CNN

[clough]

I hope this aint the begining of........ GODZILLA!!!!

[KillerBug]

Yikes! Talk about a mistake, 7 times more uranium than you are supost to use! Unless all the power plants have to start stricter safety routines, and power goes up 1/80 of a cent per kilowhat hour, possibly promting them to make a part $.05 more than it is now, nothing should happen, than again, they may use any excuse to raise prices.

[U-96]

Hmmmmm 16kg of fissile material in an unshielded room?

I read in the newspaper that no-one reported the incident for 90 minutes because the guys who should report it had run away. Can't blame them really. Blue flashes, 16000 times background radiation, I'd leg it too.

They're supposed to use no more than 2,5kg at a time. This is worse than human error, it was quite obviously deliberate.
I just hope the surrounding community is okay.

Play with fire, you get burned.

U-96

[welsh wizard]

they have already!
WW
this must have posted at same time as U-96 and comes over as sick, it was meant as a reply to Killerbugs statement that they would use it as excuse to increase prices.
WW

[This message has been edited by welsh wizard (edited 10-01-99).]

[bkehoe]

Well I see prices going up as a factory closed down and then the earthquake and now this. /forum/frown.gif


Brendan

[IRED]

Beware of any 'puter parts that glow in the dark.

[Dominus]

I suppose everyone knows by now, but the radiation was only truely dangerous to within a distance of 300m, and by now, all the radiation levels, except those of within the building itself, are all back to safe levels. Not really normal levels, but safe for humans.

I'm not trying to downplay this issue, but I'm just saying that if (when, more like /forum/frown.gif) manufacturers raise prices, you can be sure that there is no REAL reasonbehind them doing so; they just want to reap profits while they can, because the sub-$600 PC market have squeezed profit margins so low, that they will do anything they can to get some extra cash.

[KillerBug]

true, for now, it is safe, but if there is another full scale melt-down, like in Russia, then the parts will be radioactive, metal holds radioactivity very well.

[Dominus]

But if there was a full scale meltdown, I'd be MUCH more concerned about the hundreds of thousands of people who would suffer and die from radioactive fallout, not a few measley dollars on hardware.

[Bronco]

OK

Stay at least 300m from any computer parts that glow in the dark

[welsh wizard]

When Russian plant went up it affected the farmers in Wales, they had ban on Lamb produce for ages fall out hit Wales badly 300 meters ! I know it wasn't a melt down in the same way but any Nucks are bad news, as for parts glowing in dark the only thing you can do is convert to a clear case and turn it in to a benefit.
WW

[bkehoe]

For all we know, something could be happening unknown somewhere right now.

Wasn't the Chernobyl disaster an attampted coverup? They got everyone to stand outside in the radiation just to try and get everyone to think things were under control.

Then the nuclar powered sub in Russia, in, I think, 1996 which we only found out about a few days after the accident.

Farmers here in Ireland who have animals in the Wicklow Mountains (east coast) have certain bans from the radiation which blew there from Chernobyl.

At least we don't have any nuclear power station here, but who knows what would happen if something went wrong in the U.K, or Sellafield, the cause for the Irish Sea to be the most radioactive in the world (not the best association with Ireland, but we didn't do it).


Just something for everyone to ponder on. /forum/smile.gif Chernobyl is still running when it should be shut down, so we are in line for another disaster soon. Everything could be prevented, but when you think how could anyone be stupid enough to put 7 times the amount of uranium in a tank I begin to wonder..

Brendan.

[welsh wizard]

bkehoe, you know when they have a leak in Sellafield/Winscale or what ever they call it now, they change the name! that place always leaked like a sive.
WW

[jeana]

Right... an explanation of HOW or WHY they could make such an error never appears in the reports.

My theory is that they had a team of shuttle engineers helping them.

[chad174]

my opinion is that we should nuke them just to teach them a lesson /forum/wink.gif...just kidding, but i think it was terribly stupid to do such a thing, and btw, thanks for your support welsh wizzard.

[welsh wizard]

Just thought you all might like to read from the attached
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_461000/461738.stm
ww

[theCorvetteDoctor]

Mitsubushi, RAM and auto mfg. claimed only 1/2 day loss of production. The real worry as I see it is Taiwan, motherboard capital of the Galaxy. On a more serious note, the US NRC is on the side of private business. Two main examples come to recent memory. The Savannah River Plant in Barnwell SC operated by DuPont Nemours Corp(sp?) disposed of low level waste by placing in cardboard boxes and burying on-site,, and lots more. Rocky Flats Colorado north of Denver, mis-placed over a kilo of high level nuclear material, some of which was discovered in the ventilation ducts. The local water acquefer for both of these locations has detectable levels of Trituim, Irridium, Plutonium and more and more undesirable elements. The US law exempts these industries from EPA guidelines under the "National Security" guise.. lets not forget that 30,000+ warheads are not enough, cause we've been warned that "the RUSSIANS ARE COMING"