CNN An 8.8-magnitude earthquake has struck Japan

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^^

Well, the first anti-nuclear energy activists have already started to point out that most earthquakes in Germany do occur in Baden-Württemberg.



So, Stefan Mappus is going to get screwed in the election in two weeks? We'll see. If so, Fukushima is this election's "October surprise".

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Lol, okay. Who was the idiot pointing that out (it's true, of course... but consider the magnitude of our quakes.)

A anti-nuclear energy group called "ausgestrahlt" who's planning a protest against Neckarwestheim today.

http://www.sueddeutsche.de/politik/kuenast-zu-atomdebatte-gruene-fordern-merkel-zu-atom-umkehr-auf-1.1071118 (at the bottom of the article)

http://www.ausgestrahlt.de/

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http://www.ausgestrahlt.de/

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Japan has reported it  to the IAEA as a level 4 incident on the INES scale, which would mean that is slightly less serious than Three Mile Island (which was a level 5 - Chernobyl: level 7).

http://www.monstersandcritics.com/news/asiapacific/news/article_1625594.php/Japan-rates-nuclear-accident-as-4-on-7-step-scale

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I'm eagerly awaiting the left-wing propaganda about the earthquake risk in Central Europe making nuclear energy a ticking time bomb.

oh, brother.

You must not be familiar with the German Greens.

Franzl, most groups try to strike while the iron is hot to advance their agenda.  It is human nature and also very effective. In the emergency management field this is done all the time to try to secure funding. Most politicians and people choose not to think about these things. More to the point, I don't think you can dismiss their (the greens) concerns out of hand. Some are valid- others not so much. You are correct that Germany isn't really an earthquake hotbed, but there are other hazards that could negatively affect them.

Yes, the Greens are going to have a lot of fun with the nuclear energy issue in the two weeks till the Baden-Württemberg/Rhineland-Palatinate elections. If anything, Fukushima is a "good" way to remind people that the CDU stands on the "wrong" side of an issue most people care passionately about. That's also the reason why Angela Merkel has announced today that the government is going to review security standards for German nuclear power plants.

Not that I'm trying to defend the Greens or anything. Politics are dirty and elections are often decided by emotion. For the CDU, it's immigrants. For the Greens, it's nuclear power.

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^^

Eh, I admit that I'm not an expert... but what kind of a meltdown is this supposed to be? I mean when Chernobyl happened it didn't exactly result in the evacuation of half of Europe.

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. . . and the map hoax gets more alarmist and elaborate.

Well folks, it's over. Seems to me that America is doomed.

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French nuclear agency disagrees with Japan's assessment that Fukushima is a level 4 incident on the INES scale and says that it is rather a 5 or 6. This would make it as bad or worse than Three Mile Island without reaching Chernobyl levels.

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=update-1-french-nuclear-agency-rate

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French nuclear agency disagrees with Japan's assessment that Fukushima is a level 4 incident on the INES scale and says that it is rather a 5 or 6. This would make it as bad or worse than Three Mile Island without reaching Chernobyl levels.

Merci, Capitain Obvieux.

It's hardy obvious that a 5 or 6 would be worse than a 4.  In fact there would be some logic in having a level 1 incident be the worst possible incident in which there would be anyone left on Earth to care what level an incident was.

I don't really get what you mean.

IAEA defines level 1 as:

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How would this leave nobody behind "to care what level an incident was"?

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French nuclear agency disagrees with Japan's assessment that Fukushima is a level 4 incident on the INES scale and says that it is rather a 5 or 6. This would make it as bad or worse than Three Mile Island without reaching Chernobyl levels.

Merci, Capitain Obvieux.

French nuclear agency now says that it is definitely a level 6.

http://www.deccanchronicle.com/channels/world/japans-fukushima-six-seven-point-scale-gravity-watchdog-335

If so, Fukushima would be the second or third worst nuclear accident in history, I suppose. (Considering that were was only one level 7 and one level 6 before.)