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<blockquote data-quote="john250" data-source="post: 822419" data-attributes="member: 4406"><p>The decision makers in Japan are fighting the good fight with precious little on their side. For instance, a call for big pumps and more generators is not an easy thing when the streets are full of rubble and your suppliers are probably trying to clean up themselves. That's why we call them disasters. Some of your usual personel may have been swept away, drowned. I hear media complaining about lack of communication from the decision makers, but no one wants to go to a press conference and say "it is precarious". </p><p></p><p>It is silly, to me, that France is closing reactors for inspection-- but that may be necessary for public confidence. France isn't really earthquake and tsunami territory. </p><p></p><p>We can build for the worst, the absolute worst case and we'll never be able to build anything affordably. It's likely there is a 11 earthquake out there waiting. And after that a 12. May come next week, may be a thousand years. </p><p></p><p>Market gurus are a hard lot, aren't they. I see opinions that US grains can benefit from this because Japan will need uncontaminated food for a while.</p><p></p><p>So--does anyone know the story about grain production in the Chernoble area? I remember reading, at the time, that millions of acres would be contaminated for eternity. Has that come to pass? Does anyone monitor? I really don't know because after a while it was no longer news.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="john250, post: 822419, member: 4406"] The decision makers in Japan are fighting the good fight with precious little on their side. For instance, a call for big pumps and more generators is not an easy thing when the streets are full of rubble and your suppliers are probably trying to clean up themselves. That's why we call them disasters. Some of your usual personel may have been swept away, drowned. I hear media complaining about lack of communication from the decision makers, but no one wants to go to a press conference and say "it is precarious". It is silly, to me, that France is closing reactors for inspection-- but that may be necessary for public confidence. France isn't really earthquake and tsunami territory. We can build for the worst, the absolute worst case and we'll never be able to build anything affordably. It's likely there is a 11 earthquake out there waiting. And after that a 12. May come next week, may be a thousand years. Market gurus are a hard lot, aren't they. I see opinions that US grains can benefit from this because Japan will need uncontaminated food for a while. So--does anyone know the story about grain production in the Chernoble area? I remember reading, at the time, that millions of acres would be contaminated for eternity. Has that come to pass? Does anyone monitor? I really don't know because after a while it was no longer news. [/QUOTE]
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