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CP; Briefly that attempt as been shut down, scrubbed, for now I think their going to have fire trucks go in spaying with sea water. However, as you say and I've indicated reports are continuously contradicting each other. The urgency is these fuel rods are NOT in any containment unit, ie. if they go into meltdown there is nothing to keep the fumes (however active) from entering the atmoshpere....

Amphibious vehicles are already available, but extremely costly and impractical for daily use. The times to fill the average auto, would depend on several things, open windows, gaps in peddles (linkage), heating or air paraphernalia, trunk structure and so on, but if in deeper water will sink, before completely filled. As suggested the last place to be during a tsunami, might be your car. Those picture/films of the Japanese Tsunami, tossing around all vehicles, trucks, homes and debris is pretty explicit. Most US Nuclear Reactor containment units are built to withstand large aircraft impacts or major earthquakes and since the Japanese models withstood one of the worst ever magnitude quakes (9.0, 5th highest on record), several times what they were designed for, I believe any US facility could. Of course, if a Nuclear Plant (San Diego/LA) was operational during the worst ever earthquake say 50 miles off shore and a tsunami followed, causing power failures, the theory that will get promoted is, yes the same things could happen here. I don't know if California has a history of the type a quake as was in Japan (one fault going under another), but I don't think so and these are typically the worse...

Voltman; Maybe it's people are more sensitive to what others think today, believe more and more people are malevolent, when they are probably not. Said another way, in my day when a person disagreed with me or others, the idea either them or us would hold a grudge was literally unheard of. While I really don't people generally wish evil on anybody, short of a truly hateful attitude, which of course has always been the rule.

lemur. I'm not going to pursue "Abionic Oil Theory" or argue with anyone on it's merits. Even if possibly correct, basically crude forms in the Earths mantle seeping up, the idea enough is being produced would never support a future 10-20B people, with today's standards. You might google the theory and maybe add "Russian Scientist". As for sunlight on organic matter, I don't know how much could have been around through time or how it was exposed to sunlight, but then that's a good subject for another thread in Speculations.

It's now up to five reactors, two different locations. They have 50 others think ten different locations and there should be some around to back up those out of control. The US is flying in some back up systems, so they may not have been adequately prepared. Two however are 45 YO...said to be antiquated. http://www.japannuclear.com/nuclearpower/program/location.html

lemur; The last time* crude prices decreased or the bubble burst, was shortly after Bush 43, opened up a good many leases for exploration. The oil prices you see day to day are general April-December futures and most that use large amounts of some fuel product, deal in and take advantage of futures in the event of an increase. Anything like opening up leases or today, maybe allowing for already leased and explored rigs, to continue operation will effect those futures markets. Joe Six Pack and his family are today paying 1.00 more per gallon than a year ago, depending on variables this could easily mean what's equal to a tax increase of 800$/year, the average car mileage being around 20k mile/year. Do YOU think, Americans are better prepared??? * http://www.tradingeconomics.com/Economics/Commodities.aspx?Symbol=COG1