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Thread ID: 116606	2011-03-11 23:25:00	Nuclear Power stations in NZ - Yes or No?	zqwerty (97)	PC World Chat

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1185394	2011-03-15 20:45:00	en.wikipedia.org Thanks for that informative link to Wikipedia that covers the history of post-war Japan, however I can find no mention of a confirmation of your assertion that the "reactors were foisted onto the Japanese by the Americans". Can you provide a more specific link please?	johcar (6283)
1185395	2011-03-15 20:56:00	Here is what I could find. en.wikipedia.org Thanks, bob_doe_nz, but that link just gives a history of the Fukushima I Nuclear Power Plant - when it was built ("first commissioned in 1971"), who the suppliers were ("supplied by General Electric"), who ran it ("run entirely by the Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO)") and how it works. There is nothing in that article to suggest that the Americans forced (zqwerty's word was "foisted") the plant on the Japanese.	johcar (6283)
1185396	2011-03-15 21:39:00	The first nuclear reactor in Japan was built by the UK's GEC. In the 1970s the first Light Water Reactors were built in cooperation with American companies. These plants were bought from U.S. vendors such as General Electric or Westinghouse with contractual work done by Japanese companies, who would later get a license themselves to build similar plant designs. Developments in nuclear power since that time has seen contributions from Japanese companies and research institutes on the same level as the other big users of nuclear power. en.wikipedia.org	zqwerty (97)
1185397	2011-03-15 21:51:00	Can we volunteer Winston Peters, Hone Hawawira and Hone key please to go and fix up the Japanese reactors I would volunteer these people but for the fact they seem to be lacking expertise in how to fix nuclear problems.	Snorkbox (15764)
1185398	2011-03-15 23:40:00	As you know since the nuclear problems started, I have been concerned and admiring of the workers in the plant. We have not seen one on tv even one of the bosses or office workers. Now we read that there were 800 workers at the plant and they have all been evacuated except for 50 who are staying to battle the fires and try to cool the reactors down. Now doing some basic maths (at which I got 14 for School Cert) 50 workers in say two 12 hour shifts is 25 workers. Allow for some in the control room, and that leaves about 4 workers for each reactor building. That does not seem very many to me. Plus they will need some of them to be electricians, plumbers, carpenters, welders, firemen and even a tea lady ! But as one US commentator said they will be facing very high risk of radiation and they will be heros.	Digby (677)
1185399	2011-03-16 05:55:00	Something from the UK attached. :(	tuiruru (12277)
1185400	2011-03-16 06:27:00	When nuclear power generation started up in the UK the government said the electricity would be so cheap that there would be no point in metering it.	martynz (5445)
1185401	2011-03-16 06:45:00	When nuclear power generation started up in the UK the government said the electricity would be so cheap that there would be no point in metering it. Do you just make it up as you go along? Certainly more convenient than dealing with the facts.	Cicero (40)
1185402	2011-03-16 07:12:00	Do you just make it up as you go along? Certainly more convenient than dealing with the facts. Are you calling me a liar?	martynz (5445)
1185403	2011-03-16 07:38:00	When nuclear power generation started up in the UK the government said the electricity would be so cheap that there would be no point in metering it. That in fact is quite true. It is also true that the government advice in the event of a nuclear attack was to put a brown paper bag over ones head. This wouldn't work today as there are hardly any brown paper bags around, and using a plastic bag substitute would be a melt-on disaster :banana	Terry Porritt (14)
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