U.S. Officials Alarmed By Japanese Handling of Nuclear Crisis

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U.S. officials are alarmed at how the Japanese are handling the escalating nuclear reactor crisis and fear that if they do not get control of the plants within the next 24 to 48 hours they could have a situation that will be "deadly for decades."

"It would be hard to describe how alarming this is right now," one U.S. official told ABC News.

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The Japanese have evacuated most of the reactor personnel from the Fukushima nuclear complex and are rotating teams of 50 workers through the facility in an attempt to cool it down.

"We are all-out urging the Japanese to get more people back in there to do emergency operation there, that the next 24 to 48 hours are critical," the official said. "Urgent efforts are needed on the part of the Japanese to restore emergency operations to cool" down the reactors' rods before they trigger a meltdown.

"They need to stop pulling out people—and step up with getting them back in the reactor to cool it. There is a recognition this is a suicide mission," the official said.

http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/us-send-special-nuclear-team-japan-nuclear-regulatory/story?id=13148044

[Peikko 1,575]

Ah, the US doing what the US does best; meddling in the affairs of other sovereign nations

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Ah, the US doing what the US does best; meddling in the affairs of other sovereign nations

Having opinions is now meddling?

Or is it only meddling when it's Americans who have opinions?

[Peikko 1,575]

Having opinions is now meddling?

Or is it only meddling when it's Americans who have opinions?

You think that's just voicing an 'opinion'? Oh, and yes, only Americans are powerful enough to have opinions with the ability to meddle

I think I 'quoted' the wrong word

Edited March 17, 2011 by Madame Cleo

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I doubt you'd consider this meddling if it was the French saying this. Your anti-Americanism is clouding your judgment.

[Peikko 1,575]

I doubt you'd consider this meddling if it was the French saying this. Your anti-Americanism is clouding your judgment.

The French don't have big enough gonads to have opinions that meddle.

[ready4ONE 5,400]

The French don't have big enough gonads to have opinions that meddle.

The French seem hot to bring up the rear in Libya!

[Bad_Daddy 2,209]

It was the US that built that reactor some 40 years ago.

[Matt&Divorced 0]

The French seem hot to bring up the rear in Libya!

Quite a few European forces have run into trouble there...UK SAS troops being caught by rebels for one thing. If people were serious enough about stopping Gaddafi, it could be done with one guided bomb. Perhaps the Israelis are more worried about Iran....

[Usui Takumi 1,562]

I doubt you'd consider this meddling if it was the French saying this. Your anti-Americanism is clouding your judgment.

The US has been the slowest to diverge from the official Japanese position. I think the French were first weren't they? I remember on Sunday French officials were saying that the Japanese were downplaying the threat.

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The US has been the slowest to diverge from the official Japanese position. I think the French were first weren't they? I remember on Sunday French officials were saying that the Japanese were downplaying the threat.

That's ok, it isn't meddling when the French do it because don't they just look so cute in their little berets?

[mawilson 2,133]

I doubt you'd consider this meddling if it was the French saying this. Your anti-Americanism is clouding your judgment.

+1

[Darnell 8,479]

Ah - the diminishing of one of the two major export powers on the planet .

I'm happy !!

[mawilson 2,133]

Ah - the diminishing of one of the two major export powers on the planet .

I'm happy !!

I'd be happier if it was China. Japan is no longer a threat to us.

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Ah - the diminishing of one of the two major export powers on the planet .

I'm happy !!

I'd be happier if it was China. Japan is no longer a threat to us.

Aye, if we're going to be inhumane douches, I too would rather see catastrophe befall China.