More F*cked News about Fukushima

[2triky]

[Coligny]

Can we have a whole separated folder for all things related FuckYoushima ?

[Ganma]

[2triky]

Straight from the horse's mouth.

This disaster is becoming tragically reminiscent of the Minamata Disease incident. I guess the Japanese are poor students of history.

[2triky]

Japanese Nuclear Crisis Leaves Fukushima Town Broken

The Japanese town of Minamisoma was hit hard by the earthquake and tsunami in March. The disaster killed several hundred residents. Tens of thousands were then forced to evacuate as reactors at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant, which lies just 30 kilometers away, went into meltdown.

And many of the residents who remain feel they have been abandoned by the Japanese government.

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[matsuki]

[Mike Oxlong]

More damning, sickening reading...the long version, with all the details that should bring Japanese to riot:

Japan ignored own radiation forecasts from very beginning

A short video summary:
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[Yokohammer]

More damning, sickening reading...the long version, with all the details that should bring Japanese to riot:

Lovely. An 11 billion yen paperweight. Taxpayer money, of course.

We are prepared! We are organized! We have the world's best technology at our disposal! Unfortunately we haven't got a fucking clue how to actually use it when we really need it.

Legions of highly-trained drones ticking off checklists precisely as prescribed, and then walking around aimlessly in little circles when a real problem arises.

OK, let's go back to square one. The root of the problem: Start teaching initiative, creativity, and problem solving from the earliest possible age rather than just obedience and conformity!! The latter makes for a malleable, docile populace, but if you manage to blow yourselves up (gee, that'd be stupid, wouldn't it ...) you're fucked.

[matsuki]

[damn name]

More damning, sickening reading...the long version, with all the details that should bring Japanese to riot:

Every extraordinary technology, magnificent invention or foolproof system can be undone by human fools.

[Ketou]

OK, let's go back to square one. The root of the problem: Start teaching initiative, creativity, and problem solving from the earliest possible age rather than just obedience and conformity!! The latter makes for a malleable, docile populace, but if you manage to blow yourselves up (gee, that'd be stupid, wouldn't it ...) you're fucked.

So true. Although the trend in the US and elsewhere is to create an education system more like the Japanese model....to much education does not a sheep make.

[Typhoon]

Every extraordinary technology, magnificent invention or foolproof system can be undone by human fools.

Epitaph.

[Russell]

Long watch but worth every minute.

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NHK Special: Japan researchers found radiation levels exceeding most contaminated zone in Chernobyl called Red Forest

[Russell]

[matsuki]

This story kind of reads like they want to spread the garbage all over Japan.

"We Japanese" will collectively be irradiated

[Samurai_Jerk]

[matsuki]

[Coligny]

[Russell]

Japan insists its nuclear crisis was caused by an unforeseeable combination of tsunami and earthquake. But new evidence suggests its reactors were doomed to fail
independent.co.uk

It is one of the mysteries of Japan's ongoing nuclear crisis: How much damage did the 11 March earthquake inflict on the Fukushima Daiichi reactors before the tsunami hit?

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Throughout the months of lies and misinformation, one story has stuck: it was the earthquake that knocked out the plant's electric power, halting cooling to its six reactors. The tsunami then washed out the plant's back-up generators 40 minutes later, shutting down all cooling and starting the chain of events that would cause the world's first triple meltdown.

But what if recirculation pipes and cooling pipes burst after the earthquake – before the tidal wave reached the facilities; before the electricity went out? This would surprise few people familiar with the 40-year-old reactor one, the grandfather of the nuclear reactors still operating in Japan.

Problems with the fractured, deteriorating, poorly repaired pipes and the cooling system had been pointed out for years. In September 2002, Tepco admitted covering up data about cracks in critical circulation pipes. In their analysis of the cover-up, The Citizen's Nuclear Information Centre writes: "The records that were covered up had to do with cracks in parts of the reactor known as recirculation pipes. These pipes are there to siphon off heat from the reactor. If these pipes were to fracture, it would result in a serious accident in which coolant leaks out."

[...]

The Independent has spoken to several workers at the plant who recite the same story: serious damage, to piping and at least one of the reactors, occurred before the tsunami hit. All have requested anonymity because they are still working at or connected with the stricken plant. Worker A, a maintenance engineer who was at the Fukushima complex on the day of the disaster, recalls hissing, leaking pipes.

"I personally saw pipes that had come apart and I assume that there were many more that had been broken throughout the plant. There's no doubt that the earthquake did a lot of damage inside the plant... I also saw that part of the wall of the turbine building for reactor one had come away. That crack might have affected the reactor."

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Worker B, a technician in his late 30s who was also on site at the time of the earthquake, recalls: "It felt like the earthquake hit in two waves, the first impact was so intense you could see the building shaking, the pipes buckling, and within minutes I saw pipes bursting. Some fell off the wall...

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The suspicion that the earthquake caused severe damage to the reactors is strengthened by reports that radiation leaked from the plant minutes later. The Bloomberg news agency has reported that a radiation alarm went off about a mile from the plant at 3.29pm, before the tsunami hit.

The reason for official reluctance to admit that the earthquake did direct structural damage to reactor one is obvious. Katsunobu Onda, author of Tepco: The Dark Empire, explains it this way: A government or industry admission "raises suspicions about the safety of every reactor they run. They are using a number of antiquated reactors that have the same systematic problems, the same wear and tear on the piping." Earthquakes, of course, are commonplace in Japan.

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During his research, Mr Onda spoke with several engineers who worked at the Tepco plants. One told him that often piping would not match up to the blueprints. In that case, the only solution was to use heavy machinery to pull the pipes close enough together to weld them shut. Inspection of piping was often cursory and the backs of the pipes, which were hard to reach, were often ignored. Repair jobs were rushed; no one wanted to be exposed to nuclear radiation longer than necessary.

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[Coligny]

During his research, Mr Onda spoke with several engineers who worked at the Tepco plants. One told him that often piping would not match up to the blueprints. In that case, the only solution was to use heavy machinery to pull the pipes close enough together to weld them shut.

--speechless--




--no, really--

[2triky]

Japan insists its nuclear crisis was caused by an unforeseeable combination of tsunami and earthquake. But new evidence suggests its reactors were doomed to fail

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FYI, I posted this article back on August 7th in the following thread:

http://www.fuckedgaijin.com/forums/showthread.php?p=279574#post279574

[Russell]

FYI, I posted this article back on August 7th in the following thread:

http://www.fuckedgaijin.com/forums/showthread.php?p=279574#post279574

Sorry, I did not notice this thread at the time.

[2triky]

Sorry, I did not notice this thread at the time.

No worries. Just wanted to let you know. I would have normally put the article in a thread such as this one but it seemed important enough to merit its own thread.

Cheers.

[TOKYO JOE]

HAHAHA This really isn't funny anymore friends.

Take care in blue tent city friends, and when walking to your next English class, because Sludge Town takes no prisoners!

Wagyuu beef from Australia and wine from Sonoma in specially clad and filtered TM for me though and no, I aint goin' outside friends.

[Iraira]

Joe you're getting boring.

[dimwit]

Getting?

[Coligny]

Getting?

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[Samurai_Jerk]

Getting?

That's the first thing I thought when I read Iraira's comment.

[Iraira]

That's the first thing I thought when I read Iraira's comment.

I'll give every troll a chance to be entertaining or to allow others to come up with creative disparaging remarks about the troll. TokyoJowe sank real fast into mediocrity and below. At least McTojo's burps maintain some semblance of twisted perversion and aren't just jack-off (not referring to Jack...who is still entertaining after all these years) gloom and doom from someone so unhappy with their life.

[Greji]

I aint goin' outside friends.

Broke again Joe?