Tohoku Earthquake, Tsunami and Nuclear Disaster!!!

[Coligny]

Fetus head on nukular something...

She's a bit of an acquired taste...

A really extremely difficult to acquire taste...

[Mike Oxlong]

Cheating inquiry finds 'systemic problems' in U.S. nuclear force
Nearly half of the 190 nuclear launch officers at Malmstrom Air Force Base have been suspended in
a probe into suspected cheating on a proficiency test, Air Force Secretary Deborah Lee James says.

Nearly half of the officers responsible for maintaining and operating nuclear-armed missiles at a Montana base have been implicated in a widening cheating investigation, a sign of deep cultural and command problems in the nuclear force, the leader of the Air Force said Thursday.

Air Force Secretary Deborah Lee James said at a Pentagon news conference that 92 of 190 launch officers at Malmstrom Air Force Base had been suspended because of the investigation into the sharing of answers on a proficiency test last year.

For the first time since the Air Force disclosed the cheating scandal this month, officials acknowledged that the cheating stemmed from a climate of fear created by commanders, who decided which officers on launch crews would be promoted based on whether they scored perfectly on monthly tests.

"I believe that we do have systemic problems," James said. "The need for perfection has created a climate of undue stress and fear."

The number of implicated officers has nearly tripled since Jan. 15, when the Air Force announced that 16 had shared text messages with answers to a monthly missile proficiency test and that 17 others were aware of the suspected cheating but took no action...

So THAT'S who trained up the Fookooshimar techies.

[Coligny]

Talk aboot a dead end job...

[Russell]

Talk aboot a dead end job...

You mean being able to press a red button and decide the faith of mankind is not an exciting job?!?

[Coligny]

having for only job to press a button making you jobless for life...

[yanpa]

92 of 190 launch officers at Malmstrom Air Force Base had been suspended because of the investigation into the sharing of answers on a proficiency test last year.

How difficult is the concept of "press button if ordered, otherwise leave well alone?"

[Russell]

I think one of the strict requirements for this job is the absolute lack of creativity.

In that sense Americans might not be the best qualified.

And neither do the Russians...

[yanpa]

Damn, there's a whole country renowned for its lack of creativity and on-the-job initiative, unfortunately the name slips my mind...

[Coligny]

With their record for nukular safety, I'm pretty sure that even a protocol as simple as "push red button only if told" can be fucked up in great length...
Some people can't be trusted even with a spoon...

[Russell]

Maybe that country should be given the oversight of all the nuclear weapons in the world then...

[Russell]

Tepco: Reported no. 1 plant readings too low

The bulk of the radiation measurements taken at the crippled Fukushima No. 1 power plant since March 2011 will be reviewed because they were taken improperly and are probably too low, Tokyo Electric Power Co. revealed.

“We are very sorry, but we found cases in which beta radiation readings turned out to be wrong when the radioactivity concentration of a sample was high,” Tepco spokesman Masayuki Ono told a news conference Friday. Materials known to emit beta rays include strontium-90, which causes bone cancer.

The announcement follows Tepco’s finding Thursday that a groundwater sample it had taken from a well at the No. 1 plant last July contained a record-high 5 million becquerels of strontium-90 per liter instead of 900,000 becquerels.

Ono described the data up for review as “massive” and said the utility plans to start the review from the beginning of the nuclear crisis in March 2011 up to October last year, when it started preparing manuals on proper measurement procedure.

Among the data that need to be examined are the readings for around 300 tons of water that inexplicably vanished from a storage tank in August last year. Tepco had detected 80 million becquerels per liter of beta radiation from the leak, part of which is believed to have ended up in the Pacific.

Tepco blamed the measuring errors on what it calls the “counting miss” phenomenon, which occurs in sensors when radioactivity in a sample is too high. In such cases, the proper procedure is to dilute the water sample so the sensors can correctly detect the radioactivity.

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[Taro Toporific]

Controversial headline of South Korean magazine angers Japanese readers
RocketNews24 2014/02/10
...The February issue of the Korean-language version of popular men’s magazine MAXIM featured a front cover headline that read “How to date Japanese women who haven’t been exposed to radiation.” Readers within South Korea were quick to point out the inappropriateness of the title. The topic further blew up when a piece about it was posted on the electronic version and the Japanese-language version of the JoonAng Ilbo, one of South Korea’s top three influential newspapers.
▼ The February issue of MAXIM in question. The controversial attention-grabbing headline is circled on the bottom left.

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[matsuki]

I have one suggestion...appeal to them with the (lack of) size. "I'm too small to hurt you baby!"

[Coligny]

Thanks Obama !!! (bay)

It's Nuclear Regulation Authority's turn to be bullish on nuclear power plants in Japan awaiting NRA's approval to restart, now that the Tokyo gubernatorial election ended with the result interpreted as great endorsement of Prime Minister Abe's policies across the board.

NRA accepted the conclusion of the experts that the fractured zones inside the Ooi Nuclear Power Plant compound are not active faults.

moar...

[matsuki]

Just imagine how tourism will be with meltdowns that close to Kyoto....

[IparryU]

For those who can understand German:
http://www.zdf.de/ZDFmediathek/kanalueb ... en,-drohen

[Russell]

For those who can understand German:
http://www.zdf.de/ZDFmediathek/kanalueb ... en,-drohen

This documentary drives home once again how fucked the situation in Fukushima is.

[Coligny]

tssss, radiations are safe and buy fukushima vedgetabuls 'cause dey are cheaper, you panicky incult that can't tell science from a german scat porno flick...


(Darwin, you sneaky little bastard... that was you all along I'm sure...)

[GomiGirl]

[Coligny]

Hey, they are singing... everything must be ok, right ?

fukushima-nuclear-plant.jpg

Ok...

Maybe not so much...

Rahhhh... Leni Riefenstahl were are youze when your talents are so badly needed...
(and I thought singing with your feets deep in shit was a french thing)

Warining, Nazikraut n00dity, peener and bewbz
Cheerfull movies, reliable cars... what's not to like with dem Germans...

[GargoyleTS]

Controversial headline of South Korean magazine angers Japanese readers
RocketNews24 2014/02/10
...The February issue of the Korean-language version of popular men’s magazine MAXIM featured a front cover headline that read “How to date Japanese women who haven’t been exposed to radiation.”

See for want of a comma, controversy appears.

Its a simple misunderstanding due to a typographical error!

How to date Japanese women, who haven't been exposed to radiation.

That one comma makes all the difference!

[Coligny]

tssss....

War is peace
Freedom is slavery
Radiations are healthy
And we have always been at war with Eastasia.

/n00b...

[Taro Toporific]

Pikachu protests the Fukushima nuclear fcukup in central London
London Evening Standard | 15 March 2014
Dozens of people protested in central London against nuclear power today following the third anniversary of the Fukushima disaster in Japan. The crowd of around 50 protesters gathered at Hyde Park Corner before marching past the Japanese Embassy and one of the buildings housing the Tokyo Electric Company and ending near the Houses of Parliament in Westminster...more...

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[yanpa]

Why does TEPCO need an office in London?

[Yokohammer]

Why does TEPCO need an office in London?

What he said ...

[Coligny]

Probably in the City for fiscal/embezzlement reasons...

[Russell]

Maybe they need an office in London for Internationalization and PR...

[wagyl]

Maybe they need an office in London for Internationalization and PR...

Now you are just being facetious. Everyone knows that only Japanese have the capability to understand the nuance (← good Japanese word, there) of Japanese language and convert it to the infinitely less finely coloured foreign languages, and PR in a Japanese environment only requires issuing statements, not receiving enquiries.

Access to loans and credit sources would be my guess, having someone there to wine and dine wbankers.

I see they also buy shitbiomass, among other things, via offices in Washington and London.

[Wage Slave]

Wasn't a lot of used Japanese nuclear fuel sent for reprocessing in the UK and then sent back to Japan for re-use. I seem to remember a row when some of it arrived back in Japan not fully reprocessed.

[Coligny]

Wasn't a lot of used Japanese nuclear fuel sent for reprocessing in the UK and then sent back to Japan for re-use. I seem to remember a row when some of it arrived back in Japan not fully reprocessed.

The reprocessing facility is usually "La Hague" in France. Don't know if the english have one... There is only a couple of them on this planet.