Tohoku Earthquake, Tsunami and Nuclear Disaster!!!

[legion]

Yeah, yeah, I know. Radiation levels are dropping.
I'm not trying to be a fear monger, just realistic. TEPCO are still floundering around in the dark with their heads up their asses. The situation is not yet under control: controlled reactor cooling has not been restored, reactor damage cannot yet be accurately assessed, radiation leakage has not yet been contained, etc., etc. They've managed to turn on the lights in the control rooms. Whoop-de-fucking-doo. It is way too early to say that because radiation levels are dropping now, they will continue to decrease.

It ... is ... not ... over ... yet.

I'm starting to suspect some media outlets are squeezing every last dramatic drop out of the story and some people are reluctant to let go of the buzz they get from the stress.

[CrankyBastard]

I'm probably one of those people being lulled into a sense of false security, too.
I'm glad Yokohammer is there to give me a wake up.
I also believe he is far from getting any kind of buzz from the stress of his situation.

[legion]

well maybe a mild radiation buzz

I do however think people are milking this for what it is worth, the old nuclear expert guy video circulating telling us there is a chain reaction going on in reactor one is a classic, he spends several minutes showing us how clever he is, then finally mentions a solution (boric acid, which they have on site). If he was really worried he would start with his recommendation, not save it up to last as an almost anti climax.

Greenpeace especially are having a field day with the doom and gloom, they are exploiting this for maximum propaganda effect, which makes me slightly annoyed, environmentalism is far to serious an issue to be left to a bunch of baby boomer hippies & trustafarians.

[Thug4Life]

[Mike Oxlong]

[Coligny]

[John Dillinger]

Here's a documentary about the Chernobyl accident, which to my mind shows that the Fukushima disaster is nowhere near as severe.



Mod edit - fixed your YT tags.

[Thug4Life]

New cybervirus found in Japan / Stuxnet designed to attack off-line servers via USB memory sticks

The Yomiuri Shimbun

Stuxnet, a computer virus designed to attack servers isolated from the Internet, such as at power plants, has been confirmed on 63 personal computers in Japan since July, according to major security firm Symantec Corp.

The virus does not cause any damage online, but once it enters an industrial system, it can send a certain program out of control.

Symantec says the virus reaches the servers via USB memory sticks, and warns against the careless use of such devices.

Systems at power plants, gas stations and water facilities are not connected to the Internet to protect them from cyber-attacks.

A Symantec engineer who has analyzed the virus said it was made using advanced technology, and it is highly likely a well-funded organization, not an individual, produced it. The virus has spread throughout the globe via the Internet.

After Stuxnet finds its way onto an ordinary computer via the Internet, it hides there, waiting for a USB memory stick to be connected to the computer, when it transfers itself to the memory stick. When the USB device is then connected to a computer linked to an isolated server, it can enter the system and take control of it.

As computers that harbor Stuxnet do not operate strangely, the virus can be transferred to a memory stick inadvertently.

According to the security company, the virus is designed to target a German-made program often used in systems managing water, gas and oil pipelines. The program is used at public utilities around the world, including in Japan.

Continued...

[Typhoon]

well maybe a mild radiation buzz

I do however think people are milking this for what it is worth, the old nuclear expert guy video circulating telling us there is a chain reaction going on in reactor one is a classic, he spends several minutes showing us how clever he is, then finally mentions a solution (boric acid, which they have on site). If he was really worried he would start with his recommendation, not save it up to last as an almost anti climax.

He gets a number of things wrong, including the bit about boric acid. Makes me think that he's a bit of a wanker.

Greenpeace especially are having a field day with the doom and gloom, they are exploiting this for maximum propaganda effect, which makes me slightly annoyed, environmentalism is far to serious an issue to be left to a bunch of baby boomer hippies & trustafarians.

Quite right. Never having generated a single watt of power, the boomer hippies and trustafarians have no idea what's involved.
Wind and solar are not even on the map when it comes to supplying the power requirements of a modern industrial state.
So the realistic choices are coal, gas, oil, or nuclear.

[Thug4Life]

[TennoChinko]

Today is April 11th 2011. And, I already know "the answer". When Mt. Fuji fails to blow its top as predicted, Benjamin Loony Fulford will claim it was thanks to his "timely intervention".

[Coligny]

Here's a documentary about the Chernobyl accident, which to my mind shows that the Fukushima disaster is nowhere near as severe.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yiCXb1Nhd1o

Welcome to yesterday... check the stats... This accident didn't kill much people either.

It's tainted crops and milk that made people sick. The problem is, in Japan today as in Soviet Russia yesturday, the only way to be sure is to check the contamination level of food by yourself. Trusting governement or (-worse-) corporations would be pointless with their track records...

[Coligny]

Could you please stop with these crap ? The internet is like an overflowing sceptic tank full of these wackos ready to explain you in their own psychotic words why they are right and everybody is trying to silence them... (and miserably fail at it unfortunately for us)

[AML]

OMG that's today!! Fuji is going to erupt today!!!

Holy shit, I think i feel a tremor.....

[Yokohammer]

I guess you just can't keep a determined delusional fruitloop down.
How does this raving fuckwit manage to keep popping up all over the place when nothing he's ever said or predicted has ever proven to be true?

[FG Lurker]

How does this raving fuckwit manage to keep popping up all over the place when nothing he's ever said or predicted has ever proven to be true?

Because idiots like Thug4Life propagate his views to other mentally challenged people who suck 'em down hook, line, and sinker.

[cstaylor]

Incoming quake... centered near Fukushima.

[cstaylor]

Japan to expand evacuation areas near crippled nuclear plant

With the crisis at the plant dragging out, some municipalities within a 20- to 30-kilometer radius of the power plant will now be designated as additional evacuation areas, Chief Cabinet Secretary Yukio Edano said at a news conference.

http://english.kyodonews.jp/news/2011/04/84586.html

[nullpointer]

Somebody call mother nature and tell her to leave Japan the fuck alone!

[Taro Toporific]

Incoming quake... centered near Fukushima.

NHK World 5:24 April 11

[cstaylor]

Power outage at Daiichi. Pumps have stopped.

NEWS ADVISORY: External power sources unavailable at Fukushima Daiichi reactors 1-2

NEWS ADVISORY: Water pumping into 3 Fukushima Daiichi reactors stops: TEPCO

http://english.kyodonews.jp/news/

[sirwanksalot]

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NEWS ADVISORY: Coolant water injection at Fukushima's Nos. 1-3 reactors resumed: agency

[cstaylor]

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NEWS ADVISORY: Coolant water injection at Fukushima's Nos. 1-3 reactors resumed: agency

That's a relief.

[sirwanksalot]

That's a relief.

Yes it is! No more hurdles to their progress!

[Thug4Life]

It wasn't Mt Fuji, but Benjamin Fulford was close enough. Maybe he really does know something more than most of us.

[Yokohammer]

It wasn't Mt Fuji, but Benjamin Fulford was close enough. Maybe he really does know something more than most of us.

Or ... I dunno, it's just a wild stab in the dark ... maybe it was an aftershock from the big quake?

I realize that conspiracy theories and wildly improbable doomsday machines are much more exciting, but since quakes of this magnitude and at these locations are totally consistent with the natural aftermath of a geological event like the one that occurred on 3/11, attributing them to cockamamie fantasies is [SIZE="3"]FUCKING STUPID!!![/SIZE]

Thank you for your time.

[Coligny]

It wasn't Mt Fuji, but Benjamin Fulford was close enough. Maybe he really does know something more than most of us.

For frack sake, the place has been rattling for the whole month and we're now expecting the Gr8t kanto booty shaker... It's like predicting a rainy day in London...

[Typhoon]

It wasn't Mt Fuji, but Benjamin Fulford was close enough. Maybe he really does know something more than most of us.

Close enough?

How is a volcanic eruption of Mt. Fuji close enough to yet another one of hundreds of aftershocks?

Move the goalposts much?

I had an extra big dump today.
By your line of so-called reasoning, that too is close enough.

[Mulboyne]

Shed tears for wealthy Chinese gourmets:

Yomiuri: Tsunami devastates abalone fishing industry

The March 11 tsunami dealt a crippling blow to abalone fishing along the Tohoku region's Sanriku coast, sweeping tons of debris into the sea and destroying fishing vessels. It is expected to be years before abalone fishing in the area can resume, leading some retailers in China--a major consumer of abalone--to rush to secure supplies. Iwate Prefecture is known as a major producer of dried abalone, which is called Kippin abalone in China and elsewhere. Thick and tasty, it commands high prices as a luxury item. After the Great East Japan Earthquake, Yoshihama Bay in the Sanrikucho-Yoshihama district of Ofunato, Iwate Prefecture, was hit by a 15-meter-high tsunami that utterly destroyed a fishermen's cooperative building. Of 296 ships working before the disaster, only 11 survived. Dried abalone is made from abalone harvested in the wild, but according to Yoichiro Kikawada, production chief of the Yoshihama fishermen's cooperative: "The tsunami totally changed the coast. The abalone may have been totally destroyed."

According to Iwate Prefecture's fisheries association, abalone takes about five years to grow large enough to be harvested. It will also take at least two to three years to remove the debris in the sea and rehabilitate the port. Overall, this means about 10 years before abalone fishing can return to full strength, the association said. A fisheries operator in the city said its abalone production facility had been totally destroyed, but dried food wholesalers in Hong Kong and elsewhere have asked it to resume fishing soon. "I can't find anything better than Kippin abalone...I have to have it," one wholesaler was quoted as saying. A marine products exporter in Tokyo was asked to sell its stock of abalone to a Chinese food company. "Most retailers in Hong Kong have a year's stock [of abalone], but they'll panic about getting dried abalone if fishing can't resume anytime soon," a spokesperson for the exporter said.

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HONG KONG--Japanese abalone is highly prized at luxury Chinese restaurants in Hong Kong, the largest importer of Japan's marine products. Fook Lam Moon, a world-famous Cantonese restaurant in Hong Kong, said it has been using Kippin abalone for more than 90 percent of its abalone dishes to "achieve the highest level of flavor." However, it now has to use Kippin abalone from the restaurant's two-year stock. "We can't think of substituting it [with a different product]. I can only hope for fishing to resume as soon as possible," said the restaurant's Executive Director Daniel Chui, 36.

As wholesale prices soar, the menu price of a small abalone had jumped from 550 Hong Kong dollars (about 6,000 yen) to H.K.990 dollars as of April 1. "I know immediately whether abalone is Kippin because I can smell its distinct aroma when I cut it," a 63-year-old company president and regular customer of the restaurant said. "It's disheartening to think I might not be able to eat it no matter how much I pay."

[nikoneko]

'As wholesale prices soar, the menu price of cake had jumped from 550 Francs to 990 Francs as of April 1. "I know immediately whether cake is Kippin because I can smell its distinct aroma when I cut it," Marie Antoinette said. "It's disheartening to think I might not be able to eat it no matter how much I pay."'

With any luck these nouveau riche will get just what she did.