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Postby Mulboyne » Wed Apr 27, 2011 1:57 am

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Postby Thug4Life » Wed Apr 27, 2011 6:55 am

Japan: TEPCO floods containment vessels of 3 reactors at Fukushima No. 1

Xeni Jardin at 8:04 PM Monday, Apr 25, 2011

In Japan, Tokyo Electric Power Co. workers have begun "the unprecedented and potentially risky measure" of flooding the containment vessels of three troubled Fukushima nuclear reactors with water. The Asahi Shimbun reports that this is the first known attempt ever in the world to saturate an entire containment vessel with water in order to cool the pressure vessels inside, and in turn, cool the reactor cores within.

In related news, TEPCO has released to the public for the first time a map of the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant detailing radiation levels throughout the site.
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Postby Mike Oxlong » Wed Apr 27, 2011 7:45 am

MEXT has released a new map showing how much radiation has been accumulated around Fukushima Daichi nuclear power plant...
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Postby cstaylor » Wed Apr 27, 2011 9:46 am

Mike Oxlong wrote:MEXT has released a new map showing how much radiation has been accumulated around Fukushima Daichi nuclear power plant...


You must spread some Reputation around before giving it to Mike Oxlong again.

Great find, Mike! Any chance MEXT will release a map overlay for produce shipped from those affected regions? :puke:

EDIT: Speaking of radiation exposure and cancers, I just got finished reading "Genius: The Life and Science of Richard Feynmann" by James Gleick. He died of complications after developing two rare forms of cancer, 30 years after his initial exposure to ionizing radiation during the Manhattan Project. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Feynmann#Death)
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Postby Samurai_Jerk » Wed Apr 27, 2011 10:50 am

Mulboyne wrote:Image

Farmers anti-nuclear power protest.


That is one cool fucking hat.
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Postby Taro Toporific » Wed Apr 27, 2011 10:55 am

[SIZE="5"]IT'S A MUTANT, RUN!![/SIZE]
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Culture of Complicity Tied to Stricken Nuclear Plant

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Postby Samurai_Jerk » Wed Apr 27, 2011 2:42 pm

cstaylor wrote:Get a rope... :noose: :noose: :noose: :noose: :noose:

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/27/world/asia/27collusion.html?ref=global-home


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Postby gaijinpunch » Wed Apr 27, 2011 3:15 pm

Anyone know of any "from Tokyo" volunteer efforts? Looking to go for a couple of days during G-Week. Most of the Japanese ones are full (that I've found) or require you to get there on your own. Would preferrably like to buy some supplies, jump on a bus, and wake up in the disaster area, complete with really painful back from the bus.
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Postby Mike Oxlong » Wed Apr 27, 2011 3:35 pm

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Postby cstaylor » Wed Apr 27, 2011 4:31 pm

Mike Oxlong wrote:Fukushima: Just How Dangerous Is Radiation?

Yeah, yeah, more weasel words. Just a few blurbs on beta decay, which is what everyone is worried about with I-131 in the food and milk.

I don't think anyone outside of 50 miles from the crippled power plant is worried about gamma radiation exposure from Daiichi itself.

As Omae Mona and I discussed over a beer a couple of weeks ago (:cheers:), banning fishing along the coast of Fukushima is pointless: it's not like the fish respect that limit when they swim away from the exclusion zone. :glow:
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Postby nikoneko » Wed Apr 27, 2011 5:34 pm

gaijinpunch wrote:Anyone know of any "from Tokyo" volunteer efforts? Looking to go for a couple of days during G-Week. Most of the Japanese ones are full (that I've found) or require you to get there on your own. Would preferrably like to buy some supplies, jump on a bus, and wake up in the disaster area, complete with really painful back from the bus.


A facebook friend is helping out with these guys. I am not sure if they are still making trips up or not, but they have before and if not I'm sure they could point you to a group that is.
http://oga-international.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=144&Itemid=270&lang=en
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Postby Mulboyne » Wed Apr 27, 2011 6:08 pm

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Japan's Thank You to America video which aired on CNN
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Postby Screwed-down Hairdo » Wed Apr 27, 2011 6:20 pm

Mulboyne wrote:[dm]xif1ca[/dm]

Japan's Thank You to America video which aired on CNN


What happened to Snow White and the apple in that video?
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Postby Cyka UchuuJin » Wed Apr 27, 2011 6:21 pm

so has anyone seen their TEPCO bill increase this month?
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Postby Samurai_Jerk » Wed Apr 27, 2011 6:55 pm

Mulboyne wrote:[dm]xif1ca[/dm]

Japan's Thank You to America video which aired on CNN


Interesting. I don't know if I've ever seen anything like that before. Has anyone else?
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Postby Mulboyne » Thu Apr 28, 2011 3:58 am

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Postby cstaylor » Thu Apr 28, 2011 9:27 am

Kyodo News wrote:Japan to scrap workers' annual radiation dose limit at normal times

The health ministry plans to scrap the annual radiation dose limit for nuclear power plant workers at normal times for the meantime to secure enough workers for maintenance and checkups of nuclear power plants other than the crisis-hit Fukushima power station, sources close to the matter said Wednesday.

Under Japanese law, nuclear workers cannot be exposed to more than 50 millisieverts in one year and more than 100 millisieverts over five years.

The ministry, however, is expected to maintain the 100-millisievert rule, as there is medical evidence that exposure to radiation exceeding 100 millisieverts could increase the risk of developing leukemia and cancer, according to the sources.



http://english.kyodonews.jp/news/2011/04/88170.html
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"Dosimeters for Dummies"

Postby cstaylor » Thu Apr 28, 2011 9:33 am

Japan Times wrote:Tepco woman took three times radiation limit

Tokyo Electric Power Co. said Wednesday that one of its female employees at the crisis-hit Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant was exposed to radiation exceeding three times the legal limit of 5 millisieverts in a three-month period.


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http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/nn20110428a3.html
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Postby Mulboyne » Fri Apr 29, 2011 8:21 am

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Postby cstaylor » Fri Apr 29, 2011 10:44 am

Mulboyne wrote:Image

I wonder if this brings back memories of late August/September 1945 for him... :cry:
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Postby Coligny » Fri Apr 29, 2011 11:53 pm

Nukular advisor for the Japanese Prime minister is GTFO:

http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=fr&tl=en&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.japoninfos.com%2FDemission-d-un-conseiller.html

[TL/DR]: Since you'ze not listenning to anything I said, you'ze guys are all off my buddy list and I'm going home.

Sidenote, If all the good guys quit... we'll only got the screw ups and Tepco to manage this... and I don't see this ending well...
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Postby cstaylor » Sat Apr 30, 2011 7:04 pm

Kyodo News wrote:Minute amount of radioactive substances found in breast milk of 7

A minute amount of radioactive substances have been found in breast milk of seven women in a survey covering 23 women in Tokyo and four other prefectures, including Fukushima and its neighboring Ibaraki, the health ministry said Saturday.


:glow:

http://english.kyodonews.jp/news/2011/04/88713.html

No real information in this news blurb. Was it a random sampling? Or just people presumed to have been exposed? :?:
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Postby Greji » Sat Apr 30, 2011 9:17 pm

cstaylor wrote::glow:

http://english.kyodonews.jp/news/2011/04/88713.html

No real information in this news blurb. Was it a random sampling? Or just people presumed to have been exposed? :?:


McToejam was the guest nurser for the random sampling....
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Postby Rube » Sat Apr 30, 2011 9:36 pm

I haven't heard this recent news but before when they found it in the breast milk it seemed like it was a small sample so there were sure to be a lot more and the cause was tap water at that time.
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Postby MaxPower » Sat Apr 30, 2011 10:31 pm

It also just says the sampling included several areas and doesn't say whether the woman with minute amounts were from the same region or not.
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Postby Yokohammer » Sat Apr 30, 2011 10:41 pm

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Postby Yokohammer » Sat Apr 30, 2011 11:02 pm

Coligny wrote:Nukular advisor for the Japanese Prime minister is GTFO

This now covered in a bit more detail at the JT:
Kan nuclear adviser fed up, quits
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Postby Samurai_Jerk » Sun May 01, 2011 12:03 am

Yokohammer wrote:The Japanese Embassy in France has officially complained about a satirical French TV show &#8211]http://www.japanprobe.com/2011/04/30/japanese-government-complains-after-french-tv-show-jokes-about-march-11-disaster/[/URL]


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Postby Yokohammer » Sun May 01, 2011 6:18 am

Samurai_Jerk wrote:Maybe I'm a sick bastard but some of that looks pretty funny to me.

Yeah. I didn't comment specifically one way or the other because I thought it was pretty funny too. But I do understand that a lot of Japanese don't "get" the way western cultures deals with major issues like this through humor. The response was the same over that "unluckiest man in the world" bit that aired on the BBC a while back. It was in no way a dig at the Japanese, but they don't see it that way. I guess you've got to respect that though, in the same way that sexual harassment is defined by how the victim feels rather than the intent. Didn't stop me chuckling though.
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