Tohoku Earthquake, Tsunami and Nuclear Disaster!!!

[damn name]

It's too depressing to think about. Survive the earthquake, tsunami, nuclear disaster, lose family and friends, lose your home, your business, your life... and then get fucked in the ass by politicians and minions.

[Yokohammer]

The government has finally announced that the Fukushima cleanup will take decades.

I don't have a ready online source for this, but on the lunch-hour news today it was being reported that the Kan government has officially announced a pretty discouraging timeline, including: it will be three years before they can start removing the spent fuel from the spent-fuel pools, ten years before they can even start recovering the fuel that melted down in the reactors, and several decades before the whole job is finished.

I bet the people who have had to evacuate solely because of the nuke plant are jumping for joy.

And the way they're going they could still be understating the problem.

What a fucking mess.
I mean, the radiation doesn't scare me, I'm not particularly worried about earthquakes and tsunamis (any more) ... but the Japanese government scares the shit out of me!!

[Ganma]

[Screwed-down Hairdo]

Are you guys fucking crazy? What's wrong with decades? What, with rapid aging, a drastically declined birthrate, and spewing toxic shite out into the atmosphere the way they've poured shiteloads of poisons into waterways for decades there'll be nobody left in Japan in decades anyway (which is probably a good thing because they lost everyone's pensions....).

That is except, of course, the Chinese, who've been trained for the past 70 years so that they'll end up making the Rape of Nanking look like the Stolen Kiss on the Cheek of Nanking in comparison when they make Japan their bitch...

[Coligny]

The government has finally announced that the Fukushima cleanup will take decades.

I don't have a ready online source for this, but on the lunch-hour news today it was being reported that the Kan government has officially announced a pretty discouraging timeline, including: it will be three years before they can start removing the spent fuel from the spent-fuel pools, ten years before they can even start recovering the fuel that melted down in the reactors, and several decades before the whole job is finished.

I bet the people who have had to evacuate solely because of the nuke plant are jumping for joy.

And the way they're going they could still be understating the problem.

What a fucking mess.
I mean, the radiation doesn't scare me, I'm not particularly worried about earthquakes and tsunamis (any more) ... but the Japanese government scares the shit out of me!!

Hummmm... have you seen the timeline from Chernobyl ?

25 years and they are just starting to build the 'normal' sarcophagus... And it's an internationnal effort, with supposedly competent people taking the task.

Here we're facing decades long "WE japanese" themed clusterfark with every scum around making a quick buck without doing any real work...

I just discovered that FuckYoushima is in fact quite a small town population wyse:

Fukushima: As of 2003, the city has an estimated population of 290,866 and a population density of 389.68 persons per km&#178]population[/URL] of 383,691 and a density of 1,468.62 persons per km². The total area is 261.26 km2 (and seriously, crowded is not a word that would define the place... It's more a filming location for "life aftur people, the day aftur edition" than anything else).

And them glow im the dark folks got them a big internationnal airport, while the closest thing we got from an airfield the the helipad from the hospital... in the middul of the visitor car parking... and we don't even have a direct highway access...

And they didn't evacuate such a small place for fear of panic and logistical problems !? damn, the day sumething is up in Tokyo we're in for a hell of a ride ... In a litteral way... as in... really don't want to see this happen and start to realise it would be REALLY BAD (tm) times...

[Yokohammer]

[Yokohammer]

[quote="Coligny"]I just discovered that FuckYoushima is in fact quite a small town population wyse:

Fukushima: As of 2003, the city has an estimated population of 290,866 and a population density of 389.68 persons per km&#178]
That's just Fukushima city (not very big). The population of Fukushima prefecture is a little over two million.

[Coligny]

That's just Fukushima city (not very big). The population of Fukushima prefecture is a little over two million.

Yea, I was comparing city to city, since Fukushima-Shi is 63km from the plant, it would have been considered a good idea to relocate at least temporarily, and I clearly remember that it was not an option because of the logistic and risks of "panic"... So when they don't move something small over sort of big risks, or at least huge unknown over the safety... you know that anything bigger than an onsen won't be managed properly for the population in case of hazard...

[Coligny]

8-O
"The prime minister emphasized that we're getting to the point where we need to fundamentally reconsider our approach to the merits that we previously attributed to nuclear power."

The man's a freakin' genius ...

OK Mr. PM, the people are waiting so you have to say something, but whatever you do don't make it anything that might, you know, actually mean something, or, heaven forbid, commit us to actually having to do anything. At least not in our lifetimes.

hummm... go easy on the guy... maybe it's just words... but this kind of wisdom coming from a politician is unheard of...

Like for alcoholics... the first step is to admit there is a problem...

[Jack]

Nice shaking again today in Tokyo. Soft but pretty long.

[Yokohammer]

That was M7.1 off the Sanriku coast.

Quite a biggie.

We have a tsunami warning (50cm expected at Iwate/Miyagi/Fukushima).

[Mike Oxlong]

Ex-American says Tohoku people have to take control of rebuilding process...

[Cyka UchuuJin]

That was M7.1 off the Sanriku coast.

Quite a biggie.

We have a tsunami warning (50cm expected at Iwate/Miyagi/Fukushima).

Are you ok?

Re: your comments about the being more scared of the government, I can TOTALLY see why after you explained it all to me when I was there.

Am keeping you and Mrs Hammer in my thoughts.

[canman]

That was an interesting experience. Today was Eiken day, English speaking test. I was just in the middle of the interview when the earthquake hit. We were on the 3rd floor of an old school and it really started to rock and roll. The high school girl just fell silent for about 2 minutes, and then when she tried answering she was so flustered, she couldn't put a correct snetence together. So I gave her a few minutes and she composed herself and did well on the last three question. She deserved to pass on the last three question, but there was no way I was going to fail her after that. I really felt bad for her, because after the first few introductory questions I could see she was able to speak fairly well. Just glad it wasn't stronger and I had to shepard a whole bunch of panicked junior and high school students out of a building they weren't familiar with!

[Yokohammer]

Are you ok?

Re: your comments about the being more scared of the government, I can TOTALLY see why after you explained it all to me when I was there.

Am keeping you and Mrs Hammer in my thoughts.

Thanks Cyka.
No damage! Just a bit of a shake.
It was upgraded to M7.3, which is pretty big, but the depth went from 10 km to 34 km at the same time. Must have been pretty far because the maximum "shindo" on land was only 4. Only a teeny tsunami too.

Yeah ... governments and people ... scarier than nature, even when nature is seriously pissed off.

[Screwed-down Hairdo]

...I can TOTALLY see why after you explained it all to me when I was there.
Am keeping you and Mrs Hammer in my thoughts.

It is true...you did get hammered while you were in Japan.

[Greji]

It is true...you did get hammered while you were in Japan.

It wasn't me. I ain't into white women.....

[Coligny]

It wasn't me. I ain't into white women.....

got sum leftovers ?


(wuz going to ask "even zee ugly ones" as a reference to yer saying that ugly pussy iz gratefull pussy, but might have been misunderstood az badmouthing against cyka...)

[Cyka UchuuJin]

It wasn't me. I ain't into white women.....

I sorta kinda have a bit of a tan now. doesn't that count as not white?

[Greji]

I sorta kinda have a bit of a tan now. doesn't that count as not white?

Ahhh, do you occasionally like to move around on all fours?

[Greji]

Slashdot blog, quoting the International Business Times, suggests there maybe a new form of tennacle porn under way....


"A nuclear reactor in Japan was forced to shut down due to infiltration of enormous swarms of jellyfish near the power plant. A similar incident was also reported recently in Israel, when millions of jellyfish clogged the sea-water cooling system of a power plant."

[Mike Oxlong]

[Cyka UchuuJin]

Ahhh, do you occasionally like to move around on all fours?

Baaaaa...

[Mike Oxlong]

Baaaaa...

I KNEW you were baa curious!

[Greji]

Baaaaa...

Waiver granted!

[Mike Oxlong]

Food Safety Not An Issue: Meat of 6 cows fed radioactive straw reaches 9 prefectures

The meat of six cows shipped from a Fukushima Prefecture farm at the heart of growing concerns over beef containing traces of radioactive cesium has been distributed to at least nine prefectures, including Tokyo and Osaka, with some of it already eaten, officials of prefectural governments said Tuesday.

The cows ate the same straw at the farm in Minamisoma, a city near the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, as another 11 cows that were shipped to a Tokyo meatpacking plant from the farm and whose meat was found to have contained three to six times the allowable level of the cesium.

Goshi Hosono, minister in charge of food safety and the ongoing nuclear crisis, sought to reassure the public, saying at a news conference, "Eating part of it in small amounts will not have a large impact on your health."

To counter a possible public backlash against all beef from Fukushima Prefecture, farm minister Michihiko Kano said the government will work with the prefectural government in inspecting for traces of radioactivity the meat from cows at all cattle-raising farms, or about 260 in all, in areas that are subject to resident evacuations of varying degrees.

Cows at the Minamisoma farm are believed to have been exposed to radiation internally because they were fed straw that contained radioactive cesium at levels far above the allowable limit, probably because it had been kept outdoors.

The farm shipped the six cows between May and June, according to the Tokyo metropolitan government. Their beef was distributed to five prefectures -- Tokyo, Kanagawa, Shizuoka, Osaka and Ehime -- from meat-packing plants in Tokyo and Tochigi. It was then distributed to dealers in Hokkaido and Aichi prefectures from Tokyo, and to dealers in Tokushima and Kochi prefectures from Ehime...

[Mike Oxlong]

Food Safety Not an Issue: Beef contaminated with cesium sold at market

The officials said July 11 that contaminated beef from six cows raised at a ranch in Minami-Soma was sold in Hokkaido, Chiba, Aichi, Tokushima and Kochi prefectures.

The rancher on July 10 admitted ignoring a prefectural order not to use potentially contaminated feed stored outdoors after explosions at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant, Fukushima prefectural officials said...

The 11 cows were contaminated after being fed rice straw stored outdoors even after hydrogen explosions at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant released radioactive materials into the atmosphere, the Fukushima prefectural government said July 11.

The six cattle ate the same feed, the officials said.

Fukushima officials said radioactive cesium about 60 times national safety standards for rice straw was detected at the ranch.

The farmer fed the cows the rice straw despite a prefectural instruction on March 25 to use paddy straw and other feed cut before the nuclear crisis and stored indoors. But he didn't tell that on June 26 to prefectural officials who interviewed him about the feed.

The farmer later told officials he gave his cows the rice straw after the nuclear plant accident because he had nothing else.

The ranch is within a zone designated by the government in which residents were instructed to be prepared for further emergencies at the nuclear plant.

Of the six contaminated cows, Tokyo officials detected 3,400 becquerels of radioactive cesium, or nearly seven times the national safety limit, in beef from one cow sold to a dealer in Tokyo's Fuchu city on July 5.

Cesium levels in beef from different cows sold to a meat dealer in Shinjuku Ward on June 30 were 2,200 becquerels...

What's the penalty for this sort of willful endangerment? Let me guess...nothing.

[Coligny]

Food Safety Not an Issue: Beef contaminated with cesium sold at market

What's the penalty for this sort of willful endangerment? Let me guess...nothing.

Looking sad and sorry on TV...

"Hey MA', LOOK AM ON TV..."

[Coligny]

Baaaaa...

Gold diggur...

I wuz there furst...

[matsuki]

Food Safety Not an Issue: Beef contaminated with cesium sold at market

What's the penalty for this sort of willful endangerment? Let me guess...nothing.

The Japanese subscribe to laissez faire school of law enforcement