Tohoku Earthquake, Tsunami and Nuclear Disaster!!!

[Yokohammer]

Hey Tokyo guys (and girls)!
Your electricity bill is likely to be at least 10% higher next year! Quite possibly more.
Aren't you just delighted that TEPCO and the government have your best interests at heart and are willing to make deep sacrifices to atone for fucking up half the country through their own stupidity and greed?

Tepco eyes 10% rate hike for spring

[SIZE="1"][color="Gray"]How in the FUCK are these guys getting away with this?[/color][/SIZE]

[Coligny]

Dood, after the share plunge, all them poor shareholderz have to be compensamated...

(pretty sure you can kiss bye bye those cheap all denki subscriptions...)

[legion]

More strange happenings at the live cam

Mutate

[Coligny]

More strange happenings at the live cam

Mutate

Taro ? you extended yer Shooping' skills to movie editing nao ?

[matsuki]

Hey Tokyo guys (and girls)!
Your electricity bill is likely to be at least 10% higher next year! Quite possibly more.
Aren't you just delighted that TEPCO and the government have your best interests at heart and are willing to make deep sacrifices to atone for fucking up half the country through their own stupidity and greed?

Tepco eyes 10% rate hike for spring

[SIZE="1"][color="Gray"]How in the FUCK are these guys getting away with this?[/color][/SIZE]

I just bought a whole new array of LED bulbs for the new apartment. Going to go with a gas stove over IH...same goes for heating come winter. Appears that the only way to actually fuck TEPCO is use as little of their electricity as possible. If I was a home owner, I'd already have the roof covered with solar panels.

[Ganma]

[2triky]

More meltdowns yet to come! This is going to be a major bone of contention in the near future. I can't see J folk just lying down and taking it this time.

One can hope, however, the reaction of the government & its citizens thus far in light of the triple disaster of 3/11 (quake, tsunami, meltdown) is not encouraging.

[BigInJapan]

Don't know if this has been posted yet, but here is what looks to be a viable replacement/alternative to nuclear energy using more efficient wind turbines.
Whether or not it gets support and funding in Japan is another story...

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[Mulboyne]

Someone might have posted this one earlier but I've only just seen it. It really brought back memories of how the quake felt that day, particularly the waves of intensity.

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"Hey, Bob. This is Crazy"

[Coligny]

"Hey Y'all !!! watch this !!!!"

[Coligny]

Simulation of the dispersion of cesium 137 from fukushima, comparison with the pollution map of Tchernobyl:

http://cerea.enpc.fr/en/fukushima.html



Source: Some research lab paid by the French EDF, local equivalent of Tepco. (but unlike Tepco which is greed biased, they are more pro-military-industrial complex biased...)

[Coligny]

...and I know an ob-gyn not exactly overloaded with work today...

received just now in the email:

http://item.rakuten.co.jp/auc-taiyou-sya/312801/?scid=me_ich_pcn_kgs_110901_078

[Mulboyne]

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You'll need to understand German or read Japanese to follow the clip above from "Frontal 21" on the ZDF network. It has caused a minor stir on the web because, shortly after it appeared, the clip was taken down on account of a copyright claim by Fukushima Central TV. It turned out the original clip included a shot of the Fukushima plant exploding. Netizens were incensed that the station would use such a flimsy pretext and suspected that the intention was to censor the content. I doubt whether that's true: it sounds more like just a typical heavy-handed copyright response. Nevertheless, the cropped version has now gone viral.

[nikoneko]

Posted a topic on this forum about building a BOB (bug out bag) for our family and got a link to this incredible thread. Soooo much down-to-earth info about radiation protection, detection, etc. etc. Hard to take it all in at once but definitely worth a read.
http://www.survivaltopics.com/forums/survival-tech/5638-how-stay-safe-in-radiological-event.html

(Also this forum is totally awesome fun, these are like the kind of guys who take a knife only into the woods just to see how they fare. )

[McTojo]

Someone might have posted this one earlier but I've only just seen it. It really brought back memories of how the quake felt that day, particularly the waves of intensity.

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"Hey, Bob. This is Crazy"

At first I thought you were shaking the camera! Either that or you were an epileptic.

[Coligny]

At first I thought you were shaking the camera! Either that or you were an epileptic.

At first we thought you were hooman... but seems you're some sort of amoeba who evolved keyboard skills...

[John Dillinger]

Hey guys. I don't know if this article is legit or just more western media exaggeration, but I figured you might want to check it out. I hope it's bullshit, because I'm already worried about you guys and all of Japan.

http://www.independentaustralia.net/2011/health/fukushima-crisis-caldicott-says-evacuate-north-west-japan/

[dimwit]

In two words Helen Caldicott. If you believe her, then and it is scary. If you think she is has a history of bullshitting and is essentially a propagandist, then you might take her words with a heart attack inducing grain of salt.

[Taro Toporific]

Hey guys. I don't know if this article is legit or just more western media exaggeration, but I figured you might want to check it out. I hope it's bullshit, because I'm already worried about you guys and all of Japan.

http://www.independentaustralia.net/2011/health/fukushima-crisis-caldicott-says-evacuate-north-west-japan/

It's both too "true" and sort of false.

All us independent geiger counter crazies [color="Gray"](you have to be crazy to own two different types of radiation detectors like me and all the http://www.radiation-watch.org/ folks)[/color] cannot detect any significant contamination in the food we are checking.

However, the Yokohama schools have admitted to serving hinky food and the Yokohama pool in Nakahara-ku that's 1,9000 meters from my house has got a "hot spot"[color="Gray"] (the assholes did not close the pool immediately)[/color]. On the other hand, the Yokohama government radiation networkcannot detect anything bad and the independent citizens like me are getting the same readings. I really want to prove the fucking J-government wrong, but when I drive across the Tama River and take measurements next the official monitoring stations, I get about the same readings, meh.

[Yokohammer]

It's both too "true" and sort of false.

All us independent geiger counter crazies [color="Gray"](you have to be crazy to own two different types of radiation detectors like me and all the http://www.radiation-watch.org/ folks)[/color] cannot detect any significant contamination in the food we are checking.

However, the Yokohama schools have admitted to serving hinky food and the Yokohama pool in Nakahara-ku that's 1,9000 meters from my house has got a "hot spot"[color="Gray"] (the assholes did not close the pool immediately)[/color]. On the other hand, the Yokohama government radiation networkcannot detect anything bad and the independent citizens like me are getting the same readings. I really want to prove the fucking J-government wrong, but when I drive across the Tama River and take measurements next the official monitoring stations, I get about the same readings, meh.

Taro, you got one of those build-into-a-Frisk-box detector thingies?

Cool! Especially if it's giving you readings that are pretty close to the official numbers.

The really nice (and important) thing about lots of people owning radiation detectors is that it makes it really difficult for the authorities to disseminate readings they've pulled out of their ass. More readings means more accuracy too. The more the merrier!

EDIT: Forgot to mention. Our local Daishin home center now has Chinese made Geiger counters for sale for around JPY 38,000 (I think it was), and they're renting them out for a small fee as well, for people who want to do a quick check without having to buy the thing. Radiation detectors everywhere!

[Mike Oxlong]

WTF?!

PM Noda says Japan must not look inward at this difficult time.

@HirokoTabuchi

[Taro Toporific]

[floatl][/floatl]...one of those build-into-a-Frisk-box detector thingies?
Cool! Especially if it's giving you readings that are pretty close to the official numbers.

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[Jack]

Cool! Especially if it's giving you readings that are pretty close to the official numbers.

The really nice (and important) thing about lots of people owning radiation detectors is that it makes it really difficult for the authorities to disseminate readings they've pulled out of their ass.

Get that chip off your shoulder dumbass. No one is pulling numbers out of their ass. Just you. J government is telling what needs to be said and get of your conspiracy theory bullshit.

[Coligny]

Get that chip off your shoulder dumbass. No one is pulling numbers out of their ass. Just you. J government is telling what needs to be said and get of your conspiracy theory bullshit.

Jack, can we have your mom's phone number, we definately have to fill a warranty claim...

[Yokohammer]

Get that chip off your shoulder dumbass. No one is pulling numbers out of their ass. Just you. J government is telling what needs to be said and get of your conspiracy theory bullshit.

In your case you need to pull your head out of your own ass and look around a bit.

The truth is out there ... dumbass.

[dimwit]

It's both too "true" and sort of false.

No Taro, the article referred to is pretty much a pile of shit. Even a brief scan reveal statements that are false. The reaction did not melt down within hours of the earthquake, one reactor did and the other did three days later. As for Caldicoot's assertion that Fukushima is worse then Chernobyl the claim is extremely unikely and like many of her 'findings' seems to have been pulled directly from her ass.

[Samurai_Jerk]

TEPCO to pay compensation to Fukushima evacuees from Oct

Compensation amounts announced so far include a 5,000 yen flat fee for transportation costs and 8,000 yen per night for accommodation. It is estimated that the company will pay out around 56,000 yen per household, to around 150,000 people.

[Coligny]

As for Caldicoot's assertion that Fukushima is worse then Chernobyl the claim is extremely unikely and like many of her 'findings' seems to have been pulled directly from her ass.

As usual for T= Sept 3 15:51 Fukushima might not yet be as bad as tchernobyl... just wait untill the melted reactor goo hit the underground water table, start shitting hydrogen... and blow 4 th of july style...

Becase avoiding this problem was clearly on of the top priority during tchernobyl crisis... while it's still in denial here...

[Mulboyne]

Interestingly, both Toyo Keizai & Shukan Diamond have similar front cover stories this week. The economics magazines look at potential problems with this year's rice crop, Diamond looking at whether radiation checks are adequate while Toyo Keizai wonders whether Japan has enough rice.

[Screwed-down Hairdo]

Somehow, I doubt whether even radiation will deter the enormous subsidies paid to rice farmers (and sustaining the massive bureaucracy eating off maintaining this totally unprofitable crop).

The nuclear crisis has provided Japan with an opportunity to fundamentally reform so many aspects of the cuntry, including its rice crop, but TIJ...

...I guess they should just concrete over the whole fucking thing.