Tohoku Earthquake, Tsunami and Nuclear Disaster!!!

[Mike Oxlong]

[dimwit]

[Mike Oxlong]

What contamination have they found in western Japan? I was not aware of any level of radiation above background reported anywhere in western Japan. If they are aware of something it would be nice of them to be alot more specific as to what and where.

Ex-SKF has a little more detail...

[dimwit]

Stress test results for nuclear power plant in Ehime released
National Nov. 15, 2011
TOKYO —
Shikoku Electric Power Co on Monday announced the results of stress tests on a suspended nuclear reactor at its Ikata plant in Ehime Prefecture. The utility handed the report to the Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency, which is overseen by the Economy, Trade and Industry Ministry.

According to NHK, the report says the No. 3 reactor can withstand an earthquake 1.86 times the strongest assumed level of 570 gals. It also said that the plant would be able to withstand tsunami waves as high as 14.2 meters.

The report is the second one to be submitted on the results of stress tests following Kansai Electric Power Co, which conducted tests on its Oi nuclear power plant in Fukui Prefecture in October.

From Japan Today

The question of hwo long it will take for this plant to reopen and the amount of opposition is going to be a real test case for nuclear power in Japan. Ikata is the newest and perhaps the safest of the the three reactors at the plant, and being located on the Inland Sea, it is not really susceptable to tsunami damage. On the minus side, the plant is located only six km away from a major fault line and plants isolated location does make it a bitch to reconnect power lines were they to be broken in the case of a large earthquake.

So far the opposition to reopening has been muted, with only the usual suspects out on the street protesting, but I expect the debate to heat up as the temperatures cool down, as there will be a power shortage here by midwinter unless the reactor can start up soon.

[s4bzzz]

The "strongest assumed level" worked out great for Fukushima didn't it.

The definition of insanity is...

[Mike Oxlong]

Gov't eyes Fukushima rice ban after high level of cesium detected

[Coligny]

AND THIS PEOPLE IS WHY FOR HEALTH AND SAFETY MATTER THE MOTTO IS "BETTER SAFE THAN SORRY".

Am i still supposed to justify why I won't buy my vegetables from Fukushima or is common sense starting to take root everywhere ?

[Samurai_Jerk]

AND THIS PEOPLE IS WHY FOR HEALTH AND SAFETY MATTER THE MOTTO IS "BETTER SAFE THAN SORRY".

Am i still supposed to justify why I won't buy my vegetables from Fukushima or is common sense starting to take root everywhere ?

Don't forget to skip Iwate, Miyagi, Yamagata, Niigata, Tochigi, Ibaraki and Chiba too!

[legion]

AND THIS PEOPLE IS WHY FOR HEALTH AND SAFETY MATTER THE MOTTO IS "BETTER SAFE THAN SORRY".

Am i still supposed to justify why I won't buy my vegetables from Fukushima or is common sense starting to take root everywhere ?

it is your duty to consume your allocated share of cesium

[Coligny]

I'm an anarchist... you might be scared by my definition of 'duty'

[Mike Oxlong]

The backup food stockpile is ready to be distributed.

[Coligny]

Time to buy North Korean recipe books...
'How to cook plaster and cardboard' seems out of stock at warm4z0n.com

[matsuki]

Just wait, Cesium infused foods will be the next trend in Japan. Let's get irradiated!

[GomiGirl]

Yes but when you and your partner are glowing in the dark, it is hard to get any sleep.

Oh business opportunity - blackout eye patches...

[2triky]

Time to buy North Korean recipe books...
'How to cook plaster and cardboard' seems out of stock at warm4z0n.com

Just keeping eating food units from McDonald's...that ish is probably irradiated long before it hits the grease anyway.

[2triky]

The backup food stockpile is ready to be distributed.

Time to crack open the cupboard.

[Coligny]

Just keeping eating food units from McDonald's...that ish is probably irradiated long before it hits the grease anyway.

Nope, they advertise their use of aussie meat quite proudly...

[2triky]

^ So it is whale meat, then. Good to know.

[Greji]

Just wait, Cesium infused foods will be the next trend in Japan. Let's get irradiated!

Already am. At night when I run my johnson out in the wind for a little Tachishonben on the way back from the pub, I attract more bugs than a street lamp......

[Coligny]

Thanks Greji, just what we need, giants irradiated mutant crabs...

Wait...

Crabzilla versus Queen Clitora... Kaiju pr0n... have to film this when i get back...

[Greji]

Thanks Greji, just what we need, giants irradiated mutant crabs...

Wait...

Crabzilla versus Queen Clitora... Kaiju pr0n... have to film this when i get back...

Bring a Vietnamese Film Crew back with you. We'll save money on the production.....

[s4bzzz]

Thanks Greji, just what we need, giants irradiated mutant crabs...

Wait...

Crabzilla versus Queen Clitora... Kaiju pr0n... have to film this when i get back...

HOT!

[matsuki]

Bring a Vietnamese Film Crew back with you. We'll save money on the production.....

Toyohashi studios presents......

[Coligny]

Sorry, sort of- back on topic...

According to failure scenario straight out of a deranged Michael Bay movie, like an earthque swallowing the entire city of Nice or torrential moonsoon rain triggering simultaneous failure of all dams (no really, they seriously considered this possibility as basis for their evaluation on the report) all French Nukular powerplant need to be upgraded in one way or another.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/11/17/us-france-nuclear-tests-idUSTRE7AG0HQ20111117

That bad smell coming from the north is from the German collectively shitting their pants as their supersmart plan to get rid of all their nukular powerplant was to buy electricity from France... from the excess production of EDF nukular plants to be precise... Them Krauts... hope they won't mind going back to an ersatz powered economy... hey... last time that gave us the diesel engines... not too bad huh...

[Russell]

[matsuki]

Am I misreading, or are they acknowledging officially that soil around Tokyo is radioactively contaminated???

Sounds like they're saying the soil was no worse than soil in Tokyo (so maybe regular background radiation?)

BUT

By acknowledging this, they are in for a tsunami of radioactive soil to be mailed to them. Maybe this is part of the gov. plan to spread the radiation throughout Japan? In 100 years they can blame it on citizens and the private couriers...

[Mike Oxlong]

[Catoneinutica]

The Japanese, jointly and severally, have turned the N Pacific into a super-planetary nuke waste dump. The Fukushima incident wasn't the result of Force Majeure any more than the Pacific War; it was the result of the collective incompetence of the Japanese: the people in power and the gullible voters and cowardly, apathetic nonvoters who put them in power.

Do go fuck yourselves, nihonjin. Then you can get back to telling the world all how eco-conscious and mottainai-minded you one-race ubermenschen are, and how dirty the Chinese and the rest of the world are.

-catone

-I really am beginning to really feel a certain fundamental revulsion toward this place. Before 3/11, you could say to yourself, well, they must be doing something right, put now the country is just an aggregation of pompus, passive, self-pitying autistics.

-you can be sure I'm cooking up my own decampment plans.

-I know, don't let the door hit me...

[Russell]

[Yokohammer]

23 prefectures reluctant to help Tohoku dispose of disaster debris

More than half of the prefectures polled by the Environment Ministry do not plan to accept quake and tsunami debris from disaster-stricken Tohoku, it was learned Saturday.

I suppose it's to be expected, and I'm sure there are municipalities that simply don't have the capacity to share the load, but it does once again exemplify the contradictory nature of many of the core assumptions of "nihonjinron." When the shit hits the fan that ignoble "every man for himself" thing always seems to raise its ugly head, just like anywhere else. Hoarding when supplies are scarce is another example. The Kyoto daimonji-yaki issue was another. Not giving a shit about people who are suffering because of one's own greed as a TEPCO executive is another. Then there's the government ... never mind, it'd take all day.

Phmeh ... not so "unique" after all. Self-preservation is universal.