Tohoku Earthquake, Tsunami and Nuclear Disaster!!!

[sirwanksalot]

So... like a tsunami in fact (...)

Actually not. Tsunami travel on the seabed while regular swell long or short period produced by wind travels on the sea surface. Waves produced by wind are predictable and will break before the coastline while tsunami will push inward from the coastline. The idiots in charge in France have prepared for large regularly occurring surf while the idiots in charge of in Japan have also done the same while not considering the not so regular occurring freak waves associated with earthquakes.

[Mike Oxlong]

Found on Facebook. This is hilarious!

Iran Radio's world service Japanese edition is reporting that after a "scientific survey" it has become clear that more than 14,000 Americans ... that's Americans living in the US ... have died as a result of the fallout from Fukushima.

The article (in Japanese)

Jeez ... not even that many people have died in Fukushima.

Yo! People of Iran! Get some proper scientists! And journalists!

I saw something similar over on EX-SKF, where they link to an English article, and give a link to a PDF file with the study in question...[color="Silver"]the comments section below the blog post is worth a read.[/color]

[Yokohammer]

I saw something similar over on EX-SKF, where they link to an English article, and give a link to a PDF file with the study in question...[color="Silver"]the comments section below the blog post is worth a read.[/color]

Oh yeah ... that rings a bell.
Is this perhaps a zombie-izatoin of the study reporting a huge increase in infant mortality that appeared not long after the disaster ... and was torn to shreds by the scientific establishment?

Bad science doesn't die easily, does it.

[Mike Oxlong]

Bad science doesn't die easily, does it.

In my experience, it goes to Japan to die...a slow, agonizing death.

[Coligny]

http://www.japantimes.co.jp/text/nn20111225a8.html
[B]3/11 tsunami killed 35% of students 'saved' by parents[/B]

OMG... OMG... Murderous irrisponsibul parents...

wait...

At least 65% survived...

Wait a bit more...

In Iwate, Miyagi and Fukushima prefectures, a total of 342 students at public elementary and junior high schools died or were unaccounted for, of whom 120 had been picked up from school by their parents.

So in fact 65% not picked died too !?

almost all of the students in the area who remained at school March 11 survived.

What ? maybe not including those who were in schoold that were flushed down by the tsunami... (included in the 'Almost')

Like here:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/japan/8789145/Mother-excavates-tsunami-hit-school-to-find-daughters-body.html

Or like explained here:
http://ajw.asahi.com/article/0311disaster/life_and_death/AJ201109109950

Hey... can somebody call back McArthur ? I think having anybody else in charge than the local clowns would be an improvement over here...

...Japan Times... never a newspaper have deserved so much to be used a toilet paper... Being covered in shit could even improve their editorial line...

[IparryU]

[Coligny]

I DON'T WANT TO KNOW ABOOT THE COLD...
Soundproofing is an issue at evacuation cardboard shelters

And the usual passive aggressive bullshit... Kids makes noise... OMG OMG OMG...

[Coligny]

Just to piss you off good before bedtime:
The Yakuza and the nukular mafia...

[Bucky]

Just to piss you off good before bedtime:
The Yakuza and the nukular mafia...

[2triky]

:zzz:

So is it snoozeworthy news because it's already widely known or because nothing will get done about the relationship between TEPCO & the boryokudan?

[Coligny]

Maybe because the guy who wrote the book is still alive...

And when hard proof start to accumulate it become difficult for people to look somewhere else and say they didn't know...

[Mike Oxlong]

At least we know they seem to be good welders...

[Coligny]

So I have to withdraw what I said earlier (triggering a random list of Japanese company for god knows why...):

Japanese ARE problem solver...
It's just that they love it so much that they immediately need to create more and bigger as to solve them later...

This or they are just dumb as fuck...

[Mike Oxlong]

[Mike Oxlong]

Smash hit Fukushima rice fortified with cesium (and at least one other bonus mystery isotope) to be grown again this year...

[Mike Oxlong]

Over half of claimants yet to receive compensation from TEPCO

A consultation center that has been helping displaced Fukushima residents through the process of claiming compensation from Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO) revealed this week that less than half of claimants have received payment in the first round.

As of Dec 31, of approximately 70,000 claimants who applied for compensation, only 34,000 applications were accepted, NHK reported

Some media observers have suggested that the low rate of payouts may be connected to the complicated claim forms, which drew harsh criticism last year when TEPCO distributed to evacuees not only a bulky application form package but also a 156-page instruction manual. Lawmakers criticized the company for making the application form needlessly complicated.

A TEPCO spokesman was quoted as saying that since the utility simplified the application forms last month, the number of claimants has risen sharply, NHK reported. He said that TEPCO will assign 1,000 more staff by March to help process applications and ensure payouts as quickly as possible.

[sirwanksalot]

http://takedanet.com/2012/01/post_43b1.html

[Coligny]

[Yokohammer]

"With nuclear accidents being extremely rare there is no point in designing robots specifically for them"

... or nuclear war ... or disasters of any kind ...

What a stupid fucking statement and lame excuse all rolled into one.

Coligny: I'd like to see the context, but the link doesn't seem to work.

[Coligny]

Slashdot d00d... you just lost like 200 geek pointz...

http://tech.slashdot.org/story/12/01/08/1420254/where-were-the-robots-in-fukushima-crisis

Luckiliy some guy immediately linked to the Areva webpage aboot their disaster intervention robot... or the fact that we sent quite a few of them in march/april but they were denied access to the site...

[Yokohammer]

Slashdot d00d... you just lost like 200 geek pointz...

Noooo! Not my geek points!!

OK, sorry, my fault. And thanks.

I'm suffering from work + new-year + Internet overload these days, and am having a hard time keeping up.

[IparryU]

Slashdot d00d... you just lost like 200 geek pointz...

http://tech.slashdot.org/story/12/01/08/1420254/where-were-the-robots-in-fukushima-crisis

Luckiliy some guy immediately linked to the Areva webpage aboot their disaster intervention robot... or the fact that we sent quite a few of them in march/april but they were denied access to the site...

i know i will go negative on this one... but i cant... see the fookin article...

[Coligny]

Linked article on Slashdot: http://www.japantimes.co.jp/text/nn20120106f1.html

Now... if you can't access http://tech.slashdot.org/ I have no idea how to help...

maybee format c:...

[2triky]

Japan's tsunami has dealt lasting blow to family farms


The fallout from the Fukushima nuclear meltdowns, coupled with the possibility that Japan will join the Trans-Pacific Partnership free-trade pact, may forever alter a 2,500-year-old tradition.

By John M. Glionna, Los Angeles Times

Reporting from Minamisoma, Japan

For nearly 40 years, farmer Eiichi Fukuda has put his faith in the land, trusting the annual yield of the fertile brown soil to help feed his family and the rest of his nation.

But these days, the veteran grower has watched the good earth turn dangerous. Nearly 10 months after the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant was struck by an earthquake-triggered tsunami, releasing radioactive cesium into the atmosphere, many nearby farmers are now at odds with their own land.

Fukuda's eldest son, Hideaki, refuses to drive the tractor without a glass compartment to protect him from blowing dust. Family members now scrub their boots and work clothes immediately after leaving the field as a precaution against any radioactive residue.
...more...

[Coligny]

Fukuda's eldest son, Hideaki, refuses to drive the tractor without a glass compartment to protect him from blowing dust. Family members now scrub their boots and work clothes immediately after leaving the field as a precaution against any radioactive residue.
...more...

For fuck sake... IF YOU FIND DRIVING YOUR TRACTOR ON THAT LAND DANGEROUS, DON'T GROW FOOD THERE RETARD...

[Coligny]

Guys, you might want to keep those maps on your glovebox...

(Well except Taro, whose escape plan seems to still be paddling his way out on a raft... after the repairmen fix his elevator...)

http://fukushima-diary.com/2012/01/roads-in-tokyo-will-be-shut-down-at-emergency/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+FukushimaDiary+%28Fukushima+Diary%29

Maps of the roads in Tokyo area who will be closed to civilian traffic in case of 'emergency'

[matsuki]

Fukuda's eldest son, Hideaki, refuses to drive the tractor without a glass compartment to protect him from blowing dust. Family members now scrub their boots and work clothes immediately after leaving the field as a precaution against any radioactive residue.

Good example of fucked Nihonjin...would really suck to be them now but why even bother farming/staying there. Sell what you can, pack the fuck up, and hire a good lawyer to go after TEPCO. (yeah, I know TIJ...but what else can they do?)

[IparryU]

Good example of fucked Nihonjin...would really suck to be them now but why even bother farming/staying there. Sell what you can, pack the fuck up, and hire a good lawyer to go after TEPCO. (yeah, I know TIJ...but what else can they do?)

sell what they can, buy some building supplies, make a one story building that is 2 to 3 meters above ground level, and call it a evacuation shelter for anyone nearby. propose it to the govt. if they say no, build it anyway and go hydro.

a complete dream there, but they wouldn't be able to sell their land for anything it was worth, the food they grow wont be marketable like it used to be, and they sure the fuck just cant pack up and move.

i bet the surrounding neighbors (prolly like 5 people) would like his idea and put in work for food for their family.

doubt that will even fly at all, but there is no other options they have... besides growing radioactive produce...

[Coligny]

Lets make the wasteland a walled retirement exclusion zone for old people... they don't mind growing and eating nukular waste and it might even shorten their lifetime... ALL WIN... (but alas... no soylent green)

[IparryU]

just got an early warning for another "strong earthquake from ntt docomo... we'll see.

EDIT:
still a bit shaky but that was nothing.