Tohoku Earthquake, Tsunami and Nuclear Disaster!!!

[Greji]

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

EDIT:
still a bit shaky but that was nothing.

Same here. Said it was center in "Ibarakioki" but never felt anything...

[Coligny]

4 around fukushima... really not good i'd say...

[matsuki]

[Mike Oxlong]

[Russell]

[Coligny]

A senior Japanese professor delivering a well-argued tirade for many minutes to the comission. Particularly of interest is the role of ingested radioactive particles and their mutanagenic effects (backing up Dr Chris Busby's argument with George Monbiot!)

Moronic waaaarrrrgaaaaarbling against Busby in 3... 2... 1...

[matsuki]

[IparryU]

Wow...government-commissioned report being critical of both TEPCO and the J-Gov?! Something is in the drinking water...

more like they have been injecting it into their neck...

[cstaylor]

High levels of radiation have been detected on the first floor of a newly built condominium complex in Nihonmatsu, Fukushima Prefecture, the municipal government said.
...
The city of Nihonmatsu detected 0.9 to 1.24 microsieverts of radiation per hour inside the first-floor condominium unit, which is higher than the radiation level outside, which was between 0.7 to 1 microsieverts at places 1 meter above ground around the building. On the second and third floors, the inside readings were 0.1 and 0.3 microsievert.

http://www.japantimes.co.jp/text/nn20120117a1.html

[Coligny]

It's okay, it's good radiashiun for your health'n'shit only the stress make you sick and all those vegetabuls malfromed...

These condo should sell for even more muney since they have more -glow in the dark- features...

(Buying an appartement 60km from a nuke plant that have not even finished shitting himself... yeah... make sense...)

[IparryU]

It's okay, it's good radiashiun for your health'n'shit only the stress make you sick and all those vegetabuls malfromed...

These condo should sell for even more muney since they have more -glow in the dark- features...

(Buying an appartement 60km from a nuke plant that have not even finished shitting himself... yeah... make sense...)

Ya... that area shouldn't be marked for reconstruction... dumb as a rock scenario...

[Marked Trail]

Ok. Let me get this straight.[INDENT]
Step 1: Make money building a shoddy nuke plant and useless concrete seawalls.
Step 2: Then the expected once-in-60-years earthquake/tsunami blows up the nuke plant.
Step 3: Return to rebuild the nuke plant, and get lucrative reconstruction funds to rebuild all the buildings destroyed in Fukushima Prefecture with radioactive concrete.
Step 4: Profit!
Step 5: Get more contracts to tear down the radioactive concrete buildings and rebuild new ones.
Step 6: MORE PROFIT!
Step 7: Repeat.[/INDENT]

[IparryU]

Ok. Let me get this straight.[INDENT]
Step 1: Make money building a shoddy nuke plant and useless concrete seawalls.
Step 2: Then the expected once-in-60-years earthquake/tsunami to blows up the nuke plant.
Step 3: Return to rebuild the nuke plant, and get lucrative reconstruction funds to rebuild all the buildings destroyed in Fukushima Prefecture with radioactive concrete.
Step 4: Profit!
Step 5: Get more contracts to tear down the radioactive concrete buildings and rebuild new ones.
Step 6: MORE PROFIT!
Step 7: Repeat.[/INDENT]

and people still stay there...

thumbs up to them

[IparryU]

[matsuki]

more...

so... how deep will they go?

Hopefully balls deep...

[waruta]

More like balls to the walls....

[Sa_Race]

Ok. Let me get this straight.

You forgot the part where they ship millions of tons of rubbles and debris all over Japan to be incinerated. Or in order to create artificial hills with kinder playgrounds all over.
Because you know, Japanese need to share the pain, so they better make the whole place a zombie incubator. Ganbare Nippon !

[matsuki]

You forgot the part where they ship millions of tons of rubbles and debris all over Japan to be incinerated. Or in order to create artificial hills with kinder playgrounds all over.
Because you know, Japanese need to share the pain, so they better make the whole place a zombie incubator. Ganbare Nippon !

Thing is all these new hotspots keep getting picked up on...it's a never ending cycle

[Mike Oxlong]

[Coligny]

Send the bill to Tepco's shareholders...

[Russell]

[IparryU]

Why am I not surprised by this?

cause this is the nth time it had happened in less that one year...

it is like getting a surprise b-day party for every b-day you had... after a few years you just go into the room and act surprised... just another day

[Coligny]

cause this is the nth time it had happened in less that one year...

it is like getting a surprise b-day party for every b-day you had... after a few years you just go into the room and act surprised... just another day

d00d... I haven't even received a card for the last 10 years...

[IparryU]

d00d... I haven't even received a card for the last 10 years...

and it is no surprise to you anymore is it?

[matsuki]

[SIZE="3"]Apartment built from concrete originating from near Fukushima reactor[/SIZE]

That is another way to get rid of radioactive materials in Fukushima: just sell it to the rest of Japan. "No direct health risks" here (to quote the government), but I find it not very prudent either. Why am I not surprised by this?

Who the fuck would buy concrete gravel from Fukushima after 3-11?



...wait for it...



"This is a distinctively Japanese thing"

[Greji]

Who the fuck would buy concrete gravel from Fukushima after 3-11?

I would. It would be nice to use to cement my driveway. A boon to have a driveway that glows in the dark when you stagger home from the pub.

Coligny could use it for filler for his cats' sand box. Keep 'em hopping that way...

[Mike Oxlong]

U.S. forces given SPEEDI data early

The science ministry provided data on the radioactive fallout to U.S. forces a few days after the crisis erupted at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant — far earlier than the public was informed, a ministry official said.

The revelation came amid criticism that the government's delay in releasing data from the System for Prediction of Environmental Emergency Dose Information (SPEEDI) may have resulted in the unnecessary exposure of residents near the plant to radiation. Those residents were later evacuated.

The data were provided to the U.S. forces via the Foreign Ministry on March 14, three days after the 9-magnitude temblor and monster tsunami triggered the triple-meltdown crisis, according to Itaru Watanabe, an official with the ministry's Science and Technology Policy Bureau.

But it was not until March 23 that the public was officially told.

Watanabe, speaking Monday at a meeting of the nuclear accident investigation panel set up by the Diet, said the science ministry passed on the data to the U.S. forces "to seek support from them" in dealing with the nuclear crisis.

After the crisis at the Fukushima plant began, the government could not use SPEEDI as originally anticipated because data on the amount of radioactive substances released from the plant proved inaccurate.

However, the science ministry and the government's nuclear safety agency generated data by assuming the amount of radioactive substances — which could have helped local governments and people to choose more appropriate evacuation routes.

The new Diet-appointed panel also vowed the same day to use its subpoena powers to probe deeper into the accident than the government's investigation.

The panel, appointed by the Diet last month, has gained attention because of its membership, which includes outspoken critics of the nation's nuclear policy who long ago questioned the seismic risks to the country's 54 nuclear reactors.

It is expected to examine the extent to which the earthquake contributed to the crisis at the Fukushima No. 1 power plant, as well as the tsunami and radiation alert system. Interim reports by the government and Tokyo Electric Power Co. focused on the tsunami and deny the quake itself caused damage that led to fires, reactor meltdowns and radiation leaks from the plant.

The panel includes legal, nuclear and medical experts. Seismologist Katsuhiko Ishibashi has long warned of tsunami risks to the nation's reactors — all of which are on coastlines.

[Russell]

[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...



So in fact 65% not picked died too !?



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...

So in fact... despite the cute numbers... some schools had no fracking clue aboot what to do:
http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/dy/national/T120123004098.htmSchool says it's responsible for deaths / Principal admits failure to protect 84 people killed, missing in March 11 disaster

The stupid... it wears you out... (for those who survived that is...)

[matsuki]

Ugh....false sense of security and lack of preparedness. They can change policies to ensure it won't happen again but even with all that, If "Teachers were told by fleeing residents, a municipal announcement car and radio reports that that they should escape to a nearby mountain because a massive tsunami was on its way." and it took em 40mins to react...then there should be some criminal negligence charges. That's just fucking insane...who ignores shit like that when you have the lives of that many children at stake? As Coligny says, "the stupid" is unbearable here...their heads should be on stakes...