Tohoku Earthquake, Tsunami and Nuclear Disaster!!!

[Coligny]

pretty sure there was a gijoe toy with this caterpillard track setup...

[matsuki]

It looks more like legos...matching color scheme as well

[Taro Toporific]

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via
---0KUMA, JAPAN - Dec. 7, 2012: W0rkers set the gate t0 divide the area on December 7, 2012 in 0kuma, Fukush1ma, Japan. Japanese government reclass1fied the area where 96 percent of 0kuma city residents used to live as 'res1dents will face difficult1es in returning for a long time' according to the radiati0n c0ntamination level, will apply on Dec. 10th.

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More revisions to Fukushima zones
world-nuclear-news.org | 03 December 2012
...the Okuma-machi zone changed to allow restricted access to residents, although they may not stay overnight. Some parts of the zone have now been declared a "restricted" area where entry can only be gained for a specific purpose, marked orange on METI's map. Remaining parts of the zone are now classed as a "difficult" area, where entry is allowed only in exceptional circumstances and when it is in the public interest, marked in pink. Screening is required for anybody entering the "difficult" area...more...

[cstaylor]

In Japan, a Painfully Slow Sweep

Japanese officials said adapting overseas technologies presented a particular challenge.

“Even if a method works overseas, the soil in Japan is different, for example,” said Hidehiko Nishiyama, deputy director at the environment ministry, who is in charge of the Fukushima cleanup. “And if we have foreigners roaming around Fukushima, they might scare the old grandmas and granddads there.”

This is the same Nishiyama who likes diddling the female staff members instead of focusing on the task at hand.

Queuing poorly-spelled non sequitur from the peanut gallery in 3...2..1

[matsuki]

Instead, both the central and local governments have handed over much of the 1 trillion yen decontamination effort to Japan’s largest construction companies. The politically connected companies have little radiological cleanup expertise and critics say they have cut corners to employ primitive — even potentially hazardous — techniques.

“I thought Japan was a technologically advanced country. I thought we’d be able to clean up better than this,” said Yoshiko Suganami, a legal worker who was forced to abandon her home and office over two miles from the Fukushima Daiichi plant. “It’s clear the decontamination drive isn’t really about us any more.”

The Green Tea flavored Kool-Aid just spoiled...

[yanpa]

Fukushima: Fallout of fear

After the Fukushima nuclear disaster, Japan kept people safe from the physical effects of radiation — but not from the psychological impacts.

The first thing Kenichi Togawa does when he comes home from work is switch on his video-game console. The 39-year-old father of three spends hours each evening playing video games and drinking shochu, a strong Japanese liquor. He often falls asleep in front of the television, then wakes up shivering and crawls into bed with his wife, Yuka.

For nearly two years, Kenichi and his family have been refugees from the worst nuclear disaster in 25 years. On 11 March 2011, a giant earthquake struck off the northeast coast of Japan, sending a 13-metre-high wall of water into the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power station and triggering meltdowns in three of the six reactors. The next day, just hours before the Unit 1 reactor exploded, the Togawa family fled their home 10 kilometres from the plant. Today, they live in a tiny flat outside the evacuation zone — one of dozens in a series of slate-grey temporary buildings in the northeast section of Fukushima prefecture. The five Togawas are bundled into three rooms totalling just 30 square metres, with windows poorly insulated against the winter winds.

The past 18 months have taken a mental toll on the family. Kenichi, who had worked at the nuclear plant, was once a keen judo fighter who went out often with friends, but the radioactivity has scattered his martial-arts club. These days, he exercises less and rarely socializes. He drinks more and has put on weight.

Yuka is prone to public outbursts of anger, unusual among Japanese women in the relatively traditional Fukushima prefecture. She is happy when she thinks about day-to-day life, but when her mind turns to the long term, as it inevitably does, she feels depressed. “This is temporary,” she says. “We leave our house in the morning and we come home and it’s temporary. It’s like floating in the air.”

...meltdown continues...

[Coligny]

After the Fukushima nuclear disaster, Japan kept people safe from the physical effects of radiation — but not from the psychological impacts.

Stopped reading after this...

[matsuki]

hahahaha, must have been the heros at TEPCO management's quick thinking that saved the day!

[Taro Toporific]

There has just been a deeply unsatisfactory TEPCO press conference following the latest explosion at Fukushima. The press aren't asking great questions but TEPCO isn't helping by being very short on answers.

Japan falls far on press freedom list
JIJI Press (Japan Times) | Jan. 31, 2013
---Japan plummeted to 53rd from the previous year's 22nd in the 2013 press freedom ranking released Wednesday by Reporters Without Borders, a Paris-based nonprofit organization.
Japan "has been affected by a lack of transparency and almost zero respect for access to information on subjects directly or indirectly related to Fukushima"...more...

[matsuki]

Behind the US, UK, Taiwan, and South Korea....LOL

[Taro Toporific]

Japan's Post-Fukushima Earthquake Health Woes Go Beyond Radiation Effects
^^^^
Read like the Pravda of old time... For the same reason it's too early to blame any thyroid abnormality on Fukushima it's too early to clear it from any blame...

Fukushima kids have skyrocketing number of thyroid abnormalities - report
RT.com | 18 February, 2013
A recent report into the Fukushima Nuclear disaster of 2011 has shown that more than forty percent of children have thyroid abnormalities.
The Tenth Report of the Fukushima Prefecture Health Management Survey, released earlier this week, with data up to January 21, 2013, revealed that 44.2 percent of 94,975 children sampled had thyroid ultrasound abnormalities. The number of abnormalities has also been increasing over time as well as the proportion of children with nodules equal to and larger than 5.1 mm and any size cysts have increased.
More...

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[Coligny]

time to stock on prorpcrorm and enjoy the ride...

[Samurai_Jerk]

time to stock on prorpcrorm and enjoy the ride...

May I suggest you sprinkle it liberally with iodine?

[Taro Toporific]

time to stock on prorpcrorm and enjoy the ride...

I was worried that this was a fake/exaggerated report of 44.2% of the Fukushima children had thyroid ultrasound abnormalities.

The thyroid examination section of the survey is shown in this link.
http://www.pref.fukushima.jp/imu/kenkou ... iryou2.pdf (Japanese)
It contains new thyroid examination results from April 1, 2012 through January 21, 2013, for Fiscal Year Heisei 24 (FYH24) which ends on March 31, 2013.  As of January 25, 2013, 111,546 of eligible 128,082 children underwent the examination in FYH24.  In FYH23, 38,114 of 47,766 eligible children underwent examination.  As a whole, 149,660 of 175,848 eligible children, about half of the Fukushima children, already underwent examination.
The results compiled up to January 21, 2013 revealed that 41,947 (44.2%) of 94,975 children had thyroid ultrasound abnormalities.  Together with 38,114 children (13,645 or 35.8% had thyroid ultrasound abnormalities) tested in the last half of Fiscal Year Heisei 23 (FYH23)  from October 2011 through March 2012, a total of 55,592 (41.8%) of 133,089 Fukushima children have been found to have ultrasound abnormalities.

via FukushimaVoice | Feb. 13, 2013

[Screwed-down Hairdo]

time to stock on prorpcrorm and enjoy the ride...

I was worried that this was a fake/exaggerated report of 44.2% of the Fukushima children had thyroid ultrasound abnormalities.

The thyroid examination section of the survey is shown in this link.
http://www.pref.fukushima.jp/imu/kenkou ... iryou2.pdf (Japanese)
It contains new thyroid examination results from April 1, 2012 through January 21, 2013, for Fiscal Year Heisei 24 (FYH24) which ends on March 31, 2013.  As of January 25, 2013, 111,546 of eligible 128,082 children underwent the examination in FYH24.  In FYH23, 38,114 of 47,766 eligible children underwent examination.  As a whole, 149,660 of 175,848 eligible children, about half of the Fukushima children, already underwent examination.
The results compiled up to January 21, 2013 revealed that 41,947 (44.2%) of 94,975 children had thyroid ultrasound abnormalities.  Together with 38,114 children (13,645 or 35.8% had thyroid ultrasound abnormalities) tested in the last half of Fiscal Year Heisei 23 (FYH23)  from October 2011 through March 2012, a total of 55,592 (41.8%) of 133,089 Fukushima children have been found to have ultrasound abnormalities.

via FukushimaVoice | Feb. 13, 2013

You've mistaken it, Taro. "Thyroid" is the old-fashioned way for talking about the kinda drugs Lanced Armstrong used to do...

[matsuki]

time to stock on prorpcrorm and enjoy the ride...

I was worried that this was a fake/exaggerated report of 44.2% of the Fukushima children had thyroid ultrasound abnormalities.

[/quote]

What's the percentage of thyroid abnormalities in children, in...say, Osaka? Hiroshima? Fukuoka? With all the weird coverups and shit that goes on here, we need some perspective before we place all the blame on TEPCO (and let someone else off the hook)

[Coligny]

you would need untainted specimen for this kind of calibration... which are not to be found in Japan...

plus... if what is observed on 43% of the kids was a normal deviation/happenstance it would not be qualified as abnormalities...

example: around 50 percent of babies are born without a penis...
it's not an abnormality... it's called being a girl...

(raised the same point as you yesterday in the whip while driving home...)

[Russell]

example: around 50 percent of babies are born without a penis...
it's not an abnormality... it's called being a girl...

Actually, only 49 percent of newborns are girls, if nature is allowed its normal course. Examples where this is not the case: China and India.

[Coligny]

I was just waiting for our resident trolltard to post a wikipedia link...

[Taro Toporific]

'I am one of the Fukushima fifty': One of the men who risked their lives to prevent a catastrophe shares his story
The Independent -- March 2, 2013 by David McNeill
They displayed a bravery few can comprehend, yet very little is known  about the men who stayed behind to save Japan’s stricken nuclear plant. In a rare interview, David McNeill meets Atsufumi Yoshizawa, who was at work on 11 March 2011 when disaster struck...
{big snip}
...“We had all resolved to stay till the end.” Throughout the following weeks on the frontline of the crisis, the men endured brutal conditions. Deliveries stalled, food almost ran out and water was restricted to a single 500ml bottle every two days. Working in shifts, surviving on biscuits and sleeping when he could inside the radiation-proofed bunker, Mr Yoshizawa lost weight and grew a beard. As elite firefighters succeeded in getting water to the overheating reactors, the collective psyche inside the bunker lightened and the dreaded words “oshimai da” (it’s the end), were no longer heard...more...

[Coligny]

beaten by 5 minutes...

damn youze Taro!!!

[Taro Toporific]

Hints for the japanese clowns:
When you want to make robots that can move or survive in harsh/bumpy environement, you do like NASA for their rover or the standar disasters intervention robots, wheels or tracks, low center of gravity, everything done to avoid roll overs...

Japan's "Long War" to shut down Fukushima
Reuters | Mar. 5, 2013
...Just months after Quince {robot} was deployed to inspect Japan's tsunami-devastated Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant, the $6 million robot got trapped in its dark and winding pathways.
Seventeen months later, the high-tech soldier {bot} is still missing in action --- a symbol of a daunting decommissioning project that will take decades, require huge injections of human and financial capital and rely on yet-to-be developed technologies.
"It's like going to war with bamboo sticks," said Takuya Hattori, president of the Japan Atomic Industrial Forum and a 36-year veteran of Fukushima plant operator Tokyo Electric Power Co, known as Tepco.
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[Coligny]

"It's like going to war with bamboo sticks," said Takuya Hattori, president of the Japan Atomic Industrial Forum and a 36-year veteran of Fukushima plant operator Tokyo Electric Power Co, known as Tepco.

So they are going to reactivate the training program for highschoolers to shoot down bombers with bamboo spears ?

again ?

sumthing sumthing, learn from history, sumthing sumthing, makez mistakez again...

[Screwed-down Hairdo]

Sorry, posted this earlier in the wrong thread...

[Coligny]

Porpraganda weeks is in guys:

Rare tour of Fukushima reveals colossal decontamination efforts

Even ex-skf seems a bit fishy in their position:
(like, when someone from an air travel agency try to sell me a bridge my super-kitteh senses are tingling, when you don't even need to know or consider the events concerned to have that feeling that the methodology was setup by someone so high on drugs that the space station could not catch him anymore, you got a problem)

#Radioactive Japan: Thyroid Control Screening Reveals Much Higher Percentages of Cysts and Nodules in Children Far Away from Fukushima I usually call that the "Guy Kawasaki" syndrome when i'm in a good mood... but mostly I just go with the normal business term of "sleeper agent".
Because, as said earlier... Something happening normally at 50% rate would not be called anomaly, but "type" or something like this (as for blood type, A, B, O, you don't call a statistical minority 'anomaly' just for shit and giggles without good reason...)

also... with control screening, it's 3,5% of children...


An all time fav: Lies big lies and statistics..., because FUCK YOU, if my excell file tells me you are a murderer then you'd fuckin better be declared guilty...

[Coligny]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jgrUE9u3 ... ge#t=1106s

Visualisation of the meltdown...

So it's a bit like a tacobell morning after...

[yanpa]

Fukushima loses cooling power

No electricity to pumps that feed ponds where spent nuclear fuel rods must be kept underwater at a safe temperature

our fuel storage pools at Japan's Fukushima nuclear plant have been without fresh cooling water for more than 15 hours due to a power outage. The plant's operator has said it is trying to repair or replace a broken switchboard that might be the problem.

The 11 March 2011 earthquake and tsunami destroyed the plant's power and cooling systems, causing three reactor cores to melt and fuel storage pools to overheat. The plant has since been using makeshift systems.

Plant operator Tepco said pool temperatures remained within safe levels and the pools would remain safe for at least four days without fresh cooling water.

Tepco was preparing a backup system in case the repairs didn't work, said Masayuki Ono, a company official. "If worse comes to worst we have a backup water injection system."

Yoshihide Suga, the chief government spokesman, sought to allay concerns. "In a sense we have put in place measures that leave no room for worry," Suga said.

In a sense, I am relieved.
...more...

[Samurai_Jerk]

In a sense, I am relieved.
...more...

Pissed-your-pants relieved?

[yanpa]

In a sense, I am relieved.
...more...

Pissed-your-pants relieved?

I have put in place measures which leave no room for leakage.

[yanpa]

As of 2:20pm cooling has restarted.