Ozawa interview "Kan must go, and well so may the Tokyo populace" ,,,, Interview with in HuffPo ,,, fire at Fukushima 2 300 KM of ocean contaminated badly "We thought we were going to die " Fukushima Farmer
Parents raise hell and change society Typhoon Songda aimed at Tokyo...
retired Japanese engineers volunteer for Kamikaze run at Fukushima.
water leaks at Fukushima.... Radioactive cows for sale in Japan.
Radioacitve harbors being repaired for fishing.
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Long as I remember The rain been coming down.
Clouds of myst'ry pouring Confusion on the ground.
Good men through the ages, Trying to find the sun;
And I wonder, Still I wonder, Who'll stop the rain.
I went down Virginia, Seeking shelter from the storm.
Caught up in the fable, I watched the tower grow.
Five year plans and new deals, Wrapped in golden chains.
And I wonder, Still I wonder Who'll stop the rain.
Heard the singers playing, How we cheered for more.
The crowd had rushed together, Trying to keep warm.
Still the rain kept pouring, Falling on my ears.
And I wonder, Still I wonder Who'll stop the rain.
http://online.wsj.com/...
Q: Reconstruction will require a lot of money and resources, and the Diet is currently debating the need for a second supplementary budget. What is the urgency and how large should this second reconstruction budget be? Where would funding come from?
A: That's another typical Japanese way of thought. No matter how much money it takes it must be done. With all that happening you can't live in Japan. Some day we may not be able to live in Japan. There is the possibility that the power plant can reach the state of criticality again. If it explodes, it's a huge matter. Radiation is being leaked in order to keep the reactors from exploding. So, in this sense, it's even worse than letting the power plant explode. Radiation is going to be flowing out for a long period of time. This is not a matter of money, but of life and death for the Japanese. If Japan cannot be saved, then the people of Japan are done for. We can always print money. Ultimately the people will have to bear the burden. Government must be determined to put a stop to radioactive pollution no matter what it takes, money or otherwise. The Japanese people must understand the situation. Bonds will have to be paid back, but if you can save lives with money, then so be it.
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The Japanese media is helpless.
http://online.wsj.com/...
People cannot live in the contaminated areas. These areas are becoming uninhabitable. Japan has lost its territory by that much. If we do nothing, even Tokyo could become off limits. There is a huge amount of uranium fuels in the plants, much more than in Chernobyl.
All those angry types who berated me for saying Tokyo was planning to evacuate.
Perhaps they should find this guy and flog him.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/...
". He added that TEPCO is a large entity which only has to answer to the Prime Minister. He added that it is a bit of the "... Only small people pay taxes mentality". The mass media in Japan is only given the information TEPCO and the government want to give them. Labor practices in Japan, he says, are quite brutal and when you get to the bottom of the labor force, those at the top of society do not really care about them."
The numbers are disturbingly higher than we have been lead to believe, the number of homes in the villages which are contaminated, the rice paddies, the fact that the "official" six to nine month cleanup is virtually impossible, no matter how much they do accomplish... all of this is what has being kept off the front pages of the mass media.
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A Japanese colleague of his inside of Japan, a radiation oncologist actually originally from Fukushima prefecture says there must be long term health monitoring at least 100,000 people will need to be monitored and they have this expertise in Japan because of the horrific experiences of Nagasaki and Hiroshima.
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Why is TEPCO not telling anyone the truth? That these 3 units have partially melted and that they have known this for 3-4 weeks at least. They release only small amounts of information every day. Many nuclear engineering professionals have known, were able to figure out almost from the beginning, in fact perhaps from March 15, sixteen hours or so after the accident, that the core had melted. Was there any operator error involved? He understood that TEPCO workers retreated on March 12 because the radiation readings were simply too high. He believes that within 16 hours after this they already knew the core had melted. And even though no one wants to waste precious time pointing fingers and blaming, this information is much needed in order to learn about how the events surrounding Fukushima and these numerous criticalities can be avoided in the future. We have many many of these plants operating, in the U.S. and around the world.
Pity our house shills never bothered to consider what had really happened.
http://cnic.jp/...
http://www.cnic.jp/...
lots of cool stuff above.
http://enenews.com/...
Fire breaks out at Fukushima Dai-ni nuclear plant — Started in basement near Reactor No. 1
this is also called Fukushima 2, it's less disastrous then Fukushima 1 (Dai-ichi)
in the reactors were scrammed and the cooling system did only medium damage
to the reactors. I figure if they are lucky they may get these back on line in 2 years.
But what is happenign right now is a marginally controlled shutdown.
the power board caught on fire, i hope that the cooling pumps and computers
are still running.
http://mainichi.jp/...
radioactive materials in concentration that was up to several hundreds of times the normal level were detected from the soil on the ocean floor in the 300-kilometer strip along the coast from Kesennuma City in Miyagi Prefecture to Choshi City in Chiba Prefecture. The Ministry says "the marine products may be affected".
he soil samples were taken from May 9 to May 14 at 12 locations about 15 to 50 kilometers off the coast. Radioactive materials were detected in all samples. The highest concentration of radioactive materials was detected from the sample taken from the ocean floor, 126 meters deep, 30 kilometers off the coast of Fukushima I Nuke Plant. Cesium-134 was 260 becquerels/kilogram, and cesium-137 was 320 becquerels/kilogram.
h/t Ex-SKF....
anyone eating japanese fish or food should be viewed as helplessly ignorant
or insane.
oh right
Think Kan will force the Thai PM to eat Japanese Sushi?
now if some of my clever commenters want to add thought balloons, i think
we could have some fun with these pics.
Remember the little tiny mutant bunny rabbit in Fukushima?
Is this video really was taken in Japan? Issai no evidence.
Oj5309 hours ago 10 2
Been has flagged this as Spam show
Toratoraneko8 hours ago 10 8
I can't trust this rabbit owner, in her web site, she said that she got once scouted to a mafia boss. I didn't know she was a mafia.
727Minerva 10 hours ago
Poor
Stitch4645 11 hours ago
Yuunosato's author, as saying that someone else, madHere you specify the date and birth another baby soon and this rabbit didWhat do you think?
Otherwise it is a hoax. I do that?
The commentators look angrier then the shills here are.
It's pathetic.
does anyone remember the mutant animals of Chernobyl?
http://greenreading.blogspot.com/...
A team from the National Centre for Scientific Research in France compared animal populations in radioactive areas with less contaminated plots and found some were nearly completely depleted of animal life. "We were amazed to see that there had been no studies on this subject," Anders Moller, a researcher at the National Centre for Scientific Research in France. "Ours was the first study to focus on the abundance of animal populations." "Usually (deformed) animals get eaten quickly, as it's hard to escape if your wings are not the same length," Moller said. "In this case we found a high incidence of deformed animals." "We wanted to ask the question: Are there more or fewer animals in the contaminated areas? Clearly there were fewer," said Moller, who has worked on Chernobyl since 1991.
The researchers also found that animals living near the reactor had more deformities, including discolouration and stunted limbs, than normal.
Mousseau and Moller have since identified high mutations in many different species of birds, plants and animals, including humans. Children living near the plant continue to be monitored, as many suffered from thyroid cancer right after the nuclear blast. More recent tests "show significant negative impacts" on the blood cell counts of local children. "The truth is that accidents do happen, so there likely will be a future nuclear accident somewhere," Mousseau warned. "We also face the threat of nuclear terrorism, so I'm hopeful our studies can shed light on the long-term consequences of radiation exposure."
The Japanese government and the right wing shills are trying to sell the line
that everything is fine at chernobyl now.
DON"T BELIEVE THE HYPE!!!!
Poor little mutant runt bunny is first of many
he person who uploaded the video says it is one of their rabbit, and it was born after they fed their rabbits with their favorite fresh green grass after the Reactor 3 blew up. He/she says "We were working in our backyard when the Reactor 3 blew up, which we didn't know at that time. Our faces and throats felt burned, and we thought we're going to die. So we fed the rabbits with their favorite grass." And "It's just too late, telling us after 2 months how contaminated the soil is around here. We've drunk from the well water, have eaten the wild mountain vegetables."
The farmers of Fukushima are the first of many.
http://falloutphilippines.blogspot.com/...
If you recall from about a month ago, education board officials overseeing schools in the Fukushima Prefecture jacked up permissible doses for school children from the standard 1 milliSievert/year to a very difficult to accept 20 milliSievert/year. Angry parents have been raising bloody hell since, and have succeeded in forcing the Ministry of Education to acquiesce to their demands.
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Here's a note of concern. ICRP recommendations, along with official exposure measurements are taken "in air", and are likely read with the equipment some distance from the ground. If activity is as high as 600,000 becquerels per square metre in some areas like the IRSN recently reported, foot and ankle doses could be higher than official numbers by a factor of 2-4 due to beta contribution and principles of inverse square law.
Typhoon songda makes minor left turn, now has Tokyo sq.
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now the good thing is SOngda is estimated to lose strength, and drop winds
lets hope the winds don't knock over Unit 4 or destroy all those emergency storage facilities.
http://www.tokyotimes.jp/...
More than 160 engineers aged 60 or older, many former nuclear plant workers, have put up a group and say are ready to sacrifice themselves by working in the highly dangerous area of the crippled Fukushima plant. They hope to restore the damaged cooling systems and help put an end to the ongoing nuclear crisis.
The “Skilled Veteran Corps” is a group gathered by Yasuteru Yamada, a 72-year-old retired engineer who previously made his call on veterans using a web-page translated in several languages. He said then he was expecting veterans to join because “radiation exposure of a generation which may reproduce the next generation should be avoided, regardless of the amount.”
I think 160 volunteers is a good start, but the Japanese need to get 10,000 volunteers
of elderly people. But 160 skilled engineers can stiff out the repair teams.
http://www.jaif.or.jp/...
Livestock farmers who have been urged to evacuate from areas near the crippled
Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant sold off about 400 heads of cattle at an
extraordinary auction on Thursday.
The farmers who took part in the auction in Motomiya City came from Iitate
Village and Kawamata Town located about 30 to 40 kilometers northwest of the
plant. The government is urging the residents to evacuate by the end of this
month for safety reasons.
After the auction, market officials said the calves were sold for slightly below
their going price but adult cattle fetched market prices.
One farmer from Iitate Village said he will sell 2 remaining heads of cattle, close
his business and evacuate to Fukushima City, located west of the village.
so the farmers are selling radioactive cows at market price?
JFC!!! What's wrong with these people?
The Germans, Fins, swedes, french, Russians were shooting animals
20 years after the chernobyl incident and the japanese are selling these?
Someone is going to sell these into sausages and burgers.. Please tell me
EPA is banning japanese imports.
Fisheries experts have begun examining debris left in the bottom of a bay in
Iwate Prefecture after the March 11 earthquake and tsunami.
Yamada Bay is known for being a good fishing port and a farming ground for
oysters and scallops. Currently, a large amount of debris piled up on the seabed is
hampering marine farming and the movement of fishing boats.
this story ignores the cesium levels in 300 KM of water. The Japanese in a
rational society would give up the idea of agriculture up in the north.
The operator of the Fukushima nuclear power plant says highly radioactive water
continues to leak from a waste disposal facility in the complex.
Tokyo Electric Power Company said on Friday that the water level had dropped
by around 3 centimeters as of 7 AM from the level observed at 5 PM on Thursday.
TEPCO had transferred to the facility some of the highly radioactive water
flooding the basement of the No.3 reactor's turbine building and nearby tunnel,
before it suspended the work earlier this week.
On Thursday, the transferred water was found to be leaking into an underground
passage to another building.
The utility firm says it is likely that the water level in the facility will stop falling,
but added that it may need to plug the leaks.
The work is expected to be difficult as radiation levels of up to 70 millisieverts
per hour have been detected on the water's surface.
TEPCO also faces the urgent task of preventing the contaminated water around
the No.3 reactor from spilling into the sea or underground.
So where is this water going to?
Oh right, that 300 KM belt of radiation
When I look into your eyes
I can see a love restrained
But darlin' when I hold you
Don't you know I feel the same
'Cause nothin' lasts forever
And we both know hearts can change
And it's hard to hold a candle
In the cold November rain
We've been through this auch a long long time
Just tryin' to kill the pain
But lovers always come and lovers always go
An no one's really sure who's lettin' go today
Walking away
If we could take the time
to lay it on the line
I could rest my head
Just knowin' that you were mine
All mine
So if you want to love me
then darlin' don't refrain
Or I'll just end up walkin'
In the cold November rain
Do you need some time...on your own
Do you need some time...all alone
Everybody needs some time...
on their own
Don't you know you need some time...all alone
I know it's hard to keep an open heart
When even friends seem out to harm you
But if you could heal a broken heart
Wouldn't time be out to charm you
Sometimes I need some time...on my
own
Sometimes I need some time...all alone
Everybody needs some time...
on their own
Don't you know you need some time...all alone
And when your fears subside
And shadows still remain
I know that you can love me
When there's no one left to blame
So never mind the darkness
We still can find a way
'Cause nothin' lasts forever
Even cold November rain
Don't ya think that you need somebody
Don't ya think that you need someone
Everybody needs somebody
You're not the only one
You're not the only one