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Northern Japan Rocked By Trio Of Disasters!

I watched that this morning, my face was frozen the entire time. The most shocking part was when at one point the camera looks to the right, then a bit later goes back to the left and that structure I figured was gonna stay intact just completely washes away in seconds.
 
Yep. This is why we have experts. It's not enough knowing that radiation does travel across the ocean (it does), you need to be able to understand why and how it does (and that's where the "It's not going to kill and/or horribly mutate Californians" part comes from).




People in Washington and Oregon, however, will be horribly mutated.

YAY!! Finally...I can live my dream of having four arms!
 
I can't believe the nuke thing is still going on. I went to the news and figured everything was stabalized and it just sounds worse.
 
Can someone give me a quick update on what's been going on lately? The media's really quieted down on this situation.
 
Can someone give me a quick update on what's been going on lately? The media's really quieted down on this situation.
Misc:

TEPCO president disappeared off the face of the earth.

Government and TEPCO keep screwing up with radiation readings.

Plutonium isotopes found in the trench of Daiichi 3.

Underground trench at Daiichi 2 has fatal radiation, 4 hr exposure = death.

Rolling blackouts if hurting manufacturing. It takes hours to set things up again. I.e. bread operation takes 3 hrs to re-setup things after power goes from off to on. Tons of lost productivity.

Tons of food spoilage, farms require energy to power stuff like water sprays. Lots of farmers having to rid of food and milk due to gov't regulations. It gets worse since it is approach peak season in terms of crops.

Sales of frozen vegetables and fish are up.

Some countries are overreacting, saying they are finding radiation in their Japanese imports, despite the fact the time horizon of the food getting there occurred before the god damn earth quake. I am looking at you Singapore. Yes food can have radiation - negligible amounts - it doesn't have anything to do with Fukushima.

Some people have lost everything, including all forms of identification.

Some schools and businesses laid off every worker because their entire buildings were destroyed.

Major international businesses in Tokyo have relocated their employees to Hong Kong, since they already have some buildings there.

Lots of Japanese fled to Hong Kong and South Korea. Moreso the former.

The Gaijins who jettisoned Japan are now called "Fly-jin".
 
Misc:

TEPCO president disappeared off the face of the earth.

Government and TEPCO keep screwing up with radiation readings.

Plutonium isotopes found in the trench of Daiichi 3.

Underground trench at Daiichi 2 has fatal radiation, 4 hr exposure = death.

Rolling blackouts if hurting manufacturing. It takes hours to set things up again. I.e. bread operation takes 3 hrs to re-setup things after power goes from off to on. Tons of lost productivity.

Tons of food spoilage, farms require energy to power stuff like water sprays. Lots of farmers having to rid of food and milk due to gov't regulations. It gets worse since it is approach peak season in terms of crops.

Sales of frozen vegetables and fish are up.

Some countries are overreacting, saying they are finding radiation in their Japanese imports, despite the fact the time horizon of the food getting there occurred before the god damn earth quake. I am looking at you Singapore. Yes food can have radiation - negligible amounts - it doesn't have anything to do with Fukushima.

Some people have lost everything, including all forms of identification.

Some schools and businesses laid off every worker because their entire buildings were destroyed.

Major international businesses in Tokyo have relocated their employees to Hong Kong, since they already have some buildings there.

Lots of Japanese fled to Hong Kong and South Korea. Moreso the former.

The Gaijins who jettisoned Japan are now called "Fly-jin".
Thanks. I wonder when we're going to actually get some good news.....
 
I haven't found anything from NHK or Kyodo on this yet. Maybe I missed it... But this article has been hitting the blogosphere.

Japan may have lost race to save nuclear reactor
The radioactive core in a reactor at the crippled Fukushima nuclear power plant appears to have melted through the bottom of its containment vessel and on to a concrete floor, experts say, raising fears of a major release of radiation at the site.
At least part of the molten core, which includes melted fuel rods and zirconium alloy cladding, seemed to have sunk through the steel "lower head" of the pressure vessel around reactor two, Lahey said.

"The indications we have, from the reactor to radiation readings and the materials they are seeing, suggest that the core has melted through the bottom of the pressure vessel in unit two, and at least some of it is down on the floor of the drywell," Lahey said. "I hope I am wrong, but that is certainly what the evidence is pointing towards."
Good news is:
The major concern when molten fuel breaches a containment vessel is that it reacts with the concrete floor of the drywell underneath, releasing radioactive gases into the surrounding area. At Fukushima, the drywell has been flooded with seawater, which will cool any molten fuel that escapes from the reactor and reduce the amount of radioactive gas released.

Lahey said: "It won't come out as one big glob; it'll come out like lava, and that is good because it's easier to cool."

The drywell is surrounded by a secondary steel-and-concrete structure designed to keep radioactive material from escaping into the environment. But an earlier hydrogen explosion at the reactor may have damaged this.
 
Japan Weighs Entombing Nuclear Plant on Chain Reaction Risk
The risk to workers might be greater than previously thought because melted fuel in the No. 1 reactor building may be causing isolated, uncontrolled nuclear chain reactions, Denis Flory, nuclear safety director for the International Atomic Energy Agency, said at a press conference in Vienna.
Radioactive chlorine found March 25 in the Unit 1 turbine building suggests chain reactions continued after the reactor shut down, physicist Ferenc Dalnoki-Veress of the James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies in Monterey, California, wrote in a March 28 paper. Radioactive chlorine has a half-life of 37 minutes, according to the report. "
So it looks like the Japanese government have been covering this up for the last 5 days. GJ keeping your citizens informed you ****ers
 
Not surprising this has been going on for a while now.

Terrible.
 
And considering everyone's attention in the media has been diverted to other things, we won't even think about it.
 
It's still probably a minor worry at most for those who aren't in the immediate area.
 
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How about some a nice story through this?

There was a dog, Ban, washed out to sea with the tsunami, and stuck floating on a roof and other debris for three weeks. She was rescued by the coast guard and because of the flurry of news stories about her, her owner was able to track her down to the animal shelter she was taken to and was happily reunited with beloved pet:

 
That's a real nice story, but I don't understand why people abandon their pets like that. It seems to me that if you're going to evacuate it would make sense to bring the dog along as well. We're not talking about a goldfish here or pet snake.
 
Japan Weighs Entombing Nuclear Plant on Chain Reaction RiskSo it looks like the Japanese government have been covering this up for the last 5 days. GJ keeping your citizens informed you ****ers

I think the company that owns those power plants should've tried to contain the plants with extreme measures early on, instead of doing it halfway in a vain attempt to preserve them later for repair & operation. Seems to me some of those power plants are a lost cause, and they could've minimize the radiation and leakage by dealing irreversable damage to the plants. Anyway, this is my observation of this whole debacle and it doesn't seemed like the Japanese even have a plan where to dump all those highly-radioactive ocean water they used to cool down the reactors.


Living in SoCal, this news concern me greatly.
 
That's a real nice story, but I don't understand why people abandon their pets like that. It seems to me that if you're going to evacuate it would make sense to bring the dog along as well. We're not talking about a goldfish here or pet snake.
Sometimes you get out of there so fast (like with tsunamis) that you just drop everything and go. And you gotta remember that animals are boss at surviving disasters, especially dogs
 
Sometimes you get out of there so fast (like with tsunamis) that you just drop everything and go. And you gotta remember that animals are boss at surviving disasters, especially dogs

Yeah, as much as I love my dog and would save him if I could, I'd imagine some of that was, "If I don't leave now, I'm dead" stuff. I remember seeing that video with the reporters who decided to go by foot. They entered the building with no water on the ground yet, and by the time they started up the second flight of stairs and turned around the first floor was flooded. I'd imagine the water was coming so quick that the owner might not even have had time to consider his/her pet. Family is another matter tho, that's well worth risking your life over and making sure they get out first over.



Also, feel for them on all the radioactive water stuff. Fish is a popular food item anywhere, and they're finding radioactive fish now. The water pouring into the ocean can't be good for the marine life there, let alone the risk to human life. I can somewhat understand it, that they're dumping some of the lesser radioactive water out to make room for storing the far, far worse radioactive water. However even the less radioactive water still has to be doing some harm.


It's probably not a huge deal in the big picture and I'm probably overthinking it, but I wonder if this and things like the oil spill will become cumulative and hurt commercial fishing to a degree. Atleast local fishing that is.
 
CNN has a ticker that a 7.4 quake has hit Japan. It's midnight there.

This would be an incredible aftershock. I hope it's very deep and away from populated urban centers. Japan doesn't need any more tragedy.
 

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