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Thuggerz

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If Fukushima is the biggest disaster man kind has ever seen then why is 99% of the population just ignoring it?...is it really that bad?

Also can you please tell if [link to fukushimaupdate.com] the best place to find out whats going on at fukushima?

Cheers
 Quoting: Thuggerz


That's a good source..

Here's a few more.

Fukushima Diary
EX-SKF blogspot.
Washington's blog
ENENEWS
Enformable
RADCHIK on youtube.. Nuked Radio, I believe.

Fairewinds.
CitizenPerth blogsite.

Links to webcams on first post.
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Thanks Waterbug for your reply....I still can't understand if it's that serious why are people still eating fish and just getting on with life. Hopefully i will find out why.

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Too Big to Fail
[link to www.fairewinds.com]
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If Fukushima is the biggest disaster man kind has ever seen then why is 99% of the population just ignoring it?...is it really that bad?

Also can you please tell if [link to fukushimaupdate.com] the best place to find out whats going on at fukushima?

Cheers
 Quoting: Thuggerz


That's a good source..

Here's a few more.

Fukushima Diary
EX-SKF blogspot.
Washington's blog
ENENEWS
Enformable
RADCHIK on youtube.. Nuked Radio, I believe.

Fairewinds.
CitizenPerth blogsite.

Links to webcams on first post.
 Quoting: Waterbug


Thanks Waterbug for your reply....I still can't understand if it's that serious why are people still eating fish and just getting on with life. Hopefully i will find out why.
 Quoting: Thuggerz


I hope you do.

chuckle I have a few theories.

Let me know what you find..
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If Fukushima is the biggest disaster man kind has ever seen then why is 99% of the population just ignoring it?...is it really that bad?

Also can you please tell if [link to fukushimaupdate.com] the best place to find out whats going on at fukushima?

Cheers
 Quoting: Thuggerz


That's a good source..

Here's a few more.

Fukushima Diary
EX-SKF blogspot.
Washington's blog
ENENEWS
Enformable
RADCHIK on youtube.. Nuked Radio, I believe.

Fairewinds.
CitizenPerth blogsite.

Links to webcams on first post.
 Quoting: Waterbug


Thanks Waterbug for your reply....I still can't understand if it's that serious why are people still eating fish and just getting on with life. Hopefully i will find out why.
 Quoting: Thuggerz


You need to know that only the Guys from Fairwinds have a Clue about Nuclear Powerplants, Enenews is also Lalala
but you need to read it in a careful Manner,
Ex-Sfk is okay for a Japanese View but forget the rest!

There are more Sources where you can get Information,
some are Pro-Nuclear but their Opinion is also justified!

And imo it is also important to get the official Tepco-View
because they are the only ones who are releasing Giga Bytes
of Data from the inside,
only the J-Government is in a similar Position!

And i recommend you also the Physic-Forum to get a better understanding of Nuclear Reactors!
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We are a REPUBLIC.If we can keep it MORAN!
A pissed off American Veteran!
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Restrictions on post-Fukushima imports from Japan modified
The Standing Committee on the Food Chain and Animal Health approved, on 18 April, a proposal by the European Commission modifying the rules on imports of food and feed originating from Japan (Implementing Regulation 297/2011) that have been in force since the Fukushima nuclear accident in March 2011.

------- ...and slightly changed the precautionary rules applying to the other ten prefectures located in the restricted zone (Shizuoka, Gunma, Ibaraki, Tochigi, Miyagi, Saitama, Tokyo, Iwate, Chiba and Kanagawa).

Under the new rules, a series of products originating from the latter prefectures, including pears, pome fruit and scallops, were taken off the list of products for which pre-testing is required before they can be exported to the EU. At the same time, buckwheat, lotus root and beef, as well as mushrooms from Nagano, Aomori and Niigata, were added to this list. The modified rules will be published in the second half of May following adoption by the Commission. They are expected to enter into force on 1 June.

[link to www.europolitics.info]

50% observed!
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Tokyo-Yokoham is coming this Morning at 10.00am JST
with 25 nGy/h

My own Geiger Counter is coming with less than 0.100 Microsievert/h!
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Restrictions on post-Fukushima imports from Japan modified
The Standing Committee on the Food Chain and Animal Health approved, on 18 April, a proposal by the European Commission modifying the rules on imports of food and feed originating from Japan (Implementing Regulation 297/2011) that have been in force since the Fukushima nuclear accident in March 2011.

------- ...and slightly changed the precautionary rules applying to the other ten prefectures located in the restricted zone (Shizuoka, Gunma, Ibaraki, Tochigi, Miyagi, Saitama, Tokyo, Iwate, Chiba and Kanagawa).

Under the new rules, a series of products originating from the latter prefectures, including pears, pome fruit and scallops, were taken off the list of products for which pre-testing is required before they can be exported to the EU. At the same time, buckwheat, lotus root and beef, as well as mushrooms from Nagano, Aomori and Niigata, were added to this list. The modified rules will be published in the second half of May following adoption by the Commission. They are expected to enter into force on 1 June.

[link to www.europolitics.info]

50% observed!
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Thx U!!!
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Tokyo-Yokoham is coming this Morning at 10.00am JST
with 25 nGy/h

My own Geiger Counter is coming with less than 0.100 Microsievert/h!
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What does that mean?
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Tokyo-Yokoham is coming this Morning at 10.00am JST
with 25 nGy/h

My own Geiger Counter is coming with less than 0.100 Microsievert/h!
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 38425023


What does that mean?
 Quoting: Indysmindy


That we are well under 1 Millisievert a Year "here in Tokyo"
for the external Radiation and even with eating "checked Seafood"
directly from the Japanese Coast we would not come above
1,2-1,5 Millisievert a Year!

This Levels are Okay,
i would be very happy and thankful when we do not see more Accidents in Fukushima!
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Tokyo-Yokoham is coming this Morning at 10.00am JST
with 25 nGy/h

My own Geiger Counter is coming with less than 0.100 Microsievert/h!
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 38425023


What does that mean?
 Quoting: Indysmindy


That we are well under 1 Millisievert a Year "here in Tokyo"
for the external Radiation and even with eating "checked Seafood"
directly from the Japanese Coast we would not come above
1,2-1,5 Millisievert a Year!

This Levels are Okay,
i would be very happy and thankful when we do not see more Accidents in Fukushima!
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 38425023


So this means everything is OK now and the Japanese people are not at risk?
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Tokyo-Yokoham is coming this Morning at 10.00am JST
with 25 nGy/h

My own Geiger Counter is coming with less than 0.100 Microsievert/h!
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 38425023


What does that mean?
 Quoting: Indysmindy


That we are well under 1 Millisievert a Year "here in Tokyo"
for the external Radiation and even with eating "checked Seafood"
directly from the Japanese Coast we would not come above
1,2-1,5 Millisievert a Year!

This Levels are Okay,
i would be very happy and thankful when we do not see more Accidents in Fukushima!
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 38425023


So this means everything is OK now and the Japanese people are not at risk?
 Quoting: Thuggerz



[link to www.youtube.com]

Published on Apr 4, 2013

Confession of a man who has been exposed to Fukushima radioactivity.
Dangerous levels of radiation are being emitted from his body. Hitachi City approx. 51 miles from the disabled Fukushima nuclear power plant.
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Tokyo-Yokoham is coming this Morning at 10.00am JST
with 25 nGy/h

My own Geiger Counter is coming with less than 0.100 Microsievert/h!
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 38425023


What does that mean?
 Quoting: Indysmindy


That we are well under 1 Millisievert a Year "here in Tokyo"
for the external Radiation and even with eating "checked Seafood"
directly from the Japanese Coast we would not come above
1,2-1,5 Millisievert a Year!

This Levels are Okay,
i would be very happy and thankful when we do not see more Accidents in Fukushima!
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 38425023


So this means everything is OK now and the Japanese people are not at risk?
 Quoting: Thuggerz


No!

There are still more than 150.000 People Evacuated and living in Emergency Shelters
because of Fukushima,
this People lost their Homes for a very long Time
and the majority of this People will not return Home,
they will die somewhere in Misery!

Another point is that the situation of the Plant is unstable
and there is a high chance that the Plant goes Bananas again,
in my own opinion this chance is small but exist,
other People (the Majority of Glp) think that the Plant
already exploded and all of the Radiation is out,
in this case the World will die in the matter of Years!

I am a bit more Optimistic,
we had soooo much luck and maybe even Protection by a higher Force!
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Another great Article;

The Most Dangerous (Man-Made) Lava Flow
One of the things I enjoy most is running across fascinating information when I’m not even looking for it. Case in point, today’s subject. I was doing some research for my class on Fukushima Dai’ichi and Chernobyl when I ran into some references to lava. “Lava?” I thought, “Why are they talking about lava when I thought I was trying to find out about nuclear accidents?” Lo and behold, what do I find but an entire research field that has been making manmade lava for decades. Sure, we’ve seen some of the recent manmade lava flows done at Syracuse University and small-scale lava in experiments for some time, but here I was finding research that involved a ton (literally) of manmade lava … and moreover, these lava have been made by accident on a number of occasions with tragic consequences.

Source; [link to www.wired.com]

And we know more about Coria than i thought;
[link to www.ne.anl.gov]
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I asked you nicely not to post articles in red..
Come back in a week..
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sleeping
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I asked you nicely not to post articles in red..
Come back in a week..
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thank god.. i know you are resilliant...but enough is just that.... the red -eyeball colors for 'emphasis' is worse than the nic when i have coffee in the morning...... go pokemon........

hentaidoomhentaidoomhentaidoomhentaidoom




closes eyes......... stare............... everything is fine............ ;)

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I asked you nicely not to post articles in red..
Come back in a week..
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thank god.. i know you are resilliant...but enough is just that.... the red -eyeball colors for 'emphasis' is worse than the nic when i have coffee in the morning.






 Quoting: Citizenperth



I guess there are some people who aren't familiar with Atom Ant and his spin..

He is slippery.
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I asked you nicely not to post articles in red..
Come back in a week..
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thank god.. i know you are resilliant...but enough is just that.... the red -eyeball colors for 'emphasis' is worse than the nic when i have coffee in the morning.






 Quoting: Citizenperth



I guess there are some people who aren't familiar with Atom Ant and his spin..

He is slippery.
 Quoting: Waterbug


just add!
a few of these!
and your problem is not part of the truth!
we have reading in tokyo of .01 msV!
we run in park!
swim in spent fuel pool and can drink it!

you all so lie!
you and buggy-chan are liers and small penis
Citizen-Pleorp know nothing!

I know all!
Go to Tepco, and other sites!
for all real evidence!
They tell truth!
Never lie!


All other sites lie!
I am gong to swin in spent fuel pool now!
It is safe!
Because you do not listen to truth!

I love cherry blossom!
They are rich this year in Fuckushima,
We will sing happy songs!

Iam TEPCO,
But not Japanese.
You lie!

laugh

(Copyright 2013 on spelling, RE: Tepco-Boy)
(Copyright 2013 on TepcoBoy, RE: Tepco-Boy)

whatmeltthrough

kittfuku

almost forgot it happened....

hang on ... 10 Million Bq daily.. as afirmed by TEPCO.... geeze yer a dickhead...... like killing the children of the future for a pay check?..... deranged...... I hate you

fupic

thanks man, I will send this to other sites ;)

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What does that mean?
 Quoting: Indysmindy


That we are well under 1 Millisievert a Year "here in Tokyo"
for the external Radiation and even with eating "checked Seafood"
directly from the Japanese Coast we would not come above
1,2-1,5 Millisievert a Year!

This Levels are Okay,
i would be very happy and thankful when we do not see more Accidents in Fukushima!
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 38425023


So this means everything is OK now and the Japanese people are not at risk?
 Quoting: Thuggerz


No!

There are still more than 150.000 People Evacuated and living in Emergency Shelters
because of Fukushima,
this People lost their Homes for a very long Time
and the majority of this People will not return Home,
they will die somewhere in Misery!

Another point is that the situation of the Plant is unstable
and there is a high chance that the Plant goes Bananas again,
in my own opinion this chance is small but exist,
other People (the Majority of Glp) think that the Plant
already exploded and all of the Radiation is out,
in this case the World will die in the matter of Years!

I am a bit more Optimistic,
we had soooo much luck and maybe even Protection by a higher Force!
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 38425023


Wow, we should be sending our aid money (that we don't have anyways but Obama seems to send out) to Japan to help you all out! Not to Obama's Brotherhood countries. This is crazy. I will keep you all in prayer. I hope nothing happens there worse. The quakes that have been hitting there lately has not been good.
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That we are well under 1 Millisievert a Year "here in Tokyo"
for the external Radiation and even with eating "checked Seafood"
directly from the Japanese Coast we would not come above
1,2-1,5 Millisievert a Year!

This Levels are Okay,
i would be very happy and thankful when we do not see more Accidents in Fukushima!
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 38425023


So this means everything is OK now and the Japanese people are not at risk?
 Quoting: Thuggerz


No!

There are still more than 150.000 People Evacuated and living in Emergency Shelters
because of Fukushima,
this People lost their Homes for a very long Time
and the majority of this People will not return Home,
they will die somewhere in Misery!

Another point is that the situation of the Plant is unstable
and there is a high chance that the Plant goes Bananas again,
in my own opinion this chance is small but exist,
other People (the Majority of Glp) think that the Plant
already exploded and all of the Radiation is out,
in this case the World will die in the matter of Years!

I am a bit more Optimistic,
we had soooo much luck and maybe even Protection by a higher Force!
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 38425023


Wow, we should be sending our aid money (that we don't have anyways but Obama seems to send out) to Japan to help you all out! Not to Obama's Brotherhood countries. This is crazy. I will keep you all in prayer. I hope nothing happens there worse. The quakes that have been hitting there lately has not been good.
 Quoting: Indysmindy


Sorry Indy, but the Nic you are talking to is Tepco (oop), Atom boy.. he has no children or hope for anyone.. he is pro-nuclear and a major shill.. if you ask him.. he will tell you that the radiological situation is fine.... i believe he has no prodogy or children.. to support the on going crisis is tatamount to cruelty at the very least man slaugter.....

On the one hand the TEPCO defenders will tell you all is well, and yet REAL readings (even from TEPCO), are 10 Million Bq per hour, every day since 2011 (they admit to that and more); fairly damning, from unkown sources... ie: at that level you cannot go near it.. hence the lack of populous 'fixing' things...

[link to fukushimaemergencywhatcanwedo.blogspot.com.au]

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Kansai Electric stresses safety of Ohi reactors

Kansai Electric Power Company, in a meeting with nuclear regulators on Friday, stressed the safety of the only 2 reactors currently operating in Japan.

The Nuclear Regulation Authority will put into effect new safety guidelines in July, but it decided in March not to apply them to the 2 reactors in Ohi in Fukui Prefecture. The NRA will confirm their safety later, referencing the new guidelines.

In the first evaluation meeting with the NRA on Friday, Kansai Electric said the 2 reactors satisfy the new guidelines, and that seismic faults located in and near the plant will not affect their safety.

The operator said it has not finished the construction of an emergency headquarters facility, but that a meeting room near the reactor buildings could serve this purpose.
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M7.0 quake jolts islands off northern Japan; no tsunami warning

TOKYO — An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 7.0 struck islands off northern Japan on Friday but no tsunami warning was issued, the Japan Meteorological Agency said.

The quake hit at 12:05 p.m. near the Russian-administered Kuril island chain, the U.S. Geological Survey said. It was located 122 kilometers deep.
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Ex-TEPCO Chairman Katsumata to resign from all positions

Former Tokyo Electric Power Co. Chairman Tsunehisa Katsumata will retire from a position at an affiliated company where he served after leaving the utility to take responsibility for the 2011 Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant disaster, sources close to TEPCO said Friday.

Katsumata is an absentee director at Japan Atomic Power Co., a nuclear power plant operator that sells electricity to its major shareholders such as TEPCO and Kansai Electric Power Co. But he will step down in June, the sources said.

The move will leave the 73-year-old, who steered Japan's largest utility for a decade as president and chairman, with no other job positions.
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Radioactive water problems at Fukushima nuke plant force rethink

The government and Tokyo Electric Power Co. will present broad new thinking in May on ways to prevent radioactive water from increasing at the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, industry minister Toshimitsu Motegi said Friday.

Motegi made the remarks during a meeting to discuss the decommissioning process of the plant's stricken reactors, as TEPCO continues to grapple with water leaks found recently at several underground storage tanks at the site.

The Nuclear Regulation Authority released an estimate the same day that the leaks could lead to the density of radioactive strontium in groundwater exceeding the legal limit in about 10 years in the coastal area of the plant.
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NuScale Announces Major Technology Breakthrough – Safe Cooldown Over Indefinite Timeframe Achievable with No Operator Action, No Power, No Additional Water

PORTLAND, Ore - NuScale Power, LLC announced today that the company has reached a major technological breakthrough whereby the NuScale Module does not require any electrical power—alternate current (AC) or direct current (DC)—to be able to achieve safe cooldown should the need arise. Additionally, NuScale's technology does not require any on-going operator action nor additional water to achieve safe cooldown.

The events of Fukushima highlighted the importance that traditional reactors have of needing back-up sources of electricity to power the essential valves and pumps needed for long-term cooling to their nuclear power plants. The complete station black-out caused by the earthquake and subsequent tsunami eventually led to extensive damage to the Daiichi nuclear units because of their inability to power their safety systems. Their final lines of defense were banks of DC batteries with a limited life.
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New Deal for Roosevelt’s TVA Seen as Hard Sell for Obama

President Barack Obama’s proposal to wean the Tennessee Valley Authority (3015A) from the U.S. government faces the same obstacles that have frustrated privatization advocates since President Dwight Eisenhower termed the state- controlled power company “creeping socialism” in the 1950s.

Selling the largest government-owned U.S. utility, created in 1933 by President Franklin Roosevelt to provide jobs and cheap power to the Depression-stricken Southeast, would potentially reduce the national debt by as much as $35 billion and allow TVA to spend more on pollution controls. Even so, privatization doesn’t make political or financial sense, said Stephen Smith, a Knoxville-based TVA watchdog.

Investors may be put off by the TVA’s $26 billion debt load, which may exceed the value of its aging coal and nuclear plants. The government would probably have to assume flood- control and other costs for the seventh-largest hydro-power river system from self-funded TVA. Republicans representing voters who benefit from the TVA’s low rates are joining Democrats to oppose the move, splitting with traditional Republican support for privatization.
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Critical leak from highly radioactive water .. plans and graphs...

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The Most Dangerous (Man-Made) Lava Flow
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[snip]

This lab used upwards of 1 ton** of UO2 lava in some of their experiments to see how quickly corium might melt through the concrete of a nuclear reactor containment vessel (or building). They found that corium lava can melt upwards of 30 cm (12″) of concrete in 1 hour! This is why it is so important to know if a nuclear reactor accident has gone into true “meltdown” as the corium lava will rapidly melt its way through the inner containment vessels (or more) in a matter of hours unless it can be cooled again. However, results from these CCI (core-concrete interaction) experiments, suggest that cooling with water may not be sufficient to stop corium from melting the concrete. One thing to remember — much of the melting of concrete during a meltdown occurs within minutes to hours, so keeping the core cool is vital for stopping the corium for breaching that containment vessel.
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Re: *** Fukushima *** and other nuclear-----updates and links
Workers at Fukushima Daiichi conducting operations without safety equipment

The JiJi Press is reporting that after discovering radioactive water leaking from underground storage pits, TEPCO sent 14 workers at Fukushima Daiichi to carry out efforts to transport water, but did not give them the appropriate dosimeters which would have allowed them to measure the exposure received by the workers.
[link to enformable.com]
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