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Title: Workers evacuated from Fukushima plant
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Published: Mar 15, 2011
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Post Date: 2011-03-15 22:38:15 by go65
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Japanese officials are saying that workers are unable to continue at the Fukushima plant due to radiation levels.
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weather forecasters are saying that winds could shift toward the west by Friday, Tokyo is what, 160 miles away? 400 square miles around Chernobyl are still uninhabitable.
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Chinese government has decided to evacuate thousands of its citizens from the areas threatened by rising radiations spewed from a heavily-damaged nuclear power plant north of Tokyo. The Foreign Ministry has directed China's embassy in Japan to organize an orderly evacuation of Chinese nationals "due to the seriousness of and uncertainty surrounding the accident at the Fukushima nuclear plant." The embassy has been working hard to rescue and help Chinese citizens affected by last Friday's massive earthquake and resulting tsunamis, a notice on its website said Tuesday. "We hope our compatriots in the worst-hit disaster areas remain calm, listen to instructions, understand and cooperate with the evacuation operation," the statement said. Early Wedneday, another fire broke out at the No 4 nuclear reactor at the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear complex, a day after the power plant emitted a burst of radiation that panicked an already edgy Japan and left Tokyo authorities struggling to contain a spiraling crisis caused by last Friday's earthquake and tsunami. The outer housing of the containment vessel at the No 4 reactor erupted in flames early Wednesday, said Hajimi Motujuku, a spokesman for the plant's operator, Tokyo Electric Power Co. On Tuesday, a fire broke out in the same reactor's fuel storage pond — an area where used nuclear fuel is kept cool — causing radioactivity to be released into the atmosphere. Tokyo Electric Power said the new blaze erupted because the initial fire had not been fully extinguished. The Chinese embassy in Tokyo and its consulates in Niigata are sending buses to Miyagi, Fukushima, Ibaraki and Iwate prefectures, areas heavily battered by the earthquake and tsunamis, to pick up Chinese nationals. Earlier Tuesday, the Japanese government said levels of radiation released by damaged reactors at the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant were high enough to threaten human health. In a nationally televised address Tuesday morning following an emergency cabinet meeting, Prime Minister Naoto Kan said that radiation has spread from the crippled Fukushima Daiichi power plant. "The level seems very high, and there is still a very high risk of more radiation coming out," Kan said. Chinese diplomats were visiting the areas to assist Japanese officials, said Chinese foreign ministry spokeswoman Jinag Yu in Beijing. Meanwhile, China's Ministry of Commerce said there had been no contact with 261 Chinese people in Japan's quake-hit regions as of 10 am Tuesday. The ministry reminded Chinese companies to verify the situation of their workers and trainees in Japan. Air China canceled three flights to Tokyo Tuesday where planes would have had to stay in Japan overnight. There was concern among the airline managers that the planes' safety couldn't be guaranteed in the event of any powerful aftershocks. It canceled a flight from Shanghai to Tokyo's Narita Airport and two flights from Beijing to Narita and Tokyo's Haneda Airport. But the Beijing-based carrier said that it is still operating 30 flights between China and Japan daily. China Eastern Airlines said it had suspended flights to Fukushima but its other flights, 50 a day, are operating normally. China Southern Airlines said its flights to Tokyo had resumed on Tuesday.
News networks now confirming that efforts to cool the remaining reactors have ended.
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I suppose Mad Dog was right all along: this is trivial stuff and easily repaired and everyone is now going to take a long vacation based on their hard effort the past few days. We are saved. It is apparent the whole world can go back to normal now; thanks Mad Dog for all you have done to ensure we didn't panic or something silly beyond making a few concerned posts about breathing/drinking cessium that is aire borne or water bound.
I forgot hondo68.... you might be interested in this thread.
I have a feeling that we are looking at this raised to a Level 7 crisis by tomorrow. Level 7 = Chernobyl.
To use a concept of an old saying, "China syndrome" ... this could be USA syndrome ... the idea: the overheated radioactive core will melt all the way to someplace in the USA on the other side of the Earth.
Yikes! Our snarling puppy will be affected first. Got any Ionized salt for the mutt?
the weather is expected to shift over the next few days to blow radiation toward populated areas in Japan. the best hope now is that the containment vessels hold, but the burning spent fuel rods raise a whole new problem.
Since January 3, 2011, Republicans have controlled the power of the purse.
Historically, after the atom bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki during 1945, many survivors of the blast died of exposure to radioactive fallout. But the vast majority of Dr. Tatsuichiro Akizuki, the Director of the Department of Internal Medicine at St. Francis’s Hospital in Nagasaki, survived. Despite being less than a mile from the epicenter of the atomic explosion, the doctor, his staff and his patients avoided radiation sickness by consuming a simple diet of natural brown rice, miso soup, sea vegetables and salt. Akizuki strictly prohibited the consumption of any sugar-based foods and candy. ¹ Whole grains fight radiation poisoning Because natural whole grains are simple foods they don’t have concentrated contaminants often present in meat and fleshy fish. They’re less likely to contain radioactive contamination too. High fiber and phosphorous contents in grain help protect against radiation poisoning. The substances bind with toxins—including radioactive ones—and help eliminate them from the body. Plus the “bulking factor” of grains reduces the time that the toxins stay in the gut and eliminate the poison faster. Studies have shown that middle-range pH increases resistance to radiation poisoning. Grains are naturally not too acid or alkaline. More reasons that grains can help you avoid radiation poisoning: their calcium content diminishes absorption of radioactive strontium; contain significant vitamin B6, critical for the thymus; and provide vitamin E and selenium that helps prevent cellular damage caused by the free radicals created by exposure to radiation. Foods to avoid If you’re in the footprint of a radiation cloud, by all means avoid these foods, they can increase any damage done to your body by exposure, Steer away from all refined and processed foods. Stay clear of any fatty foods such as dairy and meet products and by-products. Do not eat or drink anything with sugar in it. The reason why you must avoid sugar is it robs your body of calcium and the body will replace it with radioactive strontium that has a similar atomic structure to calcium. If that happens it’s only a matter of time before you develop bone marrow cancer. ² http://island-adv.com/2011/03/how-to-survive-nuclear-fallout-from-japans-reactor-meltdown/ He'd probably be one of those idiots who would eat radioactive material to try to demonstrate it isn't harmful. He's not concerned with human life and the pain, death and suffering this disaster will cause; just the health of the nuclear power industry.
Press conference now on NHK - they are saying that teams are going into the plant for short periods of time.
Since January 3, 2011, Republicans have controlled the power of the purse.
Agreed, this is frightening a turn of events. Right now I have mental images of the heroes of Chernobyl. Men who fought the deadly fires with only the certainty of death awaiting them in the aftermath of their efforts. fwiw, i've found this to be the best source of news from Japan on the nuke situation: http://bravenewclimate.com/2011/03/16/fukushima-16-march-summary/
Since January 3, 2011, Republicans have controlled the power of the purse.
It seems the Japanese can't openly declare bad news easily - trying to save face? Remain calm? I really don't see or hear any sort of coherent voices from Japanese authorities.
"Keep Your Goddamn Government Hands Off My Medicare!" - Various Tea Party signs.
Not me. I use Mad Dog's threads/posts on LF. He reads Wikipaedia and knows EVERYTHING. He even tells us the same, so he is our resident expert.
Either way, there isn’t enough uranium for America’s gleaming new 720 power plants. http://citizented.com/?m=201001 Mad Dog is a slack jawed fool, a patsy for an industry that is dangerous and non-sustainable.
Trouble is, Yucca Mountain is the leftover remnant of an ancient caldera and an active tectonic zone. Fault lines extend throughout the area. One good earthquake, and we’ll be one nervous country. Who’s going to go down and see how things held up after the big quake? Not me. 1 - Canisters of waste, sealed in special casks, are shipped to the site by truck or train. 2 - Shipping casks are removed, and the inner tube with the waste is placed in a steel, multilayered storage container. 3 - An automated system sends storage containers underground to the tunnels. 4 - Containers are stored along the tunnels, on their side. Here is a place I am proud we got shut down, but I worry about because of the length of time that stuff stored there is dangerous. The Nuclear Industry is a Pandora Box of horrors I wish we never had opened.
www.democracynow.org/2011...v_fights_to_close_vermont Vermont Gov. Fights to Close Vermont Yankee, One of 23 U.S. Nuclear Power Facilities Nearly Identical to Failed Japanese Plant One day before the earthquake and tsunami hit Japan and sparked a nuclear crisis, the U.S. Nuclear Regulator Commission announced it would renew the license for Vermont Yankee Nuclear Power Plant. Vermont state legislators had voted to close the plant when its license expires in 2012. The 38-year-old facility has had a series of radioactive tritium leaks and is almost identical to the troubled Fukushima Daiichi plant in Japan. “My heart obviously goes out to the people of Japan,” Gov. Peter Shumlin says. “Extraordinary crisis and everyone’s worst nightmare, when they have aging nuclear power plants in their country or in their state. Vermont is no different. We have an aging nuclear power plant here. It’s owned by Entergy Louisiana, a company that we found we can’t trust. And obviously, it asks all of us to reexamine our policy of irrational exuberance when it comes to extending the lives of aging nuclear power plants.” [includes rush transcript] snip
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The situation is certainly fluid and changing. What was true yesterday may not be true tomorrow. You better go buy your potassium Iodide (KI) pills if you are that freaked out. AND even though I despise you and your politics, please be careful when you take them. You could really hurt or kill yourself if you overdose on them. (No shit.) Chicken Little call home.
Living in mouth breather's empty noggins 24/7/365 totally rent free!
LOL! As usual faggot mikey your little pin head is way up your big fat libTURD ass. I was speaking of the situation that was applicable to each day of an ongoing event prior to today, you gibbering libTURD FOOL. People with working brains know that things change you gibbering libTURD FOOL. Do you want to show me where I have ever supported or advocated for nuclear power LIAR? You can't, because I have never done so LIAR. You really have a substandard ability to "think" weasel gurl. That, and your natural propensity and habit of LYING. Even to yourself. Thank God you have never even tried to be an engineer or anything where you actually have to be able think with any sort of intellectual honesty or rigor. You just aren't up to that sort of thing cornflake boy. "Did you want fries with that" is the apogee of your career aspirations and abilities weasel gurl. Now gibber on you pitiful libTURD loser. LOL!
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Piss off. You were whining about how inportant the nuclear electrical power generation industry was a short while ago. Babbler.
. QUOTE me you doing so you whiny LYING libTURD bitch. tick Tick tIck tiCk ticK You pitiful fuck.
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The US is broke, one of our biggest allies is nothing more than a dying country now. I'm watching the women talking heads now. Not listening, watching. They'll give it away. They can't evacuate Tokyo. Osaka the new capital of whatever Japan becomes. "ALL INBOUND TRAFFIC IS ABOUT JAPAN/CHINA/RUSSIA and our own troop movements." Forget the NEMA.
The US is broke, one of our biggest allies is nothing more than a dying country now. I'm watching the women talking heads now. Not listening, watching. They'll give it away. They can't evacuate Tokyo. Osaka the new capital of whatever Japan becomes. "ALL INBOUND TRAFFIC IS ABOUT JAPAN/CHINA/RUSSIA and our own troop movements." Forget the NEMA.
that's the single biggest problem with nuclear power - where to put the waste. I'm optimistic that some of the newer designs such as pebble bed reactors will address these problems, but we can't go around building 1960's style mega-reactors anymore.
Since January 3, 2011, Republicans have controlled the power of the purse.
Diane Sawyer was somewhere in Japan during last night's broadcast.
UMMMmmmHmmm. I note we never saw where. I got a shot of Anderson Cooper. He said, as he was talking thru a cell and looked to be Internet hookup, that he was 230 km away from FU1. And that Food Stores had been stripped barer where he was. UCS wrote:If mechanisms to fill the pool at Unit 4 are broken, or if there is a need to repair the pool, it will be difficult to get workers close enough to do this. If spent fuel has been in the pool for a relatively short time, even if the water level is at the top of the fuel rods, the radiation dose to someone at the railing of the pool would give them a lethal dose in well under a minute. This would explain why there have been reports of requests to use helicopters to deliver water to the pools. However, it appears that this is not a practical way of delivering water. Today. Helos not working. Any reality on USSA MSM is being immediately cut off. Not one USSA MSM reporter from Japan have I seen this AM. Not one.
They're busy buying TEPCO stock during the "dip", and potassium iodide tablets. After they get theirs, they will announce that there's a big shipment of iodine coming from China, for us peons. For your convenience they glow in the dark, so that you can find them, when the lights go out.
I recall a re-run of MASH I saw where this uber right winger named Colonel Flagg... Tyler Durden's picture BREAKING: EU Energy Chief Says Possible Catastrophic Events In Next Hours, Mini Flash Crash Follows Submitted by Tyler Durden on 03/16/2011 10:59 -0400 * Japan Trust the EU to come in prancing with all the grace of a shroomed up, drunk bull in a nitroglycerin store. * EU Energy Chief says possible catastrophic events in next hours * EU's Energy chief says situation at Japan nuclear plant is out of control
Tyler Durden's picture BREAKING: EU Energy Chief Says Possible Catastrophic Events In Next Hours, Mini Flash Crash Follows Submitted by Tyler Durden on 03/16/2011 10:59 -0400 * Japan Trust the EU to come in prancing with all the grace of a shroomed up, drunk bull in a nitroglycerin store. * EU Energy Chief says possible catastrophic events in next hours * EU's Energy chief says situation at Japan nuclear plant is out of control
#2. To: go65 (#1)
weather forecasters are saying that winds could shift toward the west by Friday, Tokyo is what, 160 miles away?
#3. To: buckeroo (#2)
#4. To: go65, Mad Dog, Ferret Mike (#3)
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News networks now confirming that efforts to cool the remaining reactors have ended.
#5. To: All, hondo68 (#4)
#6. To: buckeroo (#5)
#7. To: buckeroo (#5)
#8. To: Ferret Mike (#6)
#9. To: Ferret Mike, Mad Dog (#7)
#10. To: Ferret Mike (#7)
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#11. To: buckeroo (#9)
If such an event does occur what can you do to protect yourself and your family?
#12. To: Ferret Mike (#11)
#13. To: go65 (#10)
"the weather is expected to shift over the next few days to blow radiation toward populated areas in Japan. the best hope now is that the containment vessels hold, but the burning spent fuel rods raise a whole new problem."
#14. To: ferret mike, mad dog, godwinson, mcgowanjm, skip intro, rek (#13)
#15. To: go65 (#14)
#16. To: go65, ferret mike, mad dog, godwinson, mcgowanjm, skip intro, rek, All (#14)
fwiw, i've found this to be the best source of news from Japan on the nuke situation:
#17. To: buckeroo, mad Dog (#16)
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According to the German research organization Energy Watch Group, most of the world’s easy, high-yield uranium has already been mined. That leaves less-rich ores which are more costly and energy-intensive to process. At current consumption, cynics guess we have about 33 years of affordably extractable uranium left. More liberal estimates are a few centuries at current consumption.
#18. To: buckeroo (#16)
Yucca mountain, NV leads to a massively deep and solid ignimbrite base that can keep nuclear waste far from the water table and our kid’s sippy cups. We could put shit down there, slap on a few warning signs and just monitor the place for about 50,000 years and we’ll be fine. Sort of.
#19. To: Ferret Mike (#18)
#20. To: go65 (#14)
fwiw, i've found this to be the best source of news from Japan on the nuke situation:
#21. To: Ferret Mike (#17)
Mad Dog is a slack jawed fool, a patsy for an industry that is dangerous and non-sustainable.
#22. To: Mad Dog (#21)
#23. To: Ferret Mike (#22)
#24. To: buckeroo (#16)
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#25. To: go65, godwinson, skip intro, rek (#14)
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#26. To: Ferret Mike (#18)
The Nuclear Industry is a Pandora Box of horrors I wish we never had opened.
#27. To: mcgowanjm (#25)
#28. To: Fred Mertz (#27)
Diane Sawyer was somewhere in Japan during last night's broadcast.
#29. To: mcgowanjm (#28)
Not one USSA MSM reporter from Japan have I seen this AM. Not one.
"We (government) need to do a lot less, a lot sooner" ~Ron Paul
Godwinson posted on 2011-02-23 11:47:32 ET
http://libertysflame.com/cgi-bin/readart.cgi?ArtNum=18011&Disp=46#C46
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#31. To: All (#30)
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