Japan Earthquake

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Suicide note speaks to nuclear disaster's toll on farmers: www.cnn.com
by bo 6/14/2011 8:47:44 AM

@bo it makes me angry and sad in equal measures
by elainekirk 6/14/2011 9:05:34 AM

Today, the cabinet approved the Nuclear Disaster Compensation Bill. Under
this bill we will prepare to compensate those afflicted in a fair and
prompt manner while receiving support from the government.
We wish to have the bill for this scheme enacted at the earliest possible
date.

Masataka Shimizu
President
www.tepco.co.jp
by elainekirk 6/14/2011 9:07:29 AM

@all time for me to pedal home. I'll be back in a bit. Mata!
by bo 6/14/2011 9:18:53 AM

WHY HAVE THESE WORKERS NOT BEEN ASSESSED?
--workers who engaged in emergency work in March but haven't had a WBC (whole body count) so far are planned to be inspected with WBC before the end of June
www.tepco.co.jp
by elainekirk 6/14/2011 9:20:35 AM

@bo happy pedalling
by elainekirk 6/14/2011 9:20:45 AM

@elainekirk : what does that mean ? Euro rallies after China inflation data fuel risk appetite ? english.kyodonews.jp is that proper english ?
by Edano 6/14/2011 9:24:31 AM

@edano possibly they have told this story
Food prices fuel Chinese inflation
www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk
by elainekirk 6/14/2011 9:28:53 AM

@edano - translation into English - China inflation data increases appetite for risk in other words increases appetite/desire for investment in other currencis especially Euro.
by hudebnik 6/14/2011 9:30:13 AM

@elainekirk @hudebnik LOL ;)
by Edano 6/14/2011 9:31:19 AM

leaking truth:

Additional 23 workers exposed to high radiation

The health ministry says that another 23 workers at the troubled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant may have been exposed internally to over 100 millisieverts of radiation.

The ministry on Tuesday told plant operator Tokyo Electric Power Company to immediately release the workers from duty.

The ministry said keeping the employees at the plant may push their exposure over the temporary-set limit of 250 millisieverts. The government relaxed the limit for plant workers from 100 millisieverts after the nuclear accident in March as an emergency measure.

The ministry also instructed TEPCO to have the 23 workers undergo medical exams.

TEPCO previously announced that 2 employees were exposed to over 600 millisieverts. On Monday, the firm said that 6 more workers were thought to have been exposed to up to about 500 millisieverts.

TEPCO is screening about 3,700 workers at the plant for exposure. The tests for about 600 have not been completed.

The ministry is urging the firm to finish the tests by June 20th and submit the results.

Tuesday, June 14, 2011 13:37 +0900 (JST)
www3.nhk.or.jp
by Edano 6/14/2011 9:35:22 AM

@edano this is going to become a horror story there are workers not yet measured!
by elainekirk 6/14/2011 9:36:26 AM

@Edano - note that they have been exposed internally, which shouldn't be happening. Thyroid?
by hudebnik 6/14/2011 9:38:51 AM

@elainekirk : i can only shake my head. japan is a developed country and tepco ignores all safety measures. i remember the fact that they have only one body scanner in fuku city. tepco should have a dozen of them on the site, darn !
by Edano 6/14/2011 9:39:07 AM

@Edano - while I'm here may I make a suggestion about your excellent graphs, if it doesn't involve too much work? I think they might be easier to read if the date scales were linear and the amplitude scales were log rather than vice-versa. Sorry!
by hudebnik 6/14/2011 9:40:19 AM

@hudebnik iodine to thyroid, strontium to bones => blood generation.
by Edano 6/14/2011 9:40:20 AM

@Edanao - shocking really.
by hudebnik 6/14/2011 9:41:06 AM

I cannot reconcile the ability they have to teleport all the experimental magical (not) wonder machines in that invariably fail whilst at the same time ignoring the needs of the workers who make everything possible
by elainekirk 6/14/2011 9:42:53 AM

@hudebnik : the time scale is not log, it is one pixel per reading. sometimes they have four readings a day, sometimes 50. in order to present them all i used this one pixel one reading presentation. if i want to make it linear, i would have to adjust every day to 50 pixel, that would be too big. i agree, for the pressure and radiation at least i should use a log scale.
by Edano edited by Edano 6/14/2011 9:44:06 AM

@elainekirk : i guess they will tell us sooner or later that they will use zeolithe on the workers.
by Edano 6/14/2011 9:47:07 AM

@edano if tepco thinks the public will 'swallow' it they wil feed them any fantasy
by elainekirk 6/14/2011 9:50:15 AM

so, again they blame the workers:

"TEPCO instructed its employees to wear protective masks on March 12th when the radiation level in the control center was rising.

But when a blackout caused a radiation meter to stop functioning, some workers are believed to have taken off their masks to eat."
www3.nhk.or.jp
by Edano 6/14/2011 9:53:06 AM

@edano this is typical 'damage limitation' they are shifting responsibility onto the victims . Tepco's accounts are going to show more spent on legal and PR than worker safety
by elainekirk 6/14/2011 9:56:09 AM

nice sunset on tepcocam ! and the ufo moon rising. i think now we can see it's really the moon. tomorrow is full moon.
by Edano 6/14/2011 10:06:04 AM

wow, this is really magical. i cannot make a screenshot of the cam. this is really weird.
by Edano 6/14/2011 10:16:10 AM

got one @edano yup I think the moon :) it was fun I feel kinda cheated that the answer is so simple ....and obvious :)
by elainekirk 6/14/2011 10:18:20 AM

@elainekirk : undoubtably it is the moon. :)
by Edano 6/14/2011 10:19:31 AM

tepco am
by elainekirk 6/14/2011 10:19:36 AM

@elainekirk : but you missed the beautiful sunset in kittypink :(
by Edano 6/14/2011 10:20:24 AM

and again, the worker's fault:

Plant worker forgets face mask filter

A worker at the troubled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant apparently worked outdoors without putting a filter in his full-face mask to prevent the inhalation of radioactive particles.

Tokyo Electric Power Company says it will examine the worker for possible internal radiation exposure and look into whether inadequate safety management can be blamed for the incident.

The utility disclosed that the worker, a man in his 60s, worked outside the No.2 reactor building for 2 hours on Monday morning. He realized only afterward that he had forgotten to put on a filter in his face mask.

TEPCO says the worker was exposed to 0.5 millisieverts of external radiation.

Monday's disclosure comes after 2 workers at the plant were found to have been exposed to twice the government-imposed emergency radiation limit last Friday.

Monday, June 13, 2011 18:39 +0900 (JST)
www3.nhk.or.jp
by Edano 6/14/2011 10:26:57 AM

KUSHIRO, Japan, June 14 (AP) - (Kyodo)—Radioactive cesium was detected from two minke whales caught off the coast of Kushiro, Hokkaido, in Japan's so-called research whaling, a whalers' association said Tuesday.
While the level of the radioactive material remained below the temporarily set upper limit, the association officials said during a press conference in Kushiro that the contamination must have been caused by the continuing nuclear crisis at the Fukushima Daiichi power plant and that they will closely monitor future developments.

During the research whaling that started in late April, 17 whales were caught, and researchers examined six of them. Of the six, two were found tainted with 31 becquerels and 24.3 becquerels of cesium per kilogram of whale meat, they said.

The upper limit tentatively stands at 500 becquerels per kilogram.
by bo 6/14/2011 10:31:42 AM

Ocean conveyor belt animation: bcs.whfreeman.com
by bo 6/14/2011 10:36:12 AM

TEPCO begins testing cesium absorption device

The operator of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant has begun testing a device to process highly radioactive water, after a 4-day delay.

Early on Tuesday, Tokyo Electric Power Company began using the US-made equipment, which can absorb cesium, on low-level radioactive water.

Leaking pumps and a mistakenly closed valve delayed the start of the operation since last Friday.

Workers checked for signs of leakage during the 4-hour test-run on Tuesday morning.

The equipment is part of a planned water treatment facility that will also include an oil separator, a decontaminator and a desalination device.

More than 105,000 tons of highly radioactive water is building up within the nuclear plant, and TEPCO says it may run out of space to store it in about 2 weeks.

The utility is hoping to shorten the test-runs by one day and begin operating the treatment facility from Friday.

Tuesday, June 14, 2011 12:19 +0900 (JST)
www3.nhk.or.jp

does it only remove cesium ? or do i misunderstand it ?
by Edano 6/14/2011 10:40:04 AM

Lights into #4 reactor on TBS cam.
by estacion 6/14/2011 10:40:25 AM

@Edano that is what that Japanese news video story posted yesterday was about.
by bo 6/14/2011 10:41:13 AM

@bo : no strontium, plutonium, americium etc removal ?
by Edano 6/14/2011 10:41:53 AM

@Edano first things first
by bo 6/14/2011 10:42:24 AM

@bo : but they do not have storage space. they will release the water to the ocean after removing the cesium
.
by Edano 6/14/2011 10:44:13 AM

they don't have time and they don't have storage anymore.
by Edano 6/14/2011 10:46:40 AM

Nope. There is no sun there at this time. They are lights into the building. A moment ago, TBS cam zoom on them.
by estacion 6/14/2011 10:46:48 AM

*zoomed
by estacion 6/14/2011 10:47:14 AM

@estacion it is reflection from the sun
by DT 6/14/2011 10:47:17 AM

@bo So, radioactive cesium off Hokkaido today, when there is also a story in the Japanese media (Asahi shimbun) about radioactive cesium (very low levels, of course - not harmful to health, of course) detected in Saga-ken. So that is pretty much 'mainland' Japan covered north to south (or east to west if you prefer).
by Will 6/14/2011 10:50:13 AM

it is alwys the same shit: tepco tells a fairy tale about removing radioactivity, and then it's only cesium they are removing. and again, they got me cheated. i really HATE it. they fool everyone.
by Edano edited by Edano 6/14/2011 10:51:03 AM

@Will as we suspected. @Edano I am sure it is as much to be able to say they are doing something than a comprehensive approach to the radioactive water.
by bo 6/14/2011 10:57:13 AM