Japan Earthquake

Japan Earthquake | Page 1784

@smoss I cant work out why the nisa bloke was sacked ...
by elainekirk 6/29/2011 8:45:13 AM

A total of 120 people, chosen randomly from the three municipalities, will receive such examinations. Based on the institute’s findings, the prefectural government plans to establish simple methods to check dosages of internal radiation, a Fukushima prefectural official said.

Most of the remaining residents of the three municipalities will be checked through statistical estimations using questionnaires.

They will be asked what they did and where they went, for instance, after March 11, and based on their responses, the prefecture will estimate the amounts of radiation suspected to have accumulated inside their bodies.

Prefecture-wide health checks were to start in August, and also will employ such statistical estimations.

Scans detected no abnormal levels of radiation in the first batch of 10 people from the town of Namie.
www.japanprobe.com
by elainekirk 6/29/2011 8:59:42 AM

@elainekirk I imagine that those "estimated" to have accumulated radiation inside their bodies will receive the very best "assumed to be effective" placebos.
by bo 6/29/2011 9:06:11 AM

@bo it is really annoying me
by elainekirk 6/29/2011 9:13:00 AM

@bo there must be something we can do to highlight it it is gross how can they get away with it
by elainekirk 6/29/2011 9:13:44 AM

@elainekirk I agree. Sorry to make light, it is a defense mechanism for me.
by bo 6/29/2011 9:14:02 AM

@bo I know it is the same on twitter nobody is angry too surreal I think
by elainekirk 6/29/2011 9:14:52 AM

@elaine this is why it is important to find a place of joy in the face of these things so that we can understand how to go forward and do effective work. I don't think, given the last three months, that this will go over well with Japanese in the long run. It may take a while to sink in, how brutal this is.
by bo 6/29/2011 9:20:50 AM

@bo it doesnt even take children into consideration I suppose that is covered by the unvalidated dosimeters
by elainekirk 6/29/2011 9:23:05 AM

Japan is a society of conformity to the group, but the "first" group that one must be loyal to is the family. Right now the GoJ is telling people to not be concerned with the health of their families, but instead to be concerned with the needs of the "society." This will not play out over the long run. This is why mothers are the first people breaking with tradition here. I think that there will be widespread anger about the lack of oversight for the food supply, and for the health of the exposed. But it will take time to grow.
by bo 6/29/2011 9:25:17 AM

One of the most important things we can do is to continue with the good work we are doing here, and especially on SimplyInfo. The more this work reaches into the media world, the better. Japanese people are beginning to turn to foreign media to get "the truth," and if we can influence the things they are saying, as in the leaning of #4, we can help.
by bo 6/29/2011 9:29:13 AM

@bo the food is starting to take a hold a few hours ago mayonaise was warned not to buy or use because the eggs werent checked and there were no controls on their origins
by elainekirk 6/29/2011 9:32:57 AM

so it is failed again

Further down the troubled ... polluted water purification system translate.google.com
by elainekirk 6/29/2011 9:36:02 AM

@elaine I know. It is very worrisome here because there really are no checks in place, and there is so very little that individuals can do. We are at the mercy of the situation and the governmental response. I fear that we will look back on this time in Japan as part of a horrible slow motion science-fiction movie in which we don't really understand the monster until the final reel. And it is unfolding slowly enough, over weeks and months and years, not over minutes like the core melt, that when we look back at it we will understand that it all could have been addressed.
by bo 6/29/2011 9:36:11 AM

@bo and in the meantime that clock ticks, it is terrible to imagine how parents are feeling right now
by elainekirk 6/29/2011 9:39:07 AM

I know. So so sad. This will all lead to a lot of political change in Japan, but it is the children of Tohoku who will pay the horrible price.
by bo 6/29/2011 9:40:16 AM

Just turned on my geiger counter and it immediately went to twice background right here in the house, without going outside.
by bo 6/29/2011 9:40:41 AM

@bo yes it must be really hard for you because that urge will be there to tell people to run yet you can't because you know there is nowhere
by elainekirk 6/29/2011 9:42:27 AM

@elaine yes it is very frustrating to know that there is so little anyone can do besides basic steps to avoid alphas. I know so many people here with small children. People are so worried and also feel so helpless.
by bo 6/29/2011 9:44:12 AM

@bo translate.google.com they have become popular and the info looks good are they saying this information isnt being given out ?
by elainekirk 6/29/2011 9:48:47 AM

tweetdom - That's a hoax on television to say 93% red. RT @ Himurotakasi : 87% at 49 million kW of capacity to supply 4299 million kW stint on bogus charges for electricity today's forecast - 6.29]. And utilization of the supply capacity of 5620kW to calculate in real 76.5% whopping surplus of 1321 million kW. Incidentally, last year's heat wave in the room without saying that you support rolling blackouts to conserve power even when the maximum peak of 60 million kW.
by elainekirk 6/29/2011 9:51:05 AM

@bo and today it seems the fake power figures that try to convince people that they need nukes is gonna be popular lots of debunking the myth happening
by elainekirk 6/29/2011 9:53:56 AM

TEPCO restarts new cooling system

The operator of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant restarted its new reactor cooling system on Wednesday after fixing faults in the hosing.

Tokyo Electric Power Company was forced to suspend the system's operation earlier in the day after plant workers detected water leaking from 2 holes in the hosing.

On Monday, TEPCO halted the system after 90 minutes of operation due to water leakage from a displaced joint connecting plastic hoses.

The system was restarted on Tuesday afternoon, but more leaks from another joint were found.

After the series of leaks, TEPCO says it will look at ways to strengthen the system's hosing.

Also on Wednesday, workers found water leaking from a storage tank for decontaminated water.

TEPCO says the leak stopped after about 2 hours. It is now investigating the cause.

The cooling system is designed to decontaminate radioactive wastewater accumulating at the plant and reuse the treated water to cool the reactors. The leaky tank is part of its devices to filter radioactive materials and salt.

TEPCO says the system holds the key to stabilizing the reactors and reducing the amount of contaminated water.

Wednesday, June 29, 2011 15:28 +0900 (JST)
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by Edano 6/29/2011 9:54:31 AM

This is unprecedented here in Japan.
by bo 6/29/2011 9:54:43 AM

About 90 more homes to be encouraged to evacuate

About 90 more households around the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant are likely to be urged to evacuate due to high radiation levels in their areas.

The houses are in 3 districts in Date City not designated as evacuation zones but in areas where accumulated levels of radiation are expected to exceed the threshold of 20 millisieverts a year. Date is about 60 kilometers from the troubled plant.

The government is to consider designating which houses in these districts will need to be evacuated depending on local radiation levels.

Designated residents will receive state support for relocating, including the provision of substitute homes.

On Tuesday night, officials explained the evacuation system to about 400 residents.

One resident asked whether households not recommended to evacuate will receive any public support. Another asked why there is no need for everyone in the districts to evacuate.

A 21-year-old mother said she feels the designation system is unfair, adding that she is full of anxiety about the possible impact of radiation on her child.

Wednesday, June 29, 2011 12:43 +0900 (JST)
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by Edano 6/29/2011 9:56:17 AM

@Edano @bo Oh they fixed it how wonderful :)
there are lots of %'s too bo these people are not going at it half heartedly this is full on debunking
by elainekirk 6/29/2011 9:57:18 AM

Tohoku Electric Co. vote down anti-nuke proposal

Shareholders of the Tohoku Electric Power Company in northeastern Japan have voted down a proposal to abandon nuclear power generation.

The vote was held at a meeting of about 1,300 of the utility's shareholders in Sendai City of Miyagi Prefecture on Wednesday.

A group of shareholders proposed having the firm's rules stipulate its withdrawal from nuclear power generation. The proposal was voted down by a majority.

The utility's Onagawa nuclear power plant has been suspended since the March 11th earthquake and tsunami, and the firm's Higashidori plant is currently halted for a regular check.

Before the vote, President Makoto Kaiwa said he takes the ongoing nuclear accident at the Tokyo Electric Power Company's Fukushima Daiichi plant very seriously. He said safety is secured at the Onagawa plant, whose operation was automatically stopped at the time of the disaster.

Kaiwa promised to take enough tsunami safety measures such as installing bulwarks at the 2 plants, and sought the shareholders' understanding of the plants' necessity.

Some shareholders said nuclear plants are too risky, one person said the Fukushima accident shows that no absolute safety exists, and another insisted on switching to renewable energy.

Wednesday, June 29, 2011 16:38 +0900 (JST)
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by Edano 6/29/2011 9:57:42 AM

Cs reading at .45 and gamma reading at .6. These are the peaks of my readings just now.
by bo 6/29/2011 9:58:39 AM

@bo that is bad bo how do you do your food shopping do you have a method of buying safe food - not well worded q but hope you get the drift
by elainekirk 6/29/2011 10:00:16 AM

@elaine we are extra handicapped because we can't read kanji. I know how to tell if something is from the prefectures near Fukushima, but I don't really know where many things are from. We try to eat low on the food chain, although veggies are where it will show up before meats. We have stopped eating most fish, we buy local eggs. But I'm sure we can't control our intake as much as we would like. One good thing is that we spend a good deal of time out of Japan. Usually 4-6 months a year. But we feel pretty much on our own in terms of food here.

But we are old farts. I can't imagine how people with young children are coping. If my children lived here, and they were young, I'd have freaked out and left in March.
by bo 6/29/2011 10:02:42 AM

Speaking of food, time to go cook dinner. Sort of like gambling. I'll be back in a bit.
by bo 6/29/2011 10:09:26 AM

@bo yes I wonder how many would have left if they had recieved proper timely compensation
by elainekirk 6/29/2011 10:09:34 AM

@bo soon I hope bo
by elainekirk 6/29/2011 10:09:49 AM

@Edano good morning ty for the news
by elainekirk 6/29/2011 10:11:11 AM

@elaine it is interesting to see how many people are processing that now. Just this last week I have heard three people muse on how the people who left Tokyo in March were actually smart and not stupid. Well, chow time!
by bo 6/29/2011 10:11:35 AM

Municipalities cautious about restarting plants

Nearly 80 percent of Japanese municipalities with nuclear power plants have expressed caution about resuming operations of suspended reactors.

NHK asked 29 such municipalities except those in Fukushima Prefecture whether they would allow such resumptions. 27 responded.

5 municipalities said they would not do so for the time being, while 16 others said they cannot decide now.

Only 2 municipalities -- the western town of Genkai and the village of Kariwa in central Japan -- said they would do so soon.

21 percent of the respondents showed a positive attitude toward resuming operations.

Asked what they consider important in deciding on such resumptions, 64 percent cited local consent and 57 percent said adequate measures against earthquakes and tsunamis.

Most respondents said the central government should answer all of their questions responsibly and in plain terms.

Japan's Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency attributes the municipalities' concern to the enormous impact of the March 11th disaster.

The agency says it wants to explain to them that an accident like that in Fukushima could be avoided with appropriate measures.

Wednesday, June 29, 2011 18:29 +0900 (JST)
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by Edano 6/29/2011 10:17:24 AM

morning all!
by lillymunster 6/29/2011 10:44:08 AM

@lilly g'morning
by elainekirk 6/29/2011 10:48:34 AM

@lillymunster they cannot be allowed to get away with this surely www.japanprobe.com
by elainekirk 6/29/2011 10:50:23 AM

@elainekirk the link isn't working
by lillymunster 6/29/2011 10:53:57 AM

@lillymunster www.japanprobe.com sry
by elainekirk 6/29/2011 11:00:55 AM

@elainekirk boy they are working hard to downplay this.
by lillymunster 6/29/2011 11:07:52 AM

@lillymunster and in the same day a city in chiba refuse to play the game :) mdn.mainichi.jp
by elainekirk 6/29/2011 11:10:09 AM

Could someone go to a health clinic or hospital and request a body scan? First they said they would scan everyone. It is using people like guinea pigs but at least people would know their exposure

by lillymunster 6/29/2011 11:15:19 AM