Japan Earthquake | Page 1894

  • @Maj. Someone posted something about that last night/early hours (UK). An employee revealed that it is common practice to not take custody of documents, to protect themselves against FOI requests.
    by cat 7/11/2011 5:16:28 PM

  • @Radio Guy. Mmm so what is he doing now?
    by cat 7/11/2011 5:17:10 PM

  • @Majj I pasrticularly liked this line from it:

    "An NRC spokeswoman confirmed the agency routinely sees industry reports that it does not share on its public web site.

    "We don't take possession of them so you can't get them from us," said Diane Screnci, spokeswoman in the NRC's Northeast regional office."


    She says it as an explanation, but it reads just as well as a strategy.
    by RadioGuy 7/11/2011 5:18:53 PM

  • @cat He's still on BP mostly, but his output has slowed, so I'm hoping he's neck deep in an expose of TEPCO. (Fingers crossed) Palast can dig better than my dachshund. :)
    by RadioGuy 7/11/2011 5:20:17 PM

  • @RadioGuy It is all a big show. A horror show , where no one can live the cinema ;-(((((
    by Majj 7/11/2011 5:22:28 PM

  • 1961 document on earthquakes and safety. www.stop-hamaoka.com In 1961, at the request of the Science and Technology Agency, the Japan Nuclear Industry Committee came up with a report called "The Possibility of a Nuclear Power Plant Accident and the Ensuing Damage". The damage estimate was calculated based on a power plant with an output of 160,000 kW, approximately one-sixth of the output of the average plant today. It is based on the assumption that 10 million curies, or 2% of the radioactive materials, would be emitted into the environment. This is approximately one thirtieth of the Chernobyl disaster.
    by cat 7/11/2011 5:23:57 PM

  • @Majj It's almost funny watching the States Rights, States Rights States Rights!!! people falling all over themselves to override Vermont's right to shut down a dangerous reactor on its soil.
    by RadioGuy 7/11/2011 5:24:40 PM

  • @RadioGuy. I hope so because he is good.
    by cat 7/11/2011 5:26:33 PM

  • New from Fairewinds www.fairewinds.com
    by Ralph Unger 7/11/2011 5:29:36 PM

  • We shouldn't be suprised apparently. According to the EPA "The "value of a statistical life" is $6.9 million in today's dollars, the Environmental Protection Agency reckoned in May 2008, a drop of nearly $1 million from just five years ago.
    by cat 7/11/2011 5:32:09 PM

  • Presumably that is value added to corporate pockets.
    by cat 7/11/2011 5:32:39 PM

  • @cat Yep, we're all just statistics and demographics.
    by RadioGuy 7/11/2011 5:46:11 PM

  • Oh, and cash cows.
    by RadioGuy 7/11/2011 5:46:32 PM

  • by Ralph Unger 7/11/2011 5:47:36 PM

  • Corporate-owned life insurance (COLI) is life insurance on employees' lives that is owned by the employer corporation, with benefits payable to the corporation or the employee's heirs. COLI was originally purchased on the lives of key employees and executives by a company to hedge against the financial cost of losing key employees to unexpected death, the risk of recruiting and training replacements of necessary or highly-trained personnel, or to fund corporate obligations to redeem stock upon the death of an owner. This use is commonly known as "key man" or "key person" insurance. Although this article refers only to practice and policy in the United States, key person insurance is used worldwide.[citation needed]
    by Ralph Unger 7/11/2011 5:48:17 PM

  • @Ralph Unger Dead Employee insurance isn't just taken out on "key people", it is taken out on regular working stiffs. Employers literally do not care if you live or die, they make a buck either way.
    by lillymunster 7/11/2011 5:51:15 PM

  • @RadioGuy : we are the batteries for the matrix ;)
    by Edano 7/11/2011 5:51:22 PM

  • lh4.googleusercontent.com
    And after 4months of exposure
    www.tepco.co.jp

    by Elaine Kirk via Lh4.googleusercontent 7/11/2011 5:53:52 PM

  • lh3.googleusercontent.com
    Have they got a new PR team? make it look pretty people won't notice the numbers
    www.tepco.co.jp

    by Elaine Kirk via Lh3.googleusercontent 7/11/2011 5:57:03 PM

  • Leak forces Tepco to temporarily halt water decontamination system
    Kyodo

    Tokyo Electric Power Co. said Sunday it temporarily halted the system to decontaminate radioactive water at the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in Fukushima Prefecture after discovering that about 50 liters of contaminated water and chemicals used in the system were leaking from a pipe after a part broke."The concentration of radioactive substances in the leaked contaminated water was not at levels that would cause problems involving workers' exposure to radiation," a Tepco official said. search.japantimes.co.jp
    by Majj 7/11/2011 5:58:23 PM

  • Welcome to the June 2011 ANS Conference! "As our knowledge and understanding of the events at Fukushima continues to grow, we must double our efforts to translate technical concepts into understandable terms and to counter those who would sow the seeds of Fear, Uncertainty, and Doubt (FUD) among concerned audiences. Providing clear, correct, and positive information about nuclear science and technology is the responsibility of each ANS member. " ansnuclearcafe.org
    by cat 7/11/2011 5:59:21 PM

  • lh5.googleusercontent.com
    OH I don't believe this!! a document detailing how Tepco are helping the Local Communities displaced by the disaster
    www.tepco.co.jp

    by Elaine Kirk via Lh5.googleusercontent 7/11/2011 6:04:13 PM

  • back
    by dean 7/11/2011 6:05:10 PM

  • Million-Dollar Check, Widow Got None online.wsj.com
    by Ralph Unger 7/11/2011 6:09:10 PM

  • @Elaine Kirk Make 'em pay for their own cancers, eh?
    by Bobby1 7/11/2011 6:10:58 PM

  • Kinda gives you a warm fuzzy feeling about the nuclear industry. (not)
    by Bobby1 7/11/2011 6:12:30 PM

  • @Bobby1 good one for the site article on them paying you aint kidding they paying with their lives
    by Elaine Kirk 7/11/2011 6:13:11 PM

  • Safe Browsing
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    This site is not currently listed as suspicious.

    What happened when Google visited this site?

    Of the 3 pages we tested on the site over the past 90 days, 0 page(s) resulted in malicious software being downloaded and installed without user consent. The last time Google visited this site was on 2011-07-09, and suspicious content was never found on this site within the past 90 days. www.google.com
    by Majj 7/11/2011 6:34:10 PM

  • Radioactive contaminated beef found in Shizuoka
    Radioactive cesium above the government's standard level has been found in more beef from Fukushima Prefecture.

    The meat was sold in Shizuoka Prefecture, central Japan and some of it has already been consumed.

    The meat comes from a cow raised on a farm in Minamisoma City, near the troubled Fukushima Daiichi
    nuclear power plant.

    Above normal levels of radioactive cesium have also been found in 11 other head of cattle from the same farm
    after they were brought to a slaughterhouse in Tokyo.

    Officials of Shizuoka City, more than 300 kilometers from Minamisoma City, say a meat-packing company bought 27 kilograms of the beef on June 10th. www3.nhk.or.jp
    by LM 7/11/2011 6:54:30 PM

  • @LM its ok LM tepco have said they are buying the prefectures produce and feeding it to the workers -
    for a price
    by elainekirk 7/11/2011 6:56:24 PM

  • @Elaine I wouldn't be surprised! I've got to run an errand..be back in a few.
    by LM 7/11/2011 6:59:57 PM

  • @LM catch you later
    by elainekirk 7/11/2011 7:01:06 PM

  • @elainekirk feeding it to the workers. Man, I hope your kidding...
    by lillymunster 7/11/2011 7:07:10 PM

  • @lillymunster No lilly I am not kidding www.tepco.co.jp
    by elainekirk 7/11/2011 7:20:48 PM

  • this is the relevant passage from the tepco doc

    by elainekirk 7/11/2011 7:22:06 PM

  • @Edano. TY. Sorry had to go do stuff for a bit
    by cat 7/11/2011 7:23:43 PM

  • @elainekirk oh my...
    by lillymunster 7/11/2011 7:26:34 PM

  • I feel embarrassed and shamed that we cannot find a way to make them treat people properly
    by elainekirk 7/11/2011 7:27:56 PM

  • but I suppose that just by being here and keeping pushing the info out we are helping in a way
    by elainekirk 7/11/2011 7:31:24 PM

  • TEPCO Corporatethink: Oh well, they're contaminated anyway, why waste uncontaminated food on them.
    by RadioGuy 7/11/2011 7:36:20 PM

  • @RadioGuy I am sure it is radioguy
    by elainekirk 7/11/2011 7:38:56 PM

  • And in more continuing non-news about the awesome power of the energy industry to kill a story, here's an in-depth (so to speak) from The Guardian, who are still doing real news.
    www.guardian.co.uk
    Chinese Bohai Sea oil spill half the size of London went unreported for a month
    by RadioGuy 7/11/2011 7:40:25 PM

  • they are starting nitrogen injection in #3 at 12 noon Japan time ....
    by elainekirk 7/11/2011 7:40:34 PM

  • That oughta be showy.
    by RadioGuy 7/11/2011 7:40:55 PM

  • @elainekirk did they say how they were doing it?
    by lillymunster 7/11/2011 7:44:04 PM

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