Japan Earthquake

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Not hot here, but off as well.
by RadioGuy 7/16/2011 8:12:46 PM

@Majj "This doesn't look like a democratic society. Japan is increasingly looking like a developing nation in East Asia." very true and shocking words.
by Edano 7/16/2011 8:14:45 PM

Saturday July 16 2011, 19:59:13 UTC 13 minutes ago Alaska Peninsula 6.1 40.0
by Edano 7/16/2011 8:15:30 PM

i hope it didn't hit sara palin.
by Edano 7/16/2011 8:16:00 PM

update:
Saturday July 16 2011, 19:59:14 UTC 17 minutes ago Alaska Peninsula 6.1 48.2
Saturday July 16 2011, 19:59:13 UTC 17 minutes ago Alaska Peninsula 6.1 40.0
by Edano 7/16/2011 8:17:03 PM

@RadioGuy We say here that no body want to believe in the truth , but We also don't want to accept. It is hard and ugly. The point is not the amount of radiation here and there. It is every where and spreading. We have to put out the emotions and look whiff clear mind. Mass evacuation is the only solution. Suspension of the actual Japan government and put a Group appoint bu United Nations to solve the problem. I hope come no body burn my House here ;-)
by Majj 7/16/2011 8:19:29 PM

Professor Kosako had been considered a pro-nuke "government scientist" until his resignation. Maybe he is still pro-nuke, but it was during his press conference at the end of April when he announced resignation that many people were made aware of this thing called WSPEEDI, which can predict radioactive fallout dispersions globally, not just Japan. Only after that revelation by the professor, the government decided to quietly sneak in the WSPEEDI simulation results sometime in mid May on the Ministry of Education website. They showed a very extensive contamination in Tohoku and Kanto. ex-skf.blogspot.com
by Majj 7/16/2011 8:21:11 PM

english.kyodonews.jp

Kansai Electric Power Co.'s Oi nuclear power plant
Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter on July 16, 2011, shows the Oi nuclear power plant in the town of Oi, Fukui Prefecture, operated by Kansai Electric Power Co. The plant's No. 1 reactor was halted the same day due to a problem with its cooling system. (Kyodo) english.kyodonews.jp
by Edano via English.kyodonews.jp 7/16/2011 8:23:23 PM

what a colossal building !
by Edano 7/16/2011 8:25:06 PM

Lawyers join hands to stop nuclear power plants

Lawyers from around Japan are joining hands to take legal action to shutdown nuclear power plants.

Over 50 lawyers from 20 prefectures that host nuclear plants convened in Tokyo on Saturday.

They decided to file a lawsuit to stop the resumption of reactor 1 at the Oi plant in Fukui Prefecture, which is about to be taken offline because of a malfunction. They will also file to prevent the restart of reactor 1 at the Takahama plant, which is undergoing regular inspections.

The lawyers intend to launch a procedure in autumn to stop the construction of the Oma plant in Aomori Prefecture. The project has been suspended since the March 11th disaster.

Similar lawsuits have been rejected in the past, as courts ruled that safety measures did not present any flaws.

The lawyers argue that the government's current guidelines are seriously compromised, because they do not require plant design to assume an extended interruption of power supply.

Saturday, July 16, 2011 22:17 +0900 (JST)
www3.nhk.or.jp
by Edano 7/16/2011 8:29:14 PM

This is the only solution : Okinawa has long had a steady stream of migrants from the rest of Japan, seeking beautiful beaches, cheap living costs and a slower pace of life. Now, the sunny clump of islands is welcoming a new brand of migrant: nuclear refugees.
Akane Moriya, who lives in Fukushima City, 40 miles from the stricken Fukushima Daiichi nuclear-power plant is frantically preparing to move in August to Japan's southernmost island, with her 6-year-old and 3-year-old children, to flee the fear of radiation leaks. "I have two young children and no one knows how long it will take to fully shut down the.... online.wsj.com
by Majj edited by Edano 7/16/2011 8:31:32 PM

How did earthquake-prone Japan, where two atomic bombs were dropped at the end of World War II creating a strong antinuclear weapons culture, come to embrace nuclear power just a few decades later?
Key players got nuclear ball rolling
Cash paved the way even amid safety doubts on high, ineptitude Therein lies a tale whose main characters include two former prime ministers, a suspected war criminal, CIA agent and postwar media baron, and "Japan's Charles Lindbergh," a flamboyant pilot who encouraged people to search for uranium in their backyards search.japantimes.co.jp
by Majj 7/16/2011 8:42:25 PM

Tokyo, 10 prefs start checking beef farms [17 July, 2011]: www.yomiuri.co.jp
by es 7/16/2011 8:57:10 PM

here is an interesting translated tweet
samsonod Osamu Sonoda
by mayumit28
- Tokyo Shimbun "AREVA Inc. is to earn large reprocessing plant at Rokkasho, Aomori Prefecture. The total cost was originally thousand six hundred billion seven technology transfer without going well, inflated trillion 200 billion yen. Do not validate it, to commission further contamination of the nuclear accident in the water treatment company Areva is wrong. Also a major business opportunity you pick Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant decommissioning is "
samsonod Osamu Sonoda
by mayumit28
東京新聞～『アレバ社は、青森県六ヶ所村の再処理工場でも大稼ぎしている。当初の総工費は七千六百億円だったが、技術移転がうまく行かず、二兆二千億円に膨張した。それを検証しないで、アレバ社に原発事故の汚染水処理をさらに委託するのはおかしい。福島第一原発が廃炉に向かえばまた大きな商機』
by elainekirk 7/16/2011 9:28:58 PM

@Elaine Mayu is retweeting info from a guy talking about money available to people who want to relocate along with housing assistance etc. If you get a chance can you ask her if she knows more about it and if it is safe and legit?
by lillymunster 7/16/2011 10:07:37 PM

@lillymunster was that the one majj posted
by elainekirk 7/16/2011 10:12:51 PM

As of late Saturday morning, EDT, the center of Typhoon Ma-on was near 22 north and 136 east, or about 200 miles south-southwest of Iwo Jima, Japan. Movement was to the west-northwest at 10 mph. Maximum-sustained winds were near 125 mph with gusts to 150 mph.

Ma-on is currently over open water. The typhoon is expected to continue on a west to northwest direction over the next 24 hours, then start turning more northwest to north and eventually to the northeast. Some intensification will occur during this time and Ma-on could become a super typhoon as early as tonight. Southern Japan will be in the direct path of Ma-on early next week. While there may be some weakening by that point, due to stronger wind shear aloft, but Ma-on is still expected to be a strong typhoon and will pose a severe threat to Japan with flooding rain and destructive winds and high surf. Right now it looks like the greatest impact will be from Kyushu north into southern Honshu. However, flooding rain and strong winds will eventually move north and will threaten areas of northern Japan hit hard by this March's earthquake and tsunami. recent thinking is that the typhoon may track farther west and the recurvature is a bit slower than we first thought.

By AccuWeather.Com Meteorologist Mark Paquette.
www.tropicalstormrisk.com
by Majj via Tropicalstormrisk 7/16/2011 10:17:46 PM

@lillymunster This one ?? www.e-shops.jp
by Majj 7/16/2011 10:24:55 PM

Posts: immigrants who are looking ahead and radioactivity in the earthquake evacuation, please live with confidence in Okayama. Fish of the Seto Inland Sea, Okayama plain rice, vegetables, fruits, milk and meat is also delicious and safe. Provision of household goods and $ 1,000 lump sum for any one family suffering the disaster proof, free of charge public housing tenants will receive paid travel expenses and other support to Okayama. India could not be supported by voluntary evacuation was consulted to Succeed 086-226-7920 ※ Japan NPO. 086-261-0159
www.e-shops.jp
by Majj 7/16/2011 10:28:04 PM

Off twitter, it sounds like food producers are getting refused compensation: Country, with respect to beef and vegetables do not intend to compensate for losses. But self-restraint not request delivery. There should be no compensation to the restraint. For rice, I say ship exceeds a threshold limit. But compensation is not the country. I liked to be in TEPCO. Well, then, why is money to TEPCO.
by lillymunster 7/16/2011 10:30:15 PM

This is the page the tweet linked to www.pref.hokkaido.lg.jp
by lillymunster 7/16/2011 10:31:04 PM

Secrecy, Cover-ups & Deadly Radiation: On the Birth of the Nuclear Age 65 Years Ago Admiral Williams Leahy, President Truman’s chief of staff—who opposed dropping the bomb on Japan—placed the bomb in the same category as “poison gas.” And, sure enough, soon after the shot went off before dawn on July 16, scientists monitored some alarming evidence. Radiation was quickly settling to earth in a band thirty miles wide by 100 miles long. A paralyzed mule was discovered twenty-five miles from ground zero.
Still, it could have been worse; the cloud had drifted over loosely-populated areas. “We were just damn lucky,” the head of radiological safety for the test later affirmed.
The local press knew nothing about any of this. When the shock wave had hit the trenches in the desert, Groves’ first words were: “We must keep the whole thing quiet.” This set the tone for the decades that followed, with tragic effects for “downwinders” and others tainted across the country, workers in the nuclear industry, “atomic soldiers,” those who questioned the building of the hydrogen bomb and an expanding arms race, among others. www.thenation.com
by Majj 7/16/2011 10:32:59 PM

@lillymunster they arent compensating any small businesses including nurseries , kindergartens and care homes
by elainekirk 7/16/2011 10:53:55 PM

@lillymunster things like rice and milk are being mixed with other regions
by elainekirk 7/16/2011 10:55:23 PM

@elainekirk I read that TEPCO claimed those things are not businesses by definition so they think they don't have to compensate them. Next they will claim farmers are not businesses or anyone not running a big farming operation doesn't count. Someone is going to have to step in and administer this mess.
by lillymunster 7/16/2011 10:56:33 PM

@lillymunster I have no proof but i suspect that this is to 'encourage' them to keep producing and their produce is bought and dispersed much like the nuclear evacs arent getting homes to 'encourage' them to return home, their 'break' from local taxes is only temporary and I believe the mortgage holiday is over for some
by elainekirk 7/16/2011 10:59:54 PM

@lillymunster there was a lot of tweeting earlier about when the rice harvest comes, if you remember they were encouraged to plant the rice as 'experimental' to see how it fared people are worried they may end up with it finding its way into the food chain
by elainekirk 7/16/2011 11:02:33 PM

There seems to be lots done to try to avoid reality or force people to have to live with it. At least there are enough people smart enough to protest what is going on.
by lillymunster 7/16/2011 11:02:51 PM

@lillymunster yes their night is my morning and there can be oodles of tweets
by elainekirk 7/16/2011 11:04:48 PM

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by elainekirk 7/16/2011 11:07:12 PM

It's looking more and more like it ends with pitchforks. Don't they reral;ize what a dangerous game they're playing?
by RadioGuy 7/16/2011 11:07:31 PM

They also told people that, while they should plant as an experiment, they should burn the crop. What do you think are the odds that will happen, really? Or to what extent?
by RadioGuy 7/16/2011 11:08:32 PM

@RadioGuy no many dont they think Hiroshima was 'safe' so fuku will be - they dont see the difference twixt a bomb and a belching npp
by elainekirk 7/16/2011 11:09:31 PM

@RadioGuy burn it? Yes, I am starting to worry this will end up very ugly. People can only take so much before they burst.
by lillymunster 7/16/2011 11:10:11 PM

I think they thought when the government told them that, they were thinking that implicit in that "experiment" was that they would be compensated for their corps.
by RadioGuy 7/16/2011 11:11:00 PM

oops...crops
by RadioGuy 7/16/2011 11:11:54 PM

I will try to find the blog post I read. The blog authors write about housing in Japan. This one was about a town that had been almost abandoned. It was a suburb fed by a train line and a couple of big companies. The companies closed and the town all but died. If prefectures suffering from population loss invite evacuees with the enticement of living and moving expenses and housing it could be sort of a win-win (though still a horrible situation). I would love to see evacuees take over such an area and redevelop the whole thing with self sustaining energy sources.
by lillymunster 7/16/2011 11:13:15 PM

If you were a farmer and the government told you this, wouldn't you think that was implicit? What kind of government would think you want to plant and work and destroy a crop for free for the government's experiment?
by RadioGuy 7/16/2011 11:13:21 PM

@RadioGuy exactly it does imply govt. involvement and if they want it as an experiment they would be paying for the end result.
by lillymunster 7/16/2011 11:14:07 PM

doki_doki_panic doki_doki_panic
by d_fuk
Nuclear power is all lies! In this case, expose all Dase! Tamper with the geological survey (national estimates deceived small active faults) have been built up by nuclear power. Promote nuclear family, the human debris! > Atomic Energy Commission installation, t.asahi.com/384y first overseas mission disguised as reporting back 55 years www.asahi.com
by elainekirk 7/16/2011 11:26:27 PM

Gov't to review Fukushima no-entry zone when cold shutdown realized

FUKUSHIMA, Japan, July 17, Kyodo

Prime Minister Naoto Kan and Goshi Hosono, state minister in charge of dealing with the nuclear crisis, met Saturday with the leaders of municipalities near the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant and said that the central government will consider reviewing its policy on the no-entry zone near the plant when the reactors at the complex are stabilized.

According to participants, the two said the government will consider reviewing the areas within a 20-km radius of the Fukushima plant, which continues to spew radiation, and also said the government is aiming to bring forward the schedule for stabilizing the reactors from January as previously planned.

Kan's meeting with the leaders of local municipalities came as it appeared almost certain that the Step 1 phase of stably cooling down the nuclear reactors will be achieved on time by Sunday.
english.kyodonews.jp
by Edano 7/16/2011 11:55:07 PM

@Edano ''Kan's meeting with the leaders of local municipalities came as it appeared almost certain that the Step 1 ''
yesterday they had achieved it today they are 'almost certain to' in other words nothing has changed
by elainekirk 7/17/2011 12:17:11 AM