Japan Earthquake

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sometimes they use abbreviations which are hard to translate. sometimes it helps to google the phonetic translation.
by Edano 7/20/2011 2:15:07 AM

do you have the original ?
by Edano 7/20/2011 2:16:46 AM

@All What would really blow the lid on this is if the children of politicians, actors, trust-fund babies, etc., could be shown to have 'relocated' to safer areas. Maybe the Japanese tabloids say where the rich kids party, school absenses tracked, new residential addresses...Nothing, but nothing, offends people more than to think their children are expendable, but some VIP's kids are not.
by M.I.A. 7/20/2011 2:27:04 AM

@M.I.A. : it has been said that edano's family is abroad ...
by Edano 7/20/2011 2:28:08 AM

@Edano If there's papparazzi in Japan, maybe they would like to dog a story like this!
by M.I.A. 7/20/2011 2:37:11 AM

i guess japan is different. they only write what they are told.
by Edano 7/20/2011 2:40:30 AM

@Edano Unlike in the US. :rolleyes::
by RadioGuy 7/20/2011 2:41:31 AM

@all Good Morning...Good Evening...Hello!
by smoss 7/20/2011 2:43:48 AM

U.S. conducted subcritical nuclear tests in Dec. and Feb.

WASHINGTON, July 19, Kyodo

The United States conducted subcritical nuclear tests at a Nevada underground test site on Dec. 1 last year and Feb. 2 this year, an arm of the Energy Department said Tuesday.

With the revelation by the National Nuclear Security Administration, the administration of President Barack Obama, who has called for creating a nuclear-free world, is likely to face criticism from antinuclear groups, including those in Japan.

The United States conducted a subcritical nuclear test in September, which marked the first such experiment since Obama took office in January 2009.
english.kyodonews.jp
by Edano 7/20/2011 2:43:56 AM

@M.I.A. There was a story that blew by a while ago that said just that, but it was months back.
by RadioGuy 7/20/2011 2:44:02 AM

Fukushima-type disaster inevitable in U.S.?
(CBS News) The Nuclear Regulatory Commission was to meet Tuesday to discuss sweeping new safety recommendations, after having just finished inspecting all 104 U.S. nuclear plants in the wake of Japan's Fukushima disaster.

On "The Early Show," CBS News Chief Investigative Correspondent Armen Keteyian spotlighted one of those facilities' post-Fukushima inspection reports.
www.cbsnews.com
by M.I.A. 7/20/2011 2:44:26 AM

Great. They're issuing brooms.
by RadioGuy 7/20/2011 2:45:33 AM

bomb testings bring us forward.
by Edano 7/20/2011 2:47:58 AM

Sorry. They're all such a joke by now. So, what is it... the NRC is trying to salvage their reputation?
by RadioGuy 7/20/2011 2:48:31 AM

it wasn't all that good to begin with... are they sure they want it back?
by RadioGuy 7/20/2011 2:49:04 AM

@RadioGuy They get kinda slammed in this article from CBS
by M.I.A. 7/20/2011 2:51:04 AM

I want to know who bought the CBS news department a spine?
by lillymunster 7/20/2011 2:52:57 AM

MINAMISOMA, Japan — Even after explosions rocked the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, Kuniaki Sato, who raises cattle here about 20 miles from the crippled complex, said he had received no clear warning from the government about the possible dangers of radiation to his herd. www.nytimes.com
by M.I.A. 7/20/2011 2:54:16 AM

@M.I.A. That's what I mean. But what baffles me is what makes Westinghouse (though they changed their name to CBS Corporation in 1997) break the ranks of ranks silence with GE and all? Is it "Rat's deserting?" Or is there no break? It's the first blow of a unified strategy to blame it all on the gubbmint regulators.
by RadioGuy 7/20/2011 2:58:09 AM

We'll see I guess, but hey, at least a major is taking the BRC to task for their awful "regulation".
by RadioGuy 7/20/2011 2:59:14 AM

NRC... guess I need light. ;)
by RadioGuy 7/20/2011 2:59:29 AM

@RadioGuy I thought I heard Westinghouse was getting out of nukes? If so...
by M.I.A. 7/20/2011 2:59:54 AM

Yes, they're solely a Brit fuel company now I think. Westinghouse the monolith broke themselves up and changed their name to CBS in the process.
by RadioGuy 7/20/2011 3:01:22 AM

@RadioGuy Westinghouse is now owned by Toshiba IIRC - CBS out of the loop
by lillymunster 7/20/2011 3:01:35 AM

Exactly... they completely divested when they renamed
by RadioGuy 7/20/2011 3:02:06 AM

@RadioGuy BRC= Bastardized Regulatory Commission? And they 'regurgitate' instead of regulate? heh heh heh
by M.I.A. 7/20/2011 3:02:06 AM

@M.I.A. Westinghouse still trying to push through a new nuclear design. It already has flaws found in it but they want to ram rod it through.
by lillymunster 7/20/2011 3:02:19 AM

@lillymunster So CBS is now free to act like a news bureau? Wow, imagine..all the news they deem fit to print!

by M.I.A. 7/20/2011 3:05:07 AM

@M.I.A. a strange phenomenon.
by lillymunster 7/20/2011 3:06:04 AM

News bureau? No I'm sure that was an accident. ;) They're an advertising sales company.
by RadioGuy 7/20/2011 3:07:12 AM

For months the government balked at placing a wider ban on produce from the Fukushima region despite sporadic discoveries of contaminated produce, for fear of bringing fresh confusion in the disaster-stricken area, putting thousands more people out of work andadding to growing compensation claims for Tokyo Electric Power, which operates the Fukushima plant. From the NYT article below.
by M.I.A. 7/20/2011 3:10:29 AM

The lint in that pocket sure is deep...
by M.I.A. 7/20/2011 3:11:31 AM

Maybe the dam is beginning to break. With any luck it will become a feeding frenzy,
by RadioGuy 7/20/2011 3:14:43 AM

I wonder if someone at CBS finally just said "Wait a minute. They're just advertisers. We don't need to go down with them. We're not an energy company any more."
by RadioGuy 7/20/2011 3:18:06 AM

@RadioGuy Or they see what is happening to Newscorp and suddenly need to be useful to the public. :-)
by lillymunster 7/20/2011 3:19:00 AM

But I still expect to see it be some NRC scapegoat switcheroo act.
by RadioGuy 7/20/2011 3:19:12 AM

@RadioGuy That is act 3. Probably after something massive fails.
by lillymunster 7/20/2011 3:19:45 AM

I read through the NRC info on their "new safety". All I found was spent fuel cooling systems, more generator power time and 8 hours of battery instead of 4. I am hoping there is more but worry there isn't.
If this is all we get out of the NRC post Fukushima nothing has changed.

by lillymunster 7/20/2011 3:21:20 AM

@RadioGuy @lillymunster But now 'Anonymous' is getting involved in the general fray. "Anonymous" hacker group is targeting major polluters. Recently hacked into Monsanto... :)

#OperationGreenRights Press Release
www.youtube.com
CITIZENS GATHER IN MONTANA TO PROTEST TAR SANDS OIL AND SHIPPING OF EQUIPMENT TO CANADIAN REFINERIES, ANONYMOUS JOINS IN! To all free-thinking citizens of th...
by M.I.A. 7/20/2011 3:21:48 AM

link www.youtube.com
by M.I.A. 7/20/2011 3:22:11 AM

They didn't bother to enforce the ones they had already. How will this be different?
by RadioGuy 7/20/2011 3:22:20 AM

@RadioGuy Oh but now they say they will have a unified, consistent plan, dontcha know, as opposed to the prior "patchwork" standards. wtf, they ADMIT they've been half-assed....
by M.I.A. 7/20/2011 3:24:21 AM

@M.I.A. I am really hoping they decide Japan is relevant at some point. For all the chaos they can bring attention to something and fast. If anyone can pull a skeleton out of a closet on a big company it is Anonymous or Wikileaks.
by lillymunster 7/20/2011 3:25:03 AM

So far not a single word on Ft. Calhoun, shutting it down or building some sort of permanent flood walls.
by lillymunster 7/20/2011 3:25:45 AM

@M.I.A. I love it, actually. Did you see how after that first broke, the initial rush ("we have a pretty good idea who's responsible") was to assume it had to be China?

They fixed those guys, though. I see they made a 'major' bust over the PayPal DDoS attack. Probably 14 wannabes who just saw the tweet and figured it would be a lark.
by RadioGuy 7/20/2011 3:26:01 AM