Japan Earthquake

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In a sign of what is undoubtedly to come for Fukushima victims trying to make claims against TEPCO, Advocates for Environmental Human Rights released a report today on BP's refusal to accept any medical claims against them because they can't be PROVED to have been caused by BP.
ehumanrights.org
by RadioGuy 7/29/2011 7:24:51 PM

@Edano Geesh.
by joniver 7/29/2011 7:24:59 PM

@joniver yes, but it was the only one.
by Edano 7/29/2011 7:25:21 PM

@Edano Lovely. My sister-in-law lives on the stuff.
by RadioGuy 7/29/2011 7:25:34 PM

wow Edano... I'll bet the water bottle didn't say anything
by dean 7/29/2011 7:26:33 PM

@Edano San Pellegrino? Noooooo. They make lemonata and orangina. :-(
by lillymunster 7/29/2011 7:27:12 PM

@dean which link dean? the landslip is from the quake but as they are expecting flooding in the area and bearing in mind the site is about half a metre lower than before I think thhe potential is there for a more devastating slip
by elainekirk 7/29/2011 7:27:18 PM

@Edano Where is that water tapped?
by joniver 7/29/2011 7:27:25 PM

@Edano, if that article on SP is online can you post a link??
by lillymunster 7/29/2011 7:28:23 PM

@joniver @lillymunster i think in italia. will go search.
by Edano 7/29/2011 7:28:39 PM

btw. it was the most expensive in the test :)
by Edano 7/29/2011 7:29:10 PM

San Pellegrino (also S. Pellegrino) is a brand of mineral water with naturally occurring carbonation and additional carbonation added by the bottler, produced and bottled at San Pellegrino Terme, in the Province of Bergamo, Lombardy, Italy. The water contains carbon dioxide and at least the following chemical elements in amounts of 100 or more micrograms per liter: calcium, chloride, fluorine, lithium, magnesium, nitrogen, potassium, silicon, sodium and strontium. The strontium is naturally occurring, not the radioactive strontium-90. Owned by Nestlé since 1997, San Pellegrino is exported to most countries in Europe, the Americas, the Middle East and Australasia, as well as to Japan, Taiwan and Hong Kong.
en.wikipedia.org
by joniver 7/29/2011 7:29:33 PM

this is the test, but they want money if you want to download it. www.test.de
by Edano 7/29/2011 7:30:37 PM

Is natural strontium good for you and the manmade not?
by joniver 7/29/2011 7:30:40 PM

a discussion about it : www.cosmiq.de
by Edano 7/29/2011 7:32:16 PM

business.financialpost.com

Steve Jobs is now more liquid than Uncle Sam. It became a fact as of Thursday afternoon — the world’s largest technology company now has more cash on hand than the most powerful democracy on Earth has spending room.

Washington now has a total operating balance of only US$73.768-billion. Meanwhile, Apple currently boasts a cash reserve of US$75.876-billion.
by RadioGuy 7/29/2011 7:33:33 PM

www.bild.de
"S. Pellegrino Frizzante

Geschmack: Leicht sauer, deutlich zitronig, deutlich nach Acetaldehyd

test-Kommentar: Schmeckt fehlerhaft, sehr viel Acetaldehyd. Mittlerer Mineralstoffgehalt. Viel Kalzium, sehr viel Sulfat. Im Test: höchste, aber unkritische Gehalte an Uran und Radium, teuerstes Produkt.

Sensorische Beurteilung: mangelhaft (4,6)"
by Edano 7/29/2011 7:33:49 PM

good point elaine
by dean 7/29/2011 7:34:10 PM

@dean and they have rerouted the power lines have they ?
by elainekirk 7/29/2011 7:35:50 PM

www.bild.de
well, they found out that the cheapest mineral waters are better than the most expensive.
by Edano 7/29/2011 7:37:24 PM

that is a good question elaine, with the typhoons whipping through the country and slides they have talked about.. I just hope another power outage doesn't happen for supply to the fukushima
by dean 7/29/2011 7:38:12 PM

www.suite101.de
by Edano 7/29/2011 7:39:25 PM

Strontium is a naturally occurring element found in rocks, soil, dust, coal, and oil. Naturally occurring strontium is not radioactive and is either referred to as stable strontium or strontium. Strontium in the environment exists in four stable isotopes, 84Sr (read as strontium eighty-four), 86Sr, 87Sr, 88Sr. Strontium compounds are used in making ceramics and glass products, pyrotechnics, paint pigments, fluorescent lights, and medicines.
by dean 7/29/2011 7:39:41 PM

@dean they found uranium and radium in the water, at 150 bq/l.
by Edano 7/29/2011 7:40:41 PM

www.algaecal.com article on natural strontium.. we have it in our bones ..
by dean 7/29/2011 7:42:02 PM

"Bedrohlicher erscheint der festgestellte Wert für Uran in einigen Produkten. "Extaler Mineralquell", "Thüringer Waldquell" sowie "Source Perrier" und "San Pellegrino" überschreiten laut Öko-Test den vom Bundesverbraucherminsterium geplanten Höchstwert."
www.sueddeutsche.de
uhh, sorry, this scource is old. but it shows that the uranium is a problem since a long time.
by Edano 7/29/2011 7:42:15 PM

1 bq = 27 picocuries... so converting shows a very very low amount
by dean 7/29/2011 7:43:22 PM

picocurie is 1 trillionth of a curie
by dean 7/29/2011 7:44:52 PM

ah, in english:
"In 2007, the German consumer TV programme Markt reported that San Pellegrino contains uranium. Nestlé was informed about this and responded that the uranium levels were common in both bottled and tap water and were below the harmful levels recommended by various governments and food health organizations. They added that San Pellegrino is not suitable for infants under 12 weeks of age"
en.wikipedia.org
by Edano 7/29/2011 7:45:14 PM

www.disease-treatment.com San Pellegrino Mineral Water had 4 times the WHO Uranium limit
by Edano 7/29/2011 7:46:28 PM

www.reddit.com san pellegrino belongs to nestlé group !
by Edano 7/29/2011 7:47:28 PM

EPA has set an average annual drinking water limit of 20 picocuries per liter (pCi/L) for 89Sr and 8 pCi/L for 90Sr so the public radiation dose will not exceed 4 millirem.
by dean 7/29/2011 7:50:01 PM

GOOD links Edano
by dean 7/29/2011 7:50:09 PM

NEI Executive Tells Wall Street U.S. Plants Are Safe; New Build, Relicensing Continues
The leader of America's commercial nuclear energy industry, Marvin Fertel, addressed Wall Street analysts in New York this week to offer an update on the industry's response to events at the Fukushima Daiichi plant in Japan, as well as the industry's view of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission's recently released 90-day Fukushima task force report. He also discussed continuing progress on new nuclear power plant construction in the United States. In the 5-minute video excerpt below, the Nuclear Energy Institute's president and chief executive officer addresses emergency planning; the absence of vital technical information about Fukushima in the NRC task force report; and most importantly the task force's affirmation that U.S. nuclear facilities are operating safely and there is no need to halt either license renewal reviews for existing reactors or reviews of construction and operating license applications for new plants.
Video: www.prnewswire.com
by joniver 7/29/2011 7:54:46 PM

Proposal for a Skilled Veterans Corps to install an alternative cooling system at the Fukushima-Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant
bouhatsusoshi.jp
by elainekirk 7/29/2011 8:05:26 PM

Can we start a "liar liar pants on fire" section to the website? NEI seems to give a constant stream of material that qualifies.
by lillymunster 7/29/2011 8:17:50 PM

@lillymunster oh yes that would be fun
by elainekirk 7/29/2011 8:20:11 PM

and again: nuclear and safe are two words that should not be used in the same sentence.
by Edano 7/29/2011 8:30:35 PM

Hmm between the world nuclear assoc. and NEI I could do a few. Might be amusing to fact check some of these claims
by lillymunster 7/29/2011 8:40:19 PM

2. A left lateral strike slip fault adjacent to the disabled Fukushima nuclear power plants has been stressed. An earthquake on this fault could further damage the spent fuel pools in reactors 4, 5 and 6.
www.dailykos.com
by elainekirk 7/29/2011 8:53:18 PM

NHK JP Instructed to evacuate 320,000
July 30 9:06 minutes
In heavy rain, in the Niigata Prefecture city of Sanjo, by that burst levees on 五十嵐川, such as issuing instructions to evacuate more than 10,000 people, and instructed to evacuate 320,000 people about the town and the city of 11 combined recommendation has been issued. Also, in Fukushima Prefecture has been issued and recommendations directed to evacuate people 6700 about the city of seven in the two provinces of Fukushima and Niigata, and instructed to evacuate 16,000 people approximately 32 of the 5,000 households 100,000 combined recommendation has been issued.
by lillymunster 7/29/2011 9:20:09 PM

@lillymunster not good is it
by elainekirk 7/29/2011 9:24:52 PM

@lilly if that fault crosses from 4 - 5,6 and the slip on the ocean side of it gives any soil movement extra velocity it could get messy
by elainekirk 7/29/2011 9:27:16 PM

@elainekirk trying to figure out why they mention 4-6 and not the others. There is a land difference between 4-5 but 3-4 are close to each other.
by lillymunster 7/29/2011 9:31:35 PM

@elainekirk It is really sad that I thought the flooding might help people evacuate that couldn't from the nuclear accident.
by lillymunster 7/29/2011 9:32:13 PM