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Over 1,500 workers' compensation claims filed in 3 quake-hit areas

SENDAI, Aug. 17, Kyodo

Over 1,500 applications for workers' compensation have been filed as of Wednesday over people who died or went missing at work during the March 11 earthquake and tsunami in the three worst-hit prefectures, according to a tally by a local labor bureau.

Among them, approval has already been given for insurance benefits to be paid in 1,305 cases, equivalent to about one third of payments made nationwide in fiscal 2010, which ended March 31. The number of payments to be made is almost certain to become the largest ever for a single natural disaster in Japan.

This compares to the 67 cases of compensation payments made in the 1995 Great Hanshin Earthquake that devastated Kobe and its vicinity, and 10 cases following the 2004 quake that struck the Chuetsu area in Niigata Prefecture. english.kyodonews.jp
by Edano 8/17/2011 9:28:56 AM

Godzilla exhibit to start at museum displaying H-bomb-exposed boat

TOKYO, Aug. 17, Kyodo

An exhibition featuring the director of the Godzilla movie, which was inspired by the U.S. hydrogen bomb test at Bikini Atoll in 1954, will be held this weekend at a Tokyo museum exhibiting the Japanese Lucky Dragon fishing boat that was actually exposed to the fallout from the same nuclear test.

The exhibition at the Daigo Fukuryu Maru Exhibition Hall from Friday to Sunday will show the script used by the late director Ishiro Honda and the storyboard from the film. The movie depicts a monster from the deep that is awoken by the U.S. hydrogen bomb test and comes to attack Tokyo.

The Lucky Dragon boat and Godzilla are ''connected as both being the victims of the hydrogen bomb,'' said Kazuya Yasuda, the curator of the exhibition. The unique collaboration was organized to commemorate the 100th anniversary of Honda's birth. english.kyodonews.jp
by Edano 8/17/2011 9:31:58 AM

@Edano & Elaine, she's insane... fire 'um up! There's a lot of Japan that's not ruined yet, countless children who also deserve a chance to born with hideous deformities and ailments like their Fukushima neighbors, let's get this show on the road already!
by Ian 8/17/2011 9:32:08 AM

@Edano @Ian a friend in Nagareyama, is getting increasing readings the counter keeps alarming has there been change in weather or is plant churning more out
by elainekirk 8/17/2011 9:34:18 AM

@bo are you here? not got your answer yet will go ask...again
by elainekirk 8/17/2011 9:34:50 AM

Japanese students to call for nuke abolition at U.N. Geneva office

NAGASAKI, Aug. 16, Kyodo
english.kyodonews.jp
by Edano 8/17/2011 9:36:05 AM

@Edano the lucky dragon exhibition hall is a very cool museum. I wish I could go to that Godzilla exhibit.
by bo 8/17/2011 9:37:05 AM

@bo yes, i would like to see it, too. but i won't fly to japan. :(
by Edano 8/17/2011 9:38:00 AM

anybody got any input on this it is causing a lot of worry
I will ask her, but she told me that it's like 0.2-0.6microSv/h in Nagareyama
by elainekirk 8/17/2011 9:38:23 AM

@elainekirk the lost radiation from #2 must have gone somewhere ...
by Edano 8/17/2011 9:40:21 AM

@Edano good thinking does that mean levels may reduce it must be very frightening well it is they are fraught
by elainekirk 8/17/2011 9:42:32 AM

@elainekirk maybe a spike should be controlled, but 0.6 ySv is not really ..... you know it's below 100 millisv. ;)
by Edano 8/17/2011 9:47:57 AM

@Edano @all
Here is soil contamination, Cs 134 +137. See the red dot. It's in Saitama, but next to Chiba hotspots. t.co
by elainekirk 8/17/2011 9:48:21 AM

@Edano will it go down do you think is there anything positive we can tell them
by elainekirk 8/17/2011 9:50:23 AM

@elainekirk they should check if it goes down again. positive ? ask dr yamashit.

by Edano 8/17/2011 9:52:04 AM

@elainekirk Thank you for the map you posted. They seem to be near a hotspot. I am with what Edano said, 0.6 uSv/h is not extremely high, but better if they keep checking.
by tomo-kun 8/17/2011 10:02:52 AM

@tomo-kun thank you it was a tweet from rockhopper
by elainekirk 8/17/2011 10:03:55 AM

@elainekirk, Edano, lillymunster Regarding Dr. Shunichi Yamashita, I think he has not the least intention of stepping down, as he is busy in accomplishing the task of reassuring mothers that radiation is safe. jen.jiji.com

I read of the 100uSv/h to 10 uSv/h correction (contraddicted by the following '20 uSv/h is then obviously safe' sentence): it is simply ridiculous. Are 10 uSv/h safe, then?
by tomo-kun 8/17/2011 10:13:20 AM

@bo wwhilst the steam story is almost certainly true there is a very good supervisor there who hasn't endorsed it and he has the respect of the workers he looks after them and tepco will not argue with him so basically until such a time as the mainstream workers want to speak it will not be validated I think I have relayed that correctly
by elainekirk 8/17/2011 10:16:58 AM

@elainekirk thanks. So does that mean they would prefer not to have it mentioned on RT? Or just that they themselves are not certain?
by bo 8/17/2011 10:22:23 AM

@bo I am terrible at interpreting "No credible news about the steam, as far as I see, but
probably true. No one on site would not like to admit the melted fuel
went down under the basement. No one know where they are, anyway"
by elainekirk 8/17/2011 10:24:53 AM

Thanks for your help elaine. I'll keep you posted whether I go on or not.
by bo 8/17/2011 10:26:38 AM

@bo I think from the mail I was sent that two workers whilstleblew and others are nervous so we can read it many ways I think they are desperate each quake brings more fear and I think those brave enough to speak out sould be heard if the info is credible
by elainekirk 8/17/2011 10:29:21 AM

@bo we have a saying "you couldnt make it up" an could anybody have made that up ? I think not. before '02 the government sat on a whistleblowers info on the state of cooling pipes for 2yrs , 1 whistleblower big problem uncovered
by elainekirk 8/17/2011 10:32:06 AM

Agreed. It is hard to know what is the best thing to do to help. If I am on air, I will endeavor to talk in a way that protects them.
by bo 8/17/2011 10:32:33 AM

@bo oh you always do it goes without saying :)
by elainekirk 8/17/2011 10:39:06 AM

I need to gather @arigato55 tweets she has transcribed the meeting between the ed ministr and the children
by elainekirk 8/17/2011 10:45:36 AM

from rockhopper Sorry, I can't stay here today. can't stop crying. Maybe because the migraine I have today. So exhausted after reading the mtg. A phrase still torments me. A guy at work said, when I explained to these guys about parents' worry. He, a father of a kid... "Congenital deformity occurs at a certain rate, right? We should explain it to pregnant women now so that they will feel OK." Can you imagine how I felt? It's just insane to say that as a human being. I'm not a mom, yet, I would never think like him! rockhopper tweets
by elainekirk 8/17/2011 10:47:25 AM

Gosh I feel better now. Thanks for the video postcard TEPCO!
by bo 8/17/2011 10:56:19 AM

@bo www.tepco.co.jp and even more on it a second by second run down!! amazing how they were all looking at blank monitors doncha think
by elainekirk 8/17/2011 10:57:30 AM