Japan Earthquake

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maybe he means that. i hope.
by Edano 9/19/2011 1:40:17 AM

Reminds me of giving native americans smallpox blankets....
by lillymunster 9/19/2011 1:43:09 AM

I think one thing we'll see out of this is that it will become much harder to pretend a corporation has enough money to ever survive the economic devastation of any single plant going down like this. It may not come to requiring them to carry insurance to force them out of business. When TEPCO finally goes down under the weight of repairs and reparations, and takes the ruling GoJ with it because the extra taxes and rate increases lose the public completely, we'll see more companies following Siemens' path and abandoning the business for something less potentially suicidal.
by RadioGuy 9/19/2011 1:45:22 AM

In a corporate sense.
by RadioGuy 9/19/2011 1:46:07 AM

so noda finally sold his soul to the nuke industry. such an idiot. his struggle with edano will be interesting.
by Edano 9/19/2011 1:47:06 AM

@Edano :) I think so too, but I see people all over the various blogs who, because Edano was so visible early on in this crisis, think he's a TEPCO stooge.
by RadioGuy 9/19/2011 1:48:35 AM

hmm, i always thought edano played a positive role in the crisis.
by Edano 9/19/2011 1:51:06 AM

@Edano So Merkel lost Berlin, eh? It's looking like this coming year is going to be one electoral bloodbath after another as the public has finally had it with being shafted by their governments.

Oh me too. I always drop a line in to the effect "no, you have him all wrong. Go read some of the articles where you saw his picture."
by RadioGuy 9/19/2011 1:52:49 AM

@Edano if he follows through on the things he said upon taking office he will make a difference. If Noda screws up they need to put Kono Taro in as PM.
by lillymunster 9/19/2011 1:53:17 AM

@RadioGuy the germans don't think that merkel does a good job in the euro crisis, and this seems true. her small coalition partner, the liberals, have now turned to a very populistic anti-euro course. it didn't help them, they got 1.8% in the berlin elections today. i think the merkel government will end this year or the next. they have very bad polls.
by Edano 9/19/2011 1:56:53 AM

@lillymunster :) that would be a dream.
by Edano 9/19/2011 1:57:53 AM

our foreign minister, mr westerwelle from the liberal party and vice chancellor, is a joke. people hate him.
by Edano 9/19/2011 2:00:48 AM

They've shown remarkably bad political intuition and timing, but there's a lot of that going around these days. Even the sharks at the top are suddenly starting to struggle in the undertow.
by RadioGuy 9/19/2011 2:00:49 AM

@RadioGuy in these times, decisions have to be fast and straight, and that's what merkel is not able to do. she wants to postpone everything until times are better. this will not work.
by Edano 9/19/2011 2:02:45 AM

bed time. bye.
by Edano 9/19/2011 2:10:40 AM

That seems to be almost everyone's plan in lieu of anything... um... realistic. Let's just wait it out. So, the latest incarnation of the disaster express was nuclear. Think you can out wait uranium contamination?

Here's where the lack of attention to anything that doesn't turn a profit comes back to bite you: multiple disasters. The current model is to indemnify up to the limit of, not possibility, but probability, and when you get a blow worst than anyone's expectations, or pretty much any two major disasters at once, all bets are off on the original probabilities. They're betting people's lives, whole populations, in fact, on the results of a set of actuarial statistics and profit/loss statements.
by RadioGuy 9/19/2011 2:11:20 AM

@Edano nite
by RadioGuy 9/19/2011 2:11:27 AM

@RadioGuy It seems like while times were good politicians and governments were able to ride with it and not do much. Now that things are a mess none of them want to do the hard work to fix the problems.
by lillymunster 9/19/2011 2:17:25 AM

"My students singing an original song we wrote about the radiation in our town. We live in Koriyama City, Fukushima Prefecture and since the March 11th earthquake and subsequent nuclear incident we have not been able to play outside at all. The kids and I wrote this song to express our frustration. Ours is a small English immersion preschool for Japanese children."
by Ian 9/19/2011 2:17:27 AM

City changes survey equipment and gets readings like citizens were getting...after they ridiculed citizens for taking bad readings. ex-skf.blogspot.com
by lillymunster 9/19/2011 2:24:27 AM

We need to make sure Majj sees this.

Reviewing expansion plans in frozen accident = Fukushima nuclear power plant - Brazil
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　Electric Power Corporation president Torumasukin Jiji - SAO PAULO, Brazil on April 15 announced that it has frozen a total of four nuclear power expansion plans. [ full article (login at the club VIP) ]
news.finance.yahoo.co.jp
by lillymunster 9/19/2011 2:27:31 AM

Wind farm in Scotland paid to not make electricity. The recent storm would have generated too much power and overloaded the system www.telegraph.co.uk
by lillymunster 9/19/2011 2:52:57 AM

@lillymunster Brazil looked at this mess, realized they'd been counting their blessings they're in the Southern Hemisphere, and had a change of mind.
by RadioGuy 9/19/2011 3:09:10 AM

@RadioGuy I hope so. Couldn't find an English language version yet.
by lillymunster 9/19/2011 3:10:55 AM

Over 1 μSv/h in downtown Tokyo : http://www.youtube.com/redirect?q=http%3A%2F%2Fmaps.google.com%2F%3Ft%3Dm%26vpsrc%3D0%26ie%3DUTF8%26ll%3D35.672515%2C139.816577%26spn%3D0.001586%2C0.002097%26z%3D19&session_token=hclJTnP2KSc5XS78m-uRe_J-e9x8MTMxNjQ4ODgxOUAxMzE2NDAyNDE5
by Ian 9/19/2011 3:23:49 AM

Sorry, correct map link to exact location: maps.google.com
by Ian 9/19/2011 3:24:42 AM

morning
by elainekirk 9/19/2011 5:52:54 AM

omg the goj saying that it is better for children to play in contaminated playgrounds than stay in and become obese !!! translate.googleusercontent.com
by elainekirk 9/19/2011 9:08:48 AM

The expansion of nuclear energy is limited, for the time being, to the construction of the Angra 3 plant (1,405 MW), in Angra dos Reis (Rio de Janeiro), and that the government is waiting for the repercussions of the accident that occurred in March at the Fukushima plant in Japan before making any new decisions." ....“There is no need for any rush. The construction of Angra 3 has already begun and there would be no sense to stop now. Happily we have a very good energy situation with a plenty of energy on offer and there is no reason for any rush” he said. www.translate.google.com
by Majj 9/19/2011 10:01:10 AM

@lillymunster But the Governament Oficial Positiom is ..... On the same day the minister of Mines and Energy, Edison Lobão, defended the construction of new nuclear plants in the country and guaranteed that the Brazilian nuclear program will not be interrupted after the accident at the Fukushima plant. “In spite of the recent episode in Japan, Brazil maintains its nuclear expansion policy program. We are constructing a third plant and have projects to build another four”, he said :-((((((((((((((((
by Majj 9/19/2011 10:03:24 AM

Thousands protest against nuclear power in Japan. www.straitstimes.com Tens of thousands of demonstrators rallied in Tokyo on Monday calling for an end to nuclear energy in Japan after the March 11 disaster that sparked the worst atomic crisis since Chernobyl.
About 60,000 people gathered for the anti-nuclear rally, organisers said, one of the biggest since the earthquake and tsunami and the following disaster at the Fukushima Daiichi power plant. www.straitstimes.com
by Majj via Straitstimes 9/19/2011 10:07:27 AM

Thousands protest against nuclear power in Japan. www.straitstimes.com Tens of thousands of demonstrators rallied in Tokyo on Monday calling for an end to nuclear energy in Japan after the March 11 disaster that sparked the worst atomic crisis since Chernobyl.
About 60,000 people gathered for the anti-nuclear rally, organisers said, one of the biggest since the earthquake and tsunami and the following disaster at the Fukushima Daiichi power plant. www.straitstimes.com
by Majj via Straitstimes 9/19/2011 10:07:32 AM