Japan Earthquake

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@Edano Sadly I agree. A lot has changed since March 11. I started living in Japan in 1993 and never thought 18 years later this would be the situation. The threat of earthquakes and tsunami are things you learn to live with...not so with radiation.
by Will 11/25/2011 11:37:43 PM

@lillymunster Thanks. I know someone who says they need to get radiation check certificates from a lab before they can export animal food (samples I think) to, and this is a bit ironic, Kazakhstan. No idea if they could do tea and look for low levels.
by Will 11/25/2011 11:41:55 PM

@lillymunster Thank you for that link for Marco Kaltofan.
by Will 11/25/2011 11:43:09 PM

Kazakhstan has one of the world's worst nuclear sites at Semipalatinsk, that may have something to do with odd import laws. They may have strict standards due to in country issues with radiation?
by lillymunster 11/25/2011 11:48:23 PM

@Will Yes, he is doing research on semipalatinsk
by lillymunster 11/25/2011 11:51:45 PM

Bulletin of Atomic Scientists has a series of articles on it. www.thebulletin.org
by lillymunster 11/25/2011 11:53:44 PM

On the topic of food contamination from nuclear radiation, my father was telling me how when he was a child on his farm in northern England they how to poor milk down the drain because of Windscale. The farm was about 50km from the plant. Interesting that in age when servicemen were witnessing nuclear bomb tests such strict (in relation to what has gone on and is going on in Fukushima) precautions should have been taken.
by Will 11/25/2011 11:54:44 PM

well, yes, sadly those modern police cars are equipped with so much electronic, they sometimes light up. or maybe someone forgot to turn off the diesel heating ?
by Edano 11/26/2011 12:50:03 AM

@Edano are there worthwhile websites besides Kyodo and Asahi that are behind a paywall that we could be using?
by lillymunster 11/26/2011 12:58:06 AM

@Edano are there parts of NHK we can't access right now?
by lillymunster 11/26/2011 1:03:35 AM

@lillymunster no, nhk is under public right, so they are not allowed to bill, i guess.
by Edano 11/26/2011 1:05:13 AM

@Edano Ok. trying to compile a list of what is paywall'ed and look at some ideas. I am going to check with the college and see what I get for journal and other library type access if I get an alumni membership. It costs but might be worth it if we get the right kinds of access. That is of course separate from the media outlets we are not getting.
by lillymunster 11/26/2011 1:08:28 AM

This might be useful for something www.radio-isotope.jp
by lillymunster 11/26/2011 2:17:01 AM

I wonder if we could get access to a news wire service that would have some of these paywall things together for less
by lillymunster 11/26/2011 2:21:13 AM

Scientists look at Japanese quakes www.upi.com
by lillymunster 11/26/2011 2:31:08 AM

I suppose now we will begin seeing the media scare on how the public and economy will suffer when nuke plants are shut down. Proposed Initiative on Nuclear Plants Would Spur Blackouts, say State (California) latimesblogs.latimes.com
by MaryW edited by lillymunster 11/26/2011 3:36:51 AM

@MaryW absolutely. That is a key part of the scaremongering. Without nuclear power society will fall back to the stone age. We saw it in Japan when they claimed blackouts everywhere by summer. Yet they had surplus power all summer long.
by lillymunster 11/26/2011 3:38:09 AM

Is enenews.com down again? Maybe shutting down sites and pay to read news is in the future too.
by MaryW 11/26/2011 3:42:48 AM

@MaryW enenews.com down for me too. LA times was slow to load. Tried CNN and it popped right up. Could be a traffic issue. Enenews uses a web host I have never heard of and that could be why they are down frequently.
by lillymunster 11/26/2011 3:44:40 AM

I really think the west coast is not going to listen to the bull. They were the first hit by the Fukushima disaster.
by MaryW 11/26/2011 3:44:49 AM

@MaryW I hope people don't buy that, it is such a weak argument. "OMG we are all going to die without 16% of our power capacity"
by lillymunster 11/26/2011 3:45:40 AM

'They' have been against enenews from the start since only nuclear news is reported. fauxcapitalist.com
by MaryW 11/26/2011 3:50:48 AM

@MaryW Sheesh. So why is that other site all over them? Enenew.com has always had over the top headlines and sometimes takes things out of context to make them seem worse but they generally link to their source. I have seen far far worse sources online trying to cover Fukushima. At least Enenews is feeding links back to original sources so people know what is going on and can fact check it themselves.
by lillymunster 11/26/2011 3:55:40 AM

Japanese online newspapers in English www.world-newspapers.com
by MaryW 11/26/2011 3:56:54 AM

@MaryW Good Find, many of those I don't think we had?
by lillymunster 11/26/2011 3:58:04 AM

Enenews always supplies a source to their postings.
by MaryW 11/26/2011 3:58:29 AM

@MaryW yes, I mentioned they do. So at least people can read for themselves. I don't know why they are getting hammered so nastily.
by lillymunster 11/26/2011 4:00:10 AM

If you google enenews, there are quite a few sites who have hammered their reporting.
by MaryW 11/26/2011 4:01:17 AM

You don't have to agree with someone's reporting. That also doesn't mean they should necessarily be shut down. I don't agree with Enenews's style but that doesn't mean they should be shut down.
by lillymunster 11/26/2011 4:03:24 AM

I think its just too much reporting on nukes, the nuclear industry never expected this type of 'fall-out' after the Fukushima plume disaster. Thank the Gods we have internet.
by MaryW 11/26/2011 4:06:19 AM

This nuclear disaster and consequences will not be silenced as in the past with accidents at plants.
by MaryW 11/26/2011 4:08:47 AM

@MaryW they are trying, they get business newspapers to print rosy sounding stories how nuclear industry businesses are going to trod on and there is all sorts of "support" for nuclear power. There are some painfully obvious paid shills trolling online newspaper comments. They are so bad
at it, it is comical.
by lillymunster 11/26/2011 4:08:51 AM

@MaryW Just imagine if we had internet during Chernobyl. You can't sweep something so major under the rug today. Nothing is every truly gone off the internet and you just can't hide something so large.
by lillymunster 11/26/2011 4:11:10 AM

Stress tests for nuke storage and reprocessing facilities www.japantimes.co.jp
by lillymunster 11/26/2011 4:44:38 AM

Updated Oct 7.2011. Travel Alert for Japan. US Embassy in Tokyo, Japan japan.usembassy.gov
by MaryW 11/26/2011 5:08:29 AM

Updated Oct 21.0211. The Situation in Japan. Raw Data from the NNSA's Ongoing Work in Japan, Radiological Assessment of Effects from Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant and other information. energy.gov
by MaryW 11/26/2011 5:42:04 AM