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@ALL: A Must Read. Escape To Okinawa. Dec 06.2011. www.smh.com.au
by MaryW 12/7/2011 12:36:32 AM

@bo But then, who would do the RT interviews! :)
by MaryW 12/7/2011 12:57:26 AM

@MaryW since they are on Skype, I could do them from a secure, undisclosed location.
by bo 12/7/2011 12:58:40 AM

Well, heading to the US for a month later today. I always travel incognito while there...
by bo 12/7/2011 1:02:15 AM

@bo well the helmet and laser eye would attract attention. :-)
by lillymunster 12/7/2011 1:07:22 AM

@lillymunster But you have to admit, its a great look
by MaryW 12/7/2011 1:09:05 AM

After reading the 'Escape to Okinawa' article, I had a thought, so... this is all really happening. How very odd to have that pop into the mind
by MaryW 12/7/2011 1:11:50 AM

I believe the personal accounts from the victims of Japan fallout is what will open the general public eyes with the Fukushima disaster.
by MaryW 12/7/2011 1:18:10 AM

Anyone have an opinion about nuclear.com ? I know they are pro-nuke, but are they nutty? nuclear.com
by bo 12/7/2011 1:26:41 AM

@bo never heard of it before. Looks like someone's 1995 high school web design project. :-) He campaigned for Alan Keyes so I vote for nutty! LOL :-)
by lillymunster 12/7/2011 1:33:06 AM

The dude running it is a very pro-nuke former worker. But never paid enough attention to it to know if he is nutty or just opposed.
by bo 12/7/2011 1:35:04 AM

Fukushima secrecy over workers and conditions www.abc.net.au
by lillymunster 12/7/2011 1:38:06 AM

@lillymunster Do not the workers, or even the subcontracted workers, know that their personal story and any copied paperwork, etc. would be worth a lot more than what TEPCO pays them. Their are media who pay $$ for a story. And then add on to that movie/book earnings. Could maybe turn into a circus. ?
by MaryW 12/7/2011 2:01:55 AM

@MaryW I don't know what or if the foreign correspondents can pay them much if anything for interviews. I sure hope some of these guys are keeping journals. I know many of them take pictures with their cell phones of things.
by lillymunster 12/7/2011 2:04:47 AM

@lillymunster It being such a sensitive global situation, I'm wondering what security measures are in place. We most likely will never know.
by MaryW 12/7/2011 2:08:05 AM

The US media is totally hushed, its back page news if anything.
by MaryW 12/7/2011 2:10:07 AM

@MaryW At the plant? None :-) The Hoshi's just drove into the plant to find the dogs that were wandering around on camera. They video taped it, I think they talked to one worker in the parking lot. There have been a number of journalists who snuck in. IIRC one of the MMA athletes snuck in and took pictures. They put up some sort of gate guard recently after all the various people were on site.
by lillymunster 12/7/2011 2:15:11 AM

Exposure Dose of Workers Engaged in Emergency Work at Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station And Related Matters. Report by TEPCO. Nov 30.2011. www.tepco.co.jp
by MaryW 12/7/2011 2:23:13 AM

TEPCO's Tables 1-4 do not add up. The 'total' number is different for each table of exposures, so Tepco is not using the same number of people in the study. Are they using different employees or the same employees for each study?
by MaryW 12/7/2011 2:34:56 AM

Off to cross the ocean folks. Be back on in a day or two. Keep up the good work.
by bo 12/7/2011 2:47:16 AM

@MaryW it isn't really a study. It is tracking workers dose rates. Someone could be on the external table but not in the internal, the other way around, worker numbers changed every month.
by lillymunster 12/7/2011 2:50:14 AM

@lillymunster I agree, it is not a study. Maybe it was lost in translation :)
by MaryW 12/7/2011 2:51:14 AM

the 16 missing, unknown, of-the-street, employees must still be waiting for their paychecks to be mailed to the unknown addresses.
by MaryW 12/7/2011 2:53:02 AM

@MaryW it bothers me that the labor ministry has not bothered to investigate the missing workers
by lillymunster 12/7/2011 2:55:52 AM

@MaryW I would hope that possibility would have been enough motivation for them to investigate.
by lillymunster 12/7/2011 2:57:50 AM

if outside at the time the tsunami hit, possibility
by MaryW 12/7/2011 2:59:33 AM

There was an incident from March that I don't remember ever seeing a resolution to. After 3 exploded the local law enforcement found a highly radioactive body miles from the plant. They had no idea who he was or why he was there. The body was so radioactive the law enforcement officers couldn't get near it.
by lillymunster 12/7/2011 3:32:12 AM

www.majiroxnews.com body found 5km from plant
by lillymunster 12/7/2011 3:34:52 AM

Massive Flare ar Fukushima! Dec 06.2011 majiasblog.blogspot.com
by MaryW 12/7/2011 3:53:53 AM

Evidence TEPCO Replaced Radiation Damaged Fukushima WebCam and Modified It to Prevent Visual detections of Radiation from Neptunium-239, Uranium-239 and Yttrium-90. Dec 06.2011 pissinontheroses.blogspot.com
by MaryW 12/7/2011 4:02:16 AM

"Tsunami that struck Japan in March resulted from merging waves" edition.cnn.com
by Pedro Jesus 12/7/2011 6:55:39 AM

"China, US launch radiation detection system at Shanghai port to check for nuclear materials" www.washingtonpost.com
by Pedro Jesus 12/7/2011 8:01:46 AM

"Hokkaido Elec to submit reactor test results Wednesday" uk.reuters.com
by Pedro Jesus 12/7/2011 10:28:28 AM

Kansai Electric shutting nuclear reactor manually on malfunction

TSURUGA, Japan, Dec. 7, Kyodo

Kansai Electric Power Co. said Wednesday it is manually shutting the No. 2 nuclear reactor at its power plant in Mihama, Fukui Prefecture, citing technical trouble.

The trouble appears to concern a system to cool the reactor, the utility said, adding it is seeking to identify the cause of the malfunction at the plant.

The shutdown will leave the utility that runs 11 reactors in the prefecture with only two operational reactors -- the No. 2 unit in the Oi plant and the No. 3 unit at the Takahama plant.

Both reactors are scheduled to go offline Dec. 16 and in February for periodic checkups, respectively, the utility said.

The No. 2 reactor at the Mihama plant was originally scheduled to be suspended on Dec. 18 for a similar checkup.

==Kyodo english.kyodonews.jp
by Edano 12/7/2011 11:27:38 AM