Japan Earthquake

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Oh this is not good.. 49% of Japan's 2012 budget is based on debt e.nikkei.com
by lillymunster 12/24/2011 12:13:33 AM

TEPCO fee hike causes ire, may force change in Japan's energy system www.yomiuri.co.jp
by lillymunster 12/24/2011 12:15:39 AM

Courtesy of PB - I think TEPCO uses this flowchart. :-)

p.twimg.com
by lillymunster via P.twimg 12/24/2011 12:37:41 AM

@lillymunster :) !!!
by Edano 12/24/2011 12:39:07 AM

@Edano still giggling.
by lillymunster 12/24/2011 12:39:46 AM

Japan quake changed social media role aajaasia.wordpress.com
by lillymunster 12/24/2011 1:26:59 AM

would be rescuers still haunted online.wsj.com
by lillymunster 12/24/2011 2:07:49 AM

good section on bwr mark I containment and how it didn't perform at Fukushima
netfiles.uiuc.edu It's short so somebody should OCR or type that section somplace.
by artnuke 12/24/2011 2:18:06 AM

@artnuke I think some of his reports are in our library?
by lillymunster 12/24/2011 2:18:40 AM

here's the short section grabbed from screen
fukunukeblog.blogspot.com
by artnuke 12/24/2011 2:31:04 AM

I shop at Southcenter, they have a great Filipino market when they don't have shootings and riots.
by artnuke 12/24/2011 2:31:09 AM

fukunukeblog.blogspot.com I put together cut and paste of explanations of that unit 3 situation. I didn't realize that the residual heat removal system was out of commision without AC power - then you are just pouring warm water back on the fire without working heat exchangers. Where are the heat exchangers on unit 3? (probably all over the site by now...)
by artnuke 12/24/2011 2:31:35 AM

Merry Christmas, Edano! LMAO on flow chart. Just dropped in while taking a break from videotaping my daughter and grandkids playing a silly (giggles all around) game by the fire. Life is good :)
by M.I.A. 12/24/2011 3:08:37 AM

Report criticizes fukushima evacuations www.upi.com
by lillymunster 12/24/2011 3:58:24 AM

@lillymunster OT But I sense that you would find this, especially the comments section, of interest. www.grist.org
by M.I.A. 12/24/2011 5:26:36 AM

bump
by Mid Valley 12/24/2011 6:22:29 AM

UPDATE 1-Tepco may seek more funds for Fukushima aid-Nikkei af.reuters.com
by Mid Valley 12/24/2011 7:08:07 AM

Seoul approves two new nuclear plant sites www.upi.com
by Mid Valley 12/24/2011 7:28:31 AM

December 23, 2011
Don't blame Japan

After seeing countless health scares over the years, it is hard to surprise us here at ACSH with something new. But our jaws dropped upon seeing a report claiming that radiation from the meltdown of Japan’s Fukushima nuclear reactor in March somehow caused 14,000 people in the U.S. to drop dead.

We had hoped that such a ridiculous report would receive no attention whatsoever, but when some began to believe that it was true, a host of experts came forward to debunk its baseless claims. One of these experts, ACSH advisor Dr. Robert Brent, makes some particularly cogent points. The authors of this “study” tried to assert that just because there was a slight increase in the number of deaths in certain U.S. communities in the period following the Fukushima event, this means that the Japanese disaster must have caused it. But Dr. Brent points out, “It has to be biologically plausible before you think about linking the two.” There is absolutely no evidence suggesting that low doses of radiation could cause nearly immediate death, as this report attempts to claim. As Dr. Brent puts it, there is “not even a remote possibility.”

“This is surely one of the clearest examples we have seen of confusing coincidence with causation,” stated ACSH’s Dr. Ruth Kava. “It’s hard to believe a peer-reviewed journal would publish such a ‘study.’”

www.acsh.org
by Ian 12/24/2011 7:53:47 AM

by Ian 12/24/2011 8:34:01 AM

@all: merry christmas
by Puc 12/24/2011 12:14:10 PM

@Puc habt ihr schnee ? hier ist nur regen und sturm. grausam.
by Edano 12/24/2011 12:15:21 PM

@Edano, ein frohes Fest with a real tannenbaum and real wax candles anyway. Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays everyone.
by Peter 12/24/2011 1:42:43 PM

"Past Haunts Tally of Japan's Nuke Crisis" (Yuka Hayashi) online.wsj.com

The best article I've read so far regarding Fukushima and radiation exposure fears. Please read and keep a link of it. It's got some good information for future reference.
by Pedro Jesus 12/24/2011 1:56:49 PM

"The 40-year war on cancer" (Dr. Otis Brawley) edition.cnn.com
by Pedro Jesus 12/24/2011 2:07:32 PM

Merry Christmas (and other winter holidays) to all.
by lillymunster 12/24/2011 2:55:00 PM

After Fukushima: A Changing Climate For Nuclear www.npr.org

EDITORIAL: Respect the decisions of Fukushima evacuees ajw.asahi.com
by lillymunster 12/24/2011 2:59:25 PM

@all - I have a post on evacuees and their current situation that will go live on the website late tonight/tomorrow morning. David Slater from Sophia University in Tokyo had the opportunity to personally visit with people living in the temporary housing complexes. He was kind enough to allow us to post his brief interviews as part of that article.
by lillymunster 12/24/2011 3:01:19 PM

Panel to compile Japan energy policy from scratch english.kyodonews.jp
by lillymunster 12/24/2011 3:03:08 PM

@Ian , the biggest flaw that Mangano & Sherman introduced into their study is that they extrapolated their findings to the whole country, whereas the sample they examined was only drawn from a small part of the country and hence cannot be representative for the whole country. #Representative sampling will become an important issue in Japan as well. I wrote on this issue here: brainmindinst.blogspot.com
by Peter 12/24/2011 3:45:36 PM

@Peter There are a bunch of factors ignored in the study. Nothing explains cause of death vs. death numbers. They also do not look at per capita deaths. If you look at infant deaths the total number of infants in that cohort at that given time varies. There are peaks and drops in births so you end up with concentrations of infants in an age group. Of course with more in that cohort at a point in time would potentially have more deaths but not necessarily more deaths per capita. You would also need to sort out deaths absolutely not caused by radiation such as car accidents etc.
by lillymunster 12/24/2011 3:50:48 PM

@lillymunster , perhaps one way to approach this issue, is to look at the prevalences of the top five causes of infant death after the first detection of radiation on the West Coast on a county-by-county or state-by-state basis across the nation and see what cause remains at the top and break it down by gender and ethnicity. If a common prevalent cause is identified that could be associated with radiation, you may begin to ponder a mechanism.
by Peter 12/24/2011 4:15:30 PM

description:

Christmas Special

There are micro-spots and hot spots in a high radiation dose that Hitachi, Ibaraki Prefecture, Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant 100 km away.

But citizens are not well known.
by Ian 12/24/2011 4:46:19 PM

@Peter I wonder where we could get that kind of data. I have not looked for public health statistics but I would guess 2011 ones would begin to trickle in over the next few months.
by lillymunster 12/24/2011 5:10:27 PM

@lillymunster , county and state health departments would compile such data and the cdc. I searched once for data like this around Hanford. Washington State had pretty good records.
by Peter 12/24/2011 6:05:13 PM

@Peter cool, do state health departments feed it up to the CDC and they generate out publicly available data? Mangano gave the impression that detailed CDC data was not public?
by lillymunster 12/24/2011 6:10:45 PM

Merry Christmas everyone! Wishing you all love and joy.
by Mid Valley 12/24/2011 6:24:28 PM

@lillymunster , landed on a page to start with. At the bottom is a link to infant death. Problem is the numbers are two years behind, :( www.cdc.gov
by Peter 12/24/2011 6:40:50 PM

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For now I am keeping the domain and hosting with GoDaddy until the legal mess is determined as either defeated or becomes law. If either of these are made legal I will begin looking for hosting and domain registration outside the US. Any changes would be seamless so there would not be interruptions or outages on the website and web address.

More on it here: godaddyboycott.org
by lillymunster 12/24/2011 7:09:58 PM

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to All - let's hope that 2012 isn't as "exciting" as 2011 turned out to be!
by hudebnik 12/24/2011 7:21:08 PM

Ran across this checking twitter via EX-SKF - CMA (canadian medical assn.) Journal highly critical of Japanese response, decontamination and declared "safe" levels of exposure. www.cmaj.ca
by lillymunster 12/24/2011 8:06:50 PM

Johannes Heesters passed away with 108 years.
by Edano 12/24/2011 9:25:52 PM

www.n-tv.de
strange light phenomenon sighted today in the afternoon (17:30) in germany (no joke). some swear they have seen an old man in red on a sledge right before he caught fire (joke).
by Edano via N-tv.de 12/24/2011 9:31:41 PM