floods and landslides in Fukushima ,,,, usercomment: Shell Game in the News,,,
TEPCO stops work due to high rain but assures us Flooding won't
affect reactor complex? Fukushima now Nuclear attack
intensity radiation spikes at Unit 2 High levels of cesium found in mountains.
Dumping water "No Effect" but great BS Diplomatic Signal
Seabrook as rotten as Fukushima TEPCO decides to Decommission Daichi 1-8
Radiation severe in Secondary containments. Tepco spinning on radiation leaks.
Letter from a Fukushima Mom... unit 1 rad levels 10,000X Normal
TEPCO lies about presidents junket
[EDIT: This video is a ShoutOut to my Threadstalker Publius, ]
Tonight I'm gonna have myself a real good time
I feel alive and the world it's turning inside out Yeah!
I'm floating around in ecstasy
So don't stop me now don't stop me
'Cause I'm having a good time having a good time
I'm a shooting star leaping through the skies
Like a tiger defying the laws of gravity
I'm a racing car passing by like Lady Godiva
I'm gonna go go go
There's no stopping me
I'm burning through the skies Yeah!
Two hundred degrees
That's why they call me Mister Fahrenheit
I'm trav'ling at the speed of light
I wanna make a supersonic man of you
Don't stop me now I'm having such a good time
I'm having a ball don't stop me now
If you wanna have a good time just give me a call
Don't stop me now ('Cause I'm having a good time)
Don't stop me now (Yes I'm having a good time)
I don't want to stop at all
I'm a rocket ship on my way to Mars
On a collision course
I am a satellite I'm out of control
I am a sex machine ready to reload
Like an atom bomb about to
Oh oh oh oh oh explode
I'm burning through the skies Yeah!
Two hundred degrees
That's why they call me Mister Fahrenheit
I'm trav'ling at the speed of light
I wanna make a supersonic woman out of you
Don't stop me don't stop me don't stop me
Hey hey hey!
Don't stop me don't stop me
Ooh ooh ooh (I like it)
Don't stop me have a good time good time
Don't stop me don't stop me
Ooh ooh Alright
I'm burning through the skies Yeah!
Two hundred degrees
That's why they call me Mister Fahrenheit
I'm trav'ling at the speed of light
I wanna make a supersonic woman of you
Don't stop me now I'm having such a good time
I'm having a ball don't stop me now
If you wanna have a good time
Just give me a call
Don't stop me now ('Cause I'm having a good time)
Don't stop me now (Yes I'm having a good time)
I don't wanna stop at all
La la la la laaaa
La la la la
La la laa laa laa laaa
La la laa la la la la la laaa hey!!....
https:/twitter.com#%21/sayaJRCS/status/75052734079971328
Tokyo is crystal clear now. But landslides and floods are happening in Fukushima. Some family living near the mountains have to evacuate.
Reactor status Unknown
http://enenews.com/...
User TacomaGroove
Smoke and Mirrors.
By Emmy 2011
Miracles can happen overnight in Fukushima, Japan. In a report released Earlier today: May 29th 2011. (By Nhk), Cooling systems in all of reactors 1-4, have been restored. “As another cooling system breakdown occured on the fukushima daichii reactor 5″… yet again a miracle for the eye to see, as NHK Has also reported only 5 hours later that tepco has also repaired function to the reactor 5 cooling systems as well…
Lets see how miracles unfold…
Now in another report issued on May 27th, article headlines read: USA Nuclear industry was fortunante that the BP oil disaster happened – “It Helped shape communication strategy for the current crisis at fukushima”… I.E. Press Coverage…
Lets also include our other great news articles: NRC Commissioner citing that a : 50mile evacuation zone in fukushima was very conservative (May25th 2011)” Crippled Nuke Plant not prepared for heavy rain, and wind, (kyodo News, May 28th 2011)
There is a serious message being sent to us here. The Japanese economy has now crashed completely. Japan will not recover. As they say: “all bets are off”…
Let me explain how we can infer that…
“Tepco” to date has contaminated 25% or more of the mainisland island of Japan; “Oceanic” life is forever tainted in areas that the government has refused, to allow independant measurments in; More importantly Countries globally are worried about the implications on international buisness relations in which Japanese exports are now contaminated with growing levels of radiation as exports are expected to be cut internationally by 50% or more. This in addition to the destruction of recent earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, tsunamis, and hurricanes which have interupted daily business;
Japan’s holding on to the edge of the cliff by its finger nails.
What the Japanese are now realizing is that embaresing its face
internationally, has not only endangered its own reputation. Its witholding of information is impacting the lives of everyone on the planet…
People are very angry scared and confused when having to confront the feild of nuclear physics Head on against a huge mis information campaign…
So lets get this straight: “Tepco” which was busy preparing for hurricane songja, all week, and is at this very second getting hammered with 70mph gusts or more; at the same time struggling in their efforts to avoid a china syndrome. Have against all odds restored the cooling operations in reactor’s 1,2,3, and 4; While structurally adding reinforcements to reactor 4… and repairing unit 5′s cooling systems…
Way to go TEPCO…
You expect us to believe that in the same week you “came clean”, from witholding that 3 nuclear reactors had in fact “melted down” in your country; That anyone is willing to invest in Japanese Buisness, and products?
You have withheld crutial data that impacted your citizens lives; Denied access from private radiation sampeling; losing even more money in finances for your marketing; vending; and tourism districts…
This is not a miracle… “this is smoke and mirrors.”….. When you watch what is going on in the left hand; Be-aware the right hand is off doing something else…
It is now quite obvious, that 100% of japanese stock investors, should walk from their investments in Japan… “Japan has lied to the world” and there is nothing to gain in a crashing market… The contamination of internation exports hinders every viable way for the economy to recover financially. Even worse, Every second in time the situation in japan is esclating. Its sure cataclysm…
Now that the BP oilspill “Media Campaign Playbook” has been established. Be ready for a full scale media blackout… But Dont Worry!!! You will have access to a live stream webcam; that points at the…
leak they won’t be able to fix for years…Simply Relax knowing that Tepco will now be completely honest about the radiation levels that are expected to be “decreasing” anyday now… In a few years time, “Japan” may even financially recover…
Yes this is the Miracle you are a witness to: The very laws of nuclear physics have been replaced by a last ditch effort to sustain economical stability.
Cheers
Emmy
this is a very interesting point being raised by User TacomaGroove.
That TEPCO is on the BP Playbook and desperately trying to work with
the Japanese government to delay the word of the inevitable stock market crash.
http://www.bloomberg.com/...
Soil samples in areas outside the 20-kilometer (12 miles) exclusion zone around the Fukushima plant measured more than 1.48 million becquerels a square meter, the standard used for evacuating residents after the Chernobyl accident, Tomio Kawata, a fellow at the Nuclear Waste Management Organization of Japan, said in a research report published May 24 and given to the government.
Radiation from the plant has spread over 600 square kilometers (230 square miles), according to the report. The extent of contamination shows the government must move fast to avoid the same future for the area around Tokyo Electric Power Co.’s Fukushima Dai-Ichi plant as Chernobyl, scientists said. Technology has improved since the 1980s, meaning soil can be decontaminated with chemicals or by planting crops to absorb radioactive materials, allowing residents to return.
Soil samples showed one site with radiation from Cesium-137 exceeding 5 million becquerels per square meter about 25 kilometers to the northwest of the Fukushima plant, according to Kawata’s study. Five more sites about 30 kilometers from Dai- Ichi showed radiation exceeding 1.48 million becquerels per square meter.
When asked to comment on the report today, Tokyo Electric spokesman Tetsuya Terasawa said the radiation levels are in line with those found after a nuclear bomb test, which disperses plutonium. He declined to comment further.
So TEPCO now says "Oh, we accidentally nuked Japan". The Chinese must be
shitting themselves with this announcement "Hated Invaders manage to destroy
Island with Nuclear Dirty Bomb".
Belarus, which absorbed 80 percent of the fallout from the Chernobyl explosion, estimates that 2 million, or 20 percent of the population, was affected by the Chernobyl catastrophe, while about 23 percent of the country’s land was contaminated, according to a Belarus embassy website. About a fifth of the country’s agricultural land has been rendered unusable, which means some $700 million in losses each year, according to the website.
Well it's good to know this won't happen in Japan, after all, all the smart
kids say "Fukushima isn't as bad as Chernobyl"....
All the Angry whiny East Asian PhD's are welcome to find a group where
they can angrily denounce Bloomberg.
http://www.arirang.co.kr/...
TEPCO, the operator of the plant, says it detected levels of radioactive Iodine 131 that were 130 times the legal limit on Friday, BUT levels 600 times the limit were detected on Saturday.
Since Iodine has a half life of 8 days this announcement shows radioactive materials are still leaking from the reactors.
I would argue this shows Recriticality. If Iodine has a half life of 8 days,
where is it coming from?
interesting radiation monitoring in Bristol England.
http://mainichi.jp/...
Radioactive cesium has been detected in high concentrations mainly below 1500 m altitude, the highest was 2968 becquerels per kilogram in 1338 meters of the slope Minowa Santon point. Freshwater fish such as salmon from the city limits of provisional Abukuma of the country (500 becquerels per kilogram) than the cesium was detected, likely due to the influx of snowmelt.
If i am reading the map correctly that's 80 KM away.
http://www.asahi.com/...
A key turning point for the Japan-US relationship came on March 17, six days into the crisis. At 10:22 am, Prime Minister Naoto Kan called US President Barack Obama from the Prime Minister's Official Residence, and the first thing he said was , "Helicopters have now dumped water."
While sources said Kan took the unusual step of reporting on the current situation surrounding the Fukushima plant in his conversation with Obama, the briefing given to Japanese reporters immediately after the phone call never mentioned Kan's reporting on the helicopters dumping water on an overheating reactor at the Fukushima plant.
About 30 minutes before the phone call, Ground SDF helicopters dumped a total of 7.5 tons of water on the No. 3 reactor at the Fukushima plant.
Defense Minister Toshimi Kitazawa called the Prime Minister's Official Residence and told Kan, "It was successful."
Members of the Kan administration realized that dumping water from a helicopter would have almost no effect on cooling the reactor.
However, several government sources confirmed the reason behind the decision to go ahead with the water dump.
As one source said, "There was a need to demonstrate before the phone conversation with Obama that 'Japan was serious.'"
THis whole article is a must read, it includes descriptions of the Plans for
ALL US CITIZENS to EVACUATE JAPAN, but they stopped it because "KAN WAS SERIOUS". Serious on BS'ing everyone.
This article hit my radar because in http://www.dailykos.com/... i had commented on Meg Shilling
and how she was BSing on how the Water Dumps were meant to scrub
Isotopes from the air.
Now it turns out it was a Diplomatic signal. Wow.
So the JSDF crews were endangered just to send a signal.
And the US Citizens were left there as a diplomatic chit.
Well, Lung Cancer is a chit.
http://www.boston.com/...
Many nuclear plants have a myriad of tunnels and buildings underground, and many of those tunnels have an exterior layer of concrete that must be protected from water. Plants, like Seabrook, often have waterproof membranes to protect the concrete’s integrity and extensive efforts to drain ground water.
The tunnel and other areas where water seepage was found are part of a safety system used to help cool the reactor when it is being shut down. In addition to the concrete tunnel problem, NextEra found corroded steel supports, piping, and anchor bolts in other areas they inspected but none have degraded concrete or in any way endanger the plant, said NextEra.
fter Seabrook workers pointed out moisture on the electric tunnel walls, NextEra drilled cores in the 2-foot concrete structures of the electric tunnel. Those cores were tested and showed a 21.7 percent reduction in compressive strength compared to tests conducted in 1979.
these tunnels won't cave in, but during an event, they will leak like sieves.
http://www.jaif.or.jp/...
At a Board of Directors meeting on May 20, the Tokyo Electric Power Co., Inc.
(TEPCO) decided to decommission Units 1 to 4 at its Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power
Station (NPS), damaged by the March 11 earthquake and tsunami, and to abandon a
plan to build Units 7 and 8 additionally
I'm sorry, those plants were decommissioned when the Meltdown started.
If TEPCO is 3 months behind the facts, they will never make a useful decision.
TEPCO also thinks they can bring 5 and 6 back to life.
Sorry, I doubt they will recover Dai ini, 5 and 6 are massively contaminated and
damaged.
http://www.jaif.or.jp/...
At Unit 2, four employees spent 14 minutes inside the first floor of the reactor building,
starting at 9:24 a.m. Humidity was high inside, and the air was “foggy.” Exposure was
4.27mSv at maximum and 3.33mSv at minimum. The radiation dose rate in air was
50mSv/year at maximum. Standing water was found in several places (see figure
below).
At Unit 2, work has been going on to lay electrical cables and deliver a heat exchanger
to cool the spent fuel pool, using a circulated water-injection cooling system.
Two workers stayed inside Unit 3 for about ten minutes. The higher exposure of the two
was 2.85mSv, and the radiation dose rate in air was 50–170mSv/year
So how does the radiation rise in Secondary Containment? Because Primary
Containment is Breached....
"Oh No Mommy, the Bad Man said Breached".
http://www.jaif.or.jp/...
The figure is 600 times higher than the national limit, though levels at the spot
had been falling. A day earlier, a level 130 times the limit was detected.
TEPCO says the level of radioactive cesium is also rising at that spot, though the
level of that substance had been falling, too.
The samples were taken at the same site where iodine-131 at a level 7.5 million
times the limit was detected on April 2nd.
TEPCO says the reason for the upward trend is not yet clear, and that it will
monitor the situation closely
That's SPIN and BS....
Dairy farmers have begun moving cows out of a village in the evacuation zone
for the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear accident.
The move came after radiation levels in raw milk from Iitate Village and part of
Kawamata Town cleared the government's safety standards. A ban on the
shipment of raw milk was lifted last Wednesday on the condition that these cows
are kept outside the evacuation zone.
Farmer Masatsugu Shiga had his 7 cows transported out of the village in a truck
on Monday
Hey Shills, Want some nice Fukushima milk for your tea?
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1NOXD7oPXsiFuG8fW8Hy1SHXfHJxTlogNhMHvI83Y338/edit?pli=1#
To people in the United States and around the world,
I am so sorry for the uranium and plutonium that Japan has released into the environment. The fallout from Fukushima has already circled the world many times, reaching Hawaii, Alaska, and even New York.
We live 60 kilometers (37 miles) from the plant and our homes have been contaminated beyond levels seen at Chernobyl. The cesium-137 they are finding in the soil will be here for 30 years. But the government will not help us. They tell us to stay put. They tell our kids to put on masks and hats and keep going to school.
This summer, our children won’t be able to go swimming. They won’t be able to play outside. They can’t eat Fukushima’s delicious peaches. They can’t even eat the rice that the Fukushima farmers are making. They can’t go visit Fukushima’s beautiful rivers, mountains and lakes. This makes me sad. This fills me with so much regret.
Instead, our children will spend the summer in their classrooms, with no air conditioning, sweating as they try to concentrate on their lessons. We don’t even know how much radiation they’ve already been exposed to.
I was eight years old when the Fukushima Daiichi plant opened. If I had understood what they were building, I would have fought against it. I didn’t realize that it contained dangers that would threaten my children, my children’s children and their children.
I am grateful for all the aid all the world has sent us. Now, what we ask is for you to speak out against the Japanese government. Pressure them into taking action. Tell them to make protecting children their top priority.
Thank you so much,
Tomoko Hatsuzawa
Fukushima City
May 25, 2011
This lady has real class. Joleiau class. She knows how much danger she is in
and her kids and she apologizes to all of us. She wants us to speak out against
the Japanese Government. Damn Straight. That's why I keep writing.
The WLBs and the oh so responsible types may not want to, but, I'll type my
last letters on this as long as the crisis remains and they remain in danger.
http://jen.jiji.com/...
The water, recently found in the basement of the No. 1 reactor building of the nuclear power plant, contained 30,000 becquerels of iodine-131 per cubic centimeter, 2.5 million becquerels of cesium-134 and 2.9 million becquerels of cesium-137.
Water levels had risen to 4.6 meters high by 5 p.m. Monday (8 a.m. GMT) due to rain and water injections to cool the damaged nuclear fuel. The amount is estimated at 2,700 tons.
4.6 meters of water in Reactor 1... Hey wasn't somebody arguing the smart thing to
do would be to flood the reactor unit? Well guess what it's flooding. It's also
leaking badly.
4.6 Meters, that looks like about halfway up the torus support level.
http://mainichi.jp/...
The government has decided to abolish the upper cap of radiation exposure for workers at the disaster-crippled Fukushima No. 1 Nuclear Power Plant, drawing concern from experts, it has been learned.
The ministry has notified the Japanese Trade Union Confederation (Rengo) -- Japan's largest labor organization -- of the decision in writing. The ministry will uphold the combined 100-millisievert maximum allowable exposure for workers over a five-year period, inclusive of doses they are exposed to during regular inspections of other nuclear power plants.
"Considering the fact that workers are exposed to only around an average 1 millisievert of radiation a year through regular inspections at nuclear power plants, even the limit of 50 millisieverts is too much and this raises concerns over workers' health. It should be the role of the health ministry to instruct workers to be exposed to no more than 50 millisieverts," Nishino said.
well, i'm sure some whiner will argue that the Japanese government is actually much
better then the people complaining. raising the rate from 1 to 100 mSV, well
what can I say.
http://mdn.mainichi.jp/...
TEPCO had claimed that on March 11 its President Masataka Shimizu was on a trip to meet with Kansai-area business leaders. The Mainichi discovered, however, that Shimizu was in fact sightseeing in Nara -- a discrepancy that TEPCO now refuses to discuss.
According to sources close to the matter and the Nara Prefectural Government, Shimizu, his wife and secretary checked into a hotel in the ancient capital on March 10 for a two-night stay. The trio had planned to go watch a traditional event at Todaiji temple the next day.
TEPCO has stated that Shimizu was in the area to meet with Kansai business leaders. However, a top-level executive of the Kansai Electric Power Co. denied that Shimizu had met with anyone from the company, and leaders of other major Kansai corporations also deny having met with Shimizu.
Meanwhile, TEPCO's public relations branch has refused to comment on Shimizu's Heijokyu Imperial Palace site visit. In response to Mainichi inquiries, it would only say, "President Shimizu's schedule also involves those he was with, so we cannot publicly release it. We will neither affirm nor deny (assertions about it)."
At the time of the earthquake, TEPCO Chairman Tsunehisa Katsumata was also absent from Tokyo on a business trip to China.
oh right, the chairman was on a trip to China.
http://www.japansubculture.com/...
When the earthquake struck Japan on March 11th and knocked out TEPCO’s Fukushima nuclear reactor, setting off a chain reaction of disasters–TEPCO’s chairman Tsunehisa Katsumata was nowhere to be found. Where was he? He was on a tour of China with members of some of Japan’s largest media outlets–and TEPCO was footing the bill.
On March 30th, not only did TEPCO admit that the chairman had been taking Japanese mass media power brokers on the trip to China but also that TEPCO paid the majority of the travel fees for the participants. On April 7th, a reporter asked TEPCO to reveal the names of the mass media firms that had executives and/or former executives joining the chairman on his trip, but TEPCO dodged the question.
It’s well known that TEPCO pays huge advertising fees to most media outlets; it is one of the largest advertisers in Japan. It’s not as well known that the president of TEPCO, Masataka Shimizu, is also the chairman of the Japan Society for Corporate Communication Studies (JSCCS), which includes among its members former and current top executives from Asahi Beer, Toyota, and Dentsu, Japan’s largest advertising agency. The board of directors also includes a representative of Nihon Television’s Reporting Bureau, Economic News section:
大野 伸 (日本テレビ放送網(株) 報道局 経済部)
In a sense, the president of TEPCO is the chairman of what is whispered to be the equivalent of a lobby group that wields the power of advertising revenue over anyone who crosses their paths. It is ostensibly a group of scholars, executives, advertising agency bosses, mass media representatives, and businessmen who gather together to study more effective means of communications. Veteran Japanese reporters assert that the society also functions as powerful consortium of large corporations who know how to use the threat of taking away advertising dollars as a whip to keep the Japanese media muzzled.
You don’t have to be too bright to figure out that if TEPCO, Toyota, Asahi Beer and Dentsu somehow banded together and pulled advertising from your newspaper, television channel, or radio program, that it would be financially devastating. In the April edition of weekly magazine Asahi Geino, Noted journalist, Takashi Uesugi claims that on March 15th, after repeatedly lampooning and criticizing TEPCO on TBS Radio that the producer asked him to leave the show, claiming that the program was being “revamped.” TBS Radio refuses to comment on the issue at present.
Masataka Shimizu, the president of TEPCO, is still listed as the chairman of the JSCCS but on April 1st his “greetings” were taken down from the sight and replaced with the words of the vice-chairman. The current page expresses condolences to the victims of the recent disasters. There is no mention of the problems at the Fukushima reactor, only that Chairman Shimizu is now too busy dealing with the disaster to fully devote himself to his duties for the organization.
According to a mainstream Japanese media reporter, the TEPCO tours of China have been going on for over ten year. “The trips have a token amount of study, such as visiting a factory, or whatever has been scheduled to justify the event for that year. In reality, most of the day is devoted to sight-seeing. At night the TEPCO executives wine and dine the reporters, editors, or mass media representatives. And of course, the obligatory karaoke.”
It’s not surprising that much of the Japanese mainstream media has been less than critical of TEPCO up until now. It’s very hard to raise your voice loud enough to be heard from inside the pocket of your sponsor.
Oh i bet the Japanese Culture Supernerds knew this. That TEPCO bribes the media
and carries a whip against them. I'm sure that's why they quote extensively from
Japanese Media when citing how well things are going.
Me, I never trusted the Japanese media.
A soul for sale or rent
I have no heart I'm cold inside
I have no real intent
Save me, save me, save me
I can't face this life alone
Save me, save me, ooooohhhhh...
I'm naked and I'm far from home
Each night I cry I still believe the lie