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Fukushima Raised To Level 6 On INES Scale: Now Officially More "Serious" Than 3 Mile Island
According to Asahi Shimbun which is quoting the Japan NRC, the Fukushima event has just surpassed Three Mile Island in terms of seriousness, and has been upgraded from Level 5 "Accident with Wider Consequences" to Level 6 "Serious Accident." Only Chernobyl is a Level 7 event. We believe Fukushima should get there within 2 weeks as ever more of the current devastation becomes public. Of course, all of this is a paper-pushing formality. What isn't, are people who may be developing serious diseases as the government continues to misrepresent the severity of the situation.
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got to love how they start at LEVEL ZERO.......thats just lying and cheating !
But but but but..... level 0 is a deviation. From what, but a deviation nonetheless.
Brilliant fucking scalar effrontery. The American Mathematical Association should strike in protest.
lol
it's amazing
you can't make this stuff up
lol
it's amazing
you can't make this stuff up
The US nuclear pyramid goes to e'leven.
Beat me by that much!
Our Gov't officials will have to unzip their fly's to count to that number...even then it's a 'stretch' to get past 10 1/2...
LMAO
Hell, this goes to eleven.
I thought hell went to 666? Ah, screw it. It's gonna go kablooey sooner than later...
Not just hell, also S&P 500 bottoms.
Does anybody get the vague impression that the 64 million 'extra' apartment homes built in those empty cities of china has a 'front-running feel' to this whole affair? Perhaps the 2nd world's largest economy will now 'just happen' to absorb the 3rd largest and all those educated folks? Germany next?
I think a lot will move to Hawaii.
To another seismically active volcanic island?
They would be gluttons for punishment.
But then, where would you rather spend your last days, tropical paradise or New Jersey?
Hey now, I might now live in land of the really broke and corrupt, Chicago, but I grew up in New Jersey and visit it often. Thank goodness the turnpike goes through the marshes, refineries and ports.. makes everyone think NJ is an armpit when it really is quite the jewel.
Jewel of the Bile...cities floundering, crime flourishing, taxes sky-high, and that smell extends beyond the turnpuke. Christie may make some headway in navigating that cesspool but I'd rather flush the whole thing and start over. And yes, my sister still lives there...Really, what f'in state says you can't pump your own gas. Like those guys have Hazmat credentials and could put out F'in-shima at the drop of a 40? Don't think so...
I'm no stranger to New Jersey.
Aunts, uncles and cousins lived in Toms River. Frequented Asbury Park and Seaside Heights. Remember one summer in '74, strolling along the beach and unknowingly stepping in odorous sticky oil blobs hidden just beneath the sand.
I've heard you can't pump your own gas in Oregon either.
True nuf. Been that way my whole life. Stupid is as stupid does.
Oregon also has the OLCC (Oregon Liquor Control Commission) which only allows liquor sales in state provided stores at double the prices I'm seeing while here on vacation with the kids in Palm Springs this week.
Last amusing tidbit, rode my road bike over the San Andreas fault which apparently runs along just East of Palm Springs...thinking this could be ground zero sometime this week if tectonic prognosticators are correct. Have camera and will post if lucky enough to see next mega quake (and survive...otherwise I'm likely to die from the 18hr road trip back to Portland and the $4 gas down here).
I always enjoying seeing New Jersey...
...in my rear-view mirror...
oops...sleep - deprived double post...
I'm in Jersey so when I give you a +10000000
it comes from experience :)
many more are eyeing detroit.
What? Japs living in Chinatown? MUAHAAHAHAAAHAHAAAAAHAAA
sHITS gettin sick ain't it.
Hey, I got it!
All those homeless Japanese (and don't take this wrongly, what has happened is astoundingly criminal and beyond the pale of reality by any reason) need to find alternative shelter and/or don't care to live there anymore,
Well, we gots all sorts of empty houses held by FMNA et,al.,
Move them over here to occupy the otherwise empty houses so they're maintained, communities repopulated and reinvigorated,
And charge the Japanese government for the kind effort by having them forgive all the US debt they hold.
"Happy days are here again...."
And for the conspiracy buffs, take a moment to think about why China built all those empty cities.... LOL Stay up all night calling Noory and Jones with that shit......
Market is totally out of touch with reality...but it will hit like a freight train, it always does.
Total meltdown in days
Not much demand for uranium on the spot market now.
http://alethonews.wordpress.com/2011/03/21/uranium-tumbles-on-japan-crisis/
BTFD, buy physical, take delivery.
lmao... I'm taking delivery for my small personal nuke plant back in the shed. Gotta have power (and ammo) when shit hits the fan.
Fallout shelter sales up 1000% per cnn money.
Not to be a stickler but 3 Mile was a non-event. This however is not sadly.
3 mile island managed to melt 70% of the core before anyone noticed.. It was sheer luck it wasn't a whole lot worse. The problem with being 99.9% safe and effective with a power system that is 100% lethal should things go badly, is immediately obvious even to a non math major.
Stack an ineffective regulatory apparatus around that formula and add in a really big portion of we don't know everything and chaos theory which says that even a stable system can develop instabilities without warning and you know what I'd rather just throw a sweater on it when it gets cold than to burn uranium for "cheap" electricity.
An error in empiricism.
Sort of like the Cuban missile crisis was a non-event because "nothing really bad happened."
dble post.
I'd hardly call this an accident. This is a serious Reckless Installation Catstrophy
Criminal.... morally, ethically, legally, those folks in charge should be held personally responsible.
But then again, nobody in power's held the bankers responsible, otherwise it'd be the politicians, regulators, management, et.al, admitting culpability in the crimes.
Just'll bail them out with public money.
Take the public's moneys
Throw them out of their homes
Let the poor starve
Invade new countries in the name of what?
Poison the environment.
BTFD
"Happy days are here again....."
+1000
At Chernobyl.... Nuklee-ar re-aktor tell you what level
Wow! That is a copy of the rating system mandated by our HR team for the annual staff performance reviews!
I was expecting this declaration LAST Friday ... took another week before it became undeniable.
Everyone relax. The Japanese government just announced everything is under control.
Translated into English: RUN FOR YOUR LIVES!
Yesterday, I believe it was, they told the children to pray.
No shit.
Real.
Thanks a millirad.
Evacuation of 3 Fukushima workers after they suffer "radiation burns". That implies huge exposure, potentially lethal.
LINK
Well of course, those aren't your feet Mr. Lochbaum.
Forget the radiation. Who the fuck lays power cables in water a foot deep?
It's surreal listening to TEPCO officials act somewhat surprised that there would be encounters with high levels of radiation around four damaged nuclear reactors -- surely they have seen the video of the explosion at #3 reactor containment building.
The truly desperate and the walking dead will lay power cables wherever and whenever, until the situation ceases or they do.
Sad times in the land of the rising sun.
Level 6 = Uber-Bullish?
yessiree
"There’s Mohammed El-Erian writing in the Financial Times:
“Attention also turns towards the extent of the damage to the economy and its reconstruction and rehabilitation plans . . . Japan’s economic growth rate will fall in the immediate aftermath of the natural disasters before rising sharply due to reconstruction activities . . . Moreover, in a really good recovery scenario, Friday’s dreadful shock could even be a catalyst for internal political unity and for overcoming what has been two disappointing decades of economic performance.” "
Gotta love them Keynsian motherfuckers
Granted, El-Erian is a billionaire and I am not (which in America means he is obviously smarter as determined by the "your net worth and your IQ are the same shit" scale)...BUT...and correct me if I'm wrong here, as far as I know the area surrounding Chernobyl didn't have an opportunity to participate in the real estate boom of 2003-06...despite their having 20 years to see the benefits of the post disaster rebuilding boom.
just sayin... Mohammed might be slightly off on his rosy projections here.
+1
back when there actually was such a thing as risk in the market, and 'liquidity' only came from private money coming in to equities, then any demand-destroying event like Fukushima would be factored on a time scale of at least 6 months. At the very least. And the secondary ripples would be given time to develop before full assessment of the situation. It can never be assumed that a rebound will be brisk, but in this brave new world of 10X liquidity injection overkill, you get the unreality: disaster is bullish whereas profitable enterprise is meh.
"But, then again, here come the Keynesians. Perhaps no statement has been more shocking than Larry Kudlow’s callous gem (he later apologized): "The human toll here looks to be much worse than the economic toll and we can be grateful for that . . . all these markets stocks, commodities, oil, gold, there is no major breakout or breakdown. I have to view that positively." Kudlow's comment may have been a slip up, but it is one example of many."
These were quotes from another post here on ZH pretty much pointing out the fallacies afoot.
agreed. one of the things I don't see some "rebuild boom" theorists addressing is the amount of loss that will not be rebuilt...that will be just loss. for example...I can't imagine anyone wanting to rebuild let alone live in anything within 20 miles of that nuclear plant...Maybe I'm just fussy about certain things but it would take a lot more than low interest rates to get me to live anywhere near that mess. and it would take more than a 4 digit per hour pay rate to get me to work rebuilding anything near there. In fact...I'd probably even object to being buried anywhere near such a mess...so living there is...well...let's just say...unlikely.
all the posts above is why I have a soft spot for the European terrorists of the 70s.
I think the tactics of Meinhoff-Baader might make a comeback, personally.
Thing is, with systemic collapse everything old is new again...
yay...
Please.....
Let's stay away from the topic. I do not wish to get wrapped around my own axle, stomp on the accelerator and be off on an all night rant which will neither solve, prove or improve the personal or human condition.
penis.e.: tyler had el-erian up this morning, from pimco:
Think The Japanese Disaster Is Just What The Keynesian Doctor Ordered? Mo Says Noeverything will be fine. of course, in the end, but the egyptian's analysis had a heluva lot more heart than that crap from G/S, yest, and the pimco guy, if i read between the lines, correctly, seemed outwardly cautiously optimistic, but inwardly, well, i sensed a bit more reserve, let me say.
personally, i find it impossible to "predict" much of anything, economically, given my view of the current state of affairs. on the human scale, i'm a buginarug w/ tyler, here: disbelief, outrage, and despair, and i would certainly invite tyler's clarification, if he deems it apopropriate.
el-erian seemed to be thinking from waaaay up there, which, i guess he is [how's that goin?], counseling "policymakers" about the "global economy" as well as his perceptions of what japan will need.
el-erian's piece pretty much stopped me, cold, for most of the day, today. altho i revisited it a few times, i remain unable to digest his thoughts in a manner which enables me to bridge the disconnects.
he mentioned supply chain problems, food safety, and "the economic impact of nuclear uncertainties on the Japanese psyche."
and slewie spent the whole day, turning japanese.
'Supply chain problems' - you ain't seen nuthin yet.
Already news mentions of global electronics companies halting or slowing production due to shortages of integrated circuits from Japan. But that's just the first order effect. Wait till people realise it's IMPOSSIBLE to manufacture complex integrated circuits such as DRAM and flash memory where there are raised levels of background radiation.
Oh, and probably LCD video screens as well.
Yep - markets on a tear. Plus I'm long bottled water. Couldn't be happier!
/sarc off/
Sounds like an upgrade, rally on.
Looks like were going to try and clean out the middle east either for the japanese or ourselves.
Well if it wasn't in holy smoke teritory last week, or yesterday, it is now.
Holy Smoke, take me back, take me up, take me high, make me shine like the gods, or at least glitter.
Well, if glitter is asking too much, can I at least glow?
Blow by blow, I'll sink, into the morass.
More ass you said?
I'll settle for that. Here's my hat, drop a penny,
At least,
Miserable me, Please don't
Say,
I told you so.
Holy Smoke...
ORI
http://aadivaahan.wordpress.com/2010/06/14/70/
Eh, you sending up smoke signals there 'Indian'? I think we're dealing with "Mother F'in Vultures", the other Mother is scenery in the background(at least for now). Wish for the day when the Original takes back a weary, battered mindset and planet...I enjoy my acreage and it's many splendors daily...(ok, the rattlesnakes creep me out)...
There are some nifty perimeter devices you can install to entrap them.
Hah, I just finished a smoke and came back to a smokin' ape avaatar!
I too enjoy the green around me, for now, but man, the trend looks awful. So yes, I agree, I wish the Mater takes it all back in. For the greater good.
ORI
Kali is gonna bite everyone in the ass and they're gonna say: "Very good Ma'am, may I have another?"
Yes, but Kali only kills men with a mustache.
Don't believe all them paintings PY.
She's a mouche agnostic liberator. ;-)
ORI
I've heard it said in these parts where I live that death by kali is sweet liberation.
ORI
What do I know about that, ORI? Seriously, I am just a German BioRobot that constructs speedy and beloved cars. I don't understand metaphysics.
Nah, just joking. I am actually fascinated by Hinduism. Think of Hesse or Schopenhauer. Both were fascinated by Indian culture. Schopenhauer is probably one of the greatest minds of all time. Razor sharp intellect. A very bitter potion in times of sweetness.
Ah PY, my favourite car, not sooooo speedy, but smooth as silk and fast (enough), was a 1987BMW 528 eta. Silk on wheels. The 325 before that had it's own charm. Now, believe it or not, I think the French rock the car scene. My peugeot 309 has heart and handling like no car I've known (carburetted of course!!).
And India and Germany have a long lost in the mists of time common history. Only that can explain Sanskrit and German's awe-inspiring complexity, words that can cover an entire page and of course the curious etymological similarities. LuftHansa. Hansa/Hamsa is Swan in Sanskrit.
Always fascinating to meet the fascinating cast of folks at ZH.
Added: Siddharta was a seminal read for me, in English. I'm sure it must be awesome in German.
Cheers.
ORI
If you love those, let's hear it for Immanuel Kant, who taught us that Rationalism had its place, and Empiricism had its place, but we'd still be blind if we couldn't combine them.
Heightened by widespread public ignorance of the technicalities of radiation, alarm has been spreading. quote on Yahoo says it all
was that originally a haiku
can we get a SP500 chart with an overlay of when each level was announced. I think the correlation will show that when we clear level 7 we will get to 1350
i hope they define "wider consequences"
now that i've had a chance to think about it, that pyramid is beyond stupid
Can be quantitatively benchmarked by my mother-in-law's butt.
Smack! Ouch! Funny.
A little tangential oediopus complex perhaps Knuck?
I hope she's not shaDOWing your ZH account. Buddy!
ORI
Lots of room in China for all the displaced citizens of Tokyo. Of course, there's all those coal-fired plants spewing mercury, terminally polluted water, and a world-class bubble about to go POP. This from Mish http://www.sbs.com.au/dateline/story/watch/id/601007/n/China-s-Ghost-Cities
One could infer that the situation just got a little worse and at the same time it can't get much worse.
The H1N1 pandemic reached the highest level and very little became of it.
The markets are counting on the G7 intervention making QE look like tiddly-winks and that the world's second largest economy will be preemptively prevented from causing a global slowdown.
They even locked POTUS out of the WH today. Check his swagger and lip posture at the start of the video.
This story is over as far as the markets are concerned. Nobody but the people here are paying attention. So while its clearly interesting, its largely a non-news event from here on out. I don't think thats right but nobody in the markets is discussing this anymore.
And if people surroundign Fukushima start contracting cancer in greater than normal numbers over the coming years, it will be an awful thing in humanitarian terms, but the Japanese authorities (with help from Western governments and news agencies) have swept this under the rug.
Well, it could be market news should the citizens of Japan trigger a capital run in the face of TPTB interventions. It is possible although maybe not probable. However, should we wake up one morning to see USD/JPY trading at 71.00, I think PM holders and very prudent shorts will be grateful.
Well, based on what I have heard, read and am seeing, the market is past this story. It is true that if things on the ground in Tokyo were to change then the markets might turn their attention back to this event. However there has been no mass exodous from Tokyo despite a devastating earthquake and tsunami, hobbled Japanese industries and, of course, a radiation event at the Fukushima plant.
If there are any ill effects that threaten a wide swath of the Japanese population, they likely won't be revealed for many years. Again, I don't think it's right but anyone thinking the markets will suddenly start to focus on Fukushima are plain wrong.
The markets have now turned back to the prospect of the end or perhaps another extension of QE, the pending bailout of Portugal, a potential hike by the ECB and the capping of oil prices by virtue of the NATO no fly zone in Libya. Stocks will go higher, the dollar lower and bonds will sell off.
We've survived the bankrupting of public balance sheets, $100-plus oil, $4+gas in the U.S./$8+ in Europe, food/commodity price shocks that contribute to margin compression, a massive earthquake and tsunami that hit the world's third largest economy and then a massive nuclear accident. And equities continue to go up while the rates market sells off.
There is really nothing more to say except that I feel for those poor souls in Japan who are suffering and face a long climb back to put their lives back together. But ZH's pursuit of this story persists despite the fact that it is no longer market moving news.
It's truly amazing how such tragic and emotional events can happen and yet the MSM and market attention span is limited to only days at best. It's true that money is the root of all evil because fundamentally, we "should" be in the tank. Oh well, good exchange.
I'll take the other side of that bet. People haven't realized full picture yet.
If you're a contractor hired to 'rebuild' Japan, are you going to take that job?
lol! easy, there, whstlblwr! don't disturb the unicorns when they're passing such delicious skittles for goldi.
LA Times: U.S. officials have asserted an independent voice and offered candid warnings and explicit data. The NRC last week advised U.S. citizens to leave a 50-mile zone around the plant, an area more than double the size that Japan evacuated. And this week the agency released radioactivity data that showed a highly radioactive plume on the ground extending northwest from the plant.
Read more: http://www.bellinghamherald.com/2011/03/24/1933829/secrecy-shrouds-operations-at.html#ixzz1HZiJH0yb
The MSM will hve to carry news of this level-6 alert tomorrow. When they do, it's going to stem Western bullishness on Japan. (Bloomberg reports " Foreigners Bought Record $11 Billion in Japanese Stocks After Earthquake ")
Canny traders are going to think, "Hey, things aren't getting better, they're getting worse. Someone was managing my perceptions to make me think otherwise. They weren't being straight with me. Color me skeptical from now on."
As usual, ZH leads with the news.
So this thing is at a 6 now with the highest level being a 7. Given that there may not only be air carried damage, but water/ocean spread damage (unlike Chernobyl I think) ------- a higher number than 7 may be in the equation. In that Tokyo, one of if not the largest populated cities in the World, may go under nuclear siege with damage to the population and long term problems to the city itself, one can only hope and prey that the outcome goes better than what it look like. Total US help is a must. The American people and our government must respond with all urgency and with all capabilities. Lord have mercy on these poor people, and maybe us too. Lets hope things go better.
"Total US help is a must"
500 meters of finely woven FIAT surrounded by a layer of Fed Speak should be sufficient to encapsulate the radiation.
Amazing how the dribbling out of the 'upgrades' to the disaster parallels, in a compressed timeline, the official recognition of the 2007-8 (and of course ongoing) financial collapse.
As ZH points out, not only is it all one trade nowadays, it's all one mode of deception.
Just like BP in the GOM: It's all good! OK, it's not so good. It's getting better! OK, it's not getting better. It's all sunshine and skittles! Ok, it's up there where the sun don't shine and the seafood tastes like shittles. Next!
1 - plant employee(s) radiated
2 - regional watershed poisoned
3 - plant managers abruptly move hours away
4 - The Wolf gets called
5 - a bunch of folks just got cancer
6 - the limb to head ratio of the next generation just changed
7 - another Belarus is born . . .
Everything is bid, EUR is up...even on possible Portugal/Spain bailout.
I think "Level 8" should be a mushroom cloud hovering above the pyramid, its both informative and easily recognized as the symbol of imminent shit storm and death. A skull and crossbones overlayed on the mushroom cloud would be in my estimation gilding the lilly, but there are some slow learners who might find it easier to remember for the test.
The market is simply responding to the new normal: disaster is bullish, profitable private enterprise is just Meh and increasingly unattractive as an investment
Go long bubble-boy suits.
Cool. The Nikkei is up 1% and a nice bump in the S&P futures.
global market meltdown.
The selling will start soon.
The shelling has already started.
ORI
as long as i can wear my i love ann coulter t-shirt, i'm ready to help rebuild japan.
RTFM
flow chart starts on page 144
http://www-pub.iaea.org/MTCD/publications/PDF/INES-2009_web.pdf
perhaps by raising it to this level some international treaty agreements are triggered and all this boy scout patty cake miss (yup) management and mind boggling ineptitude will end. For having studied the heck out of tsunami emergency planning (there are casualty projections city by city by time of day and inundation levels) and having very advanced municipal systems in place they sure missed some glaringly obvious things. This is a big one that many countries have cooperatively been studying, planning, drilling , and preparing for.
Here is a fun little piece of software you might like to take for a test drive:
Nice link.
Level 6
Kyshtym, Russia, 1957 nuclear accident
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kyshtym_disasterhttp://www.panoramio.com/ph...
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From Wiki;
AftermathBecause of the secrecy surrounding Mayak, the populations of affected areas were not initially informed of the accident. A week later (on 6 October) an operation for evacuating 10,000 people from the affected area started, still without giving an explanation of the reasons for evacuation. People "grew hysterical with fear with the incidence of unknown 'mysterious' diseases breaking out. Victims were seen with skin 'sloughing off' their faces, hands and other exposed parts of their bodies."[6] It was Zhores Medvedev who revealed the nature and extent of the disaster to the world.[7] [8]
Even though the Soviet government suppressed information about the figures, it is estimated that the direct exposure to radiation caused at least 200 cases of death from cancer.[9]
To reduce the spread of radioactive contamination after the accident, contaminated soil was excavated and stockpiled in fenced enclosures that were called "graveyards of the earth".[10]
The Soviet government in 1968 disguised the EURT area by creating the East-Ural Nature Reserve, which prohibited any unauthorised access to the affected area.
Rumours of a nuclear mishap somewhere in the vicinity of Chelyabinsk had long been circulating in the West. That there had been a serious nuclear accident east of the Urals was eventually inferred from research on the effects of radioactivity on plants, animals, and ecosystems, published by Professor Leo Tumerman, former head of the Biophysics Laboratory at the Institute of Molecular Biology in Moscow, and associates.
According to Gyorgy,[11] who invoked the Freedom of Information Act to gain access to the relevant Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) files, the CIA knew of the 1957 Mayak accident all along, but kept it secret to prevent adverse consequences for the fledgling American nuclear industry. Only in 1990 did the Soviet government declassify documents pertaining to the disaster.[12][13]
Current situationThe level of radiation in Ozyorsk itself is claimed to be safe for humans, but the area of EURT is still heavily contaminated with radioactivity.[9]
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Check out the related Lake Karachay where they dumped high level waste on par with Chernobyl. I read once that standing near the edge of teh lake for even a short period of time was hazardous.
Managing expectations is THE reason d'etre (along with looting) for the existence of the ruling elite. They must be preparing us for one really nasty moogerfooger of a disaster. They seem to building a callouse on our pysche, such that we can walk by a mirror and notice our hair is on fire and we will merely yawn.
I'm gonna think this can't be good. Maybe I need to get all the seasons of Idol on DVD and put them on infinite repeat, so I can at least pretend that they aren't looting the food king.
Forecast for tommorrow: Sunny with a 90% chance of a shit storm, followed by light fallout and a chance of irradiation, make sure you take your umbrella and wear your I.D. tag around your neck, it is impolite to make it difficult for the recovery teams to identify your remains.
"callouse on our pysche," ... good point ... harden up bitchez
Don't forget the New Madrid Fault and FEMA ordering a bazillion 90 day half life emergency ration packs supposedly delivered to Missouri or some such other news every-body's forgotten about by now.
It just doesn't stop.
No, Level 6 is bullish. Still wrapping my head around the concept, but confident the MSM types are right. /sarasm off
I hope No.8 in pyramide is equal 14 k in Indu Ponzi pyramide
In the meantime ....."neuer Lebensraum" is realizing in china.\ with much empty properties.
...
Never let a nuclear catastrophe go to waste - Radiation cap and trade?
Golden Slacks is working on the prospectus as I write.
Trade? ... IRV or MIRV?
Goldman Sachs no doubt has 100 billion in death insurance CDS on TEPCO out with AIG, which will no doubt be bailed out so it can pay Goldman 100% on the dollar when Hank Paulson calls and bitches at Timmay & Bernbankincide(while Obama practices his Shankopotamus).
So, this is good for 100 to 200 points on the dow tomorrow....right?
The frog is quite comfortable in the gradually heating pan of water on the stove.
From REACTOR STATUS UPDATE 32 ...
"The level of the radioactivity detected is low enough not to do harm to the health of people who take those products or water for a limited time"
WTF - 'LIMITED TIME' ???
Just what is this Limited Time - days, weeks, seconds, hours ???
W T F are these people thinking when making statements like this !!!
Oops, - thinking - never mind.
Off the hook, baby, it's off the muthafuckin' hook:
NEWS ADVISORY: U.S. forces to provide water to cool Fukushima plant: Defense chief KitazawaGot any ideas what that means Jim?
They should be using ultrapurified water instead of the briny deep. They think the tanks are low on site. Most likely the USS Ronald Reagan or another nuclear-powered ship will donate superclean water to recharge the tanks at Daiichi. I guess they could airlift water from Stateside too, or have it at a base someplace.
I don't have any data on the quantities involved. Plus it seems weird that the Japanese don't have it or can't make it what with the dozens of other nuclear plants. But hey, symbolic gesture perhaps.
I suspect more than a gesture.
i.e. some reactors are already beyond help via clean water ... some are not ... yet
Wonder what kind of water?
Recall our Sec of State blurted out that we were sending cooling something early on, which statement seemed to be quickly ruled inoperative.
Is it possible that the US has developed some kind of special weapon for dealing with disrupted reactors? Why wouldn't the defense establishment want to develop (i.e. spend money on) special devices or techniques for dealing with that as part of their war preparation. No one could miss the risks that wars would pose for such events.
I keep hoping someone has paid GE a mint to develop a borax weapon for this stuff. And hopefully one that works.
also, remember that article that caused Denninger to go apoplectic (again) because he read it to say that Obama had conditioned US help on the Japanese agreeing to dismantle the plant. But the article only said that the help the US had offered was 'based' on dismantling the plant, but the Japanese didn't want to do that. It might have been a description of the kind of help available (dismantling), not some take it or leave it condition.
Do we have a dismantling device available?
"Do we have a dismantling device available?"
Yes. It's called Hopium. It fixes economies, markets, wars and radiation leaks. It also removes those embarrassing lipstick stains from your collar. It turns a sandwich into a banquet. Don't be fooled by cheap imitations. Get the real Hopium. Made exclusively in America.
act before midnight and we'll toss in this groovy glow in the dark mood ring (maybe of materials from imported sources).This offer void where prohibited. Not valid in California or Oklahoma on Sundays.
Level six works wonders for international cooperation (protocol invoked repsonses).
Ah, that explains why the US was pushing for a Level-6 declaration on Thurday last week.
any bets when they raise the highest accident level from 7 to 10 so this doesn't look so bad?
sarc/on
As long as big CNBC breasts are reporting at wireless shows and Becky (not so) Quick is blowing Buffett on his G6, all's going to be fine. BTFD!
sarc/off
LOL! Kinda a oxymoron... Becky "Not So" Quick giving her Grandpa Insider a "Quicky"... love it.
Yeah, nothing like the US having strings attached to the BS "Hopium", oh the Irony of the current regime.
This is not super-new news, but haven't seen it here; cesium in Tokyo, about the worst indicator you could get (love how the spin now takes up half the article):
Excessive radioactivity found in Tokyo vegetable
Japan's health ministry says radiation above the legal limit has been detected in a vegetable grown in Tokyo. This is the first time that radioactive cesium exceeding the legal limit has been found in a Tokyo vegetable.
The ministry says the radioactive cesium was detected on Thursday in a leafy vegetable taken from a field in Edogawa ward on Wednesday. The vegetable is called Komatsuna, or Japanese mustard spinach. The radioactive level was 890 becquerels per kilogram, exceeding the legal limit of 500.
The vegetable was grown at a research center, and is not being sold on the market.
The health ministry says that level of radioactivity would not have an adverse effect on health, even if the vegetable was eaten.
Friday, March 25, 2011 05:09 +0900 (JST)
a research center, huh?
All gardens within a 100 kilometer radius of the nuclear reactors are now officially considered "research centers". Food will only be consumed by "test subjects" aka citizens.
what if an earhtquake took this thing out
Three Gorges Damm http://www.businessinsider.com/chinas-three-gorges-dam-really-will-slow-the-earths-rotation-2010-6
Radioactive YELLOW RAIN falling in Tokyo:
http://www.prisonplanet.com/chernobyl-style-yellow-rain-causes-panic-in-...
Authorities assure alarmed citizens yellow powder is pollen, but victims of Chernobyl radiation were told the same thing
Paul Joseph Watson
Prison Planet.com
Thursday, March 24, 2011
Radioactive yellow rain that fell in Tokyo and surrounding areas last night caused panic amongst Japanese citizens and prompted a flood of phone calls to Japan’s Meteorological Agency this morning, with people concerned that they were being fed the same lies as victims of Chernobyl, who were told that yellow rain which fell over Russia and surrounding countries after the 1986 disaster was merely pollen, the same explanation now being offered by Japanese authorities.
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A University of California Daily Bruin article entitled “Remembering Chernobyl,” documents how children in Belarus happily splashed around in puddles of yellow rain having been assured by Russian authorities that it was merely pollen, when in fact it was a toxic mixture of radioactivity that had been blasted from the Chernobyl plant 80 miles away.
The effects of this “pollen” soon confirmed that those puddles of yellow rain contained something far more sinister, namely iodine-131, caesium-137, strontium-90 and plutonium-239.
“Soon, people started losing their hair, pictures of deformed animals sprouted up in independent newspapers, and incidences of cancer in Belarus skyrocketed, Sergieff said. According to the U.N. brief, cases of breast cancer in Belarus doubled between 1988 and 1999, among other increases.”
With levels of radiation emitted by Fukushima now approaching those spewed out by the blast at Chernobyl, as the establishment media bizarrely pretends that the crisis is all but over, seawater samples taken around 330 meters south of the plant confirm that levels of radioactive iodine released are the highest yet recorded.
As we have highlighted, despite UN and World Health Organization studies that claim Chernobyl led to a maximum of 9,000 deaths and 200,000 cases of radiation sickness, more contemporary studies have shown that nearly a million people have been killed from cancers caused by the disaster over the course of the last 25 years.
I never meant to cause Akira any sorrow
I never meant to cause Akira any pain
I only wanted one time to see Akira laughing
I only wanted to see Akira laughing in the yellow rain.
a couple of junk shots and we'll call it a wrap, boys.
Uh, this might be a little more serious. We should go straight to a top kill. That'll do it!
Join the TEPCO Decontamination Team.
Looking for a few good BioSponges.
China may have 64 million apts.....but the envoironment was damaged to get to this point....1.5 Billion poor Chinese will not allow 100 million Japanese to move into them.
There is already a shortage of food....with further likelyhood of nuclear radiation hitting China.
Eastern Asia sits on numerous active fault lines too.
Japanese and Chinese do not mix culturaly historically.
Likely....The whole population of Japan will be invited to emigrate to the US of A.,into all the millions of forclosed homes.
Japan will tear up the US foreign debt owed them.
All industries in Japan will be relocated to the US and just watch how the US turns Protectionist overnight.
Its singular trading partner will be Canada...for all its natural resources.
furthermore....Gold, Oil and Silver will be sold for food and water by China and Japan.
US Mexican border will suddenly have 50' high unpassable walls.
Canada's four Western Provinces w/ its plethora of natural resources and only 12.5 million citizens is already the safest quadrant on the Planet....led by gateway City Vancouver BC.
http://seenoevilspeaknoevilhearnoevil.blogspot.com/2011/03/why-canadas-four-western-provinces-is.html
...You heard it all here first on ZH...
Bullshit'll just happen all over again.
Goldman'll LBO all the 52' ladder makers.
Who the fuck said there couldn't be a successful public/private partnership?
Yes, the wall will be reinforced to impede millions of radioactive Joe Trailertrash Sixpacks from trying to polute South America, where the power elite are hiding.
The smart money is dumping B.C. real estate fulltime three shifts.
Deadly radiation already being detected from Vancouver to Colorado Springs:
http://www.prisonplanet.com/fukushima-radiation-spreading-to-more-u-s-st...
Fukushima Radiation Spreading To More U.S. StatesEPA says some air monitors might not be working properly
Steve Watson
Prisonplanet.com
March 24, 2011
Radiation from the ongoing disaster in Japan is spreading throughout the United States, and while the EPA says the levels are not dangerous, it also admits that some of its radiation-tracking air monitors may not even be working.
Colorado and Oregon are the latest states to report detection of radioactive particles that have drifted over the North Pacific Ocean from the Fukushima plant, some 5000 miles away.
The EPA announced late yesterday that small amounts of iodine-131, a radioactive form of iodine, has been detected by monitors at Grand Junction, Denver, and Colorado Springs in Colorado.
Iodine-131 was also picked up yesterday by monitors in Portland, Oregon.
Hawaii, California and in Washington State previously reported finding trace amounts of radioactive iodine, cesium, and tellurium.
Three air monitors in California at San Francisco, Riverside and Anaheim, as well as one monitor in Seattle, have identified the isotopes and other radioactive particles.
News breaking on Kyoto wire
Reactor 3 vessel may have been damaged.
Translation : oh shit the one with the most toxic stuff is leaking.
Yep - this is about as serious as it can get. The reason they've had to fess up about this is that the type of radioactivity in the basement water that burned the workers yesterday has been officially identified as 'fission products' that could only have come from the leaking core of reactor 3 - you know, the one with the fucking plutonium in it.
NHK reporting that the levels of radiation in the water in the basement of reactor 3 is 10,000 times the level normally found in the reactor core. Yep - 10,000 times! Futures up!
Reactor #2 has the MOX fuel, not 3. But it still doesn't change the seriousness of the situation. #2 is also leaking aperently.
The surviving liquidator engineer from Chernobyl also described an incident, where a colleague had stepped in a puddle of water, and had the sole of the feet burned off.
Reactor 3 exploded, can you dig that. the top is in the turbine room the other half is in the parking lot.