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Japan's Latest Proposal To Contain Fukushima's Radioactive Fallout - A (Circus) Tent
You just can't make this up: proving that Japan can outdo even the Russians when it comes to nuclear crisis "response", Dow Jones reports that the latest scheme to come out of TEPCO is to cover Fukushima with a giant tent. It is unclear if it will have a circus coloration yet. From DJ: "Giant polyester covers will soon be placed around the damaged reactor buildings at Japan's Fukushima nuclear complex to help contain the release of radioactive substances into the atmosphere, the plant operator said Friday. Tokyo Electric Power Co. (TEPCO) will install the first cover at the No. 1 reactor, the focus of recent stabilization efforts, starting next month." This probably means that Japan looked long and hard at the concrete shell option and realized it was impossible, which is true. The problem is that by now the melted cores are not in the complex, but deep beneath it and the radioactivity is actively seeping directly into the soil. And since the polyester tent idea is doomed to failure, it is only a matter of time before the Simpsons dome is firmly in place over a ragion with a radius of about 20 kilometers. Impossible you say? Just wait.
From DJ:
Workers will erect a steel framework and place a giant polyester tent-like cover around the reactor building. Similar covers will be placed around units No. 3 and 4. The work is expected to be completed by the end of the year.
A series of hydrogen explosions blew off the roofs and upper walls of the three reactors in the days after the March 11 earthquake and tsunami knocked out their cooling systems, triggering the overheating of the reactors.
The explosions scattered a large amount of radioactive debris in the area around the reactors. Workers will have to clear the debris near the No. 1 unit so that cranes and other heavy equipment can approach the reactor. TEPCO said it began shifting debris from the area around the unit Friday.
The damaged buildings have come to symbolize the severity of the nuclear crisis at the plant, the worst nuclear accident since Chernobyl in 1986.
The loss of the roofs and filters above the reactors has led to the steady release of radioactive substances from the complex, prompting calls for measures to contain contamination in the surrounding areas.
Artist's impression of this latest Japanese venture:
h/t Joshua
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Designing the Walkman and CD were far easier than dealing with Fuk-U-Shima.
And the world was terrified of Japanese financial domination. NTT had a market cap greater than all of the NYSE, they bought Pebble Beach tried to build massive housing projects forgetting about Coastal Commission approval (and went bankrupt), bought the upper half of Citicorp Center in a condominium arrangement and went long Rockefeller Center.
And how'd all that work out?
Americans were not termed Yankee Traders for naught.
http://theintelhub.com/2011/05/12/alert-emergency-levels-of-japan-nuclea...
I was on Bozo when I was a kid. Mr. Ringmaster had a broken leg, Bozo smoked endless cigarettes. They gave us bottles of blue shoe polish as gifts when we left.
Oh, so you were the kid whining about all the cigarettes. Had to do something to pass the time on that stupid show. And that wasn't shoe polish, it was hair dye.
"the worst nuclear accident since Chernobyl in 1986"
TEPCO has surpassed the Russians. Either the scale needs to be increased to "10" or Chernobyl and 3 mile Island needs to fall. I feel so sorry for the Japan people, but TEPCO has top honors as this will be a scar forever.
Just imagine, the US can not get people to allow the government to store spent fuel rods in salt pits deep under the earth. Well, Japan is providing a new storage technique on the surface of the earth next to an ocean.
"since" Chernobyl?
WTF?
And no, Nagasaki and Hiroshima were not accidents.
Who the fuck thinks this shit up?
Tepco is the nuclear accident to end all nuclear accidents.
But . . . it only costs $5 an oz. to get a global radioactive atmospheric plume out of the ground.
another phrase to add to the zerohedge lexicon
shall it be "fukushima tent" or "tepco tent"
"cluster tent" ... as in cluster tent the bond market ... etc.
"Operation BIG SHEEEET is a go."
This is bullish for Barnum and bailey.
not even the gods can pray under the shao-lin tent of power
And radiation's effect on polyester is...?
Radiation?
Who cares?
What about the heat, like One Bazillion Degrees Kelvin? Shit'll melt.
Like right through the earth's crust, so don't start any crapola about polyabsobinatemobettaheadbreatherbagoliner don't melt.
Fukushima will be turned into the world's largest open air clothes dryer.
You'll see clothes lines for miles.
They will become China's laundry mat.
No ticky no laundryThey are trying to shrink wrap Fukushima?
Well, this project will give new meaning to the old warning: now we'll be looking for the nose of the camel coming out of the tent.
Clowns love tents. Clowns in the Lame Stream Media love face paint. Clowns want to keep you under their tent of consciousness.
Breaking news ...
a Video of Pippa Middleton dancing Salsa in her Dad pants has been LEAKED on the Internet
on other News
...
The Nuclear plan at Fukushima will keep LEAKING for years.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/may/13/fukushima-reactor-meltdown-flooding-warning?commentpage=all#start-of-comments
The real plan is giant fans to blow the radiation away..
TEPCO has become a clown show, so why not put them under a circus tent? They are making the 1980's Soviet Union look like a team of professionals! And that ain't easy!
Is a union shop going to erect this HEPA certified tent. ?
Oh..........The scabs can have this one, and you promise not to put a big blowup blue rat at the gate entrance .................................?
Only this one time................................!
pinky swear-x
At least a circus tent would finally make a spectacle out of this minor incident.
Is that a tent on your reactor, or are you just happy to see me
What a waste of time! Think of the risk of human life. I would like to see the CEO setting up that Circus tent!
Under the Tent, Disney will sponsor 'TEPCO on Ice' at their new Fukushima Theme Park.
In other news, they say the Tent will be made out of the same material those pleated HEPA furnance filters are.
WTF does this have to do with containing the release of radioactivity? Someone, bring in the clowns.
Wow that Simpson gag was really funny
So BAC, WFC, JPM and others should likewise tent all their foreclosures so no one can see the growing extent of the residential meltdown and the upcoming explosion in the shadow inventory problem.
Just was able to get the NILU site through weatheronline.co.uk
http://www.weatheronline.co.uk/weather/news/fukushima?LANG=en&VAR=niluhe...
As long as people within a major ass radius of Fukushima don't eat anything, drink anything or breathe, they'll be absolutely fine.
They should also wrap their skin and anything they plan on touching or handling in Doc Marten's anti-nuclear particle shield.
Like the CPI ex-food and air.
Brilliant!
Perhaps this is the new location for Guantanamo prisoners although I would much prefer it for the bankstas. TEPCO now stands for: Terrorist (and other) Evil People Containment Operation
There is a precedent. During the summer of '45, Japanese civilians were issued pails to fight the fires resulting from hundreds of tons of napalm carpet-dropped over their homes and businesses. I officially despair for the Japanese people, and for the rest of us sorry SOB's.
Do you mean to imply that the U.S. Government lied to American school teachers and school children when instructing them to duck and cover under their plywood school desks (attached to plastic chair) in the event of a Nuclear Holocaust exchange between the U.S. & Soviet Union?
How dare you!
/sarc
That's right, I'm a parlor pink defeatist! (sarc squared)
Nah! They should use one of these:
http://static.panoramio.com/photos/original/1539934.jpg
Or how about this?
http://www.panoramio.com/photo/3490237
The Millenium Dome - now known as the O2.
In London.
I am really not feeling the humor in all of this.
Wow, hey everybody, here's someone still with hope!
Actually that has depleted some time ago. This story is very depressing to me and I am amazed how it has fallen off the world's radar.
I feel it too, man.
People trip on MDMA every once in a while because of these things... gives quite a snapback.
Can you say TARP? Hey the US knows all about TARP's.
+1
Fukushima Prefecture certainly qualifies as a toxic asset.
Coming to think of it, doesn't the hot, open reactors, or rather what's left of'em, create a perfect spot for tornadoes? Yikes.
ZHs excellent timely coverage of this disaster has far eclipsed any in print or anywhere else, congrats!
___
edit
That wasn't sarcastic. I've said ZH did the best reporting on this weeks and weeks ago.
And by "timely" I meant it.
Yeah, frontline will do a piece a year from now but ZH did it in real time, as it was happening.
I was one of the first to say so.
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I had to LOL at your edit.
Now you know the price you have to pay to troll.
i'm very sympathetic; my shorts have a tent in them.
polyester. polyester? oh well, we trust them b/c they know best, right?
riiiiiight!
Hope they remember to close that tent flap at the front.
This is only a tentative idea. Tentatively speaking. They're still trying to find an industrial sized zipper manufacturer.
+100. Funny, the Tepco symbol even looks a little like Mickey Mouse.
so fuking what?
LOL, tears
Gunderson's latest: http://vimeo.com/23680177
Someone at Tepco must read Zerohedge.
by bbq on whitehou...on Sat, 04/02/2011 - 16:52
#1128440
"Maybe they could put a tarp over the buildings and vent the gas into someplace safer. Filter it or something.
Sound silly. Maybe; do you have a better idea then venting into the open air. Concrete will not stop the venting. So controling the venting is the next best thing.
Im sure NASA could come up with a good tarp (gold foil) or something that would work.
The leaking into the ocean is a tougher nut. You could wall of that area of the ocean and try to treat it.
Not that anyone wants ideas from the peanut gallery, still you never know."
Do i get a cookie :)
When I saw they weren't going to do a damn thing last month, I decided I'd just 'wall off my own little piece of the Pacific' by buying 125 cans of 2015 dated pre-Fuku-ed tuna and 75 cans of 2016 dated salmon, and when the next longer-dated 2016-2017 cans hit the shelves in a few months, before the bluefin make their 3 month migration from East Honshu coastal waters where they spawn, to the eastern Pacific westcoast US waters from Washington to Baja for the 2012 tuna season, I'm going 'wall-off' maybe 50% more.
At some point in 2012 buyers will be shunning Pacific tuna and salmon like they are now avoiding Gulf of Toxico shellfish and other species, and the Atlantic alternatives will be going for a premium.
Well, maybe Ann Coulter will be buying the Pacific stuff in her belief that a little new-fin tuna and other slightly irradiated new species are good for you.
The East Coast of Japan in that area is subject to the full fury of North Pacific storms. How will those tents do in a 100 KPH gale? They may end up in nTokyo.
Polyester. Back in the '70's dear old Grandma made a quilt of polyester scraps. We gave it the nickname of "The Apocalypse Quilt" as it IS indestructible.
like samurai leather armor against a gatling gun
and the circus boss leans over, whispers in the little boy's ear...
"Hey son, you wanna try the Big Top?"
All aboard, Nebraska's our next stop.
The sad part is either:
a) They are completely out of options.
b) They are in a drunken stupor and see this as a moment of lucidity.
Either way its bad news so stocks should go up.
Called my Tofu dealer today just to get confirmation where he sources his Soya.
He told me not to go long on Soy Sauce
Kikkoman soy sauce is made in Wisconsin!
And talking about food, the HAARP manager probably came up with the funny; "Quake and Bake and I hepped'"
I guess now you can officially call this operation a cover-up.
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&rls=com.microsoft%3Aen-us&biw=1227&bih=649&tbm=isch&sa=1&q=fumigation+tent&aq=f&aqi=&aql=&oq=
Well so much for the supposition that 'They can't make this any worse.'. I'm thinking something along these lines: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F54rqDh2mWA I mean you'll not only be containing radiation but everything else being produced from the reactions taking place in there. Next thing you know there will be little clown cars driving around with suited workers wearing big shoes throwing Dixie cups of water at this thing or showering it with seltzer bottles. This face saving that's been commented on won't do any good when it looks like the end scene from Raiders of the Lost Ark and that country is clawing it's collective eyes out because everything around them is glowing with radiation. The fact that the MSM is not carrying this is no surprise, can't upset the masses. No surprise the EPA isn't monitoring this(publicly), wouldn't want to scare the sheeples. How soon until we have to start growing all our food in high tunnels or greenhouses because the 'acid rain' of the past comes back as the 'black rain' they experienced before? The cowardice and deceit of governments and corporations knows no bounds.
hate to say this, but the amerikan "major media" is now as GOON STUPID as the japanese, russians (and, hell, throw in N. Koreans) - AT THEIR WORST.
I mean, for decades the fluff-ball & slober-ball (calling chris mathews) "expert commentators", network anchors, and other blow-dried talking heads have been a tellin' us that "NUCLEAR IS SAFE!" now that we have considerable evidence to the contrary.... they just switch topics & keep on babbling, like, you know, cows chewing their cud.
Good metaphor for US "mainstream media" - ol' Bessie contendedly chewing her cud!
"chewing her cud"....L like, especially stupid Chris Mathews...what a waste of time, but most have not seen a cow...much less understand chewing her cud.
One word.
"Plastics."
cirque de becquerel
Scotty, Beam me friggin UP!!, NOW.
Don't give up hope yet. They still haven't called on Ultraman and the Science Patrol.
Wouldn't a giant geodesic dome make sense? You could build a hemisphere, and then work down around the edges until you hit bedrock.
this idea is pretty much on par with the brain power we've got running the show right now.
every time you think its impossible for them to come up with a worse idea , they come up with a WORSE idea !
need a massive heat sink under reactors
to deal with molten fuel..
suggest boron glass..
then build massive swimming pool around the rest...
but what the heck ..tent sounds fun ..
Yep tents are fun, but I'm in slideout trailers and ruffing it.
Fukushima, Japans largest campground. Easy made smores, quick cookin hotdogs and plenty of fun, for all ages.
Old bacteria filled hot dog? No problem, irradiated meat facility, on hand, 24/7.
Polyester is SO '70s...
someone posted this solution on a zero hedge forum two months ago.
Just goes to show that all the wisdom in the world can be found at zero hedge. You just may have to dig for it.
listen...!....denigger said this is all HYPE so just forget what you just read.
listen...!....denigger said this is all HYPE so just forget what you just read.
De nigger, must be a shill now. Not everybody can go from cunt to text, so well.
We discussed entombment, giant dirt berms to make a pool, pushing the goddamn thing into the ocean, nuking it from orbit, and various structures here at ZH. Seemed like we left off at a heavy duty frame with 'tear off' walls due to the fact that the typhoons will tear the roof off the sucker.
It's not whether it withstands a typhoon, it's how fast can you replace it.
The airflow and potential for filtering is the real crux of it. Air can be filtered of these strontium/cesium radionuclides but it's staggering to consider the amount of airflow that would be required here. I have heard exactly nothing about any planning for that.
So, while the rainbow unicorn circus tent per se is pretty ridiculous it's not that far off from what the drunken, foolhardy, irreverent lot here at ZH came up with. I started off with the 'upside down Cowboys Stadium' (because of the need for lots of structure for typhoon survival, instrumentation, air venting, robotic cranes etc.) and ended up with the 'tearaway walls/filters on a frame' (although I thought it would be heavier, and have the HVAC air systems built into it) so....hey, maybe they did listen.
LOL how insane would that be?
Still, without a way to gain some control of the water and air circulations, you can't call it real progress. But if they have an irradiated tent instead of an irradiated countryside maybe that's not so bad. Until the next 'event' occurs at any of the dozen hot spots at the site.
Funny how everytime there is an insurmountable problem the solution tends to always be to TARP it.
Accelerative Queasing?
"TEPCO Alternative Relief Project"
but what if the tent is successful in keeping the radioactivity from escaping? Won't that tend to increase the amt. of radioactivity close to and around the reactor and make it more difficult to get workers inside to do whatever the heck it is they need to do? Surely, no air purification system would be even close to 100% effective, so the more the tent does its job of restraining radioactivity, the worse it gets inside? Assuming the tent's purpose is to restrain vs. hide.
re air filtering
didn't they install an air filtering system in #1 just a week or so ago, then the next thing was the announcement that they were throwing the doors open (at night) so they could let the interior radiation escape so workers could get inside. And right after the doors were opened, they said they were removing the purification system.
That didn't sound like an overwhelming vote of 'yeah, it worked' for the air purification system they've already tried.
Well somebody had better fucking FIGURE IT OUT then, eh?
I know it can be done--it's done all the time for normal spent fuel storage pools. But at vastly less volume.
This is the kind of issue we should be hearing about in great detail. Instead, nada.
The tent will also serve the purpose of hiding the reator building that is leaning to one side, so when it falls no one will notice. They might ask what all that noise was, but I'm sure they will blame it on a janitor that tripped over an extension cord.
Follow the link to read the open letter sent to NILU regarding their suspension of Fukushima Radiation Emission reports. This is a serious development that concerned readers should be aware of:
http://redpillfactory.blogspot.com/2011/05/norsk-institutt-for-luftforsk...
......this also is chasing after the wind.
Hurry, hurry, hurry!
Melt ....right ....down!
Finally a buyer for the London Millenium Dome
maybe they could shoot it in the eye...worked for the obo.
Guam just had 228 cases of "food poisoning". It's not food poisoning. It's radiation sickness.
Shit take all the capital domes and cap that bitch, repeatedly. Let all the politicians, sit under tents and drink a special blend of koolaid.
enjoy the camping site - S. Berlusconi
And on top of the TEPCO Circus Tent the Red flag :
welcome to Japan's T E P C O a Circus of TRAGIC EPIC COMEDY :))
Japan's T E P C O the house of TRAGIC EPIC COMEDY :))
you're allowed to laugh only outside the 6000 mile exclusion zone.
JP Morgue Increases Physical Silver in New Vault 39% in 2 Days During Manipulative Take-Down!
http://silverdoctors.blogspot.com/2011/05/jp-morgue-increases-physical-s...
Has anybody said this yet???
We always knew the damage would be "in tents."
Squeeky Fromm, Girl Reporter
Squeeky, I am speechless.
Congratulations.
I cannot bring myself to ask the questions weighing gravely upon my psyche.
Intensities...in tent cities
What I wanna know is where TF is the banzai charge on the reactor core? What ever happened to bushido?! During WWII, thousands of Jap soldiers fearressry charged into heavy machine gun fire and kamikazied ships for a hoperess cause? Now, the whole damn isrand is getting irradiated, putting millions of their ferrow citizens' lives and futures at risk, and they can't get a miserable thousand heroic volunteers to shut these reactors down or entomb them? A mere few decades ago, the TEPCO officers and board would have already honorably committed sempuku (televised in the modern era), disemboweling themselves, trusting their "second" to lop off their ukraniums before they cry out and rooze face. Have the Nips become sissified dawgs too?
Now I know were **cked.
Follow the link to read the open letter sent to NILU regarding their suspension of Fukushima Radiation Emission reports. This is a serious development that concerned readers should be aware of:
http://redpillfactory.blogspot.com/2011/05/norsk-institutt-for-luftforsk...
...and to top it off for the evening, a 6.2 quake (largest in the last month) just struck off Honshu a little while ago...bidness as usual....
http://www.iris.edu/seismon/zoom/?view=eveday&lon=137&lat=39
Holy cow, Jim. Plug the coordinates into google earth and you can measure just over 33 kilometers from the epicenter to Fukushima.
This may be the one that took out reactor 4's building and SFP.
We shouldn't have long to wait to find out.
For perspective, a little 5.1 damaged buildings, flattened at least one and killed 8 people in Spain just a few days ago. Crossed fingers......
Edit: It's been five hours now and no fresh reports of disaster that I can find, so hopefully this is another bullet dodged.
The TBS/JNN live feed shows everything looking pretty normal from a distance so hopefully it just shook 'em up a bit.
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Oh, heck, a little more cheer for Friday the 13th (almost over in the Midwest)
From NHK:
Radioactive cesium detected in tea leaves
Radioactive material above designated safety limits has been detected in tea leaves harvested in 5 municipalities in Kanagawa Prefecture, neighboring Tokyo.
The prefectural government checked samples of leaves harvested in 15 municipalities in the region.
Officials say that samples from 5 of those were found to contain unsafe levels of radioactive cesium.
They say 780 becquerels of cesium were detected in tea leaves in Odawara City, 740 becquerels in Kiyokawa Village, 680 becquerels in Yugawara Town, 670 becquerels in Aikawa Town and 530 becquerels in Manazuru Town.
The Kanagawa prefectural government has asked the affected municipalities and the local farmers' cooperative to voluntarily halt shipments for the time being.
It says it will repeat the tests in these towns and villages when tea leaves are harvested next month.
The survey comes after 570 becquerels of radioactive cesium per kilogram -- exceeding the provisional state limit of 500 -- were detected in products from Minami Ashigara City on May 9th.
Friday, May 13, 2011 21:27 +0900 (JST)
TEPCO searching for 'missing' radioactive water
The operator of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant is trying to locate thousands of tons of radioactive water that has leaked from one of the damaged reactors.
Tokyo Electric Power Company, or TEPCO, says contaminated water is apparently leaking from the No.1 reactor, which is in a state of meltdown.
TEPCO has injected more than 10,000 tons of water into the reactor since the March 11th disaster damaged the plant. But, less than half that amount is believed to remain in the reactor or its container vessel.
The utility says the leaked water is likely in the basement of the reactor building -- still a no-go zone due to concerns over high radiation levels.
TEPCO is considering using remote-controlled robots to check the situation, but says the wireless links needed to control them may not reach the basement and that it has to explore other options as well.
Injected water is continuing to stabilize the reactor, but any radioactive water that has leaked could hamper the effort.
TEPCO says it hopes to come up with ways to retrieve and purify contaminated water to use it to cool the reactor again.
Friday, May 13, 2011 21:27 +0900 (JST)
Kyodo urgent bulletin:
URGENT: Man dies after collapsing during Fukushima plant workTOKYO, May 14, Kyodo
A worker at the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant died Saturday shortly after collapsing while he was carrying materials at a building, the operator said.
http://english.kyodonews.jp/news/2011/05/91037.html
Kanagawa Prefecture, where those radioactive tea leaves were discovered, is south of Tokyo. Over 250 kilometers from the power plant.
Their agricultural contamination problems are much more widespread than admitted up to this point.
Last week there was a report of feeding restrictions for cattle, both milk and beef, in Chiba Prefecture, which is east and slightly south of Tokyo. In Chiba grass in the open was too contaminated and farmers were required to switch to imported hay.
Chiba and Tokyo are approximately the same distance from Fukushima - ca. 220km
Jim, that's the first confirmed fatality related to this situation, correct? Of course, he could have died from a MI or some congenital disorder. Or at least that's what we will hear.
More importantly, either TEPCO has suddenly become more forthcoming or things have seriously deteriorated over the past week or so. Maybe to the point where they no longer see the need to hide the truth. Thoughts?
Frankly, I would not be sleeping easy if I were in Tokyo these days...
Several workers (two for sure) died in the initial event; this new person is also unlikely to be a radiation-related fatality. But the industrial accident aspects of this, including the warning from medical experts that contract workers could be 'worked to death' and the problems with food, rest and safety equipment, lend salience to this incident despite its coincidental nature.
I think there is a strange kind of 'disaster whitewash fatigue' setting in. They are too shell-shocked and busted to keep maintaining the story for the media. They try but in fits and starts. Parts of the government and perhaps even TEPCO are not coordinated. And there is a lot of media, academic and non-profit attention now mobilized. The whole facade, as well as the plant, is breaking down and being patched daily.
I do think that water and gravity are continuing to compromise the plant systems and it does not seem to be going TEPCO's way. Sadly.
More wierd stories: previously unreported 'highly radioactive substance' was found in metro Tokyo sewage sludge incinerator in late March....more of that kind of thing all the time....
So finally some of the MSM starting to report on this story again:
http://inthearena.blogs.cnn.com/2011/05/13/kaku-this-is-a-ticking-time-b...
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/may/13/fukushima-reactor-meltdown-f...
The following is a great comment posted on the Guardian, under todays article about the reactor 1 meltdown:
"The most revealing thing to date regarding the media coverage of Fukushima is the staggering extent of external corporate control over what the major news outlets are allowed to cover and publish.
I'm guessing that editors were ordered to pull all their reporters out of Japan and send them off to cover less sensitive topics like the Royal Wedding and so on.
This is because at least three large sectors of the corporate plutocracy - nuclear reactor manufacturers, uranium mining concerns, and their financial backers (banks and commodity traders) had all been counting on a large flow of cash from the misguided 'nuclear renaissance' that they'd spent millions of dollars promoting, both in the press and in the various government bodies (huge lobbying and advertising budgets, right?).
It turns out that the same large banks that invest heavily in nuclear and uranium mining also invest heavily in corporate media, not for the lucrative returns (obviously not) but rather as a means of controlling the information landscape as part of their central goal: protecting corporate profits.
This particularly impacts those with Australian and Canadian uranium mine holdings, by the way - with major operators like Paladin Capital (chaired by neocon activist and Iraq WMD hype specialist, ex CIA-director James Woolsey) looking to take huge losses. Other big losers are Extract Resources, Energy Resources of Australia, Cameco Corp, and Uranium One Inc.
This is of course one of the dirtiest mining operations imaginable, one which contaminates water resources all over the world, from Africa to Canada to Australia, while generating massive amounts of radioactive mine tailings.
But never mind all that, who made Kate's dress again? Wasn't it fabulous?"
I'd like five minutes in a dark alley with Michio Kaku's smug little arrogant face. Still talking about "potential" meltdowns and TEPCO "incompetence". That's the fallback position the media is going to take to avoid common understanding of the fact that TEPCO isn't incompetent. They're lying, scheming criminals willing to destroy lives to save their own financial hide. Kaku was one of the first MSM "experts" I saw singing the "Nothing significant to worry about and no immediate danger to human health" refrain. Now he's trying to pretend he "called it" all along. Whore.
And this..from the Guardian article. Corporate/Government fascism at it's finest:
TEPCO pays part of the damages, but will raise rates to cover the cost. Taxpayers get to do the rest. Stock and bondholders get their butts covered at the expense of taxpayers and higher electric bills for all.
grrrrrrr
We're gonna need a lot 'o rope....
Shit. Asahi Shimbun just got ahold of a secret 100-page report from inside TEPCO. Double-barrel headline for Saturday 5/14:
TEPCO concealed radiation data before explosion at No. 3 reactorTokyo Electric Power Co. concealed data showing spikes in radiation levels at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant in March, one day before a hydrogen explosion injured seven workers.
http://www.asahi.com/english/TKY201105130370.html
Accurate data destroys optimistic TEPCO assessment, hampers cooling planhttp://www.asahi.com/english/TKY201105130192.html
These bastards should hang. I knew in my heart they were hiding critical information, yet when it's proven I'm still shocked and angry. I guess it's hard to give up that last shred of hope that maybe they're just incompetent instead of criminal. Shot out.....
Now we'll get to see if this revelation can get legs or if their control of media is as thorough and complete as it is here. I'm afraid I know the answer.
grrrrrr
That Asahi Shimbun article is as close to investigative journalism as I've seen from a Japanese source. Any bets on whether or not they'll post the whole 100 page document on the net for all to see? Not holding my breath.....
grrrrrrr
Polyester degrade's pretty rapidly in sunlight
Adam and Jamie, the Mythbusters, built a lead balloon, perhaps they could help the Japanese in building a lead tent?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E1G8wTjB--Q&feature=related
DavidC
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Those crazy Canucks think the food chain will be affected:
http://www.aslo.org/lo/toc/vol_40/issue_4/0779.pdf
http://www.nrcresearchpress.com/doi/abs/10.1139/f97-287
One of the authors is not on any lists of dead microbiologists, buut M. Motycka did die in a workplace accident in 2008.
Have they tried top kill, top hat, or junk shot yet?