This page has been archived and commenting is disabled.
Radiation In Ibaraki Rises To 300 Times Normal As Fukushima Evacuated, DOCOMO To Limit Up To 80% Of Voice Calls In Chiba, Ibaraki, 50% In Tokyo
A choppy futures session has seen some modest profit-taking in line with Nikkei trading, following news that all TEPKO personnel around Fukushima are to be evacuated due to abnormally high radiation levels. Keep an eye on the Japanese market for an indication of where we open tomorrow.A somewhat bigger problem is that according to Bloomberg, which has now caught up to our radiation reporting by prefecture, the radiation in Ibaraki has reached 15,800 nanosieverts/hour at 11:40 am, which is 300 times normal. The spin: this is one third the amount of radiation in a chest X-ray. What is not mentioned is that an X-ray is exposure measured in one instant, whereas in this case the irradiation goes on for hour, after hour, after hour. And some other unpleasant news: NTT DOCOMO has announced it will limit up to 80% of voice calls in neighboring Chiba and Ibaraki prefectures, and up to 50% in Tokyo. Whether this is to conserves some mystical telephonic energy or to prevent the spread of panic is unclear. As this latest news is digested watch for the drift.
This is how futures looked like at last check:
And here is a handy summary of the Japanese crisis so far from Reuters:
»
- 21673 reads
- Printer-friendly version
- Send to friend
- advertisements -
Fema Camps are open for business. How many Americans are gladly going to line up to get in one of these things?
as long as burgers/fries/soda are free.
may be this is why...
http://aadivaahan.wordpress.com/2011/03/16/american-cross-nuclear-rumbles/
ORIon
Yeah, and they said people were panicking...so they could get their puts and calls off the table...ass-wipes in Wall Street, Washington, and the TPTB.
More dead leaders not on T.V. needed, STAT.
Will the World look at Japanese goods as 'contaminated' from here on out?
Would you want a car or computer that's setting off a geiger counter?
Or would this NEVER be an issue? Is this crazy talk?
Thoughts appreciated.
all laptops, smart phones, and digital camera/video equipment have many components that are made in Japan, particularly in Sendai area.
"that are made in Japan"
that WERE made in Japan...fixed it for you.
We are all old Farts NUM NUTS!
Depends on the events that unfold. Given the worst combination of events and circumstances, Japan may not be any worse off then the NW US and the rest of us living under the jet stream.
When the shit hits the fan, they WILL have martial law here. Isn't that what they desire to get initially?
Most made in China now.
Japan moved into overpriced labor starting 20 years ago, thus the rise of slave labor in China.
Japan then moved up the food chain to research and engineering, high end food crops, speculation, circa U.S. 1971.
Invest in Japanese financial engineering firms - as 'Gordon Geko V 2.O Japan' is now operational.
Not entirely true. Most are assembled, not made, in China. On the other hand, they still make high-end stuff at home. For example, Nikon still makes its high-end DSLRs and lenses in its Sendai Facility
You are correct about that part. As mentioned here a few days ago, Japan learned early that manufacturing in China resulted in massive losses from intellectual property infringement and brought the really hi-tech stuff home. So what do you expect to happen in general when they cannot deliver those high-end DSLRs for about 12 months and the Japanese insurance companies are selling all their US government bonds to raise money to pay their claims? Not to mention their business interruption insurance? And then everyone else there is in the same boat? What will this do to USD/JPY? What will it do to USM11? Hint....you should have thought of this last Friday when your jaw hit your desk. Sure wish I had. It happened to USD/JPY Wednesday after the close. The bernank overruled a cancelled POMO to try to keep USM11 in the upper end of its range. Wonder how long that will work?
California has a lot of homes available,,,, CHEAP!
Come spend awhile while the 'rock' cools.
Where's Arnold when you need him pitchin' CaleeeefourKneeAaaaa?
BATAAN DEATH MARCH BITCHEZ!
Languagesen>ar GoogleCE ?? ???The chinese are giggling and high-fiving each other; rape of Nanking, etc. etc. lot of etc. actually.
Fuck the Chinese! They are fucking stupid animals. They just conveniently forget that Mao killed far more of them than the Japs ever did since 1600.
What is simply dumbfounding to me is that many Amerikans have notta clue or concern over this. I was at tire place today getting 2 new ones... and nobody knew what the heck I was talking about when I asked about the Japanese Nuclear Plant Status. There was one 19 yo kid who worked there playing some rudamentary video game on a PC and I asked him what was currently going on in Japan and he shugged and said "don't know", then went back to his game.
+++ This. I've been informing my friends/family about this, and they think i'm retarded.
Nobody cares about potential nuclear holocaust as long as Glee and American Idol are on.
You speak for no-one and save every-one.
I kept telling people I know to get some KI while they still could a few days ago. They all laughed at me being stupid.
I got some KI a few months ago. I never told anyone because I don't enjoy being an object of derision. Even now I don't dare call my parents in Oregon to suggest they purchase some. The suggestion would not be acted on and they would regret that their offspring is a fool that listens to fear-mongers. I'm already "suspect" with my silver-buying and food hoarding!
You have done the right thing. Prepare for the worst but hope for the best. IMHO silver won't cut it. IMHO cigarettes and ammo will far more likely function as currency when everything else is in deep shit.
You are well read. We pay attention.
I talked about this today in a class of Junior College students. I spent five minutes talking about the nuclear reactors in Fukushima, showed a video about the specific problems (maps, illiustrations, explanations).
A young woman raised her hand and asked "So what does all this nuclear stuff mean anyways?"
God bless her for asking - but holy shit.
WE ARE DOOMED.
I don't know, maybe the dumb ones help us move forward (?).
99% were wrapped in their blankies, hitting the iPod and Facebook to sooth any dissonance.
I'd say 10% really got it, and these were Juniors in college and 5% were over 30. The funny thing is the over 30's got it, they knew exactly what I was talking about. I don't know if it was age or generational; I really don't.
However, far too many just did not grasp the effect on their lives, no grasp.
Good kids, good intentions - just buried in mental fudge and marshmallow and corn syrup.
Thanks to our great public education systems set up by the oligarchies, our future generations have been successfully reduced to the mental state of domestic pets to the oligarchies.
the three primates?
I think the words you were looking for are:
Eloys and Murlocks.
Were you any different at their age? Sure, you had no iPod. And you had no Facebook.
You were probably more interested in the lingerie section of the Sears catalogue than in "nuclear stuff".
Would it matter? You will always be a friend.
Yeah, that case here as well. Woefully ignorant.
Pete,
Sell your PSLV. Buy Monster Boxes from Tulving. Maybe buy some shares of Central Fund or something similar to that.
Does that help you now?
At least the Nikkei is up, thank god!
Is that is how it's going to happen here in the US? Some horrible disaster, thousands dead, but the stock markets are still up for the day so no one panics?
Hey, so I haven't lived in an English speaking country for a while now, so no constant TV and radio for about 10 years. I watch the markets for a heads up on something important happening like an alien invasion or a cure for cancer, generally a pretty good system to damp the noise away from the signal.
But I gotta say, the last couple of years has been harsh because the markets aren't really a good reporting system anymore; strange stuff happens in the world where we might expect a powerful response, but nothing much happens. It's been like a football stadium filled with folks who don't realize the game has started. This last week takes the cake - the market elbow bone is not connected to anything anymore, its surreal.
"It's been like a football stadium filled with folks who don't realize the game has started."
No, it's like a football stadium were the home team keeps conceding goals, but the score on the screen shows they are winning and there's a group of cheerleaders at the front are cheering the team and shouting "we're number one". Some of the crowd realize what's going on and start saying, "but we are losing," so they move more cheerleaders around them to shout them out.
The rest of the crowd doesn't know what to make of it, so bury their head in their hotdogs and say, "I don't really understand what's happening, but it is a good show."
Now on CNN the scroll at the bottom says the workers went back into the plant. With all the lying TEPKO has done up till this point, who knows what to believe anymore.
Anderson Cooper must be a rerun as the MIT guy just shit himself again upon hearing the workers had left.
WTF, Japan has been secretely stockpiled Plutonium, a byproducts of old-generation reactors while the latest tech doesn't produce Plutonium. Today they have enought Pu to make 4000 nuclear bombs. USA needs to fully investigate the purpose of these stockpiles while Japam knew how to make an bomb inside out thru hundreds of reactors. They are hidding somethings don't want the rest of world to know.
It's been an open secret, and actually they have been encouraged to do so with the blessings from Washington.
MOX.
It's what's for dinner (at nuclear power plants, poorly run, by incompetent corporations - no, criminally liable corporations), apparently.
do you have ANY evidence of your accusations?
still waiting...
Give me a baseball bat and 5 minutes with TEPCO CEO and I'll extract a signed confession.
Now go back to sniffing glue and drinking Kool-Aid.
Somebody ought to put a baseball bat to your head too.
Somebody ought to put a baseball bat to your head too.
Why?
Because you object to the accuracy of his remarks?
This was never done but maybe Japan should be preparing for a evacuee?
Coming to the USA with all your technology, know-how, and money, please.
Folks say we have a bunch of FEMA camps...
Back again! Love the svelte right turn! ARRRR!
How and to where? Are you think ing about 120 million people moving to the southern end of the island? What kind of evacuation?
It like when (and if) the USD collapses -- only the first group will get out -- then a threshold will be reached that will move into exponential growth. Too late.
In the case of Japan, anyone who is getting out is probably already gone or in process of boarding a plane now.
For some levity, because the shit gets depressing -
Mark Dice tries to buy a .99 cent taco at Taco Bell with a $50 gold eagle coin (worth $1400), and can't because the drive-thru employee won't take it:
Buying a 99¢ taco with 1 ounce gold coin (worth $1400)Sorry for the drift, but it has to be seen. It's so epic.
WTF. About 20 years ago, they called cops because I used a dollor coin to pay for a BigMac meal in a small town in Maine and they believed I used a fake coin.
I saw that one and other(s) he has done ... I really want to see his smirking face the day someone drops it into their pocket and gives him 17.50 change. He was pretty fast to present the ferns.
To be fair, he admitted the risk upfront, and basically said he did NOT want to end up with the world's most expensive ever Taco Bell crap taco.
I don't understand your point. I've seen this guy before and he brow beats strangers on the street - automatically generating a defensive response. Why would a Taco Bell employee take it? Now go to a Taquaria and explain to the owner that the coin is worth $1400 - and they'll sell you a taco. Any why wouldn't someone just go to a coin shop to sell it first?
Not to quibble, but I think he's effectively demonstrating how ignorant average Americans are when it comes to the value of gold and real money coins, which speaks to the fact that America, and let's be brutally honest, is a nation of brain washed debt slaves who believed cotton thread linen has inherent value, because some assholes with alleged impeccable credentials keep telling them that.
I agree that most people don't understand the nature of the debt-money system, and the value of a counter-party free money. But I think the situation is designed to fail. She works for a mega-corporation. She wouldn't get to keep the gold coin, so what's in it for her to take a risk? She'd rather have the FRN's because that keeps her job. Not one more nut job at the window. But she could tell it was worth something.
Have him take it to a Taco Truck and the owner will take it in a heartbeat.
If she was clever or street smart, she'd have known that a gold eagle was a bonanza, pretend to put it in the till, but do a stealthy swap into her own pocket for a FRN to pay for the shit taco, and made more in 5 seconds than she will in 2 months.
She probably thought it was a token for Chuck E. Cheese, though.
No that would be stealing and she would lose her job and maybe go to jail.
Maybe she knew the coin was a fake chinese copy.
That's Nice work, thats about it! I need a beard and a BUD! Nice thoughts Ahmeexnal. I'll shoot some potash up the warp drive. Sorry I was watching trading places today on the plane we had old dvd's. We are fixed.
some dumb trading Asian, mostly mega funds and banks buying trying to keep everything above the 100MA...
everything is so stretched to the downside, this aint no relief rally
That place is fucked. Mass evacuation is in order, but the logistics would be difficult. Probably can't do it.
But folks, babbling about the jetstream or the USA getting devastated by these events is insanely wrong and irresponsible fear-mongering. Japan is just too far away for this to "hurt" US residents.
Please.
Please.
http://qed.princeton.edu/getfile.php?f=Radioactive_fall-out_from_the_Chernobyl_accident.jpg
http://www.ki4u.com/illwind.htm
http://bluestarchronicles.com/2011/03/12/nuclear-reactor-meltdown-in-japan-fall-out-map-where-will-the-nuclear-fall-out-go/
Don't just link to it. Understand it.
Very useful link CP:
http://www.ki4u.com/illwind.htm
So why is the smart money starting to dump real estate in Vancouver?
just how liquid is real estate in Vancouver that it could be 'dumped' in 5 days?
Research WWII fire bomb balloons...
just in, denial trades as JPY goes ballistic...Japan is gonna suck money out of the global economy.
* Japan life insurer - Reports of repatriation untrue, haven't sold foreign bond assets, converted proceeds intro JPY, holding on to Japanese assets too -Jiji.*
* Radiation at quake-damaged nuclear facility in Fukushima soaring, reports some*Glenn Beck guides us younger folks through this..... WUT?
Charlatans!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-_35vuKzAVc
^^GLENN BECK calling for a "BOND MARKET MELTDOWN"?^^
loser
Baby. Glenn is a bit perplexing. I'm Repub/Indo
How long will it be before Japan says to the U.S., "hey...about all those treasuries that we own of yours...time to start paying up."
The Bernank will reply that "now is not a good time, but hey, about that military, technical, food(rice), logistical assistance, I'm hearing strong support from my people."
Checkmate.
Good point. There's always shit in the game.
It aint gonna happen. Even if it did, Uncle Sam would say I've got free housing for you.
Wasn't the free housing given to Haitian earthquake survivors?
They couldn't pay their 4000$ monthly rent so they where kicked out.
Lazy bums... you want to help them out and after that I turns out they have a terrible credit score and can't pay up...
The rods in 4 are toast. two more vessels to go.
Ce 137 bitchezzzz!
Australian search team members exposed to radiation 20km outside of exclusion zone.
http://news.ninemsn.com.au/world/japanquake/8224681/aussie-rescuers-expo...
Ok . Be safe purple.
If you still think Osama bin Laden is a terrorist... what do you call GE and the BIG money that sold nuclear power plants to Japan as if they were hotcakes over 40 years ago? I guess Marc Faber would call them Überterrorists.
In the name of scientific progress, the Japanese people are now threatened with the worst kind of death: Death by radiation poisoning -- a slow, suffering breakdown of cellular function at every level. And sadly, Japan has already suffered through a similar scenario near the end of World War II when the United States of America dropped atomic bombs on the civilian Japanese population... twice!
http://www.naturalnews.com/031718_nuclear_power_dirty_bomb.html
Piss off... the whole fucking world uses GE BWRs.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boiling_water_reactor
Put your tin foil hat back on, and get back in your basement.
No Comment.
Yes, the S is HTF, but it is not a conspiracy.
Without a 9.0 magnitude earthquake and tsunami these were plugging along causing a lot less damage than coal fired electricity plants.
Shit happens.
Shit happens precisely when humanity doesn't think it will.
Murphy's law.
Shit happens, despite your best efforts.
Build a solar power plant in every major metropolis and the magnetic poles will reverse and the axis of the Earth will tilt so you have to re-alighn every friggin' panel.
What else is new?
Plan for catastrophe, then eat, drink, smoke, and be merry until the SHTF again.
These fuckers were lying about 5 and 6 !!!
In another development at the Fukushima plant, it said operators had been planning to use a diesel generator to supply water to the No. 5 reactor unit after levels there fell on Tuesday, although they remained above the fuel.
Covering nuclear fuel with water is normally needed to prevent it from overheating. The IAEA earlier said the No. 5 and No. 6 reactors were shut down at the time of the massive earthquake, but they were loaded with fuel.
is that spent fuel or fresh fuel ?
The IAEA said the water level decreased by 40 cm (15.7 in) to 201 cm above the fuel in the five hours to 1200 GMT on March 15.
http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/03/16/us-japan-nuclear-iaea-fire-idUSTRE72F1EK20110316
Truth! You want truth!?!?
Wait..I need to go over to the futures and adjust my puts and calls and buys and sells, give me a day or two?
Also...getting my grandkids out of the country...so please relax, everything is fine, no problems here, under control.
Get back to you on Friday, deal?
How convenient ????????????????
Is this a movie or what ?
Radioactivity forecast system down
A computer system that forecasts the spread of radioactivity has not been working due to malfunctioning monitoring posts around a troubled nuclear power plant in quake-hit Fukushima Prefecture.
The Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency says it does not know when the system will be back in operation.
http://www3.nhk.or.jp/daily/english/16_16.html
Waddell & Reed, no doubt.
Hey, they need time to sell their stocks, o.k.?
Jeez, you are heartless, like you expect honesty and transparency?
OMFG
Yeah, when the riots in L.A. are out of control and Commercial REITS will collapse it will take five days for news reports to reach the MSM so transactions can be made.
Our Main Stream Media absolutely bites, is worthless, sucks, pointless, 20 years of J Comm graduates thrown into the ovens. Holy hell, do they know it?
Believe nothing but your gut.
They must have the 9/11 cover-up crew on the job. Those guys are professionals.
Three eggs. Curly,Moe, and last but not least Larry?
Just out Mass Evacuations starting now !
German car maker BMW and car part maker Continental were among companies moving employees out of the country.
SAP said it will evacuate offices in Tokyo, Osaka and Nagoya.
It said it has offered about 1100 employees and their families transport and hotel rooms further south.
Private equity firm Blackstone is closing its office in Tokyo and relocating staff as well, according to the Bloomberg news agency.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-12756054
synthetic short.
MUST READ
Fukushima: Mark 1 Nuclear Reactor Design Caused GE Scientist To QuitIn Protest back in 1975http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/fukushima-mark-nuclear-reactor-design-caus...
EU calls for nuclear stress testing
http://www.boston.com/news/world/europe/articles/2011/03/16/eu_calls_for...
Do they really have to call it that? Lends credibility to the sham bank stress tests. Or vice versa.
Is this a case of a $2 journalist who can't think of anything else (and actually believed in the bank stress tests), or are they really trying to link these two together for the previous' benefit?
Does any journalist who uses 'stress tests' as a way to describe anything meant to be credible, lose said credibility by not realizing the farce that the original stress tests were made of? Yes.
Please review all nuke plants, but don't call them stress tests.
Also, regarding the economic breakdown, (I didn't see it posted by anyone), but it is from 3/11 when all hell broke loose.
Michigan bill would impose "financial martial law"http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503544_162-20042299-503544.html
If the above isn't blatant 'taking it right in front of your face' fascism, then Barry Bonds and Mark McGwire didn't take steroids. (all of it deserved to be bolded, but NO IDEOLOGICAL SIDE should allow the bolded)
Does the fascist idiot know he'll be appointing someone with more power than their governorship? An unelected official. (If the unelected official can fire elected officials, who can fire the unelected official? Who is really in charge. The unelected banksters)
Apologize if someone already posted it. Went back from 3-10 to 3-13, didn't see anything from TD on it (of course someone might have posted it in a comment I missed)
Thanks for the post. We're monitoring this situation as well. This may become a live fire flash point. Militias are on alert.
Kyodo - Cesium, iodine found in tapwater in Fukushima, no impact on health.
Strange are the ways of the media...It's like saying: "Man stabbed in heart, still breathing. No impact on health"
http://www.ajc.com/business/bank-of-japan-emergency-873866.html
Just heard on Al-jazeera, that they are dropping water from helicopters on the reactors.
But, based on what we have been told till now, the containment vessel is completely and hermetically sealed. I wonder how dropping water on them will work.
I am just hoping that this water-drop is only meant for the SFPs that are on the top levels of these reactors.
If not, then we have a really fucked-up situation.
Well, maybe Math Man can tell us we're "over reacting"?
Digital Image finally release updated image.
http://www.digitalglobe.com/downloads/featured_images/japan_earthquakets...
It's NOT pretty.
Nice picture. Everything looks like its under control.
Absolutely, the "spin pics" casually look across to the #4 building to show its remaining cladding 'best side'. #2 looks in good shape now that the 'sea-view' window has ben opened, but, that #3 looks like a bitch of a problem..
They may be limiting voice calls so they don't get any interference with possible remote control of the plant. It doesn't matter though cause ALL bets are off for Japan. Half the country could be uninhabitable unless a miracle happens. Why in Gods name do you build a Massive nuclear plant on a fault line on a coast where tsunamis are known to have occurred in the past?
Ask the people who built Diablo (Devil) Canyon and any number of GE MOX Mark I reactors on faults in the USA
Perhaps a modeler or a statistician will chime in here, but I never quite know how one comes up with a disaster scenario distribution in a facility scheduled for a forty year life but for which the historical database of the technology is less than a decade old, and for which there is no easy proxy. My guess is they use the theorem developed by that famous Lithuanian mathematician Pulit Outamias, but again, I'm no expert.
The most appropriate theory for the current situation was developed by a little known Siberian, Yubeter Gethefukout
Japan was the beginning. Please warn your family and friends, and provide assistance to those you can.
http://deltafunctiontoronto.wordpress.com/2011/03/16/gold-is-a-living-god/
Just as an assumption :
We're looking more and more at a worse case scenario now becoming possible. What will the weather do to the the fall out when this blows sky high? Which parts of Japan and of the world are in for a mega hard time. Anybody have any ideas on that? East-west-north-south. It's going to twirl and swirl until it all comes down somewhere...everywhere... Let's see if people here can imagine what that could mean. I'm no expert on this.
So what other black swans can add to all this....a 8 after shock predicted by JPL?
I suspect Japan's economy is going to damaged more than people realise.
Bury the hot reactors with Dirt lots of Dirt 60,000. Tons of dirt.. air - drop it 24/7 ...get 26 Chinook Helicopters and drop the dirt... stop talking and start doing...
Uh, Try concrete...Lots..
Air currents carry the radiation across the Pacific then rains on West Coast food production and wine industry. Could become an incredible nightmare for the US as well. I think I will stock up on my favorite Napa Cabernet just in case.
Human species builds nuclear reactors in an earthquake zone. Earthquake breaks reactors. U do the math.
Private jets in hot demand as Japan exodus grows -
http://uk.reuters.com/article/2011/03/16/uk-private-jets-in-hot-demand-a...
The weather report for Japan has winds currently blowing off shore but by Saturday they are turning back on shore and to the south. According to our local weather gal.
God bless the people working at the site. They are true heroes.
All those logging in secretly hoping for a mass explosion. Guess what? You are wrong. Not gonna happen.
Uranium miners are a buy.
Disclosure: long CCJ and DNN