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TEPCO Director Weeps After Disclosing Truth About Fukushima Disaster
The Daily Mail has released a dramatic picture showing the emotional exhaustion of TEPCO managing director Akio Komori who is openly weeping as he leaves a conference to brief journalists on the true situation at Fukushima, following his acknowledgment that the radiation spewing from the over-heating reactors and fuel rods was enough to kill some citizens. "A senior Japanese minister also admitted that the country was overwhelmed by the scale of the tsunami and nuclear crisis. He said officials should have admitted earlier how serious the radiation leaks were. Chief Cabinet Secretary Yukio Edano said: 'The unprecedented scale of the earthquake and tsunami that struck Japan, frankly speaking, were among many things that happened that had not been anticipated under our disaster management contingency plans." This is precisely as Zero Hedge had expected would happen all along, following our recurring allegations of a massive cover up by the Japanese government. And furthermore as we predicted a week ago when we said that continued government lies and subversions would make the situation untenable once the population loses faith in the government, this is precisely what has happened.
A contrite Komiri crying after he discloses the truth:
And for those who believe the lies that TEPCO and the government has any control over the situation we suggest you read the following:
Deputy director general of the NISA, Hideohiko Nishiyama, also admitted that they do not know if the reactors are coming under control.
He said: 'With the water-spraying operations, we are fighting a fire we cannot see. That fire is not spreading, but we cannot say yet that it is under control.'
And Yukiya Amano, the head of the U.N.'s International Atomic Energy Agency said workers were in a 'race against the clock' to cool the reactor.
Attempts to quell the overheating plant with waterbombs from helicopters yesterday failed and despite the army pelting the site with water cannon, radiation levels rose higher.
Engineers are also working to restore power to the coolant pumping system knocked out by the tsunami.
Also, the Mail shows a dramatic photo of a crane used to move spent fuel rodes into a now empty storage pond.
pictures emerged showing overheating fuel rods exposed to the elements through a huge hole in the wall of a reactor building at the destroyed Fukushima nuclear plant.
Radiation is streaming into the atmosphere from the used uranium rods at reactor number four, after a 45ft-deep storage pool designed to keep them stable boiled dry in a fire.
And some of the radioactive material could reach Britain within a fortnight, according to experts.
However they say it will not be dangerous when it reaches our shores while low levels of radiation have already hit Southern California.
And while we descrbed the worst case scenario, i.e., the Chernobyl Solution, earlier, there is still hope for a last ditch deux ex machina over the weekend.
There was a potential breakthrough when engineers succeeded in connecting a power line to Reactor 2. This should enable them to restore electricity to the cooling pumps needed to prevent meltdown.
But it is not certain the system will work after suffering extensive damage.
Unfortunately, judging by how horrendously the government and the utility have handled the crisis so far, we are extremely skeptical any further attempts to improve the situation with fail spectacularly. In the meantime, the Japanese economy is slowing grinding to a halt as more people leave Tokyo, as factories lie dormant, and as high tech supply chains are suddenly halted. Out estimate, unlike that of an increasingly less than credible Bloomberg, is that the adverse impact to 2011 world GDP will be well at least 2% when all is said and done just factoring the events to date. Should the situation continue to stagnate it will get far worse.
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thanks for the link
And the BINGO has been cancelled this evening.....
Medical Staff should all be shot or taken to the "Reactor"
EWV ProShares UltraShort MSCI Japan are down 3.22% on this news. What up with that? BoJ is going to out Fed the Fed. Factory closures, mass exodus of city dweller, the stock market goes up????? WTF!
Welcome to the world that Ben Bernanke built. It is a place where trillions of hastily counterfeit US dollars can overcome anything...at least for a moment...or just long enough to get to the close of the US market.
But thanks for reminding me about that ETF...as I had forgotten about it while I was watching my Vix futures tank :)
BTW...Apple is a one way train wreck...or perhaps the truth detector on this whole Japanese burning reactor thingy.
At least it only took a week for them to come to this. Our government killed us years ago and they're all still playing the "what me worry" horseshit games.
At least the guy cried and came clean...In America the ones who do damage just smirk and keep lying. Next stop Hari Kari.
Right on.
America the ones who do damage just smirk and keep lying
And buy thousands of acres in Paraguay as a bugout location...
Nice one.
Doing the right thing comes second to never ever ever admitting your wrong.
In the end they'll have to ask a bunch of people to go in and begin enclosing this mess in concrete, with the knowledge that they may become seriously ill or die. Reality destroys hopium 235 in the end.
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Just in case anyone missed it, here's a flyover video showing the devastation of the six reactors. Amazing.
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The first wave of workers that do the encapsulation have a pretty bleak future. Then they have to get UNDER the structures to prevent leakage into the water table. After encapsulation they will forever have a nuclear target. Why the fuck didnt they encapsulate the spent rods in rural/barren areas like the rest of the world? They will now have to live with massive radioactivity buried right in their backyard. Penny wise-dollar foolish.
Which countries have a permenant spent fuel storage facility? The country I live in doesnt, I mena they built one but dont use it. They rather store it in casks on flood planes and such near the reactor.
Give me a break you mother-fucking robot poster/auto-sock puppet/idiot/whatever. First, they will probably be dead, as in no future at all, not even bleak. Second, spent fuel ponds are typical everywhere due to something known as the "shared defense" strategy. Third, where are you going to find a deserted rural area in Japan, an island the size of Montana with 125 million people? We're lucky they weren't dumping it in the ocean off their whaling boats.
Get this through your head: there is no place safe on this planet for nuclear power. If it was safe it would be common in nature and we would have evolved to use it organically. Nuclear power is inherently unsafe and if you think you can fool yourself into thinking you can make it safe then you will eventually be proven wrong.
TPOG
" We're lucky they weren't dumping it in the ocean off their whaling boats."
You are correct. If the Japanese had been dumping this crap like the EU, there would be pirates in more places around the world than Somalia.
" We're lucky they weren't dumping it in the ocean off their whaling boats."
they stopped?
'Evolved organically'? I don't see too many 110 AC outlets in the forest, monkeys making steel. I guess we should all go live in a cave.
All of us have an electromagnetic field. ;-)
TPOG
Get this through your head: there is no place safe on this planet for nuclear power. If it was safe it would be common in nature and we would have evolved to use it organically.
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The other day I thought you were weighing both side of the issue; I guess you're settling for 'dirty coal' now?
As to "common in nature" you're aware of a few facts, right, like K-40 (isotope of Potasium with a half-life of 1.28 x 10^9 years) for instance, something each of us has *in* our systems:
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Dose from Potassium-40 http://www.orau.org/ptp/collection/consumer%20products/potassiumgenerali...
The dose to a typical member of the population is approximately 15-20 mrem/year due to the K-40 in the body and 10 mrem/year due to the gamma rays emitted by K-40 in the environment (primarily the soil).
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You're also aware of naturally occurring nuclear 'reactors', right?
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The Oklo Natural Nuclear Reactor http://geology.about.com/od/geophysics/a/aaoklo.htm
... in the distant past uranium was naturally enriched in U-235, that is, less of it had decayed away by nuclear fission. About 1.7 billion years ago, to be more precise, a natural deposit of uranium ore was radioactive enough to generate about 100 kilowatts of heat, off and on, for more than a million years.
Geologic forces gathered the uranium together. First a layer of sandstone was infiltrated by uranium-bearing groundwater, leaving a relatively thin sheet of uranium-oxide ore. Then the rocks were tilted, and as they eroded downward the groundwater concentrated the uranium minerals, sweeping them downward within the sandstone until a thick stripe of ore was built up. That's when things heated up.
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Of course, you're familiar with all this ... right?
Why the fuck didnt they encapsulate the spent rods in rural/barren areas like the rest of the world?
Because the 'Rest of the World" hasn't either.
Do you know how many tons of spent radioactive material is stored at EVERY reactor in the US?
I would be so quick on that one.
BTW, do you know what they Navy does with theirs?
Davey Jones Locker?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abyssal_plain
... er ... time, money, energy, design, decay product energetics ...
and wtf with "rest of the world"?
Reid has nixed Yucca Mountain. His butt-boy b head of NRC. Entombment is kinda' well proven for time periods that we can actually care about. See e.g.:
http://www.abebooks.com/servlet/SearchResults?an=cravens&sts=t&tn=power+...
skosh' investment into a great read.
- Ned
When the man in charge weeps...you know we are well and truly fucked.
IMO the biggest danger to the U.S. is not the radiation fallout coming here, it's the economic impact of this. All sorts of shite could start to break loose as it dawns on people that Japan's economy is about to break down.
If you're not loaded with preps by now, you better be, very very soon.
Oh for sure, the nuclear meltdown in the US, Europe, etc. will be financial... we've been dumping water from helicopters on the empty cooling pools of ponzi for a few years now.
the full extent of this news will not be revealed in America until after the markets close and all shorts have been fully mutilated.
The ponzi must continue
Idk -Bloomberg is reporting winds are changing and heading toward tokyo this weekend
Unlike the US, In Japan - you can get realtime data (assumming it's accurate):
readings from Japans monitoring network - includes wind direction and speed.
http://bit.ly/fbR2e2
2 ~ 3 weeks for the Just In Time inventory chain to really start to shred.
Then a fast down hill ride.
Get your stuff now.
Good advice. I agree completely. I spent close to 1k a couple of days ago on grains, rice, beans, and other non-perishables.
I'm expecting another black swan event and global financial collapse in the next several weeks.
there's a GM plant down south shut down today in ... don't know where/nor what they would be making. - Ned
[ed. Shreveport, LA, light pickup trucks
http://content.usatoday.com/communities/driveon/post/2011/03/gm-closing-... ]
At least he's crying. The CEO of BP was cold as a fish.
Insulting to the fish
I'm still convinced that his role in that was pure theatre . . . to play the asshole, the object of scorn. People at that level don't say things publicly w/o mucho consideration for the ramifications of every word they utter, and to refer to the suffering victims of a catastrophe that your corporation has wrought on an entire population of a country as 'little people', and telling the whole world on live television that 'he'd like to get back to his life, thank you very much' is unbelievable. I think he was a massively paid lightning rod, who took the focus off the disaster, and BP, and placed it squarely on himself. And it wasn't more than a few weeks ago that I read he was being tapped as a, no doubt, highly paid consultant for some new international den of thieves. Job well done.
did obama take his family with him to Rio??
Nope. His family is onsite manning fire hose to cool down reactors. You just have to believe in this man.
LOL
By Ambrose Evans-Pritchard, International Business Editor 6:55PM BST 29 Aug 2010
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We could then stop arguing about wind mills, deepwater drilling, IPCC hockey sticks, or strategic reliance on the Kremlin. History will move on fast.
Muddling on with the status quo is not a grown-up policy. The International Energy Agency says the world must invest $26 trillion (£16.7 trillion) over the next 20 years to avert an energy shock. The scramble for scarce fuel is already leading to friction between China, India, and the West.
There is no certain bet in nuclear physics but work by Nobel laureate Carlo Rubbia at CERN (European Organization for Nuclear Research) on the use of thorium as a cheap, clean and safe alternative to uranium in reactors may be the magic bullet we have all been hoping for, though we have barely begun to crack the potential of solar power.
Dr Rubbia says a tonne of the silvery metal – named after the Norse god of thunder, who also gave us Thor’s day or Thursday - produces as much energy as 200 tonnes of uranium, or 3,500,000 tonnes of coal. A mere fistful would light London for a week.
Thorium burns the plutonium residue left by uranium reactors, acting as an eco-cleaner. "It’s the Big One," said Kirk Sorensen, a former NASA rocket engineer and now chief nuclear technologist at Teledyne Brown Engineering.
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31 Aug 2010
"Once you start looking more closely, it blows your mind away. You can run civilisation on thorium for hundreds of thousands of years, and it’s essentially free. You don’t have to deal with uranium cartels," he said.
Thorium is so common that miners treat it as a nuisance, a radioactive by-product if they try to dig up rare earth metals. The US and Australia are full of the stuff. So are the granite rocks of Cornwall. You do not need much: all is potentially usable as fuel, compared to just 0.7pc for uranium.
After the Manhattan Project, US physicists in the late 1940s were tempted by thorium for use in civil reactors. It has a higher neutron yield per neutron absorbed. It does not require isotope separation, a big cost saving. But by then America needed the plutonium residue from uranium to build bombs.
"They were really going after the weapons," said Professor Egil Lillestol, a world authority on the thorium fuel-cycle at CERN. "It is almost impossible make nuclear weapons out of thorium because it is too difficult to handle. It wouldn’t be worth trying." It emits too many high gamma rays.
You might have thought that thorium reactors were the answer to every dream but when CERN went to the European Commission for development funds in 1999-2000, they were rebuffed.
Brussels turned to its technical experts, who happened to be French because the French dominate the EU’s nuclear industry. "They didn’t want competition because they had made a huge investment in the old technology," he said.
Another decade was lost. It was a sad triumph of vested interests over scientific progress. "We have very little time to waste because the world is running out of fossil fuels. Renewables can’t replace them. Nuclear fusion is not going work for a century, if ever," he said.
The Norwegian group Aker Solutions has bought Dr Rubbia’s patent for an accelerator-driven sub-critical reactor, and is working on his design for a thorium version at its UK operation.
Victoria Ashley, the project manager, said it could lead to a network of pint-sized 600MW reactors that are lodged underground, can supply small grids, and do not require a safety citadel. It will take £2bn to build the first one, and Aker needs £100mn for the next test phase.
The UK has shown little appetite for what it regards as a "huge paradigm shift to a new technology". Too much work and sunk cost has already gone into the next generation of reactors, which have another 60 years of life.
So Aker is looking for tie-ups with countries such as the US, Russia, or China. The Indians have their own projects - none yet built - dating from days when they switched to thorium because their weapons programme prompted a uranium ban.
America should have fewer inhibitions than Europe in creating a leapfrog technology. The US allowed its nuclear industry to stagnate after Three Mile Island in 1979.
Anti-nuclear neorosis is at last ebbing. The White House has approved $8bn in loan guarantees for new reactors, yet America has been strangely passive. Where is the superb confidence that put a man on the moon?
A few US pioneers are exploring a truly radical shift to a liquid fuel based on molten-fluoride salts, an idea once pursued by US physicist Alvin Weinberg at Oak Ridge National Lab in Tennessee in the 1960s. The original documents were retrieved by Mr Sorensen.
Moving away from solid fuel may overcome some of thorium’s "idiosyncracies". "You have to use the right machine. You don’t use diesel in a petrol car: you build a diesel engine," said Mr Sorensen.
Thorium-fluoride reactors can operate at atmospheric temperature. "The plants would be much smaller and less expensive. You wouldn’t need those huge containment domes because there’s no pressurized water in the reactor. It’s close-fitting," he said.
Nuclear power could become routine and unthreatening. But first there is the barrier of establishment prejudice.
When Hungarian scientists led by Leo Szilard tried to alert Washington in late 1939 that the Nazis were working on an atomic bomb, they were brushed off with disbelief. Albert Einstein interceded through the Belgian queen mother, eventually getting a personal envoy into the Oval Office.
Roosevelt initially fobbed him off. He listened more closely at a second meeting over breakfast the next day, then made up his mind within minutes. "This needs action," he told his military aide. It was the birth of the Manhattan Project. As a result, the US had an atomic weapon early enough to deter Stalin from going too far in Europe.
The global energy crunch needs equal "action". If it works, Manhattan II could restore American optimism and strategic leadership at a stroke: if not, it is a boost for US science and surely a more fruitful way to pull the US out of perma-slump than scattershot stimulus.
Even better, team up with China and do it together, for all our sakes
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/comment/7970619/Obama-could-kill-fossil-fuels-overnight-with-a-nuclear-dash-for-thorium.html
No, just he, Rahm and a few hundred young boys.
+1 Bath House
I'll bet this is bullish!!!
Baby you type too fast...
I'll bet this is bullshit.
There, needed a letter and some order. All fixed. Off you go.
They connected the power into reactor 2. What about 1,3,4,5,and 6?
lol
Continue believing the bullshit and lies. The skeletons crew will fix everything.
Whatever helps you sleep.
He was long Nike.
Having worked for a Japanese company in the past I will tell you they are all planning and little action so it is not surprising that when they had to react they could not shift into the "take fucking action NOW" mode.
Nice people. Wish them all the best, hate to see the guy crying under the pressure.
The people crying should be the one's spraying the water and getting exposed. Maybe this guy should put a Hazmat suit on and get his ass outside and help.
My heart truly weeps, this is very saddening. I really pray more heroes step up in our future, like our children, who are witnessing this heroism, and learning what it truly means to be a man.
But...but....but... the Japan PM said,"It's only a tiny leak."
I think we'll be surprised by how little the Japanese people will freak out about their government's fumbling of this crisis in the days ahead- at least compared to the freak-out scale we'd be seeing if this kind of thing had happened to Americans instead.
Even in the face of criminal negligence that may yet cost many more lives I think they'll be more focused on rebuilding what they can and getting on with life.
For better or for worse this is one place where culture matters. Just look at the level of bellyaching, recrimination, lawyering-up, looting and general criminal behavior after Katrina vs. this disaster which (just so far) has been more devastating by orders of magnitude.
Huh? American's freaking out? Did someone lose the remote control or something?
Nothing to see here, folks. This just in at the Ministry of Truth [CNBC], Jim Cramer has just sounded the all clear signal. Weeping TEPCO directors have nothing on Jim Cramer...something that we can all agree on.
Here here...commence aggresively buy casual dining stocks!
The more he screeches, the more certain the reversal is at hand...whatever he is screeching about. The guy trades on emotion entirely.
COMCAST CREDIBILITY ALERT!
RATINGS MELTDOWN IMMINENT!
Don't worry little buddy the market are still up and your leaders can still print money.
It's bullish: Japan sends us nuclear fallout cloud, we weaken the Yen! New carry trade!
Why worry...
There should be cash after pain...
There is radiation in the rain....
This has always been the same...
So why worry now?
Never mind.
Nuclear chain reaction Panic-radiation will soon be wide spread. Prepare accordingly.
Shame is the byproduct of lies. Ironically it's the lies we tell our self that cause the most shame. Pain is our friend if we listen, pain is here to keep us alive. It looks to be the end of days for many.
http://blogs.forbes.com/kenrapoza/2011/03/14/obama-heads-to-rio-sunday-maximum-security-awaits/
yep, just found the link. obama and family on the rio trip....why not california or Hawaii like normal? that would be more patriotic wouldn't it. no treaties to sign, no major events, just a little old trip to rio de janiero, brazil, south america, southern hemisphere....aka not northern hemisphere.
where are the other 'big wigs' going this weekend. warren buffet, bill gates, etc, etc.?
My rational side says no way .
My conspiracy side says get rid of the Northern hemisphere and you basically get rid of expensive labor .
Your rational side SHOULD BE your conspiracy side by now, mate.
We need to send Obama over to Japan to give those folks hope.
he could take a swim in the #3 storage pond to show everyone it is safe... Damn I wish I could kick him in the balls, wait does he have any???
Yea, no shit! They probably told him to stay because the whole world is coming unglued and we need you here to lead your country. Then he said fuck you there is a radiation cloud coming. I can read my teleprompter from the southern hemisphere.
I think it would be very telling to see where all the big wigs are going this weekend. Bet it isn't the USofA.
Both are in New Delhi India, including David Rockefeller, along with two dozen members of his family, and other assorted elitists, what a coincidence... God foregive them because where there heading gets extremely hot down there... If you know what I'm saying...
The name of TEPCO's director is Akio Komori.
Request for correction.
Get the fucking sand now!
When the Russians sandbagged and covered Chernobyl they ordered people to their death in secret and in a worldwide news vacuum. We weren't aware of what happened until a month or so after the event.
This will be much harder to do with a 24 hr. news cycle.
They also likely don't have the air power for this.
I suspect we'll be supply the planes and helos, but not the pilots.
Six hundred thousand workers were conscripted by the Soviet government to clean up Chernobyl. I'll give those who think the story is overblown the benefit of the doubt...young, and never got a decent history lesson in high school or college.
http://library.chevalier.nsw.edu.au/ni/features/2005/09/01/chernobyl/
It's going to be horrible for these workers and their families. I sincerely hope that the MSM leaves them alone in their final days together.
No lie lives forever
Not to diminish in any way the scale of human suffering and death that is occurring and will occur as a result of this nuclear nightmare, nor the culpability of Tokyo Electric Power for choosing profits over safety, but just for perspective, the US government profits to the tune of $125 Million/Day from taxes on so-called "tobacco' products that kill nearly half a million people in the US every year.
There is a grassroots approach to diminishing and maybe even stopping at least this particular slaughter for profit - please check out "Starve The Federal Beast" on www.cultivatorshandbook.com
Sorry. Junked you by accident. Thought you were one of those anti-smoking nazis.
click again and you un-junk
What is the hold-up on sand and cement? Encase it now before we all get exposed..
Maybe someone needs to change his diaper.
Working only with high school physics and no special info so consider the source.
The military has concussion bombs which could pancake these suckers. The problem is the large number of rods present and the thermal/radiation heat. If lots of rods land in contact with each other (they will) you risk a continuing, non-contained nuclear reaction. Also, the heat would prevent the concrete from setting properly, so you would just have a larger mountain of radioactive crap, poorly or unsealed.
As to what happens to plutonium if you try to pancake it, that's above my pay grade.
This is just a best guess based on lies told to date, but they seem to believe the cooling has to be well along before encasing is an option. Someone knows what this thing is throwing off now. We don't.
Out of position, somehow. Was responding to Gimp.
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Why is it a bunch of bloggers can make the right call over 5 days ago and the Government cowards and the MSM are just starting to tell the truth? Because the bloggers also know the reason behind the cover-ups...MONEY. Now a situation that has been impecably followed and predicted by Zero Hedge has turned into the catasrophe that it always was. What you are left with when the lies and deception turn into reality is 40 million peoples' health at risk. So go ahead Wall St., BOJ,FED, ECB, CRONY BANKERS and the IMF and all you other fucking inhumane pieces of shit, keep the spackle and paint flowing even in a Nuclear Catastrophe to protect your investments instead of the millions of innocent Men,women and children that could potentially die from not being told the truth from the start. Hopefully some of thse people read blogs like this and have been able to evacuate and protect their familys. Meanwhile here on the West Coast I'm not believing a word they are saying about possible contamination. Americans need to realize that the same interests that have led the Japanese down the wrong road are also the ones telling us not to worry. Just remember from our experience in the GOM that the well is only spilling 5000 gallons a day and will only spill that amount until the truth has been uncovered and they are forced to pony up.
nice rant
+++ His rant saved me the trouble from writing mine. lol
My thoughts exactly
http://www.gregpalast.com/no-bs-info-on-japan-nuclearobama-invites-tokyo-electric-to-build-us-nukes-with-taxpayer-funds/#more-4497
Tokyo Electric to Build US Nuclear PlantsThe no-BS info on Japan's disastrous nuclear operators Monday, March 14, 2011
for Truthout/Buzzflash
by Greg Palast
I need to speak to you, not as a reporter, but in my former capacity as lead investigator in several government nuclear plant fraud and racketeering investigations.
I don't know the law in Japan, so I can't tell you if Tokyo Electric Power Co (TEPCO) can plead insanity to the homicides about to happen.
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Back in the day, when we checked the emergency back-up diesels in America, a mind-blowing number flunked. At the New York nuke, for example, the builders swore under oath that their three diesel engines were ready for an emergency. They'd been tested. The tests were faked, the diesels run for just a short time at low speed. When the diesels were put through a real test under emergency-like conditions, the crankshaft on the first one snapped in about an hour, then the second and third. We nicknamed the diesels, "Snap, Crackle and Pop."
(Note: Moments after I wrote that sentence, word came that two of three diesels failed at the Tokai Station as well.)
VERY Bullish on Plastic Rice!!!
It might be hari-kari time for some of these Tepco yahoos.
governments are so much better at killing people than saving people
Now all we need is the same admission out of Satanke-- that the fed is in way over their heads and don't know what they're doing with regards to the economy. That the situation is getting worse and now it's time to consider hitting the reset button.
Fucking Tepco.
Even the Japanese media has moved on, they're talking about libya now, I know it's tough to give up your armagedden circle-jerk, but this incident is not going to be another Chernobyl, despite your fear mongering headlines.
Let me guess who must have been short uranium last week.
the paid off media may have "moved on", the radiation though hasn't
hold on sucker, this house of cards is finally coming down
Do you also believe that Unicorn's shit skittles?
Wow another fucking idiot, or the same idiot with another ID
The Ministry of Truth [CNBC] doing everything in its power to NOT REPORT developments in the Fukushima story.
COMCAST...calling COMCAST....CREDIBILITY ALERT LEVEL 10
Komiri is just another one of these sad, pathetic doomers. We should send trav7777 to straighten Komiri out. /sarc
Not sure if anyone else has posted this yet, but Karl Denninger had an interesting piece (from BBC and Straits Times) stating the conditionality of the US going in to help. Good ol' US, we'll come and help PROVIDED...
http://market-ticker.org/akcs-www?post=182524
Sheesh.
DavidC
DC
Perhaps this is an example of a language/translation issue, the word "dismantle" could mean "make inoperable" ie actions that result in the reactors never being able to be put into production again.
An example would be "pumping sea water into the reactors" ............
Giant extentsion cord now connected the Fukoshima tanning salon.
Jeez. All Japan needs now if for an oil tanker to run aground and rupture....
shhhhhhh
So, is it true that the longer they fight this thing the "less likelihood" for a "chain reaction" or apocalyptic catastrophe? In other words, the worst is over from a "market fear" perspective. This would explain the distraction along with MENA developments. So, not so bad.
See Interview at Democracy Now
http://www.democracynow.org/2011/3/17/serious_danger_of_a_full_core
Reporter claims all of the radioactive inventory had been taken out of units 4, 5, and 6 and placed in spent fuel ponds. Reporter claims there exists risk at #4 of full scale meltdown of this "radioactive inventor" "outside of containment."
Claim same thing could happen at #5 and #6.
Claims also that units #2 and #3 have loss of containment.
Yesterday on NPR, D. Wessel of the WSJ mentioned, offhand, that it is not yet clear how much of Japan might be uninhabitable.
There are no words to express how cataclysmic this ongoing mega-disaster is for the Japanese people
Dam. That's two things I'll never be able to do now, fly on Concorde and visit Japan.
Yesterday on NPR, D. Wessel of the WSJ mentioned, offhand, that it is not yet clear how much of Japan might be uninhabitable.
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Shirley, you jest.
Woo HOO! Socialist perp walks and show trials. Everything old is new again.
If socialism can corrupt even Japanese maintenance, it must be killed root and branch.
This one will be on suicide watch. Japanese culture is known for taking their own life..
/not sarcasm
If my understanding of the Japanese culture correctly, those guys are supposed to commit suicide for their gigantic efforts to block the truth from day one.
I wonder if Obama will be shedding a few tears for those of us who end up 5 or 10 years down the road with cancer from radiation fallout? How much of our food supply will be affected by fallout or our water supplies with radioactive particles that in some cases have a half life of 20,000 years? Sorry but I've devloped a long term problem with believing anything my government tells me at this stage of life.
Really...unsure how Libya takes precedense over this
We realize how many people are going to die from this right?
Precisely. When nuclear scintists start breaking down crying and calling for prayer in public it's time to tweak the Matrix.
US military picking up higher levels of radiation than the Japanese:
http://cosmiclog.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2011/03/17/6290369-us-military-detects-more-radiation
Finally US markets starting to sell off. Who's gonna want to hold stocks over the weekend. We've seen how fast it can go from bad to abysmal, 3 days Japan could be in a really really bad situation.
My EWJ puts are taking off, VIX is taking off too.
Market should be down today, it's just because of the options expiration.
[meh]
It just shows you that governments always lie no matter what, but at least they have balls to say that.... well it's impossible to cover this one up.
Call in the Russians, who will get the job done, and give them all of Japan's gold to get the damn job done!
the author of this article is completely wrong. really do not know what he is talking.
"Boiled dry: This shot shows of the inside of reactor number four at the Fukushima nuclear plant Before the disaster. The Spent fuel storage pool is seen at the front of the shot. The rods Are at the bottom of the pool s, which has now boiled dry "
No. What we see in this picture is not "the pool" but the reactor head. (With the lid removed) The water level shown in the picture is much higher than normal because they are in a refilling operation and need the reactor core is submerged by a large thickness of water.
Pool 4, believe me, is intact, filled with water and poses no threat.
Do not let the damage appearing in the picture fool you, are superficial damage. The central, crucial part of the building, which includes the pool, is intact.
(I apologize for my horrid english)
i thought so too, the rod assemblies were in a symmetrical pattern, not typical of SFPs and there was not anywhere near 45' of water.
The two photos were taken from different angles
If the SFPs were dry, shouldn't the rods be burning by now? The temperatures I have seen people mention for exposed rods would not support liquid water without extreme pressure. There just seems to be the logical disconnect of if there isn't water in the SFPs then why aren't we seeing sustained plumes of smoke (not steam) from burning rods? Particulate from smoke will not dissipate like steam.
It's not your english that's horrid, it's your thesis.
Point out in which direction I should look for the storage pool.
http://www.tagesschau.sf.tv/var/storage/images/sf/auftritte/tagesschau/b...
“Every government is run by liars,” independent journalist I.F. Stone observed, “and nothing they say should be believed.”
Soooo...this is positive for the DOW right?
BTFD
Like I said before, if you haven't already left, and you have the means to leave:
GET THE FUCK OUT WHILE YOU STILL CAN!
Even small levels of radiation can have a major effect on your health long term.
Right; stop eating, stop breathing, right now!
And DON'T even THINK about touching the bananas ... avoid them in supermarkets (or wherever else you find them).
A bit too much of this appearing regularly. Would be better form to not point out every time a prediction works out. Reminds me of that greek field goal kicker who ended up injuring his knee jumping around in celebration after making a routine field goal in a 0-0 tie in the 1st quarter.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JK81Ej5hm8s
Yup, enough with the "I told you so" crap.
No. I actually WANT him to point out his successes. He earned them. Stop whining.
He has earned the right to crow.... quietly, noisy roosters get eaten for dinner.
Good work Tyler, don't let it go to your head!
Its also possible there is a team of engineers in there that have said "fuck management" and are now fighting it they way they think it should be done rather than waiting for management to make a decision.
Is the situation dire enough, extreme enough for this to have happened? What if management is now out of the loop, having nothing to offer?
When is NerObama going to fire Bernanke's criminal, thieving ass, and cry for re-nominating the lying bastard?
Oh, that's right - NerObama won't, because he's a water boy for the new owners of the U.S. - Wall Street (that which comprised 13% of U.S. GDP in America's Great Days of the late 60s, but which comprises 41% now, and which produces 1/10th the jobs that manufacturing does).
So, we have a government owned by parasites that only excel in shifting money around, and in 'engineering' 'financial products,' many of which are ticking time bombs of wealth destruction, such as derivatives.
Wall Street is sucking the blood out of Americans.
To all of the sons of mary out there....
You might want to ask yourself a few questions before you rip on the engineering community in Japan.
How much do senior level enginers make that keep you safe and dry? ~$75K/yr.
How many years to they spend learning this stuff to get a '4 yr' degree? 6 yrs...six long, hard push-you-up-against-the-wall-and-fuck-your-life-out-of-you years. No frat boys here.
What safety factor do you use to protect a human life? 1.5? 2.5? Are you sure? Can you sleep at night?
At the risk of spreading pearls before swine, I give Rudyad Kipling's 'Hymn of Breaking Strain' AKA Bedtime stories for engineers everywhere...
My dear Rudyard was a Fabian Socialist, who was also a eugenist, facist, racist. Kipling can rot in hell. Nothing from this sick twisted man's mind should ever be referenced again.
Perhaps we should burn his books too!
Maybe he was a product of his time, British Empire in full glory, world supremacy and all that stuff.
People call Churchill a racist today even though he probably saved Europe from facisim.
Don't get too wrapped up in labels because at heart everyone is a bisexual narcissistic atheist who worships demi-gods, signs, symbols, god and creation without realizing it; all in infinite dimensions.
^^^WOW, so true!^^^
This might be the most hxc truth I have ever read here on ZH!
Thank you, flattered.
The only solution to this incident is to envelope the Fukushima site with an alloy called 'Electrum'. Approx 300k metric tonnes of a 50/50 mix should be enough in my opinion. Meanwhile, in all sincerity I wish the best outcome possible to our Japanese neighbours.
disclosure: long Electrum, Inc. (ELI)
Pathetic display;weeping on TV. A decent human would show his contrition and humility by stripping to the waist and getting his hands dirty, shoulder to shoulder with his employees at the sharp end.Somebody needs to pass him (and the rest of the board and management) a sharp sword. If he refuses that, the next bus to the plant will have a seat reserved for him and his cronies. Make that a FLEET of busses.
American way of fire, ready, aim is so much better...like blowing up TWO space shuttles. That requires special skills!