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After Spike In Earthquake Activity , New Fukushima Leak Sees 70x Increase In Radiation

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It has been a disturbing week for Japan, not due to any recent economic calamity resulting from Abenomics, but because for the first time since the catastrophic 2011 earthquake, the nation has been rocked with a series of ever stronger tremors, with two 6.0+ stronger quakes recorded in just the past 2 days:

The quakes come at an awkward time, just a few short months before Japan's government aims to restart its first nuclear reactor by around June, following the Fukushima devastation.

While it is unclear if it is directly related to the recent surge in tectonic activity, overnight another radioactive water leak in the sea was detected at the crippled Fukushima nuclear plant, the facility’s operator TEPCO announced. Contamination levels in the gutter reportedly spiked up 70 times over regular readings.

The levels of contamination were between 50 and 70 times higher than Fukushima’s already elevated radioactive status, and were detected at about 10 am local time (1.00 am GMT), AFP reported. After the discovery, the gutter was blocked to prevent leaks to the Pacific Ocean.

As RT adds, throughout Sunday, contamination levels fell, but still measured 10 to 20 times more than prior to the leak. "We are currently monitoring the sensors at the gutter and seeing the trend," a company spokesman said.

He did not specify the cause of the leak.

Tepco being Tepco, it decided to be extra generous with the lives and safety of any citizens around the blast site, and in yet another attempt to avoid panic, reported the latest batch of radioactive propaganda:

There was one problem what that euphemism:

The euphemisms continue: "It has proved difficult for TEPCO to deal with plant decommissioning. Postponed deadlines and alarming incidents occur regularly at the facility. Earlier this week, the UN nuclear watchdog (IAEA) said Japan had made significant progress, but there is still a radioactive threat, and a “very complex” scenario at Fukushima."

So while Tepco not only has no idea how to proceed with the toxic cleanup at the Fukushima site 4 years after the explosion having scrapped its idiotic "ice sarcophagus" idea a year ago, and continues to scramble to push the illusion that it is on top of the situation - one which any earthquake threatens to unravel with devastating results - Japan is already preparing for its next epic catastrophe, when it proceeds to launch even more nuclear power plants in the coming months. Then again, once Japan suffers the next and final Fukushima-type event and the endgame for doomed nation arrives, at least the government can "blame nature" for finally destroying the country, deflecting attention from years and decades of failed economic policies.

 

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Sun, 02/22/2015 - 12:13 | 5815065 junction
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I guess this is another sign the world is going to end.

Sun, 02/22/2015 - 12:14 | 5815066 Publicus
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Nuclear power plant induced earthquakes actually.

 

Man and his hubris.

Sun, 02/22/2015 - 12:18 | 5815075 kaiserhoff
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Must be from fracking.

Sun, 02/22/2015 - 12:23 | 5815082 Headbanger
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GODZILLA!!

Sun, 02/22/2015 - 12:31 | 5815096 The Black Bishop
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Fuck-U-shima, the gift that keeps on giving...

Sun, 02/22/2015 - 12:35 | 5815105 max2205
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Japan hates their people.

Sun, 02/22/2015 - 13:14 | 5815209 Rubbish
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Fuky is the revenge of the bottle nose dolphins.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uzuSULcqgxQ

Sun, 02/22/2015 - 13:32 | 5815257 BuddyEffed
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I still think that find that finding a way to drop the whole complex into it's own footprint might make sense.

Sun, 02/22/2015 - 13:50 | 5815309 patb
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Send in battalions of elderly people 60+ to remove all the loose debris inside the reactor buildings

and turbine buildings.  Have them work until they take a lifetime emergency dose and pull them out.

Then send in workers to fast erect ramps and walkways so robots can go in and survey

on a routine basis.

Use this method to get access all the way to the basements.

Assess what's going on, try and figure out a solution once you know what's going on in the basements.

Sun, 02/22/2015 - 14:05 | 5815367 Handful of Dust
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I'm long bald baby sea lions and leukemic Californians.

Sun, 02/22/2015 - 14:17 | 5815408 Manthong
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I still want the potassium iodide concession at the 2020 Olympics.

Sun, 02/22/2015 - 14:38 | 5815456 Stuck on Zero
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The leak was nothing more than a bucket of contaminated water spilling into the ocean.  Still,  there's another billion buckets to go.

Sun, 02/22/2015 - 15:58 | 5815659 Anusocracy
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For the non-believers of the linear no-threshold model. The battle against opportunistic government lying continues.

Is radiation a must for cells' normal growth?

http://www.thehindu.com/sci-tech/science/is-radiation-a-must-for-cells-n...

Sun, 02/22/2015 - 14:25 | 5815425 I reckon so
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http://enenews.com/professors-nuclear-fuel-fragments-fukushima-found-eur...

Think Northern hemisphere.  Why do you think Obummer and family went to the Southern hemisphere when the plants initially blew???

Sun, 02/22/2015 - 18:54 | 5816356 Meta_Consciousness
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That was a coincidence.

 

He swims in the seas around Hawaii every year. 

Sun, 02/22/2015 - 14:34 | 5815447 I reckon so
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http://cerea.enpc.fr/en/fukushima.html

This time-lapse model only covers about 4 weeks after the initial disaster.  It is a model.  So, reality could have been worse, or better, in terms of dispersion.  On the other hand, that model only covers a month.  What's it been now, 4 years or something.......?

http://sputniknews.com/russia/20140421/189290446/Russian-Customs-Rejects...

I really hope you're correct, that this only harms Californians.  But I am usually a doubting Thomas.

Sun, 02/22/2015 - 14:48 | 5815479 kchrisc
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"Japan hates their people."

True if one considres that all governments hate the people.

The bankksters need to repay us.

Sun, 02/22/2015 - 19:48 | 5816528 Fukushima Fricassee
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Much less so than that er marxist Obama hates Middle class Americans.

Sun, 02/22/2015 - 14:33 | 5815443 sun tzu
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That's Godzirra

Sun, 02/22/2015 - 12:15 | 5815069 Bloppy
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This either isn't news because CNBC doesn't say it is, or it's a fresh excuse for more QE. We'll find out on Monday.

 

Rush in rare public defense of Bill O'Reilly:

http://tinyurl.com/pbj8n8o

 

Sun, 02/22/2015 - 14:08 | 5815380 Took Red Pill
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No, the world won't end, just humans will

Sun, 02/22/2015 - 14:49 | 5815486 Bay Area Guy
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Sounds like something George Carlin once said.  "Save the Earth?  The Earth is fine.....the PEOPLE are fucked".

I miss him.

Sun, 02/22/2015 - 15:41 | 5815620 Victory_Garden
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"I guess this is another sign the world is going to end."

Please to be corrected: This is just more light on the FACT that humanity is being slowly killed off, as all eyes are everywhere else BUT on this huge real deal issue.

The world will live on, the human species is in doubt as each unchecked day of radioactive contamination delivers it's poisonous toxic killing evil onto 99% of the world's dumbed down sheeple. Reckon the short story is, if humanity is collectively stupid enough to shat in their own bed, they deserve to lie and die in it. Ignorance is no excuse, but on the truthful other hand, what chance is there when every single bit of supposed "official" informational sources are ONLY spewing lies, and dis/mis-information to purposely keep the nation unaware and too stupid to care. What evil idiot thinks they and their families will not be hit hard by these evil methodologies of murder, inc. There is NO escaping the radioactive hell for anyone! it is ONLY getting worse.

Maybe keeping all that radioactive merchandise on ships off the west coast isn't such a bad idea. Maybe those dock workers do not want to handle all that radioactive stuff on ALL THOSE SHIPS coming from the east. Logic determines that there is nothing over there that is not contaminated.

How many people do YOU know that have suffered radiation poisoning sickness, and diseases lately? And, how many have died? Makes one wonder, how do these OLD DINOSAURS keep living to keep up the evil rotthschoild zionist agenda of world domination using the moneygod, and world population ELIMINATION?

Sun, 02/22/2015 - 12:16 | 5815070 Duc888
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Yea baby, let's get this party rollin'!

 

Sun, 02/22/2015 - 12:25 | 5815083 Winston Churchill
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Not the 'hot' chicks you're looking for.

Sun, 02/22/2015 - 12:18 | 5815073 Tinky
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On a serious, though perhaps seemingly trivial note, it amazes me that people continue to wolf down sushi without knowing or (apparently) caring from where it originates. Obviously local fish is used in many countries, but there are certain "delicacies" that almost always come from Japan. 

I happen to really like sushi – but not that much.

Sun, 02/22/2015 - 12:22 | 5815077 kaiserhoff
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Rue no rikey grow feesh?

Sun, 02/22/2015 - 12:38 | 5815097 Thirst Mutilator
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Teach a man to fish (in Pacific waters) & he might hook Godzirra

 

@Tinky   I kno, it SUCKS don't it? Not to trivialize the larger problem, but I used to <3 sushi. I've been forced to cut my consumption almost down to zero since this event (with the occasional ceremonial eating as a sacrifice to the GOD-zillaS

Sun, 02/22/2015 - 12:57 | 5815156 scrappy
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Get your tuna from the Mediterranean. Cento.

This Fukishima issue is a reflection of our deep problems. True Lies.

http://www.enenews.com

http://www.fukushimafacts.com/Default.aspx?PID=47&T=Mitigation%20&%20How...

Sun, 02/22/2015 - 13:39 | 5815272 pizzedoff
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I know this is sorta Off Topic BUT

why would you build Nuke plants in the worlds most earthquake prone area?

Sorta reminds me of this>>>

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61MADnB314Q

 

Sun, 02/22/2015 - 13:45 | 5815294 Thirst Mutilator
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Plug 'GE' into your answer and only then does it make any obtuse sense.

Sun, 02/22/2015 - 13:59 | 5815340 knukles
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I'll betcha that there's one thing that Marie Harf and Anne Coulter could agree upon and that's radiation is good for you

Sun, 02/22/2015 - 14:13 | 5815394 UselessEater
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the absence of real information and debate on sea life aides the global warming cartel. disappearing sea life is obviously overwhelmingly due to human induced acidification therefore more scarce ( but safe to eat, swim & dive in) & we're in desperate need of C20 and Ag21 policies written and implemented by the same shadows behind global financial regulations, TPP, etc.

Sun, 02/22/2015 - 19:26 | 5816474 Slomotrainwreck
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'The Gutter has been blocked'! What part of gutter don't you undeerstand. There is no more leaking into the Ocean! I repeat, 'The Gutter has been blocked'!STFU crybabies.

Sun, 02/22/2015 - 19:29 | 5816481 Slomotrainwreck
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... the gutter was blocked to prevent leaks to the Pacific Ocean.

 

'The Gutter has been blocked'! What part of gutter don't you understand. There is no more leaking into the Ocean! I repeat, 'The Gutter has been blocked'! STFU crybabies.

Sun, 02/22/2015 - 19:28 | 5816483 Slomotrainwreck
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... the gutter was blocked to prevent leaks to the Pacific Ocean.

 

'The Gutter has been blocked'! What part of gutter don't you undeerstand. There is no more leaking into the Ocean! I repeat, 'The Gutter has been blocked'!STFU crybabies.

Sun, 02/22/2015 - 18:51 | 5816338 Meta_Consciousness
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You do know the Italian mafia dumps toxic waste, including nuclear, into the Mediterranean, right?

Sun, 02/22/2015 - 14:18 | 5815413 Rusty Shorts
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Shushi Train Discounted in Fukushima Japan

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lBBt_U_UpQQ

Sun, 02/22/2015 - 14:34 | 5815448 sun tzu
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That's why I take a Geiger Counter with me to the sushi joints

Sun, 02/22/2015 - 19:54 | 5816552 Fukushima Fricassee
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My Fish comes from the Fuk-U- II just off the coast from haulover cut where I catch it.

Sun, 02/22/2015 - 12:26 | 5815078 thatthingcanfly
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<Audible sigh.>

This is a nuclear energy hatchet piece written by someone who does not understand radiation or radioactivity. Claiming that the radiation levels in a drainage ditch were 70 times higher than normal may not mean anything significant at all. Is it alpha or beta we're talking about? Is it Strontium 90? If so, that's bad. If it's Iodine 131, maybe not so bad. Was this a temporary spike, or a continuous trend shift?

None of these details are mentioned because the author doesn't care; he just knows he hates nuclear energy.

Edit: There is a paragraph I missed on my first read about the detection levels dropping to 10-20 times after continuous monitoring.

Sun, 02/22/2015 - 12:33 | 5815098 Thirst Mutilator
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...so we're all OK then? Fantastic! I didn't want anything to spoil my Oscar Meyer party planned for 2nite.

Sun, 02/22/2015 - 12:47 | 5815133 Government need...
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I think the point is that .gov-sponsored groups like the EPA are ignoring this ongoing disaster while they work feverishly to bilk Americans for a carbon tax.  Cuz the environment needs to be gooder.  Also, the quality of this journalism is abysmal and (as you indicate) too vague to draw a meaningful conclusion beyond either: (a) Oh the horror; or (b) everything is grate.

Sun, 02/22/2015 - 12:56 | 5815146 Gaius Frakkin' ...
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And you're obviously biased in favor of radioactive contamination.

The nuclear energy sector has a long history of propagating lies and deception, born from the secrecy concerning atomic weapon manufacture and later guided by public "hysteria" (otherwise known as legitimate concern) following one nuclear disaster after another. Why the hell should anyone believe official "data" coming from TEPCO?

Sun, 02/22/2015 - 12:58 | 5815160 thatthingcanfly
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Yep, you caught me. I'm in favor of radioactive contamination.

Who could argue with that logic?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fallacy

Sun, 02/22/2015 - 13:00 | 5815164 Gaius Frakkin' ...
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You're obviously a shill. Why don't you buy some cheap land around Fukushima or Chernobyl and leave us alone? You fucking piece of shit.

Sun, 02/22/2015 - 13:03 | 5815177 thatthingcanfly
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Ignoramuses like Gaius here, who have no idea what the hell they're talking about but speak up anyway, pretending - usually with much bellicosity - to have a qualified opinion, are the reason I've pretty much stopped reading the comments on ZH. Don't know why I made an exception today.

Sun, 02/22/2015 - 13:16 | 5815210 Gaius Frakkin' ...
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Goodbye jackass and please take all the pro-nuclear wankers with you. You can all camp out in front of the gates at Fukushima and sing Kumbaya.

Sun, 02/22/2015 - 14:18 | 5815414 UselessEater
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The precautionary principle is applied by UN Ag21 & the green army. The precautionary principle can also be applied to Fukushima and its potential environmental and human impact. We're supposed to plan for a sea rise in 2100 but not a nuclear reactor failure next to an ocean today. WTF?

Sun, 02/22/2015 - 14:13 | 5815395 kaiserhoff
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Please continue to post.

"When you find yourself in the majority, it is time to pause, and reflect."

     Mark Twain

Sun, 02/22/2015 - 14:48 | 5815483 Greenskeeper_Carl
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I agree. This article also doesn't provide a whole lot of real info. Not a nuclear shill, nor am i saying 'everything is great', but this piece really doesn't say much. And everytime someone tries to point out the sky isnt falling, this get hammered. I remember poster "Sieze Mars" talking about how all this ebola nonsense would be over soon and go nowhere, and he got the same exact attacks. And look what happened.

Sun, 02/22/2015 - 13:11 | 5815200 serotonindumptruck
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Not sure if I would characterize the article as a "hatchet piece", however when compared to many of the other daily news reports from www.enenews.com and www.rense.com with regard to Fukushima, this one needs more cowbell.

Sun, 02/22/2015 - 13:20 | 5815222 Limbs Akimbo
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Not to put too fine of point on this but it stated the readings are 50-70 times higher than the 'normal' readings which were already high from the accident.

So if you are schooled in nuclear physics....what type of radiation ARE they dealing with at this time?

I don't mean to sound snarky but if you are going to down play it, then show why. Because from where I sit, it still really really really sucks.

Sun, 02/22/2015 - 13:37 | 5815242 Gaius Frakkin' ...
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Yes, let's have "Mr. PhD in nuclear physics" explain to us dumb-folk how he and his smug companions are going to clean up the contamination at Fukushima, Chernobyl, and countless other sites, making them once again fit for human habitation.

Sun, 02/22/2015 - 13:27 | 5815238 mccvilb
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"This is a nuclear energy hatchet piece written by someone who does not understand radiation or radioactivity."

And you do? So what are you saying, getting irradiated is a good thing? We should automatically trust you purely from your NPR PC disdain for those who aren't privy to your behind closed doors sources? The only differences between alpha and beta particles - you left out gamma ray radiation to which the EPA devotes much of its covert monitoring, 20 times higher than 'normal' here in Maine since 1997 from spent fuel stored above ground, thank you Maine Yankee - as we await our own inevitable Fucked-shima event - is how different types of radiation are taken up and absorbed in the body. What difference does it make if we die in weeks from bone cancer, or six months from brain or stomach cancer? There are 105 radioactive sites here in the US and 21 Fukushima style NPPs but you won't find the MSM talking about any of them in public either.

Sun, 02/22/2015 - 14:15 | 5815397 Handful of Dust
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I used to eat lots of seaweed and seafood from that area but not anymore ...  Nicht! ... Nein! Nevermore!

As soon as a gubmint starts to cover-up I figure it's worse then expected.

 

Who needs another cause of cancer? We are already saturated with antibiotics, hormones and pesticides.

Sun, 02/22/2015 - 17:34 | 5816015 thatthingcanfly
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Apparently, you and Gaius are two peas in a pod. Here's the link again:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fallacy

Sun, 02/22/2015 - 13:54 | 5815326 patb
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 Claiming that the radiation levels in a drainage ditch were 70 times higher than normal may not mean anything significant at all. Is it alpha or beta we're talking about? Is it Strontium 90? If so, that's bad. If it's Iodine 131, maybe not so bad. 

 

 

if it's I-131 that's horrible because that only comes from

nuclear activity.  If we are seeing I-131 it's likely something has fired up again...

 

There is indications the reactors at Fukushima spike occasionally..

However more likely when they say 50X spike it means the rad level in

Sv/Hour shot up 50X...  It's probably that big of a jolt kicks up dust on the site.

if the fricking japanese would go out and clear the debris from the site, and get all the big hot stuff, they could have robots vacuuming the buildings and  they could pave the areas around the reactors.

Sun, 02/22/2015 - 14:54 | 5815496 mccvilb
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Emphasis on I-131 and its short half-life is being used to distract us from the other 1100 odd radioactive isotopes emanating from the coast of Japan.

Uranium alone has a half-life of 4.5 billion years. LOL, Uranium hexaflouride gas - GE, we bring good things to life.

Nuclear? Sheeat, we don' need no nuclear. We humans have destroyed all life on earth, we just don't know it yet. Ocean acidification, carbon dioxide absorption in sea water is doing an irreversible tap dance on marine life. That's on us, all 8 billion of us, unless of course we can reduce the population by 7.5 billion in the next year or two. Forget what I said earlier. We do need nuclear.

The Anthropocene Epoch is upon us. Can you believe it? You and I started an epoch! We're heralding in the sixth great extinction event. Hey Dad, look at us! We are making world history, and all in our own lifetime!

 

 

Sun, 02/22/2015 - 17:21 | 5815942 tarabel
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Vern, something with a half-life of 4.5 billion years is of zero danger whatsoever. It emits radiation at such an insignificant rate that it makes no difference to ephemeral lifespan creatures such as ourselves.

You want to be concerned with intermediate-length emitters with a half-life of five years or so-- short enough to emit bursts of energy yet long-lived enough to decay slowly enough to be a problem for decades.

The most dangerous stuff has half-lives that are so short that they are of very limited risk after a relatively short period of time. They burn themselves out and turn themselves into stable end products such as lead-- just like the Fukushima rods are doing.

 

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Sun, 02/22/2015 - 17:36 | 5816027 thatthingcanfly
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Whew!

I thought I was the only one.

Sun, 02/22/2015 - 14:03 | 5815356 NoPension
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There is history on their side. Motivated Japanese will willingly give their lives for the cause.
Right?
Heck, we couldn't stop them from going kamikaze.
Tora! Tora! Tora!

Sun, 02/22/2015 - 14:44 | 5815471 UselessEater
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kamikaze is becoming a rather relative term globally

Sun, 02/22/2015 - 20:18 | 5816612 Fukushima Fricassee
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Soon your facist american government will "kamikze" you just like the facist government of Japan did to it's people in WWII.

Sun, 02/22/2015 - 12:27 | 5815086 revjimbeam
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probably a good idea to cut out those tasty tuna fish sandwiches and stay easy of the rockies for a good hundred or so....

Sun, 02/22/2015 - 12:38 | 5815113 Renov8
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Funny you should mention Tuna.....

 

I am on the east coast and go out regularly to fish for Tuna.  On our last trip, we were met at the dock by some "academic" type, claiming to be doing a study on tuna migration and so forth.

 

I tend to state the obvious and said "shouldn't you be testing for cesium 137 instead?"    The look on his face said it all.  He eventually came clean with us and told us they were checking the carcasses of Tuna on the east coast to check for elevated levels of..........cesium 137.   Do date, he said nothing they have sampled tested positive.  Who knows whether or not to believe.

Once the first tuna is caught on the east coast with elevated levels.....that's it for me.  No more tuna fishing.

Sun, 02/22/2015 - 12:49 | 5815139 Government need...
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Too many lobbying group dollars to report tuna CS-137 levels accurately and regularly.  Now, on with the 'Islam is the religion of peace, diversity is our strength, grab-the-guns, global government is good' programming.

Sun, 02/22/2015 - 13:14 | 5815208 armageddon addahere
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Are you OK with crude oil and Corexit? Or have you forgotten the Mocando spill?

Sun, 02/22/2015 - 14:38 | 5815453 booboo
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HELLO...Fish eat oil. fish oil is good for you;-)

Sun, 02/22/2015 - 14:47 | 5815476 UselessEater
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only if gubermint tells you it is or is not, until then carry on as normal

Sun, 02/22/2015 - 12:29 | 5815092 whatthecurtains
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Radiations levels may vary and earthquakes come and go but the one constant are the TEPCO lies.

Sun, 02/22/2015 - 12:34 | 5815103 dsty
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Japan is a beautiful place

Just happens to be 85% mountanous

Ring of fire goes all the way up the middle of the country

sucks

Sun, 02/22/2015 - 12:41 | 5815116 Thirst Mutilator
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It really is! I've been pretty much everywhere in the world, but, seeing it in person (& I've been to Japan top to bottom on several occasions) ancient & maintained Japanese architecture is something to behold.

 

This whole thing makes me very sad.

Sun, 02/22/2015 - 13:04 | 5815179 dsty
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Cool

I was there in Iwakuni for 4 years 73-77 at the base hospital

traveled all 4 main islands

hard to get it our of your head

Lovely land and architecture

subtropical to northern forest

The old Japanese houses and farms with the stone fences 

Hope to go back some day

Sun, 02/22/2015 - 13:39 | 5815273 cossack55
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You might begin shopping for some lead-of-the-loom undies.

Sun, 02/22/2015 - 14:17 | 5815407 Handful of Dust
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I agree. It's a beautiful country. Sad, yes.

Sun, 02/22/2015 - 12:56 | 5815157 jbvtme
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if the ring of fire traverses the length of the island, why build a nuclear plant in the way?

Sun, 02/22/2015 - 12:34 | 5815104 czarangelus
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We should decomission all nuclear power plants while we still have the technological capability. We know there's going to continue being huge storms and earthquakes, and nothing I've seen from the last 50 years convinces me that humanity won't wage another truly massive war on itself. Peak oil implies that the amount of energy needed just to shut the things down may not be around forever, so we should take advantage of the opportunity while there's still time.

We won't, obviously, but I mean...

Sun, 02/22/2015 - 12:38 | 5815108 forputin
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Have you seen latest ukie propaganda video?

http://youtu.be/gfOqg51GAEk

It's so staged! They are actors! Because first of all in Novorossia there are only locals not some kind of Mongols or something like that. And DNR are very nice people who would never beat up others. We know this, but people arebrainwashed by maind stream media and doesn't see that. Thank god there are alternative media like Russia Today, Sputnik, Pravda, Rossija24 those are really trusty and independent sources.

Putin is great! Hi Putin! Hi Putin! Hi Putin!

Sun, 02/22/2015 - 12:56 | 5815158 swmnguy
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Interesting approach, I'll grant you.  More interesting than the "asophocles," "Pendragon" school of trolling.

Sun, 02/22/2015 - 12:59 | 5815162 czarangelus
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I hope that what began in the Donbas ends in Virginia and Maryland, godwilling, and we won't have to put up with you any longer.

Sun, 02/22/2015 - 12:59 | 5815124 ThroxxOfVron
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RESPONSIBILITY.

FORCE IT.  ENFORCE IT.

ALL of the Japanese .GOV regulators and the entire executive board of TEPCO should be FORCED to live inside that plant proper so that what ever is required for safety in operation or decommission is ENFORCED.

The problems/dangers associated with nuclear power plants are only going to be addressed and solved when the people that enjoy long lucerative careers working for the nuclear industry are forced to live on these sites with their families.

IF these sites are indeed safe and controlled then no one should have a problem living right there on these sites.

 

It should be this way where ever environmentally dangerous energy technology is being used in the United States.  Nuclear power plants.  Coal fired plants.  IF it is safe then there should be absolutely no argument against such a provision for operation!

ALL of the American .GOV regulators and the entire executive board of General Electric, etc. should be FORCED to live inside the nuclear plants so that what ever is required for safety in operation or decommission is ENFORCED.

Put the board and the top ranking regulators in and shit will get fixed or they will all perish in short order: either one fitting and proper, the choice entirely up to those people repsonsible. 

 

SAFE?  OK: YOU LIVE THERE.  YOU & YOUR WIFE & KIDS.

THIS IS THE WAY TO ENFORCE RESPONSIBILITY.

Sun, 02/22/2015 - 12:50 | 5815134 JustObserving
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As if Japan needed more bad news.  Cancer rates were soaring already.  GE, bringing good things to life, like flawed nuclear reactors:

6000% Increase in Cancer Rates at Fukushima Site 


Global Research, February 06, 2015

 

As reports from individuals like Chieko Shiina, a supporter of the Fukushima Collaborateive Clinic talk about exploding rates of thyroid cancer in children, as well as an epidemic of leukemia, heart attacks, and other health problems, the Abe-led government and US continue to sweep the fall out of the Fukushima disaster under the rug.

Cancer rates have exploded at an increase of almost 6000% in areas near the reactor meltdown. Aside from people-on-the-street interviews that a rare media outlet like “Hodo station” will report on, mainstream media stays completely silent. One Japanese resident, Carol Hisasue, laments that as the incident has disappeared from the media, it has also disappeared from people’s consciousness.

So why does Fukushima continue to be a see no evil, hear no evil event?

http://www.globalresearch.ca/6000-increase-in-cancer-rates-at-fukushima-...

Fukushima: General Electric Knew Its Nuclear Reactor Design Was Unsafe … So Why Isn’t GE Getting Any Heat for Fukushima?

http://www.globalresearch.ca/fukushima-general-electric-knew-its-nuclear...

Sun, 02/22/2015 - 12:53 | 5815154 djsmps
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Great. This has to happen just when I'm watching Godzilla.

Sun, 02/22/2015 - 12:59 | 5815163 Meta_Consciousness
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My wife doesn't understand my reluctance to have children.

 

I know that just stopping fish and crustacean ( sea bugs) consumption greatly reduces risk of issues caused by this nuclear event.

 

But when San ofore or others pop, I can't imagine the feeling she'd have knowing every breath, drink of water and bite of food was killing our child. That's the skeptics view, of course. seeing the negative and wishing to plan accordingly. 

 

But the realist in me sees how flagrantly risk is treated by those with the most responsibility. Not having children is a protest against those who could damn us all. 

 

I don't blame this site, either. I watched the reactor buildings pop live. For years I've watched CNN while trying to get my job done. Only recently have I been moved to a quiet cubicle away from the television.

 

The farce that is the veil everyone stares at leaves me with no recourse. I cannot redirect the minds, they're lost. I cannot fix laws, legislatures are dead. Courts are corrupt. I cannot acquire the capital necessary to buy change, because I'm not connected. I'm just Jack's complete lack of surprise. I found my power animal and I'm going to that happy place. Fuck you Marla, you can't take it from me by faking Zen, too. I'm not in they movie and I'm not as weak as Tyler's worse half.

 

I love fukushima. I love that the blind are giving themselves bone cancer.

 

In the next few years, we'll see them drop dead out of society.

 

Then the next plants will blow.

 

 

Sun, 02/22/2015 - 13:10 | 5815197 GMadScientist
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Spin down every core on Earth and then tell me how awesome life is with no lights and no heat.

Flailing like a 5 year old and saying 'it's all fucked' is a really productive response and gets you right off that hook for doing something doesn't it?

Sun, 02/22/2015 - 13:28 | 5815244 serotonindumptruck
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Seriously, what would you suggest that he do? Try to inform his friends, neighbors, and colleagues about this ongoing ecological nightmare? Many of us have been trying that approach for several years and have received mostly "blank stares" and ridicule in response.

I can respect his somewhat nihilistic attitude in light of society's wholesale cognitive dissonance on this issue.

Sun, 02/22/2015 - 15:18 | 5815565 UselessEater
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Its actually what they want. Become either so disillusioned you decide not to have kids but carry on as a debt serf (in its many guises), or decide its best for the planet to not create evil consumers (meanwhile Gore & Turner etc own up to at least a few).

They're counting on this as another way to fracture the family (think about why small &/or weak family structures might be useful). Two cousins have recently had baby - the family love is obvious & wonderful. Several generations have shifted into love and protect mode, trivial things are left behind, a new level of inter-generational unity is forming before my eyes around these little babies.

Some aspects of life transcend everything else. My relatives are now preoccupied with the incredible arrival of the little babies. They're also becoming preoccupied with protecting the little bundles of smiles and poop. Life should be defined by creating a family & working for a future, not succumbing to nihilism within the fiat debt & cabal destruction of the environment system.

Our challenge is to choose and work hard for creation and constitutional sovereign rights; and to navigate as best we can a path within this media saturated cabal system.

On a time scale long enough...we are all able to contribute to raising & aiding children of our own, of friends and of family.

To lose sight of that wonder and responsibility makes the cabal happy. They like you buying a new icrap & living in fear.

Sun, 02/22/2015 - 16:10 | 5815698 Lin S
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You might have more cred if you toned down the gushing baby-worship and got your head screwed on straight.

Your post makes you sound like a cocaine addict.

Sun, 02/22/2015 - 18:41 | 5816290 Meta_Consciousness
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The nihilism isn't there.

 

A guy at work told me if he goes stage 4 he's going to murder Brownback. That's how much he hates republicans. He uses the word hate. That's nihilism. He HAS kids. A legacy to look after by his actions informing those children.

 

It doesn't have to do with fukushima, it's the next one. 

Sun, 02/22/2015 - 18:43 | 5816299 Meta_Consciousness
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Spin down every core and billions grow to look at themselves and their family for support, not a government a thousand miles away.

 

 

Sun, 02/22/2015 - 14:17 | 5815409 I reckon so
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Meta, I work in a professional healthcare occupation.  You should see the reactions I get from people when I mention any of this Fuku stuff.  It's like I told them I went to dinner with Bugs Bunny.  They laugh.  The comments are outrageous.  I'm talking people with young children.  One woman just gave birth this month with her first child.  (I am in Claifornia.)  One guy eats salmon every Friday; his wife packs his lunch.  He was in the Navy for 20 years.  I have showed him articles about the Ronald Reagan's crew; he just laughs at me.

There are times when I feel like I may be close to a psychological collapse, because of the complete, absolute ignorance of what is going on by everyone around me.  Nobody gets it.

Sun, 02/22/2015 - 15:24 | 5815580 maskone909
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They will be laughing all the way to hospice. Outta sight outta mind. Fuck em just take care of you and yours. I just had a child i am seriously considering moving from so cal.

Sun, 02/22/2015 - 15:26 | 5815585 Stumpy4516
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You have to inform, then discuss if they wish but if they just want to argue or make you convince them - drop it.  It is their responsibility.

I've mentioned this to educated people regarding west coast shell fish, tuna, herring and other fish.  Also about the once healthy sea weed products they eat.  Same for shrimp or fish from the Gulf (and swimming in those water now).  If they get defensive or aggressive I drop it.  Still makes me sad when they have group get togethers (in cali) at all you can eat crab dinners.  Or post pictures of the expensive sushi dinner. (And still drink milk in cali)

Know a couple people who work in health food stores.  Same experience for the most part.  When I tell them I now question the use of fish oil they tune it out.  When I mention there may be issues of msg in all the whey powders they use (as I once did) they get agitated.  So, I've mentioned it and will not push it further.

 

Sun, 02/22/2015 - 16:11 | 5815695 Village-idiot
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I understand exactly how you feel.

I keep trying to inform people that GMO flax was released in Canada in the early 1990s. After two years it was discontinued, but now the entire Canadian and probably N. American flax crop is probably polluted with GMOs.

http://www.gmwatch.org/latest-listing/1-news-items/11557-flax-contamination-soars-to-28-countries 

(note the date on this article: 2009. It's probably much more widespread now)

There is no such thing as "organic flax" grown in N. America.

Try to tell that to businesses that produce organic products that include flax.

 

 

Sun, 02/22/2015 - 16:03 | 5815670 Lin S
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Reminds me of what Radical Marijuana has posted here on ZH about psychopathy.

You get it, they don't, and they never will. Hang in there and keep on truckin'...

Sun, 02/22/2015 - 15:58 | 5815662 Lin S
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A poignant post, + 1000.

My Mrs. and I agreed we would not have children chiefly because the world is flying apart at the seams, faster and faster. We don't want to bring a child into this global nightmare.

Sun, 02/22/2015 - 17:07 | 5815889 tarabel
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I think you are correct. You not having children is definitely the best choice in this troubled world.

Sun, 02/22/2015 - 13:00 | 5815169 Bangin7GramRocks
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I get it. What should they tell their people? Everyone should evacuate the island? You are all going to die a slow painful death? We are completely fucked?

Sun, 02/22/2015 - 14:34 | 5815445 Matt
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Maybe just relocate the people in Fukushima Prefecture?

Sun, 02/22/2015 - 15:24 | 5815579 UselessEater
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No. Say we care, now please participate in the ongoing study of Hiroshima 'cause you're kinda fascinating we want to know what ends life, ends reproductive capability, generates pharma revenue and just how docile you will be about your kids health.

Sun, 02/22/2015 - 13:01 | 5815171 permarig
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In a broader/meta sense though, can there be a point where the pigmen will have to resort to the nuclear card to push chaos. (It trumps everything really.)

Just the last few weeks, weekend Tyler pointed us to the Spiegel discussing (subliminally rationalizing?) nuclear war, a mushroom cloud in Ukraine and now a Fukushima escalation.

Freaking Fox News running a headline like 'Report: Russian hackers penetrate US power grid'. And of course, no power also means no internet.

Sun, 02/22/2015 - 13:02 | 5815175 Hope Copy
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Ther contaminationm all has to be dug up and turned into cement.  The 'hot' contaminants have to be reprocessed, very expensive..  Perhaps turned into batteries.

Sun, 02/22/2015 - 13:52 | 5815319 serotonindumptruck
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The reactor cores have likely breached the sub-basement levels and have melted into the underlying strata. There are several hundred tons of reactor fuel that have melted down and are likely still fissioning, which means that in addition to the extreme thermal readings, any close proximity to the melted coria would result in a lethal dose being received within a few seconds.

Your proposal, while technologically sound, is unworkable with an active meltdown of this much nuclear fuel.

Sun, 02/22/2015 - 13:05 | 5815180 GMadScientist
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You can always tell a bullshit story by the use of percentages rather than actual physical quantities.

Sun, 02/22/2015 - 14:07 | 5815378 I reckon so
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Good point.  Sadly, you must have not been able to glean (look it up) the LARGER (read - intended) message, which is, the uncontrolled disasters (plural) at Fukushima have been and will continue to be more seriously dispersed via events caused by mother nature.  Forever.  The absolute fact that TEPCO puts out "bullshit stories" as facts should trouble you only if you are breathing.

If this article saw print in a dedicated industry publication, I could understand your concern over the obvious lack of specifics.

If you are not a shill, you missed your calling.  And that is 100% correct, f*cktard.

Sun, 02/22/2015 - 15:41 | 5815619 GMadScientist
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Shut the fuck up, dumbass. Just because I find pisspoor coverage and fear-mongering about something that is actually important disgusting doesn't make me a shill; it makes me interested in an educated public.

In other words, NOT YOU.

Mon, 02/23/2015 - 14:19 | 5818965 I reckon so
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The fear-mongering actually grows legs with replies like yours, where you are trying to 1)discredit, and 2)detract from, the real, incontrovertible truth of the article, which is radiation being dispersed at a higher rate due to mother nature's activity.

If as you say you are interested in an educated public, why don't you give us some hard statistics with source(s) quoted, in order to support your claim that the article is misleading.  Provide us all with links to credible information which fill in the data you claim is needed, and links which expose the flaws in this article.  Enlighten us as to where we ourselves can find this information, how you searched for it, and other reqources you found along your search.  In other words, help educate the public.

Oh, wait, that's not your genuine purpose here.

My grandma would be so disappointed with me.  She always said, "If you get in a fight with a skunk, it's hard to tell who wins."

Sun, 02/22/2015 - 13:06 | 5815183 luna_man
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More beached whales!

 

Have you noticed that glow surrounding the japanese peoples after dark?...coming to an city near you soon.

 

fishing made easy

Sun, 02/22/2015 - 13:08 | 5815193 Meta_Consciousness
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Don't forget wolf creek. Worst run plant in the United States. It has the worst history of safety violations.

 

The fracking shaking Kansas and Oklahoma could royally fukushima this plant that would  irradiate most of the food in our nation, California excepted.

 

 

Sun, 02/22/2015 - 13:26 | 5815232 heisenberg991
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Fukushima tuna makes your penis glow in the dark.

Sun, 02/22/2015 - 13:27 | 5815237 Last of the Mid...
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who the fu*k thought it a good idea to sell Japan nuclear reactors??? Jeffrey? Jefrey? We bring good things to life?  GE. These guys are real criminals and should be treated as such. While playing line dancing employee commercials back to us in the US. No words can  describe what these guys have done. Hey Al Gore, wanna come over here and talk about this shit?  No, I didn't think so. How many carbon credits will it take to clean up an ocean? 

Sun, 02/22/2015 - 14:45 | 5815474 Matt
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"These guys are real criminals and should be treated as such."

How many of the people who ran GE in the 1970s are still around? 

Sun, 02/22/2015 - 15:49 | 5815641 pupdog1
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Actually, GE had/has nothing whatsoever to do with it. It is the utility (TEP-LYINGRATBASTARD-CO in this case) and the architect/engineer construction firm that locates and builds the plant.

Sun, 02/22/2015 - 13:28 | 5815241 thistooshallpass
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Tectonically speaking, it's been a busy day around world..

http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/map/

*zoom out (upper right) to world map

Sun, 02/22/2015 - 13:28 | 5815246 screw face
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.....Zero Hedge #Fukushima....Bank on it.

 

.....Bitchezzzz

Sun, 02/22/2015 - 13:37 | 5815268 Fix It Again Timmy
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Decapitate the CEO of TEPCO, then give them 90 days to get a grip on this and if unsuccessful, start chopping heads off - much quicker than trials with lawyers and much more effective...Sometimes you have to act savagely to obtain decency...

Sun, 02/22/2015 - 13:45 | 5815293 p00k1e
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Move them to Costa Rica then drone the island off as 'Forbidden Zone'. 

Sun, 02/22/2015 - 13:47 | 5815299 Blakyak
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Japan is like tail risk. Once you start to forget they come back and do something fucked up and shits on the world

 

I dont understand why the MSM is not slamming Japan for what theyre doing. Millions are going to die from Fuckushima radiation, and the world doesnt seem to care

 

Sun, 02/22/2015 - 14:17 | 5815406 p00k1e
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There’s no answer yet.

Japan is working on the robots that will be used for clean up.  It’s gonna take another 10 years or so. 

Sun, 02/22/2015 - 17:20 | 5815957 Government need...
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The lack of US .gov response well and truly uncovers the true state of our nation: (1) .Gov seeks to control you, not protect you; (2) .Gov lies to you rather than seek and spread the truth.  Here our government is arming its employees to the teeth, but they cant be bothered to drop a few extra radiation measurement buoys into the water all along the CA coast.  There has been no exhaustive .gov sponsored study attempting to measure and quantify health risks to US citizens as a result of the ongoing Fukushima radiation leaks.  Seems reasonable that such a study should be front-page quarterly/semi-annual news for 20 years, with specific easy-to-find sections on migratory/mass consumed fish like tuna and salmon.  Why is .gov spending billions per day on illegal immigrants ahead of conducting such an important study for all citizens health?  Is this a state of affairs that you are comfortable with?

Sun, 02/22/2015 - 13:50 | 5815307 Amish Hacker
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"After the discovery, the gutter was blocked to prevent leaks to the Pacific Ocean."

When it gets serious, you have to lie, and this one's a whopper. Three damaged nuclear cores are underground somewhere at Fukushima, exact location and status unknown. Meanwhile, enormous quantities of groundwater are becoming irradiated every day before flowing into the ocean, and this has been going on since March 2011. The technology needed to clean up this mess is many years away, but still Tepco insists that they have things under control. Don't believe them.

Sun, 02/22/2015 - 16:48 | 5815834 tarabel
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Aren't radioactive elements pretty heavy? And please provide a comparison between the "enormous" amount of irradiated ground water at Fukushima and the size in gallons or liters of the Pacific Ocean.

Frankly, dumping the whole shebang into the conveniently nearby Japan Trench would be the best solution by far. Instead of building a dam to keep it concentrated in a limited area where it can do harm, they should construct a pipeline and pump the shit out of there where it can be diffused across the deepest reaches of the sea bottom and decay in peace.

Just my rouble and a half.

Sun, 02/22/2015 - 19:59 | 5816570 Amish Hacker
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Tarabel, I am familiar with that argument, (a variant of "The solution to pollution is dilution"), but I find it unconvincing. For one thing, the disaster at Fukushima is ongoing, and radioactive pollution of the ocean will continue for many more years. Although the exact effects of this are unknowable, the implications for the food chain are serious, and should not be dismissed simply because the Pacific Ocean is very large.

Your second paragraph (Did you forget the "/sarc" tag?) reflects an all-too-common attitude, that humans have every right to treat the world's oceans as their toilet. Fukushima aside, other forms of pollution, like plastics and petrochemicals, have placed the ocean under extreme stress. Signs of this are increasing, especially in the Pacific, with mass die-offs becoming more common along the California & Oregon coasts. The urgent importance of this is underappreciated, and is almost never reported on in the mainstream press.

Sun, 02/22/2015 - 17:22 | 5815964 Government need...
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Yup, not gonna worry now that the article states they 'blocked the gutter'.  I do this all the time at home when it rains.  Simple, effective, inexpensive.  PROBLEM SOLVED!

Sun, 02/22/2015 - 13:52 | 5815318 robertocarlos
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Nothing to see here. Seriously, you can't even see them electrons.  

Sun, 02/22/2015 - 14:02 | 5815334 HamSandwich
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The comments on the article are cringe-worthy or just plain, obvious shilling for other clickbait news sources; a bunch of TEOTWAWKI nonsense and the like. I guess none of you are going to take a cross-country flight any longer, or live near a coal burning power plant (that may be a difficult one). There are just as many, naturally-occurring, free radicals released by coal plants as Fukushima. Flying from LA to NY? Congrats, you just got 40 milliSieverts of radiation. Live in a stone, brick or concrete house? That's 70 milliSieverts a year! Like Granite countertops? Granite contains, *gasp*, naturally occurring radioactive particles! Like bananas? Well, you don't want that radioactive potassium in your system. Need that life-saving CT/MRI scan? You better not! That's 7 whole microSieverts...more than 7 times the "safe" yearly dose! Oh my god, they're radiating the ocean! There are naturally occurring nuclear reactors in the damn earth's crust, especially near divergent boundaries like the mid-Atlantic ridge. On top of cosmic radiation, the oceans are getting irradiated by naturally occurring reactors every day. Maybe all you morons should stop breathing; don't want to inhale that Radon gas.

Sun, 02/22/2015 - 14:05 | 5815369 Cautiously Pess...
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You forgot the obligatory SARCASM tag

Sun, 02/22/2015 - 15:01 | 5815512 pupdog1
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I heard that you were indicted.

Sun, 02/22/2015 - 13:58 | 5815339 Cautiously Pess...
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What about the water aquifer that supplies Tokyo?  If radionuclides are breaching it, the Abe government certainly will not warn the citizens.  And, I still cannot envision the 2020 Olympics taking place there.  Who the heck would want to go?

 

Sun, 02/22/2015 - 14:01 | 5815350 Jack Burton
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Where are those three nuclear reactor cores actually at? Nobody knows, because to know is to die, even robots will fry if they try and get into those holes in the ground where the cores were last seen melting away.

I listened to an older gentleman who was in charge of some enginnering of the Three Mile Island clean up project. He said he does not know where the cores are, but if they are well placed, he can soo some progress in 50 years, when new technology in engineered, and perahps in 75 years actual contact with the cores might be made, in order to being removal and clean up.

Sadly, the odds of a mega thrust earthquake off the Tokyo seabed, is near 100%. The last quake put all the stress on the mega thrust fault down Tokyo way, so that is building right now. A few years back I read an account of the last great Tokyo earthquake. With modern construction, much will survive in tact. But the possible shking at Fukushima, a totaly unsound plant, with building falling apart, that could destroy the spent fuel pools, and spell mega disaster.

Sun, 02/22/2015 - 14:20 | 5815418 HamSandwich
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The cores are Three Mile are in their containment vessels. Three Mile was a high pressure gas release. Nothing went critical; the number two reactor partially melted but was still contained in its vessel. The top of the vessel was removed and radioactive fuel, control rods and other material were removed. The gentleman you spoke to, or you, are full of it. The Chernobyl reactor is in a hole as it did go critical and breach the "containment vessel" they had in place. Regardless, you can go walk around the reactor building at Chernobyl today and only get a dose less than a CT scan (6 mSv).

Sun, 02/22/2015 - 16:11 | 5815701 SmedleyButlersGhost
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What a load of shite from you. Have you made that walk?  Maybe put it together with Fukui and make it a vacation tour thing with some toxic dumps thrown in to boot  Better yet - please sign your kids up for a Univ of Fukui 4 year program -  we'll flash fund it from this site - i'll organize that for you

 

Sun, 02/22/2015 - 16:37 | 5815780 tarabel
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Actually, Chernobyl seems to be quite the teen hangout these days. I've seen numerous blogs where kids sneak into the exclusion zone and prowl around for fun.

I can't find the link on this computer but here is a Chernobyl Tourist Agency for you, Smedley. Looks like you only need to crowdfund about $139 to send your friend on a tour.

 

http://tour2chernobyl.com/faq

Sun, 02/22/2015 - 14:04 | 5815364 RaceToTheBottom
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It all depends on how many eyes the local fish have. If more than two, they should be fed to WS'ers

Sun, 02/22/2015 - 14:06 | 5815373 Dewey Cheatum Howe
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http://www.nationalreview.com/article/376258/pacifics-salmon-are-back-th...

...Russ George to demonstrate the feasibility of open-sea mariculture — in this case, the distribution of 120 tons of iron sulfate into the northeast Pacific to stimulate a phytoplankton bloom which in turn would provide ample food for baby salmon.... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transferrin Transferrins are iron-binding blood plasma glycoproteins that control the level of free iron in biological fluids.[1] Human transferrin is encoded by the TF gene.  ... The liver is the main site of transferrin synthesis, but other tissues and organs, such as the brain, also produce it. The main role of transferrin is to deliver iron from absorption centers in the duodenum and white blood cell macrophages to all tissues. Transferrin plays a key role where erythropoiesis and active cell division occur. ... Transferrin is also associated with the innate immune system. ... Most recently, transferrin and its receptor have been shown to diminish tumour cells by using the receptor to attract antibodies. ...

The metal-binding properties of transferrin have a great influence on the biochemistry of plutonium in humans.

...

Someone(s) or something has been trying to front run the cancer problems from Fukushima by quietly geoengineering high concentrations of iron into the food chain using the bioaccumulation method.

That and higher than normal concentrations of iodized salt (Iodine) are being injected into the food chain to counteract the effects of Cesium 137 for starters.

 

Sun, 02/22/2015 - 15:40 | 5815612 Village-idiot
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More iron in the food-chain will not reduce cancer; in fact it'll probably make things worse.

http://www.imppc.org/research-activities/cancer-and-iron/

As far as the increase in the levels of iodine in the food-chain is concerned, The Japanese have a very high level of iodine intake due to the amount of seaweed they consume. It hasn't protected them at all. http://www.thyroidresearchjournal.com/content/4/1/14

The gradual demineralization of all soils (and, now it appears, the reduction of some minerals in the oceans) is getting to be a serious problem resulting in numerous chronic diseases arising around the world. Check out this little book: http://www.ucpress.edu/book.php?isbn=9780520248700

Sun, 02/22/2015 - 16:13 | 5815706 Dewey Cheatum Howe
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The jury is still out on that one and iron but look at it from this perspective.

If you tryiing to prevent a total collapse of the food chain if you can't reduce the radioactive levels you seed it from the bottom up with the hopes side effects nonwithstanding the food chain at least if radiated is still there and living and in turn if it can survive a few generations at elevated iron levels naturally fortifies it's defenses to withstand long term high but not lethal doses of radiation. Natural selection will take care of the rest.

If the food chain collapses, it don't really matter if iron does or doesn't work long term in higher organism cancer reduction. The conveyor belt still needs to keep moving. We don't have the ability and infrastructure to mass synthesis food to bypass the natural food chain to be immune from the consequences of a collapse of this magnitude, yet....

It buys time for everything up the food chain to try to ensure long term survival.

 

Sun, 02/22/2015 - 14:12 | 5815392 djsmps
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The earthquakes are caused by fracking

Sun, 02/22/2015 - 14:15 | 5815402 whoopsing
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On the bright side a contaminated world means there is less worry about fallout from nuclear weapons

Sun, 02/22/2015 - 15:02 | 5815520 pupdog1
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These fucking ad loads that crash my system and my browser really need to stop at ZH.

Like these cocksuckers, for example:

 

Script: http://objects.tremormedia.com/net/js/ads.js:92

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It is to the point that I think twice if it is even worth visiting the site or clicking on any articles. We should pick a day to boycott. March 1st is good for me. Enough with the video ads-they slow everything down.

Sun, 02/22/2015 - 15:09 | 5815532 Son of Captain Nemo
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After Spike In Earthquake Activity , New Fukushima Leak Sees 70x Increase In Radiation

Did anybody check to see if the latest earthquake was natural or was it "man-made" like the one that destroyed it?...

Pacific Ocean and the rest of the Northern Hemisphere "toast"!  Including America's military installation(s) since the end of WWII not to mention all the dead and dying from the U.S.S. Ronnie Reagan!!!

Russia and China need to do the honors because everyone else is too chicken shit even when it means their own being killed!!! The U.S. is too frightened that parasite "papa star" will spank them again just like the U.S.S. Liberty and 9/11 if they don't step in line and follow orders!! 


Sun, 02/22/2015 - 15:45 | 5815629 Infinite QE
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Well, we all by now that Fukushima was also under Israeli control as they were creating the fuel for the israeli nukes and had israeli security. Funny how wherever those roachs are trouble soon folllows.

 

Sun, 02/22/2015 - 17:00 | 5815864 tarabel
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Where did you get your degree in Stupid?

Sun, 02/22/2015 - 17:44 | 5816042 Son of Captain Nemo
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Where did you get your degree in Stupid?

tara"brew"

Be careful who you call stupid.  I use to at least give credit where credit was due in calling your people once "psychotic insane" satanists with a dash of clever but that was before you took the leadership role in making Japan and it's backyard pool a toxic waste dump for humanity that will not only kill goy but the "tribe's" people as well!... Sort of like the DU the U.S. and Israel has dumped everywhere throughout the Middle East after the WMD depots in in Iraq were destroyed, followed by Iraqi Freedom, Libya and Syria after your demolition show in lower Manhattan courtesy of Larry Silverstein & friends that is wreaking havoc on fertility rates now in your own neighborhood... If being hated wasn't bad enough, now you have genetic mutations everywhere including your own!  No wonder you are declaring your lineage from here instead of Jerusalem?!!!!  Everywhere you go you "shit in your own pool"!!!

Then you had to go all in and threaten a nuclear superpower to break all prior record(s) of "stupid" with the blatant ovethrow of Ukraine using Zionist neo-nazis shattering the Holocaust myth for good!?!!! 
Rothschild vs. Rothschild

Congratulations!  Because your "psychotic insane" has turned into mind numbing retarded!!!

"Stupid is as stupid does"!!!


Sun, 02/22/2015 - 18:01 | 5816127 dsty
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You don't hate Jews, right?

Aren't you the guy that said to nuke Israel?

There, you fixed everything.

On to the next race.

Sun, 02/22/2015 - 17:12 | 5815918 prmths2
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It is clear that Tepco cannot be trusted and that there is a contamination problem in Japan, but the situation elsewhere is apparently not so well understood. The United Nations, through UNSCEAR, released the following report (Volume 1, 322 pages):

http://www.unscear.org/docs/reports/2013/14-06336_Report_2013_Annex_A_Eb...

see page 9, paragraph 34, and page 11,  paragraph 43(b).

Volume 2 of the report (Effects of radiation exposure of children):

http://www.unscear.org/docs/reports/2013/UNSCEAR2013Report_AnnexB_Childr...

see page 42, paragraph 156. I have a difficult time accepting this one, but I can't rebut it. The report is extensive and well-written, but the technical discussion of nuclear energy and its impact will never be isolated from politics and other interests. What to believe?

 

 

 

 

 

 

Sun, 02/22/2015 - 19:41 | 5816515 TNTARG
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As I said, we've already nuked ourselves.

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