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Nuclear experts: Fukushima is much worse than Japan is letting on. Leaks everywhere.

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Upsidedown Fuji

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jimi_dini said:
Guys, I hope this is a fake or something

http://www.turnerradionetwork.com/news/146-mjt





A few days old, I couldn't find a thread about it.
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I haven't heard anything about this. The biggest news articles in Japan this week have nothing at all to do with TEPCO, and more to do about the relocation of a US base in Okinawa and the PM's visit to a controversial war shrine in Tokyo. I'm not surprised that this news never made it to the news channels in Japan. The media tries hard to bury the events of 3/11/11 in the public's minds even though it is far from being resolved, especially for the refugees living in temporary housing which is rotting over their heads. While the report is concerning, I haven't seen it on any sites or any blogs I follow that are dedicated to skimming TEPCO official press reports and Japanese government channels.
I think the biggest news pertaining to Daiichi would be the fact that TEPCO hid news in plain sight for the past 29 years about bungling the removal of fuel rods and cracking a channel in 1982. The translation can be found HERE.

Smoke has been reported to rise periodically from the site in the past, but no one really has much more information than that as TEPCO and the J-government are very tight lipped about any information that may put the site into the mainstream news again.

If I'm wrong, I'd really like to know the true cause as well as it is happening a couple prefectures over from where I live.
 
Shouta

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From what I read, the picture is from 2 years ago of a combinate fire at an oil facility in Sendai, I think?
 
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Reuteurs: Yakuza Gangsters Recruit Homeless Men For Fukushima Nuclear Clean Up

Seiji Sasa hits the train station in this northern Japanese city before dawn most mornings to prowl for homeless men.

He isn't a social worker. He's a recruiter. The men in Sendai Station are potential laborers that Sasa can dispatch to contractors in Japan's nuclear disaster zone for a bounty of $100 a head.

"This is how labor recruiters like me come in every day," Sasa says, as he strides past men sleeping on cardboard and clutching at their coats against the early winter cold.

It's also how Japan finds people willing to accept minimum wage for one of the most undesirable jobs in the industrialized world: working on the $35 billion, taxpayer-funded effort to clean up radioactive fallout across an area of northern Japan larger than Hong Kong.
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The trail from Shinei led police to a slightly larger neighboring company with about 30 employees, Fujisai Couken. Fujisai says it was under pressure from a larger contractor, Raito Kogyo, to provide workers for Fukushima. Kenichi Sayama, Fujisai's general manger, said his company only made about $10 per day per worker it outsourced. When the job appeared to be going too slowly, Fujisai asked Shinei for more help and they turned to Nishimura.

A Fujisai manager, Fuminori Hayashi, was arrested and paid a $5,000 fine, police said. Fujisai also paid a $5,000 fine.

"If you don't get involved (with gangs), you're not going to get enough workers," said Sayama, Fujisai's general manager. "The construction industry is 90 percent run by gangs."
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Shouta

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jimi_dini said:
It seems you know Japanese. Could you please take a look at this tepco page?
http://www.tepco.co.jp/nu-news/2013/1233248_5304.html

The site links to it.
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I already did. It's a daily report on the status of the reactors. On 27th, they saw some steam coming from Reactor 3 but their monitoring posts didn't detect anything abnormal. The weather at the time was 5.1℃ and had a humidity of 93.1％. With temps that low, that would probably be why they filmed steam from it.

They couldn't check themselves because of the state of the reactor (i.e. lethal levels of radiation within the building, which is standard considering what happened there) but the monitoring posts say there wasn't anything which is probably why it wasn't something of a problem, I'd assume.
 
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Shouta said:
I already did. It's a daily report on the status of the reactors. On 27th, they saw some steam coming from Reactor 3 but their monitoring posts didn't detect anything abnormal. The weather at the time was 5.1℃ and had a humidity of 93.1％. With temps that low, that would probably be why they filmed steam from it.
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thanks. Good news then.
 
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At what point do countries force themselves to do something about this? Technically, this disaster hurts all the surrounding countries too including the US...
 
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woahitsreeo

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I'm assuming this is relevant: Second Giant Sea Creature Washes Ashore Along Santa Monica Coastline - Alarms Sound Over Radioactive Gigantism/

giant.radioactive.fukushima.squid.3.jpg


Time to start up that jaeger program.

Edit: totally fake
 
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Around a week ago:
http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/20...held-record-level-radiation-data-last-summer/

Tepco released the data on Feb. 6 showing that the groundwater contained a record 5 million becquerels per liter of radioactive strontium-90.
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Previously they said that it was "only" 900.000 becquerels per liter.

But don't worry, because:
http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/02/13/us-japan-nuclear-fukushima-strontium-idUSBREA1C09720140213

Shinji Kinjo, head of a Nuclear Regulation Authority (NRA) taskforce on contaminated water issues at Fukushima, told Reuters he had not heard about the record high strontium reading until this month. "We did not hear about this figure when they detected it last September," he said. "We have been repeatedly pushing Tepco to release strontium data since November. It should not take them this long to release this information."
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No shit sherlock Kinjo.
 
Upsidedown Fuji

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It's hard for me to stay angry after 3 years of next to no progress in either transparency or proper aid for the villages and towns displaced because the government is unwilling to admit the area surrounding the plant is lost. No one seems to be up to the task of reining in Tepco and their enablers in the government. All's well we got the 2020 Olympics. Just turn a blind eye to the north and keep pumping in that money into Tokyo. Fuck the refugees.
 
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Safety Measures Fail To Stop Fukushima Plant Leaks
http://news.slashdot.org/story/14/02/21/180251/safety-measures-fail-to-stop-fukushima-plant-leaks

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/02/21/world/asia/worst-spill-in-6-months-at-fukushima.html?_r=0

TOKYO — About 100 tons of highly radioactive water leaked from one of the hundreds of storage tanks at the devastated Fukushima nuclear plant, its operator said Thursday, calling the leak the worst spill at the plant in six months.
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http://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/english/news/20140221_14.html
 
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...and Japan goes nuclear again. smfh

http://news.yahoo.com/japanese-nuclear-plant-deemed-safe-nears-restart-034218659.html

A Japanese nuclear plant won preliminary approval for meeting stringent post-Fukushima safety regulations Wednesday, an important step toward restarting the country's first reactors under the tighter rules applied after the 2011 disaster.
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Commissioner Kunihiko Shimazaki, a seismologist, said it's difficult to accurately predict eruptions but current assessment suggests a catastrophic eruption is "extremely unlikely."
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Though public opposition over restarts exceeds support, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's government has been calling for restarts, saying a prolonged shutdown hurts Japan's economy and reversing a nuclear phase-out policy adopted by the previous government.
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