Radioactive Homes Being Built in Japan by ANTHONYT

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Radioactive Homes Being Built in Japan

POSTED BY: ANTHONYT
UPDATED: Monday, May 28, 2012 18:09
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Saturday, May 26, 2012 8:31 AM

Freedom is Important because People are Important

http://cnn.com/video/data/2.0/video/world/2012/05/24/lah-japan-radiati
on-fears.cnn.html

Hello,

This news report details how radioactive materials are being shipped all around Japan. The foundations of some buildings are radioactive. Baby formula is radioactive. Other materials are radioactive.

Japan is becoming a radioactive nation, and the distance from ground zero doesn't matter when the radiation is brought to you by commerce.

--Anthony

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Saturday, May 26, 2012 9:25 AM

AURAPTOR

America loves a winner!

Only a matter of time...

( Sorry, it just never gets old )

" We're all just folk. " - Mal

" AU, that was great, LOL!! " - Chrisisall

"The world is a dangerous place. Not because of the people who are evil; but because of the people who don't do anything about it." - Albert Einstein

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Saturday, May 26, 2012 4:03 PM

OONJERAH

It's almost scarier to me that they willingly do it to their own than to think or know that they're exporting all that stuff so everyone can have some.

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Saturday, May 26, 2012 4:31 PM

BYTEMITE

Uh.

Wow. I actually didn't anticipate that they would be this willfully blind in my worst case scenario. I mean in the very least I'd have thought officials would have a self-interest in not contaminating or killing themselves.

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Monday, May 28, 2012 6:06 PM

OONJERAH

Fukushima radiation seen in tuna off California => http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/05/28/us-japan-nuclear-tuna-idUSBR
E84R0MF20120528

(Reuters) - Low levels of nuclear radiation from the tsunami-damaged Fukushima power plant have turned up in bluefin tuna off the California coast, suggesting that these fish carried radioactive compounds across the Pacific Ocean faster than wind or water can. Small amounts of cesium-137 and cesium-134 were detected in 15 tuna caught near San Diego in August 2011, about four months after these chemicals were released into the water off Japan's east coast, scientists reported on Monday.

That is months earlier than wind and water currents brought debris from the plant to waters off Alaska and the U.S. Pacific Northwest.

The amount of radioactive cesium in the fish is not thought to be damaging to people if consumed . . .

========================= I am convinced that life is 10% what happens to me and 90% of how I react to it. ~Charles R Swindoll

If I have to react to others all the time, then they own my mind more than I do. If I let others tell me how to feel, I lose my ability to choose happiness. If I let others tell me who I am, I've vacated self-definition. Finally, I realized how foolish I was to give others such power over me.

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Monday, May 28, 2012 6:09 PM

OONJERAH

Japan's ex-PM: I was frightened by nuclear crisis => http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5hfzQPTwr1-VvwvajH95S
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TOKYO (AP) — Japan's leader felt fearful and helpless during last year's nuclear disaster and lacked experts capable of giving him guidance, he testified Monday in his first response to a public investigative inquiry on the crisis.

Naoto Kan resigned in September after being criticized for government failures during the disaster. He told the parliamentary panel he felt afraid when nuclear officials kept failing to explain conditions at the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear plant, and where three reactors melted down following the magnitude 9.0 earthquake tsunami on March 11, 2011.

Kan also said the country's nuclear emergency preparedness law, set up in 1999 after a fatal accident at a nuclear fuel processing plant, did not address a severe accident that would require hundreds of thousands of people to evacuate, as in Fukushima.

"Everything anticipated in the law was inadequate, and we had to go through all kinds of troubles that we didn't need," he said. For instance, the plant's off-site crisis management center, which had no protection for radiation or backup power, had to be abandoned.

Kan said nuclear officials sent from government offices and the utility operating the plant as his advisers were not useful, and he never received the kind of in- formation he needed. Japan's main regulatory body, the Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency, was particularly incapable, he said.

"I was frightened and felt helpless," he said. "You can't expect a nuclear expert to be prime minister or Cabinet minister, so we need top regulatory officials to provide expertise and help us. We didn't have those people."

NISA's top officials, who are not nuclear experts, have acknowledged the need to improve their resources.

Officials have also said information disclosure was slow and at times wrong, par- ticularly in the immediate aftermath. They also cited poor communication and coordination between nuclear regulators, utility officials and the government.

The crisis, the worst nuclear accident since Chernobyl in 1986, also revealed prob- lems of the cozy ties between the nuclear industry and sympathetic government regulators — known as "the nuclear village" — that have prompted a culture of com- placency. He called that "a root of the illness" of Japan and must be destroyed to create a fully effective regulatory system.

The government led by his successor, Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda, had planned to revise the regulatory body, but the plan has been delayed as opposition lawmakers demanded more independence from the influence of the promoters.

Noda is desperately trying to restart two reactors in western Japan to curb the sum- mer's power crunch, tho the process has been delayed due to opposition from nearby towns, a move seen as backpedaling from Kan's push for a nuclear-free society.

Some 100,000 residents from around the plant have evacuated due to radiation con- tamination in the area. Japan declared stability at the plant in December, but it runs on makeshift equipment and its earthquake resistance is a concern. Officials say it will take about 40 years to decommission the plant. [emphasis mine]

A worst-case scenario envisioned by the head of the Japan Atomic Energy Commission two weeks after last year's accident warned that a melting of the fuel rods at the No. 4 reactor would require the evacuation of 30 million people just from the greater Tokyo area.

Oonj: Does this political paralysis seem dumb to you? Or SOP for the Japanese culture? What about their lack of reliable information? I Do Not Get It! Tokyo to be destroyed while Godzilla sleeps. :frown:

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