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Remember Fukishima?

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Thursday, January 10, 2013 8:50 AM

NIKI2

Gettin' old, but still a hippie at heart...


Since Fukishima has faded in the consciousness of many, I thought I'd give you a few updates on some of the things still going on there:
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--Decontamination work is in progress in areas affected by the March 2011 accident at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant, but cases have been uncovered of workers dumping contaminated soil, vegetation and water into nearby rivers or other places without properly collecting them.

“It appears that workers (dumped vegetation) not out of malice but because they removed more radioactive materials than they had expected,” the representative said.

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--New research indicates that radioactive cesium levels in many kinds of fish caught off the coast of Fukushima have not declined in the year following Japan's nuclear disaster.

Using data from Japan's ministry of agriculture, a report found that 40 percent of bottom-dwelling fish such as cod, flounder and halibut, are above limits of cesium-134 allowed for consumption. The report indicates that the sea floor or leakage from the damaged nuclear reactors is continuing to contaminate waters.

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--Fukushima ‘decontamination’ workers threatened: We were punished if we tried to resist. They cited a lack of training, unreasonable deadlines, threats of isolation, and persistent feelings that their efforts were pointless.

“We were pressed to finish the work as quickly as possible”

“If we tried to resist, we would become isolated from other workers, although it did not reach the extent of losing the job”

“Radiation levels returned even after we completed the work, so there was a sense that what we were doing was worthless”

“There will be no end to the shoddy work even if oversight is strengthened”

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--Doctor in Fukushima: Many feel they’re being used as human guinea pigs in the first round and don’t want to take part in the followup tests.

As for the most worrisome internal radiation exposure levels in the early days of the nuclear disaster, radioactive materials consumed have already been discharged from bodies and the amount can no longer be estimated, he said.

“The weakest point of these checkups is that we are not estimating the internal exposure amount of residents immediately after (the meltdowns). And we haven’t been able to measure exposure to radioactive iodine-131? that has a half-life of just eight days, Tsubokura said. “Those are lost forever."

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--It is impossible to recover the pre-disaster environment, and it is unrealistic to think that all affected areas can be decontaminated.

Since the start of the decontamination projects, the emphasis has been placed on private homes, farmland, roads and other places associated with people's day-to-day lives. As for neighboring forests, 20 meters from the periphery has been established as the rough limit for decontamination work.

Last summer, a panel of experts appointed by the Environment Ministry said "Since only a small amount of radioactive materials flow out from forests, there is little necessity to decontaminate all of their areas."

Residents in the prefecture argued quite rightly that forests are very much a part of their daily lives, and that living near contaminated forests will put them under tremendous mental stress. On the other hand, some residents are calling for aid that will enable them to start new lives elsewhere because they are aware of the obvious limits to decontaminating forests.

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--Navy sailor says clumps of hair fell out after Fukushima plume exposure.

Aviation Boatswain’s Mate (Equipment) 3rd Class Kim Gieseking:

“A lot of us knew people were getting sick. … Some were starting to get bad headaches, some threw up a bit.”

She said she’s also battled exhaustion and poor health

At one point, she lost clumps of hair

Last June, severe back pain revealed a bulge in her spine

“I was a healthy, healthy person. I’m not the same person I used to be.”

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--Attorney: U.S. Marine may join Fukushima lawsuit

Their lawyer [Paul C. Garner, a trial attorney of 40 years] said he also is talking with at least one Marine who could join the suit, and concerns have been raised among other U.S. troops who were based in Japan or located offshore at the time. [...]

Garner said his clients so far suffer from assorted health issues, including bladder problems normally not seen in younger people.

Aviation Boatswain’s Mate (Equipment) 3rd Class Lindsay Cooper"

She said her health took a dive [after Summer 2011]

She put on weight and found little energy to work

She has struggled with sleep, headaches and digestive problems.

“I’ve never felt like this before. It’s constant”

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--Japan’s cleanup denounced — “A disgrace… absolutely irresponsible” — Company that built all six Fukushima reactor buildings is leading ‘decontamination’

Recent reports in the local media has focused attention on the sloppiness of the cleanup. The central and local governments have handed over much of the 1 trillion yen decontamination effort to Japan’s largest construction companies. The politically connected companies have little radiological cleanup expertise and critics say they have cut corners to employ primitive — even potentially hazardous — techniques.

Kajima Corporation, Japan’s largest construction company is in charge of the cleanup in the city of Tamura, a part of which lies within the 12-mile exclusion zone.. Kajima also built the reactor buildings for all six reactors at the Fukushima Daiichi plant, leading some critics to question why control of the cleanup effort has been left to companies with deep ties to the nuclear industry. http://enenews.com/


"Thinking about those problems, we are reminded anew of the huge scale of contamination caused by the Fukushima nuclear disaster." The Asahi Shimbun, Jan. 9

Boy, he got THAT right!

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Thursday, January 10, 2013 9:10 AM

AURAPTOR

America loves a winner!



Maybe we should start fracking around Fukishima, to squeeze out all that radio active goodness ?

"False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil." - Socrates

" I do not love the bright sword for its sharpness, nor the arrow for its swiftness, nor the warrior for his glory. I love only that which they defend. "

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Thursday, January 10, 2013 9:26 AM

JONGSSTRAW


The Japanese are used to radiation. They eat it for breakfast, and so do the monsters that are always attacking Tokyo.

George Takei translated into English and voice-dubbed eight different characters in the Toho classic 'Rodan'.









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Thursday, January 10, 2013 9:28 AM

BYTEMITE


Sad to say it's probably true, their best bet would be to move to a different place in Japan. Maybe where there aren't any nuclear reactors.

I wonder how Frem's friend is doing. She was a miko around there at one of the shrines, and she was having to boot people into action to get evacuation zones designated.

The cleanup was always expected to be shoddy because there's a lot the government and the company don't want to have to admit and save face. So the irradiated environment around Fukushima will continue to be dangerous to locals.

Maybe in twenty years, the Fukushima reactors will look like the chernobyl reactors, vegetated over and inhabited by birds. Still not safe, but it makes you hope just a little to see birds nesting in chernobyl.

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Thursday, January 10, 2013 9:33 AM

AURAPTOR

America loves a winner!


Quote:

Originally posted by Jongsstraw:

George Takei translated into English and voice-dubbed eight different characters in the Toho classic 'Rodan'.




I believe that would be 'crassic' Rodan.



"False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil." - Socrates

" I do not love the bright sword for its sharpness, nor the arrow for its swiftness, nor the warrior for his glory. I love only that which they defend. "

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Thursday, January 10, 2013 9:38 AM

BYTEMITE


*hammerspace mallet*

baka. :P

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Thursday, January 10, 2013 9:55 AM

JONGSSTRAW


Quote:

Originally posted by AURaptor:
Quote:

Originally posted by Jongsstraw:

George Takei translated into English and voice-dubbed eight different characters in the Toho classic 'Rodan'.




I believe that would be 'crassic' Rodan.






More appropriately 'Jurassic'? George was a teenager at UCLA when he saw an ad in the paper placed by MGM for a voice translator. Rodan was how it all began for him. He also did over 50 different voices in the Star Trek animated series. Oh my!

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Thursday, January 10, 2013 11:58 AM

FREMDFIRMA



Well, so far as I understand the rads got too much and they wound up having to evacuate anyways, and being somewhat irate about the situation and the conditions they wound up facing, her people are from what I understand for the time being in New Zealand, how that came off I've no idea whatever.

-F

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Thursday, January 10, 2013 2:34 PM

BYTEMITE


Quote:

Well, so far as I understand the rads got too much and they wound up having to evacuate anyways


Yeah, that's not too surprising. Chernobyl had a 20 mile fallout zone where it was unsafe to be really for even a few days. This even released probably about two or three times that amount.

New Zealand. Heh, she's with the hobbits now. Glad she's okay.

Although, she's religious, can't be too happy about abandoning the nature spirit the shrine was built for, is she? Guess you do what you have to though.

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Friday, January 11, 2013 5:08 AM

HERO


Quote:

Originally posted by Niki2:
Since Fukishima has faded in the consciousness of many,


I love fukishima!

With a light buttery sauce and some of those little noodles on the side...

H

Hero...must be right on all of this. ALL of the rest of us are wrong. Chrisisall, 2012

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Sunday, January 13, 2013 7:27 PM

RIONAEIRE

Beir bua agus beannacht


Frem, so Yuriko is in New Zealand now? I hope she's getting used to it there, will she stay on or is she hoping to return to Japan at some point. What about your friend Maltquake, how is she getting on?

"A completely coherant River means writers don't deliver" KatTaya

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Sunday, January 13, 2013 11:20 PM

FREMDFIRMA



I have no idea, Riona - I can only imagine the chaos she's likely trying to sort out with all that, and communication has been flaky at best, not at all helped by me only speaking one language.
Malt might not be with them, if her new husbands family is in a safe area she might have opted to stay on with them, since her beau isn't going to leave his cafe he worked so hard on unless he absolutely has to.

While I dread the notion of having to deal with her in person, I did point out that coming here might be a solution, especially since the difference between housing/rental costs here and there is pretty extreme - but given how ugly it's gotten in this country these days I can understand a certain reluctance.

-F

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Saturday, September 19, 2020 1:37 PM

JAYNEZTOWN


Japanese Helmer Tomoko Kana Unveils Film Project About Fukushima, Chernobyl Victims

https://variety.com/2020/film/global/venice-film-festival-a-picture-bo
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Tuesday, October 26, 2021 7:19 PM

JAYNEZTOWN


Kishida triggers backlash by saying dumping Fukushima nuclear water can’t be delayed

https://www.globaltimes.cn/page/202110/1236670.shtml

Tsunami-hit Fukushima school opens as memorial to 2011 tragedy

https://japantoday.com/category/national/tsunami-hit-fukushima-school-
opens-as-memorial-to-2011-tragedy

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