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What's the story about Fukushima these days?

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  • #32
    stevenmu
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 9,688 Mod ✭✭✭✭stevenmu


    ted1 wrote: »
    meanwhile in 2012 approx 300,000 people have died as a result of fossil fuel burning elec plants...

    +1, the real untold story of Fukushima is that while it was obviously bad, it was still a lot better than a coal or even oil burning power plant on a good day. It's estimated that for every 1 death from nuclear power, 4000 people die from coal generated power.

    There's a useful visualisation of this here, and a more detailed one here.


  • #33
    --Kaiser--
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,461 ✭✭✭--Kaiser--


    People killed in Fukushima incident - 0.
    People killed by the earthquake/tsunami - 25,000.

    Context, people


  • #34
    Run_to_da_hills
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20,009 ✭✭✭✭Run_to_da_hills


    --Kaiser-- wrote: »
    People killed in Fukushima incident - 0.
    People killed by the earthquake/tsunami - 25,000.

    Context, people
    OK, as you said, no one died in Fukushima,

    Would you be content to live in towns within 50 kilometres of the crippled plant?

    NO.


  • #35
    --Kaiser--
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,461 ✭✭✭--Kaiser--


    Run_to_da_hills wrote: »
    OK, as you said, no one died in Fukushima,

    Would you be content to live in towns within 50 kilometres of the crippled plant?

    NO.

    Well, that'd be one hell of a commute


  • #36
    Run_to_da_hills
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20,009 ✭✭✭✭Run_to_da_hills


    --Kaiser-- wrote: »
    Well, that'd be one hell of a commute

    In other words no. :)


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  • #37
    Tomk1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 776 ✭✭✭Tomk1


    ted1 wrote: »
    Conspiracy theories is in another forum.
    Here's the link, basically same title:
    Japan..fukushima....it hasn't gone away you know!!!
    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2056724516


  • #38
    Voodoo_rasher
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 521 ✭✭✭Voodoo_rasher


    enenews . com tells you pretty much everything.

    for instance: http://enenews.com/twice-as-much-contaminted-water-entering-ocean-from-fukushima-as-officials-claim-japan-govt-600-tons-of-groundwater-enters-ocean-each-day-at-plant-nytimes-tepcos-figures-assume-all-water-ent

    japanese solutions to a japanese problem..

    Hope Tepco like their whalemeat..


  • #39
    Jonny7
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,696 ✭✭✭Jonny7


    ENEnews is a little sensationalist to say the least

    The clean-up is still quite serious and challenging, but as of now the only real threat this level of contaminated seawater poses is to the immediate area, local fishermen and so on.

    US scientists and the EPA have said there is little or nothing to worry about from their end.


  • #40
    SEPT 23 1989
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 43,038 ✭✭✭✭SEPT 23 1989


    The slow drip drip of the real truth continues today


  • #41
    MonaPizza
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,014 ✭✭✭MonaPizza


    Jonny7 wrote: »
    ENEnews is a little sensationalist to say the least

    The clean-up is still quite serious and challenging, but as of now the only real threat this level of contaminated seawater poses is to the immediate area, local fishermen and so on.

    US scientists and the EPA have said there is little or nothing to worry about from their end.

    Ah yes..."challenging", that euphemism used by the coverup people to describe "fcuking catastrophe".
    Japan has upgraded the disaster:

    http://www.rte.ie/news/2013/0821/469319-japan-fukushima-nuclear/

    Standing next to the leaking water for an hour and you would receive 5 times the annual dosage that is the ceiling for nuclear workers. Tell us about these scientists who say there is no threat from their end. Are they some of the same paid-off quacks who work for Popular Mechanics or deny climate change? Because there is a 30 percent increase in thyroid defects in newborns in the Pacific states of the US since the Fukushima disaster.
    This clusterfcuk is vomiting radioactive water into the sea at unprecedented levels and nodody is hearing about it because it's an absolute mess.

    I wouldn't eat Japanese fish anytime soon unless you want to start sh1tting blood in a few months.


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  • #42
    Eight Ball
    Closed Accounts Posts: 906 ✭✭✭Eight Ball


    Remember listening to a guy on CNN a few months back claim the worst was still to come and that the Japanese had made a complete balls up of the disaster from day one. The Americans had offered to send over their best engineers to help control the situation and the Japanese had refused the offer. The interviewer asked him how they where keeping on eye on the levels of the contaminated water in the tanks and he said by sending a guy up the ladder opening the hatch and looking in. Amateur hour.


  • #43
    Eight Ball
    Closed Accounts Posts: 906 ✭✭✭Eight Ball


    ted1 wrote: »
    Conspiracy theories is in another forum.

    Indeed :rolleyes:


  • #44
    goose2005
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,798 ✭✭✭goose2005


    People freak out too much over nuclear waste. Every year hundreds of thousands are killed by coal and petrol fumes, and there are innumerable other environmental hazards that we should be worried about - but the slight chance of a few dozen killed by NUCLEAR!!! RADIATION!!!!! is the only one that matters


  • #45
    Jonny7
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,696 ✭✭✭Jonny7


    MonaPizza wrote: »
    Ah yes..."challenging", that euphemism used by the coverup people to describe "fcuking catastrophe".
    Japan has upgraded the disaster:

    I prefer to be spoonfed the facts and coverup story than the actual terrifying sensationalist reality in all it's glory


  • #46
    Jonny7
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,696 ✭✭✭Jonny7


    goose2005 wrote: »
    People freak out too much over nuclear waste. Every year hundreds of thousands are killed by coal and petrol fumes, and there are innumerable other environmental hazards that we should be worried about - but the slight chance of a few dozen killed by NUCLEAR!!! RADIATION!!!!! is the only one that matters

    because it's a coverup man

    The people who clearly know most about the situation are in basements in San Francisco


  • #47
    jaffacakesyum
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,207 ✭✭✭jaffacakesyum


    Well ya learn something new every day. I didn't know so many more people died from coal and oil related incidents than nuclear.

    What exactly are all the deaths attributed to for coal and oil? Oil rig explosions and things like that I've heard about...what about coal? Fires is it?


  • #48
    Voodoo_rasher
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 521 ✭✭✭Voodoo_rasher


    disaster potential is off-the-scale..it seems

    http://www.whiteoutpress.com/articles/q32013/japanese-gamble-armageddon-in-last-ditch-fukushima-effort/


  • #49
    Voodoo_rasher
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 521 ✭✭✭Voodoo_rasher


    http://agreenroad.blogspot.se/2013/10/the-deep-pacific-ocean-is-brokendead.html


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