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Points: 17493 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 29 2011 at 18:18
Originally posted by npjnpj npjnpj wrote:

What the hell? Do they think that first stating ten million would make a hundred thousand sound less ominous?
"Phew, only a hundred thousand times stronger than normal. That's a relief!"
Mistake, my arse!
Maybe no ... cannot laugh at all, and whichever happened, it's a serious matter.
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For a while now I (as well as many others) have been wondering about the strange information policy adopted by the Japanese government and Tepco, nothing seemed to make any sense.

Until it struck me: It’s all about future compensation.

Imagine, in a few months or years, the Japanese government will be faced with enormous damage compensation payments. Now, the way things are, that government can point at Tepco, saying that they had only been acting on information and recommendations provided by Tepco. By that time, Tepco will have been dissolved and replaced by a successor, so that the ‘culprit’ doesn’t exist any more.

On top of that, what sense does it make not to extend the evacuation radius, condemning those inside 100 miles or so of the power plant to a slow and painful death? Well, if they’re dead, they couldn’t claim compensation any more.

And now it suddenly all makes sense.
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Japan has just been hit my another quake, 7.4 in magnitude, near the east coast of Honshu. They're expecting a tsunami in less than 7 mins.

Deepest concerns for the people there.
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They can't seem to catch a break Ouch
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Points: 29630 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 07 2011 at 11:56
Originally posted by Equality 7-2521 Equality 7-2521 wrote:



Deepest concerns for the people there.
Seconded. 

I hope the plates settle down and it is their last one for a while.  The impact of the first one is staggering.  The debris from the last one will be making a trip over to the North American west coast thanks to what's called the North Pacific Gyre and then head back across the Pacific westward.  Tuna are in the process of migrating eastward, too.  They've been contaminated by radioactive water.  Over 15,000 people missing.  A sad situation all around.


Edited by Slartibartfast - April 07 2011 at 11:59
Released date are often when it it impacted you but recorded dates are when it really happened...
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No tsunami attack has come there ... thanks all. Very relieved.
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Any more word on the nuclear situation?

I havn't heard much of it at all so I figured either the situation has been gotten under control, or they just stopped airing the news here.
Hope it's the former Smile
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The workers there have been trying to improve and fix the plant ... now moving highly-polluted water to another tank (and pouring lowly-polluted water into the sea ... sad to say, no other way for improvement of the situation).Ouch
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Points: 14258 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 12 2011 at 04:15
The news has really settled down here now and I think it has become a bit 'old news' as far as some networks  are concerned but the threats are still very real and i hope someone can keep us updated here.
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Points: 16130 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 12 2011 at 04:58
It's worrying that they have just raised the alert level to category '7' This level of severity has only ever been applied once before; at Chernobyl.

BBC Article

Just to be clear this doesn't necessarily mean Fukushima will be as damaging to health and environment as Chernobyl, but it has the potential to be.

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Points: 17493 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 12 2011 at 08:14
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