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The Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Catastrophe

Seems a bit ropey to me, even if they're calling it Cthulhu-geddon!

Fukushima? 10,000 Dead Squid Wash up on Chile Beach
It is being referred to as Cthulhu-geddon.

Squid have washed up on Santa Maria Island off Chile this week in what some have described as biblical proportions. Thousands of dead and dying squid are piled up on the shore. While some squid normally do wash up this time of year, it’s never been in this large of a quantity.

Exact reason for this die-off is unknown, but some experts claim it might be a sudden drop in oxygen content in the water or an increase in water temperatures. They just really don’t know.

Of course, just like all the other mass die-offs up and down the Pacific coast in recent years, no one in any official capacity is pointing to the Fukushima disaster, still dumping tons of radioactive water into the sea as it has been for the last half a decade now just across the globe from Chile.
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Before its news
 
Unless these dead and dying squid are radioactive, the fact that we're in a major el nino effect is probably a more likely cause.
 
I'll drop this here as it looks like it has the potential to be the next Fukushima:

Nuclear experts are scared: Belgium has just restarted two ancient and cracked nuclear power plants that threaten to unleash another Chernobyl disaster right in the heart of Europe!

One of the aging reactors suffered a fire and explosion weeks ago and Belgium’s own nuclear safety chief called for checks after discovering 16,000 cracks! :eek: Neighbouring countries are raising the safety alarm and German Environment Minister, Barbara Hendricks, is ready to take our concerns into a meeting with Belgium on Monday. If enough of us back her in the next few hours, she can push Belgium to bring the plants to a halt until a thorough impact assessment is completed. Let’s stop this madness!

A radioactive nightmare in such an overpopulated area affects us all across Europe. Let’s urgently deliver 750,000 signatures to Minister Hendricks and key neighbouring countries before her meeting, and make it clear that EU citizens will not allow Belgium to put us at risk of another Chernobyl.
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https://secure.avaaz.org/en/belgian_nuclear_shutdown_loc/?wLVCrjb

I wonder if a gang of experts are heading there with the duct tape.
 
"Nuclear experts are scared: Belgium has just restarted two ancient and cracked nuclear power plants that threaten to unleash another Chernobyl disaster right in the heart of Europe!"

Sounds like another good reason for Brexit! :twisted:
 
Why the hell did they restart it after they found so many cracks? :eek::eek::eek:
 
Three former executives of Tokyo Electric Power Co (Tepco), operator of the ruined Daiichi Fukushima Nuclear Plant, have been charged with mishandling the 2011 nuclear crisis.

Monday’s indictment means a court will for the first time probe the company’s failure to prevent the world’s worst nuclear accident since the Chernobyl disaster in 1986.
Tsunehisa Katsumata, the utility’s former chairman, and two ex-vice presidents, Sakae Muto and Ichiro Takekuro, will face charges of professional negligence resulting in death and injury.

The aftermath of the 2011 triple meltdown showered much of eastern Japan with radioactive fallout and forced the evacuation of about 160,000 people.

Much of the area around the power plant remains uninhabitable and tens of thousands of the evacuees have yet to return home. Hundreds of mainly elderly people have died in temporary housing.

The indictment cites 44 frail elderly patients who died after being forced to evacuate from a hospital near the plant and says the utility was responsible for their deaths.

http://www.irishtimes.com/news/worl...ted-on-fukushima-negligence-charges-1.2554398
 
Fukushima: Five years on from nuclear meltdown locals still in the dark about future

The town of Futaba lies six kilometres from the Fukushima nuclear power plant.

There is an eerie feeling there. Shoes sit in the doorway of houses, as they do in houses across Japan — neatly placed together, waiting for feet to walk them out the door.

Bicycles rest against fences — waiting for the next journey.

The magnitude 9.0 earthquake struck this town on March 11, 2011. Clocks throughout the town stopped ticking at 2:36pm.

In those critical hours after the earthquake, the residents of Futaba were not told anything about what was happening at the Fukushima power plant.

I had a vision that my children would some day graduate from the same school as me, but all my plans are destroyed and there are no future prospects.

Former Futaba resident Yuji Ohnuma

The operator of the plant, the Tokyo Electric Power Company — TEPCO — admitted last week it knew almost immediately a meltdown was underway.

It was 24 hours after the earthquake — when the local real estate agent Yuji Ohnuma was cleaning his office that he heard about it for the first time.

"I heard from my wife that afternoon that the nuclear plant had exploded," he said.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-03-06/fukushima-five-year-anniversay/7218734
 
The robots Japan enlisted to clean up Fukushima have been destroyed from radiation exposure

Five years after their deployment to the site of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant meltdown, the remote-controlled robots have “died” a mechanical death. Truly, there’s no such thing as immortality.

The remote-controlled automatons were intended to swim through cooling pools to collect and dispose of highly radioactive and incredibly dangerous hunks of melted fuel rods, but massive amounts of radiation have obliterated their wiring, rendering them useless.

Worse still, their corpses are nowhere to be found. Five of the robots sent to complete their cleanup mission never returned, and there’s really no way to look for them.

http://uk.businessinsider.com/fukushima-robots-destroyed-by-radiation-2016-3?r=US&IR=T
 
The reporting here from different Japanese sources is a bit confusing as to whether the radioactive material has melted through the containment vessel or not, or whether there is some sort of other vessel within the vessel... either way it doesn't sound great:

Kyodo, Feb 2, 2017 (emphasis added): Radiation level at Fukushima reactor highest since 2011 disaster — The radiation level inside the containment vessel of the No. 2 reactor at the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear complex stood at 530 sieverts per hour at a maximum, the highest since the 2011 disaster, the plant operator said Thursday… The previously highest radiation level monitored in the interior of the reactor was 73 sieverts per hour.

Kyodo, Feb 2, 2017: Record radiation level detected inside damaged Fukushima reactor… The reading means a person could die from even brief exposure, highlighting the difficulties ahead as the government and [Tepco] grope their way toward dismantling all three reactors that melted down…

Nikkei, Feb 3, 2017: Based on the “noise” in the images, the utility estimated that one area of the containment vessel was emitting radiation at a level of 530 sieverts per hour… Tepco previously believed that most of the reactor’s nuclear fuel had been contained in the pressure vessel, based on last year’s muon tomography inspection… But “it’s highly possible that melted fuel leaked through,” said Yuichi Okamura, a company spokesman for nuclear power.
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Energy News
 
It really does sound like it's beyond redemption.
 
Curious flyer that I found lying around after demo setup in Tavistock Square last Saturday, could be some small faction that had tagged onto the 'health' slant as a few had, or maybe just dropped sometime earlier:

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Might look in on Twitter post bath and see if there's anymore info, they're meant to be having (yet another) march on parliament today.
 
Radioactive Boars in Fukushima Thwart Residents’ Plans to Return Home
By KIMIKO de FREYTAS-TAMURAMARCH 9, 2017
  • They descend on towns and villages, plundering crops and rampaging through homes. They occasionally attack humans. But perhaps most dangerous of all, the marauders carry with them highly radioactive material.

  • Hundreds of toxic wild boars have been roaming across northern Japan, where the meltdown of the Fukushima nuclear plant six years ago forced thousands of residents to desert their homes, pets and livestock. Some animals, like cattle, were left to rot in their pens.

    As Japan prepares to lift some evacuation orders on four towns within the more than 12-mile exclusion zone around the Fukushima plant later this month, officials are struggling to clear out the contaminated boars.

    Wild boar meat is a delicacy in northern Japan, but animals slaughtered since the disaster are too contaminated to eat. According to tests conducted by the Japanese government, some of the boars have shown levels of radioactive element cesium-137 that are 300 times higher than safety standards.

    Officials have also expressed concern that returning residents may be attacked by the animals, some of which have settled comfortably in abandoned homes and have reportedly lost their shyness to humans. ...
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/09/...=rss&emc=rss&smid=tw-nytimesscience&smtyp=cur
 
Six years after Japan’s worst nuclear disaster, former residents of Fukushima are being forced to return home despite radiation significantly higher than recommended safe levels and herds of radioactive wild boar that have taken up residence and no longer fear humans.

Saturday marks six years since the disaster at the nuclear power plant, and as the anniversary approaches, authorities in Japan have lifted evacuation orders on four towns inside the 12-mile exclusion zone, despite radiation being 20 times above the recommended levels.

The result is that some residents who fled the area in March 2011 are now facing an almost impossible choice — return to their homes near Fukushima or remain in their new homes, but with their housing subsidies withdrawn and compensation payments withdrawn a year later. The situation has been described by Greenpeace as a “looming human rights crisis.”
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and more on the radioactive boar:

According to the New York Times, hundreds of toxic wild boars have been roaming the region and while boar is a delicacy in Japan, no one will want to eat these animals. According to tests conducted by the Japanese government, some boars contain radioactive material 300 times higher than safety standards. :eek:
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Vice.com
 
Fukushima prefecture has asked the Japanese Self-Defense Forces for help in handling forest fires that have swept areas near the crippled Fukushima power plant, local media report. Strong winds are hindering the firefighting efforts, however.

The forest fires broke out near the town of Namie, some seven kilometers from the disabled Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant, on Saturday evening, Japanese NHK broadcaster reported.

Namie was evacuated following the 2011 tsunami and subsequent nuclear disaster in Fukushima.

READ MORE: 80% of voluntary Fukushima evacuees unwilling to return home – survey

The prefecture has deployed several helicopters to extinguish the fires, which are believed to have been caused by lightning. According to police, at least 10 hectares of forest have burned in the area.

There have been no reports of injuries or damage to buildings so far, Japanese media say.

With strong winds stoking the flames, the Fukushima Prefecture has requested help from the Self-Defense Forces, Japan’s de-facto army, on Sunday. ...

https://www.rt.com/news/386662-fukushima-forest-fires-soldiers/
 
There's various reports bubbling up of allegedly tumour ridden Fukushima irradiated tuna turning up on the West cost of the US... not found a reliable source for that yet though so may be BS.
 
This thread title is slightly irksome to me.

It is ungrammatical and although the situation may have been 'critical' back when the thread began, it must be less so now.

Thread renamed to 'The Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Catastrophe' (It will improve search results)
 
Yithian said:
This thread title is slightly irksome to me.

It is ungrammatical and although the situation may have been 'critical' back when the thread began, it must be less so now.

Thread renamed to 'The Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Catastrophe' (It will improve search results)
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You wouldn't be so blasé if you were being chased by radioactive boars.
 
If the radioactive boars don't get you the bombs will.

World War II bomb found at site of Japan's Fukushima nuclear plant
A bomb disposal team has been sent in to make the scene safe.
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A SUSPECTED WORLD War II bomb was found today on the premises of Japan’s crippled Fukushima nuclear plant with police called in to investigate.

The 85cm-long object, believed to be an unexploded bomb dropped by the United States during the war, was discovered by workers constructing a car park close to the facility’s reactors, a spokesman for Fukushima operator Tokyo Electric Power Co (Tepco) said.

Tepco called police immediately upon finding the object, suspending construction work and roping off the area around one kilometre from the reactors, he added. ...

http://www.thejournal.ie/fukushima-unexploded-bomb-3538666-Aug2017/?utm_source=shortlink
 
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