Published: April 17th, 2011 at 1:00 pm ET
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Operator airs plan to control Japan nuclear crisis, AP, April 17, 2011:
The operator of Japan’s crippled nuclear plant laid out a blueprint Sunday for stopping radiation leaks and stabilizing damaged reactors within the next six to nine months…
“Given the conditions now, this is best that it could do,” said Hidehiko Nishiyama of the government’s Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency, adding that conditions at the facility remain unstable. …
“I don’t believe a word they say,” said Yukio Otsuka, 56, a private school owner whose home is about 3 miles (5 kilometers) from the power plant. “I don’t trust them. I don’t believe it is possible. We have really drawn the short stick on this one.” …
“TEPCO has taken far too long to provide an indication of the direction it plans to take to bring the situation at Fukushima Dai-ichi under control,” said Philip White of the Tokyo-based Citizens’ Nuclear Information Center, a group of scientists and activists who have opposed nuclear power since 1975. …
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Published: April 17th, 2011 at 1:00 pm ET
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TEPCO to use robots to examine reactor building conditions
http://english.kyodonews.jp/news/2011/04/85981.html
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Chronology of events surrounding crippled Fukushima nuclear plant
http://english.kyodonews.jp/news/2011/04/86000.html
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DONUT UMMMM DUH
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Thank you for the info! Argentina, Brazil, and Venezuela sound like great places to live. Here’a another reason to leave this god-forsaken country (U.S.) that only benefits the very rich:
http://blogs.forbes.com/kenrapoza/2011/04/16/stiglitzs-epic-win-americas-1-rich-make-us-look-like-russia/
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Corporate Tax Dodgers: The Dirtiest Dozen:
Last month’s discovery that GE paid zero in
taxes in 2010 has exploded across the news.
But GE is not alone. Rainforest Action Network reviewed the top four banks, oil and coal companies in the country, and found that all of them are gaming the system. In fact, Bank of America, Citi, Massey Energy and Chevron have also all paid zero in federal income taxes this year or in year’s past. We reviewed 12 of the dirtiest corporate tax dodgers:
Bank of America, Citi, JPMorgan, Wells Fargo, Chevron, BP, Shell, Exxon, Massey
Energy, Alpha Natural Resources, Peabody Energy and Arch Coal. These 12 banks, oil
and coal companies are responsible for foreclosing on millions of people’s homes
and polluting our air, water and climate. At the same time, we found that they pay
next to nothing into a tax system that provides the very services that protect the
homeless, the sick and our environment…..
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/04/16/967583/-Green-diary-rescue:-The-Dirty-Dozen corporate-tax-dodgers
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Japanese Resident Summarizes Majority Sentiment of Human Race, Planet Earth in Sol System.
“I don’t trust them. I don’t believe it is possible.”
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I hope this operator scheduled in all the earthquakes, tsunamis, hurricanes, typhoons, and other natural occurrences that are to come.
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…not to mention human error.
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So what happens when a typhoon comes along, and sucks all that radioactive seawater up into the atmosphere? I was already worried about a hurricane in the gulf sucking up all of bp’s oil and corexit.
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Doesn’t matter. A typhoon that knocks out power will result in no more cooling which will result in a Chernobyl style explosion to at least 3 reactors and a spent fuel pool that already is undergoing fission with supervision.
They are already having daily quakes and are not serious about stopping the radiation.
Japan is covering everything up and using their people as guinea pigs. They have already sold rights to some scientists/doctors to study those who were not evacuated.
I think Japan and most of the USA are now lab rats.
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I’m one rat who’s gonna jump off this sinking ship. And I’m gonna bring my dog, and anyone with a clue, with me.
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radiation spiked again… 256 sv/h not good… gov. should have taken full control already, military should have dug a tunnel to make a cooling pot under the reactors and a mountain should already be on top of that disgrace.
http://atmc.jp/plant/rad/
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