Published: June 25th, 2012 at 10:43 pm ET
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Fears Accompany Fishermen in Japanese Disaster Region
New York Times
By HIROKO TABUCHI (Hisako Ueno contributed reporting)
June 25, 2012
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It is unclear whether a public that is jittery about radiation generally will trust fish caught off Fukushima. Many Japanese are wary of the government’s assurances about test results, and Tokyo Electric has made people more suspicious by refusing to let independent experts survey waters inside the roughly 12-mile exclusion zone around the plant.
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Contaminated water still escapes from the nuclear plant — about 12 tons of water containing radioactive strontium leaked in April, Tokyo Electric said — and rain that falls on the area washes radioactive cesium into local rivers that empty into the sea.
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“The bottom line is that it’s too early to tell how much the sea, or sea life, has been contaminated,” said Yosuke Yamashiki, associate professor of environmental engineering at Kyoto University. “And the event is not over. Radioactive substances could enter the ocean for some time, perhaps even years.”
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The Times’ article claims, “Tests found no radioactivity in their catch.”
NHK got it right, “Sales were approved after the prefectural fisheries association found no unsafe levels of radiation in last Friday’s test fishing catch.”
There’s quite a difference between ‘no radioactivity’ and ‘no unsafe levels of radiation’.
Published: June 25th, 2012 at 10:43 pm ET
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Man developed this horrible technology. And now we have all this contamination. And all from (( just one )) nuclear power plant. It's insanely dangerous. A gamble, we lost.
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Insanity runs in the family, they are all certifiable, money is the route off all evil, Japan like Russia is bankrupt because of this situation, must keep fisheries open because of the amount of people involved and financial considerations, hang them high they are perpetrating mass murder.
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Yes, and it is like banning the police from seeing the crime scene.
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still … many are watching
Current world-wide Fukushima fallout forecasts
http://realitycheck.no-ip.info/nnn.html
rad monitoring, debris tracking and mitigation protocols
http://realitycheck.no-ip.info/forum/index.php/board,24.0.html
for those with the urge to call
http://www.usa.gov/Contact/Elected.shtml
http://www.embassyworld.com/
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You jest…?
"The bottom line is that it’s too early to tell how much the sea, or sea life, has been contaminated,” said Yosuke Yamashiki,"
Yape. As Nuckie would say, weg zu grosse. Far, far and away too much. But who cares? We're humans. We are the masters of the Universe? Right? Yape? And if we have to destroy it to prove our superiority, yape, we'll do that.
Snark Off!
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Quote: Fukushima event not over.
It's not even half time.
These radiation monsters that keep coming with its' layer after layers are on the loose, if ocean and sea life's are destroyed it would devastate this whole earth and the people, game over.
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The New Math
On Going Radiation Disaster + Earth = Desolation
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Event to promote fish caught off Fukushima
"An event to promote marine products caught off Fukushima Prefecture was held on Monday at the Soma fishing port.
Last Friday, fishermen from Fukushima carried out tests by fishing of 2 types of octopus and one type of shellfish. No radioactive substances were detected.
The products went on sale in Soma and Fukushima cities for the first time since last year's nuclear accident.
About 30 people, including Soma Mayor Hidekiyo Tachiya and members of the local fishing industry, attended the seafood sampling party held by the city and the local fisheries association.
They also inspected a facility created in the fishing port to test marine products for radiation.
Tachiya said his city will make efforts to let the whole nation know that marine products from Fukushima Prefecture are safe.
Participants received a platter containing 9 items, including the octopus and shellfish that went on sale recently. They tasted the bounty of the sea from Fukushima for the first time in many months."
http://www3.nhk.or.jp/daily/english/20120625_28.html
*no words
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*no words – ;( it get's that way regularly hey b&b? we covered it a bit last night, where we just don't get the limited thinking of some of these 'actors'. bizarre world these days.
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So where are all the brilliant nuclear engineers who perpetuated and promoted this technology with assurances that it was safe, and assurances that someday someone would find a way to safely deal with all the nuclear waste? Why didn't they consider that it would cost more to de-commission a nuclear plant than to keep it going? They didn't know, at the onset, that atomic bomb testing would contaminate their own as well as friends. They didn't know how hard it would be to deal with nuclear plant accidents. They didn't know how difficult it would be and how long it would take to find a way to deal with the nuclear waste. They didn't know…..how much they didn't know. And yet they have never been humbled—at least not publicly.
Game over. The whole thing is a mockery of what human’s think they are capable of, but aren’t. It’s a wonderful example of hubris creating disaster. Is this the story of humans being ever so capable of designing their own demise? (Not fair that innocent life goes with it.) This is what corporations and governments promote. Damn stupid.
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Fukushima; Pacific Ocean Catastrophe Confirmed; via A Green Road http://agreenroad.blogspot.com/2012/04/fukushima-pacific-ocean-catastrophe.html
Fukushima Leaking Radioactive Water Into Ocean Plume; via A Green Road http://agreenroad.blogspot.com/2012/04/fukushima-leaking-radioactive-water.html
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How would TEPKILL control or enforce the gathering of samples in what would be an offshore jurisdiction? JapGov could presumably. Or is this headline inaccurate?
Either way, expect the seabed around the facility to have a similar amount of fuel pellets as were found up to 1.5km away from FukUp after U3 popped it's cork. And that had to be bulldozed then covered with thick steel plates so workers could get into the complex and close to the buildings. As far as I've seen, TEPKILL have only been cementing the bottom of the Daiichi harbour area…
I believe six trawlers went out to catch for this test, and only "2 types of octopus and one type of shellfish" are being tested. Or the tests being released, that is. Didn't catch anything else? All dead? Didn't release the test results of the radioactive stuff? All the other radioactive stuff that can swim, swum away? Frozen stuff brought in from a different area, and subtly dropped over the other side of the boat, to be immediately caught? Octopus and shellfish can't really get their skates on(no pun intended)….
Reminds me of the same set of lies being told about the safety of the Gulf of Mexico seafood. Oh so safe for a year, then ooops, close the fishery again because the sheer amount of eyeless shrimp and shell-less mutated crabs couldn't be covered up any more..shameful..just more and more of the same criminal sh*te…and no end in sight.
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