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Japan 8.8 earthquake & Tsunami
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Two bodies lies covered in the rubble of a classroom in the destroyed village of Minamisanriku.
Two bodies of victims from last week's earthquake and tsunami are left covered in blankets in the devastated town of Rikuzenmaeda in the Iwate prefecture of Japan, on Wednesday. The National Police Agency said Tuesday afternoon that 2,722 people had died, and many thousands were still missing. Bodies continued to wash ashore at various spots along the coast after having been pulled out to sea by the tsunami’s retreat
Tokyo residents cram into the Shinkansen bullet train as they leave Tokyo heading west on March 16.
A young boy wearing a face mask sits on a suitcase inside Tokyo station on March 16. Radiation fears and the threat of another earthquake have prompted people to leave Tokyo by any means possible.
A mother tries to talk to her daughter who has been isolated for signs of radiation after evacuating from the vicinity of Fukushima's nuclear plants, at a makeshift facility to screen, cleanse and isolate people with high radiation levels in Nihonmatsu, Japan, March 14.
A family who evacuated from their home eats breakfast at an evacuation center in Sendai, Japan, March 14.
Remember this name, it will go into history
Fukushima Dai Ichi Power Plant
look at this photo, the japanese flatten the ground to build the station instead of building in high ground, and they put it near the sea, with a puny barrier which they think can prevent tsunami damage. I guess they miscalculate the risk.
Fukushima Dai Ichi Power Plant
look at this photo, the japanese flatten the ground to build the station instead of building in high ground, and they put it near the sea, with a puny barrier which they think can prevent tsunami damage. I guess they miscalculate the risk.
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I guess its only a matter of time when the world knows how much the Japanese have themselves to blame for the mess. 4 reactors into one basket. Whose idea was that in the first place? This is also a country very skittish about death, preferring their lower caste burakumin to do the job of undertakers and gravediggers. Now the best of their own soldiers have to do their job, I watch fascinated on TV as they went about their job of rescuing with little sense of urgency. Rescue teams from other countries were delayed, aftershocks and more tsunamis as convenient excuse while our SCDF team has gone home early. The snow storms must be a relief, now the bodies will be frozen stiff and easy for others to do the jobs. Many WWII atomic victims blamed themselves and committed suicide. Guess there will be another round of individual suicides this time, abandoned and treated like lepers in their country, heroes who fought to cool down the reactors, people living around who were contaminated by radiation, already food and medicines are not delivered to them. The Japanese are the biggest liars, especially to themselves, foreign governments know this and are evacuating their citizens. The early death scores were shockingly low, never mind tens of thousands are missing and presumably dead. Maybe they can blame lack of NRIC and no census taking.
The foreign press are whores as usual, obviously something is very wrong when non Japanese are only people willing to talk, albeit reluctantly, for they may not be allowed back to Japan. The Japanese themselves would turn their face away from TV, acting as if nothing happened, better to put up a stoic front in front of foriegners. They are human, I hear the cries and screaming in the background when the residents watch the devastation on amateur videos. Its just their society that is so fuck up.
The foreign press are whores as usual, obviously something is very wrong when non Japanese are only people willing to talk, albeit reluctantly, for they may not be allowed back to Japan. The Japanese themselves would turn their face away from TV, acting as if nothing happened, better to put up a stoic front in front of foriegners. They are human, I hear the cries and screaming in the background when the residents watch the devastation on amateur videos. Its just their society that is so fuck up.
Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant
Nuclear plant design by Amercian and build by Japanese.
The reactors for Units 1, 2, and 6 were supplied by General Electric, those for Units 3 and 5 by Toshiba, and Unit 4 by Hitachi. All six reactors were designed by General Electric.[3] Architectural design for General Electric's units was done by Ebasco. All construction was done by Kajima.[4]
Nuclear plant design by Amercian and build by Japanese.
The reactors for Units 1, 2, and 6 were supplied by General Electric, those for Units 3 and 5 by Toshiba, and Unit 4 by Hitachi. All six reactors were designed by General Electric.[3] Architectural design for General Electric's units was done by Ebasco. All construction was done by Kajima.[4]
Staff members remotely monitor the nuclear radiation levels around the country at the Malaysia's National Radiological Emergency Response Centre in Dengkil, outside Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Thursday, March 17, 2011. Malaysian government on Thursday assured that the country is not affected by radiation wafting over Japan from the damaged Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant.
Atomic samurai not afraid to die
Janet Fife-Yeomans From: Herald Sun March 18, 2011 12:00AM
THEY are being hailed as the modern-day samurai - the 180 brave men who stayed behind to fight the crisis at Fukushima nuclear power plant knowing it was very likely they had volunteered for a suicide mission.
It is virtually impossible to talk to the workers by phone. But the message came out from one that he was "not afraid to die" - that was his job.
The families of these brave men may never see them again, but they are proud of their sacrifice.
A 27-year-old woman, whose Twitter name is @NamicoAoto, tweeted that her father had volunteered for Fukushima duty.
"I heard that he volunteered even though he will be retiring in just half a year and my eyes are filling up with tears," she said.
"At home, he doesn't seem like someone who could handle big jobs. But today, I was really proud of him. I pray for his safe return."
Another loved one says in an email: "My father is still working at the plant. He says he's accepted his fate, much like a death sentence."
Prime Minister Naota Kan told the volunteers: "You are the only ones who can resolve a crisis. Retreat is unthinkable."
In shifts of 50, they are working in total darkness using flashlights or helmets with lamps on them.
Wearing head-to-toe protective gear and breathing through oxygen tanks as radiation reaches potentially lethal levels and temperatures soar, they crawl through dark mazes of pipes to make an adjustment on a valve, to read a gauge.
Nuclear experts say the skeleton crew is most likely not made up of managers but technicians, including firefighters, who know the plant inside out.
They are more likely to be skilled older men than fit young ones because they have already had children and even if they are exposed to massive amounts of radiation their cancers are unlikely to develop to a fatal stage in their lifetime.
The volunteers are being rotated in and out of the danger zone, often for only 10 or 15 minutes at a time, to limit their exposure.
Health Minister Yoko Komiyama raised the limit on the amount of radiation to which each worker can lawfully be exposed from 100 millisieverts to 250.
The average annual exposure for nuclear power plant workers is 20 millisieverts and most don't absorb more than one millisievert in a year.
Keiichi Nakagawa, associate professor of the Department of Radiology at the University of Tokyo Hospital, said: "I don't know any other way to say it, but this is like suicide fighters in a war."
Two workers are missing after the four explosions and fires at the plant since Friday.
One worker who was opening a valve to let out a build-up of steam was taken to hospital complaining of nausea and exhaustion after being exposed to 10 minutes of radiation.
Another 23 have been injured and 19, plus an unknown number of firemen, have been exposed to lower levels of radiation.
Plant operator the Tokyo Electric Power Company has said almost nothing about the workers, who remain anonymous, but made it clear they are racing against time to prevent a "critical meltdown".
A team of 34 US atomic experts is also now on the ground in Japan, equipped with ground and aerial hardware to monitor the radiation leaks.
American ambassador John Roos denied their presence shows a lack of trust in Japan's handling of the crisis.
Janet Fife-Yeomans From: Herald Sun March 18, 2011 12:00AM
THEY are being hailed as the modern-day samurai - the 180 brave men who stayed behind to fight the crisis at Fukushima nuclear power plant knowing it was very likely they had volunteered for a suicide mission.
It is virtually impossible to talk to the workers by phone. But the message came out from one that he was "not afraid to die" - that was his job.
The families of these brave men may never see them again, but they are proud of their sacrifice.
A 27-year-old woman, whose Twitter name is @NamicoAoto, tweeted that her father had volunteered for Fukushima duty.
"I heard that he volunteered even though he will be retiring in just half a year and my eyes are filling up with tears," she said.
"At home, he doesn't seem like someone who could handle big jobs. But today, I was really proud of him. I pray for his safe return."
Another loved one says in an email: "My father is still working at the plant. He says he's accepted his fate, much like a death sentence."
Prime Minister Naota Kan told the volunteers: "You are the only ones who can resolve a crisis. Retreat is unthinkable."
In shifts of 50, they are working in total darkness using flashlights or helmets with lamps on them.
Wearing head-to-toe protective gear and breathing through oxygen tanks as radiation reaches potentially lethal levels and temperatures soar, they crawl through dark mazes of pipes to make an adjustment on a valve, to read a gauge.
Nuclear experts say the skeleton crew is most likely not made up of managers but technicians, including firefighters, who know the plant inside out.
They are more likely to be skilled older men than fit young ones because they have already had children and even if they are exposed to massive amounts of radiation their cancers are unlikely to develop to a fatal stage in their lifetime.
The volunteers are being rotated in and out of the danger zone, often for only 10 or 15 minutes at a time, to limit their exposure.
Health Minister Yoko Komiyama raised the limit on the amount of radiation to which each worker can lawfully be exposed from 100 millisieverts to 250.
The average annual exposure for nuclear power plant workers is 20 millisieverts and most don't absorb more than one millisievert in a year.
Keiichi Nakagawa, associate professor of the Department of Radiology at the University of Tokyo Hospital, said: "I don't know any other way to say it, but this is like suicide fighters in a war."
Two workers are missing after the four explosions and fires at the plant since Friday.
One worker who was opening a valve to let out a build-up of steam was taken to hospital complaining of nausea and exhaustion after being exposed to 10 minutes of radiation.
Another 23 have been injured and 19, plus an unknown number of firemen, have been exposed to lower levels of radiation.
Plant operator the Tokyo Electric Power Company has said almost nothing about the workers, who remain anonymous, but made it clear they are racing against time to prevent a "critical meltdown".
A team of 34 US atomic experts is also now on the ground in Japan, equipped with ground and aerial hardware to monitor the radiation leaks.
American ambassador John Roos denied their presence shows a lack of trust in Japan's handling of the crisis.
U.S. President Barack Obama delivers a statement to the media about America's response to Japan's earthquake and tsunami disaster from the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington, March 17, 2011. Obama said on Thursday that the United States feels "great urgency" to assist Japan and is confident that Japan will rebuild.
Sinkieland will pay dearly during such a disaster for its over-reliance on foreigners. No foreigner will be willing to put his life in the slightest danger for the greater good of Sinkies. At the rate of influx, most of the knowledge and skills will be possessed by foreigners and Sinkies will not be of much help during a crisis even if they are willing to help their fellow countrymen.
An aerial view taken from a helicopter from Japan's Self-Defence Force shows damage sustained to the No. 4 reactor (C) at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power complex in this handout taken March 16, 2011 and released March 17, 2011. Japanese military helicopters and fire trucks poured water on the overheating nuclear facility on Thursday and the plant operator said electricity to part of the crippled complex could be restored in a desperate bid to avert catastrophe. The complex has been torn apart by four explosions since a 9.0-magnitude earthquake and tsunami hit last Friday.
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