Fukushima : The news that gets swept under the rug...

[tr1age]

I dunno about you guys, but this shit freaks me out. If that thing explodes... and even if it doesn't.... there is serious life changing reprocusions here..

• Fukushima: the global fallout
  21 Aug 2013:
  Editorial: The disaster in 2011 has profoundly shaken confidence in the future of nuclear power – a situation exacerbated by rising costs
  292 comments
• Fukushima leak: Japan 'working to prevent serious or fatal accident' - video
  Video (44 sec), 21 Aug 2013:
  Officials are working to prevent leak at Fukushima nuclear plant becoming a fatal or serious accident, head of nuclear regulation authority says
• Fukushima warning: danger level at nuclear plant jumps to 'serious'
  21 Aug 2013:
  Japan's nuclear agency dramatically raises status after saying a day earlier that radioactive water leak was only an 'anomaly'
  716 comments
• Fukushima nuclear plant still leaking radioactive water, operator reveals - video
  Video (1min 14sec), 20 Aug 2013:
  The operator of Japan's nuclear power plant confirms that 300 tonnes of highly radioactive water have leaked from one of the storage tanks
• Fukushima operator reveals leak of 300 tonnes of highly contaminated water
  20 Aug 2013:
  Spillage is most severe since March 2011 as Tepco says it does not know how the water leaked out or where it has leaked to
• Fukushima leaks: Japan PM steps in
  8 Aug 2013:
  Shinzo Abe promises 'firm measures' after nuclear plant operator Tepco admits radioactive water is escaping
  264 comments
• Fukushima emergency declared as radioactive water spills over
  6 Aug 2013:
  Nuclear watchdog warns contaminated groundwater has breached underground barrier meant to keep it out of sea
  340 comments
• Fukushima rainfall caused steam above reactor, says Tepco
  18 Jul 2013:
  Firm says radiation levels are stable after video images showed steam rising from damaged building housing reactor No 3
• Fukushima gets wind farm two years after nuclear disaster - video
  Video (35 sec), 12 Jul 2013:
  A wind turbine is transported to the coast of Fukushima to become part of a floating wind farm
• Fukushima boss hailed as hero dies
  10 Jul 2013:
  Masao Yoshida defied management of power company Tepco by cooling nuclear reactors with seawater to staunch meltdown
  232 comments
• Japan moves closer to restarting nuclear reactors
  8 Jul 2013: Utility companies apply for safety inspections of idled plants in clearest sign of return to atomic energy after Fukushima disaster30 comments

 

[Zakis]

Well thanks to our wonderful media guiding the sheeple, we don't usually see this. I have been following it through other sources and yeah its freaky. That shit could be bad for everyone.

 

[tr1age]

Well thanks to our wonderful media guiding the sheeple, we don't usually see this. I have been following it through other sources and yeah its freaky. That shit could be bad for everyone.

It has some serious ramifications for the sea life as it is already. The leaking is really bad. Japan JUST said "maybe" to russia helping too. Why is the WHOLE WORLD not helping this shit?

Because secretly the world wants to profit off it. blah.

makes me wanna punch myself for bitching about a pvp match or something [DOUBLEPOST=1377581655,1377581581][/DOUBLEPOST]300 tonnes of toxic water has leaked from a tank on the site in its is most dangerous incident since the 2011 meltdown

 

[Crake]

This it's either going to give us all super powers or take years off our lives and the lives of our children.

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[Keleynal]

This it's either going to give us all super powers or take years off our lives and the lives of our children.

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I'm not sure that reward is worth the risk.

 

[Simpwn]

I've heard blurbs about it on the news, but nothing to this extent. I appreciate you pulling all that info together. I didn't realize this was a new separate disaster we could be facing. What I don't understand is why didn't this place get shutdown after the issues it had with the earthquake a few years ago.

 

[tr1age]

I've heard blurbs about it on the news, but nothing to this extent. I appreciate you pulling all that info together. I didn't realize this was a new separate disaster we could be facing. What I don't understand is why didn't this place get shutdown after the issues it had with the earthquake a few years ago.

Shutting down a major nuclear power plant is not cost effective and def not easy. And sadly a political nightmare.

 

[Red Omen]

Okay, let's rein things in a little bit here.

The Fukushima reactor withstood the fifth most powerful earthquake in the last century, and the ensuing fifty-foot tsunami. While over 18,000 people died from earthquake-related injuries, there have been no recorded deaths from radiation. None. And the World Health Organization issued a report indicating that the increased risk of cancer from the released radiation was statistically minimal, "even less than the risk of crossing the road."

And this was a plant that was designed in the 1970s. Technology has improved even further since then, but the irony is that media-driven anti-nuclear hysteria has impeded the construction of newer, even safer reactors. Including at South Texas Project, the plant where my dad worked for thirty-five years and the top producer of electricity in the country. The NRC rated U.S. nuclear facilities according to their likelihood of sustaining an earthquake capable of causing core damage, and the highest chance was one in 10,000. South Texas Project? One in 158,730.

Ultimately, nuclear power is currently one of the cleanest, most efficient energy options available. It's astoundingly safe, and has the potential to be even safer. The trouble comes with the industry's inability to build new reactors so that they can decommission old ones, as I mentioned above, and the waste storage issue. The Yucca Mountain Nuclear Waste Repository was in the works for years, but Sen. Harry Reid (D-NV) didn't want it built in his (sparsely populated) state and bargained with Obama to cut federal funding. So now we have the fun choice of storing it in barrels like we have been, or building really stupid repositories like this one on top of the Ogallala Aquifer. Blind opposition to nuclear power and an unwillingness to deal with its consequences only makes us less safe.

And the nuclear power industry put me through college. So there's that.

 

[tr1age]

I'm not against what you just said. I am against not taking action to fix it though.

 

[Nilf]

This is what I was afraid of since I heard the first issues after the quake. Cancer is not always the by product of radioactive contamination however the effect on the sea life is what scares me the most. The oceans are the most fragile aspect of our environment and after all the oil spills and other dumping issues sooner or later we are going to get the Simpson's 3 eyed fish.