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Posted in: Chubu Electric completes 22-meter-high seawall to protect Hamaoka nuclear plant See in context

Fadamor

It was 40 metres in some places at the back of the town where it had gone over the sea wall and reached the cliffs/mountains and the force of the water pushed it up. This was caused by the natural incline of the land and the fact the water reached a point it had nowhere to go and wasn't the height of the wave as it made landfall.

It wasn't 40 meters high as it went over the sea walls.

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Posted in: British comedy great Ronnie Corbett dies aged 85 See in context

Four candles was one of the funniest sketches of all time and this morning I saw the Mastermind sketch for the first time. If you haven't seen it I'd suggest watching it on YouTube.

Genius. Simply genius.

RIP Ronnie. Thanks for all the laughs.

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Posted in: TEPCO: 4 more years needed to stop radioactive water leaks at Fukushima See in context

Scientifically proven and reported in.mainstream media " Lol..then if it's government approved scientific data reported in mainstream media it.must be true then? ROFL..so LDP overseen mainstream media released info is believable gospel now is it? That's pretty funny, I better re- read politics / PR crisis management 101 again then. LOL.

The articles I was referring to, from the mainstream media were in Nature.com, Huffington Post, Time Magazine and Forbes.

Does the LDP control them? At no point have I suggested or claimed that the mainstream media were Japanese.

It is the mainstream, international media, that is reporting on the state of food in Fukushima.

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Posted in: TEPCO: 4 more years needed to stop radioactive water leaks at Fukushima See in context

Reported by whom? Verified by whom?

Scientists.

WHO's scientists reported that few would die from Fukushima (recently verified by the low thyroid cancer results). They (WHO's scientists - do you see the constant) previously stated 4000 would die as a result of Chernobyl.

Don't worry, I'm sure someone will be along shortly to say that LDP own WHO...

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Posted in: TEPCO: 4 more years needed to stop radioactive water leaks at Fukushima See in context

Utrack -

This is a triple nuclear reactor meltdown. 3 reactors .... Europe is contaminated with one reactor meltdown ... Can anyone else do the math.. ..

WHO - Chernobyl - up to 4000 deaths. WHO Fukushima - Few deaths. Chernobyl - land conataminated so that produce couldn't be eaten for years across a wide area of Europe including Wales. Fukushima - land contaminated in an area very close to the accident site. How's that for maths?

Marcelito. Yes, radiation levels have decreased significantly since the start of the crisis. Hence the reason the majority of food in Fukushima is safe to eat. Hence the reason that most of the seafood is safe to eat. The researchers (that's researchers not TEPCO) have studied Japanese seafood because, well how many times have we heard on here that fish swim through a region? It's not Fukushima fish... it's all fish etc... They've studied the seafood and found that it's only the fish closest to Fukushima and those that are bottom dwllers with high levels of radiation. And not ones in the market place.

ROFL..so LDP overseen mainstream media released info is believable gospel now is it? That's pretty funny, I better re- read politics / PR crisis management 101 again then. LOL.

Does the LDP control mainstream media? Does the LDP control Time? Nature Magazine? Forbes? Huffington Post? etc etc

LOL?

LOL indeed. Instead of sarcastic rhetoric I suggest you actually read up some science.

Smith - still waiting for you to show me where I've defended TEPCO...

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Posted in: TEPCO: 4 more years needed to stop radioactive water leaks at Fukushima See in context

Marcelito, it's a fact that the radiation levels have decreased. It's a fact that food from the region is back to pre-accident levels> It's a fact that japanese seafood is mostly free from radiation. These are all scientifically proven and you don't need an environmental science degree to understand it. And it's not pro-nuclear rhetoric, it's quantifiable facts. And reported in mainstream media.

few, if any-one will eat enough contaminate food to suffer any adverse health effects. Again, scientifically proven. But that's just pro-nuclear rhetoric isn't it? To use science and research to prove a point Just rhetoric.

I was buying and eating Fukushima produce in April 2011. So what's your point?

And Smith, one question... you accuse me of defending Tepco. Can you point out where I've done that please?

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Posted in: TEPCO: 4 more years needed to stop radioactive water leaks at Fukushima See in context

You know that the acceptable levels of contamination in food are substantially stricter in Japan than the rest of the world. Call that BS all you like doesn't change the truth

Secondly I don't support the near village. I do support nuclear power and to answer your question over the next 90 years if there was no nuclear and we continued with the extra gas and coal there would be a further 180000 deaths. You may deem that other forms of energy are safer. Yet the statistics and science proves otherwise. Wind is cleaner but not consistent nor renewable. Solar is cleaner. But not consistent etc

What is worse than before? The radiation in the water isn't. The radiation in the land isn't. In fact the only thing worse than before is the rhetoric from the anti nuclear supporters.

And as I predicted you didn't use any science in your response...because...

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Posted in: TEPCO: 4 more years needed to stop radioactive water leaks at Fukushima See in context

This doesn't however answer the questions of negligence and deception from Tepco, perhaps things weren't as bad as they might have been, but could we trust them to inform people if they were? and will we finally see some accountability?

No it doesn't. And yes, they still need to be held accountable for what they're responsible for. And I've never tried to absolve them for any blame.

Nothing in life is safe. Just ask the people of Lockerbie who were sat watching TV when a 747 was blown up over their heads. Crossing the road isn't safe etc but the risk from this is negligible.... it's certainly safer than driving in Japan...

Just remember that the Japanese food safety limits are the strictest in the world.. and those from Europe of a certain age will have eaten food and drunk water that was substantially more contaminated than Japanese food for a long time.

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Posted in: TEPCO: 4 more years needed to stop radioactive water leaks at Fukushima See in context

Wow a '9 and a -7 for quoting the independent expert. Wonder why such negativity? I mean we have had contributors on here claim that dilution doesn't work with radiation. We have one claiming that radioactive water is being pumped PUMPED into the ocean...we have claims that it's worse than Chernobyl yet despite this we have a scientist, someone who specializes in this field telling us thst the radiation is 1/1000th what it was. We have the WHO telling us few will die...we have no health threats from radiation outside of a very small area...yet we are still told by the JT experts that it's worse than Chernobyl.

We have scientists eating food from the area showing no build up of radio nuclides in their bodies. The vast majority of food from the region is at levels that are back to pre accident levels. Yet we still have claims that it's worse than Chernobyl.

We have people questioning whether they should eat food or water. Despite everything that science had told us.

We just have irrational fear.

The ssituation is constantly improving. Few will die. These are simple facts supported by science.

And yes I know I'll get voted down in the region of double figures and one or maybe two of you will try and respond. But you want use science in your responses. Because you can't.

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Posted in: TEPCO: 4 more years needed to stop radioactive water leaks at Fukushima See in context

Sorry, didn't mean to cause of fence. I was just quoting from the article you often cry out for independent facts

Ocean radiation levels are about a thousandth of what they were soon after the accident, according to Ken Buesseler, a radiochemist with Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) who has monitored the area. 

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Posted in: TEPCO: 4 more years needed to stop radioactive water leaks at Fukushima See in context

Ocean radiation levels are about a thousandth of what they were soon after the accident

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Posted in: Five years on, closure has yet to come to Fukushima parents See in context

Well. ...even if it was turned off...had it been turned on it wouldn't have predicted the earthquake or the tsunami because it's not designed to do that. My kettle was also turned off at the time. That also isn't capable of predicting earthquakes or tsunamis.

19000 people did not die because my kettle was turned off. Just like 1900p people haven't died because SPEEDI was allegedly turned off. Though I've seen no evidence to suggest it was actually off. Either way if it was on or off, 19000 people would still have died.

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Posted in: Five years on, closure has yet to come to Fukushima parents See in context

SPEEDI DOES NOT predict earthquakes. It DOES NOT predict tsunamis.

The ap that is available for Japanese citizens DOES NOT predict earthquakes but informs that one is on the way because the waves have been felt by censors. On March 11 people of the Tohoku coast would have had seconds if that, warning of an earthquake. They would have had no extra warning of the tsunami.

You need to understand what happened on March 11 and clearly a you ever here is nuclear. Which didn't kill 19000 people.

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Posted in: Five years on, closure has yet to come to Fukushima parents See in context

So what you're saying is that no, SPEEDI could not have predicted the earthquake or tsunami that killed 19000 people.

19000 people died. And they did not die because of any nuclear accident.

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Posted in: Five years on, closure has yet to come to Fukushima parents See in context

No, I think what Mike’s saying is that SPEEDI can not predict earthquakes and can’t predict tsunamis.

I’m not sure if you were in Japan on March 11, 2011. But it’s worth remembering that at 2:46 pm and continuing for a further five minutes, there was a massive earthquake that was felt as far away as Korea. This led to a massive tsunami that made landfall about 45 minutes later. Once the earthquake happened, there were tsunami warning sirens along the Pacific Coast. As a result of this earthquake and tsunami 19,000 people lost their lives.

Can you explain how SPEEDI could have prevented this?

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Posted in: Five years on, closure has yet to come to Fukushima parents See in context

Well based on the negative ratings I've received I can only assume that we ARE blaming TEPCO for the earthquake and tsunami on March 11. Or maybe we're blaming her death on TEPCO.

It's dreadful that he has to go through this. But Tepco didn't cause his daughter to die and those of you suggest as Klaudsworth, Utrack etc really need to understand that.

It's dreadfully sad that there are numerous families along the Pacific Coast who are still looking for loved ones. But its wholly wrong to blame TEPCO for their loss.

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Posted in: Five years on, closure has yet to come to Fukushima parents See in context

Klaudsworth. Are we now saying that TEPCO caused the tsunami? Or are we saying that it's only in Fukushima where victims are still missing?

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Posted in: Five years on, closure has yet to come to Fukushima parents See in context

Utrack... 19000 died in the earthquake and tsunami. This article is about those victims or the families of those victims. It's not about the nuclear accident (number of fatalities??), he's searching for his daughter in areas contaminated by the nuclear leak but she did not die as a result of the nuclear incident.

19000 died as a result of the earthquake and tsunami and as we approach the 5th anniversary it's important that we remember that.

I have nothing but sympathy for those who lost their families that day.

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Posted in: Mutations, DNA damage seen in Fukushima forests: Greenpeace See in context

Official? Where on enenews or on the ihatejapan websites? It's not worse according to science. The environmental and health impacts have been significantly less. And it's ludicrous to suggest otherwise.

Alaska. Where there is absolutely no Fukushima related radionuclides in fish samples taken...compare that to Wales where in certain areas lamb was banned for over 20 odd years. Because of Chernobyl.

Insult your intelligence? Hardly. You do that yourself everytime you claim Chernobyl is worse. And what we know from Chernobyl. Is that at the time Greenpeace claimed it would have severe environmental consequences forever. It hasn't

. But again, you've also previously claimed that thousands will die from Fukushima so it's hardly surprising you keep banging this drum.

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Posted in: Mutations, DNA damage seen in Fukushima forests: Greenpeace See in context

Interesting response. Doesn't begin to explain that the DNA of the people have been affected. Sixteen children have thyroid cancer. SIXTEEN of the most tested children in the history of mankind have thyroid cancer and scientists are disputing whether these are because of Fukushima. Yet you claim that the people's DNA has changed. Not some. Not a few. But all.

We know what happened with Chernobyl. We know about the food. We know what the Japanese did. .we know that all testing has proven the Japanese right. We know that there are a gazillion people testing everywhere outside of the exclusion zone and we know we are not seeing spikes. We also know that wildlife in Chernobyl is in a substantially better condition than when man was there. We know this. We've seen the effects over 30 years. And that was when the Russians did everything wrong.

Fukushima is leaking. It's dripping. It didn't not erupt over vast swathes of land. Land thousands of kilometers away has not been effected by it. But it was after Chernobyl. ..drip drip drip...localized

Still. ..you've previously posted that thousands and thousands would die from Fukushima so it's hardly surprising that you're trying to maintain its all doom and gloom.

But you have science against you..and science has said that few people will die. The sixteen thyroid cancer cases proves this.

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Posted in: Mutations, DNA damage seen in Fukushima forests: Greenpeace See in context

Utrack

The DNA of plants and animals have changed in the area. The people are equally as affected.

Even by your standards this is astounding.

http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2015/10/humans-are-worse-radiation-chernobyl-animals-study-finds

And Disillusioned; still claiming Fukushima was worse than Chernobyl. Still wrong.

5 years on and neither of you have bothered to read up on the subject.

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Posted in: Japan's nuclear refugees face bleak return 5 years after Fukushima See in context

Indeed. And that story is repeated across Tohoku. The media want to blame it all.on Fukushima because that's an easier story than Tohoku is dying. Even when we were going to Iwate in April 2011 there were a lot of areas that were shutter towns...people were already leaving because there were no prospects and the shutters were coming down on all the stores.

The rebuild could and should have gone someway to try and solve this issue but it hasn't and it's only going to get worse.

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Posted in: Japan's nuclear refugees face bleak return 5 years after Fukushima See in context

I think that shonanbb's link explains everything that needs to be explained about a large number of contributors on here. He has posted a link to an American University website which discusses radiation. Not one person has questioned it. Not one person has tried to present an argument against it. Yet he's got very high negative marks.

The lack of understanding, even after 5 years, is remarkable. Erm radiation. I'd bad m'kay and no science is going to tell me otherwise. I mean what could the physics department of Idaho State University tell me ?

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Posted in: Tainted water: Fukushima still faces contamination crisis See in context

Stuart... there are numerous scientific reports that conclude that few people will die as a result of the Fukushima nuclear accident. These are from international scientists and have been carried in international media. What I report isn't new or news. It is however a fact. The danger has largely been removed by the fact that Japan learned the lessons from Chernobyl and adding in the fact that Japan has the strictest limits on contamination in food. Contaminated food was immediately removed from the market and high risk food was also removed. Again, these are quantifiable facts.

It does continue to leak. Yet food in the region is back to pre accident levels. This is because is very localized. It's not spewing out across a wide area. It's leaking. Again this is factually correct.

Indeed Fukushima is a very large area. I do not believe I have been to ground nor at any point have I claimed. You seem obsessed with my location yet it's irrelevant. When I was making my regular trips to Minami Soma in Fukushima and eating the local produce and drinking the local water I had the exact same opinion as I do now.

Now perhaps instead of obsessing over my location you try and put together some form of scientific argument.

Instead of nuclear is bad, you don't live in Japan which is awfully tiresome. And had I put forward a similar argument at university I wouldn't have graduated with a degree in environmental science.

Nuclear may be new to you but I studied it 20 years ago. And what's interesting is that 20 years ago people made wild and wonderful claims overy Chernobyl. They didn't materialize either.

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Posted in: Tainted water: Fukushima still faces contamination crisis See in context

Stuart,

It always makes me laugh when people bring up my location. Because that doesn't change science does it? It was relevant when I was making regular trips to Fukushima and it isn't relevant now.

Well you made a good point, the continuous stream of radioactive water that is ALWAYS flowing into the ocean Hence the reason the food is tested. Hence the reason that some is not allowed in the market. But thanks to dilution (look it up or ask an elementary school teacher about it) the area where the seafood isn't safe to eat is very limited.

Exactly, radiation drills holes in matter-and does so to the human body as a hot knife cutting butter!

And yet, we naturally have radiation in the body.

Utrack... one worker had leukaemia. One of the causes of leukaemia is radiation. There are many, many other causes of leukaemia. 4 months after that article was written, there have been no further incidents...

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Posted in: Tainted water: Fukushima still faces contamination crisis See in context

Facts like thousands...tens of thousands...hundreds of thousands... millions will die as a result of Fukushima?

Or facts like we nearly lost Tokyo. You STILL perpetuate that inaccuracy nearly 5 years after it was proven to be wrong

I prefer facts correlated by science. And my quotes don't come from blogs they come from reputable scientists on reputable websites.

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Posted in: Tainted water: Fukushima still faces contamination crisis See in context

Erm no it hasn't.

We have an article that says people living downwind of 492 nuclear tests have got cancer.

What it doesn't say is anything that could lead to a scientific conclusion. We don't know pretest radiation levels. We don't know post test. We don't know if food and water was tested. We dont know how it differs from the national average. We don't know anything except that people living downwind of 492 nuclear tests have got cancer.

What we do know however is that based on studies of Nagasaki those who survived the initial blast were more likely to die in a traffic accident than from cancer. Those studies have been completed by scientists.

Still, you're entitled to come to any conclusion you like. Personally I like all the information and don't just read a headline.

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Posted in: Tainted water: Fukushima still faces contamination crisis See in context

ShonanBB is referring to naturally occurring background radiation. Google it.

Not the radiation caused by testing of 952 nuclear weapons over a 40 year period.

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Posted in: Tainted water: Fukushima still faces contamination crisis See in context

ShonanBB...stop using scientific facts. It's very unhelpful. You should ONLY make unsubstantiated claims when discussing this topic.

There are some on here that claimed thousands would die and nothing, certainly not facts, is going to change their opinion.

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Posted in: Tainted water: Fukushima still faces contamination crisis See in context

Fishing should totally be banned in that area but it is not. From those who are allowing this to happen to those who are making money out of it, they are all mad people selling poison to customers.

Is that what's happening? Or is that just random irrational ranting. Because what we do know is that all food is tested. We know that certain foodstuffs are banned and the others are tested. Noone is selling poison to the customers. This has been proben by the recent story that 16 children had thyroid cancer. Had poisonous food been sold then this number would have been significantly higher (see Chernobyl).

Yakyak... one dental/medical xray is somewhat differnet to doing multiple xrays on a daily basis. They're not worried abut one xray. There's plenty of data available on what is a dangerous amount of radiation and what is acceptable.

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