Japan: 9.0 Earthquake-Tsunami-Nuclear Reactor Status #4

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UPDATE 1-"Jumpers" offered big money to brave Japan's nuclear plant

Workers are reportedly being offered hazard pay to work in the damaged reactors of up to $5,000 per day -- or more accurately, a fraction of a day, since the radiation-drenched shifts must be drastically restricted.

A TEPCO official said this week that the beleaguered company has tasks fit for "jumpers" -- workers so called because they "jump" into highly radioactive areas to accomplish a job in a minimum of time and race out as quickly as possible.

and

These days such jobs are more commonly performed by robots, but the interiors of Fukushima Daiichi's mangled reactor buildings are so filled with debris that using robots is too difficult.

http://af.reuters.com/article/metalsNews/idAFL3E7F12GX20110401
 
Bodies of 1,000 dead in Japan too toxic to handle


The Japanese authorities say 1,000 dead bodies scattered around Japan's troubled Fukushima power plant are too radioactive for emergency workers to collect, Kyodo news agency reported on Friday.

http://en.rian.ru/world/20110401/163320401.html
 
In damaged nuclear plant's shadow, mayor pleads for food, fuel

Quote: Minami Soma, a city of about 70,000, lost at least 253 people to the March 11 earthquake and tsunami. Another 1,200-plus are unaccounted for, and about 50,000 people have evacuated since the disaster and the ensuing crisis at the Tokyo Electric Power Company's Fukushima Daiichi power plant, 25 km (16 miles) to the south, Mayor Katsunobu Sakurai said.

Those left are now struggling with a "substantial lack of supplies" complicated by the city's location in the 30-km radius surrounding the quake-damaged Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, he said.

http://www.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/asiapcf/04/01/japan.nuclear.mayor/


Imo, Tepco should hire delivery drivers at hazard pay. These folks are their responsibility! :mad:
 
Quiche said:
UPDATE 1-"Jumpers" offered big money to brave Japan's nuclear plant

Workers are reportedly being offered hazard pay to work in the damaged reactors of up to $5,000 per day -- or more accurately, a fraction of a day, since the radiation-drenched shifts must be drastically restricted.

A TEPCO official said this week that the beleaguered company has tasks fit for "jumpers" -- workers so called because they "jump" into highly radioactive areas to accomplish a job in a minimum of time and race out as quickly as possible.

and

These days such jobs are more commonly performed by robots, but the interiors of Fukushima Daiichi's mangled reactor buildings are so filled with debris that using robots is too difficult.

http://af.reuters.com/article/metalsNews/idAFL3E7F12GX20110401
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OMG.. it's just like chernobly.. and the jumpers then had no idea how dangerous it really was... I PRAY they have been upfront with these people!!!!
 
UGH can't they haz mat suit up some japanses military and do food and fuel drops via helicopter and then deradiate the helicopter when it done??
 
essies said:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vPJLDMIp2JE
http://www.salzburg.com/online/home...7Id7zlZTiq1wsiw1Xi9opRgLzYM4&img=&text=&mode=
Japan: EU increased radiation exposure limits for food
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The European Commission has opened in the wake of the nuclear disaster in Fukushima a back door for atomic-loaded food imports. By decree of 25 March, increased the radiation exposure limits for imported food from Japan drastically. The Regulation is directly applicable by Member States. By Austria, which has voted in Brussels against the regulation.

Some practical examples: Milk and milk products had previously been a limit of 370 Becquerel (Bq) per kilogram (kg). This limit was raised to 1000 Bq / kg. The limit for baby food has been increased from 370 to 400 Bq / kg, the limit for other food from 600 to 1250 Bq / kg. Certain products such as fish oil or spices should now be contaminated even with 12,500 Bq / kg, which is more than twenty times the previous limit. After taxes the European Greens, the EU limits now higher than in Japan itself

eta-I had to use the google translate tool in order to read article.
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Oh, this makes my blood boil. Limits for milk have been TRIPLED?
And for other foodstuffs have been DOUBLED?
What are they doing, bending the rules because the show must go on?
 
I was laying in bed last night just thinking of all the damage and how someone earlier said that maybe rivers full of blood could be translated into oceans full of iodine and i REALLY thought this 2012 doomsday mayan calendar stuff was malarkey but ya know.. i'm kinda scared and the more time that passes i'm more and more nervous...
 
OMG how can they just UP the numbers.. are they gonna be upping until it's 1,000 times higher than the original safe level???
 
peeples said:
OMG how can they just UP the numbers.. are they gonna be upping until it's 1,000 times higher than the original safe level???
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I really believe we're headed for a "new normal"-- higher safety levels for each contaminate, many more cancers, shorter life spans etc. :twocents:
 
peeples said:
OMG how can they just UP the numbers.. are they gonna be upping until it's 1,000 times higher than the original safe level???
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And when you think of MILK products being TRIPLED, you are talking about those products going into little ones' bodies that weigh 20 or 30 lbs. Being incorporated into growing bones that need to last another 75-80 years.
 
Cattle Struggling to Survive in Fukushima as Radiation Taints Soil, Water

Excerpt:
“Farmers must make a very tough decision -- running away from their farms to protect themselves or staying there to take care of their livestock,” Kenzo Sasaki, 70, who raises 25 cattle in Irisabara village in Fukushima, said in an interview. “Animals in the evacuation zone are probably dying without food and water as growers in the area have no option but to flee.”

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-...fukushima-as-radiation-taints-soil-water.html

Oh, man.
 
I don't want to be an alarmist, but I think Quiche is onto something here. Not the end of the world probably, but the end of the world as we know it, quite possibly.
 
Flotsam from Japan's tsunami to hit US West Coast


SEATTLE – John Anderson has discovered just about everything during the 30 years he's combed Washington state's beaches — glass fishing floats, hockey gloves, bottled messages, even hundreds of mismatched pairs of Nike sneakers that washed up barnacled but otherwise unworn.


The biggest haul may come in one to three years when, scientists say, wind and ocean currents eventually will push some of the massive debris from Japan's tsunami and earthquake onto the shores of the U.S. West Coast.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_japan_tsunami_flotsam
 
I'm probably overly sensitive, but it hurts a little to see the media refer to the pieces of peoples destroyed homes, wrecked livelihoods and shattered lives, as a "haul", biggest or otherwise.
 
Quiche said:
Oh, this is great!

Tsunami-surviving dog rescued after three weeks at sea
A dog believed to have survived the tsunami and then three weeks at sea was rescued by the Japanese Coast Guard in northern Japan.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/wor...ing-dog-rescued-after-three-weeks-at-sea.html
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How in the world is this possible? Was the dog able to find water in the remains of the house? I don't think dogs or humans can go more than a few days without fresh water (and a dog wouldn't necessarily know not to drink sea water).
 
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