Japan hit by powerful earthquake

[miokomioko]

No one cares or complains about nuclear power until once in a fuckin' blue moon when something goes wrong. Until then, they'll use them to power their dildos every night.

[Kuya]

You have a nuclear powered dildo?

[wop]

You have a nuclear powered dildo?

One of these!
http://www.metro.co.uk/weird/858217-...rating-sex-toy

The crack team of bomb experts were called out to a post office in Petrozavodsk after receiving a call from a postal worker who had encountered a suspicious parcel emitting a ticking sound.
A spokeswoman said: ‘The building was ringed by the security forces and people were evacuated.
‘In the package, the bomb squad found a vibrator.’ It seems the sex toy had turned itself on prior to reaching its addressee in the post.
Russian police have been on high alert since the Domodedovo Airport suicide bombing in January. Fortunately this incident turned out to be a false alarm.
Having been identified as erotic rather than explosive, the package will now be returned to the post office before being sent to its intended recipient.
The news is reminiscent of a famous line in cult classic film Fight Club. Regarding a ticking package on the baggage carousel, an airport attendant says: 'Nine times out of ten it's an electric razor, but every once in a while... it's a dildo.'

[Maaglin]

It's not really worth the time or effort to point out how much safer nuclear power is than any other power generation source. People are more concerned with sensationalism and rousing the ignorant public into a sheep infested frenzy.

[Lhyet]

Germany's Angela Merkel says that she aims to accelerate Germany's move away from nuclear energy. "We want to reach the age of renewable energy as quickly as possible," she said, according to Reuters

An age of renewable energy... is such an age even possible in the foreseeable future? I can't imagine solar power or wind power technology being advanced enough to get any country to a point where it is able to rely on it. Not until we build a bloody dyson ring.

I can't help but feel that attempting to move away from nuclear (which I assume also means they're not fond of the idea of fusion) completely goes against progress, which is an inherently human trait.
All to woo the idiot masses into a sense of security. As if anything like what happened in Japan could happen in (any?) part of western Europe.

[Petitssk]

An age of renewable energy... is such an age even possible in the foreseeable future? I can't imagine solar power or wind power technology being advanced enough to get any country to a point where it is able to rely on it. Not until we build a bloody dyson ring.

I can't help but feel that attempting to move away from nuclear (which I assume also means they're not fond of the idea of fusion) completely goes against progress, which is an inherently human trait.
All to woo the idiot masses into a sense of security. As if anything like what happened in Japan could happen in (any?) part of western Europe.

Why would they care? The recent events in Japan were exactly what the people protesting against nuclear energy here in Germany needed. Coincidentally, we also have elections coming up in a few regions, so our politicians are currently more than happy to do exactly as the stupid masses wish.
Of course, no one cares in the least about the fact that these renewable energies will have to be supplemented with coal burning power plants, but who could possibly risk running a nuclear power plant here in Germany? Honestly, I can't really picture something more threatening than some Hitchcock-like bird attack in Germany, minus some very weak earthquakes in the Ruhr-area.
I blame the media.

[DragonCloud64]

CNN: Radiation could reach U.S. Friday
What am I watching, fox news?
also inbe4 Cali panic

[Hyan]

Why would they care? The recent events in Japan were exactly what the people protesting against nuclear energy here in Germany needed. Coincidentally, we also have elections coming up in a few regions, so our politicians are currently more than happy to do exactly as the stupid masses wish.
Of course, no one cares in the least about the fact that these renewable energies will have to be supplemented with coal burning power plants, but who could possibly risk running a nuclear power plant here in Germany? Honestly, I can't really picture something more threatening than some Hitchcock-like bird attack in Germany, minus some very weak earthquakes in the Ruhr-area.
I blame the media.

Well, that's democracy for ya.

[Cantih]

One of these!
http://www.metro.co.uk/weird/858217-...rating-sex-toy

SEX BOMB!

[Olo401]

http://www.straitstimes.com/Breaking...ry_646210.html

Michiko Otsuki - a female worker at Tepco - has written on her blog, speaking up for her 'silent' colleagues who remained behind at the plant.
....
Ms Otsuki is one of the 800 employees evacuated from the plant on Monday, leaving 50 workers behind to battle the nuclear crisis.
On Tuesday, she addressed the growing criticisms levelled at Tepco.
'People have been flaming Tepco,' she said. 'But the staff of Tepco have refused to flee, and continue to work even at the peril of their own lives. Please stop attacking us.'
....
'As a worker at Tepco and a member of the Fukushima No. 2 reactor team, I was dealing with the crisis at the scene until yesterday (Monday).'
'In the midst of the tsunami alarm (last Friday), at 3am in the night when we couldn't even see where we going, we carried on working to restore the reactors from where we were, right by the sea, with the realisation that this could be certain death,' she said.
'The machine that cools the reactor is just by the ocean, and it was wrecked by the tsunami. Everyone worked desperately to try and restore it. Fighting fatigue and empty stomachs, we dragged ourselves back to work.
'There are many who haven't gotten in touch with their family members, but are facing the present situation and working hard.'
....

'I am writing my name down, knowing I will be abused and hurt because of this. There are people working to protect all of you, even in exchange for their own lives.
'Watching my co-workers putting their lives on the line without a second thought in this situation, I'm proud to be a member of Tepco, and a member of the team behind Fukushima No. 2 reactor.
'I hope to return to the plant and work on the restoration of the reactor.'

The original blog posting has since been taken down because of media over-hype. Oddly I hadn't heard anything about this at all until now, and the US media are the kings of hype.

[6souls]

[Suited Aces]

sorry if repost.



via http://twitter.com/W7VOA

[The Stig]

http://www.straitstimes.com/Breaking...ry_646210.html


The original blog posting has since been taken down because of media over-hype. Oddly I hadn't heard anything about this at all until now, and the US media are the kings of hype.

Not the best source but better than nothing, this came from today's morning free paper:

http://www.metro.co.uk/news/858320-j...clear-meltdown

The team – dubbed the Fukushima 50 – have been fighting to prevent a possible meltdown at the Fukushima power plant since Friday’s earthquake and the tsunami that followed it.
One of the workers yesterday told a friend he did not fear death because ‘that was his job’.
The experts were continuing in their work ‘without even thinking twice about the dangers’, said Japan’s prime minister Naoto Kan.
The team has already been exposed to high levels of radiation. Yesterday, the legal limit for exposure was raised from 100 millisieverts to 250 – five times what US nuclear technicians can be legally subjected to.
The group’s efforts were praised by Keiichi Nakagawa, from University of Tokyo Hospital’s radiology department, who said: ‘I don’t know any other way to say it but this is like suicide fighters in a war.’
The Tokyo Electric Power technicians have been striving to cool overheating reactors and storage pools.
Reports suggest there may be as many as 180 workers but they have been given their name because they operate in shifts of 50 at a time.
Two have been missing for two days following the fire at No.4 reactor.
‘These are good guys,’ said Andriy Chudinov, one of the first men to enter the Chernobyl plant following the disaster there in 1986.
‘They have had it even worse than we did. They had a tsunami first and now there are several reactors with problems. That’s a nightmare for any atomic worker.’
The plant has seen three explosions and two fires since the earthquake.

Read more: http://www.metro.co.uk/news/858320-j...#ixzz1Gs3ayzUU

[Kaslo]

like suicide fighters in a war.

I'm going to hell for what I'm thinking...

[Ragnus]

So nuclear power is the devil all of a sudden yet everyone overlooks that US Aircraft Carriers are pretty much all nuclear powered. >_>

[The Stig]

I'm going to hell for what I'm thinking...

Yeh unfortunately that's also what I thought when I read it.

[Trigun]

Dropping of the water and Japans Cabinet Secretary addressing the public.

http://www.reuters.com/news/video/st...videoChannel=1

[Osede]

Yeh unfortunately that's also what I thought when I read it.

They probably won't live any longer after this accident too. There is one engineer who is going to retire this year just have volunteered to go there to help the process. And he knew the situation there and he did message his family about his decision, because he believe he might not able to coming back home anymore.

http://media.yucasee.jp/posts/index/6987?la=0003

I only able to get from jp source, not sure about whether any english news does report this or not.

[Omniyoji]

Yeah for real. I mean she has her own bias obviously, but for the most part, she doesn't let that spill into her newscasting. Always facts first.

Yeah there is definitely something sexy about her dedication for media. She might not be physically attractive (especially w/o the makeup) but her passion makes her so.

[Yugl]

CNN: Radiation could reach U.S. Friday
What am I watching, fox news?
also inbe4 Cali panic

When did Rebecca Black become a reporter for CNN? And don't worry, if Cali won't panic, I'll panic for them. WHERE AM I GONNA SIT?!