5th largest e-quake of century

Post by **Therac-25** » Wed Mar 30, 2011 7:23 pm

shadd_ wrote:Interesting chart that can help put radiation exposure into perspective.

http://www.theblaze.com/wp-content/uplo ... -chart.jpg

Why the hell'd they cut the picture in half?

http://xkcd.com/radiation/

Post by **Therac-25** » Thu Mar 31, 2011 5:26 pm

http://allthingsnuclear.org/post/421319 ... nation-far

This is reporting that the levels of soil contamination up to 40km away is ridiculously high. The amount found in villages that far away from Japan's plant is 2.5 times the lower limit of the red zone on this map.

Post by **HM-PuFFNSTuFF** » Thu Mar 31, 2011 7:11 pm

Yeah it can be characterized as being much more like Chernobyl now than Three Mile Island. Looks like it's only going to get worse before it gets better too.

Post by **HM-PuFFNSTuFF** » Fri Apr 01, 2011 4:42 pm

Japan has announced that the nuclear evacuation will be 'long term'.

Apparently Stephen forgot to relay news of super Japan decontaminate tech to the proper authorities.

Post by **xer0s** » Fri Apr 01, 2011 9:07 pm

lol and bobby pins

Post by **Therac-25** » Sat Apr 02, 2011 5:39 am

http://www.latimes.com/news/science/la- ... 0026.story

Yeah, when they said the high radiation levels were an error? They were wrong.

Engineers speculated that the radiation surges may be coming from a partial meltdown of the fuel core of reactor No. 1. It appears that small segments of the melted fuel rods in that reactor are undergoing what is known as "localized criticality," emitting brief flashes of heat and radiation.

I guess the big question here is -- how is this going to impact manga and anime production?

Post by **U4EA** » Sun Apr 03, 2011 5:53 am

My brother works for Subaru and I was talking to him about this earlier. This is going to majorly impact global operations for them, they had 2 months worth of stock on hand but the logistics of getting this stuff out is a bit more complex now. Not to mention that production has not managed to resume just yet. To reiterate the obvious, the effects of this on the country's economy is going to be devastating at best. Screw manga, we need our rice mobilez O_O

Post by **.ZER0.** » Tue Apr 05, 2011 1:59 pm

Memphis wrote:news: NUCLEAR FALLOUT HITS UK.
I've started collecting bottlecaps.

Post by **obsidian** » Fri Apr 08, 2011 4:10 pm

Photos:

http://www.theatlantic.com/infocus/2011 ... er/100041/

Post by **Tsakali** » Fri Apr 08, 2011 4:48 pm

Post by **Therac-25** » Mon Apr 11, 2011 9:19 pm

Getting worse, not better.

http://english.kyodonews.jp/news/2011/04/84721.html

The Nuclear Safety Commission of Japan released a preliminary calculation Monday saying that the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant had been releasing up to 10,000 terabecquerels of radioactive materials per hour at some point after a massive quake and tsunami hit northeastern Japan on March 11.

The disclosure prompted the government to consider raising the accident's severity level to 7, the worst on an international scale, from the current 5, government sources said. The level 7 on the International Nuclear Event Scale has only been applied to the 1986 Chernobyl catastrophe.

The current provisional evaluation of 5 is at the same level as the Three Mile Island accident in the United States in 1979.

According to an evaluation by the INES, level 7 accidents correspond with a release into the external environment radioactive materials equal to more than tens of thousands terabecquerels of radioactive iodine 131. One terabecquerel equals 1 trillion becquerels.

Going back in time a month is enlightening.

http://www.businessinsider.com/japan-re ... isk-2011-3

I repeat, there was and will *not* be any significant release of radioactivity from the damaged Japanese reactors.

By "significant" I mean a level of radiation of more than what you would receive on - say - a long distance flight, or drinking a glass of beer that comes from certain areas with high levels of natural background radiation.

To quote the War Nerd, the people at the top are just as dumb as you are, just meaner and greedier.

Post by **xer0s** » Mon Apr 11, 2011 9:44 pm

This sucks. I really wanted to visit Japan. And yes, I know it's still there, but it's not the same and probably won't be for a while.

I know this sounds selfish...

Post by **bitWISE** » Mon Apr 11, 2011 9:45 pm

Kyodo, y u no link source?

The last thing I read on the topic of Chernobyl was that only the emergency workers died and those who later developed issues did so because they consumed iodine 131 laden food.

Post by **EtUL** » Mon Apr 11, 2011 9:51 pm

xer0s wrote:This sucks. I really wanted to visit Japan. And yes, I know it's still there, but it's not the same and probably won't be for a while.

I know this sounds selfish...

Go on...

Post by **Captain** » Mon Apr 11, 2011 9:55 pm

xer0s wrote:This sucks. I really wanted to visit Japan. And yes, I know it's still there, but it's not the same and probably won't be for a while.

I know this sounds selfish...

xer0s wrote:I was really wanting to visit Japan in the next couple years. Now it just won't be the same...

Shut up already you boring cunt.

Post by **xer0s** » Mon Apr 11, 2011 9:59 pm

You guys are so mean...

Post by **EtUL** » Mon Apr 11, 2011 10:01 pm

I asked for you to go on...

Post by **GONNAFISTYA** » Mon Apr 11, 2011 10:05 pm

????

WTF is this? Why is everyone bashing xer0s for being so stupid? That's my job...and as xer0s will attest, the only reason I bash his stupidity is because I hate America.

Why do you all hate America?

Post by **xer0s** » Mon Apr 11, 2011 10:10 pm

Wait, I told you the reason you bash me is because you hate America? When did I say that? I never said that...

Post by **GONNAFISTYA** » Mon Apr 11, 2011 10:11 pm

And xer0s, you're talking about a country that was nuked - twice - and came out stronger than ever. You'll just have to delay your vacation plans to their country for a few years. I've mentioned the "Lizard Brain" to you before and you really should stop using it as you are now in your sociopathic desire to visit Japan.

And I don't think calling you a sociopath is out of bounds as you clearly only care about whether or not the streets are clean of destroyed buildings, upturned cars and freighter ships sitting in parking lots when you get there.

Post by **GONNAFISTYA** » Mon Apr 11, 2011 10:13 pm

xer0s wrote:Wait, I told you the reason you bash me is because you hate America? When did I say that? I never said that...

No. But everytime I bash you in a sustained way you create a thread telling everyone how I'm such a meany poopy face against Murricuh.

Post by **xer0s** » Mon Apr 11, 2011 10:15 pm

I've never done that...

Post by **Tsakali** » Tue Apr 12, 2011 7:02 pm

Captain Mazda wrote:
xer0s wrote:This sucks. I really wanted to visit Japan. And yes, I know it's still there, but it's not the same and probably won't be for a while.

I know this sounds selfish...

xer0s wrote:I was really wanting to visit Japan in the next couple years. Now it just won't be the same...
Shut up already you boring cunt.

plus i call BS

Post by **xer0s** » Tue Apr 12, 2011 7:16 pm

No BS. Already booked my alternative trip to Jamaica. Not exactly the same caliber, but it'll be fun...

Post by **EtUL** » Tue Apr 12, 2011 8:21 pm

hahahahahahahahahhahahahahahahhaha

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