Japan: 9.0 Earthquake-Tsunami-Nuclear Reactor Developments #2

[ScorpRising]

Levels of radiation outside the plant have now fallen from 1,000 millisieverts an hour to 600-800. A single dose of 1,000 millisieverts can cause temporary radiation sickness.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-pacific-12755739

Funny - yesterdays reports topped off at 300-400 milli... Now they've dropped to DOUBLE that?

 

[tehcloser]

Kool-aid drinking pill poppers? Really???

 

[Wise Old Owl]

CNN has a Lt. in the Marines on the phone and he just keeps saying that he can't comment on the nuclear situation. What's that tell ya?

 

[Wise Old Owl]

Boy is this guy picking his words very very very carefully.

I don't think we'll get much news today at all - the media blackout curtain is slowly closing.................

 

[ScorpRising]

Kool-aid drinking pill poppers? Really???

Nah, teh, that's what "they" think...

 

[tehcloser]

'They've lost control': French claim Japan is hiding full scale of nuclear disaster as emergency teams desperately fire water cannon at reactors from long range

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...le-nuclear-disaster-hidden.html#ixzz1GlreUcvL

 

[Wise Old Owl]

CNN just said that 50 miles from Fukushima that radiation is turning up in the tap water.

This is NOT GOOD!!!!

 

[passionflower]

Just heard USMC Marine on and he dodged allot of questions, even about GEAR to wear to help. Allot of closed mouths. IMO

 

[tehcloser]

Nah, teh, that's what "they" think...

lol,ahhhhhh. It's early , give me a minute...to get me head on straight. :floorlaugh:

 

[tehcloser]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...ench-claim-scale-nuclear-disaster-hidden.html

 

[Wise Old Owl]

WOW! The emperor addressed the people. When did that happen? Probably after I went to bed.

 

[ScorpRising]

I'm just wishing for one recent honest report. No double-talk, no hours old info, no "Nothing to see here" statements...

Wish in one hand poop in the other... see which one fills up first... I guess...

 

[Wise Old Owl]

teh - THAT is one scary pic. It seems both 3 and 4 are just a mangled mess. What happened to those "rooftop" spent fuel pools? Plus 5 and 6 are way off the to right of that picture and we aren't getting any pics of those.

 

[tehcloser]

(Reuters) - Foreign bankers are fleeing Tokyo as Japan's nuclear crisis worsens, scrambling for commercial and charter flights out of the country and into other major cities in the region.

http://www.cnbc.com/id/42105046

 

[tehcloser]

Tokyo (CNN) -- Japan's beloved emperor dramatically took to the national TV airwaves Wednesday and buoyed the spirits of his disaster-stricken citizens, an extraordinary address before a nation grappling with the aftermath of an epic earthquake and a devastating tsunami and growing fears of a nuclear catastrophe.
"I truly hope the victims of the disaster never give up hope, take care of themselves, and live strong for tomorrow," said the dignified and understated Emperor Akihito, a calm and poignant oration delivered from the Imperial Palace.

http://edition.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/asiapcf/03/16/japan.disaster/index.html

 

[tehcloser]

A group of 180 workers rotate shifts working at the plant in teams of 50 men. The men have been nicknamed the "Fukushima Fifty."

"We have cracks now, cracks in the containment vessels...and if those cracks grow or if there's an explosion, we're talking a full blown Chernobyl, something beyond Chernobyl," Kaku said.

http://abcnews.go.com/International...ation-levels-halt-fukushima/story?id=13146516

 

[tk71texas]

just waking up to the daily news.....i see it hasn't gotten any better. AND Obama is in Rio......awesome!!! <<<<< insert sarcasm here

 

[Wise Old Owl]

just waking up to the daily news.....i see it hasn't gotten any better. AND Obama is in Rio......awesome!!! <<<<< insert sarcasm here

He's in Rio? WTH for? It frosts my cookies that he has yet to make any kind of statment to his people. Are we to "ASSUME" that since he isn't worried then neither should we?

:furious:

 

[tehcloser]

Obama is in Rio?

 

[SuziQ]

And where is Hillary? We haven't heard from her either have we?