27 Signs That Japan's Nuclear Crisis Is Much Worse...

[Sully99]

How much of a threat is the nuclear crisis in Japan? That question is on the minds of millions of people around the globe tonight. Unfortunately, the Japanese government and the mainstream media have both been doing their best to downplay this crisis. Even though there have been massive explosions at the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear facility, authorities in Japan have still been very stingy with information and they keep insisting that the situation is under control. But the situation is not under control. In fact, it just seems to get worse with each passing day.

#1 Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan is urging all people living within 30 kilometers of the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear facility to stay indoors.

#2 Andre-Claude Lacoste, the head of France's Nuclear Safety Authority, says that the containment vessel surrounding the No. 2 reactor at Japan's Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear complex is "no longer sealed".

#3 Radiation levels in Tokyo are already 10 times above normal levels.

#4 Reuters is reporting that some residents of Tokyo are already starting to flee the city.

#5 Radiation levels in one city north of Tokyo, Utsunomiya, were recently reported to be 33 times above normal levels.

#6 Radiation levels in the city of Saitama have been reported to be 40 times above normal levels.

#7 According to Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan, the "possibility of further radioactive leakage is heightening."

#8 The Japanese government is admitting that radiation levels near the Fukushima Dai-ichi complex are very harmful to human health.

#9 According to the World Nuclear Association, exposure to over 100 millisieverts of radiation a year can lead to cancer. At this point the level of radiation being measured right outside the number 4 reactor at the Fukushima Dai-ichi complex is 400 millisieverts per hour.

#10 A U.S. Navy crew that was assisting in relief efforts was exposed to a month’s worth of nuclear radiation in just a single hour.

#11 According to the U.S. Navy, low levels of radiation have been detected at their bases in Yokosuka and Atsugi.

#12 The USS Ronald Reagan recently detected significant levels of radiation 100 miles off the Japanese coast.

#13 The operator of the Fukushima Dai-ichi complex has pulled out 750 of the 800 workers that were working at the facility.

#14 The French embassy in Tokyo is advising French citizens to leave the city.

#15 The German embassy in Tokyo is advising all German citizens to leave the country entirely.

#16 German technology company SAP is evacuating their offices in Tokyo.

#17 Austria has announced that it is moving its embassy from Tokyo to Osaka due to fears about the radiation.

#18 Finland is urging all of their citizens to leave Tokyo.

#19 The Czech military is sending planes to Japan specifically to evacuate the Czech Philharmonic Orchestra.

#20 Air China is canceling many flights to Tokyo.

#21 The Chinese Embassy has announced that it will be evacuating all Chinese citizens from the Miyagi, Fukushima, Ibaraki and Iwate prefectures.

#22 Russia is making preparations to evacuate civilians and military units from the Kuril Islands.

#23 Physicist Frank von Hippel recently told the New York Times the following about this disaster: "It’s way past Three Mile Island already".

#24 The president of France's nuclear safety authority says that this crisis is now almost as bad as Chernobyl was....

"It's clear we are at Level 6, that's to say we're at a level in between what happened at Three Mile Island and Chernobyl."

#25 There have been reports of extremely high radiation at another nuclear facility in Japan. It has been reported that at the Onagawa nuclear plant radiation that is 700 times the normal level was detected at one point.

#26 One anonymous senior nuclear industry executive told The Times Of India that Japanese power industry managers are "basically in a full-scale panic" and that "they don't know what to do".

#27 It is also being reported that there were over 600,000 spent fuel rods stored at the Fukushima Dai-ichi complex. Most of these rods were apparently stored near the top of the 6 reactor buildings. There have already been major explosions at three of those buildings. It is now feared that there is now nothing to prevent many of these spent fuel rods from releasing radiation into the atmosphere. That is really, really bad news.

There are links for each point in the original article

http://www.lewrockwell.com/rep2/nuclear-cr...apan-worse.html

 

[SPH73]

Deliberately alarmist. He may back his work but his tone still sounds like that of a Jesus freak eagerly awaiting the end of the World.

 

[Rafinesque]

These nuclear plants were already at or beyond the life they were designed for (40 years), and there has been some question if they have been maintained properly, even before the tsunami...

 

[rad140]

These nuclear plants were already at or beyond the life they were designed for (40 years), and there has been some question if they have been maintained properly, even before the tsunami...

Even so, I think this article is being a little alarmist. I'm not trying to downplay what's going on in Japan right now, but half of these points reiterate basically the same thing: various countries are urging their citizens in Japan to either leave the country entirely or stay out of Tokyo, etc. Well duh. These countries are looking for their citizens' best interests, and if the situation doesn't seem to be getting better, of course they should advise anyone to take the safest plan of action.

And as for this being worse than Three Mile Island, well yeah. Anyone who can read a Wikipedia article can say that.

What do you think is going to get more visitors and attention right now? A "Japan is a-ok and doing everything it can during this crisis" or "Japan is going to explode...we're all going to DIE !!!!!111!!". By posting this article here to share, which one do you think you've chose?

 

[DeadLocked]

Deliberately alarmist. He may back his work but his tone still sounds like that of a Jesus freak eagerly awaiting the end of the World.

This, basically he's taken 5 facts that we know and made them a little more place-specific to make it sound scarier.

 

[Fear Zoa]

Ehh I already saw this coming, Nuclear problems always seem to get worse......we just don't know how to deal with them.....

 

[overlord00]

#14 The French embassy in Tokyo is advising French citizens to leave the city.

#15 The German embassy in Tokyo is advising all German citizens to leave the country entirely.

#16 German technology company SAP is evacuating their offices in Tokyo.

#17 Austria has announced that it is moving its embassy from Tokyo to Osaka due to fears about the radiation.

#18 Finland is urging all of their citizens to leave Tokyo.

#19 The Czech military is sending planes to Japan specifically to evacuate the Czech Philharmonic Orchestra.

#20 Air China is canceling many flights to Tokyo.

#21 The Chinese Embassy has announced that it will be evacuating all Chinese citizens from the Miyagi, Fukushima, Ibaraki and Iwate prefectures.

#22 Russia is making preparations to evacuate civilians and military units from the Kuril Islands.

fucking really? other nations dont want to keep their own safe? any sign of danger and they will be pulled out... no matter what is or isnt happening... the nations want to be safe... anything could actually be happening... this proves nothing


EDIT:
I'd also like to go on record and say this; the WHOLE of Japan will explode in 3 days... tell the world because they need to know. yeah, and of course what i say is reliable... im from the internet.

 

[CarbonX13]

All of the facts he stated are basic actions issued via common sense.

Evacuation of those within 30km of the area? Does it look like the Japanese want more people to die in this disaster?
Significant radiation 100 miles away? Obviously, consider the magnitude of this thing.
International embassies evacuating citizens? Another obvious one, they want them to be safe!
Cancellation of flights to Japan? Why would they want their nationals entering the country in a nuclear crisis?

 

[Splych]

the list of countries recommending citizens of their own countries to evacuate . . .
the list was going on and on and on .

 

[twiztidsinz]

Can't do enough quotes to respond, so I'll just pick a few of the first 10.

#3 Radiation levels in Tokyo are already 10 times above normal levels.Normal radiation levels are minute... minute x 10 = slightly less minute.

#5 Radiation levels in one city north of Tokyo, Utsunomiya, were recently reported to be 33 times above normal levels.3 x 'slightly less minute' is still low.

#6 Radiation levels in the city of Saitama have been reported to be 40 times above normal levels.4 x 'slightly less minute' is still low... and aren't point supposed to be different?
I could come up with 348750239487502398572345 reasons that this is stupid, but it's just one.

#7 According to Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan, the "possibility of further radioactive leakage is heightening."Well.. things don't magically get better.
They're essentially trying to piss out a blaze until the pumps get back online.

QUOTE(Sully99 @ Mar 19 2011, 11:22 PM)

#8 The Japanese government is admitting that radiation levels near the Fukushima Dai-ichi complex are very harmful to human health.

Uh... duh?
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QUOTE(Sully99 @ Mar 19 2011, 11:22 PM)

#9 According to the World Nuclear Association, exposure to over 100 millisieverts of radiation a year can lead to cancer. At this point the level of radiation being measured right outside the number 4 reactor at the Fukushima Dai-ichi complex is 400 millisieverts per hour.

Shocking? It's a damaged NUCLEAR REACTOR... Of course there's going to be radiation there in high levels.

 

[Evo.lve]

^^ One of the most intelligent posts in this topic so far. ^^

 

[vhunter]

Funny, I found an article that states the opposite.

http://genkienglish.net/teaching/japan-ear...e-foreign-media

Anyways I personally would listen to people actually in Japan.

 

[Midna]

This is bullshit fear mongering. These points are essentially repeated over and over again with different numbers, people, locations, counties, organizations, etc:

Radiation is some large number times normal in specified place! 40 times normal is still not dangerously high.

Such and such is warning people to stay away! Yeah, I'd stay away no matter what the crisis is. It's not like the countries carefully evaluated whether it was safe to go there, they just know there's a problem, and it's best avoided for the time being.

Someone said bad things are happening! They're being precautious, or stating the obvious. Buzzwords like 'admitted' are used to make us think that they're reluctently letting on to a small part of the dangerous truth

Radiation was found somewhere! There's radiatuion everywhere, and if it's not at harmful levels, it doesn't even need to be mentioned.

This article, unsurprisingly, doesn't mention that they've stabilised a few of the reactors already.

 

[nintendoom]

you forgot the Delayed production of 3DS games

 

[Evo.lve]

you forgot the Delayed production of 3DS games

Because labor and production is so much cheaper in Japan than it is in China?

 

[Fear Zoa]

you forgot the Delayed production of 3DS games

Because labor and production is so much cheaper in Japan than it is in China?

Perhaps they meant the actual development.....thats sure to take a hit...hard to sit there making games when half your country is in ruin

 

[Evo.lve]

I'd think NOW is a bit late to be working on games that are going to come out in a week or a month, wouldn't you?

 

[Fear Zoa]

I'd think NOW is a bit late to be working on games that are going to come out in a week or a month, wouldn't you?

Never said which 3DS games.....there are other non launch window games that although haven't been announced ...are probably being hurt by this

 

[Evo.lve]

Non-launch games, or games that are not supposed to come out within the next month, are not that much of a priority. Delayed development and/or production because of the tsunami/earthquake/nuclear crisis/whatever disaster you want to call it won't affect anything.