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Thread is about the various issues surrounding Japan in the aftermath of the recent earthquake. Don't bring the shit side of the internet to the thread, and post with the realization that this thread is very important, and very real, to your fellow members. Do not post speculative and unconfirmed news you saw on TV or anywhere else. Generally the more dramatic it sounds the less likely it's true. | ||
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Caphe
Vietnam10817 Posts
What is the chance of Japan have serious problem with their nuclear reator(I avoid using meltdown here) and if such occur, will it have much effect on people in Tokyo? | ||
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EchoZ
Japan5041 Posts
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Ingruz
Italy380 Posts
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Shuffleus
Australia764 Posts
Every second in the video is 1 hour, extending for a whole week leading up to and following the 9.0 quake. | ||
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Rus_Brain
Russian Federation1894 Posts
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e4e5nf3
Canada599 Posts
On March 15 2011 17:22 Caphe wrote: Ok, I am officially worry now after being calm for a long time. My GF is working in Tokyo, rightnow, she is asking me if she needs to leave Japan because there is a chance of Nuclear "problem". I need some expert advice here. What is the chance of Japan have serious problem with their nuclear reator(I avoid using meltdown here) and if such occur, will it have much effect on people in Tokyo? Not to belittle your post, but it's kind of scary if people in Japan have to rely on a foreign progaming site to get information about possible dangers of a Japanese nuclear plant meltdown instead of the local government. | ||
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Zidane
United States1692 Posts
On March 15 2011 17:32 MooiSh wrote: Couldn't find this posted anywhere previously, Amazing time-lapse showing the frequency of the earthquakes. Every Second in the video is 1 hour, extending for a whole week leading up to and following the 9.0 quake. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xylDxj6-9dY watching that makes me feel really bad for japan, you can see them just sitting there helpless along that fault line  | ||
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Electric.Jesus
Germany755 Posts
On March 15 2011 17:32 MooiSh wrote: Couldn't find this posted anywhere previously, Amazing time-lapse showing the frequency of the earthquakes. Every Second in the video is 1 hour, extending for a whole week leading up to and following the 9.0 quake. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xylDxj6-9dY WTF? Video blocked in Germany due to UMG content? Also, I read that it is, as of yet, uncertain whether containment at Fukushima Daini (reactor 2) withstood the explosion. I really hope it did. | ||
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Lythox
Netherlands161 Posts
On March 15 2011 17:22 Caphe wrote: Ok, I am officially worry now after being calm for a long time. My GF is working in Tokyo, rightnow, she is asking me if she needs to leave Japan because there is a chance of Nuclear "problem". I need some expert advice here. What is the chance of Japan have serious problem with their nuclear reator(I avoid using meltdown here) and if such occur, will it have much effect on people in Tokyo? Ask her to leave imo. I don't know how important being there is for her, but if it's not life changing I'd really not want to risk her dying there. Safety is more important than a few dollars and this is one if the biggest disasters in years. | ||
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Grettin
42411 Posts
On March 15 2011 17:22 Caphe wrote: Ok, I am officially worry now after being calm for a long time. My GF is working in Tokyo, rightnow, she is asking me if she needs to leave Japan because there is a chance of Nuclear "problem". I need some expert advice here. What is the chance of Japan have serious problem with their nuclear reator(I avoid using meltdown here) and if such occur, will it have much effect on people in Tokyo? Media is saying that they have calculated the radiation level higher than it normally is in Tokyo. But i'd say wait till it gets worse/Tokyo is giving a warning to the people living there. I wouldn't move right know anywhere if i were your GF. As long as he stays mostly inside and does work inside, there isn't that much of a risk to get sick. The chances of japan having a nuclear disaster with similar consequences that Ukraine had with Chernobyl, i really cant say since im not anywhere near expert. It looks bad to my eyes right know. Lots of mistakes done already with the coolings, lots of fires going on etc. I hope your gf is going to be okay and everything gets solved the way its best. | ||
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Astans
205 Posts
On March 15 2011 17:22 Caphe wrote: Ok, I am officially worry now after being calm for a long time. My GF is working in Tokyo, rightnow, she is asking me if she needs to leave Japan because there is a chance of Nuclear "problem". I need some expert advice here. What is the chance of Japan have serious problem with their nuclear reator(I avoid using meltdown here) and if such occur, will it have much effect on people in Tokyo? Latest news don't look quite so badly. No need to leave right now, but of course things can change. | ||
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Matoo-
Canada1397 Posts
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ellerina
Philippines452 Posts
On March 15 2011 17:42 Matoo- wrote: Received a phone message (I'm in Beijing) starting with "BBC FLASHNEWS" and saying that people in "asian countries" should take precautions such as staying indoors, applying betadine on neck, and that "radiation may hit Phillipines" starting from 4pm (which is half an hour ago). It doesn't match with any of the info I've read up to now and it's ridden with language mistakes so I guess it's just a fear-mongering hoax... fucking stupid. Yeah, it's a hoax. Some schools and universities here actually suspended school yesterday due to that text without verifying first, jeez. | ||
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Badboyrune
Sweden2247 Posts
On March 15 2011 17:34 e4e5nf3 wrote: Not to belittle your post, but it's kind of scary if people in Japan have to rely on a foreign progaming site to get information about possible dangers of a Japanese nuclear plant meltdown instead of the local government. To be fair I guess it's pretty hard to determine what information of reliable unless you have decent understanding of how a nuclear power plant works. Most media sources are reporting different things, many of them probably exaggerating or discussing worst case scenarios. The Japanese government on the other hand are probably downplaying the issue and not releasing all information available. Asking for someone more knowledgeable to access the situation in this case is not really a bad idea, rather a quite sound one. Albeit on a gaming site. | ||
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Zidane
United States1692 Posts
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Manifesto7
Osaka27174 Posts
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Manifesto7
Osaka27174 Posts
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Grettin
42411 Posts
On March 15 2011 17:48 Badboyrune wrote: To be fair I guess it's pretty hard to determine what information of reliable unless you have decent understanding of how a nuclear power plant works. Most media sources are reporting different things, many of them probably exaggerating or discussing worst case scenarios. The Japanese government on the other hand are probably downplaying the issue and not releasing all information available. Asking for someone more knowledgeable to access the situation in this case is not really a bad idea, rather a quite sound one. Albeit on a gaming site. TEPCO isn't telling much about the situation at all. Last press conference they were just apologizing all the time instead of answering to the questions people asked. Thats why the goverment is getting frustrated also. (cursing in the media because of it) They are enlargening the safe-area or whatever little by little all the time, which could mean bad if you think about it. There is raising radiation levels eventhough media is saying that everything is under control. So yeah, i'd say its pretty damn hard to determine what information is reliable. Especially when the people who knows best aren't telling shit about it. | ||
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dump
Japan514 Posts
Someone at my university orchestra today asked me "when is the radiation reaching here?" x_x There's the pro-nuke lobby exaggerating the good news (someone apparently said that the radiation becomes harmless as soon as it touches the air??), and then there's the anti-nuke lobby along with doomsday freaks and sensationalist press exaggerating the bad news. They need to realize that the panic caused by their ridiculous pranks and exploitations are risking people's lives as well as the economy of an entire fucking region. | ||
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Duravi
United States1205 Posts
The peoples who stream are the members of Citizens' Nuclear Information Center(CNIC) which works to create nuclear free world. Those people are just as bad as the media fear-mongering about fallout here in the US. Nuclear power is much cleaner, and safer than any other kind of energy except solar and hydroelectric and those are not cost efficient nor do they have the capacity to come anywhere close to meeting demand. Any chemical or nuclear engineer will tell you most of the scenarios organizations like these and the media are projecting are completely bogus. It is because of fear-mongering like this that the US has not built a nuclear power plant in forever and is still polluting the environment as badly as we were 10 years ago. The Japanese people have shown great character throughout this disaster and I have no doubt they will show the same character in their recovery not letting something like this stop them from building nuclear power plants and being on the cutting edge of progress as they have been for the last 20-30 years. | ||
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