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    The big one

    It's still safe.

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      The big one

      Yesterday safe. Today not...

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        They are starting a very delicate operation at the moment. There's a pool in the top floor of the buildings where all the used fuel rods are stored. Smart place to store them, huh, above the reactor core. Anyway, nobody can go into the building because it is too radioactive. Robots also can't survive the radioactivity. So they have built a huge crane over the top of the building to try and fish the fuel rods out of the rubble. Hopefully they won't drop any.

        The next time you read that "nobody died from Fukushima", think about this article in a scientific journal. Sweden has keeps extremely good records of their population. It's almost scary how good their records are. Anyway, they found that cancer rates are increased in areas of the country with higher Chernobyl fallout. They found an 11% increase in cancer rates for every 100 kBq/m2 of Caesium-137 fallout. Here is a map of fallout in Europe by kBq/m2. And here is Japan.

        How many people will get cancer and die from the fallout? Nobody knows. The nuclear industry are arseholes of the highest order. They know that nobody can prove that a case of cancer came from fallout, and that it takes decades of statistical studies before anything is shown. Because lots of people get cancer. So nobody died due to Fukushima, and only 31 people were killed by Chernobyl according to the IAEA. And due to some perverse treaty dating from the cold war, the IAEA is allowed to vet and censor any work the World Health Organisation (WHO) carries out concerning nuclear exposure. It's essentially a gagging order.

        It's one of the great cover-ups of our time. Nuclear power is so unbelievably stupid.

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          The big one

          There's been a 7.3 earthquake off the coast of Fukushima



          NHK World with excellent simultaneous English translation here.

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            The big one

            Tsunami has been observed off of the coast

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              The good news is that it is only about three metres, whereas those from the big quake were from 10-15

              The NHK coverage is an absolute model for providing actual news, important advice, and urging people to help each other.

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                NHK reporting that the waves are moving in. The photo they have is at the opening of the breakwater of the harbor in Iwaki, and you can really see the water moving in to the harbor quickly.

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                  NHK says that a cooling system at Fukushima has failed.

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                    The big one

                    That was at Daini (12 km from Daichi, the plant where the catastrophic failure was), and the system has now resumed.

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                      The big one

                      It looks like this is nowhere near as bad as it could have been, thankfully.

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                        Toshiba is liquidating Nu-Gen, which rather leaves the UK's nuclear strategy, what's left of it anyway, in tatters.

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