SnowJapan Admin SnowJapan 178 Posted September 12, 2011 SnowJapan Admin Share Posted September 12, 2011 Yes you are right. We will never forget all of this and as important as it all has been, I think that six months is a good point to unpin this. The thread is and always will be here and if people post in it, which anyone of course is welcome to, it will be near the top just like other topics. Link to post Share on other sites
Metabo Oyaji 71 Posted September 12, 2011 Share Posted September 12, 2011 Seems as good a time as any. Link to post Share on other sites
7-11 2 Posted September 12, 2011 Share Posted September 12, 2011 Good move. Good timing. Link to post Share on other sites
RobBright 35 Posted September 12, 2011 Share Posted September 12, 2011 Yep, time to move on but not forget. Link to post Share on other sites
TheOrange 0 Posted September 13, 2011 Share Posted September 13, 2011 I doubt many of us will be able to forget. The ongoing long term nature of 'Fukushima' won't let it easily be forgotten either. Link to post Share on other sites
Ocean11 0 Posted September 13, 2011 Share Posted September 13, 2011 What a horrible gaffe for a politician to make - saying that a place where nobody can go because they would die looks, well, dead. There were all these ex-residents, brimming with hope for the future, and that bastard had to go and crush their dreams! He should have been bright and jovial and made light of the risks such as the radiation on his clothes. Oh, wait a minute, he did. The problem with these pols is that they lack the courage to say "Come here and say that" when hounded by that miserable pouty son of the Governor of Tokyo who hasn't let a single policy statement escape his lips in ten years. Link to post Share on other sites
grungy-gonads 54 Posted September 13, 2011 Share Posted September 13, 2011 He should have been more tactful. Link to post Share on other sites
Ocean11 0 Posted September 13, 2011 Share Posted September 13, 2011 Originally Posted By: grungy-gonads He should have been more tactful. "Your weeds are doing great! I've never seen such tall yomogi!" Link to post Share on other sites
grungy-gonads 54 Posted September 13, 2011 Share Posted September 13, 2011 Yeah I guess that the idea of being 'tactful' or decent would go way right over your head, Ocean11.... Link to post Share on other sites
SKI 15 Posted September 13, 2011 Share Posted September 13, 2011 中部電力が、夏に引き続き今冬も家庭や企業に対し、節電を要請する方向で検討に入ったことが１２日分かった。 Electric supply companies looking to limit things in winter as per this summer? Link to post Share on other sites
SKI 15 Posted September 13, 2011 Share Posted September 13, 2011 Oops Japanese not appearing correctly? Link to post Share on other sites
SnowJapan Admin SnowJapan 178 Posted September 13, 2011 SnowJapan Admin Share Posted September 13, 2011 Yes seems to be a problem - the new Forums will clear this up. Not long now! Link to post Share on other sites
klingon 10 Posted September 21, 2011 Share Posted September 21, 2011 日本語 ＯＫ！ Link to post Share on other sites
EspariGus 0 Posted September 29, 2011 Share Posted September 29, 2011 Was horrified to see it all happen in March. And then very touched by how the Japanese dealt with it. Respect, for sure. Hope that things are getting sorted with some sort of speed. I will be visiting this winter! Link to post Share on other sites
IIIII 2 Posted October 1, 2011 Share Posted October 1, 2011 The temperature at the base of the No. 2 reactor at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant fell below 100 C for the first time since the March disaster, according to Tokyo Electric Power Co. TEPCO said the temperature was 99.4 C at 5 p.m. Wednesday. This means TEPCO has brought the temperatures at the base of the Nos. 1 to 3 reactors at the crippled plant to below 100 C, meeting one of the two conditions for the reactors to be in a stable cooling state, known as cold shutdown. Compared with the Nos. 1 and 3 reactors, it took more time for TEPCO to cool the No. 2 reactor. On Sept. 14, the utility started increasing the amount of water injected into the reactor gradually from three to four tons per hour. The company also introduced a new method of spraying water from overhead like a shower. As a result, the amount of water injected into the No. 2 reactor reached 10 tons per hour by Monday. Achieving cold shutdown is a major milestone in the Step 2 phase of the government's road map to contain the nuclear crisis triggered by the March 11 earthquake and tsunami. The government aims to complete Step 2 within the year. Achieving this will allow the government to move ahead with its study on whether it should allow evacuees to return home. In addition to bringing the temperatures below 100 C, TEPCO needs to curb the leakage of radioactive substances from the plant significantly--another condition of cold shutdown. Link to post Share on other sites
IIIII 2 Posted October 1, 2011 Share Posted October 1, 2011 I see they have lifted the exclusion zone orders for areas 20-30km from Fukushima plant as well.... Link to post Share on other sites
Tubby Beaver 209 Posted October 1, 2011 Share Posted October 1, 2011 yeah.......do you fancy moving there? Link to post Share on other sites
klingon 10 Posted October 1, 2011 Share Posted October 1, 2011 I don't think anyone will be "moving there". But when your home of however many generations is there, it might put a different slant on the issue. Link to post Share on other sites
Tubby Beaver 209 Posted October 1, 2011 Share Posted October 1, 2011 Couldn't see me moving back in the same situation Link to post Share on other sites
klingon 10 Posted October 1, 2011 Share Posted October 1, 2011 Cool. But you are not in the situation. Link to post Share on other sites
grungy-gonads 54 Posted October 1, 2011 Share Posted October 1, 2011 I wouldn't either. But hey, yeah, it's not my situation. But come on lets have more and more "positive" news coming out of this. It's about time. Link to post Share on other sites
Tubby Beaver 209 Posted October 1, 2011 Share Posted October 1, 2011 Cool. But you are not in the situation. and? what r u getting a bee in your bonnet about? Link to post Share on other sites
klingon 10 Posted October 1, 2011 Share Posted October 1, 2011 No 'bee in my bonnet'..... Link to post Share on other sites
sanjo 2 Posted October 2, 2011 Share Posted October 2, 2011 Let's plutonium! ----- Plutonium believed to have been released from the crippled Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant after the March 11 earthquake has been detected outside the power plant site for the first time, it has been learned. One of the spots found contaminated with the hazardous substance is 45 kilometers from the plant. A map released by the Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology Ministry on Friday shows plutonium was found in soil samples taken from a total of six locations in Futabamachi, Namiemachi and Iitatemura, Fukushima Prefecture. The map is based on a survey conducted by the ministry to determine how much soil around the power plant contains plutonium and strontium, which is also a hazardous radioactive substance. However, a ministry official said because amounts of both substances were very small, decontamination efforts should focus on radioactive cesium. The survey was conducted in June and July by sampling soil at 100 locations around the plant. The ministry compared the data obtained from the survey with data obtained in surveys conducted from fiscal 1999 to fiscal 2008 to measure the residual effects of radioactive fallout on Japan from nuclear atmospheric tests conducted during the Cold War. The six spots where plutonium was detected are all in the no-entry zone, within a 20-kilometer radius of the plant, or in the expanded evacuation zone outside the no-entry zone, which may be exposed to more than 20 millisieverts of radioactive substances within a year from the accident. Four becquerels per square meter of plutonium-238 was detected at one site in Namiemachi in the latest survey. This is about half of the maximum quantity of 8 becquerels detected in the 1999-2008 surveys. A preliminary ministry calculation shows that the level of plutonium contamination in Namiemachi will remain at 0.027 millisieverts for about 50 years. The other five spots were contaminated with 0.55 to 2.3 becquerels of plutonium. The farthest spot from the plant where plutonium was detected was in Iitatemura, about 45 kilometers from the plant. Meanwhile, strontium-89 and strontium-90, both believed to have been released from the power plant, were detected at 45 spots. The maximum quantity of strontium-90, whose half-life of about 29 years is much longer than the approximately 50-day half-life of strontium-89, was 5,700 becquerels per square meter detected in Futabamachi. This is six times that of the maximum quantity of 950 becquerels found before the Fukushima plant accident. Link to post Share on other sites
grungy-gonads 54 Posted October 2, 2011 Share Posted October 2, 2011 Blinded by numbers once again. (Unless it's the plutonium!) Link to post Share on other sites
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