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Fukushima update: 300 tons of radioactive material pouring into Pacific

Discussion in 'Sports and News' started by Songbird, Aug 7, 2013.

  1. Songbird

    Songbird Well-Known Member

    It'll take 40 years and $11 billion to clean it up, apparently.

    The 11 billion seems arbitrary to the 40 years.

    http://rt.com/news/japan-fukushima-nuclear-disaster-164/

    When do the 3-headed Springfield fish start appearing?
     
  2. Dick Whitman

    Dick Whitman Well-Known Member

    According to today's NYT, though, the levels aren't hazardous.
     
  3. Songbird

    Songbird Well-Known Member

    Didn't really read that in the story:

    http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/08/world/asia/fukushima-nuclear-plant-radiation-leaks.html?hp

    Unless you read another story. The plan to freeze the area is intriguing. Should be good photos of that one day.
     
  4. Dick Whitman

    Dick Whitman Well-Known Member

    Yeah, I actually did. Yours is shorter.

    http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/07/world/asia/leaks-into-pacific-persist-at-japan-nuclear-plant.html?ref=todayspaper

    "Despite increasing alarm among regulators in recent weeks, the plant’s operator says it does not yet pose a health threat because levels of the contaminants are still very low in the open ocean, beyond the plant’s man-made harbor — a contention even critics support."
     
  5. Songbird

    Songbird Well-Known Member

    Very good. Thanks for that link.
     
  6. Armchair_QB

    Armchair_QB Well-Known Member

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  7. heyabbott

    heyabbott Well-Known Member

  8. TrooperBari

    TrooperBari Well-Known Member

    Anything TEPCO says -- even whether the sun rose today -- should be taken with a Mount Fuji-sized grain of salt. It continues to rake in profits by doing as little as possible with Fukushima, biding its time until it gets nationalized and freed from the responsibility of actually paying for the pain and suffering stemming from its chronic mismanagement.

    http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-08-07/japan-s-nuclear-nightmare.html
     
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