[Zippy]

Originally Posted by Tom.

What I'm finding sick is Americans saying its payback for Peal Harbour.

I don't think they are.

[MTVN]

Originally Posted by Zippy

I don't think they are.

Some of them are apparently, it's been trending on Twitter and I read an article saying it was happening on Facebook too.

[Pyramid*]

Originally Posted by MTVN

Some of them are apparently, it's been trending on Twitter and I read an article saying it was happening on Facebook too.

Yep - I recall seeing it starting to gain speed around Sunday or thereabouts.

[Tom.]

Originally Posted by Zippy

I don't think they are.

http://twitter.com/#search?q=japan%20pearl%20harbor

[Pyramid*]

Originally Posted by James

Unfortunately, there is a lot of childishness and irresponsibility on the Internet. People think they can say anything because they are effectively anonymous and are never (or rarely at most) held to account for anything they say.

Very true.... and to confirm exactly that....

Originally Posted by Tom.

http://twitter.com/#search?q=japan%20pearl%20harbor

Some of the comments must come from completely warped minds - or sheer idiocy. May these people who leave such messages never have to experience anything remotely like like - they will rue the day.

Update from BBC
2022: The head of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), Yukiya Amano, has said he wants more timely and detailed information about developments at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant from the Japanese authorities. "The problem is very complicated, we do not have all the details of the information so what we can do is limited," he told a news conference in Vienna, according to Reuters

If communications are disrupted - it's going to be very difficult to get info.

Its the poor (brave and dedicated) souls still working in the Plants that are to be truly commended. God knows what hell they may possibly face from a health perspective.

[Zippy]

Originally Posted by Tom.

http://twitter.com/#search?q=japan%20pearl%20harbor

personally I don't take a few anonymous idiots on the internet seriously

they certainly don't represent American opinion generally

[James]

Originally Posted by Tom.

There might have been something up with the plant and the earthquake just made those problems worse and 'tipped' it over the edge so to speak.

What I'm finding sick is Americans saying its payback for Peal Harbour. Wasn't that the atomic bomb that killed 100 times as many as was killed at PH? They're slightly forgetting that small fact

Unfortunately, there is a lot of childishness and irresponsibility on the Internet. People think they can say anything because they are effectively anonymous and are never (or rarely at most) held to account for anything they say.

[Shaun]

That's a pretty vague article. The only specific example of covering-up information it alludes to is:

He says in 2003 reactors across the country had to be shut down after it emerged the Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO) had hid accidents.

"They had to shut down 17 plants in 2003 because they'd been falsifying the records about what had been happening at them," he said.

"Now the accidents weren't of a major nature. They weren't anything like what's going on in Fukushima.

I think maybe there's confusion in the area. Perhaps the line is being blurred between a lack of hard information (due to the hectic nature of the damage) and people trying to get all of this information. It just seems a bit disrespectful to accuse the government of lying (ohay recurring theme tonight ) - why would they? The explosions have been well documented; international media is at an all-time high - it would be foolish to try and hide information.

[Pyramid*]

Originally Posted by Shaun

That's a pretty vague article. The only specific example of covering-up information it alludes to is:



I think maybe there's confusion in the area. Perhaps the line is being blurred between a lack of hard information (due to the hectic nature of the damage) and people trying to get all of this information. It just seems a bit disrespectful to accuse the government of lying (ohay recurring theme tonight ) - why would they? The explosions have been well documented; international media is at an all-time high - it would be foolish to try and hide information.

It was one of only a great many that can be found - was as an example only.

The Japanese (and lots of other governments around the world too for that matter) don't have good history in truth telling.

Time will tell.

[Shaun]

Yeah I guess. I suppose time will tell, I just think it's a bit presumptuous to make their govt. look like they've done something wrong when it could all well just be an unavoidable disaster.

[Tom.]

Originally Posted by Shaun

Yeah I guess. I suppose time will tell, I just think it's a bit presumptuous to make their govt. look like they've done something wrong when it could all well just be an unavoidable disaster.

Thats ITN for you, they overanalyse everything.

[James]

I have been checking this site for updates about the nuclear plant. http://world-nuclear-news.org/default.aspx

It seems to sum up the official information coming out quite well.

[Benjamin]

Two crew members on an Australian search and rescue helicopter showed low levels of radiation contamination after they were forced to make an emergency landing in Fukushima on Wednesday, AFP news agency reports. Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard was quoted as saying the radiation was detected on their boots. They landed about 12 miles (20km) outside the exclusion zone surrounding the plant.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-12307698

[Josy]

A spike in radiation levels at Japan's stricken Fukushima nuclear plant forces workers to suspend their operations

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-pacific-12755739

[Benjamin]

An earthquake hits eastern Japan, with the force strong enough to sway buildings in Tokyo

More details on that new quake. No tsunami warning was immediately issued, but the Japan Meteorological Agency said a change in sea levels was possible, the AFP reports.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-12307698

[Novo]

0422: The Japan Meteorological Agency said it was a 6.0 magnitude quake in the Pacific just off Chiba prefecture.

[Pyramid*]

0847: The UK's Daily Telegraph has a piece based on Wikileaks cables saying Japan was warned by the IAEA more than two years ago that its nuclear power plants were not capable of withstanding powerful earthquakes.

Now what was that being mentioned earlier about, " it's a bit presumptuous to make their govt. look like they've done something wrong when it could all well just be an unavoidable disaster".
To the contrary, if this report is correct - they may well have done something wrong - in not taking any corrective action 2 years ago - as far as the situ now in nuclear plants are concerned.

[Kerry]

Only saw the news briefly earlier but it looked like it was snowing? It's like Mother Nature is taking the piss in Japan

[Benjamin]

Originally Posted by ~Kerry~

Only saw the news briefly earlier but it looked like it was snowing? It's like Mother Nature is taking the piss in Japan

Yeah, it started snowing yesterday.

[Kerry]

Originally Posted by ukturtle

Yeah, it started snowing yesterday.

Fecks sake. Like theres not enough hindering them.

I was fuming earlier as some rescue workers from our region were heading there to help but have been turned away due to 'red tape'. They literally had to sit in the airport and watch these people on the TV's suffer and knowing they could help but got told to go home

[Benjamin]

[Kerry]

It really is like theres someone 'up there' thinking "Ooooh what can I do next???"

[BB_Eye]

I really hope everyone in Japan can get back on their feet sooner rather than later. This just seems to be going on and on.

And what is everybody's thoughts on the Fukushima Daiichi power plant? I am fairly anti-nuclear, so naturally these sorts of things scare the crap out of me and maybe I am being too alarmist in the scheme of things. It's just that nobody has come out and said exactly what the plan is to successfully stablise the reactors and they are running out of options. They're now even scared to send helicoptors to pour seawater into the vessels, because the people inside would be exposed.

I saw a pretty harrowing report on the news of hospital patients stranded within the evacuation zone and doctors risking their lives to stay there with them in the fallout. But they can't obtain the medical supplies they need because everybody is too scared enter the area.

[Benjamin]

Originally Posted by BB_Eye

I really hope everyone in Japan can get back on their feet sooner rather than later. This just seems to be going on and on.

And what is everybody's thoughts on the Fukushima Daiichi power plant? I am fairly anti-nuclear, so naturally these sorts of things scare the crap out of me and maybe I am being too alarmist in the scheme of things. It's just that nobody has come out and said exactly what the plan is to successfully stablise the reactors and they are running out of options. They're now even scared to send helicoptors to pour seawater into the vessels, because the people inside would be exposed.

I saw a pretty harrowing report on the news of hospital patients stranded within the evacuation zone and doctors risking their lives to stay there with them in the fallout. But they can't obtain the medical supplies they need because everybody is too scared enter the area.

I don't believe it's a case of too scared to enter, I think people are not allowed to enter.

[BB_Eye]

Originally Posted by ukturtle

I don't believe it's a case of too scared to enter, I think people are not allowed to enter.

Yes sorry