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SushiSake3
"Fukushima Prefecture and to require dealers to test their crushed stone for radioactive levels."
RadioactivITY levels?
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SushiSake3
nandaka (sorry, damn iPhone autocorrect :-)
......as I was saying, I seriously doubt most other folk on this thread who have been slamming TEPCO have been quite as diligent as you, let alone even been aware of where their energy comes from and which company(s) supply it and have done so for years without any major problems.
I certainly haven't been, and despite this disaster, I've still got it in me to have more than a bit of gratitude for TEPCO staff for keeping my life powered for the last decade in Japan.
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SushiSake3
Mandala, thanks for yur commenta and apologies for any offense, especially if as you say you have been minimizing your energy use.
I just seriously doubt most other folk on this thread who have been slamming TE
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SushiSake3
I'm also wondering ....where do all TEPCO's detractors think the energy that helped power Japan's postwar recovery came from, as well as the power used until recently to run large parts of Japan, its industry, and perhaps the lights in all of our offices for the last 50 years?
Oh, that's right - more than likely TEPCO, that company with the inept management team and poor safety record.
I read something once about not biting the hand that feeds you, but that's just a cliche, isn't it....
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SushiSake3
Nandaka - "Dale Berry. Drop it. He doesn't read others' posts and keeps repeating his own position, so there's little point"
Good try. I've read them all.
No, I just get irritated when folks who have used the energy source without question or complaint for years when times are good suddenly do a near total 180 flip and start slamming it when disaster hits.
Why weren't you complaining about the grave risks of nuclear energy prior to 3-11?
Oh, that's right - very likely because you - just like the rest of us - were pretty happy to use it and the more the merrier as long as the plant wasn't anywhere near your residence, no?
Pretty poor double standards if you ask me, which you didn't.
"Let's get back to the astounding discovery that scientists have made after studying 24,000 aftershocks, ie earthquakes might be a real risk to poor battered Fukushima NPP"
And your point, assuming you have one, is?
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SushiSake3
ExportExpert: “But you continue to bang on about japan's safe nuclear record which obviously you are mistaken, I can recall at least 3 prior incidents involving nuclear accidents (if that’s what you call them) since i have been here (and my memory is shot to hell), admitidly no one died but they were still worrying and dangerous.”
Three. No one died. Were they really that serious? I also remember some accidents here, including a burst water pipe in one reactor that killed 2 workers.
I also remember a Chinese coal mine accident last year that killed 200, and the NZ Pike River mine disaster last year – 39 or so men killed.
As you admitted – no one died in the accidents you remember…..
That’s kind of the point……
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SushiSake3
I’m kind of curious what the reaction of all of TEPCO’s detractors on this thread would have if a size 9 quake hit, say Tokyo, and brought a large chunk of the capital’s buildings down.
Would people suddenly start decrying Japanese engineering standards and claiming across the board that “Japanese engineers should have designed buildings to withstand a mag. 9 quake” and “Japanese shouldn’t have built such a big city in such a quake-prone nation,” etc, etc.??
I’m confident we’d hear much the same complaints as we are hearing now.
I think we need to realize some pretty basic facts, so basic they barely need stating:
Japan has a lot of earthquakes. A lot of people live here and they all need energy. Coal is out of the question due to the country’s small size, and nuclear energy supplies abundant with relatively low pollution output.
Accidents happen. That’s part of life, it’s part of business.
Japan’s nuclear industry has supplied power to Japan for half a century with no major accidents – until now.
So, do we just forget that half century of power supply?
No, of course not.
I’m not saying TEPCPO’s blameless - of course they could and should have tightened their safety standards – as could every energy supply industry – but let’s face it – if that tsunami had been a bit smaller, that power board may not have shorted and the plant may well have been happily chugging along now and none of us would be having this conversation.
Real tough luck, but it’s time to pick up the pieces and move on.
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SushiSake3
Cleo-sama, not really.
That would have been planned.
Earthquakes aren't.
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SushiSake3
Ok folks, perhaps I should have defined 'accidents' better. ;-)
Meltdowns or partial meltdowns and accidents that involve large numbers of deaths and or pollution.
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SushiSake3
Samantha - "The people living nearby and people using power from these plants expected the company(ies) involved to adhere to recognized safety guidelines and take seriously advice and/or warnings from professionals in that field. It's like my water supply. I pay for it and expect the water that flows from my tap to be fit to drink. I expect the water company to be doing their job and ensure it is safe. That is their responsibility."
You're right. And you very likely have been taking advantage of the benefits of nuclear energy for some time, assuming you live in Japan.
Just like the rest of us Japan residents have been.
But please also remember how many major nuclear accidents there have been in Japan since nuclear technology was introduced in the 1960s.
ZERO. 0.
No nuclear accidents in half a century.
Call me biased but I've got a degree in statistics and I'd say that's a pretty damn impressive record, far better than the safety record of the petroleum, coal and mining industries, which, perhaps surprisingly, no large mass of people is really screaming should be shut down.
And let's face it: all of us would still be quite readily taking advantage of the benefits of nuclear energy - and threads like this would not even exist - if a size 9 quake hadn't hit
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SushiSake3
Export - "Lets find the most unstable seismically active place in the world and build and extremely badly designed facility to house the most dangerous hazrdous substances known to mankind and then stand back and let a huge disaster destroy the lives of 1,000s and contaminate everyones food chain."
SOME QUESTIONS:
1/ Do Japanese have a choice of countries in which to build nuclear power plants to generate electricity for people living in Japan? I didn't know that.
2/ Japanese nuclear power plants are some of the best in the world for tech, core cap tech, etc. Can Japan get better nuclear tech elsewhere? Where?
3/ Who - exactly - 'stood back' and let a huge disaster destroy the lives of 1,000s?
If you're going to complain, at least come up with some realistic alternatives.
Coal? No, way too dirty considering Japan's tiny land mass.
Geothermal? Big capacity constraints.
Wind and solar? Working on it.
Got any other ideas?
It seems pretty clear to me that Japan has little choice but to continue creating and using nuclear energy, which let's face if, has had a near spotless record in Japan since the first plant was commissioned circa 1966, and that millions of people living here - very likely including yourself - have had next to no problem living with and using for the last half a century
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SushiSake3
Funny how so many people take the electricity supplied by nuclear power plants for granted....until there's an accident.
Then the knives come out and suddenly the benefits of nuclear energy - the same benefits many of us have been unquestionably enjoying and taking for granted for years - become 'bad.'
If it's so bad, why weren't the masses complaining about nucler plants built on the shaky Japanese isles before?
Sunny day energy users.
Let's face it - there's risks associated with all types of energy production. No one type is perfectly safe and it's unwise to expect it will be, however reading JT since 3-11, it seems many people actually thought nuclear energy was completely safe.
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SushiSake3
What's 'massive radiation'?
Is this a commonly used phrase?
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SushiSake3
I strongly agree with Republicans: it's an OUTRAGE that Obams is working with his communist pals to weaken America to the point where we can only destroy the world 180 times.
Is he really American? Now I know why he bowed so much to foreign leaders - he wants to turn the U.S. Into Europe!
We need MORE defense spending and we need it now!
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SushiSake3
Alphaape - thanks for your interesting perspective.
"I am a religious person, and lean towards the right on a lot of issues, but I don't think that this should be a major focus for the GOP. It is good to stand for a morality, but this comes down to an individual choice, just like if you are going to accept a particular religion. I do understand the church's point on this issue however. Why should they have to go against their tenants."
I am a former religious person. Re: the church going against their own tenets, I now see it like this (illustration only):
I start my own religion, however, I cannot prove the deity or any of the concepts, etc. are actually real. I then start making some laws, for argument's sake: My (imagined and unproveable) deity says wearing shoes is "bad." Many serial shoe wearers then begin to claim they have a problem with me and my deity's law. I subsequently become 'concerned," claim that my "religious freedoms are being attacked" by shoe wearers, and when I am in a situatiion where it is a good idea to wear shoes, I protest loudly that I am being forced to go against my religious tenets and subsequenly invoke my constitutional rights.
In a situation like this, if I were of wise mind and relatively unbiased, I would admit that MY tenets were unreasonable.
However, if I were religious, there would probably be smoke coming out of my ears.
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SushiSake3
SushiSake4 - "Why are you not engaging with the Democrats and discussing how to create jobs?"
Skipbeat - "It's election year and both the Democrats and Republicans are not business owners so they can't create jobs. Their main job is passing laws, allocating spending, and applying taxes."
Are you serious?? Obama and the Democrats have fronted up with jobs bill after jobs bill.
The GOP has shot every single one of them down.
It is one of the government's roles to stimulate the economy through creating and passing business-friendly jobs bills.
You didn't honestly think you were going to get away with such a cheap brush off of a critically important election year issue, did you?
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SushiSake3
Skipbeat - "Would you rather have a job and let the government take over your life?"
"Take over my life."?
Sorry, were you joking when you wrote that?
It's very much in the same vein as one of the funnier GOP talking points last year, which had GOP people almost everywhere claiming Obama was "ramming [healthcare] down our throats."
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SushiSake3
Conservatives have really been taken for a ride - the GOP elite have had conservative voters parroting for months now about how critical it is to protect the 'job creators.'
Let's face facts:
1/ Bush cut taxes. Unemployment went up, not down.
2/ in most economies, small businesses make up usually around 95% of all businesses and employment.
The GOP elite has - so far - succeeded in stifling any serious debate among conservatives about raising taxes on the rich, who - let's face it - earn most of their profits from the middle class.
GOP & 1% Elite: 1 Conservatives: 0
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SushiSake3
Conservative Americans need to be asking their elected officials and representatives: what the hell are you doing talking about birth control?
Why are you not engaging with the Democrafs and discussing how to create jobs?
It would be too easy to think the GOP appears to be temporarily sidetracking from discussing jobs and the economy, but let's face it: the GOP doesn't give a toss how many Americans livelihoods get thrown onto the scrap heap.
The GOP's primary motivator is to protect the rich at all costs.
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Sailwind - "American's number one concern is Big Government ever increasing intrusion into their daily lives. American's number one issue that they are debating and discussing is the economy and jobs."
I don't doubt you.
However, it seems the GOP and conservatives' number one concern is to do absolutely nothing about the number one issue.
The GOP's not even debating jobs.
Wouldn't you think that at this point, this should be Americans' number one concern?
Really, in a sensible America, how does "Big Government's ever increasing intrusion into their daily lives" trump jobs and the economy?
Obama and the Dems have tabled one jobs initiative after another only to have the GOP refuse to even hold a debate to discuss them.
If I was American, this would be my number one concern.
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