JAPAN NEWS AND DISCUSSION
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wanderlust
Looks like Takarajima hired some marketing/ promotion company who just trawled the media for the names of 5 popular girls, then gave them this 'prestigious' 2011 Fashion Leader Awards.
Or it was just a simple 'Pick 5 names from these 6 type of 'anketto?' Choose from: Ryoko Yonekura, Nozomi Sasaki, Becky, Tomomi Itano, Rinka and Naoto Kan!
Posted in: Yonekura, Becky, Itano, Sasaki, Rinka named fashion leaders for 2011
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wanderlust
It seems that they classify jumpers (deliberate deaths) and fallers (accidental deaths) separately, but there must be some deaths where it is not really clear.
Posted in: Transport Ministry says 2011 worst on record for passengers falling onto train tracks
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wanderlust
The corium under three reactors is bubbling away somewhere underneath the reactor pressure vessels, giving off radiation so intense that neither carbon-based workers nor 'bots can approach it; requiring constant cooling by a McGiveresque system of pipes, whose failure could trigger further reaction and problems; and which constantly spring leaks of radioactive material into the environment...
That's a stable, cold shutdown?
I recommend TEPCO and Noda both consult a decent dictionary for the definition of stable, and it is not the one to do with horses!
Posted in: Noda says Fukushima nuclear plant will be stable by year's end
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wanderlust
@zichi
1~3 are the problem RVs, but with the shut-down 4 it is the used fuel pool. With nitrogen, they just pump it in, and it boils off, displacing enough hydrogen to keep potential explosions down. They can't even fill the RVs with water now to visualise the base of them, as there are so many leaks, which makes a mockery of their plans to remove the fuel.
Seems the problem is that TEPCO's definition of low-level waste (i.e. processed contaminated water) is still too high for everyone else.
Posted in: TEPCO considers dumping more tainted water into sea
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wanderlust
@zichi - because it is not a closed recycling system. Groundwater is entering the basements of the buildings, becoming mixed and contaminated with the existing water, and continually adds to the total volume of the recycle system. They cannot stop it happening.
This is what they imaginatively call, "Being close to a stable condition known as a cold shutdown!"
Posted in: TEPCO considers dumping more tainted water into sea
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wanderlust
From interviews, a lot of these 60 year old men from Japanese corporate life are unemployable in a modern work environment. They expect to have the same status as their previous job, they have minimal IT skills, they require a compliant office lady to accomplish much of their work, are quite resistant to change, and are unable/ unwilling to acquire new skills.
Far better are the 'datsusara' who quit corporate life, and tried to establish their own businesses; they at least have initiative and drive.
Posted in: Try finding a job at 60
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wanderlust
Just paint a bigger 'RESEARCH' sign on the side of the boat!
Posted in: Whaling fleet off to Antarctica with beefed up security measures
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wanderlust
@newsman - if it is the same adviser and his brother - whose family names begin with 'Y', then they have been exposed in the Western press, and one of them managed to avoid being convicted in another trial that did involve 'anti-social forces...
Posted in: Olympus top management was 'rotten': 3rd-party panel
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wanderlust
Poor ol' Mammoth, doomed to a life without a mate. They'll either be all male or all female...
Something unnatural about the whole idea of cloning a single member of a species, how will they reproduce?
Posted in: Japan, Russia see chance to clone mammoth
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wanderlust
being driven by a group of sports car aficionados...
Obviously had not learned enough about driving to understand road conditions and distance from the car in front...
Posted in: Speeding blamed for pileup involving 8 Ferraris, 1 Lamborghini
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wanderlust
@zichi - to follow up your post - Three months later, however, when TEPCO's cover-up of cracked equipment and other damage was exposed, Araki and Minami resigned. As a result, a second meeting to negotiate the details of the Rokkasho withdrawal never took place.
Then TEPCO Chairman Araki, who is currently an advisor to the utility, refused to be interviewed about the case, saying that his "memories (about it) are vague." Former TEPCO President Minami said that he "has no recollection" of the 2002 meeting, but added, "We were talking with METI about whether to withdraw from the reprocessing project, and I discussed it with Araki and (then Vice President and current Chairman) Katsumata."
Katsumata also refrained from saying whether the meeting had taken place, but said, "We had about five management meetings within our company about whether or not to go forth with reprocessing." Meanwhile, former METI official Hirose said, "I absolutely have no recollection."
Posted in: Study shows deeper meltdown than thought at Fukushima nuclear reactor
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wanderlust
The trains are basically computer driven until approaching stations, then the drivers take over once the speed drop below around 80 kph, to control the arrival position on the platform.
Expect to see a lot of drivers cutting the grass with scissors on JR premises, their motivation punishment...
Posted in: 8 bullet train drivers used cell phones while driving: JR Tokai
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wanderlust
It' a good job Reactor 4 was off-line at the time. That's the one that was built with a faulty reactor vessel, due to a collapse during the process to remove welding stress. Built by Babcock-Hitachi at Kure-Hiroshima, it cost more than 250 million dollars and that last step of the process took more than 30 months to do. The vessel was misshapen. The vessel should have been scrapped under nuclear regulations, but it would have bankrupted the company, so the engineer Mitsuhiko Tanaka was paid 3 million yen back in 1974 to fix it, and received an award. TEPCO was not informed about it, as the rep sent to check it was wined and dined, golfed and hot-springed, but had no idea anyway about how it was made.
According to USC experts, the vessels deformation could have led to local cracking in the welds. Thirty- seven years later, that reactor pressure vessel would have been the key defense protecting the core of Fukushima’s No. 4 reactor.
After Chernobyl, Tanaka says he went to the Trade Ministry to report the cover-up he’d been involved in more than a decade earlier. The government refused to investigate and Hitachi denied his accusations, he said.
“They said, if Hitachi says they didn’t do it, then there’s no problem,” Tanaka said. “Companies don’t always tell the truth.”
Such is the integrity of the nuclear village...
Posted in: Study shows deeper meltdown than thought at Fukushima nuclear reactor
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wanderlust
"Bottle to throttle" is the unofficial name for the time period before a flight when you should abstain from alcohol. The Military enforce it, along with the better airlines at usually 12 hours. FAR 91.17 is 8 hours.
Posted in: ANA flight canceled after pilot exceeds safe alcohol limit
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wanderlust
The "nuclear village" will start circling the wagons, ready to defend their position. The head of the Japan Nucelar Safety Commission, Haruki Madarame, aka "Detarame", specialised academically in promoting the social acceptance of nuclear power.
Expect more grants and brown envelopes to flow from the utilities to key opinion leaders and local bureaucrats and politicians, and more attempts to influence local opinion, as happened in Kyushu and more recently in Hokkaido.
Posted in: Fukushima governor wants all 10 nuclear reactors in prefecture scrapped
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wanderlust
@"exportexpert" - In truth the fuel melted through the bottom all the way and is now melting its way through the earths core eventually to emerge at what ever point is straight through the earth from Fukushima, which luckily might be just south of africa.
LOL - once it reaches the centre of the earth, if it even manages to get that far, it won't go anywhere else, other than being subject to dilution and circulation magma flows in the inner cores. Gravity at every point on this planet leads to the centre of the earth...
Posted in: Study shows deeper meltdown than thought at Fukushima nuclear reactor
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wanderlust
Kudos to him. He and his collaborator Paula Wagner certainly know customer relations; and how to "press the flesh" and publicise his films, though his last effort Knight and Day was a flop worldwide. Seems to have decided to keep his beliefs to himself now, and just act.
Posted in: Cruising
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wanderlust
More guesses from TEPCO.
These simulations rely on data input, but most of the gauges in the reactors were destroyed, and direct visualization of the RV is not possible; carbon-based workers would not survive more than a few seconds of radiation that has at times measured 500 Seiverts/ hour in the basements. Robots are also useless, their camera CCDs are swamped by the gamma radiation, while the chips may also be fried.
Validation of the simulation software/ programme is also required. Who knows quality of these simulations?
Posted in: Study shows deeper meltdown than thought at Fukushima nuclear reactor
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wanderlust
A turn up for the books. Usually they jail innocent people, misfile evidence that would have shown they were not guilty, force confessions, mass produce depositions, and falsify evidence to maintain their high conviction rate...
J-pol are losing it...
Posted in: Evidence misfiled for 12 years may have allowed killer to walk free
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wanderlust
Didn't they do this to avoid the excessive shakken charges levied on cars after three years?
Posted in: Tokyo Motor Show looks to green cars to drive recovery