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Offline roscoe

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Fukushima Quake
« on: October 25, 2013, 11:34:12 PM »
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  • There has been a 7.2 at Fukushima. Apparently there is  damage to SFP 4. A Jones is saying the Big Wave is going to hit.

    This could be the big one.  :smoke-pot:
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    Fukushima Quake
    « Reply #1 on: October 25, 2013, 11:47:14 PM »
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  • I think youare refering to the one that was earlier. Here is the latest on Fukushima today;

     Tetsuya Hayashi went to Fukushima to take a job at ground zero of the worst nuclear disaster since Chernobyl. He lasted less than two weeks.

    Hayashi, 41, says he was recruited for a job monitoring the radiation exposure of workers leaving the plant in the summer of 2012. Instead, when he turned up for work, he was handed off through a web of contractors and assigned, to his surprise, to one of Fukushima's hottest radiation zones.

    He was told he would have to wear an oxygen tank and a double-layer protective suit. Even then, his handlers told him, the radiation would be so high it could burn through his annual exposure limit in just under an hour.

    "I felt cheated and entrapped," Hayashi said. "I had not agreed to any of this."

    When Hayashi took his grievances to a firm on the next rung up the ladder of Fukushima contractors, he says he was fired. He filed a complaint but has not received any response from labor regulators for more than a year. All the eight companies involved, including embattled plant operator Tokyo Electric Power Co, declined to comment or could not be reached for comment on his case.

    Out of work, Hayashi found a second job at Fukushima, this time building a concrete base for tanks to hold spent fuel rods. His new employer skimmed almost a third of his wages - about $1,500 a month - and paid him the rest in cash in brown paper envelopes, he says. Reuters reviewed docuмents related to Hayashi's complaint, including pay envelopes and bank statements.

    Hayashi's hard times are not unusual in the estimated $150-billion effort to dismantle the Fukushima reactors and clean up the neighboring areas, a Reuters examination found.

    http://news.yahoo.com/special-report-help-wanted-fukushima-low-pay-high-050626106--sector.html


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    Fukushima Quake
    « Reply #2 on: October 25, 2013, 11:53:52 PM »
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  • The Big Wave isn't expected to reach the West Coast this time, only Japan.
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    « Reply #3 on: October 26, 2013, 12:07:38 AM »
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  • I was wrong. Here is some information;

    An earthquake of magnitude 7.3 struck early Saturday morning off Japan's east coast, the U.S. Geological Survey said. Japan's emergency agencies declared a tsunami warning for the region that includes the crippled Fukushima nuclear site.

    Japan's Meteorological Agency issued a 1-meter (3-foot) tsunami warning for a long stretch of Japan's northeastern coast. It put the magnitude of the quake at 7.1. The U.S. Pacific Tsunami Warning Center did not post warnings for the rest of the Pacific.

    There were no immediate reports of damage on land. Japanese television images of harbors showed calm waters.

    The quake hit at 2:10 a.m. Saturday Tokyo time (1710 GMT) about 290 kilometers (170 miles) off Fukushima. Japanese broadcaster NHK reported that Tokyo Electric Power Co., the operator of the Fukushima plant, ordered workers near the coast to move to higher ground. Japanese news service Kyodo said there were no signs of trouble at the plant.

    The tremor was felt in Tokyo, some 300 miles (480 kilometers) away.

    http://news.yahoo.com/7-3-magnitude-quake-rocks-japan-174342033.html