Japan Earthquake

In Japan, they build apartments with radioactive materials.




"Fukushima evacuees in radioactive housing

by: Rick Wallace, Tokyo correspondent
From: The Australian
January 18, 2012 12:00AM

NUCLEAR evacuees from Fukushima suffered another blow this week when it was revealed the apartment where they were re-housed was built with radioactive cement.

The scandal was uncovered when a dosimeter issued to a high school student living in the complex showed she had been exposed to 1.6 millisieverts of radiation in just three months.

Further tests showed the first-floor apartments in the building in Nihonmatsu, in Fukushima Prefecture, had radiation levels that would expose a person to about 10 millisieverts a year, well above the normal safe limit...................................................."

"Radioactive gravel finds way to school
Hunt is on for other shipments from quarry in evacuation zone
Kyodo

FUKUSHIMA — Radiation-contaminated gravel shipped from a quarry in the evacuation zone around the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant found its way to an elementary school building as well as roads and pathways around houses, sources said Wednesday.

The gravel went into concrete that was used to make an elementary school in Nihonmatsu, Fukushima Prefecture, more resistant to earthquakes. The area where the gravel was used had a radiation reading of 0.1 to 0.2 microsieverts per hour................................................................"

^ Dude maybe give the anti japan nuclear mocking a rest...? No need to seem so gleeful about their misfortunes. Posting news in that tone is just a cheapshot, in bad taste...

Bltizo said:

^ Dude maybe give the anti japan nuclear mocking a rest...? No need to seem so gleeful about their misfortunes. Posting news in that tone is just a cheapshot, in bad taste...

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well, sympathy for what they've been through

but if its China instead, many people will rejoice and smug over evil Chinese built radioactive apartments, just saying (insert evil emoticon, blink hint at popeye)

they seem to have some post-disaster problems of Fukushima floating around the press, demonstrations, public outcry over partial investigation, etc

Bltizo said:

^ Dude maybe give the anti japan nuclear mocking a rest...? No need to seem so gleeful about their misfortunes. Posting news in that tone is just a cheapshot, in bad taste...

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Not gleeful at all. Just very concerned with Japan's irresponsible behavior and cover-ups of the whole thing. From deliberately dumping radioactive materials into the Pacific to telling everyone their ubiquitous exports are safe when the truth is probably they simply don't know.
A country as rich as Japan should have poured a whole lot more into fixing this.

Instead of worrying about Japan being 'mocked', maybe it's better to worry about the effects worldwide.

Apparently they are predicting a big one of around magnitude 10 near Tokyo in the next few years.

Schumacher said:

Not gleeful at all. Just very concerned with Japan's irresponsible behavior and cover-ups of the whole thing. From deliberately dumping radioactive materials into the Pacific to telling everyone their ubiquitous exports are safe when the truth is probably they simply don't know.
A country as rich as Japan should have poured a whole lot more into fixing this.

Instead of worrying about Japan being 'mocked', maybe it's better to worry about the effects worldwide.

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Agreed. Can anyone imagine the outcry if some contractor in the US was found to be building with radioactive materials? Or if some US supermarket was selling radioactive food?

While I agree that Japan's cover up is irresponsible, I think that they are doing it because they cannot afford not to. Already Japan is spending massive amounts of money to import food and energy. What would happen if it can't even exploit the natural resources that it has? Not only would that be a massive drain on the public treasury, it would also be a death blow to local Japanese industries that exploit these resources.

There is a lesson in all this. It doesn't matter if Japan had been the world's #2 economy for the past 3 decades, or the #3 economy currently, the size of their country dictates their vulnerability to large-scale disasters such as this earthquake.

Economic indices don't tell the whole story.

It's not over folks. According to this, Tokyo is now covered in radioactivity.

[video=vimeo;38995781]http://vimeo.com/38995781[/video]

Japan is notorious in unfair treatment of foreign citizens, but I'm really surprised they did it to its own citizens this time.

I'm not really surprised. If you watch the documentary, The Cove, dolphin meat, which is cheaper and easy to get, is passed off as whale meat to unsuspecting Japanese consumers. Dolphin meat is notoriously high in toxic levels of mercury.

CottageLV said:

Japan is notorious in unfair treatment of foreign citizens, but I'm really surprised they did it to its own citizens this time.

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I laugh to tears man, but I guess it's too black a joke.