Japan plant rating raised to level 7

[Penguin]

Originally Posted by GoldenRivet

Like i said in that other thread a few weeks ago that i was basically laughed out of - a large chunk of the region will be uninhabitable for many years to come.

some years from now, we will likely be seeing images like this of that area coming out of Japan.

very disturbing.

There is one big difference between the Chernobyl region and Fukushima: the population density. It was relatively easy to make a no-go area around Pripjat, not to forget Volincy in Belarus http://www.science-connections.com/b...Paper_1821.pdf - since these areas consist mostly of forest and agricultural land.

This map gives a good overview:

[DarkFish]

Glad I'm out of the country. The first and maybe the only time I'm in Japan, and immediately an earthquake, a tsunami and a nuclear crisis hit the country Seems I attract disasters or something...

[Skybird]

Originally Posted by DarkFish

Glad I'm out of the country. The first and maybe the only time I'm in Japan, and immediately an earthquake, a tsunami and a nuclear crisis hit the country Seems I attract disasters or something...

Reminds me of a quote by Peter Falk in that famous crime parody movie, I just don't get the title right now, many famous detectives meet in a villa where their host is getting assassinated and demands them to solve the case. Falk tells his darling (translated from the German version):

"Trusting you...? Honey, last time I trusted a woman was in 1940, and one week later the Germans marched into Paris."

Originally Posted by Skybird

Reminds me of a quote by Peter Falk in that famous crime parody movie, I just don't get the title right now, many famous detectives meet in a villa where their host is getting assassinated and demands them to solve the case. Falk tells his darling (translated from the German version):

"Trusting you...? Honey, last time I trusted a woman was in 1940, and one week later the Germans marched into Paris."

How hot was the woman, and was she in Paris? Not the first time a beautiful woman has been cause for war.

[Platapus]

Originally Posted by Rilder

How hot was the woman, and was she in Paris? Not the first time a beautiful woman has been cause for war.

It was Murder by Death

The line is "The last time that I trusted a dame was in Paris in 1940. She said she was going out to get a bottle of wine. Two hours later, the Germans marched into France."

One of my favourite lines!

[Ducimus]

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[Oberon]

Well...damn...

That's about all I can say really. I hoped that they would have been able to get it all under control but it seems they've still got a lot of work ahead of them. It's a different kind of disaster to Chernobyl. There's no big reactor explosion, but it would seem that it's knocking on the Chernobyl level of seriousness.

Looks like we're going to have a new Zone of Alienation.

Does this mean that the next STALKER game will be set in Fukushima? I can already foresee half a dozen animes based around an alien invasion in Fukushima or something like that. Still...at least the people around the NPP were a bit more clued up on what was happening and got out a bit earlier than Chernobyl, there was no repeats of the Rainbow bridge.

[tater]

This is a purely political move.

Technically, even to be a level 4 on INES, one person must have died from radiation.

Impact on people and environment
Minor release of radioactive material unlikely to result in implementation of planned countermeasures other than local food controls.
At least one death from radiation.

ZERO people have died from radiation. No one has received a dose that will show a statistically detectable increase in cancer, even (some might, but there are so few exposed at that level that it cannot be proved to be beyond random cancers (basically the "50" (really 180))).

A 5 requires several deaths.

Technically it's not even a 4. I think minus arbitrary death counts (meaning completely abandoning the standard resulting in the "7" they claim), it's probably a 5-6.

Meanwhile, there are still 28,000 dead—most all from the tsunami.

If all 28,000 dead were wrongly attributed to Fukushima (over 4X Chernobyl), nuclear would still be safer than solar, lol.

[Sledgehammer427]

Originally Posted by Ducimus

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Just started playing Shadow of Chernobyl last night with the complete 2009 mod going. I missed it sooo much.

And good points Tater, The way the USSR handled Chernobyl was a trainwreck at best. I don't see that kind of response at the Japanese NPP, I think its been well-handled, given the situation.