Fears for Fukushima as powerful typhoon strikes Japan

[yuiyoshida]

[another_liberal]

1. Radioactive Caesium 137 is water soluble . . .

The really bad news is that radioactive Caesium 137 is water soluble.

[FBaggins]

2. And why would there be "fears for Fukushima"?

300,000 people being evacuated for the storm and significant damage anticipated ... but someone wants to focus on Fukushima?

What exactly is it that you're worried could happen?

[yuiyoshida]

4. Only Reuters can answer that question..

Since its their video and there is very little commentary.

[FBaggins]

6. One video is from Russia Times and the other is NHK

Both appear to show flooding damage entirely unrelated to the nuclear plant.

[yuiyoshida]

7. Than they hold the answer to you inquiry

I do not live in Japan, so I do not know.

[FBaggins]

8. There's no evidence that either of them said that either.

The title is from a youtube video.

You might, for instance, provide a link to a news source?

[yuiyoshida]

9. Are you saying the images are false?

Look, we are SUPPOSED to post the VIDEO with its TITLE on it. I DID not make this video. You have a problem with it, go to youtube and complain to the poster! Get the hell off my back!

[FBaggins]

10. The images have nothing to do with Fukushima

You provided no link to a news source

You have a problem with it, go to youtube and complain to the poster

You must be new here. If you post a thread for conversation, replies to the point of the OP will come to you. You can't say "take it up with someone else". If you don't want to see replied to the substance (sic) of the OP... don't post.

[yuiyoshida]

11. I am done with you..

Go post your own video.

[FBaggins]

12. Skin that thin won't last long.

Once you've been here more than a week or two you'll probably pick that up.

Don't post something if you don't want it responded to.

[yuiyoshida]

13. ARE YOU DONE YET?

[FBaggins]

14. Oh... I didn't realize that you had a compulsive need to get that last word

Even when you have nothing to say.

[yuiyoshida]

15. Okay..

It would appear someone else has that same compulsive need.

[zeemike]

21. Don't let it get you down Yuiyoshida.

there are those that just have to piss on any concerns over nuclear power, and you just got in the middle of it.
Welcome to DU...you will find most here welcoming.

[yuiyoshida]

22. Domo Arigatou Gozaimasu!

Zeemike san wa totemo yasahii desu ne! (You are most kind, thank you!)

[Art_from_Ark]

27. The videos are from Kyoto

and they can be seen here at the web site of the Yomiuri Shimbun, Japan's largest daily newspaper:

http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/national/news/20130916-OYT1T00609.htm

I posted an excerpt from an article about the effects of the typhoon at Fukushima here:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1014&pid=596533

[spike91nz]

18. They identify the Prefectures of Gunma and Saitama just South of Fukushima

So there would appear to be good cause for concern as to what might be the conditions less than a hundred miles away and in the path of the storm.

[FBaggins]

19. There IS a "good cause for concern"

It's a major storm doing significant damage and taking lives.

So it's ridiculous that the news we get here is that there are "fears for Fukushima". The storm can't hurt the reactors (I tried to get the original poster to put up the RT article that this came from so that we could all get a laugh at their ridiculous notion that the storm could "topple" a reactor). The worst thing that it can do is further complicate their problems with handling contaminated water. But there will be far more radiation washed into the sea from areas that were originally contaminated in 2011.

So why not run a piece about the actual caused for concern?

[dixiegrrrrl]

16. Welcome to DU...

The DU member who is being querulous with you does the same thing to any Fukishima posts, so take it with a grain of salt..or a bucket of same.
Here is an article I found this am:

Typhoon Man-yi hits Japan raising fears about Fukushima nuclear plant

Typhoon Man-yi has hit central Japan as officials issued a "special warning" of heavy rain, amid fears the storm could go on to hit the crippled Fukushima nuclear plant.

The typhoon is generating heavy rain and wind gusts of more than 140 kilometres per hour.

It is tracking north-east along the main Japanese island of Honshu at a speed of 45 kilometres per hour and was expected to pass over Fukushima this afternoon.

TEPCO workers at the plant are battening down the site as the typhoon approaches.

They have attached ropes to outdoor piping and pumps, and are using large weights to try to prevent cranes from possibly toppling over.
With torrential rains expected this afternoon, there are fears that more contaminated water will seep into the groundwater and flow into the sea.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2013-09-16/typhoon-man-yi-hits-japan2c-raising-fukushima-fears/4960034

[yuiyoshida]

17. *bows*

Thank you very much. Doumo Arigatou gozaimasu. I could tell he was looking for a fight, just because I have not been here long. Internet Bullies are all the same. Thank you for your kindness.

[dixiegrrrrl]

25. Dōitashimashite

[freedom fighter jh]

5. The storm might destabilize the damaged reactors even more

than they are destabilized already, causing even more radioactive material to leak into the ocean and atmosphere, adding to risk in Japan and around the world.

[Plucketeer]

23. Fukushima's already a disaster

If this typhoon makes it worse - and it can get horribly worse - then it'll simply expedite what is going to happen eventually anyway. The fact that it's toxic spew is already circumnavigating the Pacific is just the first phase. Sun & wind & sea power could've been harnessed a century ago, but our wealth magnates figured out early on, how they could produce power cheaply - environment be damned. Now we're reaping the hidden clauses of the contracts we so gleefully signed.

[Marblehead]

26. how about

a pool at the top of the listing building with 1500 mox rods, if that falls we in big trouble

[gopiscrap]

24. welcome to DU

[JEB]

20. Thanks for posting this.

Fukushima deserves a lot more of our (the human race) attention.