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zebonaut

(3,688 posts)
Fri Jan 3, 2014, 02:32 PM Jan 2014

Radiation on US Coast from Fukushima; the story the media won't report



According to this report, MoD “assests” associated with the Red Banner Pacific Fleet detected two “low-level” underground atomic explosions occurring in the Fukushima disaster zone on 31 December, the first measuring 5.1 magnitude in intensity, followed by a smaller 3.6 magnitude explosion moments later.


http://www.eutimes.net/2014/01/underground-nuclear-explosion-at-crippled-japan-atomic-plant-shocks-world/
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Radiation on US Coast from Fukushima; the story the media won't report (Original Post) zebonaut Jan 2014 OP
Those two earthquakes have nothing to do with Fukushima. what is there to report? idwiyo Jan 2014 #1
Not "Earthquakes" !!! FBaggins Jan 2014 #2
OMG!11!! Of course! What else could it be! SCARY!1!!11 idwiyo Jan 2014 #4
750 rads in 10 days, lol AtheistCrusader Jan 2014 #5
Yep... and that image is from mere days after 3/11. FBaggins Jan 2014 #6
Westclox Baby Ben Clock is six times as radioactive!!111! progressoid Jan 2014 #3
There are 3 things crucial to sustain life on this planet. SmittynMo Jan 2014 #7
Even yet more Fukushima alarmist lunacy. longship Jan 2014 #8
Or, perhaps debunkthis Jan 2014 #9
That would be a poor excuse for outright making things up. longship Jan 2014 #10
Given the unusual events currently transpiring in the Pacific Ocean debunkthis Jan 2014 #11
What unusual events in the Pacific Ocean? longship Jan 2014 #12
You think this is lunacy? SmittynMo Jan 2014 #13

idwiyo

(5,113 posts)
1. Those two earthquakes have nothing to do with Fukushima. what is there to report?
Fri Jan 3, 2014, 03:02 PM
Jan 2014

Check coordinates and depth.

FBaggins

(26,721 posts)
2. Not "Earthquakes" !!!
Fri Jan 3, 2014, 03:45 PM
Jan 2014

They were "underground nuclear explosions" !



The site is a real laugher of prime conspiracy theory woo. The graphics alone make that clear



FBaggins

(26,721 posts)
6. Yep... and that image is from mere days after 3/11.
Fri Jan 3, 2014, 04:56 PM
Jan 2014

Still making the rounds through the conspiracy fringe groups.

But come on... the Falklands Syndrom image is the real knee-slapper.

progressoid

(49,945 posts)
3. Westclox Baby Ben Clock is six times as radioactive!!111!
Fri Jan 3, 2014, 04:21 PM
Jan 2014


By the way, the beach video came from Rense. Notorious crackpots.

SmittynMo

(3,544 posts)
7. There are 3 things crucial to sustain life on this planet.
Fri Jan 3, 2014, 06:38 PM
Jan 2014

Last edited Sat Jan 4, 2014, 09:27 AM - Edit history (2)

Air: We continue to pollute the air, although we have been better in the past 30 years.

Sun/Moon: These are out of our control. If there is an issue with either of these, we're all dead.

Water: Human and plant life cannot survive without water. Yet, there are now hundreds of thousands of barrels of contaminated water from Fukushima currently being stored in Japan. It was from the overflow of water used to keep the site cool. What are we going to do with these barrels? And still, there has not been any significant progress on containing the plants. Overspill is being dumped in the Pacific as we speak.

Why in the hell aren't the powers that be, doing something about this? It needs to be contained. NOW!!!!

We are killing this planet and ourselves at an alarming rate. The weird part is it appears we're not doing much to correct it. We know what we've done to destroy the air and water, and are not correcting the situation.

Hey, here's a thought. Let's work towards shutting down nuclear plants.

 

debunkthis

(99 posts)
9. Or, perhaps
Fri Jan 3, 2014, 09:49 PM
Jan 2014

it is way past time we started taking the threat of this ongoing nuclear catastrophe seriously and increase the pressure on the Japanese government to accept outside assistance with their attempt to bring this under control.

longship

(40,416 posts)
10. That would be a poor excuse for outright making things up.
Sat Jan 4, 2014, 12:28 AM
Jan 2014

It is almost worse than hiding information to deliberately conflate the situation. Why would anybody want to do that?

The public needs the facts! Not some airbrushed version, whether it is to hide the hindside, or to promote some doom scenerio that exists only in somebody's imagination.

Of course, the early attempts to save face and to smooth things over are now coming back to bite TEPCO and the Japanese government. Now nobody trusts them. The media coverage has been very poor, especially in the USA. So idiots and ideological jerks have jumped into that vacuum, spreading fear and crazy speculations.

Now people can not only not trust what TEPCO says, they almost cannot trust what anybody is saying. How is that such a good situation?

I fear that this story is going down Alice's rabbit hole. That doesn't help anybody.

 

debunkthis

(99 posts)
11. Given the unusual events currently transpiring in the Pacific Ocean
Sat Jan 4, 2014, 02:28 AM
Jan 2014

while I cannot say positively either way whether there were additional "prompt criticalities" which triggered the ground movement ( I wasn't there at the time, were any of you? ), I can say that the MSM in our country has done a huge disservice to the American people by not providing us with accurate information regarding this ongoing disaster and its impact on Japan, North America, and, indeed, the entire planet.

longship

(40,416 posts)
12. What unusual events in the Pacific Ocean?
Sat Jan 4, 2014, 02:47 AM
Jan 2014

And is there any science that would connect Fukushima to those events?

For Christ sake, there are people who are claiming that Fukushima is responsible for sea star meltdown, a syndrome known since the 1990's! And then there's the dead eagles in Utah. What credible science would connect Fukushima to that?

In the absence of information people will just make shit up. That's what is happening here. The problem is that ignorance leads to people believing crazy things.

I fear for us. Not because of Fukushima, but because people are so ignorant that they do not understand much of what little is being reported has ideological origins. And much of it is made up shit.

Make no mistake. I think Fukushima is a huge disaster. It will likely take decades to clean it up. But I also have faith in humans that this will get done. Mistakes were made, but does anybody realistically think that after a change of government --putatively because of the government's handling of the disaster -- the new PM would try to brush the situation under the rug?

SmittynMo

(3,544 posts)
13. You think this is lunacy?
Sat Jan 4, 2014, 09:29 AM
Jan 2014

Last edited Mon Jan 6, 2014, 09:11 AM - Edit history (1)

Maybe you should get a reality check, or just continue to ignore the facts. OMG

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