Anxiety, weariness burbles among evacuees as Japan nuke plant storage pool boils

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Source: news 1130

FUKUSHIMA, Japan - Weariness and anxiety percolated Tuesday among people who left their homes near Japan's radiation-shedding nuclear complex as workers tried urgently to cool an overheated storage pool and methodically to reconnect critical cooling systems.

In another day of progress and setbacks, a pool holding spent nuclear fuel heated up to around the boiling point, a nuclear safety official said. With water bubbling away, there is a risk that more radioactive steam could spew out. "We cannot leave this alone and we must take care of it as quickly as possible," said the official, Hidehiko Nishiyama.

It wasn't clear if crews had to retreat to stop work hooking up electrical systems and checking machinery to power up cooling systems.

People at Fukushima city's main evacuation centre waited in long lines for bowls of hot noodle soup. A truck delivered toilet paper and blankets. Many among the 1,400 people living in the crowded gymnasium came from communities near the nuclear plant and worry about radiation and weary of the daily routine of the displaced.

Read more: http://www.news1130.com/news/world/article/200752--japanese-official-says-storage-pool-at-troubled-nuclear-plant-is-at-or-near-boiling-point

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1. No time for apologies

"Public sentiment is such that Fukushima's governor rejected a meeting offered by the president of Tokyo Electric Power Co., or Tepco, the utility that runs the nuclear plant.

"What is most important is for TEPCO to end the crisis with maximum effort. So I rejected the offer," Gov. Yuhei Sato said on national broadcaster NHK. "Considering the anxiety, anger and exasperation being felt by people in Fukushima, there is just no way for me to accept their apology."

[flamingdem]

2. "burbles"? that must be a translation from Japanese! nt

[jannyk]

4. To Burble.....

http://www.thefreedictionary.com/burble

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3. an act of God ...

>>"It was an act of God," said Yoshihiro Amano, a grocery store owner whose house is 4 miles (6 kilometres) from the reactors. "It won't help anything to get angry. But we are worried. We don't know if it will takes days, months or decades to go home. Maybe never. We are just starting to be able to think ahead to that."

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I guess it was an act of God alright (the earthquake and tsunami that is) but building all of those crappy nuclear plants one right next to the other was not an "act of God".

If it was me, I'd be damned mad by now and wouldn't be listening to the propaganda (lies) being told.

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