UP TO THE MINUTE UPDATES ON JAPAN !! BECUASE OTHER THREADS HAVE DIED

Op........

THANKS for this thread.

whats this gonna do to food production here if radiation comes to US...you know the government will immediately halt all food production, home gardening, etc, except Monsanto, who just happened to engineer radiation resistant seeds 3 months ago.....LOL..

that is not me that is a reporters words dummy lol

np

keep going OP just because people arent posting does not mean they are not reading. 947 views so far.

you think the goverment will ? i dont

Keep them coming

5 star


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they are getting STRONGER!!! 5.7 earthquake, near the east coast of Honshu, Japan. Mar 16 5:30am at epicenter (14m ago, 139km ESE of TOKYO, depth 24k… [link to j.mp]

I KNOW! WTF????? They are probably smoke now.

the government has now requested everyone in tokyo to go indoors and seal themselves in.....in 7 days, when they're out of supplies, water, TP, etc, they are gonna lose it, radiation or not....they will be walking zombies if this gets worse...nowhere to go and not enough supplies to stay in....

this is not gonna end well if the radiation increases over the next week.

Dozens of workers are braving serious health risks at Fukushima to bring #Japan's nuclear crisis under control

Last Edited by Godlike Elite on 03/15/2011 04:47 PM

thanks brother

Thanks Opie for the updates..Excellent thread

Your up to the minute thread will die like mine, because the DisInfo controls this website. I said it first.

thankyou to the people adding breaking news

even if it does i will post updated info regardless

RT @RedCross: Japanese Red Cross is supporting evac efforts around nuclear plant w a hospital, equipment and staff on standby #helpJapan

Radiation levels reached 167 times the average annual dose at nuclear plant in Japan. [link to on.cnn.com]

judging by the high 5. we are getting now i think we will have some 6 . or 7. soon it is building up

and i bet the cracxk in containment 4 was caused by an aftershock

I forget when did explosion at # 4 happen ?


Im losing track


my point is are they withholding bad news

can someone monitor the nhk site and the radiation monitoring site please i am covering many sources and overwelmed

The radioactive plumes being released by the plant are undoubtedly dangerous, but predicting where they will travel is difficult. Today, winds blew the plumes toward Tokyo, raising radiation levels there, but prevailing winds are forecast to send them away from Japan and out into the Pacific. "A lot will depend on the weather, on which way the wind is blowing," Dr. Thomas Cochran, a senior scientist with the Natural Resources Defense Council, told AOL News today by phone.

And while experts don't agree about the threat the plumes pose to the western United States and Canada, they are careful to note that the ones created by the 1986 Chernobyl disaster -- although very much diluted and less dangerous -- were carried across the entire Northern Hemisphere.

Alvarez, who has been critical of nuclear power, warned that the true impact of radiation from the Fukushima Dai-ichi plant may not be known for decades.

"We have to look at what's happening in Chernobyl right now and be honest about it," he said. "Twenty-five years after the disaster we're seeing that the magnitude of the harm that may have been caused to Russia and Europe is unimaginable. And in Japan, we're looking at the risk of multiple meltdowns. If it gets to that point, it could be worse than Chernobyl. It's just not something you don't want to think about."

There's no cure for acute radiation sickness.
By the time the first signs of radiation sickness appear -- nausea, vomiting, reddening of the skin, bleeding gums and hair loss -- the damage, doctors say, has been done. "There's no treatment that reverses the process," Dr. Ira Helfand, the former president of Physicians for Social Responsibility and a nuclear power critic, told AOL News by phone.

At lower levels of exposure, the symptoms of radiation sickness can be treated, but at high levels like those being reported immediately at the site of the Fukushima Dai-ichi plant, radiation is potentially lethal and could cause cancer to develop.

Because radiation disrupts the normal functioning of cells, the threat can be worse for pregnant women and children, since their cells are already rapidly dividing. And while potassium iodine tablets like the ones being given to some Japanese residents and U.S. service members in Japan can block the uptake of radioactive iodine to the thyroid, they are no protection against dangerously high levels of radiation.

Providing the public with a practical sense of the skyrocketing radiation levels near the plant can be difficult. But radiation at Fukushima Dai-ichi has been measured at 400 millisieverts per hour, or 40 rem. The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, as The Wall Street Journal noted today, has limited the amount of radiation exposure for U.S. nuclear workers to just 5 rem per year.

The radiation could enter the food chain.
"The other problem you have here is that in addition to being exposed to these doses [of radiation] outright, is that some of the radioactive products that will fall out of the environment will then get put into the food chain," Alvarez said. He said the major concern is iodine-131, or radioiodine, which is quickly absorbed into milk and other dairy products.

Officials may not be entirely forthcoming with the public about the threat level.
Officials are calling for calm. But experts said it's an indicator of how dire the situation at Fukushima Dai-ichi has become that a small group of the plant's employees are working around the clock, exposing themselves to potentially lethal doses of radiation, in the hopes of stopping a total meltdown.

explosion 4 this morning , but the crack report came in little after the recent aftershocks

This is not the reason that threads like this die.

PPl like to start their own threads if they find out fresh info before anyone else.

Simple as that.

Why will that post in here and give the OP glory for their (perceived)discovery?

breaking news happens and you start your own thread more power to you i will still post up to date info here for the people that do not want to go to 3 or 5 diffrent threads to stay up to date

bbc confirms 2 workers missing after explosion

missing since this morning

Two workers are missing after Tuesday's explosion at one of the #nuclear reactors at #Japan's #Fukushima plant: [link to bbc.in]

this only proves the info is coming out piecemeal

the new breaking thread is far behind lol they are just breaking the abandoment of the plants funny lol