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    I saw a report earlier, today, that said the radiation leak is 18 times higher than thought...!
    Yes .. the one I saw also allegedly confirmed a human coming into contact directly would survive at the most 4 hours !!!! GRIM and extremely covered up...

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    Fukushima leaks: Japan pledges $470m for 'ice wall'



    Joanna Gosling explains where the leaks are coming from




    Japan is to invest hundreds of millions of dollars into building a frozen wall around the Fukushima nuclear plant to stop leaks of radioactive water.
    Government spokesman Yoshihide Suga said an estimated 47bn yen ($473m, £304m) would be allocated.
    The leaks were getting worse and the government "felt it was essential to become involved to the greatest extent possible", Mr Suga said.
    The plant was crippled by the 2011 earthquake and tsunami.
    The disaster knocked out cooling systems to the reactors, three of which melted down.
    Water is now being pumped in to cool the reactors, but storing the resultant large quantities of radioactive water has proved a challenge for plant operator Tokyo Electric Power Company (Tepco).

    'Closely watching'

    Under the government plan, a wall of frozen earth will be created around the reactors using pipes filled with coolant to prevent groundwater coming into contact with contaminated water being used to cool fuel rods.




    Water treatment systems will also be upgraded to tackle the build-up of contaminated water, officials said.


    Dr Tatsujiro Suzuki, vice chairman of the Japan Atomic Energy Commission, told the BBC that the situation at the nuclear power plant was an "unprecedented crisis" and that it was "getting worse".
    He said the plan to freeze the ground around the site was "challenging", and a permanent solution was needed.
    The technique has only been used on a small scale to control pollution before but not with radioactive contamination, he added.
    The damage to the plant has necessitated the constant pumping of water to cool the reactors - a process which creates an extra 400 tonnes of contaminated water every day.
    That water is being stored in temporary tanks at the site. Last month Tepco said that 300 tonnes of highly radioactive water had leaked from one of the tanks, in the most serious incident to date.



    Satellite images show how the number of water storage tanks has increased in the past two years.

    The tanks store contaminated water that has been used to cool the reactors.

    But in recent months there have also been leaks from pipes and there are concerns that water is seeping from damaged reactor buildings into the ground.
    Last month, Japan's nuclear regulator classified the severity level of radioactive water leak issues at Fukushima as a three on the seven-point International Nuclear and Radiological Event Scale (Ines).
    The triple meltdown at Fukushima two years ago was classed as a level seven incident, one of only two nuclear events ever rated that highly - along with the 1986 Chernobyl disaster in the former Soviet Union.
    "The world is closely watching whether we can dismantle the (Fukushima) plant, including the issue of contaminated water," said Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe.
    "The government is determined to work hard to resolve the issue."
    The funding pledge comes days before a decision is due on the host nation for the 2020 summer Olympic Games, for which Tokyo is a candidate.
    Meanwhile, one of Japan's only two nuclear reactors still online was shut down on Tuesday for mandatory inspections.
    The shutdown of Kansai Electric's Oi Unit 3 reactor will leave the plant's Unit 4 reactor the only one still functioning in Japan. Unit 4 must also be taken offline later this month for routine assessment.
    Restarting Japan's other nuclear reactors remains a highly controversial issue, but the government is working to get this done to fill an energy gap.


    Water from the storage tanks has seeped into the groundwater and then into the sea. Efforts to use a chemical barrier to prevent sea contamination have not worked.

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    The world should be taking action together not leaving it to Japan to tackle this crisis on their own. They should be planting hemp everywhere to repair the ground.


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    My relative is over again so been nattering with him about this again today. He says it's getting really bad now. Activists are breaking in to the 30 mile exclusion zone taking photographs and posting them to the internet. He says the government has now just passed a law making it illegal with a mandatory jail sentence if you're caught... Really trying to keep this hush hush.

    The problem with the water leaking into the sea is that due to the way the land is, when it rains the water runs down a hill, through he melted down reactors and into the sea. This is what is causing the massive leakage and the poisoning of the surrounding waters. Apparently Korea will no longer fish that area so it's causing friction between the two countries. Also the ocean waves are carrying the toxins up and over and are also starting to poison Canadian waters too.

    The problem with the leaking containers is due to them having to build the water containers as quickly and as cheaply as possible. This means they have used plastic flanges and these are the parts that have now failed and led to the tanks leaking... Only there's hundreds of identical tanks, with identical flanges.

    He also saying that aside from the 3 reactors that have melted down, the 4th reactor (which was shut down at the time for repairs) has the spent fuel rod storage are above it. There are around 1,400 rods that have all fallen about the place, like a box of spilt matches, and each incredibly radioactive. If any of these cells were to touch, it could lead to a nuclear reaction that can't be controlled. He also reckons that some experts now believe that this situation is 'probable'. They have now got to try and move these fuel rods to a safe location.

    This is aside from the huge problem that 3 reactors have melted down. He's reckoning that it won't be long before Japan asks for international help. They're slowly realising that they're in way over their heads now and they won't be able to fix this themselves. It could end up being very bad for the whole world, not just Japan.

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    That's a very interesting read.

    I heard somewhere a few months ago that as far as pollution to the water is concerned it had washed up on the shores of California.

    I'll check the news sites tomorrow and see what I can find.

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    They should get help ASAP, what a mess.

    Here's part of a monument I saw last year:

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    This was the first monument I saw in this place, the figure was called "Wormdwood" I think:

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    Anybody guess where it was?

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    Yep. Chernobyl for airborne contamination and Fukushima for the seas.[/hide]
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    Fukushima: why next month is its biggest since 2011



    The headlines are alarming: vast leaks of radioactive water, international experts being drafted in and spikes in radiation levels. But how bad is the situation at Japan's Fukushima nuclear plant?




    It looms, forbiddingly now, on the coast of Japan, flanked by the sea, forests and a huge nuclear exclusion zone.


    Despite recent attempts to demystify the crippled Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear plant - Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe even visited a few weeks ago - the truth behind what's happening there and what it actually means for locals and the wider world remains difficult to obtain. And there could be worse to come.
    In November, Tepco is due to carry out a new operation which could be the most risky since the early dark days of the initial crisis sparked by the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami.

    Read more: What is happening at Fukushima?
    The World Nuclear Report in 2013 said the operation had the potential to cause "by far the most serious radiological disaster to date" if it goes wrong. It warns of the possibility of apocalyptic scenarios including the evacuation of 10 million people in the surrounding area, including Tokyo.
    The process involves moving around 400 tonnes of irradiated spent fuel from reactor 4, one of the four reactors damaged in the 2011 disaster. While the other three reactors went into meltdown and are still being cooled with water after other systems failed, the fourth was not operational at the time. However, it still has spent fuel in it which needs to be removed from the now highly unstable structure in case of any kind of earthquake hitting the plant again.







    Removing spent fuel is a normal procedure at a nuclear plant - but not in an environment with so many risks and unknowns, including whether the fuel assemblies have been damaged, which could lead to the radiation risks if the casings have been breached. The worst case scenario is if the fuel assemblies are dropped, which could ultimately lead to a partial meltdown - but that is not thought to be likely.

    Professor Neil Hyatt, a nuclear expert at Sheffield University, told Channel 4 News reports have been "very clear on the worst that can happen", adding: "Is that feasible? Yes. Is it realistic? That's hard to say. This is probably a world first in terms of the engineering challenge."
    A Tepco spokeswoman added: "The removal of the fuels is an experienced technology used everywhere over the world. The risks are evaluated and well under control."
    But it's not the only challenge at Fukushima. Professor Hyatt points out that nobody is talking about the fuel still in the other three reactors, which are partially melted down and still require constant cooling.


    "We don't understand fully what the nature of the partially melted down core is. That's ultimately a challenge we'll need to address," he said. Tepco said its plans are to begin removing this debris within eight years - aiming for complete decommissioning within 40 years.
    Mycle Schneider is the co-author of the World Nuclear Report which warned of such potentially dire consequences of November's operation.
    He was no less gloomy when Channel 4 News spoke to him - although that's fairly predictable as after years advising the French and German governments, as an independent consultant he now has a reputation for being anti-nuclear.
    "To me it's been disastrous from day one. This disaster is of totally unprecedented dimensions," he said. "Tepco is a company that manages electricity generation plants, whether this is hydro or coal or nuclear. It is by no means a clean-up, disaster management, assembly of supermen that could deal spontaneously with issues like that."
    Tepco itself has recognised this - some would argue belatedly - and turned to international experts for long-term help, although a Tepco spokeswoman reassured this programme that the company had been "asking for help from countries with decontamination experiences since the accident". Dr Adrian Simper of the UK Nuclear Decommissioning Authority recently chaired a trip of the group to Fukushima.
    He told Channel 4 News: "It's about getting in control of things like the groundwater, the day-to-day issues, so we can concentrate on fighting the alligators and not worry about constantly draining the swamps."
    Alligators and swamps

    The situation in and around Fukushima plant today is mixed. There is still a deserted 20km exclusion zone beyond the plant as well as contaminated debris stored on the plant. However, the reactors are relatively stable, or as much as they can be in the current state, and the Japanese government recently said radiation in the air in the surrounding area has declined by 40 per cent - although it spikes regularly within the power station. It is worth pointing out that the situation felt rather more patchy than that when Channel 4 News visited this summer.
    However, the main problem at Fukushima at the moment, as Dr Simper referred to, is the leaking water, and what that might be doing to the sea beyond.
    The water is leaking from two key places. Firstly, the water which is being pumped into the reactors to keep them cool. This gets contaminated by the radioactive fuel inside the reactors, and has to be stored on site in huge - leaky - tanks. There's a second problem too. Groundwater which runs off the hills nearby used to be removed from the site by pumps, but these stopped working in the tsunami. The basements of the reactor buildings flooded. Now this water is also contaminated with radioactivity - and leaking into the ground, and the sea, beyond.
    Tepco told Channel 4 News it estimates that around 400 tonnes are leaking every day - although it says the results are "almost non-detectable levels" of radiation "so there are no effects to the health."







    Ken Buesseler, senior scientist at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in the United States, has been looking at what this actually means
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    He is blunt in his assessment.


    "It seems Tepco has been unable to adequately manage the clean-up and public understanding of the risks," he told Channel 4 News. "My trip in September reinforced the very simple fact that we do see Fukushima Cs isotopes elevated in the ocean near the reactor site, which indicates leakage from the reactors and tanks.
    It seems Tepco has been unable to adequately manage the clean-up and public understanding of the risks. Ken Buesseler

    "You can argue about how much leakage or what are the impacts, but it is certain that radionuclides from the power plant site are entering the ocean and have been since March 2011."
    At the same time, Mr Buesseler and others agree that, for now, the leaks are not affecting human health or fish stocks any further afield than just off the Japanese coast. As National Geographic put it, the Pacific Ocean is a big place and recent leaks of 300 gallons here and there pale into insignificance compared with the ocean's total volume.
    Fishing is still banned off the coast of Fukushima, but earlier this year, surfers cheerfully posed for photos at Toyoma Beach, around 50 kilometres south of the broken plant. So Mr Buesseler isn't the only one playing down the risks.
    And Dr Simper goes further - perhaps further than many could countenance at this point, although it will be a bit of good news for Tepco in a sea of criticism which has been easily as toxic as anything the plant has leaked.
    "People will absolutely be able to come back and live here," he told Channel 4 News.
    "In fact, I believe people should be able to return now. I would have no hesitation in moving my family to Fukushima...it's a lovely part of the world."


    Dr Adrian Simper would take his family to live near the Fukushima nuclear plant - but what is it actually like living and working in the area? In the final instalment of our Fukushima series, coming up later this week, Channel 4 News speaks to locals to find out.

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    Six Fukushima workers tested after exposure to radioactive water

    Second accident in a week at crippled nuclear plant with Tepco, the operator, saying 10 tonnes leaked over nearly an hour


    Six workers at the Fukushima nuclear power plant have been exposed to radiation in the latest water leak in a week.
    The plant's operator, Tokyo Electric Power (Tepco), said several tonnes of radioactive water had spilled from a treatment facility after one of the workers mistakenly removed a pipe.
    The workers, who were wearing protective clothing and masks, came into contact with the water and were being checked for any external and internal contamination, a Tepco spokesman said.
    The accident occurred on Wednesday morning as 11 workers were about to remove salt from hundreds of tonnes of water that had already been cleansed of almost all of its radioactive caesium content at another treatment facility.
    Other radioactive materials still present in the water were measured in August at 37m becquerels per litre, the utility said, adding that the radiation was in beta form, which is less penetrative than more serious gamma rays. The substances present in the water include strontium-90, which has a half-life of almost 29 years.
    "All of the water is kept inside a barrier [to prevent the spread of contamination]," Tepco said in a press release.
    The leak lasted almost an hour, during which about 10 tonnes of toxic water is thought to have escaped, but did not reach the nearby Pacific ocean, Tepco said.
    Tepco is facing mounting criticism of its handling of the Fukushima Daiichi cleanup amid a series of problems blamed on human error and poor management.
    On Monday, the power supply to pumps that inject coolant water into damaged reactors was accidentally cut, although a backup system kicked in immediately. Last week, Tepco said 430 litres of contaminated water had seeped out of storage tanks and probably ended up in the Pacific.
    Almost 6,000 workers at Fukushima Daiichi are struggling to contain the huge buildup of toxic water at the site. Earlier this year Tepco belatedly admitted that groundwater flowing down from the hills behind the plant was mixing with radioactive water from the reactor basements and flowing into the sea at the rate of about 300 tonnes a day.
    Several of the hastily built 1,000 water storage tanks on the site have sprung leaks. One recent leak warranted a level 3 – or serious incident – rating on an international scale of radiological events.

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    F*cking unless c*nts! The entire world should intervene and sort this cockup out
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    A couple more stories today. The people that are working within the 30km exclusion zone, are actually homeless alcoholics from Tokyo that have been moved to the location to perform the clean up. Virtually all of them are off their face when performing the tasks they are given, the real engineers are well outside the zone and 'training' the drunks by showing them videos and also using video relay to aid them. They're constantly washing everything down all the time, trying to get rid of the excessive radiation. These are the people that were 'sprayed' with water from the tanks not so long back. It's because they don't have a clue what they're doing.

    Also there have been cases of farmers living within the exclusion zone having all their crops and animals wiped out. After putting in a claim against Tepco, they have concluded that the 'incident' that happened at Fukishima and crops/animals dieing are not related.

    They're also having a new issue, which is dealing with the radiation suits that are in use during the clean up. These are starting to stack up, just like the water, people believe that they are being taken out in trucks and moved to landfill all over the country.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Mr.James View Post
    A couple more stories today. The people that are working within the 30km exclusion zone, are actually homeless alcoholics from Tokyo that have been moved to the location to perform the clean up. Virtually all of them are off their face when performing the tasks they are given, the real engineers are well outside the zone and 'training' the drunks by showing them videos and also using video relay to aid them. They're constantly washing everything down all the time, trying to get rid of the excessive radiation. These are the people that were 'sprayed' with water from the tanks not so long back. It's because they don't have a clue what they're doing.

    Also there have been cases of farmers living within the exclusion zone having all their crops and animals wiped out. After putting in a claim against Tepco, they have concluded that the 'incident' that happened at Fukishima and crops/animals dieing are not related.

    They're also having a new issue, which is dealing with the radiation suits that are in use during the clean up. These are starting to stack up, just like the water, people believe that they are being taken out in trucks and moved to landfill all over the country.

    Such a shame for locals !!!! Will be a long long long time till the impacts are gone !

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    One thing that has struck me from 4me2's 'why next month is its biggest since 2011' article... It says that they're aiming for full decommissioning in 40 years time. The Fukishima power plant is basically built in an earthquake zone. What's to say they don't have a similar magnitude earthquake within that time frame? The additional damage that something like that could cause could make this catastrophe far, far worse than it is now.

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    Something Is Killing Life All Over The Pacific Ocean

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    Something Is Killing Life All Over The Pacific Ocean – Could It Be Fukushima?

    Why is there so much death and disease among sea life living near the west coast of North America right now? Could the hundreds of tons of highly radioactive water that are being released into the Pacific Ocean from Fukushima every single day have anything to do with it?

    When I wrote my last article about Fukushima, I got a lot of heat for being “alarmist” and for supposedly “scaring” people unnecessarily. I didn’t think that an article about Fukushima would touch such a nerve, but apparently there are some people out there that really do not want anyone writing about this stuff.

    Right now, massive numbers of fish and sea creatures are dying in the Pacific Ocean. In addition, independent tests have shown that significant levels of cesium-137 are in a very high percentage of the fish that are being caught in the Pacific and sold in North America. Could this have anything to do with the fact that the largest nuclear disaster in the history of mankind has been constantly releasing enormous amounts of radioactive material into the Pacific Ocean for more than two years? I don’t know about you, but to me this seems to be a question that is worth asking.

    Since I wrote my last article, major news outlets have reported that large numbers of sea stars living off of the west coast of North America appear to be “melting“…


    Divers were out in Puget Sound waters Saturday to see if they can help solve a mystery. Scientists are trying to figure out what’s causing one species of starfish to die in parts of Puget Sound and the waters off of Canada. Seattle Aquarium biologists Jeff Christiansen and Joel Hollander suited up in scuba gear in their search for answers. “We’re going to look for both healthy and potentially diseased sea stars,” Christiansen explained. “We’ve got some sea stars that look like they’re melting on the bottom.” The same thing is happening in the waters near Canada and nobody’s sure why.

    If scientists don’t know why this is happening, perhaps there is an unusual explanation for this phenomenon.

    Could it be Fukushima?

    The following is what one invertebrate expert quoted by National Geographic says is happening to the starfish…


    [The starfish] seem to waste away, ‘deflate’ a little, and then just … disintegrate. The arms just detach, and the central disc falls apart. It seems to happen rapidly, and not just dead animals undergoing decomposition, as I observed single arms clinging to the rock faces, tube feet still moving, with the skin split, gills flapping in the current. I’ve seen single animals in the past looking like this, and the first dive this morning I thought it might be crabbers chopping them up and tossing them off the rocks. Then we did our second dive in an area closed to fishing, and in absolutely amazing numbers. The bottom from about 20 to 50 feet [6 to 15 meters] was absolutely littered with arms, oral discs, tube feet, gonads and gills … it was kind of creepy.


    That certainly does not sound normal to me.

    Shouldn’t we be trying to figure out why this is happening?

    Something is also causing a huge spike in the death rate for killer whales living off of the coast of British Columbia


    A Vancouver Aquarium researcher is sounding the alarm over “puzzling” changes he’s observed in the killer whale pods that live off the southern British Columbia coast. Dr. Lance Barrett-Lennard says he fears changes in the ocean environment are prompting odd behaviour and an unusually high mortality rate. Barrett-Lennard says the southern resident orca pod, which is found in the Salish Sea between Vancouver Island and the B.C. mainland, has lost seven matriarchs over the past two years, and he’s noticed a lack of vocalizations from the normally chatty mammals.


    Once again, scientists do not know why this is happening.

    Could it be Fukushima?

    I am just asking the question.

    Clearly something unusual is happening to the Pacific. The following is what one Australian discovered as he journeyed across the Pacific Ocean recently…


    The next leg of the long voyage was from Osaka to San Francisco and for most of that trip the desolation was tinged with nauseous horror and a degree of fear. “After we left Japan, it felt as if the ocean itself was dead,” Macfadyen said. “We hardly saw any living things. We saw one whale, sort of rolling helplessly on the surface with what looked like a big tumour on its head. It was pretty sickening. “I’ve done a lot of miles on the ocean in my life and I’m used to seeing turtles, dolphins, sharks and big flurries of feeding birds. But this time, for 3000 nautical miles there was nothing alive to be seen.” In place of the missing life was garbage in astounding volumes. “Part of it was the aftermath of the tsunami that hit Japan a couple of years ago. The wave came in over the land, picked up an unbelievable load of stuff and carried it out to sea. And it’s still out there, everywhere you look.”


    What would cause the Pacific Ocean to be “dead”?

    Could it be Fukushima?

    When you consider the evidence presented above along with all of the other things that we have learned in recent months, it becomes more than just a little bit alarming.

    The following are some more examples of sea life dying off in the Pacific from my recent article entitled "28 Signs That The West Coast Is Being Absolutely Fried With Nuclear Radiation From Fukushima"…


    -Polar bears, seals and walruses along the Alaska coastline are suffering from fur loss and open sores

    Wildlife experts are studying whether fur loss and open sores detected in nine polar bears in recent weeks is widespread and related to similar incidents among seals and walruses.
    The bears were among 33 spotted near Barrow, Alaska, during routine survey work along the Arctic coastline. Tests showed they had “alopecia, or loss of fur, and other skin lesions,” the U.S. Geological Survey said in a statement.
    -There is an epidemic of sea lion deaths along the California coastline…

    At island rookeries off the Southern California coast, 45 percent of the pups born in June have died, said Sharon Melin, a wildlife biologist for the National Marine Fisheries Service based in Seattle. Normally, less than one-third of the pups would die. It’s gotten so bad in the past two weeks that the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration declared an “unusual mortality event.”
    -Along the Pacific coast of Canada and the Alaska coastline, the population of sockeye salmon is at a historic low. Many are blaming Fukushima.


    -Something is causing fish all along the west coast of Canada to bleed from their gills, bellies and eyeballs.


    -Experts have found very high levels of cesium-137 in plankton living in the waters of the Pacific Ocean between Hawaii and the west coast.


    -One test in California found that 15 out of 15 bluefin tuna were contaminated with radiation from Fukushima.


    -Back in 2012, the Vancouver Sun reported that cesium-137 was being found in a very high percentage of the fish that Japan was selling to Canada…

    • 73 percent of mackerel tested
    • 91 percent of the halibut
    • 92 percent of the sardines
    • 93 percent of the tuna and eel
    • 94 percent of the cod and anchovies
    • 100 percent of the carp, seaweed, shark and monkfish


    Is it really so unreasonable to wonder if Fukushima could be causing all of this?


    And the total amount of nuclear material in the Pacific Ocean is constantly increasing. According to the New York Times, the latest releases from Fukushima contain “much more contaminated water than before”, and the flow of contaminated water will not stop until 2015 at the earliest…


    The latest releases appear to be carrying much more contaminated water than before into the Pacific. And that flow may not slow until at least 2015, when an ice wall around the damaged reactors is supposed to be completed.

    And that same article explained that cesium-137 is entering the Pacific at a rate that is “about three times as high” as last year…


    The magnitude of the recent spike in radiation, and the amounts of groundwater involved, have led Michio Aoyama, an oceanographer at a government research institute who is considered an authority on radiation in the sea, to conclude that radioactive cesium 137 may now be leaking into the Pacific at a rate of about 30 billion becquerels per year, or about three times as high as last year. He estimates that strontium 90 may be entering the Pacific at a similar rate.

    Right now, approximately 300 tons of contaminated water is pouring into the Pacific Ocean from Fukushima every 24 hours.


    But apparently we are not supposed to ask any questions about this and we are just supposed to blindly accept that this is not having any significant impact on our environment even though sea life in the Pacific appears to be dying in unprecedented numbers.


    I don’t know about you, but I really think that the people of the world deserve to know the truth about what is happening out there.

    http://newagora.ca/index.php/news/ge...-pacific-ocean

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    Can they joy not burn it?

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    That article is pretty scary stuff.


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    After the way the US has hammered BP over the Deepwater Horizon oil spill Tepco will soon be bankrupt once the lawyers start making claims for loss to their clients.....

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    After the way the US has hammered BP over the Deepwater Horizon oil spill Tepco will soon be bankrupt once the lawyers start making claims for loss to their clients.....
    I'm not sure they'd get very far. The Tsunami that caused it will be classed as an 'act of God' whereas the explosion that happened on the rig could be blamed negligence.

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