This is hilarious and infuriating at the same time.
The Japanese government HID the simulation data of SPEEDI and WSPEEDI from the citizens right after the March 11, 2011 start of the nuclear accident, because, as they put it, "(It's so bad that) we can't release it to the general public." Hardly anyone in Japan knew about WSPEEDI until Professor Toshiso Kosako tearfully spoke about it during his resignation press conference at the end of April 2011 and urged the government to disclose it. It wasn't until May 2011 that Ministry of Education very quietly posted the SPEEDI data and WSPEEDI data on its website, without any fanfare.
But as soon as bad and evil North Korea detonated a nuke bomb underground, all government agencies are on top of each other trying to outdo others in disclosing their latest measurements and forecasts. They include Japan Meteorological Agency which banned the agency's researchers to make any radiation measurements or say anything about radiation publicly right after the start of the nuclear accident.
Here's Ministry of Education, extremely quickly releasing (2/12/2013) the WSPEEDI simulation result from the possible fallout (what a joke) from the nuclear testing, using iodine-131 and assuming there was a release (which is very unlikely). The top is for surface level, the bottom is for an altitude of 1,000 meters.
In the meantime, the pork-cutlet-over-curry-rice prime minister believes it is within the definition of "self defense" to attack military installations of a hostile foreign nation and that it is allowed by the current Constitution.
All major news outlets in Japan are busy making a big deal out of the North Korean bomb testing, without shame. They believe Obama's State of the Union address mentioned the incident in a big way.
(Dooon't stop, believin'...hooold on, to that feelin'...)
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17 comments:
just sums up the incredible ignorance of the japanese, any chance to point the finger at outsiders is taken ..... they cant look at themselves in the mirror and see what a fuckup fukushima has been .....
LDP pols look in the mirror and see their beautiful selves, defending their motherland. Fukushima, they blame it on DPJ.
Interesting what the perceived threat is. Known fallout from melted cores poisoning children or an underground nuke test with unknown fallout potential. I bet radiation sensors that weren't working before will be working overtime now.
Anyway, the reaction is called 'displacement activity' i.e. presented with a lethal situation, focus turns to something unrelated to the present danger.
Or the government is going to use suspected NK fallout as a potential problem if they can divert the masses attention.
My guess would be Fukushima, Daiichi already released more fallout than the nukes dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki combined with the only difference being the explosions happened in slow motion with the core meltdowns.
OT:
Yesterday 600 square meters of the roof of Chernobyl NPP #4 turbine hall partially collapsed because of heavy snow load, causing hectical activities:
http://www.chnpp.gov.ua/
Some more photos here: http://www.spiegel.de/fotostrecke/tschernobyl-mauer-und-dach-teilweise-eingestuerzt-fotostrecke-93151.html
文科省、やればできるじゃん。さすが。
SAD that radioactive data about others is fast coming while any factual info about Fukushima is always delayed and/or dubious at best!
some data ive seen said each core held 400 times the amount of radioactive material as each bomb(hiroshima and nagasaki) i believe that data came from Dr. helen caldocot(not sure if thats spelled right
No it's Helen Calledaban...
Same kind of shit that happens everywhere. People love pointing the finger at others. They should all learn to fix their own fucking problems first.
Dr. Helen Caldicott's research tells her in one typical BWR using about 100 tons of uranium fuel, there is as much nuclear energy as found in 1,000 Hiroshima size bombs.
Joker: "Quick, send me the SPEEDI data, ha ha ha ha!!!"
Yeah, Japanese are "cult-ural nationalists" but let their own citizens fry when it comes to the Nuclear Mafia. This thing with North Korea has always smelled of conspiracy and orchestration at higher levels. Rather odd how NK launched a missile awhile ago just before the election to help put in the war hawk Abe. That aside, someone pointed out that the US is probably pressuring Japan to harass China as with this pile of rocks the Senkaku, given the whole exercise is damaging to Japanese politics and economy. US agenda is to surround China and weaken it as a competitor on the global stage.
I didn't know Caldicott is a nuclear scientist.
@3:24 energy is not much a concern here, what matters is the amount and type of radioactive dust dispersed in our food and water. In order for non technical people to get an idea of how bad the Fukushima disaster is, someone has compared the fallout from the Hiroshima bomb to the estimated fallout from Fukushima Daiichi. If I recall correctly it has been said that Fukushima released about 400 times of what was released in Hiroshima.
Although a direct comparison between Fukushima and Hiroshima is not easy, 400 times provides a ball park figure that might be easier to understand than a number in petabequerel.
Beppe
@ Beppe
You are right, to me ; in the end of march 2011, live on TV Tepco was wrong by four digits ( x 10000 ) on radiation level or release, I don't remember. Scientists went voiceless. It was corrected ( / 10000 ) an hour later. Edano asked for more reliable behaviour...
I thought and wrote then that the good unit to use was the Tchernobyl.
Yes in Hiroshima the bomb detonated over the town, an enormous ball of fire, light and radiation, a terrible shockwave. This might be closer to Tchernobyl ( no containment ), but far from Fukushima.
Better to light a candle than to curse the darkness.
If the Japanese government, a remarkably opaque entity, can be motivated to release radiation data quickly in one instance, we should loudly praise it.
It might then eventually learn to release data as a matter of preference, rather than to hide it as a matter of course.
On the scale of the Fukushima accident compared to a nuclear explosion, the reactors contained hundreds of tons of nuclear fuel, versus only fractions of a ton in the bombs. However, the bomb material was very enriched, unlike the reactor fuel and was vaporized very efficiently by the A-blast, much more so than the post melt down hydrogen explosions could achieve. That made the bomb residues a non event for the rest of Japan, because it was not localized but rather disseminated world wide in the stratosphere.
Fukushima is more messy, like a sooty lamp it spread dirt across much of Honshu, so Japanese now have to learn to live with shades of gray. Places are more or less contaminated, but very few are uninhabitable just as very few are really clean. How does Japan, which still sees a stigma on the people of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, come to accept that it too is somewhat afflicted? There has not been any discussion of this reality afaik.
Political class in Japan are busy talking down Japanese yen and calling it "recovery". Non-political class is busy calling for "beyond nuclear" future, while stepping on a pile of shit called radiation. They are even eating it.
I don't get it. Sacrificing some kids' thyroids justifies Fukushima, Daiichi blowing up 3 or 4 times within 48 hours? Like, oh well, better luck next time with quakes and waves.
The only thing wrong with nuclear power generation is the radiation.
With about 50 nuke plants shut down in Japan it must just eat away at the pro nuke crowd as Japan still functions.
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