Japan crisis - the worlds economic outlook?

Sibley

My mate told me Giger counters are on back order here.
Also, the reckon if you are over 45 you will not get radiation from the water.

Poshbird

Sibley wrote: »

My mate told me Giger counters are on back order here.
Also, the reckon if you are over 45 you will not get radiation from the water.

Hows that work, do people over 45 have greater protection from radioactive particles like Cesium 137?

Have you watched the news over there? I know it will be in Japanese but how much are they covering the crisis? Are they really covering up how many of the original Fukushema 50 have died? There are no accurate figures how many have died, some say several some say only a few. Most try and cover it up.

Can you try and find out how many have died so far as a result of the radiation?

1984ReturnsForReal_2

As no one else has

TOKYO -- The Japanese government more than doubled its estimate Monday for the amount of radiation released from the Fukushima nuclear plant during the first week of the atomic crisis in March, The Wall Street Journal reported.The Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency (NISA), a government nuclear watchdog, also said it believed that reactor cores at some of the units at the complex melted much more quickly than the plant operator previously suggested, in fresh evidence on the severity of the nuclear disaster.
NISA said that it now estimates the total amount of radiation released into the atmosphere in the first week of the crisis at 770,000 terabecquerels. That compares with NISA's previous estimate, released April 12, of 370,000 terabecquerels for the first month of the crisis.



The latest radiation figure was still only about 10 percent of the radiation released from the 1986 Chernobyl disaster, the agency said.
But the sharp upward revision showed that the failure to contain the crisis swiftly resulted in greater radioactive contamination of surrounding regions than previously thought, the WSJ said.
Meanwhile, traces of plutonium were also detected outside the plant's No. 1 reactor and were confirmed to have come from the plant, Kyodo News reported.
A tiny trace of plutonium was previously reported found at the Fukushima plant, but authorities suspected that it was the result of "nuclear bomb tests elsewhere," the report said.

Read more: http://www.nypost.com/p/news/international/japan_says_fukushima_radiation_twice_XaK4NjwL5gkcgYcbXIZzOM#ixzz1OWIseALM

Poshbird

Odd how this whole story has been relatively "buried" for weeks. We heard a lot abput the tsunami and ensuing nuke disaster for a few weeks then it all went away? Why? One wonders how the radiation could effect the rest of the world- specifically the west coast of USA. It shows how the media slants the news and effects the mass media perceptions. I am not believing the radiation comparison to Chernobyl. Remember how Giuliani told us the air at ground zero was safe? "A conspiracy of silence speaks loder than words".


oh boy! after all this time of not hearing nothing about radiation in a while...they give us this! stay tuned for more distractions!

Well they already had the story of the 2-head baby girl out of Japan.....what next!

and when they say it is twice as bad, it really means it is fifty times as bad.


Will we ever know the truth about the amount of radiation leaked from this accident?

God bless to the peeps of japan.

Sibley

You won't believe this but nobody is bothered about the disaster now. It's business as usual.

I spoke to my friend last night about the housing market here.

Sounds pretty much the same as UK.
Houses in good areas are horrendously expensive. Few price drops in areas that are long commutes to work places. 1 and a half hours on a train each way is considered normal.


The attitude here is weird. My friend lives in town center but has no plans to ever pay off his mortgage. He told me they just pay down the mortgage while they are working. When it is time to reire they sell up. Hopefully they have enough equity to buy a country house outright. Houses in central towns are still fetching big money and sell easily.

Poshbird

Sibley wrote: »

You won't believe this but nobody is bothered about the disaster now. It's business as usual.

I spoke to my friend last night about the housing market here.

Sounds pretty much the same as UK.
Houses in good areas are horrendously expensive. Few price drops in areas that are long commutes to work places. 1 and a half hours on a train each way is considered normal.


The attitude here is weird. My friend lives in town center but has no plans to ever pay off his mortgage. He told me they just pay down the mortgage while they are working. When it is time to reire they sell up. Hopefully they have enough equity to buy a country house outright. Houses in central towns are still fetching big money and sell easily.

So is it true property crashed 80% from peak long term?

I can believe that about the the masses not knowing what`s really happening at the crippled plant.

That`s why I asked you about the news, how much are they covering it.

We have friends in Tokyo, talk to them every week. Japanese TV is all laughing comedians trying to distract the masses from the truth.

They never reported that last worker who died at the plant from `unknown causes` last week, not even an update that radiation levels have doubled again.

They definitely will not report the mutated rabbit born near the plant.


Sibley are you drinking tap water? Or is it bottled water either from abroad or more than 4 months old for you?

FTBFun

Poshbird wrote: »

Well they already had the story of the 2-head baby girl out of Japan.....what next!

and when they say it is twice as bad, it really means it is fifty times as bad.


Will we ever know the truth about the amount of radiation leaked from this accident?

God bless to the peeps of japan.

Woah woah woah.....a 2 head baby girl?

Are you mental?

Really2

Poshbird wrote: »

Well they already had the story of the 2-head baby girl out of Japan.....what next!

LOL

The gestation period of a human is 9 month. You are pretty much fully formed before three months.
So even if it was true it is not possible the extra head would be from the radiation but a natural abnormality.

tomterm8

And weird things like earless rabbits are actually common. Genetics in action.

chewmylegoff

Sibley wrote: »

The attitude here is weird. My friend lives in town center but has no plans to ever pay off his mortgage. He told me they just pay down the mortgage while they are working. When it is time to reire they sell up. Hopefully they have enough equity to buy a country house outright. Houses in central towns are still fetching big money and sell easily.

that attitude is not particularly weird in the context that his mortgage term is probably between 50-100 years, which of course you would understand if you weren't just making up your "mega insightful real life field report" as you went along.