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Steam coming from Fukushima Unit 3 reactor building

13 points by adulau 13y ago

reirob 13y ago
There is another link posted yesterday that got unnoticed: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6986333 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6986333 The articles seem to be from 28th December. How comes that no big media coverage happened? At least in Europe I did not hear anything.
- harshreality 13y ago
  At the bottom of this article there's a link to a news piece over 3 months ago stating frequent steam plumes seen (mid-Sept). Even if the situation is escalating, it's difficult to generate news audience interest something that was happening 3 months ago... not without real data, at least. Who is monitoring Fukushima right now? Just [lying] TEPCO? Where is/are the data?
- reirob 13y ago
  Update by a watchblog: http://ex-skf.blogspot.de/2013/12/ot-is-this-level-of-understanding-on.html http://ex-skf.blogspot.de/2013/12/ot-is-this-level-of-unders...
mggeral 13y ago
When reading some of these stories, I try to understand people's motivations and background (or here the website/station). http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hal_Turner http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hal_Turner I'd also like to see some details from or credentials of the "experts" cited in the assertion that this is a meltdown.
- iterationx 13y ago
  Why not just come out and say it? The radio network is owned by Hal Turner who is according to wikipedia a "Holocaust Denier" so therefore nothing that is presented on his network should be listened to by the upstanding moral citizenry.
  - mggeral 13y ago
    Not sure if that's an attempt to troll but I'll answer. Just take stuff on TNN with a grain of salt. The supposed holocaust denial is in the first Wikipedia paragraph (and I admit that these accusations are usually used to stop discussion), but keep reading... He's had a few run-ins with the government including threatening three federal appellate judges and being generally "provocative". The website seems to have an anti-government sentiment in general and reading some of the other stories (US West Coast uninhabitable by 2016/2017 afair - if true, good bye SV and YC) I'd take this with a grain of salt. That said, I bought iodine pills in 2011 and kept them around. Steam from reactor 3 is probably not good and neither is the radioactive wastewater that runs into our oceans.

13 points by adulau 13y ago

There is another link posted yesterday that got unnoticed: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6986333 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6986333 The articles seem to be from 28th December. How comes that no big media coverage happened? At least in Europe I did not hear anything.

harshreality 13y ago
At the bottom of this article there's a link to a news piece over 3 months ago stating frequent steam plumes seen (mid-Sept). Even if the situation is escalating, it's difficult to generate news audience interest something that was happening 3 months ago... not without real data, at least. Who is monitoring Fukushima right now? Just [lying] TEPCO? Where is/are the data?
reirob 13y ago
Update by a watchblog: http://ex-skf.blogspot.de/2013/12/ot-is-this-level-of-understanding-on.html http://ex-skf.blogspot.de/2013/12/ot-is-this-level-of-unders...

mggeral 13y ago

When reading some of these stories, I try to understand people's motivations and background (or here the website/station). http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hal_Turner http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hal_Turner I'd also like to see some details from or credentials of the "experts" cited in the assertion that this is a meltdown.

iterationx 13y ago
Why not just come out and say it? The radio network is owned by Hal Turner who is according to wikipedia a "Holocaust Denier" so therefore nothing that is presented on his network should be listened to by the upstanding moral citizenry.
- mggeral 13y ago
  Not sure if that's an attempt to troll but I'll answer. Just take stuff on TNN with a grain of salt. The supposed holocaust denial is in the first Wikipedia paragraph (and I admit that these accusations are usually used to stop discussion), but keep reading... He's had a few run-ins with the government including threatening three federal appellate judges and being generally "provocative". The website seems to have an anti-government sentiment in general and reading some of the other stories (US West Coast uninhabitable by 2016/2017 afair - if true, good bye SV and YC) I'd take this with a grain of salt. That said, I bought iodine pills in 2011 and kept them around. Steam from reactor 3 is probably not good and neither is the radioactive wastewater that runs into our oceans.