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By Bahamut.Dasva 2011-03-12 06:56:24
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Shiva.Flionheart said:
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So forgive my ignorance on the matter, but will the nuclear fallout have any effect on the USA if ***gets bad?
Nope. Well other than maybe some of our bases over there. But from last reports doesn't look like there will be any really.
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Just woke up; so did one of te plants blow up or someting?><
There was some kind of explosion in one of the buildings. Probably steam explosion last I heard
That's good to know at least. I saw a map showing nuclear fallout if the plant melted down that showed it reaching the US and some people on the german news were saying it was possible it could have large effects on other countries, but my lack of knowledge into the matter left me unaware if it was real or media hype.
Meh even chernobyl just spread thru lots of asia and europe and it was huge and there was decent winds at the time. Even if for some ungodly reason it did it would be so dispersed it wouldn't even compare to the radioactive isotopes all around you in your everyday life. But yeah from japan to USA is a long way for what is essentially dust and steam to fly lol.
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By Bahamut.Dasva 2011-03-12 06:58:01
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Wow@ the facebook thing>_> Holy ***
My favorite was "those damn krauts deserve to be hit with by a earthquake tsunami for NUKING pearl harbor"... seriously do they even teach history anymore? Jps= krauts? And they apparently had nukes?
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By Shiva.Flionheart 2011-03-12 06:59:33
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Yeah lol, excuse my ignorance on the matter I honestly have no knowledge on it at all.
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By Phoenix.Uzugami 2011-03-12 07:00:10
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Wow@ the facebook thing>_> Holy ***
My favorite was "those damn krauts deserve to be hit with by a earthquake tsunami for NUKING pearl harbor"... seriously do they even teach history anymore? Jps= krauts? And they apparently had nukes?

Yeah...I don't know lol God people are stupid.
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By Bahamut.Dasva 2011-03-12 07:02:11
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Lol I looked up some of the people on that... and apparently some of them are trying to play it off as a joke... hey guys I was just trolling :)
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By Bahamut.Dasva 2011-03-12 07:03:36
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Or Is a Haarp War going on?
I lol'd
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By Phoenix.Uzugami 2011-03-12 07:04:57
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Are parts of japan still without power? :( Havn't heard from my friends on facebook yet
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By Shiva.Flionheart 2011-03-12 07:05:00
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Lol I looked up some of the people on that... and apparently some of them are trying to play it off as a joke... hey guys I was just trolling :)

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By Bahamut.Dasva 2011-03-12 07:07:12
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Are parts of japan still without power? :( Havn't heard from my friends on facebook yet
As of a couple of hours ago yeah. Probably will be for awhile considering how much of there power comes from these plants.
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By Cerberus.Liandaru 2011-03-12 07:08:12
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1252: Japan's Fuji TV has run a screen caption saying that as many as 10,000 people are missing in the town of Minamisanriku in Miyagi prefecture.

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1254: And Kyodo news has published photos of Rikuzentakata, where hundreds of people are feared dead. They show houses smashed to fragments - a scene of total devastation.

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1257: Peter Old, of search and rescue charity RapidUK, told the BBC's World Service that while most people think of tsunamis as made of water, by the time the wave reaches inland, it is more like a mudslide. "Those people that would have been on the ground are likely not to have survived," he said.

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By Cerberus.Liandaru 2011-03-12 07:08:55
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1305: The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) says Japanese authorities are making preparations to distribute iodine to residents in the area of both the Fukushima nuclear plants. The IAEA has reiterated its offer of technical assistance to Japan, should the government request this.
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By Bahamut.Dasva 2011-03-12 07:15:20
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1305: The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) says Japanese authorities are making preparations to distribute iodine to residents in the area of both the Fukushima nuclear plants. The IAEA has reiterated its offer of technical assistance to Japan, should the government request this.
Woot for bandaid for radio-iodine exposure
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By Cerberus.Liandaru 2011-03-12 07:17:23
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There's a line at the bottom of the screen that's saying that the radiation level dropped after the blast.
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By Cerberus.Liandaru 2011-03-12 07:21:52
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1316: Noriyuki Shikata, deputy cabinet secretary for public relations for the Japanese prime minister tweets: "Blast was caused by accumulated hydrogen combined with oxygen in the space between container and outer structure. No damage to container."
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By Cerberus.Liandaru 2011-03-12 07:22:35
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1318: Newsreader on Japan's NHK says: "Right now we are feeling an aftershock."
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1316: Noriyuki Shikata, deputy cabinet secretary for public relations for the Japanese prime minister tweets: "Blast was caused by accumulated hydrogen combined with oxygen in the space between container and outer structure. No damage to container."

That's a relief atleast
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By Cerberus.Liandaru 2011-03-12 07:23:54
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1320: Noriyuki Shikata, from Japanese PM's office tweets: "TEPCO's [Tokyo Electric Power Company] efforts to depressurize the container was successful. Additional measures are now taken tonight using sea water and boric acid. "
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By Cerberus.Liandaru 2011-03-12 07:25:35
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I'm not totally educated in the matter, but what is the deal with potassium iodide?
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By Cerberus.Liandaru 2011-03-12 07:26:35
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1323: From Kyodo news: 9,500 people unaccounted for in Miyagi's Minamisanriku: local gov't.
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By Bahamut.Dasva 2011-03-12 07:29:43
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I'm not totally educated in the matter, but what is the deal with potassium iodide?
It's really the iodide that matters. Basically your thyroid loves to absorb iodide and keep it there for a decent amount of time. I-131 is a common fission product gas in reactors and is radioactive. Therefore if you basically bloat your thyroid with non radioactive iodide it will be less likely to absorb the radioactive iodide and you should piss it out relatively quickly. Of course the amounts of iodide for that aren't exactly healthy lol.
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By Cerberus.Liandaru 2011-03-12 07:32:12
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1326: The BBC's Rachel Harvey reports: "Have reached Sendai. Downtown looks OK. Power, traffic moving. Couple of patches of glass damage. Train station is closed - yellow tape across entrance. Stopped at petrol station about 40km outside city - rationing. 20 litres per vehicle."
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By Cerberus.Liandaru 2011-03-12 07:34:09
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1330: A magnitude 6 earthquake hit Fukushima at 2215 (1315GMT) on Saturday, Japan's NHK reports.
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By Cerberus.Liandaru 2011-03-12 07:38:47
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1335: Robert works in the Fukushima district. He contacted to the BBC describing his decision to leave the area: "We have heard that some areas of the prefecture have been evacuated, but we were not asked to leave. We were staying some 90km away from the power plant. But three friends and I decided we would feel a lot safer if we moved further away from the plant. So all four of us drove 45 minutes south, and are now staying in a hotel. I didn't see any sign of panic on the roads, there seemed to be as much traffic travelling in the opposite direction. Things are disturbing because there is a lack of information. And as a foreigner it's even harder to work out what is fact and what is hearsay."
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By Cerberus.Liandaru 2011-03-12 07:44:24
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1341: A bit more from Japanese PM Naoto Kan. He says more than 3,000 people have so far been rescued following the quake.
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By Cerberus.Liandaru 2011-03-12 07:47:33
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1344: The Washington Post's Chico Harlan tweets: "Big aftershock right now. Screen shaking as I type."
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By Cerberus.Liandaru 2011-03-12 07:52:20
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1349: A team from the National Institute of Radiological Sciences has been despatched to Fukushima as a precaution, reports NHK. It is reportedly made up of doctors, nurses and other individuals with expertise in dealing with radiation exposure, and has been taken by helicopter to a base 5km from the nuclear plant.
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By Bahamut.Dasva 2011-03-12 07:57:15
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1149: A team from the National Institute of Radiological Sciences has been despatched to Fukushima as a precaution, reports NHK. It is reportedly made up of doctors, nurses and other individuals with expertise in dealing with radiation exposure, and has been taken by helicopter to a base 5km from the nuclear plant.
More of a reassurance really. Maybe increased monitoring. We can't really reverse the effects of radiation. I'm more reassured by the fact they are making the base that close
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By Cerberus.Liandaru 2011-03-12 07:58:18
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1355: At least 1.4m homes are without water following the quake, according to government officials. 59 water trucks have been sent to the worst-hit areas. Some 3m are without power and utility companies say it will take some time to restore supplies.
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By Cerberus.Liandaru 2011-03-12 07:59:31
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It seems they have the nuclear situation under control. They aren't really talking about that so much now.
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