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Good morning Fukushima.
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everydaymacro · 3 months
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12/17撮影 福島県 白い家と小さな島
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shatterstar · 10 months
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why is the general stance on the oppenheimer film so negative. Is it just biopic fatigue or are people mad about the specific subject? Is Robert Oppenheimer considered Problematic? Is it just because the release date is the same as barbie because I think that’s hilarious
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m-ushroomtale · 7 months
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Japan is DUMPING 1m Tonnes of RADIOACTIVE Water in the Ocean... (2023.08.29.)
In this video, we're giving you the latest news about Japan releasing 1 million tonnes of radioactive water into the ocean. This is huge news and the western media has been silent on the issue. Why? China has banned Japanese seafood from being exported, and the western media is finally beginning to talk about the issue. Japan is dumping nuclear wastewater into the ocean and the western media is letting them get away with it. It's time for us to stand up and demand change!
#2 secs in2 vid n i'm already laughing lmao leave it 2 jason. this man is ours btw he's our guy hhh i'd trust him like i'd trust a chinese#btw there is a geopolitical n economic side 2 this. i'm 2 lazy 2 translate it. but basically the us is allowing this once again 2 stop#asia fr rising. surrounding the pacific r the biggest economies + biggest populations on earth (cn ru jp kr asean au nz pacific islands)#if we had our own economic ecosystem we'd b unstoppable! but if the pacific becomes a sewer the atlantic would become the only#'clean ocean' that is surrounded literally by world powers. europe would b inclined 2 join hands w the us again. the us doesn't hav#port cities on the west coast like china does on our east coast facing the pacific! all the impt economic centers in the us r on the east#n agriculture is in the center. japan doesn't care also they've bought enough brazilian land 2 mov entire population 2 brazil if they want#japanese seafood is now banned in china. all we can do now is concentrated boycott on all japanese products like a manual embargo#2 get them 2 fucking stop cos they say they'll hav 2 do this 4 at least 30 yrs but mayb they'll do it 4 50 / even 100 yrs u kno y#COS RN NOBODY KNOS WAT'S GOING ON IN THE FUKUSHIMA POWER PLANT NOBODY GOES IN THERE COS U'LL DIE ALSO MACHINES CAN'T GO IN#SO RN THEY'RE KEEPING THE REACTOR COOLED BY AN UNLIMITED SUPPLY OF WATER *INDEFINITELY* N THIS WATER WILL *ALL*#EVENTUALLY B DUMPED STRAIGHT IN2 THE PACIFIC!!! JSYK HOW SHAMELESS THE JAPANESE R. this is the most insane it's literally beyond evil#it's even worse than capitalists in the west who r destroying the environment 4 mor money! THIS IS JUST DESTROYING THE ENVIRONMENT *PERIOD*#70 bln jpy has been alloted 4 'public relations uwu' wrt this issue n some chinese influencers hav received emails 4 money in exchange#4 promoting pro-japan. some of us think japan paid asean 2 stfu (like 4 japan ww2 atrocities) cos asean will b most affected yet not a word#CHRIST. FUCKASLKD so much hatred. wat abt our fishermen... wat abt the ocean life! wat abt the dolphins the whales the coral reefs#that westerners r so ~UWU~ abt when the news is abt china? where is di caprio? where r all the hyprocrites??? hav SO MUCH hatred honestly#1st time in their political lives CHINESE UNANIMOUSLY PROTESTED AGAINST A POLICY N *WERE IGNORED*. cos it's not chinese govt. FUCK JAPAN!!!#japan#environmental protection#youtube#living in china#video
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hucco-lotus · 7 months
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I don't want to make this blog about politics or any current issues, but just saying, as a marine science student living in Asia who will most definitely be affected by the release of treated wastewater, I don't want to hear shit from people who are in zero proximity to this issue, especially not white American Tumblr users.
Stop calling us bitches for being scared for our lives. Yes, TEPCO has claimed that it's been properly treated way below the safe drinking levels, but we don't have enough research to 100% confirm that it's safe. Several fishermen's and marine scientists' associations have voiced their concern over this, and governmental bodies have lied or made oversights before.
No, it's not right to demonize Japan over this, especially as many of its citizens and most importantly its fishing communities have strongly opposed this action. But you will live your entire life completely unaffected by this. We will not. We don't have a choice.
We have a right to feel devastated. We have a right to be scared, to be concerned. Stop speaking over the people directly affected by this.
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silhouettecrow · 8 months
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365 Days Of Writing Prompts: Day 202
Adjective: Condemned
Noun: Island
Definitions for those who need/want them:
Condemned: sentenced to a particular punishment, especially death; officially declared unfit for use
Island: a piece of land surrounded by water; a thing resembling an island, especially in being isolated, detached, or surrounded in some way; a freestanding kitchen cupboard unit with a countertop, allowing access from all sides; (anatomy) a detached portion of tissue or group of cells
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murasakikagekitsune · 10 months
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Countryhuman Original Character: The Embodiment of Nuclear Technology
I don't have a name for him yet, but here's some outfits he's worn to several nuclear-powered incidents around the world.
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The Los Alamos Trinity tests
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Hiroshima, Nagasaki and Fukushima
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Chernobyl
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Three Mile Island
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The Bikini Atoll tests
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Watching the Three Mile Island documentary, and it honestly a shame that we can’t utilize nuclear power. It is actually cleaner and safer than fossil fuels (coal fired power plants produce 100 times more atmospheric radiation than a nuclear plant producing the same amount of energy), especially with how far safety technology has come since the 70s
However, the biggest factor is human greed. There was warning of potential danger in other plants, and how to prevent them, before Three Mile Island, which was ignored. The company in charge of clean up refused to spend money to ensure that equipment was safe to use, nearly causing another catastrophe of it hadn’t been exposed. In Japan, the operator of the power plant blatantly ignored warnings of a future earthquake/tsunami and never improved their defenses
Don’t get me wrong, I am a huge supporter of renewable energy. I much prefer investing into that over nuclear. But it would have been a nice transition away from more harmful sources like coal and oil. It sucks that we can’t have nice things because companies care more about money than doing things safely
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josiebelladonna · 2 years
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totally showing my age here but someone should make a compilation video of various nuclear incidents (chernobyl, three mile island, fukushima, bikini atoll, kyshtym disaster, etc.) and arrange it in a way that’s not bashing nuclear power but have it be a critique of corporate greed and incompetence, and also set it to damageplan’s “fuck you.”
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Bikini Atoll: Nuclear tests, Swimsuits and SpongeBob
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In 1945, shortly after World War II, the Cold War began which saw the U.S and the Soviet Union engage in a race to build nuclear weapons. The U.S chose to test nuclear weapons on Bikini Atoll.
Bikini Atoll (roughly meaning "coconut place") is a coral reef in the Marshall Islands. It was chosen due to its remote location away from air and sea traffic. Navy Commodore Ben H. Wyatt, who was the military governor of the Marshall Islands, made an appeal to the Bikinians. He told them that their land was needed for "the good of mankind and to end all world wars." They were not fully informed of the nuclear tests and believed that they would soon be able to return to their homes, and so they agreed to move.
The U.S. government constantly relocated the Bikini islanders from one island to another providing them with minimum support. They were plagued with malnutrition (due to inadequate food and water supply) and starvation.
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Meanwhile, over 42,000 US military personnel, 242 naval ships, 156 planes and 5,400 experimental rats, goats, and pigs had landed on Bikini Atoll to begin nuclear testing. The U.S detonated 23 nuclear devices between 1946 and 1958 at seven test sites. The test weapons were detonated on the reef itself, on the sea, in the air and underwater. On March 1, 1954, a detonation on Bikini Atoll known as “Bravo” created an explosion equivalent to 1,000 Hiroshima-sized bombs.
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In the 1970s, the Atomic Energy Commission declared Bikini Atoll “virtually free of radiation”, and the Bikinians were told to return to their island. They were reassured that the well water and locally-grown food were safe to consume. However, eight years later scientists confirmed that the island actually still contained dangerous levels of radiation and the Bikinians were forced to leave permanently. The radiation levels today still far exceed levels considered to be habitable, and are even higher than those at Chernobyl and Fukushima.
The link to 'SpongeBob'
There are many cartoon theories about SpongeBob SquarePants, Bikini Bottom being a nuclear test site actually holds some truth. It has been confirmed that Bikini Bottom is located beneath Bikini Atoll. One fan theory has it that SpongeBob and his collection of weird and wonderful friends are the result of mutations caused by radiation on Bikini Atoll above them.
The link to the 'Bikini'
Two French designers rivalled to create the world’s smallest suit: Jacques Heim debuted the “Atome,” named after the atom; while Louis Réard came up with an even tinier creation called the “Bikini.” Réard thought his invention was as ‘small and devastating’ as the atom bomb, and named it after this infamous location on the other side of the planet, hoping to capitalize on the attention the tests received.
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pillsburysoyboy · 1 year
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If you want to know what propaganda looks like in action, look at how discussion of Three Mile Island and Fukushima plays out in comparison to Chernobyl.
Chernobyl discussions emphasize both the horribly flawed design of the RBMK reactor and operator error. Discussions of Fukushima and TMI almost always focus solely on operator error, not the design of the plants.
You often hear how TMI operators misread water levels but you rarely hear why that happened. It's because the pressure head of the reactor, which was the most common place to read the water level, was built with a god damned u-bend in it that trapped a steam bubble at the top of the reactor while leaving the water level appearing high. You also hear about how a stuck valve was the cause of the problem, but you rarely hear that it was a too-clever-by-half design that was known at the time to stick open, but that this information was withheld from operators. Remember: operator error is almost always the result of poor training or information withheld from operators.
If you've watched almost anything about Chernobyl, you'll have heard that it lacked a containment vessel for overpressure, blast, and radiation leaks the way western reactors do. What you generally don't hear is that westner Boiling Water Reactors, like the kind used at Fukushima, are mostly built with a steel containment vessel which was deeply controversial at GE. In fact, three members of the design team resigned in protest over its use due to concerns that the rapid change in pressure that would accompany a meltdown would cause the containment vessel to tear itself to pieces, which is exactly what happened in Fukushima. (Operator error also played a part here.)
Let it be known that i am 110% pro-nuclear power. I bring these issues up not to indict nuclear power as a whole, nor to absolve the RBMK reactor, but to indict the corporate, capitalist mindset that prioritizes the profits of massive companies like GE, Westinghouse, and Babcock & Wilcox over safety and the advancement of nuclear power.
You are not immune to propaganda
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Silver forest.
Fukushima, Japan.
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kit10phish · 7 months
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The Dyatlov Pass incident- Dangers of Nuclear Power Plants [Prequel II]
Energy is dangerous! Here is some information to put nuclear energy into perspective with other energy sources. https://e360.yale.edu/features/why-nuclear-power-must-be-part-of-the-energy-solution-environmentalists-climate coal: oil: natural gas: biomass: hydropower: wind: solar: https://ourworldindata.org/
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xtruss · 7 months
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US ‘Satisfied’ with Japan’s Dumping Nuclear-Contaminated Water Betrays Its Image as Global Leader in Environment Protection: Observers
— Global Times Staff Reporters | August 26, 2023
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Illustration: Liu Rui/Global Times
Defying mounting opposition and contrary to its self-styled image as a global leader in environment protection, the US Department of State endorsed Tokyo's controversial dumping of nuclear-contaminated water into the ocean, saying the US is "satisfied with Japan's safe, transparent, and science-based process."
Endorsing Japan's selfish and irresponsible practice that harms world environment and health of human beings in the planet, the US trampled on its own image as a leader in global environment protection, exposing its selfishness and hypocrisy of prioritizing its geopolitical interests above the long-term well-being of the people around the world, observers reached by the Global Times said.
As the US publicly backs the Japanese government's plan to dump contaminated water into the ocean, media reports quoting data from Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries of Japan revealed that the US was making the biggest moves in decreasing imports of agricultural and aquatic products from Japan in the first half of 2023.
Data showed that the US is the country that reduced the imports of Japanese agriculture, forestry and fisheries the most in the first half of the year, and the main production areas of the three kinds of food are all in the affected areas of the dumping of nuclear contaminated water, according to media reports.
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Intl Community Condemns Japan's Irresponsible Dumping. Global Times, August 25th, 2023. Fijians take to the street to protest against Japan's dumping of nuclear-contaminated wastewater on August 25, 2023 in Suva, Fiji. Fijian media reported that a coalition of NGOs asked the Fijian government, and other Pacific Islands countries, to call for international action to stop Japan's planned dumping. Photo: VCG
In an apparent political gesture, US Ambassador to Japan Rahm Emanuel claimed to eat fish from Fukushima to show support for Tokyo's decision during his visit to the region on August 31.
Though being well-aware of the risks brought by the nuclear-contaminated water to surrounding oceans and the entire global environment, the US has succumbed to its political interests and is going against its image portrayed as a leading role for environment protection activist, Lü Chao, an expert on Korean Peninsula issues at the Liaoning Academy of Social Sciences, told the Global Times on Saturday.
"It is hilarious to see the hypocrisy and double standards held by the US by covering up Japan's extremely selfish and irresponsible wrongdoing," Lü said.
"Acts and deeds from the US show that it purely considers Japan's act of harming global environment and human beings of all countries from a geopolitical perspective. The US's real intention is to tie Japan to its chariot of geopolitical games," Li Haidong, a professor at the China Foreign Affairs University, told the Global Times on Saturday.
Without the indulgence of the US, the Japanese decision on dumping of nuclear-polluted water would not have been so arbitrary. Japan opened a Pandora's box on Thursday with the strong backing of the US, allowing crisis to plague other countries and the international community, Li added.
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China Suspends All Aquatic Products From Japan Over Fukushima Nuclear ☢️ Contaminated Water Dumping. In this aerial image, nuclear-contaminated water is released from the Tokyo Electric Power Co (TEPCO) Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant into the ocean on August 24, 2023 in Okuma, Fukushima, Japan. Photo: VCG
Amid wide opposition and outcry from the Chinese public that the contaminated-water would eventually pose health risks to products from Japan, the Japanese Embassy in China issued a statement on the Japanese edition page on Friday, reminding Japanese staying in China of being careful not to speak Japanese loudly outside their homes as the possibility of encountering accidents cannot be ruled out.
The reminder triggered strong backlash among Chinese netizens late Friday, with many saying "it is the Japanese government we are opposing not the Japanese people" and some accused Japanese government of attempting to divert attention from being targeted due to its insistence on dumping contaminated water.
Lü told the Global Times Tokyo's hype over the safety of Japanese nationals in China servers its purpose of packaging itself as a victim caught in a cycle of deteriorating China-Japan ties and isolating China in its foreign policy while catering to the US' Asia-Pacific strategy to counter China.
Japanese farm minister Tetsuro Nomura on Friday even expressed his surprise that China was taking the responsive measures by suspending imports of aquatic products from Japan, Mainichi Shimbun reported, saying he was "very surprised and completely unexpected."
Chinese Ambassador to Japan Wu Jianghao had said China's decision to suspend imports of aquatic products from Japan is reasonable and necessary. The responsibility for this situation lies entirely with Japan, and Japan should reflect on its own actions, Ambassador Wu said.
Japan's actions have provoked strong opposition in China, protest against its dumping the contaminated water into the sea has been mounted in South Korea, with lawmakers of the Democratic Party and the Justice Party planning to visit Fukushima from Sunday and Monday, according to the National Assembly on Thursday.
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wildmonkeysects · 11 months
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On the anniversary of the Chernobyl meltdown.
There are three major problem areas with nukes: when they are running, when they are melting, and after they have been decommissioned.
Ukraine’s other Chernobyl waiting to happen.
https://www.euronews.com/next/2023/03/31/chernobyl-fukushima-europe-prepared-nuclear-disaster-ukraine-earthquake-meltdown-radiation
Meltdowns are 200 times more likely than originally presumed.
https://scitechdaily.com/likelihood-of-nuclear-accident-200-times-greater-than-previously-thought/
There are routine releases during operation, resulting in a teardrop shaped cancer cluster downwind. Want to be a statistic?
https://news.stanford.edu/2022/05/30/small-modular-reactors-produce-high-levels-nuclear-waste/
Finland has the only deep underground repository for wastes on the planet. Everywhere else, it is left in vulnerable cooling tanks onsite. (Above the reactor in the GE design that was Fukushima, still operational in dozens of places waiting for disaster.)
As a bonus, they are a step in producing weapons grade material for either boom booms or dirty bombs.
Other than that, a great Rube Goldberg idea to boil water so we can waste electrical energy rather than learn to be more efficient. Got to keep those used car lots lit up at night to keep the baseline load.
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firstapo · 6 months
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Those zombies are just the poor souls you drained! They were just trying to warn us so that we wouldn't suffer the same fate they did!
SCOOBY DOO ON ZOMBIE ISLAND 1998 — dir. Jim Stenstrum, Hiroshi Aoyama, Kazumi Fukushima
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