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Comment by mystery on March 10, 2014 at 6:54am

We are dead and just don't know it yet. The southern hemisphere may survive. As time goes on though it will get harder and harder to feed yourself, without the ocean. 2/3rds of the population, period, that is the plan. DP said a mouth full.

Comment by B or D on March 10, 2014 at 12:55am

Sure isn't the first time they have had problems in Japan with this type of stuff

December 1995Eight tonnes of sodium coolant leak from a pipe at the Monju experimental fast-breeder reactor, run by the now-defunct Power Reactor and Nuclear Fuel Development Corporation (Donen). Monju's m anagers tell the Japan Science and Technology Agency that the leak was discovered 8 hours later than was actually the case, and supply a doctored video excluding the worst of the spill. The attempted cover-up causes public outrage.

March 1997

An explosion rocks the Tokaimura waste reprocessing facility, triggered by a fires in a building where waste is mixed with asphalt for storage in drums. Donen officials initially report radiation levels 20 per cent above normal outside the building, but later admit that the true level of contamination was at least 10 times higher. Seven maintenance staff are later found to have been out playing golf.

May 1998

The Japanese parliament passes a bill to reconstitute the discredited Donen as the Japan Nuclear Fuel Cycle Development Institute, monitored by an independent panel of experts. This in turn became part of the Japan Atomic Energy Agency in 2005.

July 1999

Twenty tonnes of radioactive water leaks from a cracked pipe at the Tsuruga power station, run by the Japan Atomic Power Company. Although the leak was contained within the plant, elevated radiation levels mean that clean-up workers can only spend only 3 hours a day in the area.

September 1999

In what is billed as the worst nuclear accident since Chernobyl, three reprocessing workers at Tokaimura inadvertently create a critical mass of uranium, severely irradiating themselves and triggering chain reactions that continue for several hours.

International safety experts are flabbergasted to learn that the workers were pouring a solution of uranium oxide in nitric acid into a sedimentation tank by hand, using buckets. JCO, the company that now runs the facility, and the Japanese government are criticised both for allowing such a dangerous procedure and for a sluggish response to the incident.

December 1999

Hisashi Ouchi, one of the workers irradiated in the Tokaimura criticality accident, dies after three months in intensive care; his colleague Masato Shinohara perishes four months later.

October 2000

Six managers from JCO are arrested and charged with professional negligence for failing to prevent the dangerous procedures that triggered the chain reaction at Tokaimura.

September 2002

Freshly revealed reports from the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), dating from the 1990s, describe safety precautions at Japanese nuclear reactors as dangerously weak. IAEA inspectors visited four reactors in 1992 and 1995, finding 90 deficiencies in safety procedures.

The revelation follows the confession by four companies – TEPCO, Chubu Electric Power, Japan Atomic Power and Tohoku Electric Power – that they concealed flaws in their reactors from government regulators.

August 2004

In the deadliest workplace incident for Japan's nuclear industry, a steam leak from a power turbine at the Mihama plant kills four people and injures seven. There is no radiation leak, but the Kansai Electric Power Company is criticised for failing to inspect the failed pipe.

Comment by B or D on March 10, 2014 at 12:43am

It has hit the fan. It's just so unbelievable that nothing is being said in the US about this anymore, very little anyways. Something needs to be done. Wow... is all I can say.... Seems this isn't only Japans problem. This is EVERYONES problem.  

Comment by B or D on March 10, 2014 at 12:32am

Nuclear Reactor Map.

Unit 4 currently holds more than 1,500 spent nuclear fuel rods, and a collective 37 million curies of deadly radiation that, if released, could make much of the world completely uninhabitable This is crazy.

Comment by mystery on March 9, 2014 at 6:47pm

Today marks 3 years ( at 100,000 tons a day of toxic waste water dumping into the Pacific ) since the Fukushima disaster.

Comment by 14300 on March 9, 2014 at 8:35am

California coastline will be a biohazard zone and people who live there will be forced to move elsewhere.

This is a global catastrophic event!

Comment by Sweettina2 on November 6, 2013 at 11:57pm

This is gonna be catastrophic. ...sharing.

Comment by Maria De Wind on November 6, 2013 at 8:22pm