Posted on 09/05/2013 2:50:30 PM PDT by TigerLikesRooster
Tokyo, September 5, 2013
Updated: September 5, 2013 11:49 IST
Fukushima woes force Japan to defend Olympic bid
Japan’s failed attempts to contain the country’s worst nuclear disaster are raising concerns that the crisis could scupper Tokyo’s chances of hosting the 2020 Olympic Games.
The crisis at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station has intensified just as the International Olympic Committee (IOC) prepares to decide at its meeting in Argentina this weekend which city will host the world’s most prestigious sporting event.
Akira Amari, state minister in charge of economic recovery, said on TV Asahi on Tuesday night that the government would spend ¥ 47 billion ($ 470 million) to tackle Japan’s “national crisis,” referring to the latest leak at the plant.
Last week, the Nuclear Regulation Authority increased the severity of the leak from level 1 to level 3, or “serious incident,” following the discovery of 300 tonnes of leaked radioactive water from a storage tank.
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I have a better chance of being elected Pope than Tokyo has of getting the Olympics. My gut feeling is that they are just going through the motions. Nobody really expects Japan to win this. Especially not Japan.
Japan wants to print money and waste it on infrastructure projects like buiding for the Olympics, but it will do absolutely nothing for the economy, and will help to collapse the economy even faster. Looking at recent photos of the towns hit by the tsunami, they aren't even rebuilding those towns. Why build an olympic village?
Areas of old Tokyo with the most architectural interest and character will be the first torn down and ‘renovated’ in the name of Olympic fever. I very much hope this does not come off.
Korea is on the way up and Japan is on the way down — In the mind of US consumers of electronics and automobiles etc. One is winning at the expense of the other (kind of) This must gall the Japanese who have always looked down their snoot at the Koreans
#2 Fukishima is effecting the Nipponese psyche and depressing it a bit as though a dark cloud is over the Japanese islands. If Fukishima gets worse feeling this of bad luck (Japanese are superstitious) will get worse and could get much worse. Add to this a below population replacement birth rate and...
They could to move it to the winter games and use the big glowing ice block for night time ski events.
Maybe they don’t really want to host the Olympics but want to portray Japan as being comfortably in an economic position to host and as having Fukushima so well under control?
This seems to be forcing Japan to recognize that mistakes were made and that it is an international environmental crisis, possibly needing international advice and help. My own impression is that Japan has been reluctant to get to this stage up until now.
Anyone have reliable info on where the corium cores are now?
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