Posted on 04/03/2011 4:57:59 PM PDT by SteveH
Due to the Tohoku-Taiheiyou-Oki Earthquake which occurred on March 11th 2011, two TEPCO employees, who had been working at the turbine building of Unit 4 for site investigation, went missing. We had put all our strengths to search them, and approximately at 3:25 pm and at 3:53 pm, today, March 30th, 2011, those employees were found at the basement of the turbine building and we confirmed their death yesterday. We would like to offer our deep regret that our workers died while working at the plant and heartfelt condolences to the bereaved families.
[Deceased Employees of TEPCO]
Kazuhiko Kokubo (Age: 24) Operation Management Department One, Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station Yoshiki Terashima (Age: 21) Operation Management Department One, Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station
Not to make fun of a bad situation, but to find them they need to look at night with no flashlights.
They’ll be glowing.
Is this a dead worker in this video or just some piece of debris
http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/13684184
You can see it at the beginning
Nope. That video is of one of the reactors, and these two men were apparently found in the turbine building.
I listened to a report today on reckless cleanup at Chernobyl. Workers would have to climb up and restore a new Red flag when the radiation would eat the one flying at the facility.
The Soviets, early on, sent a man in shirt sleeves to do work. By the end of the day, he was so heavily filled with poison, that in the hospital when his fiancee would visit he would cough up bits of his organs. She went in to stay with him even though the nurses warned her the dangers. He was given an orange. He asked if she would like it as he knew she loved oranges. Then he would dose off again as heavily sedated. She took it against medical advice as it was high in radiation, because she loved him and wanted to stay positive when near him. His skin peeled off. I believe there is a book now on this Chernobyl victim which she has written.
I can’t remember if it was a Freeper on a thread or someone on the news right after the EQ saying their husband (from the U.S. - Alabama or some other Southern state) that was over there working at the nuke site and was missing. Just FYI for all in case it was a Freeper.
I didn’t say it was the same workers. I know the others were found in the basement and have said so in posts.
I asked if that was a dead worker in that video.
Note: Green Peace has been monitoring the radiation to insure TEPCO is being truthful, and have found they are being accurate.
Jumper at Chernobyl
http://af.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idAFTRE73206N20110403?pageNumber=1&virtualBrandChannel=0
Opps - I should have read the article (Naw!) and seen that the deceased are Japanese. Probably local. (And young! That surprised me for some reason.)
Those Greenpeace workers were not protecting themselves in an adequate fashion if their geiger counters were correct.
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Meanwhile, the Reactor with the MOX fuel
“I don’t know if we can ever enter the No. 3 reactor building again,” Hikaru Kuroda, the company’s chief of nuclear facility management, said at a press conference.”
As Chinese continue to speculate that there was a weapons program going on and thus the reason why TEPCO has done such a seemingly horrible job at managing this disaster...while still others postulate that it was the stuxnet worm that created the havoc after the Tsunami hit.
Stuxnet was found in Japan
http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/dy/national/T101004003493.htm
That type of news and/or rumors will really set the Chinese off. Going to be some late nights at PLA headquarters, just thinking thru the what if’s.
Again, see my #4.
AGAIN, the “dead worker” in the video has nothing whatsoever to do with the announcement of the two dead workers in the basement.
I am asking if that is a “dead worker” or if it is debris. It sure does look like it could be a “dead worker”..or maybe it is a worker taking a smoke break, eh??
Given the back and forth over nuke weapons with Japan and China
http://ask-a-chinese-guy.blogspot.com/2011/02/china-and-nuclear-weapons-part-ii.html
I wouldn’t be at all surprised if it turned out that China released the Stuxnet worm on Japan.
Japan must develop nuclear weapons, warns Tokyo governor
Yep, Green Peace are hoping to be able to claim at least one death or injury from the nuclear attribute of commercial nuclear power. Chernobyl was/is anything but a commercial plant, having no containment whatsoever. Still, for those for whom quantitative facts mean something, more people died each year after the Chernobyl meltdown from respiratory illness related to the coal replacement, about 200 in each of the ensuing twenty years, than died as a result of the meltdown. The reported numbers are all over the map.
At Chernobyl, two died almost immediately from radiation sickness. Between 16 and 60 died later, from radiation, fire, or other trauma. A suspicious claim is that 1500 or 1600 contracted radiation related leukemia, but 98% of those recovered. It sounds like 1600 people collected disability funds while they coincidentally had no jobs because of the loss of power and the evacuation near the plant, since, sadly, 98% of leukemia victims don't recover.
If facts have any meaning, there has never been a safer electricity generation technology than nuclear power. Countries with a free press have a problem because terror sells, and reporters are lazy. They get their stories fed to them by NRDC, Green Peace, etc. You can tell people that 2300 people fell off their roofs and 700 died working on domestic solar electric installations and that is not news. But the big quiet dome with steam rising seems a much greater threat. Nuclear is threatening to those who think engineers are stupid. Most of those people have never been engineers. Many of them make a living selling fear, like the Sierra Club, Green Peace, Natural Resources Defense Council, ... People pay them money to protect them from the threats the environmental groups have defined. (Never forget the 30 to 40 million African children who died of malaria because our idiot environmental class believed Rachel Carson's completely fabricated diatribe against DDT).
China is building 224 plants over the next 15 years, India about 40, .... These countries will have no use for our environmental lawyers. We will not have the low-cost energy to allow us to compete as a manufacturer (we are still the largest manufacturer, though China will shortly surpass us). China knows it needs to solve its air quality problems and reduce its dependence upon Middle East Oil. Without a gaggle of lawyers soaking taxpayers with civil actions which delay full power operation for decades, China's reactors produce electricity at about the same cost as coal - and China has its own coal.
So if it's not saving the user money, why bother--oil and gas exploration, in shale ready environment, shallow mines which make up most of the coal mines are old energy but trusted and true energy. Oil/gas is available even in upstate NY, the poorest part of the state where unemployment has consistently been high. Oil still seems the safest way to go and most "cost effective" --if there is such a thing, when regulations via politics, the green influence and lobbyists etc come into play.
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