Fukushima! The ongoing disasters

[Tt_hh]

And our clown lift the import restrictions from Japan

Maybe he and his cronies are not eating anything from there. ...

[Kiadaw]

 

We don't have the industry to support lah.

 

It's like asking us to be world leader in automative technology. We don't even have a race circuit.

Ask us to be world leader in solar panels? When USA and China are there already.

Taiwan at least can do a little bit in electronics cos they actually have some manufacturing/industrial capacity to help boost.

Not saying we need to be leader, just saying we can do better, explode energy source suitable for the region, for instance. Also we can separate different kind of waste for better recycle, promote more efficieny cars & eletric car. We can build solor panels on HBD roof top. They are not enough to replace other energy source, but they do help.

 

maybe mandate (to be done over a period, not immediately of course) new buildings to be build to have better heat insulation, & encourage people to set their air con not under 20 deg C.

 

W can also (this has been done in some places) timer for traffic lights, & required drivers to off their engine when at junction lights that took a long time.

[Kiadaw]

 

Is that just your impression or do you actually have hard facts to back that statement up?

 

"Just because it is expensive or hard" has never been an excuse - we reclaim land, built into the sky, reclaim our waste water, and greened up the whole of Singapore long before its benefits of cooling, shade and energy efficiency were a popular concept elsewhere.

 

There are fully developed nations relying on the same energy generation that we do, except they have the benefit of large land mass that allow them to diversify their energy sources to geothermal, dams, wind, solar and nuclear.

Ok, my apology for the poor wordings, but I think we can do better as a developed nation.

 

Agree mostly with your points.

 

But I do think that in general the general public do not put a greener Singapore/planet high on the list of piorities. In order for Singapore to go greener, the initiative must come from the Citizens.

[Lala81]

Not saying we need to be leader, just saying we can do better, explode energy source suitable for the region, for instance. Also we can separate different kind of waste for better recycle, promote more efficieny cars & eletric car. We can build solor panels on HBD roof top. They are not enough to replace other energy source, but they do help.

 

maybe mandate (to be done over a period, not immediately of course) new buildings to be build to have better heat insulation, & encourage people to set their air con not under 20 deg C.

 

W can also (this has been done in some places) timer for traffic lights, & required drivers to off their engine when at junction lights that took a long time.

 

Asians are not really into conversation in general lol other than the Taiwanese.

 

Social behaviour can be encouraged. Govt wise in terms of rebates in going green is slow. They probably don't see bang for the buck.

And they are not wrong. Whatever we do in SG is not even a drop in the ocean of human global consumption if it doesn't really save money for the country or person.

[Kiadaw]

 

I really love Korea. I went a times for work and going again this year for holidays.

 

The gals are much prettier and the food in the food court is must better than ours but

 

if you been to a food court nicer than the one below, please let me know I would like to try.

 

Thanks. I will pass your compliments to my Korean cosmetic surgery friends.

 

On a slightly more serious note, this kind of remarks are taboo. If people asked me if Girls from XX is better/worst than SG gals, my model answer is always along these lines, "look is subjective, girls from both places have their charms."

[Kiadaw]

He live in Germany until he forget how Singapore moon look like lah.

Nice try, I have been away for almost 2 years (but I sometinmes dream of going hawker centre or something for Singapore food, but almost never ever reached the place in the dream :( ), but yeah, I still remember Singapore's moon being blue & square at full moon.

 

The shopping mall remark is not be to taken at face value, its only a jokingly remark, consider how much Singaporeans love shopping, & the numbers of malls that spung out every now & then. But having said that, the new malls are pretty impressive don't they?

[L23]

More than 48 percent of some 375,000 young people—nearly 200,000 kids—tested by the Fukushima Medical University near the smoldering reactors now suffer from pre-cancerous thyroid abnormalities, primarily nodules and cysts.Some 39 months after the multiple explosions at Fukushima, thyroid cancer rates among nearby children have skyrocketed to more than forty times (40x) normal.

More than 48 percent of some 375,000 young people—nearly 200,000 kids—tested by the Fukushima Medical University near the smoldering reactors now suffer from pre-cancerous thyroid abnormalities, primarily nodules and cysts. The rate is accelerating.

More than 120 childhood cancers have been indicated where just three would be expected, says Joseph Mangano, executive director of the Radiation and Public Health Project.

 

The nuclear industry and its apologists continue to deny this public health tragedy. Some have actually asserted that “not one person” has been affected by Fukushima’s massive radiation releases, which for some isotopes exceed Hiroshima by a factor of nearly 30.

But the deadly epidemic at Fukushima is consistent with impacts suffered among children near the 1979 accident at Three Mile Island and the 1986 explosion at Chernobyl, as well as findings at other commercial reactors.

The likelihood that atomic power could cause such epidemics has been confirmed by the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission, which says that “an increase in the risk of childhood thyroid cancer” would accompany a reactor disaster.

 

In evaluating the prospects of new reactor construction in Canada, the Commission says the rate “would rise by 0.3 percent at a distance of 12 kilometers” from the accident. But that assumes the distribution of protective potassium iodide pills and a successful emergency evacuation, neither of which happened at Three Mile Island, Chernobyl or Fukushima.

 

The numbers have been analyzed by Mangano. He has studied the impacts of reactor-created radiation on human health since the 1980s, beginning his work with the legendary radiologist Dr. Ernest Sternglass and statistician Jay Gould.

 

Speaking on the Green Power & Wellness Show, Mangano also confirms that the general health among downwind human populations improves when atomic reactors are shut down, and goes into decline when they open or re-open.

 

Nearby children are not the only casualties at Fukushima. Plant operator Masao Yoshida has died at age 58 of esophogeal cancer. Masao heroically refused to abandon Fukushima at the worst of the crisis, probably saving millions of lives. Workers at the site who are employed by independent contractors—many dominated by organized crime—are often not being monitored for radiation exposure at all. Public anger is rising over government plans to force families—many with small children—back into the heavily contaminated region around the plant.

 

Following its 1979 accident, Three Mile Island’s owners denied the reactor had melted. But a robotic camera later confirmed otherwise.

The state of Pennsylvania mysteriously killed its tumor registry, then said there was “no evidence” that anyone had been killed.

But a wide range of independent studies confirm heightened infant death rates and excessive cancers among the general population. Excessive death, mutation and disease rates among local animals were confirmed by the Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture and local journalists.

 

In the 1980s federal Judge Sylvia Rambo blocked a class action suit by some 2,400 central Pennsylvania downwinders, claiming not enough radiation had escaped to harm anyone. But after 35 years, no one knows how much radiation escaped or where it went. Three Mile Island’s owners have quietly paid millions to downwind victims in exchange for gag orders.

 

At Chernobyl, a compendium of more than 5,000 studies has yielded an estimated death toll of more than 1,000,000 people.

The radiation effects on youngsters in downwind Belarus and Ukraine have been horrific. According to Mangano, some 80 percent of the “Children of Chernobyl” born downwind since the accident have been harmed by a wide range of impacts ranging from birth defects and thyroid cancer to long-term heart, respiratory and mental illnesses. The findings mean that just one in five young downwinders can be termed healthy.

 

Physicians for Social Responsibility and the German chapter of the International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War have warned of parallel problems near Fukushima.

 

The United Nations Scientific Committee on the Effects of Atomic Radiation (UNSCEAR) has recently issued reports downplaying the disaster’s human impacts. UNSCEAR is interlocked with the United Nations’ International Atomic Energy Agency, whose mandate is to promote atomic power. The IAEA has a long-term controlling gag order on UN findings about reactor health impacts. For decades UNSCEAR and the World Health Organization have run protective cover for the nuclear industry’s widespread health impacts. Fukushima has proven no exception.

 

In response, Physicians for Social Responsibility and the German International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War have issued a ten-point rebuttal, warning the public of the UN’s compromised credibility. The disaster is “ongoing” say the groups, and must be monitored for decades. “Things could have turned for the worse” if winds had been blowing toward Tokyo rather than out to sea (and towards America).

 

There is on-going risk from irradiated produce, and among site workers whose doses and health impacts are not being monitored. Current dose estimates among workers as well as downwinders are unreliable, and special notice must be taken of radiation’s severe impacts on the human embryo.

 

UNSCEAR’s studies on background radiation are also “misleading,” say the groups, and there must be further study of genetic radiation effects as well as “non-cancer diseases.” The UN assertion that “no discernible radiation-related health effects are expected among exposed members” is “cynical,” say the groups. They add that things were made worse by the official refusal to distribute potassium iodide, which might have protected the public from thyroid impacts from massive releases of radioactive I-131.

Overall, the horrific news from Fukushima can only get worse. Radiation from three lost cores is still being carried into the Pacific. Management of spent fuel rods in pools suspended in the air and scattered around the site remains fraught with danger.

The pro-nuclear Shinzo Abe regime wants to reopen Japan’s remaining 48 reactors. It has pushed hard for families who fled the disaster to re-occupy irradiated homes and villages.

 

But Three Mile Island, Chernobyl and the plague of death and disease now surfacing near Fukushima make it all too clear that the human cost of such decisions continues to escalate—with our children suffering first and worst.

[Blackyv]

Don't just cut and paste everything... Should provide the link.... I read this article somewhere before....

Edited June 18, 2014 by Blackyv

[Wt_know]

this one - http://thedailycoin.org/?p=2783 ?

published on 16 Jun 2014

thedailycoin ... is it a trusted source?

 

Don't just cut and paste everything... Should provide the link.... I read this article somewhere before....

 

Edited June 18, 2014 by Wt_know

[Porker]

 

Is that just your impression or do you actually have hard facts to back that statement up?

 

"Just because it is expensive or hard" has never been an excuse - we reclaim land, built into the sky, reclaim our waste water, and greened up the whole of Singapore long before its benefits of cooling, shade and energy efficiency were a popular concept elsewhere.

 

There are fully developed nations relying on the same energy generation that we do, except they have the benefit of large land mass that allow them to diversify their energy sources to geothermal, dams, wind, solar and nuclear.

 

Actually the BCA green mark scheme was launched in 2005 and the US Green Building Council LEED program began in 1993. The green mark as I understand it is a spin off of the LEED program.

[1fast1]

Just build one la, in case of any leak, not only us die, our neighbour will die also. Nuclear power is cheap option, i want!

Hoho. Cheap for them doesn't mean cheap for you.

[Duckduck]

 

after u watched this, i dont thk u want to eat anymore japan imported food...

 

the amt of nuclear waste there is astounding...

Edited June 19, 2014 by Duckduck

[1fast1]

 

after u watched this, i dont thk u want to eat anymore japan imported food...

 

the amt of nuclear waste there is astounding...

The really alarming thing in that video is the Japanese tendency to cover things up and pretend nothing is wrong just to save face. People venerate the Japanese for their efficiency and work ethic, etc. but they don't realise that much of Japanese culture is based on concealment or distortion of the truth, or even outright lies. And a lot of their post-WW2 industrial reputation is due to the work of Deming, an American. Edited June 19, 2014 by Turboflat4

[Wt_know]

which country do not cover up?

which country do not spy?

which country do not hug and kiss in front of camera but behind their back shooting arrow?

which country do not always put economic interest ahead of their people?

 

snowden leaks is just a tip of the iceberg what country do to country

 

The really alarming thing in that video is the Japanese tendency to cover things up and pretend nothing is wrong just to save face. People venerate the Japanese for their efficiency and work ethic, etc. but they don't realise that much of Japanese culture is based on concealment or distortion of the truth, or even outright lies. And a lot of their post-WW2 industrial reputation is due to the work of Deming, an American.

 

Edited June 19, 2014 by Wt_know

[Blackyv]

which country do not cover up?

which country do not spy?

which country do not hug and kiss in front of camera but behind their back shooting arrow?

which country do not always put economic interest ahead of their people?

 

snowden leaks is just a tip of the iceberg what country do to country

 

 

Sg lor... Unless you disagree and that mean insinuating our miw practice those listed stuff?... Hehehe

[Duckduck]

Sg lor... Unless you disagree and that mean insinuating our miw practice those listed stuff?... Hehehe

 

the brompton biccyle case was exposed by social media instead of any official announcement...

[Icedbs]

 

after u watched this, i dont thk u want to eat anymore japan imported food...

 

the amt of nuclear waste there is astounding...

 

What is more astounding is that people still travels there in droves for holidays with their kids, old folks, etc

 

The imported food itself, while could be hazardous, is still quite controllable because most do not eat it everyday and every meal. Most people here eat Jap food once in a while and definitely not something we eat everyday in SGP.

 

But when people travel there, you breathe in the air every second every hour. It is not something controllable once you land yourself there.

 

 

Edited June 19, 2014 by Icedbs

[Blackyv]

 

What is more astounding is that people still travels there in droves for holidays with their kids, old folks, etc

 

The imported food itself, while could be hazardous, is still quite controllable because most do not eat it everyday and every meal. Most people here eat Jap food once in a while and definitely not something we eat everyday in SGP.

 

But when people travel there, you breathe in the air every second every hour. It is not something controllable once you land yourself there.

 

 

Yalor,. And the scariest part is we can't see it, can't smell it, can't touch it, won't know we get radiated until maybe years later......