Japan Crisis

[motherfunky]

Traffic Jam leaving fukushima.


Notice all the drivers patiently waiting on the correct side of the road!

Also worth a mention is that throughout the trgic Earth Quakes and tsunami there were no notable reports of any looting, reports of emergency workers actually staying on at the blowing up Fukushima Nuclear plant actually seem to be credible.


Respect due to them.

[skyguy2007]

Great post MF! TY!

[maverick35]

Old Mav realizes exactly the entire world thinks that the earth quake and so Tsunami tidal wave and so re sulting inand so nuclear electric power plant disasters r terible and so this world beter hope old Mav no not geta the miracle old Mav needs before it is too late for old Mav and so old Mav would make that look like a Hadasah charity picnic and so compared to whut old Mav would do to geta the people who have cheated atacked old Mav for the last 66 years right RIGHT and so luckily for old Mav at 66 they think old Mav is a over the hill and so ready to buy the farm and so harm less and so no danger and so crazy senile senior mentaly ill J*wish minority person right RIGHT and so they beter be right RIGHT and so cuz if they r wrong and so they may sufer worse than a trillion Jap earth quakes right RIGHT and so old Mav is lucky they do no not take old Mav seriously and so old Mav needs a miracle sorry right... sorry old Mav

[bluffmanxx]

not to discredit the way people have responded, but from what i've seen there isn't much left to loot in the areas impacted by the tsunami.

[billynomates]

They work sweating in airtight suits, fighting disaster in a plant collapsing at their feet. They brave explosions and fires that have already killed five of them and may have blasted the others with life-changing radiation. They are the "Fukushima 50", the handful of people who are all that now stands between Japan and the world's second-worst nuclear accident.
Japan earthquake: the Fukushima 50 fight to stave off disaster
Five workers at the Fukushima nuclear power plant have already died since the quake and 22 more have been injured, while two are missing

In a country already brimming with stoic courage, this skeleton crew is surely the bravest of the lot. From fragments of information, we can build a picture of their desperate struggle to save their countrymen, and themselves.

They are not just technicians, but also soldiers and firefighters. They are middle-class control room and health personnel and working-class technicians. There are fifty or so at any one time, but the total, with shifts and rotations, may be as many as 180. The odds against them are great, and growing.

"It doesn't look good at all," says Matt Tuck, a 22-year veteran of the British nuclear industry who is now business director of Matom, a consultancy specialising in nuclear plant operation and emergency management. "Fifty is a very small number, given that there are six reactors. They are at pretty serious risk.

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