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He's had a long wait and he didn't even get 5 minutes!
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It may be repeated on another channel :D

Seriously, resigning because he could see a design fault that wouldn't withstand a category 9 earthquake, quickly followed by a 10 metre tsunami wave is a bit far fetched. If that isn't the fault he resigned over, are we still waiting for it to happen after 35 years? :?
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Korkenzieher wrote:Coriander has also been shown to remove heavy metals from the body. I don't know how specific it is - radioisotopes of caesium, for example - but it doesn't do any harm to up the intake a bit. And it tastes pretty good too! (without wanting to appear paranoid, I actually make Coriander Pesto for use with pasta. A 5 baht bunch from Tesco is about enough for a serving for a decent amount of pasta).
There is a specific protocol for heavy metal removal which reduces the risks of newly mobilized metals from making you sick and being deposited elsewhere in the body.

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Well, this doesn't sound good for Thai families with loved ones in Japan......

Thai authorities have yet to locate 4,000 Thais in Japan

Thai authorities are still unable to locate about 4,000 Thais known as living in northeastern Japan at the time a massive earthquake and tsunami hit the area last week. Problems in the communication systems there have made it hard to check their whereabouts.
"Of 5,000 Thais there, we can locate just between 800 and 1,000," Foreign Affairs Ministry spokesman Thani Thongphakdi said.
He said all the Thais who could be contacted were safe.

Source - The Nation

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Im apprehensive, you see Christchurch in NZ got a 2nd earthquake a few months after the first, it was less on the Richter but the damage and loss of life is worse---even a few minor aftershocks near the damaged reactor could make it even worse.
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The area has already suffered hundreds of aftershocks - some not very minor at all. There have also been minor resultant tsunami waves. I think we are way past a few minor ones being an issue.

Check IRIS for quakes off Honshu. http://www.iris.edu/seismon/last30days_N_Pacific.html
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The latest on foreign aid really disgusts me. A British search and rescue team refused entry at an airport in Japan because of some problem with their visas.
My first reaction was to think why don't Japanese immigration just waive the rules for once? Then of course common sense (or is it) kicks in and it is after all their country. They have every right to refuse entry to a specialist team complete with search dogs and equipment - after all they might be paedos or spys :?
Second reaction was why the .... weren't the visas done properly in the first place? You would think they would have been treated with a little extra care under the circumstances. :banghead:
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A similar thing happened in Thailand after the tsunami, the government stated all visas and overstays of those affected or those with lost or damaged passports would be waived.

No damn chance of that ... fines dished out as usual ...
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Looks like the British are to blame ?:
Official members of a UK rescue team arrived in Japan early this week, and have already begun their work. The International Rescue Corps is an independent team which meant that they did not have any valid official paperwork.

The International Rescue Corps are a Scottish based group. Their offer of aid had been accepted and the team had already received assistance from the Japanese embassy in London and the authorities in Tokyo.

The problem was with the British embassy in Japan.

In order to be able to function effectively in Japan, the International Rescue Corps team needed the proper documentation. This would have helped them buy fuel and move about Japan.

The International Rescue Corps is a legitimate agency and has attended many disaster areas around the world. In the past it has only received problems with China and Afghanistan. These previous problems though have never involved getting documents from British sources.

Finally the British Embassy in Japan told the team that it would not be held responsible for The International Rescue Corps. They refused to issues any paperwork. This left the team with little choice in the matter. Hard as it was for them they returned to the UK
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prcscct wrote:↑ I quote from the below article: "Adults over 40 years of age have the lowest risk of developing thyroid cancer or injury after contamination and have a greater chance of experiencing an allergic reaction. They should not take iodine tablets unless a very large dose of radioactive iodine is expected and they are told to do so."

http://news.nationalpost.com/2011/03/14 ... -exposure/ Pete :cheers:
Checked in, no sign of iodine tablets, maybe only for Thai passport holders.

The flight from Bangkok to Tokyo was less than a 3rd full, 10 in business and around 40 in economy, which I expected.
Tokyo, Narita airport was not busy, business class lounge that I normally use was closed, but it was only a 10 minute walk to the only one that was open and that was very quiet.
After about 90 minutes or so the lounge started to fill up, but no more than to 60% capacity and considering that was the only ANA lounge open I was surprised.
Left the lounge early to see how the crowds were and the airport was not any busier than usual; I have been through on this same trip 10 times in the last 3 years.
All the duty free outlets were open as usual, some of the lights were switched off, but really you would not have noticed.
There were quite a few foreign news crews scouring around,I was approach by some guy with a microphone, but I just ignored him.
Flight to Chicago, which I fully expected to be full, was less than half, 20 of us in business and maybe 60 in economy in a 777-300,never seen it so quiet
So from what I can see there is no “mass exodus” as was being reported on CNN and their likes.
Not quite sure if I understand their motive for misreporting this sort of stuff.
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This RADNET map shows monitoring stations in the U.S. You can select the blue stations and check radiation readings. The rest have no data available.

https://cdxnode64.epa.gov/radnet-public/showMap.do
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buksida wrote:A similar thing happened in Thailand after the tsunami, the government stated all visas and overstays of those affected or those with lost or damaged passports would be waived.

No damn chance of that ... fines dished out as usual ...
I think the same happened to Westerners affected by the Thai tsunami on their return to the UK Buksi. I was on a Phuket Air flight landing at Gatwick on 2.1.2005. There were at least 40 people on that flight who were held on board after we landed because they had no passports - in fact from what I saw they only had they clothes on their backs. They had been through god knows what hell and had to stay on the plane waiting for UK police. Weren't even allowed into a transit lounge until cleared by the cops.
OK there might have been a handful of opportunist overstayers who saw it as a way out but it was very upsetting all the same.
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Japan nuclear crisis: 'Fukushima 50' face new setback
The "Fukushima Fifty," the group of Japanese workers battling the worst nuclear disaster since Chernobyl in 1986, faced a new setback following a spike in pressure at one of the reactors they are trying to contain.

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Just to cheer you up...

'Chernobyl Radiation Killed Nearly One Million'
http://therealnewsjournal.com/?p=6359

'Nearly one million people around the world died from exposure to radiation released by the 1986 nuclear disaster at the Chernobyl reactor, finds a new book from the New York Academy of Sciences published today on the 24th anniversary of the meltdown at the Soviet facility.'
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MrPlum wrote:Just to cheer you up...

'Chernobyl Radiation Killed Nearly One Million'
http://therealnewsjournal.com/?p=6359

'Nearly one million people around the world died from exposure to radiation released by the 1986 nuclear disaster at the Chernobyl reactor, finds a new book from the New York Academy of Sciences published today on the 24th anniversary of the meltdown at the Soviet facility.'
We were talking about this over lunch yesterday and a Bulgarian who was there said she knew of one girl in her home town who died of Thyroid cancer following the accident at Chernobyl.
Apparently the situation was made worse by the secrecy that was normal in those Communist times.
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