Bebt die Erde verstärkt? Erdbeben 8,8 in Japan
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http://www.spiegel.de/panorama/0,1518,751488,00.html
Um die Durchführung der Maßnahmen im strahlenbelasteten Areal gewährleisten zu können, hat die Betreiberfirma Tepco ihren Aufruf gestartet: Man suche Freiwillige für den Dienst in Fukushima. Dringend muss das zerstörte Kraftwerk wieder mit Strom versorgt werden, damit die Kühlsysteme in Gang kommen.
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Eine Erklärung für dieses Verhalten ist fest in der japanischen Gesellschaft verankert. "Von den Älteren wird erwartet, dass sie an vorderster Front kämpfen", sagt Gabriele Vogt, Japanologin an der Universität Hamburg. Alter und Erfahrung bedeuteten in Japan immer auch ein größeres Ansehen - aber eben auch eine größere Verantwortung. Es ist das sogenannte Senpai-Kohai-System.
Es besagt: Der Alte muss dem Jungen helfen, ihn unterstützen, ihn schützen. Der Jüngere wiederum arbeitet zu, wird angelernt. Das Prinzip gelte überall in der Gesellschaft, im Sportverein ebenso wie in der Arbeitswelt. "Der Ältere würde sich im Extremfall für den Jüngeren aufopfern", sagt Vogt, die lange in Japan gelebt hat.
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Chudinov gehörte zu einer riesigen Helferarmee, bestehend aus 600.000 bis 800.000 Arbeitern, eiligst zusammengetrommelt aus Weißrussland, Russland und der Ukraine. Chudinov arbeitete direkt neben dem zerstörten Reaktor, ohne Schutzkleidung.
Auf das Erlebte blickt er mit einer Mischung aus Ruhe, Resignation und Trauer zurück. Dass sich Freiwillige melden, um im AKW Fukushima die beschädigten Reaktoren unter Kontrolle zu bringen, beeindruckt ihn tief. "Das sind gute Jungs", sagte Chudinov der Nachrichtenagentur Reuters. Die japanischen Einsatzkräfte hätte es weitaus schlimmer getroffen als sie damals, meint er. Wegen des Tsunamis, der zusätzlich gewütet habe, und der vielen Probleme an verschiedenen Reaktoren. "Das ist ein Alptraum für jeden Mitarbeiter eines Kernkraftwerks."
"Wir haben im Grunde das Gleiche getan wie die Japaner jetzt tun", sagt er. "Wir haben versucht, das Feuer zu stoppen."
http://abcnews.go.com/International/relatives-break-silence-japans-heroes-fukush ima-50/story?id=13155666&page=3
The crews are not necessarily made up of strong young men. Emergency nuclear scenarios suggest asking older retirees to volunteer, not because they're more expendable, or even because they're more skilled, but because even if they're exposed to massive amounts of radiation, history has shown they would die of old age before they die of radiation induced cancers, which can take decades to develop.
"No one is sacrificing themselves. Encouraging older workers is based on the idea that they are past their reproductive life, not on the basis of cancer risk," said Hall. "It was common practice years ago when radium was used in hospitals to have 'older' workers as radium custodians... [because they are] past their reproductive years."
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Und nun fragt Euch selber, ob Ihr Euer Leben opfern würdet ...
Ich kann die Frage nicht so ohne weiteres beantworten, wenn ich ehrlich bin. Aber gestellt habe ich sie mir auch, als ich das gelesen habe.
Man suche Freiwillige für den Dienst in Fukushima.
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MUST SEE
Die Animation beginnt etwas vor dem Hauptbeben.
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549 es kommen ständig weitere dazu
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http://www.chernobylee.com/articles/chernobyl/interview-with-a-chernobyl-liq.php
Wer sich für die Geschichte von Tschernobyl interessiert, für den ist diese Website eine Fundgrube.
Ebenfalls :
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2004/aug/24/russia.health
How I survived ChernobylSasha Yuvchenko was working at the power plant on the night of the world's worst nuclear disaster. One of his workmates was vaporised and three others died within weeks. Vivienne Parry hears his terrible tale
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Die AKW-Frage ist als Facette der apokalyptischen Ereignisse Land der roten Sonne unzweifelhaft interessant und wichtig -
aber back to the basics:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Megathrust_earthquake
credit: wikipedia, wikimedia
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http://www.nature.com/news/2011/110317/full/news.2011.168.html
Nature has also learned that initial CTBTO data suggest that a large meltdown at the Fukushima power plant has not yet occurred, although that assessment may change as more data flows in during the coming days. Lars-Erik De Geer, research director of the Swedish Defence Research Institute [nature.com] in Stockholm, which has access to the CTBTO data and uses it to provide the foreign ministry and other Swedish government departments with analyses, says that the data show high amounts of volatile radioactive isotopes, such as iodine and caesium, as well the noble gas xenon, but so far no high levels of the less volatile elements such as zirconium and barium that would signal that a large meltdown had taken place – elements which were released during the 1986 reactor explosion in Chernobyl in the Ukraine.
Rather, the data sit well, he says, with a scenario wherein the main release of radioactivity has come from the release of excess pressure in the containment vessels of affected reactors, and the subsequent explosion of the evacuated hydrogen-laden steam within the reactor buildings. The radioactive plume will spread around the hemisphere within weeks, he says, but the levels of radioactivity outside of Japan will not be dangerous he predicts. The levels in Japan itself, outside of the immediate vicinity of the Fukushima power plant, "wouldn't scare me", he adds.
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wenn das stimmt wäre das die beste nachricht seit langem
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Hätte nichts dagegen. Es ist DIE erste gute Nachricht. Bitte beachten: "preliminary" vorläufig.
Pressesprecher Edano hat eben angekündigt, dass man die Stromversorgung wieder herstellen will, ohne sich zeitlich festzulegen.
Der aktuelle Stand:
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/18/world/asia/18intel.html?hp
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The commander of U.S. military forces in the Pacific says he is sending his troops into the danger zone near the Japan's crippled nuclear power plants as needed, and if necessary he will send more to help prevent a meltdown of the reactors' fuel and the release of large amounts of harmful radiation.
In a phone call from his headquarters in Hawaii, Admiral Robert Willard told reporters at the Pentagon everything possible must be done to avoid the worst case scenario.
"That would be a situation where the recovery effort to keep the cores covered in these reactors would ever be abandoned. And we believe that that can't happen, that we must do everything required to keep water and cooling affecting these reactors," said Willard.
Japanese engineers working in and near the reactors have had difficulty keeping the reactor cores cooled and spent fuel rods covered with water. If they fail in that effort, large amounts of radiation would be released, creating a contamination cloud that could affect millions of people in the Tokyo metropolitan area.
But Admiral Willard says reports he has received indicate the team at the reactors had more success on Thursday and he is "cautiously optimistic" a full meltdown of the nuclear fuel will be avoided. He indicated he will send more forces into the most dangerous area near the reactors to help if necessary.
"We, when necessary, will conduct operations inside that radius, when they're in support of the Japanese Defense Forces," he said. "So while U.S. citizens are constrained from operating in there, my forces are not, when they're needed to conduct humanitarian assistance, disaster response or logistics support to our Japanese friends or to our own forces or any other forces that we happen to be supporting."
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