"Japan's nuclear industry has a tarnished image"

"Britain's Observer News Service reports that in 2002, the president of Japan's largest power utility was forced to resign after he and other senior officials were suspected of falsifying plant safety records"

Posted By: Worzel Scrimmage on March 13th 2011 at 18:03:38

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things not looking too good in Japan today (General Chat) - Worzel Scrimmage, Mar 13, 17:50:22
- bloke on skynews... (General Chat) - Tombs, Mar 13, 18:45:12
  - I was just thinking about the same. Why the urge to count? (General Chat) - Worzel Scrimmage, Mar 13, 18:49:12
    - Who was it who said 1 death is a tragedy, but 10,000 is a statistic? (General Chat) - yarmyyarmy, Mar 13, 19:06:48
      - Robbie Savage? (n/m) (General Chat) - usacanary, Mar 13, 19:16:53
        
        is a cunt (n/m) (General Chat) - emmaroyds, Mar 13, 19:27:10
      - stalin (n/m) (General Chat) - ghostof barry butler, Mar 13, 19:09:49
    - i'd have thought so (n/m) (General Chat) - SCC 28, Mar 13, 18:54:11
      - value of property destroyed is probably fairer (n/m) (General Chat) - Worzel Scrimmage, Mar 13, 18:56:11
        
        so property is more important than human life?! (n/m) (General Chat) - SCC 28, Mar 13, 18:57:07
        
        no, just a better way of evaluating and rating disasters (General Chat) - Worzel Scrimmage, Mar 13, 18:57:59
      - that's a refreshing change then (General Chat) - Tombs, Mar 13, 18:56:03
  - I see they resued one bloke (General Chat) - emmaroyds, Mar 13, 18:47:54
    - saw that and the three old biddy's in a car which was covered in mud (n/m) (General Chat) - Tombs, Mar 13, 18:52:18
    - yeah, I just watched some vids of the tsunamis though (General Chat) - Worzel Scrimmage, Mar 13, 18:51:33
      - on a less serious note (General Chat) - emmaroyds, Mar 13, 18:53:27
        
        it looked a bit shit tbf, more like the sea just rose 30ft in height suddenly (General Chat) - Worzel Scrimmage, Mar 13, 18:55:33
- other side of the world (General Chat) - ghostof barry butler, Mar 13, 17:55:01
  - I feel sorry for the poor fuckers, massive earthquake, huge tsunami (General Chat) - Worzel Scrimmage, Mar 13, 17:57:46
- Aftershock of 8.0 expected by Geological Survey Experts (n/m) (General Chat) - UtterlyHuckerby, Mar 13, 17:51:32
  - it really is beyond belief (General Chat) - emmaroyds, Mar 13, 17:57:13
    - from what i heard on the radio this morning (General Chat) - Ralf Scrampton, Mar 13, 18:05:25
    - they were a due a big one weren't they? (General Chat) - SCC 28, Mar 13, 18:02:23
    - I trust the Japanese to put this right (General Chat) - LowestoftBoy, Mar 13, 18:02:10
      - "Japan's nuclear industry has a tarnished image" (General Chat) - Worzel Scrimmage, Mar 13, 18:03:38
        
        Thankfully, the procedures were in place to find that out (n/m) (General Chat) - LowestoftBoy, Mar 13, 18:06:29
        
        agreed (n/m) (General Chat) - SCC 28, Mar 13, 18:04:52
        
        also agree but (General Chat) - emmaroyds, Mar 13, 18:07:16
    - they probably are the best prepared, but they aren't in enough control to (General Chat) - Worzel Scrimmage, Mar 13, 17:59:12
      - according to the nuclear whizz kids on the BBC (General Chat) - emmaroyds, Mar 13, 18:05:11
        
        I really liked the bloke they had on the BBC. (General Chat) - Arganth, Mar 13, 18:27:14
        
        I don't remember people panicking *that* much about Chernobyl at the time (General Chat) - Worzel Scrimmage, Mar 13, 18:09:23
        
        that`s because (General Chat) - emmaroyds, Mar 13, 18:11:38
        
        and because (General Chat) - LowestoftBoy, Mar 13, 18:15:42
        
        the fact is they may not be able to stop these exploding either (General Chat) - Worzel Scrimmage, Mar 13, 18:13:15
        
        they can't explode like chernobyl can they? (General Chat) - SCC 28, Mar 13, 18:18:02
        
        No, don't think so (General Chat) - BerlinCanary, Mar 13, 18:22:24
        
        that`s what I heard too (General Chat) - emmaroyds, Mar 13, 18:20:22
        
        let's hope not. I'd hope their emergency is a little better than Russia's 30 years ago (n/m) (General Chat) - Worzel Scrimmage, Mar 13, 18:22:47
        
        it could well come to that (General Chat) - emmaroyds, Mar 13, 18:16:22
        
        iI don't think there's much they can do, except the concrete tomb thing (General Chat) - Worzel Scrimmage, Mar 13, 18:20:15
        
        anyway, I hope this puts the chilean govt off letting those cunts Suez build one here (n/m) (General Chat) - Worzel Scrimmage, Mar 13, 18:25:10
  - that won't help the nuclear meltdown much (General Chat) - Worzel Scrimmage, Mar 13, 17:52:53
    - Even a meltdown isn't disastrous so long as it's contained within the steel container (General Chat) - BerlinCanary, Mar 13, 18:11:12
      - meltdown will result in the metal containment chamber being breached though... (n/m) (General Chat) - Worzel Scrimmage, Mar 13, 18:13:51
        
        Not necessarily - indeed they're just saying the same thing on the BBC... (n/m) (General Chat) - BerlinCanary, Mar 13, 18:19:23
        
        incidently ( a little off topic but relevent) (General Chat) - emmaroyds, Mar 13, 18:24:08
        
        Gotta say, I've started watching NHK, CCTV and Russia Today more than BBC or Sky. (n/m) (General Chat) - Arganth, Mar 13, 18:28:56
        
        Russia Today isn't the most neutral of news channels! (n/m) (General Chat) - Brandonio, Mar 13, 18:42:44
        
        No, it's not. (General Chat) - Arganth, Mar 13, 18:48:15
        
        indeed (General Chat) - Tombs, Mar 13, 19:03:22
        
        I've got a BBC World cable channel (General Chat) - Worzel Scrimmage, Mar 13, 18:27:03
        
        I have BBC World; but it's generally shit (General Chat) - BerlinCanary, Mar 13, 18:26:49
        
        I think it's ok. When there's big news the coverage is pretty decent (n/m) (General Chat) - Worzel Scrimmage, Mar 13, 18:28:42
        
        Oh, yeah there's CNN too; but that's a waste of time (General Chat) - BerlinCanary, Mar 13, 18:41:16
        
        must admit (General Chat) - emmaroyds, Mar 13, 18:46:34
        
        Robert Fisk at the Indy for anything Middel East related (General Chat) - BerlinCanary, Mar 13, 18:52:29
        
        no, but it's a grave danger surely. I think it depends how much fuel goes into meltdown (n/m) (General Chat) - Worzel Scrimmage, Mar 13, 18:21:00
        
        lust watching the beeb now (General Chat) - emmaroyds, Mar 13, 18:43:26
        
        I'm no expert - follow arclight & thisismusic on twitter (General Chat) - BerlinCanary, Mar 13, 18:24:40

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