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Bo Jacobs

"Concern about the government’s revived push for nuclear energy grew after a magnitude 7.5 earthquake hit Japan’s Noto Peninsula on Jan. 1, 2024, killing more than 400 people and damaging more than 100,000 structures. The quake caused minor damage to two nearby nuclear facilities, and evacuation plans for the region were found to be inadequate."

#nuclear #NuclearPower #Japan

apnews.com/article/japan-nucle

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> The verdict comes after more than eight years of safety reviews that were repeatedly disrupted by data coverups and mistakes by the operator, Yamanaka said. He called the case “abnormal” and urged the utility to take the result seriously.

"Data cover ups and mistakes by the operator" might be common enough in the nuclear industry for the case to be considered "normal"

Bo Jacobs

More realistic headlines than the ones coming from #Fukushima right now:

-The reason a remote robot removed the fuel is that humans can still not enter several of the reactors, radiation levels will kill them.

-Removing several grams of melted nuclear fuel is a proof of concept. The 800 tons of melted fuel remaining will not be removed this way, this is to assess the contents of the melted fuel. It is a minuscule sample and not the beginning of corium (melted fuel) removal.

-The corium at Chernobyl is still sitting under the reactor. It will take the better part of a century (best scenario) to remove the corium at #Chernobyl or Fukushima.

#nuclear #NuclearPower #NuclearWaste

More realistic headlines than the ones coming from #Fukushima right now:

-The reason a remote robot removed the fuel is that humans can still not enter several of the reactors, radiation levels will kill them.

-Removing several grams of melted nuclear fuel is a proof of concept. The 800 tons of melted fuel remaining will not be removed this way, this is to assess the contents of the melted fuel. It is a minuscule sample and not the beginning of corium (melted fuel) removal.

Bo Jacobs

The "weird” strategy was laid out by a genius long ago

Quote: “Mel Brooks was once asked how he, as a Jewish man, was able to make so many silly jokes about Nazis. He said that evil people enjoy being portrayed as villains, but they detest being made out to look like fools”
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Steveg58

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I think the problem there is that, having seen them portrayed as fools so often, we had stopped being on guard against them. And now they are back in force.

Nad :imagination:

@bojacobs now I want to act like a Disney villain and shout "FOOLS! ALL OF YOU" on every single one of their posts. 😂

Bo Jacobs

My son was reading about Marine Le Pen and remarked, “the funny thing about holocaust deniers is that they never seem happy that it didn’t happen”

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That Girl Over There

@bojacobs Whoa. Your kid just blew my mind. SO true! 😬😶‍🌫️

J$

@bojacobs that’s because they mostly feel unfinished business frustration

Bo Jacobs

The #Oppenheimer movie is a triumph of the American narrative of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. A story entirely told from the perpetrator's perspective. No voice of the victim. An obsession with the brilliance of manufacturing weapons of mass destruction.

#Hiroshima #Nagasaki #nuclear #ManhattanProject @histodons #histodons

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Alexander Karn

@bojacobs @histodons

Important piece. Thank you for sharing.

"This is a continuation of the war time erasure of Japanese humanity."

Agree. To make the killing psychologically acceptable, it's necessary for the state to dehumanize the "enemy alien."

This is, of course, an ongoing project for the state, which is why the rehearsal of the history (and pieces like this which challenge the erasure) are so important.

Anne Ominous

@bojacobs @histodons well, the movie is called Oppenheimer, not 'WW2' or 'Japanese Perspectives'

and i saw it. i completely disagree with your opinion that this is movie is about a "triumph" - not even close.

Threenotch

@bojacobs @histodons I feel sure if the Hitler had completed his race to create the bomb first he would’ve only used it in a humane and life affirming way. The Japanese were practically buried in pamphlets begging them to surrender or face a catastrophic weapon. They refused to do so, they refused to even contemplate peace negotiations. 300,000 US military casualties taking the mainland be acceptable? I don’t think so. A horrible weapon, but it was inevitable.

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