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Japan nuke workers nearing max exposure (via flying cuttlefish picayune)

On By southwerkIn business ethics1 Comment

Flying cuttlefish picayune is staying on the Fukushima story with tenacity. I admire this. I’ve tried to follow it everyday but my recent cable loss knocked me off pattern. (As a writer it is fascinating to watch how your style and approach are varied by things you never would have thought of as having an effect.) Following this blog has recommitted me to following the story and I will begin going back to daily or once every two days posting.

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I will be going to the international media because our corporate, news of the strange focused, press is fairly useless in dealing with any complex issue in any persistent or intelligent way. It is utterly astonishing how different the press is outside the United States. I have been looking at the Anna Hazare story news coverage in India (you should too) and the way they confront politicians with difficult questions and follow-up gives me pride in the field of journalism, a pride which has been steadily diminishing as I have watched the wretched posturing, incompetence and brazen profit seeking of American media.

My warm thanks to my fellow blogger, flying cuttlefish picayune!

James Pialnt

TOKYO, May 1 (UPI) — Some nuclear workers at Japan’s damaged Fukushima power plant are approaching the maximum allowable annual radiation exposure, power officials said. Prior to the March 11 earthquake and tsunami that badly damaged four of six reactors at Fukushima, Japanese labor law said the maximum radiation nuclear workers could be exposed to per year was 100 millisieverts. Four days after the disaster, the maximum exposure was increased t … Read More

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Greenpeace Says Evacuation Area Near Fukushima Needs to be 20 km Wider (via flying cuttlefish picayune)

On By southwerkIn business ethics2 Comments

Here’s another reblog from our friend, “flying cuttlefish picayune.” (If anybody knows if when referring to a web blog and the title isn’t capitalized, if I should capitalize it, let me know.)

It’s nice to know that other bloggers are working the problem.

James Pilant

From Greenpeace – Call to widen evacuation area around Fukushima Blogpost by Brian Fitzgerald – March 27, 2011 at 19:40 Our team of radiation specialists in Japan brought back their findings for the day. The press release says it all: Fukushima, March 27, 2011:       Greenpeace radiation experts have confirmed radiation levels of up to ten micro Sieverts per hour in Iitate village, 40km northwest of the crisis-stricken Fukushima/Daiichi nuclear p … Read More

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Japan Nuke Plant Spins Out of Control (via flying cuttlefish picayune)

On By southwerkIn business ethics2 Comments

Well, no more than usual. There’s a crisis every day. However, this might me one of the twice weekly large ones. Don’t get me wrong. I expect every four hours or so, something to go badly wrong. I hope against but expect a meltdown at some point.

But I thought I’d throw in somebody else’s idea of how this is working out.

James Pilant

My thanks to “flying cuttlefish picayune.”

Japan Nuke Plant Spins Out of Control The staff have been evacuated again because the radiation spiked in the plant. The NY  Post says: “A possible breach in a reactor at Japan’s quake-crippled nuclear plant yesterday triggered an emergency evacuation of the facility, prompting fears of far worse radiation leaks than previously believed and causing a dire setback for workers scrambling to avert a full-scale global catastrophe.” And the US military is getting large amounts of fresh wa … Read More

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