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Fukushima Photo Essay: a Drone's Eye View
Hallie Siegel (2973169) writes "Here's stunning photos and incredible interactive aerial maps of the devastation, cleanup and reconstruction effort in the region around the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant. Adam Klaptocz of Drone Adventures in collaboration with Taichi Furuhashi, researcher at the Center for Spatial Information Science at the University of Tokyo show the current state of the region."
Imagine telling a child that he or she can never return home to Tomioka because it has been turned into a storage facility for radioactive soil from other regions. Imagine the psychological devastation. It is time that we close the Diablo Canyon Nuclear Plant in California, which sits above multiple faults capable of producing the type of quake that destroyed Fukushima Daichi. What do you do with a parking lot full of radioactive topsoil?
Are you implying that cooking "kills" radionuclides?
Perhaps you'd care to mention which photos you believe are stunning? They all look distinctly average to me.
I live in hawaii , I fish here. I eat the fukin sushi. i'm implying would you eat it?
And people want to make drones illegal because they're afraid of their "privacy" in a public place if photographers use drones to do street photography... sigh
Just to be clear here: the devastation is all due to the tsunami, not to the reactor failure. Foreign media seem to often forget or ignore that the disaster was the earthquake and tsunami. That's what killed almost 20k people dead and destroyed the homes of many hundreds of thousands of people.
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Yes. The ocean is big. There is a damn sight more radioactivity in the ocean from the rocks on the sea bed than from all of mankind's activity (pun intended). Unless you are fishing within sight of the reactor and then going back to Hawaii worry about something else.
Run bus tours in the Fukushima district like they do through Pripyat.
I have one question, would you eat sushi in Hawaii?
You mean with all that mercury contamination from coal burning? Well, cooking doesn't destroy mercury, so I guess sushi is no worse than a nice cooked fish.
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Yen.
Next question.
I am very small, utmostly microscopic.
Does anybody have a link to these "stunning" and "incredible" images?
I have one question, would you eat sushi in Hawaii?
Absolutely not. I hate sushi. I would not eat it on a plane, I would not eat it on a train.
But I'd eat most other kinds of seafood. I'd eat it in Hawaii and, I'd even it in Japan.
Tragedy of the commons. In Japan, people own their land and property. In Haiti, there is no private property rights. No one bothers to care and maintain things that belong to someone else or could be taken away from them at any time.
"Tomioka is the closest thing we have ever seen to a nuclear wasteland. The town is on the coast, only 10 km south of Fukushima Daiichi, and it has yet to be cleared of damage caused by both the Tohoku earthquake and the subsequent tsunami."
Why nuclear wasteland, when there is no sign of any damage caused by anything nuclear?
Would you eat shrimp in New Orleans?
the preceding comment is my own and in no way reflects the opinion of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
I just drank some Nuka-Cola. Is it supposed to tingle in my mouth like that? Is that how I know its working? Will I get addicted to this tingling sensation?
I can't help but think of the old Kidd of Speed hoax. The long awaited season 2 brings you......Japan!
That's not a drone.
It's a small EPP foam toy flying wing. You can build one for about $150 in parts. I'm astounded that people put the same label to these things and small multicopters that they do to a Predator Drone, for example.
Isnt it kinda strange that the said were the creation of some radioactive kerfuffle????
There's a band called the Bee Gees - some of the older slashdotters may have heard of them, but if not they were mostly responsible for the music in "Grease".
Anyway, they flew into Brisbane where a couple of them grew up. "How's it feel to be home" asked a journalist. "Home is this airport - home is buried under the end of that runway" answered one of the band. The entire suburb where he grew up was demolished for the airport.
As the saying goes, the past is a foreign country.
BTW - the "parking lot" bit above is sadly understating the problem. What do you do with something like enough radioactive topsoil to cover Manhatten may be more like it. At the scale being considered there's no point thinking about moving it (it becomes a large scale shallow mining operation) and instead in-situ solutions should be considered.
The 1970s called and said they got that mercury thing under control with scrubbers. :)
There's not that many places where mercury is found at all and even fewer where it's with coal - the USA and those countries they exported coal to (eg. Japan in the 1960s) are lucky I guess
Please be serious - EVERYONE knows about the tsunami and it was in ALL of the media. The only difference here is the nuclear aspect is a new story that the press is talking about for a lot longer than than this tsunami or any of the others.
I really do not get why you are pretending the tsunami was not big news that everyone heard about. Pretending we are all idiots to push some "don't pick on the nukes" barrow is unpleasant.
It's real, people are talking about it, get used to it. If you want to push the "nuclear is not so dangerous as this makes it look" perhaps focus on the bad choices made in this place that made it worse than it could have been. The entire tsunami damage to nuclear plant incident could have been a non-event or a dodged bullet. However it wasn't, so that is why it is still news.