Fukushima.

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

...silently drifting into the memory hole...

[Esse Quam Videri]

1. While still totally uncontained.

http://enenews.com/nhk-tepco-doesnt-melted-fuel-reactors-actual-level-radioactive-particles-being-released-about-start-checking

[truebrit71]

2. Not for me it isn't...just because the presstitutes in the M$M are too busy..

...drumming up another distraction for Mr.& Mrs. Soundbyte to watch, I am still deeply concerned about it...it isn't contained/controlled at all and there was another earthquake there today, no?

[Aerows]

4. PRESSTITUTES

Dear God, you just coined a term I will use for as long as our media remain corporate whores.

Presstitutes.

[Octafish]

3. Not for DU.

Thanks, RUMMYisFROSTED!

[Urban Prairie]

5. Nope, I try to read something about it online each day and have not forgotten

about the ongoing nuclear reactor crisis there, as well as those Japanese who are still homeless as a result of the tsunami and earthquakes. Fukushima residents were recently spurned by government officials from Tokyo in charge of response, when asked about performing radiation testing on samples of thier childrens' urine that they brought in for them to receive, as well as walking out on them, soon after requesting government assistance in the evacuation of some residents of the city who wanted to leave:

http://www.commondreams.org/further/2011/07/25-3#comment-1885232

Just unbelievable how terribly these poor unfortunate people were treated, really no better than if they were instead wild animals or now feral former pets. I watched and shared the embed video a couple of times with a few of my neighbors, who of course also were disgusted and angry.

[PufPuf23]

6. I look or Fukushima every day too.

I watch the Japan quake map.

There were 11 quakes in the reion during the past week between 4.6 and 6.4 magnitude

The 6.4 was just off shore of Fukushima.

This site shows all 1400 plus quakes in Japan over 4.0 magnitude since March 11, 2011; date of 9 magnitude that resulted in the damage to the nuclear reactors and the tidal wave.

http://www.japanquakemap.com/week

[Imajika]

7. Yeah, once the public realized there would be no nuclear explosion...

...they lost interest.

Seriously, I don't think most people watching it really understood what was going on. The media covered it like a reality TV show - each hour focusing on a different reactor. Eventually when it became clear to people that no giant atomic explosion would ever happen, they moved on to something else.

[robdogbucky]

8. I put up a thread this morning on things, now on page 3:

Strong Quake Hits Fukushima

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=439x1622543


5 responses I think. Folks have Fukushima fatigue after 5 or so months, just like last year w/GOM. Unlike that disaster, it was largely considered over when they finally capped the gusher.

In Fukushima, they are a ways from having things contained, much less considered over.



Some more little good news later this afternoon:



Cesium leveling out at the Fukushima reactor No.3

The operator of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant said on Sunday that the level of radioactive cesium in seawater around the Number 3 reactor has shown no signs of increasing since Saturday.

Tokyo Electric Power Company, or TEPCO, has been constantly checking the level of radioactive substances at water intakes in the plant and offshore.

On Saturday, seawater collected near the water intake of the Number 3 reactor recorded 1.3 becquerels of cesium 134 per cubic centimeter, which is 22 times higher than the national legal limit.

Cesium 137 was 17 times the limit at 1.5 becquerels. But the recorded level hasn't changed since Friday...

Monday, August 01, 2011 05:59 +0900 (JST)

http://www3.nhk.or.jp/daily/english/01_01.html

[demodonkey]

9. Plenty of things are ignored. Paperless electronic voting machines for instance.

25% of the US still has to vote on them, they are approaching 6 years old and are rapidly heading toward the end of their useful life (if they ever had a 'useful' life to begin with.)

No one care. Crickets from the media and most so-called progressives think that because Obama won the problem has gone away.

Nothing could be further from the truth. The voting machines are as bad as ever.

And on here, on DU? Anyone who talks about it is slammed unless they agree with an unrealistic all-or-nothing 100% hand counted paper ballot solution.

Just remember, voting is the core of what democracy we have. If elections are unfair and votes are not counted accurately, NO OTHER ISSUE you care about has a chance in hell.