LATEST:Tokyo hit by 8.9 mag earthquake and 10-m high tsunami

[Angelight]

I doubt so. Sadly but truly, Singaporeans (maybe not all) have similar mentality like the Chinese all over the world - kiasu, kiasi and don't believe in queueing especially in a crisis. Somehow, the Japs are a different breed, perhaps it's in their culture.

LOLMum:

looking at the way the japanese are working together as one - waiting patiently for food, water, petrol etc and not buying all but save some for others etc, all these are part of their own culture and education system.

will this happen in spore when diaster strikes?

[Angelight]

Way2go, the pix and news are heart wrenching. My heart really goes out to the Japanese people.


Just today, I watched the NHK World news on CNA and there was this school principal fighting back tears to give out the graduation cert to the father of a boy who died in the disaster. The father was sobbing into a hand towel, very very sad...

One of the graduated student gave a speech, amidst tears, that this recent disaster has been very traumatic to him and the whole of Japan, but added that he doesn't blame Heaven and hope that all of Japan will stand together to overcome. Very encouraging mature words coming from a teenaged boy.

[Way2GO]

Daddy

\"OSAKA: Radioactive iodine that exceeds the level considered safe for infants has been detected in Tokyo's tap water, a city official said Wednesday, advising parents not to give it to their babies....\"


Scary... then can drink what? After boiling will be safe meh?
Wonder how many years later than safe to go Japan...

Radioactive Iodine 131 has a short half life of 8 -9 days.
If only Iodine 131 and no further contamination, the water will be safe
to drink in a month or so when the iodine 131 decays further.
At current level of 210 Bq, it is still safe for adults to drink.

Boiling does not remove radioactive iodine.

[starlight1968sg]

Way2GO:

Radioactive Iodine 131 has a short half life of 8 -9 days.

If only Iodine 131 and no further contamination, the water will be safe
to drink in a month or so when the iodine 131 decays further.
At current level of 210 Bq, it is still safe for adults to drink.

Boiling does not remove radioactive iodine.

Worry about those which have a longer half life as they will linger on for years.

[Way2GO]

starlight1968sg:

Worry about those which have a longer half life as they will linger on for years.

Generally, radioactive isotopes with shorter half life hv more radioactivity.
The other radioactive material reported leaked is Cesium, which has a half life of 30 years.
Water source contaminated with high levels of dis isotope is as good as gone.

[Way2GO]

OK Angellight, a heart warming pix then


http://postimage.org/image/2pc1qzjr8/

Ofunato (Miyagi) - a young girl found her school bag after d tsunami.

[Way2GO]

Sometimes, fate deals one a lousy hand:

http://postimage.org/image/2pcvinsn8/
A father n son weeps for his son n sibling at Takata Junior High.
D boy didn't go to school dat fateful day n died in d quake/tsunami.
His classmates went to school n survived d disaster.
His classmates grieved when his body was brought back to school.

Sometimes, fate is kinder:
http://postimage.org/image/2pezldrd0/
86 yo Tero Suzuki has survived through 3 big earthquakes,
d Sendai earthquake being d biggest.

[Way2GO]

Higashimatsushima (Miyagi) - The mass burial has begun


http://postimage.org/image/2pi41xcxw/

http://postimage.org/image/2pidz5fwk/

But life will go on....
at Minamisanriku centre for evacuees:
http://postimage.org/image/2pipjwvd0/

http://postimage.org/image/2pjcpfq9w/

A graduation ceremony at JSDF Academy in subdued lighting
http://postimage.org/image/2pixtlltw/
d celebratory 'throwing caps in d air' was omitted as a sign of respect
for the disaster victims.

[Way2GO]

The heroic Fukushima 50

Photo released today by TEPCO on workers preparing to hose down Reactor No. 4
http://postimage.org/image/209m798jo/

[janet88]

Water in Tokyo unsafe for babies now.