{"id":11187,"date":"2015-08-18T08:05:29","date_gmt":"2015-08-18T13:05:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=11187"},"modified":"2015-08-18T08:05:29","modified_gmt":"2015-08-18T13:05:29","slug":"will-japan-win-the-darwin-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=11187","title":{"rendered":"Will Japan Win the Darwin Award?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 class=\"entry-title\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonsblog.com\/2015\/08\/will-japan-win-the-darwin-award.html\" target=\"_blank\">Will Japan Win the Darwin Award?<\/a><\/h3>\n<p><strong>Japan Re-Starts Nuclear Plan Near Active Volcano<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>We reported last October:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Scientists\u00a0<a title=\"warned\" href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonsblog.com\/2011\/11\/engineers-knew-fukushima-might-be-unsafe-but-covered-it-up-and-now-the-extreme-vulnerabilty-of-new-u-s-plants-is-being-covered-up.html\">warned<\/a>\u00a0that an earthquake could take out Fukushima. The Japanese\u00a0<a title=\"ignored the warning \u2026 and even tore down the natural seawall which protected Fukushima from tidal waves\" href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonsblog.com\/2013\/11\/tepco-destroyed-the-natural-seawall-which-would-have-protected-fukushima-from-the-tsunami.html\">ignored the warning \u2026 and even tore down the natural seawall which protected Fukushima from tidal waves<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Fukushima is\u00a0<a title=\"getting worse\" href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonsblog.com\/2014\/10\/fukushima-update-fuku-nuku-aint-beaucoup.html\">getting worse<\/a>. And see\u00a0<a title=\"this\" href=\"http:\/\/enenews.com\/radiation-levels-surge-fukushima-plant-100000-previous-record-high-tv-officials-dont-typhoon-be-blame-video\" target=\"_blank\">this<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a title=\"this\" href=\"http:\/\/enenews.com\/tv-officials-extremely-high-radiation-levels-will-keep-pouring-fukushima-problem-be-fundamentally-solved-gundersen-plutonium-leaking-groundwater-essentially-pieces-nuclear-fuel-parts-plant-overflow\" target=\"_blank\">this<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Have the Japanese learned their lesson? Are they decommissioning nuclear plants which are built in dangerous environments?<\/p>\n<p>Of course not!<\/p>\n<p>Instead, they\u2019re re-starting a nuclear plant near a volcano which is about to blow \u2026<\/p>\n<p>A month ago, there was an eruption at Mt. Ontake:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/sociorocketnewsen.files.wordpress.com\/2014\/10\/ontake2.jpg?w=580&amp;h=326\" alt=\"Ontake2\" width=\"790\" height=\"444.0\" \/><br \/>\n<em>Screenshot from\u00a0<a title=\"Youtube Video\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=QjkCpwy_HUM\" target=\"_blank\">Youtube Video<\/a>\u00a0shot on September 29th of Mount erupting. 57 hikers were killed by the explosion<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/pbs.twimg.com\/media\/B09JOR0IcAACKQz.jpg\" alt=\"Embedded image permalink\" width=\"790\" height=\"524.5\" \/><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Y75pJ1OrPmQ\" width=\"790\" height=\"444\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>But \u2013 as Newsweek\u00a0<a title=\"reports\" href=\"http:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/japanese-officials-vote-reopen-nuclear-power-plant-despite-volcanic-warnings-280462\" target=\"_blank\">reports<\/a>\u00a0\u2013 a nuclear plant only 40 miles away will be re-started anyway:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Local officials have voted to reopen a nuclear plant in Japan, despite warnings of increased volcanic activity in the region from scientists.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The decision comes despite a warning on Friday that Japan\u2019s Seismological Agency had documented an increase of activity in the Ioyama volcano, located 40 miles away from the power station.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">***<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Sendai will become the first Japanese nuclear plant to reopen in since 2011.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">However the decision comes as scientific authorities warned of increased seismic activity on the island.\u00a0<strong>Volcanologists have warned that the 2011 earthquake, which measured 9.0 on the Richter scale, may have increased the likelihood of volcanic activity throughout the region<\/strong>. [<a title=\"increasing the likelihood of other big earthquakes\" href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonsblog.com\/2012\/02\/20-times-more-japanese-earthquakes-in-the-6-months-following-march-2011-than-in-the-previous-9-years-march-quake-may-have-awakened-fukushima-fault.html\">Background<\/a>.]<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">***<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The Sendai plant is also situated only 31 miles from Mount Sakurajima, an<strong>extremely active volcano which erupts on a regular basis<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The documentation of new activity comes barely a month after the eruption of Mount Ontake, when 57 hikers were killed on its slopes. There were no accompanying signs of seismic activity prior to the eruption which might have alerted Japanese authorities to the impending disaster.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Will Japan Win the Darwin Award? Japan Re-Starts Nuclear Plan Near Active Volcano We reported last October: Scientists\u00a0warned\u00a0that an earthquake could take out Fukushima. The Japanese\u00a0ignored the warning \u2026 and even tore down the natural seawall which protected Fukushima from tidal waves. Fukushima is\u00a0getting worse. And see\u00a0this\u00a0and\u00a0this. Have the Japanese learned their lesson? Are they [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,7],"tags":[8235,8234,452,8237,2201,8144,8236,5510],"class_list":["post-11187","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy-2","category-survival-2","tag-active-volcano","tag-darwin-arward","tag-japan","tag-mount-sakurajima","tag-nuclear-power-plant","tag-sendai-nuclear-power-plant","tag-volcanic-explosion","tag-washingtons-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11187","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11187"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11187\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11188,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11187\/revisions\/11188"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}