“Town of Death” Minister Resigns

The dog from the Japan photo is obviously a photoshop job. The light is wrong at the tail, and it looks like it's been bathed, combed and had a haircut. No way it's a wild dog.

I bet it will mutated to become DOGZILLA!

I'm not sure I agree about the last part, but I definitely agree it's absurd that he resigned and felt pressure to do so. There's a difference between being a pessimist and telling it like it is. Sometimes, people need a wake-up call, and to really understand this was a disaster that shouldn't be swept under the carpet and forgotten.

Actually, the key reason of his resign was because he said “I’ll give you radiation.”.
He rubbed his clothes against the news reporter and made this joke.

Japanese politicians covering their ass and nobody having the guts to say the truth and standing up to the tyrants at TEPCO. Just another usual day in Japan. Sadly.

POLITICS.

It usually goes like this:

1. A guy from a particular party who holds some important portfolios say something that may or may not be offensive.

2. In the beginning, maybe only 4 in 6 billion people even care about what he said.

3. Opposing party sees fit to kill his character with that otherwise trivial quote and employs all the connection it knows in the old media to start a smear campaign.

4. Humans(well, most of us anyway) are groupies, so when something is so heated up in old media and broadcasted for days, they suck it up and are like "NO, WE CAN'T TAKE THIS SHIT EITHER!"

5. Guy from no. 1 quits.

Both LDP and DPJ have employed this kind of tactic countless of times already. Hell, it's the same all around the world.

I agree with the shitstorm thing, back in 9/11 New Jersey Governor (and other leaders) announced it was "safe" to work in ground zero, looked what happened now!

At least Hachiro give a more accurate warning.
The US has a lot of monopolies, Verizon for copper phone lines in the Eastern Boarder. No one else provides lan phone service other than VOIP.

Apple is an way a monopoly completely controls competition with software for their hardware products. iphone with no expansion slot really? buy a more expensive higher memory model, really?

Then the food engineering.... don't want to go into that..

Al Gore vs Bush election, stop the vote count???? What happened to democracy?

Two things US is better
Freedom of speech, you won't get shot or throw in jail like some other countries.

Almost completely censorship free

Fukushima isn't "inhabitable" now, in fact neither is Prypriat. Radiation levels per se are probably below what you have in higher altitude cities.

The problem is when you stir up dust or soil. Once (or if) this is cleaned, there is no problem. Ukraine does not have the finances to do this in Prypriat, but in Japan with so little land I think it's just a matter of time until a cleanup becomes cost-effective.

No they'll clean up most of the town only the site near the reactors is going to be difficult to remedy.
Most of it will likely be perfectly safe in a few years even if nothing was done but the site of the reactors will have to have the top layer of soil stripped away.
This will be a major operation almost on the scale of a small coal mine and may make use of similar equipment.
As for disposal bury it in clay or an old salt mine.
In theory it would be safe to dump in the open ocean a few hundred miles out far from any reef or sea mounts as it would simply disperse but it would not be politically viable.
Option two make bricks out of it.

I'd also not doing any fishing near the site for a few years but even there the radiation will eventually be dispersed.
Most of it was radioactive iodine which is dangerous but not long lived.
The total amount of long lived radioactive material released is probably a lot less then Hiroshima and Nagasaki which were rebuilt.
The irony is the oil refinery that burnt down may likely have more lasting and wide spread effect on the environment.