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May 28, 2011

Fukushima Goo: The Latest From TEPCO


1. You remember the classic “green goo” photo from April 1st where the boys were using hoses to try to get the airborne radiation to stick to the ground ? We’ll, this is the robotic version.

2. Do they know these silent moves make them look ever more ridiculous, drawing obvious comparison to Japanese horror flicks?

3. Good grief. Also reminds me of this.

3. And then, 300 kilometers out to sea

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(photo: TEPCO caption: May 27, 2011)

  • bks

    If photographers still used film instead of electronic sensors we could at least see the radiation.

        –bks

    • Anonymous

      Interesting point. Seems like there ought to be one or more filters that would allow digital cameras to do that. Think infrared or ultraviolet: It’s all just radiation of various wave lengths along the same electromagnet spectrum. Anyone out there sufficiently “techie” to explain this?

    • Spiny Norman

      No, you couldn’t, because (unless you’re in the containment dome) the radiation isn’t intense enough for that, and because most of the radiation wouldn’t readily penetrate your camera body. 

  • Gasho

    TEMPCO is not unlike the proverbial one legged man in a butt kicking contest.
    I wish I could remember where that line came from, but let’s face it, it couldn’t be more apropos.  #FUKUSHIMA is the opposing butt kicking contestant.

    I actually appreciate them enacting a plan, like spraying some crap on the building (which could use all the help it can get right about now), since accomplishing the task of repairing three haywire nuclear reactors, all in the process of total meltdown; and propping up a fourth reactor building to avert an impending calamity in the overstocked and unstable fuel rod pool — all with worker rotations of 10 minutes or so is breathtakingly out of their league. The cost of failure is simply incalculable.

    By all means, keep any nuclear dust contamination to an absolute minimum.  While you’re at it please keep filtering the burgeoning nuclear sludge from the reactors’ trenches before you release it. Keep flying remote controlled cameras over the buildings, sneaking around with the robots collecting data, and measuring the sea water, sea creatures, air, soil, animals, plants and people. Keep us informed, take care, good luck… In other words, Keep Kicking!

    Woeful indeed is this tale; this few-month-old tragedy that will leave it’s mark on Earth for millennia.