We now have a forum dedicated to the crisis in Japan.

It saddens me that we need this new forum because of the severity of the issues in Japan, and the frequency with which the situation is changing, and new information becomes apparent.

Please use this new forum for all topics specific to the events in Japan, resulting from the horrific earthquake, tsunami, aftermath, and troubles at the nuclear reactors.

And to keep things organized, please use this forum for all breaking news items related to the above-mentioned issues.

Topics that relate to the events in Japan, such as nuclear fallout outside Japan and predictions or worsening financial troubles (for example) should still go into the appropriate forums.


Thank you in advance for helping to keep ATS organized.

Sad to be needed, but needed Indeed... Thank You...

reply to post by SkepticOverlord


It's sad that an event like this needs its own forum.

Thank you for allowing us a chance to group the threads together.

I think we're going to be discussing Japan for quite some time to come. Especially when the economic and environmental ramifications become apparent.

Thank goodness !!!
Fragile Earth was becoming a mess.

Can we get everyone to read before posting new threads now ... (ducks for cover)

reply to post by projectvxn


This is very true... It will surely redefine the economic landscape.

Thank you for this forum!

Eventually this will be nearly forgotten like the BP spill in the future but I guess there is no avoiding it. R.I.P poor souls of japan and hopefully more research will go into full detail how and why such a thing happened in the first place.

reply to post by SkepticOverlord


Excellent idea and thank you.
And it looks like the existing threads have already been moved too.....great!
It took a while last time on the BP disaster, so I guess the mods
have been working hard at it behind the scenes...Thanks to all involved in same..

reply to post by Stop-loss!


On an environmental scale, the oil spill was really bad, but this is so much worse.

After abandoning the site the workers are back. Does anybody have an update on the amount of radiation?
www.cnn.com...

Well ain't that keen. You got em behind the 8 ball see? A real jam.

You nailed them newshawks, put the screws on their wooden kimono.

At some point we may need a SHTF forum.

Though its unfortunate that we need this, may I make a suggestion as this thread will be getting large rather quickly. If something "breaking or new" occurs if there can be a notification in the name as to make members aware that something newer or urgent in happening, so that if new info comes out, members wouldn't have to reread everything, or it get lost in the many replies.

My 2 cents.
Peace, NRE,

Heres some good news
Germany is going to temporarily shutdown 7 nuclear plants in response to the japan situationwww.bbc.co.uk...

Germany has temporarily shut down seven of its nuclear power plants while it reconsiders its nuclear strategy

Workers are, or are not back? CNN still says they suspended working.

reply to post by SixX1874


They are back now. Due to high radiation levels they had to be pulled out. I wonder why the radiation levels fluctuate so much?

Here are a few threads that you might want to move into this forum:

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I think this thread is just to let everyone know why this new forum is here.
Not to discuss Japan issues.

reply to post by AllIsOne


I feel like they aren't giving the full story. Like are there really workers there, or is it to keep our hopes up.