Been asked by work to go Tokyo in May


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Deano

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Would you? Never been to Japan and would be well up for it normally but obviously with the nuclear thing it's a tricky time.

Have the right to refuse like...
 
Depends on circumstance but if I didn't have major ties or was getting enough money to cover financial commitments and enjoy myself out there I'd go in a heartbeat.
 
What is it you do anyway ?

I can probably do it if you don't fancy it.
 
Get ower there and give them Japanese lasses a good seeing to man. They come in waves apparently.
 
Would you? Never been to Japan and would be well up for it normally but obviously with the nuclear thing it's a tricky time.

Have the right to refuse like...

I would definitely go, fantastic city and I think it will be safe enough.
I nearly had to go to Birmingham this week so a bit of nuclear fallout is nowt to worry about.;)
 
Wouldn't go anywhere near the place at the moment, especially if you still want kids.
The levels of radiation knocking about over there now are not good and if it's getting into the water system (which it is) it will take years to resolve if they ever manage to.
 
Wouldn't go anywhere near the place at the moment, especially if you still want kids.
The levels of radiation knocking about over there now are not good and if it's getting into the water system (which it is) it will take years to resolve if they ever manage to.

Absolute bollocks.

Get yourself owa, nee need for anyone to worry in Tokyo. It's just like normal day life there again now.
 
Deano said:
Would you? Never been to Japan and would be well up for it normally but obviously with the nuclear thing it's a tricky time.

Have the right to refuse like...

My mates in Tokyo say it is fine there now. I would go :)
 
Absolute bollocks.

Get yourself owa, nee need for anyone to worry in Tokyo. It's just like normal day life there again now.


OK so the highly radioactive clouds of steam which are rising from the plant aren't condensing and falling to earth as rain, the rain is not going down the surface water systems and these don't feed into the water treatment plants.

When they tackled the fire in the chimney at Windscale in the fifties the water contaminated the surface water sewers which feed into the North Sea. Those drains have never been replaced since and the coastline south of Sellafield (Ravenglass mudflats) are still showing very high levels of radiation. That was nowhere near the scale of this current situation.
 
I'm going next week, it's absolutely fine, Tokyo is 180 miles away from the nuclear site and is 120 miles away from the exclusion zone. The FCO's own worst case scenario is that people will have to stay indoors while the wind blows it away. The radiation is iodine which has a half life of 8 days, people just hear nuclear and freak out. Life is going on as normal for most of the country, trains are up and running, shops are filling up and restaraunts are open. You'll be exposed to more radiation on the plane over than your stay in Japan.
 
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