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chaz47
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 Posted: Sun Aug 17, 2014 9:01 pm Post subject: Office rumor... Gyeongju, Train Accident, Radiation? |
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This was all in Korean mind you so I could only parse together bits of it, but it sounded like there was some sort of train derailment and there's been toxic (radioactive) waste spilled in Gyeongju?
Can anyone out there confirm this? |
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andrewchon
Joined: 16 Nov 2008
Location: Back in Oz. Living in ISIS Aust.
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| Posted: Mon Aug 18, 2014 12:25 am Post subject: |
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| Nope. Haven't heard about that. |
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Chaparrastique
Joined: 01 Jan 2014
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| Posted: Mon Aug 18, 2014 6:40 am Post subject: Re: Office rumor... Gyeongju, Train Accident, Radiation? |
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| chaz47 wrote: |
This was all in Korean mind you so I could only parse together bits of it, but it sounded like there was some sort of train derailment and there's been toxic (radioactive) waste spilled in Gyeongju?
Can anyone out there confirm this? |
Several relatively recent accidents they might be referring to:
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On 27 September 2012, about eight tonnes of highly toxic hydrogen fluoride (HF) gas, which dissolves in the moisture in air to form droplets of corrosive hydrofluoric acid, burst from the Hube Global chemical plant in Gumi. The leak killed five workers and injured at least 18 others, including plant employees and emergency personnel.
Thousands of local citizens say that inhaling the acid has damaged their health. Exposure to HF can trigger an irregular heartbeat and cause fluid build-up in the lungs, and the long-term health effects include chronic lung disease. The government has said that it will pay about 36.4 billion won (US$33.4 million) in compensation to citizens and local businesses.
This may sound like a freak accident — but it was not. On 15 January, about 2,500 litres of hydrofluoric acid escaped at a factory in Cheongju, injuring one person. And on 28 January, a worker died during a hydrofluoric acid leak at a Samsung Electronics computer-chip plant in Hwaseong. In the wake of the incidents, experts are raising questions about safety in the country’s research-intensive chemical and microelectronics industries, and the government is investigating what went wrong.
“South Korea tends to focus on resolving accidents only when death occurs, but action to prevent such accidents is still severely lacking,” says Lim Hyun-Sul, a researcher in preventive medicine at Dongguk University in Gyeongju. |
http://www.nature.com/news/alert-over-south-korea-toxic-leaks-1.12369 |
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andrewchon
Joined: 16 Nov 2008
Location: Back in Oz. Living in ISIS Aust.
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| Posted: Mon Aug 18, 2014 1:34 pm Post subject: |
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Still nothing in the news confirming the roumor.
Other news items:
Big-ish oil deposit found in Australia
Politician's son implicated in army bashing and sex-attacks
Another full page ad on NYTimes on Prez Park to come clean on Sewol disaster.
The rain will continue for few more days.
Japanese national captured by rebel forces in Syria.
but nothing about radio active spill.  |
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atwood
Joined: 26 Dec 2009
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| Posted: Mon Aug 18, 2014 2:24 pm Post subject: |
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They're planning to open a "temporary" radioactive waste site there in six months because all the current ones will be full by 2016.
There's a commission in charge of the whole thing, and they claim that nothing will happen unless it's absolutely safe. |
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wanderkind
Joined: 01 Jan 2012
Location: Japan
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| Posted: Mon Aug 18, 2014 3:51 pm Post subject: |
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| atwood wrote: |
They're planning to open a "temporary" radioactive waste site there in six months because all the current ones will be full by 2016.
There's a commission in charge of the whole thing, and they claim that nothing will happen unless it's absolutely safe. |
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| Gyeongju was the capital of the ancient kingdom of Silla (57 BC – 935 AD) which ruled about two-thirds of the Korean Peninsula between the 7th and 9th centuries. A vast number of archaeological sites and cultural properties from this period remain in the city. Gyeongju is often referred to as "the museum without walls". Among such historical treasures, Seokguram grotto, Bulguksa temple, Gyeongju Historic Areas and Yangdong Folk Village are designated as World Heritage Sites by UNESCO. The many major historical sites have helped Gyeongju become one of the most popular tourist destinations in South Korea. |
Sounds like a good spot for a nuclear waste repository.
They should just bury all that shit under Dokdo. Then the Japanese won't even want it. 2 birds and whatnot. |
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