Why not
Leave it there as a darwinian population control?
Pokemon GO-ZILLA: Safety fears after monsters appear in Fukushima danger zone
Japan's Tokyo Electric Power Co is upset that Pokemon Go players on the hunt for monsters are being lured into the Fukushima Nuclear Exclusion Zone. The fictional creatures were apparently spotted close to the destroyed Daiichi nuclear reactors by Tepco officials. The presence of the collectible cyber-animals could tempt …
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Friday 29th July 2016 00:45 GMT Alan Brown
Re: which makes most of their output useless.
"And of course saying "conspiracy theory" is a great way to cover up a conspiracy...."
Virtually all conspiracies are about covering up the cockup which led to XYZ bad thing happening, or at least ensuring that a peon takes the fall. Management are good at that when their asses are on the line.
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Wednesday 27th July 2016 12:37 GMT Hans 1
Re: Pokemon/Godzilla aside, anyone else finding this recent admission pretty sobering:
>Except they are very much into anti nuclear conspiracy theories which makes most of their output useless.
Well, it depends on which side you are standing ... IAEA or Greenpeace, basically ... and WHO is a WHOre to the IAEA. Don't believe me, that is all fine and good:
http://independentwho.org/en/who-and-aiea-aggreement/
Now, those are also "anti-nuclear-guyz", however, they make an undeniable point.
You might also want to believe scientific publications on the matter, published on http://www.eea.europa.eu, right ?
Eat this, mate:
http://www.eea.europa.eu/publications/late-lessons-2/late-lessons-chapters/late-lessons-ii-chapter-18
Nuclear energy allows the rich and powerful to get richer on the back of future generations and they use every dirty trick to make nuclear power seem safe and sound ...
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Friday 29th July 2016 00:44 GMT Alan Brown
Re: Pokemon/Godzilla aside, anyone else finding this recent admission pretty sobering:
There were other nuke plants along the coastline which didn't get wiped out by the tsunami.
Tepco were told that the location of the generators was unsafe but put them there anyway and the japanese nuclear regulators let them do it. Mind you they also let Monji get fired up without properly checking for leaks too. 5000 tons of radioactive molten sodium in your basement is a bit of a problem to clean up.
This was a management failure, not a technical one - and as others have pointed out the actual amount of radioactive material released is negligable. That said: Roll on LFTR technology. Can't catch fire, can't explode (hydrogen or radioactive steam varieties), can't melt down, can't overheat, can't vent radioactive steam/water, doesn't waste 99.9% of the mined material, doesn't need water cooling (which means it doesn't need siting next to a river/ocean and doesn't need derating in hot weather) and is significantly more thermally efficient than conventional civil nukes thanks to running a lot hotter.
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Wednesday 27th July 2016 03:29 GMT Anonymous Coward
Gotta do it
All these unusual perspectives on Pokémon Goaway are nothing more than a continuation of probably the largest and most subversive PR effort for a game ever. PG fatwah, PG at the airport, PG and radiation, PG and shootouts, etc, etc, etc, puke. My hope is this saturation attack leads to its quick demise so it will just go away and get out of my face. And get off my lawn dammit.
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Wednesday 27th July 2016 07:18 GMT Gene Cash
Re: Gotta do it
Well PG's gotten my 51yo fat ass out from in front of the computer, blinking into the bright sunshine and fresh air. For me, it's basically an excuse to go for a walk, and a little entertainment while I do so.
It's sad that I have a really pretty path around a beautiful lake, and I don't use it.
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Wednesday 27th July 2016 04:29 GMT Camilla Smythe
Hai!
Hai!
You phone is here!
We create next Pokemon here!
Go catch Pokemon!
Hai!
You phone is here!
We create next Pokemon here!
Go catch Pokemon!
Hai!
You phone is here!
We create next Pokemon here!
Go catch Pokemon!
Hai!
You phone is here!
We create next Pokemon here!
Go catch Pokemon!
Hai!
You phone is here!
We create next Pokemon here!
Go catch Pokemon!
Hai!
Lost GPS signal on your phone!
Glug Glug Glug.
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Wednesday 27th July 2016 08:26 GMT VinceH
If it's not radiation danger zones at Fukushima, it's dangerous mud flats at Burnham-on-Sea - and there are probably plenty of other examples of stupid players.
I won't be at all surprised if we eventually do see a report of a death as a result of someone venturing somewhere stupid to 'catch' a Pokemon.
The game should therefore officially adopt this more 'authentic' method of catching Pokemon as a safety feature. Attach string to the phone so it can be retrieved, allowing it to go somewhere too dangerous for the owner.
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Wednesday 27th July 2016 18:02 GMT Geoffrey W
RE: "The Japanese don't strike me as the type of people who would be fucking stupid enough to risk their lives for a Pokémon."
Are you kidding? Search for "japanese weirdest things". Its the wierdest place on earth. They probably already have a TV show which gets half naked people to go and take a bath in the old cooling pools of the Fukushima power plant.
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Wednesday 27th July 2016 18:05 GMT Mark 85
I won't be at all surprised if we eventually do see a report of a death as a result of someone venturing somewhere stupid to 'catch' a Pokemon.
We're getting close now to this. There's been reports of robbings, beatings, people being hit by cars. There's also reports of drivers playing the game and racing to the next Pokémon. I saw a vid where a guy walked off a pier into a harbor. They fished him out and it turned out there was another guy already in the water from doing the same thing. Sorry... no sympathy here for those Darwin candidates.
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Wednesday 27th July 2016 10:38 GMT Dave Bell
I can see how some places can slip through in the initial set-up. I have seen stuff on how the pin-point locations can be amended, but it will take time for the reports to be checked and acted on.
This is more complicated, because it's about how Pokemon appear. I have no idea of how that's controlled.
It is less that two weeks since the game went active in the UK. Half the local Pokestops are churches of one sort or another. There's some sign that one or two locations are affected by more than random GPS error.
Pokemon GO has some of the same strange location fixing that can be seen on web-based business directories, which seem to get their money from general advertising rather than delivering customers to businesses. If anyone is trying to link a new Pokestop to their business, I think they need to take care with a GPS fix. Just clicking on your phone could be misleading. As I recall, it's worth averaging the GPS reading for a location over a good long time, maybe a full 24 hours.
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Wednesday 27th July 2016 11:48 GMT Nixinkome
God zilla
The monsters are mutating into Pokémans now.
How can Nintendo be making a loss? I hope someone there sold some high performing shares whilst it was thought that Nintendo owned them.
As for luster [see another article's comments], rose gold vehicles are on Stop until the world's largest company has seen others' mistakes.
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Wednesday 27th July 2016 14:24 GMT Chris King
If it isn't radiation or minefields, it's railway tracks...
Someone must really hate players, if they want to lure them into Birmingham New Street.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
