[Column] Life style research in Sighisoara

Since yesterday, I’ve been in Sighisoara in near mid Romania to look for a place that Japanese might like.

I’ve seen a completely independent village, where people live by self‐sustaining. Even if the entire world economy crashes, they would survive.

The house I looked in today has approx. 200m2 area and the second floor and the basement floor. It needs renovation. It was built over 300 years ago. 3 doors on the south and north.

The entire area is approx. 2,000m2 including the corn farm facing a river. It has countless trees of grapes, apples, prune and two wells.

I dreamt of hanging a hammock from one of those trees and take some nap but it’s too big for me anyway.

The neighbors shared their home-made wine with us, which was very nice.

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[Édito] Recherche d’un style de vie à Sighisoara

 

J’ai été à Sighisoara hier, près du centre de la Roumanie, à la recherche d’un endroit qui pourrait être japonais.

J’ai vu un village complètement autonome où les gens vivent en autarcie. Ils survivront même si l’économie mondiale s’effondre.
La maison que j’ai visitée aujourd’hui faisait environ 200 m², deuxième étage et rez de chaussée. Elle a besoin d’être rénovée. Elle a été construite il y a plus de 300 ans. 3 portes au sud et au nord.
L’ensemble recouvre environ 2 000 m², grange à maïs à côté de la rivière incluse. Il y a un nombre incroyable de pieds de vigne, de pommiers, de pruniers et deux puits.
J’ai rêvé d’accrocher un hamac à l’un de ces arbres et d’y faire une sieste mais c’est trop grand pour moi de toute façon.
Les voisins ont partagé leur propre vin avec nous, il était délicieux.

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  1. This will be the way of most human beings eventually, the towns and cities are self destructive on so many levels

  2. Romania is a beautifull country. I have been there several times. But certain things are evolving very slow (roads can be very dangerous, full of holes, do not drive at night!). Tap water in large cities can be unsutable to drink, in vilages sometimes there is no water infrastructure at all… I spoke years ago with japanese teacher that went to work in Romania, she said she had cultural schok, as everything in Romania moves so slow and no one really shows interest in anything… But I have to say generall people are very friendly and smart, they do however have problems with gipsies…I do not know if Japanese citizen that is used of high efficiency on all areas of life would be very satisfied living there, however, if survival of the nation is the cause of relocation then of course everything is possible…

    If you would consider Slovenia the cheapest properties are in ‘Pomurje’ area (uper-left side of Slovenia), here are some houses:
    http://www.nepremicnine.net/nepremicnine.html?d=197&p=1&n=2&r=15&c1=&c2=&cm2=0

  3. Being medium serving as Messenger to the Other World, please find Urgent Message received August 15, 2013 :
    VERY URGENT MESSAGE FOR JAPAN

    MEN of GOVERNMENT are THOUSANDFOLD IRRESPONSIBLE.
    MEN of FUKUSHIMA MUST BE EVACUATED URGENTLY.
    THOUSAND DANGER FUKUSHIMA NUCLEAR PLANT.
    MEN HOPE THAT REACTORS WILL WITHSTAND. MEN ARE WRONG.
    IMMENSE EARTHQUAKE WILL ARRIVE SOON.
    MEN’S IGNORANCE of the EARTHQUAKE’S INTENSITY IS the EXPLANATION.
    TOMORROW, FUKUSHIMA NUCLEAR PLANT will be COMPLETELY DESTROYED.
    The NUCLEAR IS an IMMENSE CHALLENGE FOR MEN.
    THOUSAND RISK of DESTRUCTION of LIFE, REASON WHY ST JESUS IS WARNING THOUSANDFOLD MEN, BUT MEN DO NOT BELIEVE IN IT.
    MEN’S IGNORANCE EXPLAINS the LACK OF TRUST IN ST JESUS’ WORDS.
    MEN MAKE BIG MISTAKE NOT WANTING TO KNOW.
    MEN DO LIKE OSTRICHS, BUT the DANGER IS VERY REAL.
    MEN will have GREAT REGRETS TOMORROW.
    MEN WILL MAKE the DISCOVERY of the TRUTH of ST JESUS’ WORDS : IMMENSE DANGER TOMORROW.
    TOMORROW, MEN WILL ASK FOR HELP FROM ST JESUS THOUSANDFOLD IN VAIN.
    IT IS TODAY that YOU MUST ACT : PUT the POPULATION AT SHELTER.
    MEN ARE MAKING ALL THE CONTRARY.
    MESSAGE FROM YOUR PROTECTOR

  4. Jesus is part of “MEN” too.. of course women have nothing to do with this problem.. its ‘manmade’man.

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    Nagasaki Bomb Maker Offers Lessons for Japan’s Fukushima Cleanup

    By Shigeru Sato & Yuji Okada – Aug 16, 2013 6:00 AM GMT+0900

    Hanford Engineer Works produced the 20 pounds of plutonium for the bomb dropped on Nagasaki. It’s among the most toxic nuclear waste sites and the place Japan is turning to for help dealing with melted reactors in Fukushima.

    Tokyo Electric Power Co. (9501) has sent engineers on visits to the Hanford site in Washington state this year to learn from decades of work treating millions of gallons of radioactive waste. Hanford also has a method to seal off reactors known as concrete cocooning that could reduce the 11 trillion yen ($112 billion) estimated cost for cleaning up Fukushima.

    Hanford stretches over 586 square miles of scrubland southeast of Seattle where thousands of technicians are decommissioning the nine reactors in operation from 1944 to 1987. Its laboratories and plutonium facilities were integral to the Manhattan Project to make the first atomic bomb.

    “The U.S. has vast experience in nuclear technology with their military activity, including decontaminating soil and managing river contamination,” Masumi Ishikawa, general manager of Tokyo Electric’s radioactive waste management, said in an interview. “There’s a lot we can learn from them.”

    Japan Prime Minister Shinzo Abe confirmed that last week when he told his fellow citizens for the first time that the Tokyo Electric utility alone isn’t able to handle the disaster at the Dai-Ichi plant. That followed revelations that hundreds of tons of radiated water was leaking from the facility each day into the sea. He promised more government funds for the cleanup without saying how they’d be used.
    Hanford Leaks

    Abe’s comments followed a long series of mishaps by the utility known as Tepco, resulting in its admission last month that hundreds of tons of radioactive water is flowing into the Pacific Ocean more than two years after three reactor cores melted down at the plant.

    Hanford has its own share of containment challenges. Six underground tanks leaking radioactive waste may offer lessons to Tepco in dealing with substances that contaminate everything they come in contact with. The tanks are among 177 buried at Hanford, about 200 miles (320 kilometers) southeast of Seattle along the Columbia River.

    The U.S. Department of Energy has spent more than $16 billion since 1989 to clean up Hanford. The weapons production generated 56 million gallons of radioactive waste, enough to fill a vessel the size of a football field to a depth of 150 feet, according to a December report by the U.S. Government Accountability Office.
    Fukushima Fifty

    Tepco’s Ishikawa said visits by him and other company engineers to Hanford are part of an agreement with the Department of Energy to evaluate the technology for possible use at Fukushima.

    Ishikawa, 46, studied nuclear engineering at Tohoku University in Sendai City, northeast Japan, and is one of the Fukushima Fifty.

    The name refers to a group of engineers who stayed in the Japanese plant to fight the disaster as power was lost and reactor buildings exploded. Ishikawa was the right-hand man of Masao Yoshida, who led the group. Yoshida died on July 9 of esophageal cancer. He was 58.

    At Hanford, the energy department finished a $65 million cocooning project in June last year, the DOE said in a statement. That involved demolishing the last one of the nine reactor buildings down to the four-foot- (1.2 meter) thick concrete shield around the reactor core.

    More concrete was added to the shield, along with a new concrete roof to put the reactor into so-called safe storage for 75 years. This allows radiation levels to decay to safer levels in the core and gives the operator time to determine the final disposal method, according to the statement.

    Cocooning Reactors

    There are three ways to decommission nuclear reactors, said Ishikawa. One is immediate dismantling. Another, used at the wrecked Chernobyl plant in Ukraine, entombed the whole building in concrete. The third is cocooning used at Hanford. Entombing and cocooning cost less than immediate dismantling as it reduces the expense for handling and moving highly radiated material, Ishikawa said.

    Tepco is talking with the DOE on whether cocooning could work for the crippled reactors in Fukushima. Sealing them off in concrete for 75 years would allow more focus on cleaning up surrounding areas so that residents could return, said Ishikawa.

    Around 160,000 people were forced to evacuate from towns and villages when the Dai-Ichi plant released clouds of radiation after it was hit by an earthquake and tsunami on March 11, 2011.

    “Decommissioning is vital for the areas around Fukushima Dai-Ichi to move ahead with restoration,” Ishikawa said.
    Visiting Fukushima

    Officials from the DOE involved with Hanford have visited the Fukushima Dai-Ichi plant three times as part of a six-month agreement with Tepco to investigate the conditions there and what solutions they can offer, he said.

    “We identified seven areas of U.S. expertise that can be tapped,” said Ishikawa. “That includes decommissioning, nuclear waste disposal, removal of melted fuel, and restoration of surrounding areas.”

    Ishikawa said talks with the DOE continue and he couldn’t provide a date on when any agreement may be reached for using expertise and technology developed at Hanford.

    “The United States remains committed to working with Japan in their remediation efforts and believes that Japan can continue to leverage U.S. knowledge and experience in the environmental management area,” said Lindsey Geisler, a DOE spokesperson.

    “The Energy Department’s environmental cleanup mission is one of the world’s largest programs of its type,” Geisler said in an e-mail response to questions.

    Ishikawa said in his visits to Hanford he’s seen decontaminated areas coming back to life, noting for example a winery that’s been built. That, he said, is what he wants to see in Fukushima.

    bloomberg.com/news/2013-08-15/nagasaki-bomb-maker-offers-lessons-for-japan-s-fukushima-cleanup.html

  5. Wow, that’s a nice place. But somehow I think the Japanese
    would prefer something in Greece, you know,
    blue sky, blue Aegean sea, especially since property
    prices have crashed. Now’s the time before prices
    recover.
    And best of all, Greece doesn’t
    have,and NEVER will have Nuclear plants. Greece
    is going down the road of renewable green energy sources.

    1. If all the nuclear reactors have the same design flaw in their cooling ponds, meaning they can go off like a string of firecrackers, then nowhere in the Northern Hemisphere is safe for breeding a few more generations of humans.
      Suggest New Zealand for Japanese evacuees because of the similar climate, terrain, friendly people, volcanoes, earthquakes, lots of seafood, just like home.
      Looking at the news of any large city in the Northern Hemisphere, the smog makes it look like a toxic wasteland. Frogs in a pot of water with the temp rising…..

  6. Unfortunately both Romania and Bulgaria have nuclear
    power plants and nobody knows what these plants are
    leaking that’s being kept hidden from the public

  7. I hope, you had nice holydays !
    Many thanks for your blog, very interesting and useful.
    … and special thanks for the french tanslation !
    Please, continue. It’s a hard job but we really appreciate

  8. while iorisan finds paradise-lost this is what the (sic) cunt-ry is really up to.. playing with your cocks.

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    Romanian princess indicted in sweep of Northwest cockfighting ring

    A cockfighter holds his bird in Hobbs, N.M., in February 2007, when the sport was still legal in that state. (Jake Schoellkopf, AP / February 2, 2007)

    By Rick Rojas

    August 16, 2013, 3:40 a.m.

    SEATTLE — A woman described as a princess in the Romanian royal family was arrested in Oregon as part of a sweep of a cockfighting ring that allegedly held “derbies” staged by her and her husband at their ranch, federal prosecutors said.

    Irina Walker, 60, and her husband, John Wesley Walker, 67, were among 18 people indicted and arrested Thursday in Oregon and Washington on charges connected to cockfighting as well as operating an illegal gambling operation, according to a statement from the U.S. attorney’s office.

    The Swiss-born Irina Walker is the middle daughter of King Michael I and Queen Anne of Romania, the fifth in line to the throne, the Oregonian newspaper reported. The royal family still owns four castles in the former Soviet-bloc country. Her father abdicated the throne in 1947; the country is now run by democratically elected officials.

    In the statement released Thursday, the U.S. attorney for Oregon, Amanda Marshall, called cockfighting a “barbaric practice” that is illegal in all 50 states.

    Prosecutors described cockfighting as a blood sport with roosters that are surgically altered, trained and conditioned for fighting, and are forced to take vitamins and supplements that boost their strength and endurance.

    The birds — with knives or other sharp instruments attached to their legs — were pitted against each other in a fight to the death as spectators watched, prosecutors said. There was even a concession stand where food and drinks were sold.

    The fight doesn’t end, prosecutors said, until one of the gamecocks is killed or refuses to continue. “If not killed during the fight, the losing rooster is almost always killed after the fight,” prosecutors said in the indictment.

    Prosecutors allege that 10 such fights, called derbies, were held on Walker’s property in Irrigon, Ore., near the state’s Washington border.

    Walker and her husband were charged along with four others of operating an illegal gambling business, in addition to charges of conducting unlawful cockfighting ventures, prosecutors said. All 18 are set to be arraigned in federal court Friday in Oregon and Washington.

    If convicted on all counts, Walker and her husband could face several years of prison time and millions of dollars in fines, and would have to forfeit the property where the fights were held, prosecutors said.

    latimes.com/nation/nationnow/la-na-nn-romanian-princess-cockfighting-ring-20130816,0,609143.story

    1. Not my thing but
      its a chicken,
      millions are killed and eaten daily

      If convicted on all counts, Walker and her husband could face several years of prison time and millions of dollars in fines, and would have to forfeit the property where the fights were held,

      thats what the goal is, nothing to do with “protecting the chicken”

      Now, you talk about a crime against humanity
      Who went to jail for tepco
      what a cock fight that is turning out to be

      lori, wasn’t that area affected by chenobyl?

  9. “Hanford stretches over 586 square miles of scrubland”… and that’s one of the keys to this – no one is allowed on that 586 square miles, and there are few in the area close to that… in other words, Fukushima’s population would not be able to move back! Not exactly a solution…

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This website updates the latest news about the Fukushima nuclear plant and also archives the past news from 2011. Because it's always updated and added live, articles, categories and the tags are not necessarily fitted in the latest format.
I am the writer of this website. About page remains in 2014. This is because my memory about 311 was clearer than now, 2023, and I think it can have a historical value. Now I'm living in Romania with 3 cats as an independent data scientist.
Actually, nothing has progressed in the plant since 2011. We still don't even know what is going on inside. They must keep cooling the crippled reactors by water, but additionally groundwater keeps flowing into the reactor buildings from the broken parts. This is why highly contaminated water is always produced more than it can circulate. Tepco is planning to officially discharge this water to the Pacific but Tritium is still remaining in it. They dilute this with seawater so that it is legally safe, but scientifically the same amount of radioactive tritium is contained. They say it is safe to discharge, but none of them have drunk it.

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