The 11 March 2011 9.0 earthquake near Fukushima, Japan, caused liquefaction as far away as Tokyo.
Tokyo officials say they are now revising their current liquefaction zone map, because the 11 March quake revealed a potentially larger liquefaction zone.
The new map will affect future construction in Tokyo.
On 17 June 2011, Tokyo Electric Power Company turned on a water decontamination unit, recently installed at its damaged Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant. It failed.
Just five hours after turning the unit on, they had to shut it down. The radiation was far higher than what the decontamination unit was meant to handle.
TEPCo ran the […] Continue Reading…
In an obvious sign of government incompetence, parents and teachers decontaminated a local elementary school, on their own.
In Date City, about 80 people worked together to wash down a school contaminated with radiation. The national government said the radiation levels at the school were below the official safe limits, so they felt no reason […] Continue Reading…
Canadian postal workers went on limited strike because Canada Post wanted to cut their retirement and wages. The situation escalated when Canada Post locked out all urban postal workers, in effect laying off 48,000 employees.
Canada Post says they’ve been losing money and need to make drastic cuts in pay and benefits.
Here in the United […] Continue Reading…
After Canada Post locked out its postal workers, a full strike ensued. As a result the United States Postal Service will not ship to Canada.
According to the USPS press release, the halt on shipping to Canada began June 18. Mail can still be sent via the expensive USPS Global Express service.
I remember many main stream oil “experts” saying that oil prices would go up, because while demand in the United States might be down, global demand would be up, because of increased global manufacturing.
Well, it ain’t happening. The latest economic data show that manufacturing is not only down in the U.S., but is way […] Continue Reading…
After many citizens complained of faulty radiation readings by local governments, Japan is now testing for airborne radiation at one meter (3.2 feet) high, and at more than one location per city/town.
What happened was that citizens groups were conducting radiation readings on their own (you see; never trust the government). Their readings were much […] Continue Reading…
“They did it with no warning. They trapped the public’s mail. It’s unacceptable.”-Denis Lemelin, Canadian Union of Postal Workers
Canada Post shut down all urban mail service today, June 15, after more than a week of strikes by 15,000 postal workers. Ironically Canada Post officials say the shut down is meant to keep them from […] Continue Reading…
Tokyo Electric Power Company announced that their May soil samples are positive for plutonium-238.
The sample was taken on the compound of the Fukushima Daiichi nuke plant, on 30 May 2011. The samples were taken 500 meters away from Reactor 1 building.
This follows claims by university students who found plutonium as part of a class […] Continue Reading…
NHK (Nippon Housou Kyoukai/Japan Broadcasting Corporation) discovered, through random interviews with local officials throughout Japan, that cesium is showing up all over, thanks to rain.
22 of Japan’s 47 prefectures (states, or glorified counties) have been testing their soil. 16 found their soil is contaminated with cesium. Some areas are as far south as Osaka, […] Continue Reading…