“Mr. Maliki rejected Gates’ demand, saying that Iraq will deal with the issue based on the security pact (signed between Washington and Baghdad).”-Ali al-Dabbagh, Iraqi Government Spokesman
Iraqi officials say they did not ask the United States to keep troops past the 2011 withdraw date, in fact they say U.S. Defense Secretary […] Continue Reading…
The German government announced that they will end the use of nuclear power plants as soon as possible.
Germany is prepared to spend the money necessary to make renewable clean energy sources their main power supply by 2020. Germany will keep its coal and natural gas fire electrical plants in operation.
In a National Geographic article, researchers say the magma under Yellow National Park, is even bigger than before.
The latest scans of the super volcanic plume under Yellowstone, measured electrical conductivity, and is described as being like a giant medical CT scan.
Scientists now say the super volcanic plume extends 643km (400 miles), that’s increased […] Continue Reading…
“Just pointing a measuring device at your food before dinner is pretty much meaningless.”-Katayama Atsushi, Japan Society for Analytical Chemistry.
The Japanese Health, Labor and Welfare Ministry says you should use scintillation counters to detect iodine-131 in milk and vegetables. Inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometers should be used to trace uranium. Nitric acid and dehydrated […] Continue Reading…
“As (Toyota) continues to address its production situation in Japan following the disaster, it has decided that vehicle production from May 10 to June 3 will proceed at approximately 50 percent of normal.”-company statement
Basically the situation for “key component suppliers” (parts makers) is still too unreliable to resume full production.
Toyota says it will continue […] Continue Reading…
Japanes reporters, crawling through the wreckage left behind by the March 11 tsunami, might have stumbled onto evidence of a failed tsunami warning system.
Reporters have written about finding bodies amid what’s left of residences, still wearing their natural disaster gear, like helmets. The odd thing is it looks like they barricaded themselves in their […] Continue Reading…
8 employees were fired, and 25 had their pay cut by 30%, for not paying for tickets on their own monorail service.
JR East Tokyo Monorail, says most of the employees were in management positions. They would board the train for work, swipe their pay cards, then once at work, would use the company computers […] Continue Reading…
“Since these people are having trouble getting to stores, we will bring the store to them.”-company spokesperson
A convenience store company, called Lawson, is sending “Mobile Lawson” stores to the areas of Japan devastated by the March 11 disasters.
The company is using food service trucks, originally designed for construction sites, to deliver food and other […] Continue Reading…
Tokyo Electric Power Company can not keep up with the amount of contaminated water coming from their Fukushima Daiichi reactors. So far they’ve removed 660 tons of water, but the reactors and fuel pools hold more than 80,000 tons combined, and the water continues to pour out.
Water levels in the tunnel connected to Reactor […] Continue Reading…
The Geographical Survey Institute surveyed 28 benchmarks in three prefectures, hit by the 11 March earthquake.
They confirmed that the land has dropped as much as 84cm (33 inches, just under 3 feet).
The land sunk in Fukushima, Miyagi and Iwate Prefectures. They are now dealing with high tide flooding caused by the loss of their […] Continue Reading…