University of California Berkeley is reporting that their own testing on rain water revealed radiation contamination 181 times safe limits.
The Federal government’s max safe level of iodine-131 allowed in drinking water is 0.111 becquerels per liter. The UC Berkeley test showed iodine-131 at 20.1 becquerels per liter. Again, that was a test […] Continue Reading…
Who better to know when a nuclear situation is real bad, then those who dealt with Chernobyl. Russia, back then part of the now extinct Soviet Union when the Chernobyl disaster happened, says Japan is in trouble.
Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin says the situation at Fukushima Daiichi is showing no signs of improvement. Russian […] Continue Reading…
NHK (Nippon Housou Kyoukai/Japan Broadcasting Corporation) has run several reports that show local prefectural governments, near the damaged nuclear pant, but outside the 20km (12.4 miles) evacuation zone, are encouraging their residents to evacuate.
Some residents are leaving. Some local governments have even booked hotels for mass evacuations to begin next week. One hotel said […] Continue Reading…
The Japanese fishing industry is demanding compensation from Tokyo Electric, after most fishermen report that ALL their catches are being refused by fish markets. The reason is the high level of radiation in the water, and the fact that sand lances (a type of eel fish) have test positive for cesium-137.
NHK reporting that one of their helicopter news crews took video of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant, after Tokyo Electric Power Company announced that they stopped the contaminated water leak from Reactor 2 pit.
Not only does the video show water still pouring into the ocean, but it shows smoke coming from reactors 2, 3 […] Continue Reading…
In a joint report between The Washington Post and Foreign Policy, it’s been revealed that while Rome burned Tokyo Electric Power Company fiddled.
Apparently, instead of trying to figure out what to do after two of their reactors suffered hydrogen gas explosions, and continued to spew radiation, TEPCo officials were trying to figure out how […] Continue Reading…
It might be due to the bad world economy, or the fact that the rest of the World thought Japan was the best prepared for disasters, but donations are still lagging behind the Haiti quake, and Hurricane Katrina.
According to the Chronicle of Philanthropy’s count, U.S.$161 million has been raised, in the past three weeks. […] Continue Reading…
Research firm IBISWorld is revealing ten declining U.S. industries, saying their deaths are irreversible. And for some it will be a painfully slow death, lasting until 2016.
The three main reasons: new technology, foreign competition (including shipping off jobs overseas) and industry stagnation (why build new factories when your shipping the jobs off overseas?).
As an […] Continue Reading…
For several days the Japanese government, and Tokyo Electric Power Company officials, have been talking about using specially coated sheeting to wrap the Fukushima Daiichi nuke plant in. Now they’ve announced when that will happen: September!
Hello, I think that’s too late guys! How much radiation will have spewed in that amount of time? And […] Continue Reading…
The U.S. Navy has withdrawn 10 ships from Japan. They say it’s because they are no longer needed for supply efforts, now that more roads have been cleared.
Most roads and rail systems in the north east of Honshu were destroyed in the 11 March disasters.
The U.S. still has plenty of troops in the area, […] Continue Reading…