A Bloomberg article shows that some contracted employees, at Japan’s Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant, were paid the same as part time workers in Tokyo’s McDonald’s restaurants; about U.S.$11.00 per hour.
The article suggests that the reason the Fukushima Daiichi was built in that area, was to improve the local economy. Now, the nuclear disaster has […] Continue Reading…
A Kyodo News/Associated Press report, says contracted employees are refusing to work in the higher radiation limits recently set by the government. This is another reason work is going slow.
Prior to the nuclear disaster at Fukushima Daiichi, the legal limits for employee safety at nuclear plants was set at 100 millisieverts per hour. After […] Continue Reading…
Officials of Fukushima Prefecture (where the damaged Fukushima Daiichi plant is) will now carry out their own radiation readings at 2,700 locations.
Residents demanded more information, and more accurate information, than what Tokyo Electric Power Company has provided. The Japanese central government has criticized TEPCo for faulty reports, several times now.
The radiation testing will include […] Continue Reading…
Japan’s public TV station, NHK, produced a special report, to try and explain how bad the Fukushima Daiichi crisis is. Basically it is worse than Chernobyl, and must require international efforts to control. One analyst said the situation is “unprecedented” for nuclear power plants (in other words it is worse than Chernobyl).
The report compared […] Continue Reading…
The Japan Tourism Agency released its 2010 survey about who spends the most vacation money in Japan. Guess what, tourists from the United States didn’t even make the top three (probably a sign of how bad our economy is).
The survey looked at foreign spenders as groups, and as individuals.
In the group category China came […] Continue Reading…
Prime Minister Naoto Kan has told quake-hit Miyagi Prefecture that 70,000 temporary houses will be built ASAP.
The Prime Minister met with Miyagi officials on 10 April 2011. They expressed their concerns for how they were going to rebuild after the 11 March disasters. Kan said he’s putting together a panel to address that, and […] Continue Reading…
“Iran’s gold reserves have hit unprecedented levels and the country has supplied its domestic gold market for the next ten years.”-Mahmoud Bahmani, Governor of the Central Bank of Iran
Iran announced that their gold reserves now stand at 4 million tons, and that’s from just one mine.
The Zarshouran mine is located in the West Azarbaijan […] Continue Reading…
The Pakistan government announced that they are picking up trace amounts of iodine-131, form Japan’s Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant.
Iran, a neighbor of Pakistan, says it has started to inspect aircraft coming from Japan, for radiation contamination.
Iran isn’t relying on their nuclear plant for providing lots of power. They’ve been developing other forms of power generation.
It includes hydroelectric, steam power and natural gas fired plants. At the end of 2009 they finished a solar powered plant. Now they are going to build more steam powered plants and even wind farms.
The […] Continue Reading…
“We should not only be able to use all our capacities and potentials in the (civilian) nuclear technology, but also export nuclear know-how.”-Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
During a speech for ‘National Day of Nuclear Technology’, President Ahmadinejad stated that Iran should master all nuclear technologies. He also said Iran should join other countries, like […] Continue Reading…