After three days of intense searching by about 20,000 U.S. and Japanese military personnel, only 78 bodies were found.
It was hoped the low tide would reveal more of the missing.
At this point, Japanese national police say there is more than 15,000 people missing. And that is based on reports from living relatives. Police say […] Continue Reading…
‘‘Can’t you increase the number of examiners? The lives of farmers are at stake! It’s a matter of whether they can live tomorrow!’’-Sato Yuhei, Governor of Fukushima
The governor of Fukushima Prefecture is blasting the government for dragging its feet with the ongoing nuclear crisis. Especially when it comes to the safety of farm goods.
In […] Continue Reading…
Coco Ichibanya, in Japan, had to shut down its curry plant for a week, because of the disasters.
The plant has restarted, but only for pork curry, beef curry production is still halted.
Tokyo Electric Power Company officials are concerned that Reactor 1, Fukushima Daiichi, could still build up explosive hydrogen gas.
To counter the problem they plan on injecting nitrogen into the containment vessel on Tuesday.
Another case of relatively low tech coming to the rescue. Tokyo Electric Power Company now using a type of polymeric powder to soak up contaminated water at Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant.
The poly kitty litter, which is used in disposable diapers, can soak up to 50 times its weight.
Workers are using it in the cracked […] Continue Reading…
According to Human Rights groups, and the United Nations, thousands of people in Mexico have been disappeared since the Drug War began, and the Mexican government is one of the suspects.
Those people being disappeared are not drug dealers, or drug runners, but human rights activists, oil workers, journalists and even migrant workers. The traditional […] Continue Reading…
A nuclear plant in Mexico, with a bad history might be leaking radiation, including cesium-137. Laguna Verde nuclear power plant is 290 kilometers southeast of Mexico City, and residents in a near by town have been dying of cancers and tumors since the plant became operational.
Comisión Federal de Electricidad (CFE) runs the plant, and […] Continue Reading…
Al Jazeera says rebels told them they are being trained at a secret base in eastern Libya (by the way that’s where most of the oil fields are).
The al Jazeera reporter stated that the rebels where being trained how to use weapons: “He said these were state-of-the-art, heat-seeking rockets and that they needed […] Continue Reading…
The lack of electricity in Japan is due to several nuclear power plants being shut down since the 11 March disasters. They were planning on restarting this month, but, because of the ongoing disaster at Fukushima Daiichi, they will delay longer.
Hamaoka nuclear plant in Shizuoka Prefecture, Shika nuclear power plant in Ishikawa Prefecture, and, […] Continue Reading…
Tokyo Electric Power Company officials say they have found the bodies of two Fukushima Daiichi workers missing since the 11 March tsunami.
They had to remove radioactive debris in order to recover the bodies. The two men bled to death, from injuries caused by the tsunami.