Haiti was hit by a 7.0 quake in January 2010, which devastated several cities. Donations came in, officially anyway, but according to the UN (United Nations) only a fraction has gotten through.
Donations to Japan, after their catastrophic disasters on March 11, still lag behind the official donation numbers reported for Haiti. Japanese media is […] Continue Reading…
Tokyo Electric Power Company says there are signs that the injection of nitrogen into Reactor 1 is working to prevent an explosion. But it might be too soon to tell, the nitrogen injection operation will take six days.
Fukushima Daiichi’s Reactor 1 core began build up of hydrogen gas, probably caused by the melting of […] Continue Reading…
Honda will cut back production in the United Kingdom. Due to lack of parts Honda will reduce production at its Swindon, England, plant by 50%.
NHK interviewed a nuclear analyst, who pointed out that just because contamination readings are within safe limits does not mean that it’s ‘OK’.
He said officials are mistaken for telling people that it does not pose a threat to health. What it means is that you must begin “…limiting your exposure…” to radiation contamination, because […] Continue Reading…
The Geospatial Information Authority of Japan said their survey of the sea floor, between 40km to 130km off Miyagi Prefecture, moved 5.6 meters to 15 meters towards the east-southeast.
The Japanese Coast Guard says they confirmed sea floor movement with their seabed observation points. They say the sea floor moved 23 meters (75 feet) east-southeast, […] Continue Reading…
Japanese home builders are facing the same problems that car makers and electronics industries are facing; lack of parts, lack of power.
Temporary housing is being built for the survivors who lost their homes due to the March 11 tsunami, or those who evacuated the government’s 20km nuclear danger zone.
Contractors say they are running into […] Continue Reading…
Add to the potential for reactor 1 core explosion the Reactor 4 fuel pool crisis.
Fukushima Daiichi’s Reactor 4 fuel pool was damaged after an explosion several weeks ago (many main stream media report only two explosions, but there were three; reactors 1, 3 & 4 buildings). The problem is that it is now apparent […] Continue Reading…
After Tokyo Electric Power Company reported that they had stopped the leak in Reactor 2’s pit, an NHK helicopter took video of the Fukushima Daiichi plant, showing not only smoke coming from the reactors, but water still pouring into the ocean.
Today, TEPCo admits that plugging the leak in the pit will only cause new […] Continue Reading…
Japanese central government officials are now saying that they goofed on the evacuation zone currently in place.
Officials say the current evacuation zone is based on a short term, low level, nuclear emergency. They did not expect the current situation to have lasted so long.
Japanese officials say they will revise evacuation plans to take into […] Continue Reading…
In a 06 April 2011 Reuters article they compare an explosion of a reactor core, to the explosion of the reactor buildings three weeks ago: “The possibility of another hydrogen explosion like those that ripped through reactors 1 and 3 early in the crisis, spreading high levels of radiation into the air, was ‘extremely […] Continue Reading…