In Otsuchi, Japan, residents honored one of their long time firefighters, after he saved their lives, but lost his.
Otsuchi is far north of the epicenter of the March 11, 9.0 earthquake. Yet they got hit just as hard by the resulting tsunami. In fact the quake caused the coastal town to lose electric power […] Continue Reading…
”The state will take on the responsibility of providing support for renewal.”-Kan Naoto, Prime Minister
Japan’s Prime Minister Kan Naoto said Japan’s government (meaning taxpayers) will take responsibility in recovery and rebuilding efforts after the nuclear disaster at Fukushima Daiichi.
Many evacuees told Kan, in a written statement, that nothing is being done to help them […] Continue Reading…
Tokyo Electric Power Company is using a chemical they call “liquid glass” to try and stop the leak of highly radioactive water from Reactor 2 pit, at Fukushima Daiichi.
TEPCo thinks the leak is coming from pipes under the reactors. They injected liquid glass (sodium silicate) into the gravel under the pit for Reactor 2. […] Continue Reading…
People have petitioned the Japanese government to let them go back to their contaminated homes, to take care of things like livestock and pets.
After the 11 March disasters that damaged the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant, the government ordered people within a 20 kilometers radius from the plant to evacuate, and those within 20-30km to […] Continue Reading…
Kyodo News reporting that cesium-137 has been found in young sand lance fish. The levels are above government safe limits.
The young sand lance is an eel like fish.
Local government officials ordered a stop to the fishing. Ibaraki Prefecture is just south of Fukushima Prefecture.
NHK weather report just said that the coast line, north and south of the damaged Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, will experience high tides. A high tide advisory in effect.
The double whammy is that the land has sunk due to the 9.0 quake, and there is now huge amounts of cesium-137 in the water.
That […] Continue Reading…
Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant operator, TEPCo, says iodine-131 has hit 7.5 million times the set limits in the Pacific Ocean! But even worse, cesium-137 is at 1.1 million times set limits!
Iodine-131 has a half life of eight days. Cesium-137 has a half life of 30 years!
The report was made by Japan’s NHK TV. Tokyo […] Continue Reading…
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency says they have found trace amounts of iodine-131 in drinking water in the states of Washington and Idaho.
The samples were taken last week, at Boise, Idaho and Richland, Washington. The results were just released.
The EPA also says they picked up trace amounts of radiation in rain water.
I checked the […] Continue Reading…
Timothy Geithner is warning the U.S. Congress that if they don’t get their act together soon, the United States government will hit its legal limit on debt.
That could mean defaulting on loans owed to the rest of the world. The Treasury Department is forecasting that the debt limit will be reached between April 15 […] Continue Reading…
Tokyo Electric said it has started paying Japanese municipalities directly affected by the nuclear disaster.
One town, Namie, refused the money. Basically it is an insult, because when they divided the TEPCO offer by the number of their population and it amounted to only $12.00 per person. Namie officials say money is needed, but it’s […] Continue Reading…