Thanks to the ongoing nuclear power plant disaster in Japan, Chrysler is now limiting color options on their cars.
Ford already announced the unavailability of Tuxedo Black, and three shades of red. They rely on pigments from Japan.
Chrysler is also doing the same thing, except they haven’t specified which colors are going to be affected, […] Continue Reading…
TEPCo president Shimizu Masataka, 66, became sick on 16 March and took a week off.
Officials say he was in bed most of the time. TEPCo runs the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant.
Now he is back at work in the at the TEPCo liaison office. Despite that claim by TEPCo officials, Shimizu still has not been […] Continue Reading…
“This is the biggest impact ever in the history of the automobile industry.”-Koji Endo, Advanced Research Japan
Parts, from electronics, to mechanical parts for cars, to paint pigments, are shipped by slow boat. That means that the U.S., Europe and other parts of Asia have NOT begun to feel the true impact of the […] Continue Reading…
Cabinet Secretary Edano Yukio, stated that no one should enter the 20km (12.4 miles) evacuation zone around Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant.
The reason; high radiation contamination. The situation has gotten much worse now that it looks like partial melt down of reactor cores. Reactor 2 is thought to have experienced partial melt down.
TEPCo officials now admitting that the cause of the high radiation, and the leaking of deadly water into the turbine rooms, might be the result of fuel rods in the reactors melting. The deadly water has been found in reactors 1, 2, 3 & 4 turbine rooms.
Specifically it is believed reactor 2 is at […] Continue Reading…
NHK reporting that turbine rooms for reactors 1, 2 and 3 are flooding with radioactive water.
TEPCo now says they will have to try to hook up separate power sources to each reactor. The single power source they’ve been trying to hook up isn’t working out. They are waiting for new generators.
TEPCo now asking for […] Continue Reading…
Officials from Nevada, California, Hawaii, Colorado, Massachusetts and Washington state, are reporting small levels of radiation that can be traced to Japan have been detected.
Iceland officials are reporting the same thing.
A monitoring station near the Las Vegas Atomic Testing Museum, reported iodine-131 and xenon-133. University of Nevada reported cesium-137 between March 17 and 21.
Public […] Continue Reading…
How many nuclear power plants in the north east of Honshu? I counted three. The importance is that the area continues to get hit with quakes, and small tsunamis.
Miyagi Prefecture has one nuclear plant, Onagawa, with three reactors.
Fukushima Prefecture has two pants, Daiichi & DaiNi. Daiichi has six reactors, DaiNi has four reactors. Daiichi […] Continue Reading…
“I think maybe the situation is much more serious than we were led to believe. This is far beyond what one nation can handle – it needs to be bumped up to the UN Security Council. In my humble opinion, this is more important than the Libya no fly zone.” -Meshkati Najmedin, of the […] Continue Reading…
TEPCo has asked another company to check soil samples for plutonium. Plutonium is created when the uranium fuel rods are “jolted” during the fission process. If reactor cores are breached, which many “experts” now believe, then plutonium should be detected outside the reactors.
Plutonium is bad. Depending on the type of plutonium isotope, the half […] Continue Reading…