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.
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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…
The official death toll from the March 11 tsunami went over 10,000 on March 26. The number of missing is more than 16,000. These numbers are misleading because they are based on “reported” cases.
The Japanese National Police are saying that actual numbers will be much higher, because those numbers being officially reported are only […] Continue Reading…
TEPCo says it will conduct another test of the leaked water at Fukushima Daiichi, reactor 2’s turbine building. The reading for iodine-134 (has a shorter half life than iodine-131) announced earlier was actually for another isotope that has a longer half-life.
TEPCo officials say the level of 10 million times more than normal is incorrect, […] Continue Reading…
Japanese company, Panasonic, is rushing to get batteries shipped into Japan.
Batteries for electronic items have run short after Japanese bought up all they could after the March 11 disasters.
Panasonic makes batteries in Japan, but even with increasing their production, they can’t meet domestic demand. Usually batteries are shipped by boat, because of their weight, […] Continue Reading…
Officials are considering introducing daylight saving time todeal with severe power shortages that could last for months.
Japan has resisted daylight saving time for nearly 60 years. Russia recently dropped daylight savings.
A 48 year old illegal immigrant from China, has turned himself in to Japanese authorities. His reason, to escape the ongoing Fukushima nuclear disaster.
Lin Jian Ming has been illegally living in Japan since June , 2000.