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.
Japanese immigration officials say more than 161,000 foreigners have left Japan, via the Narita airport, between March 11 and March 22.
Compare that to the same time last year, of only 20,000, and that’s an increase of eight times.
Also, the number of foreigners coming into Japan, through Narita, has dropped by 60%.
TEPCo said radiation 10 million times the normal level was detected in water that leaked into Reactor 2’s turbine housing unit!
Workers were struggling to pump out water, but had to evacuate because of the high radiation levels.