Did anyone think that one nuclear disaster can adversely affect the economy? Fukushima Daiichi is one of the biggest nuclear plants in Japan, all its reactors are down. Even if efforts to control the nuclear disaster are somewhat successful, Fukushima Daiichi is done, its toast, ain’t no more electric power coming from that plant.
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Many of the parts needed to produce cars now, are electronics. The big electronics suppliers for the automotive industry are still shut down after the 11 March 2011 earthquake and tsunami in Japan.
Renesas Electronics, a maker of semiconductors used to control vehicles, has still not resumed operations.
Hitachi Automotive Systems, does not have full production […] Continue Reading…
Mazda Motor will temporarily stop accepting orders from the United States due to a shortage of auto parts, caused by the disasters.
Mazda models being affected by the shut down including the SUV models CX-7 and CX-9, and the Mazda3.
A satellite imaging (geospatial) company in Japan, PASCO, has looked at the tsunami hit areas of north east Honshu.
The images show that at least 470 square kilometers (292 square miles) of land is affected by the March 11 tsunami.
Fukushima Prefecture suffered 110 square km (68 square miles) of tsunami damage, while Iwate Prefecture has […] Continue Reading…
The 9.0 quake and tsunami that hit north east Honshu, on March 11, was the result of the fault line shifting 30 meters (98.4 feet).
Japan’s Meteorological Agency said the event started off Miyagi Prefecture with activity stretching 200km (124 miles) north, and then 150km (93 miles) south of Iwate Prefecture. Next, a 100km (62 […] Continue Reading…
The water along the shore line of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant has high levels of iodine-131.
Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency said that iodine 131 in excess of 1,250 times regulated standards was found in the ocean 330 meters (1082.68 feet) south of a plant water outlet on Friday.
Iodine-131 has a short half […] Continue Reading…
Japan’s Prime Minister, Kan Naoto, named new people to take over the nuclear plant control and disaster control, within his cabinet. I didn’t hear the translation clearly, as to who is taking over, I think the names are Hosono and Magachi. The reason for the changes is that prior officials in those cabinet posts […] Continue Reading…
Iranian Ambassador to Tokyo, Abbas Araqchi, announced that the first cargo of Iran’s humanitarian aid for Japan has arrived.
The aid consists of 50,000 canned fish and beans. Araqchi says he and the Iranian Deputy Head of International Red Crescent Society, Mahmoud Mozaffari, will be on hand when the food is delivered to Miyagi Prefecture.
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Tokyo Electric Power Company is a private corporation. They run many nuclear plants in Japan, along with the failing Fukushima Daiichi plant. You’d think the corporations would have their own people to deal with things like the current disaster.
So far who’s done the most work to try and bring the nuclear plant under control? […] Continue Reading…
It was looking like Ford would escape supply problems from Japan, nope. Ford announced that specific colors for their new vehicles will be in short supply, due to the disasters in Japan.
Yes, even paint comes from Japan.
An ingredient used to make Ford’s Tuxedo Black, and three shades of red, come from Japan. That ingredient […] Continue Reading…