The basement of reactor 3 is flooded with water, with radiation 10,000 times higher than “normal”. Three workers from the Fukushima Daiichi were sent to the hospital with Beta Burns, as a result. There is now evidence that the radioactive water came from the reactor core.
There are high levels of iodine-131 in the water. […] Continue Reading…
Most Asian countries have banned food from specific Japanese prefectures, some Asian countries banned all food from Japan.
The United States has banned products from radiation zones.
The European Union is the latest group of countries to announce testing and bans of foods from 12 Japanese prefectures.
The food ban will probably not affect Japan’s export business, […] Continue Reading…
Tokyo Electric Power Co is now using fresh water, pumped in from fire truck water tankers.
It turns out that many problems at the Fukushima Daiichi plant were being caused by salty sea water. Experts had been warning TEPCo officials to stop using sea water.
The U.S. Navy is also sending a tanker ship full of […] Continue Reading…
Japanese Cabinet Secretary, Edano Yukio, says they have “…explored all possibilities…” regarding the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant. So far officials are at a loss as to where the radiation leak is coming from.
At this point they can’t tell if the leaking radiation is coming from spent fuel pools, or reactor cores. This is […] Continue Reading…
At the most recent press conference a Japanese reporter asked Cabinet Secretary Yukio Edano, why foreign reporters have been banned from press conferences.
Edano blamed the stressful conditions of trying to deal with the catastrophic disaster.
Thousands of anime (Japanese animation) fans hoping to hit one of the world’s biggest anime conventions will have to wait another year. The event in Tokyo, Japan, was canceled after the 9.0 quake/tsunami. The event center is now being used to house survivors of the disaster.
Convention officials are now working to refund money to […] Continue Reading…
NHK reporters made their way to several towns that have NOT received any, or very little, help after the 9.0 quake/tsunami.
What they found is what you’d expect to see after a devastating war. Only a few dozen people in each town working together to survive. In most towns people find food by scavenging through […] Continue Reading…
In response to a reporter’s question, of how they are going to proceed with reactor 3 (with possible core damage), the TEPCo official said they do not know at this time.
This might be another reason why voluntary evacuation has been announced.
TEPCo officials speculate that the contaminated water in the basement of reactor 3, might have come from the reactor core.
It might have been caused by high pressure inside the reactor core. It could have been caused by valves, or the core was “compromised”.
Reporters doing “man on the street” reactions about the radioactive water warnings for infants in Japan, got hit with a common question from mothers, “If I’m breast feeding should I stop drinking the water?”
In an NHK interview a medical expert said that pregnant and breast feeding woman should not drink the contaminated water, even […] Continue Reading…