The recent catastrophic disaster in Japan, which tore up many rail lines in northern Honshu, has brought back to life retired diesel powered locomotives.
That’s because, even on the rail lines that have been fixed, there is no electric power to run Japan’s modern electric trains. Electric power is going to be an issue for […] Continue Reading…
I found the home video of liquefaction near Tokyo Disneyland, in Chiba Prefecture, on YouTube.
The two minute 39 second video shows sidewalks splitting, length wise, then moving in opposite directions. Water then begins to surge up from under the sidewalks and streets. The person doing the videography starts running as more water comes up […] Continue Reading…
In an area of Sendai city, in north east Honshu, Japan, there are survivors who are glad they refused to go to the official tsunami evacuation point, an elementary school. They are alive, but most of the people at the elementary school are not.
Based on computer modeling, disaster officials designated the elementary school as […] Continue Reading…
An analyst interviewed by NHK (Nippon Housou Kyoukai/Japan Broadcasting Corporation), says until the reactor control rooms are turned on at the Fukushima Daiichi plant, plant operators will not know what is going on inside the reactors.
They are trying to get electric power to reactor 2 control room, because reactor 2 is still intact (reactors […] Continue Reading…
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.
This […] Continue Reading…
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…