Japanese scientist say there is a new threat associated with tsunamis: Fire.
Thanks to our reliance on petroleum products, especially fuel, coastal cities face destruction by fire, as well as water.
Several Japanese coastal towns burned to the ground because of fires started by the tsunami. Boats, cars and fuel storage facilities hit by the tsunami, […] Continue Reading…
A nuclear safety expert in Japan admitted that no one prepares for more than one reactor failure. Multiple reactor failures have always been considered highly improbable.
NHK obtained video of last year’s emergency training at a nuclear plant in Japan. It is obvious that they did not expect anything but a low level emergency involving […] Continue Reading…
Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant officials have good news.
Reactor 5 coolant pump is now working.
Reactor 6 now has one the reactor’s back up generator working.
Japan government officials announced that efforts will be made to get stranded patients out of hospitals in the evacuation zone, as well as other people who did not have a way to self evacuate (remember Hurricane Katrina?).
Local city governments are now joining together to help each other, now that it has become clear the […] Continue Reading…
Officials say the water trucks sprayed about 60 tons of water, so far, on reactor 3 at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant.
That isn’t going to be enough: Each spent fuel pool can hold up to 2000 tons of water, so you can see it’s going to take a lot of water (there are 6 […] Continue Reading…
NHK reporting that a convoy of concrete trucks are being prepared to head to the Fukushima Daiichi plant.
Concrete was used by the Soviets during the 1986 Chernobyl disaster.
NHK has been reporting that banks around Japan are limiting ATM withdrawals.
Many Japanese are angry because they are having a hard time getting access to their money, in order to buy necessities.
Banks say their clients can still walk in, during limited hours, to make larger withdrawals. The banks are blaming the disaster situation, including […] Continue Reading…
A hospital in Minami-Soma, Fukushima Prefecture, inside the zone where people have been instructed to stay indoors, more than half the hospital’s staff have evacuated. But, about 170 inpatients are still at the hospital.
“We’re reaching the limits of our ability to provide treatment,” hospital director Yukio Kanazawa said. Only a small number of hospital […] Continue Reading…
The governor of Utah made it official, the Browning M1911 .45 caliber pistol is the Gun of Utah.
I like the M1911A1. Back when I was in the California Army National Guard (and later the Idaho Army National Guard) we used the M1911A1, and I always scored expert. Then we switched to the Beretta M9, […] Continue Reading…
The UN is expressing shock at the violence in Ivory Coast (Cote d’Ivoire). Yet, where’s the U.S. pushing for no fly zones and military action? Hypocrisy!
If the violence in Libya warrants military action by the UN, then why not in Ivory Coast? Where’s war mongering French President Sarkozy? Ivory Coast used to be a […] Continue Reading…