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.
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.
Cabinet Secretary, Edano Yuki, announced that national police are being sent in to 20-30km evacuation/disaster zones.
Edano said that radiation levels are so high at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant that work must be halted until the contamination can be removed. Soil samples around the area show rapidly increasing radiation contamination.
Japanese government will now evacuate those who want to voluntarily evacuate, but don’t have the means to do so. The national police will try to contact people who are still in the zones that have been designated “stay indoors” zones. All options open.
Medical teams from around the world are now being sent into the zones.
Japanese government expects more “difficulties”. Japanese government admitting that financing for any recovery from the nuclear disaster will be a problem.
The coastal towns along the north east coast of Honshu, lost all official documentation regarding their cities, and residents.
Not only “hard copies”, but everything stored on computers. All computers were destroyed by Mother Earth. Basically you would’ve had to store everything of importance inside a old fashioned bank safe.
So much for high tech.
NHK reporting that after analysis of the range of destruction by the March 11 tsunami, plus the fact that most 10 meter tall sea walls failed, the tsunami must have been more than 20 meters high.
Here in the U.S. that’s 65.5 feet. To help understand how high that is, the average wooden telephone pole sticks out of the ground 30-40 feet high. So the tsunami was as high as two wooden telephone poles.
In Japan, in order to cut back on the usage of electricity, many retail stores are cutting back on operating hours, and on lighting.
Japanese consumers have less time to shop, and in some stores, are shopping in the dark. Stores are keeping most of their lights turned off.
Consumers say they don’t mind, especially because they know it’s due to the triple whammy of disasters that have struck their country.
Even in the areas that are on the periphery of the natural disaster areas, in north east Honshu, trash collection has come to a near stand still.
Temporary trash dumps have been set up in parks and baseball fields.
NHK reporting that survivors of the March 11 quake/tsunami, are getting sick at the emergency shelters.
Officials say they are now taking steps to prevent further spread of a flu like illness.
Interviewed by CNN Bill Nye the Science Guy was asked if he was calling Fukushima Daiichi another Chernobyl. His answer: “I am, yeah!”
Nye explained that the only way the reactors can be emitting such high levels of radiation is that deadly plutonium is getting out. Plutonium is created when the uranium fuel is “jolted” during the production of electrical power.
His answer to the problem? Dump concrete on the reactors, just like the Soviets did with Chernobyl. Nye explained there is no way to “repair” damaged reactor cores. This is the main problem with nuclear reactors!
I’m saying this is worse than Chernobyl, because Chernobyl involved ONE reactor. Fukushima Daiichi has THREE reactors showing signs of damaged cores! From the beginning of this nuclear disaster, the Russians and Ukrainians (who have first hand experience with Chernobyl) have been saying Fukushima Daiichi will be worse than Chernobyl!