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Idaho not reporting any Radiation from Japan

As of 28 March 2011, the Idaho Department of Environmental Quality is not reporting any increase in radiation levels in Idaho, on their RadNet site.

Also, the Idaho Department of Health and Welfare believes that currently the risk of high radiation levels, from Japan, is still low.

The IDHW has a Japan situation page that lets Idahoans know about monitoring, food safety and FAQs like; “Should I start taking Iodide?”

(don’t take iodide unless you’re real close to a nuclear disaster ’cause to much iodide is bad for you)

 

 

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“Grand Vision” reconstruction of Japan will rely on Clean Green Energy

Japanese Chief Cabinet Secretary, Yukio Edano, says the “Grand Vision” of reconstructing Japan will include clean energy.

Edano made it clear that reconstruction planning is on the back burner due to the current disaster, but that clean energy will be one of the “pillars” of the plan.

He mentioned bio-fuels and solar power, as being examples of the type of clean energy that will be used.

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Evacuation Preperations Ramping Up in Japan, Condition Dire

Japanese Cabinet Secretary, Yukio Edano, says people living in the nuclear disaster zones are in “…dire condition…”, and a Disaster Management Special Task Force is being created, for evacuations, and decontamination.

The task force will prepare to begin accepting evacuees, and establish decontamination sites.

Also, temporary housing will be established for the thousands of people that will be affected.

 

Business/Economics, Fukushima

Chrysler joins Ford in cancelling color options

Thanks to the ongoing nuclear power plant disaster in Japan, Chrysler is now limiting color options on their cars.

Ford already announced the unavailability of Tuxedo Black, and three shades of red. They rely on pigments from Japan.

Chrysler is also doing the same thing, except they haven’t specified which colors are going to be affected, only that it will affect ten color options.

Business/Economics, Fukushima, Technology

Effects of parts shortage in Japan will hit United States hard in April, the Dominoes are falling

“This is the biggest impact ever in the history of the automobile industry.”-Koji Endo, Advanced Research Japan

Parts, from electronics, to mechanical parts for cars, to paint pigments, are shipped by slow boat. That means that the U.S., Europe and other parts of Asia have NOT begun to feel the true impact of the Japanese shut down.

Warehouses in Japan are almost out of the parts they had on hand at the time of the March 11 earthquake/tsunami, and the ongoing nuclear power plant disaster.  Since then, Japanese factories have had trouble after trouble trying to get their factories restarted.

The United States, Europe and the rest of Asia can expect the full impact of Japan’s shut down to begin in April.

Many factories in Japan are without power to operate. Some factories have lost employees to the disaster.

This disaster in Japan reveals the weakness of a truly global economy.  If one part of the chain breaks, it’s in trouble. It should be viewed more like dominoes, if one domino falls, others will be brought down with it. Japan has become the trigger domino, because it has basically become the parts supplier to the world.

Here’s why this is so bad for the worldwide auto industry: About 3,000 parts can go into one car. Those parts come from dozens of factories, and most are in Japan. But it gets worse, some of the “parts” are made up of many tiny parts. And, you guessed it, those tiny parts also come from dozens of other factories. It’s a friggin’ logistical nightmare, it’s a wounder the auto industry didn’t collapse because of parts supply issue sooner!

It’s not just cars. Get ready to see shortages of computers, video game systems, printer ink and even batteries. So much for a global economy! Can you say idiot in Japanese? It’s Baka!

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Now 3 reactor turbine rooms filling with radioactive water, attempt to hook up single power source failed

NHK reporting that turbine rooms for reactors 1, 2 and 3 are flooding with radioactive water.

TEPCo now says they will have to try to hook up separate power sources to each reactor. The single power source they’ve been trying to hook up isn’t working out. They are waiting for new generators.

TEPCo now asking for Boric Acid. I’m wondering what happened to the Boric Acid that was sent from California’s Diablo Canyon nuclear power plant, via the USAF.

TEPCo will switch to fresh water to cool spent fuel rod pools, on March 29.  Sea water is still being used.

TEPCo trying to pump water from turbine room condensers into storage tanks. When that is done they can pump the deadly water in the basements of the reactors into the condensers.

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Bill Nye is right, Tokyo Electric now checking for Plutonium! NOW?

TEPCo has asked another company to check soil samples for plutonium. Plutonium is created when the uranium fuel rods are “jolted” during the fission process.  If reactor cores are breached, which many “experts” now believe, then plutonium should be detected outside the reactors.

Plutonium is bad. Depending on the type of plutonium isotope, the half life can range from 14 years to 80 million years!

As Bill Nye said in a CNN interview last week, all they can do now is dump concrete on the reactors.

Here’s more proof that corporations are idiots: TEPCo has not been able to detect plutonium, so they are contracting with another company to do the test.  The test will take several days, according to Japanese media reports.  Several days? When your dealing with plutonium you need to know yesterday!

TEPCo now says it will check soil twice a week for plutonium. NOW?  Why not from the beginning of the disaster you idiots! Plutonium is present in spent fuel rods, and three of the spent fuel pools blew up, remember?  That means plutonium was spread all over during the first week!

Fukushima, Technology

Panasonic shipping batteries INTO Japan

Japanese company, Panasonic, is rushing to get batteries shipped into Japan.

Batteries for electronic items have run short after Japanese bought up all they could after the March 11 disasters.

Panasonic makes batteries in Japan, but even with increasing their production, they can’t meet domestic demand.  Usually batteries are shipped by boat, because of their weight, but Panasonic is using airfreight.

Current battery shipments are coming from Indonesia and Thailand. The April shipments will be coming from Belgium and Poland.

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Local governments in Japan lost all documentation in Tsunami, computers no help

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.