And while we watch potential nuclear catastrophe..
.. I cannot even fathom what the citizens of Japan are going through today. The nuclear reactor crisis must only be exacerbating the horrendous weekend ..
Day: March 12, 2011
The danger at Fukushima still difficult to assess..
But I’d argue that recent Japanese officials’ claims of a disaster averted are as premature as saying there has been a disaster.. It’s too early to tell but it’s downright nerve racking watching.. The danger at Fukushima still difficult to assess..
Trouble comes in 3s..
A third nuclear reactor appears to be failing at Fukushima..
The latest
140,000 evacuated around nuclear reactors..
Latest on the meltdown: The Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency (NISA) said Saturday afternoon the explosion at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant could only have been caused by a meltdown of the reactor core
Latest on the meltdown: The Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency (NISA) said Saturday afternoon the explosion at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant could only have been caused by a meltdown of the reactor core
This is a great website for the latest on the crisis in the Pacific
http://english.kyodonews.jp/ (The English version of Kyodo)
This is chilling: A town of 17,000 has 10,000 people missing from it in the wake of the tsunami..
…it was a coastal town… We can hope for the best but expect.. the worst. This is chilling: A town of 17,000 has 10,000 people missing from it in the wake of the tsunami..
“No health hazard”
…despite radiation levels being 1,000 times the norm.. Despite workers being treated for radiation exposure.. Despite evacuations of thousands upon thousands of people.. Listen, we get it, governments don’t want an already edgy nation to panic more. But guess what, the edgy people of Japan are intelligent and fully aware that a problem at Fukushima … Read more“No health hazard”
More than 300,000 people have now been evacuated from homes in northern Japan and that number will rise as the government increases the exclusion zone around the Fukushima nuclear power plant, Kyodo reports BBC News – LIVE: Japan earthquake (via underthemountainbunker) This weekend is .. just not going to be good.
A quake with a preliminary magnitude of 6.4 just hit Fukushima in northern Japan- the prefecture where the unstable nuclear plant is located.
msnbc: Enough aftershocks. Enough. Worst place and time for this aftershock A quake with a preliminary magnitude of 6.4 just hit Fukushima in northern Japan- the prefecture where the unstable nuclear plant is located.