Japan: 9.0 Earthquake-Tsunami-Nuclear Reactor Developments #1

[Blue_Dolphin308]

Rolling Blackouts are going to be starting tomorrow! There's not enough power due to the reactors having issues.. Just reported on MSNBC

 

[Blue_Dolphin308]

Before and After pictures.

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/...-japan-before-and-after-tsunami.html?ref=asia

 

[SurfieTX]

Rolling Blackouts are going to be starting tomorrow! There's not enough power due to the reactors having issues.. Just reported on MSNBC

I wonder how that is going to affect Japan's economy - trading/computer/business-wise.

 

[Blue_Dolphin308]

More Before and After pictures
http://www.abc.net.au/news/events/japan-quake-2011/beforeafter.htm

Move your mouse over the pictures to see the difference

 

[belimom]

YouTube - supergia007's Channel

Looks like armageddon... :no:

 

[peeples]

that video.. when that group of people is watching from an over hang of sorts maybe the top of a building or something.. they are soo much braver than I, i wouldn't be able to watch all me things that i loved and my entire town washing away.. i just couldn't watch...

 

[Reality Orlando]

Rolling Blackouts are going to be starting tomorrow! There's not enough power due to the reactors having issues.. Just reported on MSNBC

My heart just breaks for these people. My husband was stationed in Japan during Vietnam and says it's a beautiful country and the people are really amazing. My prayers are with them.

 

[not_my_kids]

1597 - official death toll according to Japanese police.

69 countries have offered aid in one form or another (that number seems to bounce around a little, but regardless it is staggering in a good way.)

The city that is missing half it's people was only about 2 miles from the coast. Some residents that made it out are returning to see their homes, many are giving information as to which neighbors had left, who was planning to stay, and who was packing to leave. As a person that's hard to process, being asked to help identify where your neighbors and friends may have been washed away to...

 

[Quiche]

What went wrong at Fukushima

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-pacific-12726591

 

[Blue_Dolphin308]

10 000 people are missing in one town, so the death toll can go up to over 10 000. This just reported on MSNBC.

 

[Quiche]

Death toll climbs to 10,000. 1.4 million without water.

http://www.nation.co.ke/News/world/Japan+Death+toll+climbs+to+10000/-/1068/1124510/-/ya9t1c/-/

 

[not_my_kids]

Many of the bodies that are being recovered are those that were too elderly to quickly evacuate.

They are showing a school that has had bodies removed from it, there were 450 students and staff inside when the tsunami warning was issued. Those that couldn't evacuate...are being recovered now.

The lines at food and water distribution centers are blocks long, and many just have nothing left to give.

The power plant that has the most recent warnings issued is being said to be "under control." Two reactors at Fukishima (sp) may have suffered "partial meltdowns" but they believe that both have their containment chambers intact. Still saying there was no substantial radiation leak. People are being treated for radiation exposure. Those reactors that are being pumped full of seawater will be complete losses even if the meltdown is averted, since the seawater is corroding sensitive parts. It is unclear how well they can monitor the situation, since it is unclear whether anyone can enter the plant (fukishima). Reiterating that the venting is necessary in order to release pressure that otherwise could harm the reactor containment chamber.

 

[not_my_kids]

The most urgent crisis centers on the Fukushima Daiichi complex, where all three reactors are threatening to overheat, and where authorities say they have been forced to release radioactive steam into the air to relieve reactor pressure.

The complex, 240 km (150 miles) north of Tokyo, was rocked by an explosion on Saturday, which blew the roof off a reactor building. The government did not rule out further blasts there but said this would not necessarily damage the reactor vessels.

Authorities have poured sea water in all three of the complex's reactor to cool them down.

FEARS OVER OTHER REACTORS

The complex, run by Tokyo Electric Power Co , is the biggest nuclear concern but not the only one: on Monday, the U.N. nuclear watchdog said Japanese authorities had notified it of an emergency at another plant further north, at Onagawa.

But Japan's nuclear safety agency denied problems at the Onagawa plant, run by Tohoku Electric Power Co , noting that radioactive releases from the Fukushima Daiichi complex had been detected at Onagawa, but that these were within safe levels at a tiny fraction of the radiation received in an x-ray.

Shortly later, a cooling-system problem was reported at another nuclear plant closer to Tokyo, in Ibaraki prefecture.
http://www.jpost.com/VideoArticles/Video/Article.aspx?id=211981

 

[wfgodot]

6.17pm: More details are beginning to emerge about the breakdown of one of two cooling systems pumps at Tokai No. 2 nuclear power plant in the village of Tokai, Ibaraki prefecture.

The Japan Times says that a report submitted to the Ibaraki prefecture government has confirmed that one of two pumps used to cool the water of a suppression pool for the nuclear reactor has stopped working. The other pump is still working though, and Japan Atomic Power has said the reactor core is being cooled without any problem.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/blog/2011/mar/13/japan-earthquake-and-tsunami-japan

 

[panthera]

Man rescued from sea 9 miles off Japan coast
The 60-year-old was found clinging to his house's roof, two days after it was swept away

and more stories of those who survived and those who didn't.....:cry:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/42051281/ns/world_news-asia-pacific/

 

[Quiche]

West Coast not at Risk of Fallout

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/briti...03/12/canadian-radiation-fallout-concern.html

 

[not_my_kids]

I am currently listing people identified in news articles on the google resource page. Mnay are concerned because they can't let their families know they are safe, so maybe I can ease someone's burden a little.

 

[Quiche]

Talk about yanked around... how nerve wracking.

http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/dy/national/T110313003798.htm

 

[Quiche]

I have to be honest, I had no idea what prefecture was. So for anyone else who wants to know...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prefectures_of_Japan

 

[Kimster]

The weather agency says a volcano in southern Japan is spewing ash and rock again as the country struggles with the aftermath of a catastrophic earthquake and tsunami in the north.<snipped>

http://www.wkrg.com/world/article/volcano-in-southern-japan-erupts/1205456/Mar-13-2011_1-31-pm/