Japan earthquake
Live updates of developments after the earthquake and tsunami in Japan, selected by Reuters.com editors and readers. To see updates from Reuters only, click "Options" and turn off comments.
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@edi1969 You had to do this at 450 miles away. Japan is only evacuating 20km. something to think about. I thought the affected area around Chernobyl was 260km+/-. I feel very bad for Japanese people who arent aware of the potential hazards they are facing or currently in. -
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@karl: the second and third most emailed articles on the wsj are regarding Japan at this time. nyt article is still top left column. from what I see the coverage has shifted to serious journalism as it is still a story but now - is it going to blow up is different than is it slowly seeping... -
If big media are downplaying the coverage I think it's because they don't want to cause panic but also because they don't want to damage the reputation of the nuclear industry. They've done a remarkable job at every stage of this crisis of undermining legitimate concerns and and making it seem like ordinary people are Luddites for worrying about this. Fukushima is an ignorant luddite ... how many times have we had to hear "This is not Chernobyl"?
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Links to Sites with Current Information on the Status of Nuclear Power plants in Japan oldbooks.net
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I fear this situation at the Fukushima power plant will continue on it's current path until either of two things happen. 1) The radiation starts to effect a foreign nation or 2) The continued inability of Japanese manufacturers to export vital components, that so many manufacturers outside of Japan rely on, that Global markets start grinding to a halt. The current crisis management at the site clearly after 14 days, have not even been able to accurately assess the situation, much less devised any long term strategy to contain it.
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The daily amount of caesium-137 released from Fukushima Daiichi is around 60 per cent of the amount released from Chernobyl. (New Scientist : bit.ly )
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Followup... does the ocean's chemistry help or hinder the decay of radioactive contaminants? I'm concerned about how much we (very collective we) may be affecting the food chain in the ocean. I know the ocean is HUGE in volume. I don't know at what point we start to worry about concentrations of radiation leaked into the ocean.
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Regarding BBC interview daughter of one of the Fukushima Fifty (now 700 ppl) www.bbc.co.uk comment by compelling. This is starting to sound like third word country instead of Japan. How is it possible that Tepco has not provided info about a plant worker to his desperate family for a week ? Deeply disgusting.
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@Dean You can post documents easily using docs.google.com -- post it there, and share it to everyone...
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@Markfm Fukushima Dai-ichi Monitoring points (March 25th, 2011) www.nisa.meti.go.jp -
@Julie Mollins, AlertNet Currently Snowing [0c] with an expected Windchill of -9c tonight at the Fukushima Dia ichi plant. Extended forecast www.wunderground.com -
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I strongly doubt any push for US news orgs to downplay events in Japan. Rather it is the 7x24 news cycle. Fighting in Libya was a natural "pull" as the next big thing to cover, particularly with news in Japan slowing down (remember a week or so ago the comments about Japan putting the brakes on relative to information, it came up with the NRC person testifying). With events suddenly taking a noticeable downturn Japan is back as a lead item (and it had stayed far up in the headlines, just not at #1). -
@Rob in SF Thank you - I did already post this story and I have heard absolutely nothing since - that story is now 9 days old - this whole event is escalating because they cannot work in that environment and that just isn't good enough. I feel like delivering these demron suits myself. Man can walk on the moon which is the most toxic environment ever but we cannot enter a radiative turbine room.
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The news teams wanted to do TV broadcasts from places with no infrastructure to support them, and they also got a little antsy about the radiation, withdrew to Tokyo and couldn't report on much from their hotel balconies. I Can't speak for reuters, but Non Japanese reports that are being made sound to me like old school journalists, fast moving and embedded. -
@Karl- good question, think its to be expected that anything that is alarmist won't be published- problem is this whole issue is by its very nature alarmist! So we're fortunate that Reuters continue to publish otherwise this could all disappear into obscurity and be replaced by more 'acceptable' headlines.
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For those of you curious about what effects the seawater may have had, you can conduct this little experiment at home. Get a couple of nails. Put one into a glass of tap water and the other into a glass of water with some salt mixed into it. Keep an eye on it and notice the difference as the days go by.
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People set up a small market in front of destroyed shops in Kesennuma, two weeks after the area was devastated by a magnitude 9.0 earthquake and tsunami, March 25, 2011. The March 11 quake and tsunami have left at least 27,000 dead and missing in northeast Japan. REUTERS/Damir Sagolj
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Here is a list of restrictions on Japanese food imports from various countries:
USA
All milk and milk products and fresh fruits and vegetables from four Japanese prefectures -- Fukushima, Ibaraki, Tochigi and Gunma -- will be stopped from entering the United States, the Food and Drug Administration said.
Britain
Britain said it is screening food imports from Japan, mainly fish and shellfish, for the presence of radioactive material. No contaminated food has yet been found.
Hong Kong
Bans food and milk products from five prefectures in Japan after samples of turnip and spinach showed contaminants 2.6 to 10 times over the permissible limit.
Singapore
Singapore has suspended the import of milk, meat and produce from areas near the crippled nuclear power plant due to radiation contamination, a government agency said.
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"highly radioactive water was also found in the turbine buildings of the No. 1 and No. 2 reactors" english.kyodonews.jp
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The two workers who got their feet wet received 2 to 6 Sieverts exposure below the ankles, but no early signs of radiation sickness: english.kyodonews.jp -
@neardc Ocean chemistry does not affect the course of radioactivity. The sheer size of the ocean is useful to dilute a concentrated amount of a radioactive substance to a non-concentrated one, but not much else. Interaction of the various elements do have some effect on the reactions, but the rate of decay is what it is.
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Japan's Self-Defense Forces have released the latest aerial images of the disaster-stricken Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant from Wednesday. www3.nhk.or.jp -
@neardc until 1982, more than 100 000 tons of Nuclear Waste have been throw in the sea, from every nuclear country .This was only stopped for barrels definitively in 1993/96 . La Hague in France release 365 days a year, in sea, with a 3 kms long pipeline. Some others are said to still continue. Nuclear waste is a dark matter, as some need to be stored for 200 000 years. Sea is a trashcan for a lot of industries :(
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"Obama’s nuclear boosterism is part of a larger meta-narrative dominating discussion of the Fukushima disaster here in the United States. Yes, Fukushima is scary, the narrative goes, but it is far away, our own nuclear plants pose little danger and, besides, neither our economy nor the fight against climate change can succeed without more nukes. Even the usually sensible nonprofit journalism enterprise ProPublica is publishing articles implying that anything less than a Chernobyl-scale disaster amounts to only “limited” impact." (from "Obama Loves Nukes" by Mark Hertsgaard.
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@Markfm This link is updated twice a day. www.tepco.co.jp
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@neardc This is the link to the current water test and contamination areas for water from the Tepco site www.tepco.co.jp
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Fukushima related official info (reactor status and such) can be found e.g. from here:
JAIF: www.jaif.or.jp
NISA: www.nisa.meti.go.jp
IAEA: www.iaea.org -
QUESTION: Has anyone found any expert opinions on how these highly radioactive materials are getting into water at the turbine buildings (with links)? I don't know how these systems work. Is it through the cooling pumps, through the piping, etc.? Is it possible there could just be ruptured pipes in the heat exchanger system, without an actual crack in the actual reactor vessel?
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The destruction wrought by the tsunami that slammed Japan two weeks ago has given rise to graveyards for machinery pulled from the wreckage. www.reuters.com
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