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Wed, 2011-03-16 04:57 — mdmcdonald
This working group is focused on building a resilient and sustainable Fukushima Prefecture.

 

The Fukushima Prefecture Health Capacity Zone was hard hit by the earthquake and tsunami.  Although the nuclear power plant in Fukushima was designed to withstand an 8.2 earthquake, the combination of the 9.0 earthquake and tsunami in Fukushima have led to significant damage to the power plants ability to cool its fuel rods.  Explosions have occurred in three reactors and radiation has been emitted from the plant's containment systems, potentially exposing the local ecosystems and populations to radiation.  

Radiation has also been emitted into the atmosphere.  Radiation has been detected 100 miles away and more from the Fukushima plant by the U.S. Navy, causing them to move the Aircraft Carrier Ronald Reagan back beyond 100 miles and inhibiting its mission in the Fukushima area.  

Please post information regarding the mission critical functions associated  with the Fukushima Prefecture Health Capacity Zone in this area.

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AP Exclusive: Fukushima tsunami plan a single page

Fri, 2011-05-27 13:21 — mdmcdonald

 


By YURI KAGEYAMA and JUSTIN PRITCHARD, Associated Press 

TOKYO – Japanese nuclear regulators trusted that the reactors at the Fukushima Dai-ichi complex were safe from the worst waves an earthquake could muster based on a single-page memo from the plant operator nearly a decade ago. In the Dec. 19, 2001, document — one double-sized page obtained by The Associated Press under Japan's public records law — Tokyo Electric Power Co. rules out the possibility of a tsunami large enough to knock the plant offline and gives scant details to justify this conclusion, which proved to be wildly optimistic.

A city left to fight for survival after the Fukushima nuclear disaster

Sun, 2011-04-10 05:46 — JRees

The mayor of the isolated Japanese city of Minamisoma, Katsunobu Sakurai, speaks to Irish Times reporter and Japan resident, David McNeill 

LIKE MOST Japanese men, Katsunobu Sakurai read apocalyptic comic-book stories about the future when he was a boy. He never expected to live through one of those stories.

A common plot sees a modern city reduced overnight to a ghostly husk as fears of nuclear contamination empty it of people. Businesses shut and food, water and petrol run out. Old people left behind begin to die. The city mayor makes a desperate televised appeal for help. Such is real life in Sakurai’s city of Minamisoma.

More than 71,000 people lived here before March 11th. Today there are fewer than 10,000. About 1,470 are dead or missing, the remainder are scattered throughout Japan in more than 300 different locations, “as far as we can tell”, says Sakurai, who took over as mayor in January.

Dangling from his neck are two radiation counters, a reminder that the nightmare that descended on his city last month has yet to end.

Report from Fukushima

Thu, 2011-04-07 02:51 — JRees

By Suvendrini Kakuchi
"There is a dire need for a real time radiation monitoring network to be set up in areas affected by the damaged Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear power plant," Atsuto Suzuki, head of the high-energy accelerator research organisation at Tsukuba University, explained. "This is where our expertise can begin to play a role."

FUKUSHIMA, Japan, Apr 7, 2011 (IPS) - My decision to visit Fukushima - the area worst hit by the massive quake, tsunami and nuclear power accident on Mar. 11 - was taken one afternoon last week after a long meeting with scientists.
The invitation to accompany the scientists on a private fact-finding mission to Fukushima was irresistible. The scientists and engineers who gathered that day, had, for decades, harboured misgivings over reactor safety design and policies and were active in the ongoing debate over the future of nuclear energy in Japan.

Highly radioactive water leaks from Japanese nuclear plant

Mon, 2011-03-28 15:01 — Katie Rast

 Mon Mar 28, 2011 11:10am EDT

 TOKYO (Reuters) - Highly radioactive water has leaked from a reactor at Japan's crippled nuclear complex, the plant's operator said on Monday, while environmental group Greenpeace said it had detected high levels of radiation outside an exclusion zone.

 Reflecting growing unease about efforts to control the six-reactor Fukushima Daiichi complex, plant operator Tokyo Electric Power Co (9501.T) (TEPCO) had appealed to French companies for help, the Kyodo news agency said.

The plant, 240 km (150 miles) north of Tokyo, was damaged in a March 11 earthquake and tsunami that left more than 28,000 people dead or missing across northeastern Japan.

Fires, explosions and radiation leaks have repeatedly forced engineers to suspend efforts to stabilize the plant, including on Sunday when radiation levels spiked to 100,000 times above normal in water inside reactor No. 2.

NISA = Japan’s Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency - thru Mar 18

Thu, 2011-03-24 06:26 — AlMac99

I shared some earlier reports - thru March 15 - here.  I continue to work my way thru the Japan reports from the horse's mouth, and attached are NISA reports March 16 17 18.  I will share more as I get thru more. 

Here, from my notes, are my sources of this information.

Date at beginning of sub-head is vintage of the official information.

Date in parentheses at end of each sub-head is when I got my hands on the info.


CSM: "Japan says high seawater radiation levels are no cause for alarm"

Wed, 2011-03-23 11:39 — mdmcdonald

Japanese authorities began testing for radiation in seawater near the damaged Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant on Tuesday, but officials stressed that the elevated levels are no cause for worry

Within this article:

"...Jun Misono of Tokyo’s Marine Ecology Research Institute said that while radioactive iodine breaks down relatively quickly, cesium is more persistent and can accumulate in marine animals, such as fish. “We need to carefully monitor the amount of radiation that continues to be emitted and evaluate the impacts,” he told national broadcaster NHK."

 

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JAIF = Japan Atomic Industrial Forum

Wed, 2011-03-23 01:48 — AlMac99

Fukushima Floods (some of them) from Italy e GEOS March 16

Wed, 2011-03-23 00:36 — AlMac99

Fukushima Nuclear Maps - Stay out - no fly - no people

Mon, 2011-03-21 17:45 — AlMac99

Attached # 1 is not all that great a map, but it is a starting perspective.

Attached # 2 has not that much more detail, but may be good enough.

Attached # 3 I called "unknown" because it is not obvious from the context if the map is of Fukushima Dai-ichi which has most serious problems, or Fukushima Dai-ni which also has serious nuclear accident issues.

Attached # 4 shows what changed, thanks to comparing images from two satelites, to see what changed one picture to later one.

Overview - Fukushima Prefecture - History, Culture, Transportation, Industry, and Attractions

Fri, 2011-03-18 15:20 — Kathy Gilbeaux

Fukushima Prefecture - Location/Geography and Transportation, Society, Culture, Seasons, History, Agriculture, Commerce and Industry

http://www.pref.fukushima.jp/list_e/what_le.html

Fukushima Prefecture - Wikipedia

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

Fukushima Prefecture - japan-guide.com

http://www.japan-guide.com/list/e1208.html 

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