METI report on Economic damage in Japan

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I was going to attached two documents, but do not yet see how.

1. My links to situation reports - Mar 11-17 so far - note some I have copied some info from, some I have downloaded.

2. METI report on infrastructure damage to industry and the economy of Japan - temporary we are sure.

Here's my notes where I got the METI situation report from:

Situation Reports on Japan issued as of what was known March 16

§        The Government of Japan shares summary link[1] to 12 page situation report PDF[2] on what has happened to industry, other than the nuclear. Japan: Overview of Damage Situation and METI Measures as of March 16 at 12:00 a.m.   Note this is now 1 week after the disaster, and recovery is moving swiftly.  By comparison, similar recovery took MONTHS for Haiti.  I copied this with name: EOJ Economy 2011 Mar 16 METI

Evidently there will be some short term disruptions of Japanese products in the global market.  I hope not crass for me to observe this.  Major disruption to electrical power, so whole nation on severe conservation, so some factories outside the tsunami area not operating, to save on national electrical supply.  I have lost track of how many power plants knocked out in the chaos.
There were the 4 nuclear power plants with the original big one and tsunami, at least 2 more nuclear power plants brought down in the aftershocks, big problems at some conventional power plants, consequences of fires all over.

I can't see them getting back in operation for 5+ years the reactors with the serious accidents, or the ones they had to cool with sea water (a last resort, it is corrosive for the core)

INES = International Nuclear and Radiological Event Scale runs from 0 (deviation) to 7 (major accident).[1]

  • 7 Major event
  • 6 Serious accident
  • 5 Accident with wider consequences (Fukushima Dai-ichi units 1 2 3)  3 Mile Island was a # 5
  • 4 Accident with local consequences (Fukushima Daiichi Unit 1 initial value)[2]
  • 3 Serious incident (Fukushima Dai-ichi unit 4, Fukushima Dai-ni units 1 2 4 unfinished)[3]
  • 2 incident
  • 1 anomaly
  • 0 below scale

[2] Expected to go up.

[3] Incidents are continuing, so INES rating may change.

Japan's nuclear reactors were designed for 8.2 quake, but they got hit with 9.0 which is 8 times more powerful.
9.0 is 5th largest Global in 100 years, meaning reactors should be designed for worst case scenarios, the biggest possible.

I will try a separate posting with the document it is not letting me post to this thread.

Several times it went thru the process of apparently accepting the second attachment, but I do not see it here.

Perhaps too big

133 k + what I did get uploaded.

Alister Wm Macintyre

howdy folks