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Wed, 2011-03-23 15:02 — mdmcdonald
The Evacuation Working Group is focused on enabling evacuations in high impact areas of Japan.

The mission of the Evacuation Working Group is to help plan and carry out evacuations in high impact areas of Japan.

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Japan geologist predicted tsunami - voiced concerns over safety of nuclear power plants

Sun, 2011-04-10 19:16 — JRees

After studying ancient rocks, a Japanese geologist warned that a disaster was imminent -- to no avail.
From the Wall Street Journal  |  By Peter Landers  |  April 09, 2011

The giant tsunami that assaulted northern Japan's coast surprised just about everyone. But Masanobu Shishikura was expecting it. The thought that came to mind, he says, was "yappari," a Japanese word meaning roughly, "Sure enough, it happened."

"It was the phenomenon just as I had envisioned it," says the 41-year-old geologist, who has now become the Japanese Cassandra. Dr. Shishikura's studies of ancient earth layers persuaded him that every 450 to 800 years, colliding plates in the Pacific triggered waves that devastated areas around the modern city of Sendai, in Miyagi Prefecture, as well as in Fukushima Prefecture.

One early tsunami was known to historians. Caused by the 869 Jogan quake, its waves, according to one chronicle, killed 1,000 people. Dr. Shishikura had found strong evidence of a later tsunami in the same region, which probably took place between 1300 and 1600.

High Radiation Levels Found Beyond 30-km Radius

Sat, 2011-04-09 20:56 — Kathy Gilbeaux

Asahi.com - April 9, 2011
A study of soil samples has revealed that as much as 400 times the normal levels of radiation could remain in communities beyond a 30-kilometer radius from the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant, where explosions spewed radioactive materials into the atmosphere.

The study was conducted by a team of experts from Kyoto University and Hiroshima University.

According to the study, the accumulated amount of radiation in the soil at Iitate, Fukushima Prefecture--which is located outside of the 30-km radius--calculated over a three-month period would exceed the annual accumulated amount of 20 millisieverts that the central government is considering as a guideline for evacuating residents.

The government has asked residents living within a 20-km radius of the Fukushima No. 1 plant to evacuate and those living between a 20- to 30-km radius to remain indoors as much as possible.

Government studies have also found evidence of radiation contamination beyond the 30-km radius. The results show that radiation has not been spreading from the nuclear power plant in a concentric manner.

Japan Nuclear Crisis: Radiation Spike Detected Outside Evacuation Zone

Thu, 2011-03-31 09:19 — Katie Rast

March 31, 2011

Japanese officials are testing the soil contaminated by radiation from the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant to try to determine whether spring farming can begin as alarmingly high radiation levels were detected outside the evacuation zone today.

"As a ratio, it was about two times higher" than levels at which the agency recommends evacuations," International Atomic Energy Agency Official Elena Buglova said at a news conference.

Separately, the amount of iodine found in seawater near the plant has reached a new high; 4,385 times the legal limit. Officials said earlier this week that dangerous plutonium was found in soil near the reactors.

Residents within 12 miles of the nuclear plant were evacuated after a 9.0-magnitude earthquake and tsunami knocked out the reactor's cooling system March 11.

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Recruit TIES Engineering Students to Work on Task Server

Mon, 2011-03-28 18:00 — Katie Rast
Groups audience: 
Evacuation

Task Details:

1)Present Task Server to TIES students

2)Request emails be sent be each student with ideas on how to improve

3) Choose best option for improvement project

4) Project Plan due by

 

UCSD TIES Team POC: Katie Rast, Mandy Bratton

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.

Evacuation of 200 Patients and Staff 56 km from the Fukushima Dai-ichi Power Plant

Wed, 2011-03-23 15:08 — mdmcdonald
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Evacuation

responsible party requesting:  Yuki Karakawa

 

Dr. Nawaga letter to Ambassador Voos and USAID 

 

USAID Confirmation with Japanese Government

 

US Assets Deployed to Evacuate Patients

 

Japanese Government Work with US Government to Ensure Appropriate Evacuation

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