Japan Earthquake

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Repost because it's worth it. Got a Minute? Website Requires You To Sit Still for Japan Memorial
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by Panserbjorne9 7/12/2011 4:12:57 AM

puh---presents by BMW....u knows that they build sport cars ?
by nuckelchen 7/12/2011 4:14:12 AM

FOUR MONTHS AFTER: Radiation scare causes Fukushima Prefecture to shrink www.asahi.com
by Panserbjorne9 7/12/2011 4:15:21 AM

Nite all, the puppy is pestering me to go to sleep.
by lillymunster 7/12/2011 4:16:12 AM

High levels of radiation detected in Northwest rainwater www.king5.com
by Panserbjorne9 7/12/2011 4:16:41 AM

@lillymunster night Nancy.
by Panserbjorne9 7/12/2011 4:18:12 AM

sleep u well
by nuckelchen 7/12/2011 4:18:48 AM

i'm out too
by nuckelchen 7/12/2011 4:20:03 AM

Good night @lilly. @nuckelchen mata!
by bo 7/12/2011 4:21:55 AM

The Irishwoman who gives hope to Japan's tsunami-ravaged pets www.independent.ie
by Panserbjorne9 7/12/2011 4:23:49 AM

Decontamination system fails again

Workers at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant are still struggling to stably cool its reactors. Operator Tokyo Electric Power Company says a key system to decontaminate highly radioactive water has been halted yet again.

TEPCO says workers spotted a leak near a feeding pipe for a French-made device on Tuesday morning. TEPCO is trying to find out the cause and conduct repairs.

Water leaked from the same device on Sunday, forcing operations to halt.

The decontamination facilities are a key part of a system to treat and recycle radioactive water as coolant inside the disabled reactors. But the system has suffered one problem after another since going into operation at the end of June.
This could undermine TEPCO's target of stably cooling the reactors by July 17th as the first step in its schedule to bring the plant under control.

Tuesday, July 12, 2011 12:34 +0900 (JST)
www3.nhk.or.jp
by Edano 7/12/2011 4:44:59 AM

Ex-reconstruction minister Matsumoto hospitalized for rest

TOKYO, July 12, Kyodo
english.kyodonews.jp

must be a blood type b thing ;)
by Edano 7/12/2011 4:46:08 AM

Hosokawa indicated conducting all cattle tests

Japan's health minister has indicated that all beef cattle raised in some parts of Fukushima Prefecture, including Minamisoma City, where radioactive cesium above the government's standard level was recently found, will be considered for testing.

Ritsuo Hosokawa spoke to reporters on Tuesday, following the detection of cesium over 3 times the government's standard level in beef from cattle raised at a farm in Minamisoma City near the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant.

The prefecture asked the city to voluntarily stop cattle shipments after the detection.

Hosokawa says eating the meat once does not particularly threaten human health and that people do not need to excessively worry about the beef.

But he says the reason for the beef's distribution must be thoroughly investigated to prevent a recurrence.

Hosokawa said that he needs to discuss the issue with related ministries, agencies and Fukushima prefecture to consider testing all cattle from marked-off areas of Fukushima Prefecture at meat-processing facilities and slaughter houses. The cattle in the prefecture are currently being sampling tested.

Tuesday, July 12, 2011 13:06 +0900 (JST)
www3.nhk.or.jp
by Edano 7/12/2011 4:50:33 AM

WSJ July 12, Fateful Move Exposed Japan Plant
Tokyo Electric Lowered Elevation of Land Before Building Nuclear Facility, Weakening Tsunami Defense online.wsj.com In 1967, Tepco chopped 25 meters off the 35-meter natural seawall where the reactors were to be located, according to documents filed at the time with Japanese authorities. That little-noticed action was taken to make it easier to ferry equipment to the site and pump seawater to the reactors. It was also seen as an efficient way to build the complex atop the solid base of bedrock needed to better protect the plant from earthquakes.
by Mid Valley 7/12/2011 5:09:53 AM

www.tepco.co.jp

The repaired part for chemical leakage of water treatment system (coagulation settling facility)
(pictured on July 10, 2011)
by elainekirk via Tepco.co.jp 7/12/2011 7:55:53 AM

Good morning elaine
by bo 7/12/2011 7:58:09 AM

@bo hello
by elainekirk 7/12/2011 8:03:08 AM

BRB
by bo 7/12/2011 8:03:55 AM

so will I with coffeee
by elainekirk 7/12/2011 8:04:11 AM

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by elainekirk 7/12/2011 8:23:26 AM

@bo I am out for the day :)
by elainekirk 7/12/2011 9:15:06 AM

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by dean 7/12/2011 9:43:29 AM

Radioactive ash found in waste plants near Tokyo

(AFP) – 2 hours ago

TOKYO — Japanese waste incineration plants near Tokyo have found high levels of radiation in ash, and officials said Tuesday it may be from garden waste contaminated by the Fukushima nuclear disaster.

The radioactive caesium was detected in plants in Kashiwa city in Chiba prefecture, northeast of Tokyo and about 200 kilometres (120 miles) from the plant that has leaked radiation since the March 11 quake and tsunami.

Officials stressed that the radioactive ash collected in late June and early July, at concentrations of up to 70,800 becquerels per kilogramme, was safely contained within the plant and posed no health risk to the community.

The level is far higher than the government's 8,000-becquerel per kilogramme limit, above which waste dumps must keep such ash in storage, and it presents authorities with the question of what to do with it.
by Majj 7/12/2011 10:57:12 AM

Radioactive ash found in waste plants near Tokyo www.google.com
by Majj 7/12/2011 10:57:47 AM

Residents get together to decontaminate city after discovery of radiation hotspots. Residents in the Fukushima Prefecture city of Date have banded together to decontaminate the city after the discovery of radiation hotspots that led to 113 households being placed under special evacuation recommendations.
Their move comes in response to fears that that the government system placing only certain households in the city under evacuation recommendations could create rifts in the local community. mdn.mainichi.jp
by Majj 7/12/2011 11:39:33 AM

Tokyo’s international Airport faces world’s highest tsunami risk: Study. A recent research has revealed that Tokyo's Haneda international airport is in line for the most frequent and severe catastrophes.
Matt Owen of the University College London used historical data from the US National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration on the number and size of tsunamis around the world, and combined this with the frequencies of earthquakes and other events that cause tsunamis.
On comparing the overall risks to different coastal regions, he found that Pacific coasts face the highest risk, New scientist reports.
Owen then focused on 10 coastal regions with an airport and ranked them on a scale from one to five on the severity of the tsunamis they had experienced since local records began, and the frequency with which they occurred.
Tokyo International Airport, also known as Haneda Airport, scored five on both. www.indianexpress.com
by Majj 7/12/2011 11:41:33 AM

back for a bit
by dean 7/12/2011 11:47:10 AM

Hi Dean
by lillymunster 7/12/2011 11:47:44 AM

hi lilly.. how are you doing
by dean 7/12/2011 11:49:04 AM

@dean so far so good. :-)
we had a rain system move through and dump lots of rain, need to check the dams today. Gavins Point was running at max yesterday already.
by lillymunster 7/12/2011 11:50:58 AM

it's been quite a year lilly,, and seems to go on and on. it was a wet spring and summer so far here but nothing compared to the rest of the country.
by dean 7/12/2011 11:53:18 AM

Going through twitter and news sites, should have some fuku info as I go.
by lillymunster 7/12/2011 11:53:20 AM

sounds good... after next week when I get finished with hosting the TEAM RALEIGH professional team for the race here and then in Oregon next week.. I want to fine tune my TWITTER skills.. and facebook again... i get so busy with every thing I'm not much of a tweet...
by dean 7/12/2011 11:54:50 AM

@dean The tributary river nearby has been at flood stage all spring and it isn't fed by any sort of mountain snowpack like the Missouri.
by lillymunster 7/12/2011 11:55:01 AM

@dean sounds like a plan. I am always trying to find ways to streamline all the information coming in. I have a system now. I need to figure out a way to do some sort of custom news feed off all of our good sources so I could read relevant headlines all on one page. :-)
by lillymunster 7/12/2011 11:56:37 AM

Is there a big race out there?
by lillymunster 7/12/2011 11:56:49 AM

Kick off meeting of one of the mothers food contamination & child protection groups s3.amazonaws.com
by lillymunster 7/12/2011 11:57:28 AM

every time i hear or read about the flooding it gives me such an empty sorrowed feeling... people here take alot for granted and don't have to get involved with tornadoes and flooding etc...
by dean 7/12/2011 11:57:36 AM

the race here where I live is a big criterium ... twilight criterium.. and the race in OREGON brings international teams... the CASCADE CLASSIC
by dean 7/12/2011 11:58:19 AM

@dean The river up here has never been flooded this long. It will flood early spring and be done by late june. Luckily it didn't get high enough to flood much as far as houses but been slight
ly over banks all spring.
by lillymunster 7/12/2011 11:59:22 AM

I'll put a word in upstairs for safety lilly....
by dean 7/12/2011 12:01:13 PM

I read yesterday that one of the next MAJOR problems will be mosquito's...
by dean 7/12/2011 12:01:36 PM

@dean Oh yes. Due to all the budget cuts everywhere mosquito abatement has been cut. We used to get city spraying about every 3 weeks. They have come through only twice all spring/summer
by lillymunster 7/12/2011 12:02:28 PM

hope you have a bug whacker
by dean 7/12/2011 12:02:58 PM

Workers via twitter complaining about concerns over dosages they are taking, discussions of banding together over something and what sounded like getting an outside party or media involved.
by lillymunster 7/12/2011 12:03:48 PM