Japan Earthquake

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Ohio gozaimasu tomodachi
by bo 10/5/2011 2:58:20 AM

Hi Bo!
by lillymunster 10/5/2011 2:59:23 AM

Hey Edano are you still around?
by bo 10/5/2011 3:00:47 AM

Hi Bo! Great to see you.
by Mid Valley 10/5/2011 3:19:33 AM

TABLE-Japan nuclear plant ops (Genkai No.4 shut after problem) www.reuters.com
by Mid Valley 10/5/2011 3:20:22 AM

HI MV! Hope all is well up in the valley!
by bo 10/5/2011 3:21:40 AM

Nite all! Off to get some sleep if the dog doesn't decide to wake me up at 3am again...
by lillymunster 10/5/2011 3:43:04 AM

Goodnight Lilly
by bo 10/5/2011 3:50:25 AM

@lillymunster Sleep well Lilly! Thanks for all you do.
by Mid Valley 10/5/2011 3:50:25 AM

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by Mid Valley 10/5/2011 5:30:18 AM

by M.I.A. 10/5/2011 8:38:14 AM

Progress on nuclear plant seawalls

In response to the accident at the Fukushima nuclear power plant, the government instructed the nation's power companies on March 30 to take urgent safety measures to prevent damage from tsunami.

The utilities are preparing their anti-tsunami measures, including the construction of seawalls.

45 of the 54 reactors around the country are planning to build seawalls.

Construction is expected to be completed as early as spring 2012, or in the next 3 years at the latest.

Wednesday, October 05, 2011 18:54 +0900 (JST)
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by Edano 10/5/2011 10:28:10 AM

Reserve fund for nuclear plant sites sitting idle

Japan's Board of Audit has asked the trade and industry ministry to review unused reserve funds earmarked for municipalities where construction of sites of nuclear power plants are planned. The ministry is holding some 860 million dollars' worth of unused grants, which the board of audit says are unnecessary.

The grants are part of a program that started some 40 years ago designed to help develop municipalities where nuclear power plants are to be built. Such municipalities can use the money to build roads, social welfare facilities and sports facilities.

A Board of Audit survey showed that about 1.6 billion dollars are being held in reserve for 14 planned reactors across Japan as of the end of March this year.
Construction has begun at only 3 of the 14 reactors and plans for the other 11 have been scrapped or delayed due to opposition from local residents.

The Board of Audit has found the money in reserve for these 11 reactors totals about 864 million dollars.

The trade and industry ministry says it will determine how to deal with the unused reserve funds after obtaining the results of an on-going review of Japan's basic energy policies, including the future of nuclear power generation.

Wednesday, October 05, 2011 18:28 +0900 (JST)
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by Edano 10/5/2011 10:29:00 AM

Construction of seawall begins at nuclear plant

A Japanese electric power company has begun building an anti-tsunami embankment at a nuclear power plant on the Sea of Japan coast.

Hokuriku Electric Power Company on Wednesday started construction of a reinforced concrete seawall at the plant in Shika Town, Ishikawa Prefecture. The wall is 4 meters high, 700 meters long, and sits 11 meters above the sea level.

A 15-meter-high tsunami caused flood damage at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant following the March 11th earthquake. After the disaster, the government instructed utilities to take anti-tsunami measures.

Hokuriku Electric plans to install a new drainage gate to minimize damage to plant facilities in case seawater manages to climb over the wall and flood the plant.

Other emergency safety measures to be taken by the utility include installing an extra pump to cool reactors with seawater and a power source to operate a valve for venting steam out of reactors.

The company intends to complete construction by the end of March 2013.

Wednesday, October 05, 2011 18:15 +0900 (JST)
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by Edano 10/5/2011 10:29:40 AM

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Iwate rice hits stores

Newly harvested rice from Iwate Prefecture hit stores on Wednesday. The rice has cleared tests for radioactive contamination from the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, about 150 kilometers away.

A department store in Morioka city held a tasting event for the popular Hitomebore brand of rice.

It also gave the first 200 customers 300 grams of rice free.

A woman customer said rice is the most delicious soon after it is harvested. She said she's relieved that no radioactive substances were found in the rice.

The wholesaler organizing the event said the Governor of Iwate has declared the prefecture's rice crop free of radioactive contaminants. He said this year's crop is not only safe, but is high quality.

The quality of Iwate rice is better than usual this year thanks to the hot summer, though harvesting was delayed by September typhoons. The price is also higher.

Rice harvested in Iwate last year has almost sold out because of fears that this year's harvest would be contaminated.

Wednesday, October 05, 2011 14:26 +0900 (JST)
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by Edano via Www3.nhk.or.jp 10/5/2011 10:31:19 AM

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Miyagi to add radiation monitoring posts

Miyagi Prefecture in northeastern Japan says it will begin monitoring atmospheric radiation levels in all of its towns and cities to keep track of fallout from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant.

The prefecture says it will install 44 new monitoring posts that it plans to start operating within the current fiscal year, which ends in March of 2012.

Six of the posts will be set up in Onagawa and Ishinomaki near Tohoku Electric Company's Onagawa nuclear power plant. Four of 7 monitors around the plant were washed away by the March 11th tsunami.

Nine monitors in all will be positioned in southern Miyagi Prefecture, in areas closest to the border with Fukushima Prefecture.

Miyagi officials say the data collected at the posts will be sent to the science and technology ministry and released to the public on the Internet.

Wednesday, October 05, 2011 09:12 +0900 (JST)
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by Edano via Www3.nhk.or.jp 10/5/2011 10:32:00 AM

@Edano so why can't these monitoring posts have a display on them? oh I know they may cause 'fear and panic' !. Great term that, turn the human instinct for self preservation into some kind of undesirable trait and ostracise those who act on theirs.
by elainekirk 10/5/2011 10:35:35 AM

High dosage of cesium found in soil outside Fukushima no-go zone

TOKYO, Oct. 5, Kyodo english.kyodonews.jp
by Edano 10/5/2011 10:36:10 AM

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Fukushima children play at site with lower radiation level
Nursery school children in Koriyama, Fukushima Prefecture, play outside in an area about 30 kilometers from their schools in the central part of the city on Oct. 5, 2011. Two nursery schools, where outdoor activities are limited due to radiation from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant, took part in the project to let kids play at remote sites with lower radiation levels. (Kyodo) english.kyodonews.jp
by Edano via English.kyodonews.jp 10/5/2011 10:38:29 AM

so sad.
by Edano 10/5/2011 10:40:12 AM

@Edano these are the latest readings from meters held out of car windows published by the goj radioactivity.mext.go.jp I can't find soil ones so maybe they have not been published in English
by elainekirk 10/5/2011 10:41:15 AM

@elainekirk the news is from 17:39 5 October, 2 hours ago.
by Edano 10/5/2011 10:42:27 AM

@Edano the Japanese admin should hang their heads in shame preferably over a chopping block
by elainekirk 10/5/2011 10:44:46 AM

usgs reports quakes in eastern honshu, but it was western honshu, nagoya, nagano.
by Edano 10/5/2011 10:47:45 AM

www.jma.go.jp this is western.
by Edano via Jma.go.jp 10/5/2011 10:48:37 AM

west coast, at least :)
by Edano 10/5/2011 10:49:33 AM

okay, when you say west honschu is south, then northern honshu is east, but it is still west coast of east or north, so it is more central.
by Edano 10/5/2011 10:51:19 AM

????
by Edano 10/5/2011 10:51:23 AM

Situation and response of JAEA to the Great East Japan Earthquake
(Outline of activities on March 11- October 3 www.jaea.go.jp
by elainekirk 10/5/2011 10:51:37 AM

@Edano Katla has been rattling big time over the past few hours so that plate will be getting vibrated like billyho I would think
by elainekirk 10/5/2011 10:52:51 AM

katla ?
by Edano 10/5/2011 10:53:25 AM

@Edano if katla blows will the release of pressure affect the plates?
by elainekirk 10/5/2011 10:53:43 AM

@elainekirk what is katla ?
by Edano 10/5/2011 10:54:09 AM

@Edano massive volcano 10x the size of last yrs en.vedur.is
by elainekirk 10/5/2011 10:54:18 AM

@Edano the north american plate joins iceland and japan
by elainekirk 10/5/2011 10:55:11 AM

@elainekirk no
by Edano 10/5/2011 10:56:12 AM

by Edano via Moorlandschool.co.uk 10/5/2011 10:56:31 AM

plenty of space between iceland and japan, no ? :)
by Edano 10/5/2011 10:57:29 AM

@Edano darn the map I looked at has it skirting Japan hey ho
by elainekirk 10/5/2011 11:00:20 AM

@Edano lotsa room between them what part does space play when plates shift ? not a field I am knowledgable about I assumed movement at x would cause movement at y
by elainekirk 10/5/2011 11:02:26 AM

by Edano via Earthobservatory.sg 10/5/2011 11:02:30 AM

@Edano that is another factor I dont understand if one plate is riding onto another how come fuku
is lower now?
by elainekirk 10/5/2011 11:03:59 AM

@elainekirk i can explain that.
by Edano 10/5/2011 11:04:22 AM

in the past, northern japan was squeezed between two plates, like a piece of metal. it got higher and smaller. with the tohoku quake, the stress released, japan stretched, moved east, getting lower and more plain again.
by Edano 10/5/2011 11:06:56 AM