By arevamirpal::laprimavera 30 November 2011 In the first post on the subject, I translated what NHK reported: 東京電力福島第一原子力発電所の事故で、メルトダウンが起きた１号機の燃料は、鋼鉄の原子炉の底を突き破って相当の量が格納容器に落下し、容器の底のコンクリートを溶かして最大で６５センチ浸食していると推定されることが、東京電力の解析結果から分かりました。 It has been discovered by TEPCO’s analysis that the significant amount of Reactor 1’s melted fuel pierced through the steel Reactor Pressure Vessel and dropped onto the Containment Vessel, then melted the concrete at the bottom of […]
By Jayne Clark, USA TODAY30 November 2011 A Ukrainian court has banned tourists from the site of the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear plant meltdown less than a year after government officials declared the region safe and opened it for tours. Officials had said the 18-mile “dead zone” around the site of history’s worst nuclear accident was […]
By TOMOHIRO IWATA, Asahi Shimbun Weekly AERA24 November 2011 During court proceedings concerning a radioactive golf course, Tokyo Electric Power Co. stunned lawyers by saying the utility was not responsible for decontamination because it no longer “owned” the radioactive substances. “Radioactive materials (such as cesium) that scattered and fell from the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear […]
Editor’s note: Of the world’s 50,000 edible plant species, only a few hundred find their way to menus around the globe. Of those, just three — rice, wheat and maize — make up two-thirds of the human food supply. And only rice is responsible for feeding half the world, or more than 3.5 billion people. […]
BANGKOK, November 8 (AFP) – The Thai capital, built on swampland, is slowly sinking and the floods currently besieging Bangkok could be merely a foretaste of a grim future as climate change makes its impact felt, experts say. The low-lying metropolis lies about 30km north of the Gulf of Thailand, where various experts forecast that […]
November 23 (mongabay.com) – A peace accord has been announced to resolve a long-running conflict between a giant state-owned plantation company and local communities on the Indonesian island of Java. The Forest Trust (TFT), an international NGO that works to improve the environmental performance of companies’ supply chains, says it has negotiated a deal under […]
Occasionally, the commercial mass media tip their hand and give us a glimpse of the Man Behind the Curtain. In this case, TIME magazine has posted the covers of its December 5th edition for different world markets, all on the same web page for easy comparison. The rest of the world gets to read about […]
BANGKOK, November 26 (Xinhua) – According to the World Bank, the devastating floods have caused about $45 billion in estimated damage and are likely to slash Thailand’s economic growth to 2.4 percent this year, Bangkok Post reported on Saturday. The grim assessment was unveiled by the bank’s country director Annette Dixon after a meeting with […]
By Ploy Ten Kate, with additional reporting by Pisit Changplayngam, Jutarat Skulpichetrat in BANGKOK, and Iktae Park in SEOUL; Editing by Alan Raybould and Miyoung Kim AYUTTHAYA, Thailand, November 24 (Reuters) – Knee-deep in foul-smelling water, workers are piling office equipment, documents and food onto fibre boats that ferry them from one building on Hana […]
[It’s amazing that for all the bloviating on Pakistan during the parade of belligerent ignorance at this week’s Republican national security “debate”, the catastrophic flooding of 2010 and 2011 wasn’t mentioned once.] ISLAMABAD – More than two months after the August floods hit the southern Pakistan, millions of affected people are still at great risk […]
