Watch Inside Japan’s Nuclear Meltdown on PBS. See more from FRONTLINE. Frontline interviews workers and citizens who recall events in the first nine days of the disaster at the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear plant. Inside Japan’s nuclear meltdowns Technorati Tags: Fukushima,Japan,pollution,infrastructure failure
By arevamirpal::laprimavera 3 March 2012 Kyodo News reports (3/3/2012), nearly one year later: ＳＰＥＥＤＩ予測「公表できない」 文科省文書に記載 SPEEDI simulation “cannot be made public”, according to a document by Ministry of Education and Science 東京電力福島第１原発事故５日目の昨年３月１５日、緊急時迅速放射能影響予測ネットワークシステム（ＳＰＥＥＤＩ）による放射性物質の拡散予測について、当時の高木義明文部科学相ら政務三役や文科省幹部が協議し「一般にはとても公表できない内容と判断」と記した内部文書が作成されていたことが２日、同省関係者への取材で分かった。 It was revealed on 2 March 2012 by speaking with the people involved at the Ministry of Education and Science that an internal memo […]
By AKIKO OKAZAKI / Staff Writer29 February 2012 A mind-boggling 40,000 trillion becquerels of radioactive cesium, or twice the amount previously thought, may have spewed from the crippled Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant after the March 11 disaster, scientists say. Michio Aoyama, a senior researcher at the Meteorological Research Institute, released the finding at […]
CNN’s Kyung Lah travels to the 12-mile exclusion zone around the Fukushima nuclear plant nearly a year after the quake. Fukushima’s animals abandoned and left to die Technorati Tags: Fukushima,Japan,infrastructure failure,pollution
By arevamirpal::laprimavera 27 February 2012 The documentary includes footage from early days of the earthquake/tsunami/nuclear disaster that started on 11 March 2011 that I’ve never seen before – weather camera video when the tsunami hit the plant, a video shot by a plant worker as he tried to escape uphill. The fact I wasn’t […]
By arevamirpal::laprimavera 25 February 2012 That’s when they started testing, and 500 used cars from Nagoya Port alone. Japanese used cars are popular in Russia, Southeast Asia, and Africa. Despite the nuclear accident, the number of exported used cars in 2011 increased slightly over 2010 to 857,779 cars according to the Used Car Export Industry […]
25 February 2012 (AFP) – Japan on Friday said some areas surrounding the Fukushima nuclear power plant that was wrecked last year by a massive tsunami will likely remain permanently off-limits. Measurements taken between November and January confirm earlier results which show a level of radioactivity of 470 millisierverts per year when the average, under […]
By Jake Adelstein21 February 201 On 11 March 2011, at 2:46pm, a 9.0 magnitude earthquake struck Japan. The earthquake, followed by a colossal tsunami, devastated the nation, together killing over 10,000 people. The earthquake also triggered the start of a triple nuclear meltdown at the Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant, run by Tokyo Electric Power Company […]
By Tom Godfrey, Toronto Sun18 February 2012 TORONTO – A Japanese woman who claimed exposure to radiation from damaged nuclear reactors has been denied refugee status in Canada almost one year after that nation was rocked by an earthquake and tsunami that left more than 100,000 people homeless. The woman’s identity has not been released […]
By David McNeill21 February 2012 The journey to Fukushima Daiichi begins at the border of the 12-mile exclusion zone that surrounds the ruined nuclear complex, beyond which life has frozen in time. Weeds reclaim the gardens of empty homes along a route that emptied on a bitterly cold night almost a year ago. Shop signs […]
