Fukushima crisis likened to Chernobyl

Chernobyl Disaster 'is the worst nuclear reactor accident in human history. The Japanese government raised the level of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear crisis to the worst level on an international scale, from 5 to 7. At this level, is considered to threaten the life of a radioactive leak in large areas.

Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency of Japan decided it last Monday, as quoted from page NHK News, Tuesday, April 12, 2011. The agency is assessing damage to facilities in the Nuclear Power Plant (NPP) Fukushima Daiichi caused radioactive leaks in large numbers so that endanger health and the environment in vast areas.

The agency is using a scale Ines (International Nuclear and Radiological Event Scale) as a benchmark. The scale is designed to show the significance of a group of experts from the nuclear event scale of 0 to 7.

On 18 March last - a week after the massive earthquake, 9 SR - this agency assess the level of leakage Fukushima is on level 5. This level is comparable to a nuclear leak at Three Mile Island, the United States in 1979.

While the nuclear holocaust that never get the scale 7 is a Chernobyl in the former Soviet Union countries in 1986. At that time, hundreds of thousands terabecquerel radioactive iodine-131 is leaking into the air. One terabecquerel equal to one trillion Becquerel.

However, this body believes that despite the accumulation of radioactivity into the air in Fukushima is still under Chernobyl.
Chernobyl disaster was the worst nuclear reactor accident in human history. On 26 April 1986 at 1:23 am, reactor number four at nuclear power plants located in the Soviet Union exploded. As a result of the incident, 5 million people who live in Belarus, Ukraine and Russia contaminated by radioactive substances.

China Bans Imports of Japanese Agricultural Products

China will ban imports of agricultural products from 12 regions in Japan, including food, agricultural products and feed ingredients, according to the official Xinhua news agency said Saturday.

Xinhua did not specify which areas are affected by the ban.

Some countries have banned imports of agricultural and animal from areas near the installation of a nuclear power plant (NPP) that damaged Japan for fear of contamination of radioactive elements.

Ministry of Foreign Affairs of China, previously concerned with Japan steps of radioactive contaminated waste water from nuclear plant damaged by the earthquake into the sea and urged neighbors to protect the marine environment.

"As a neighbor of Japan, we expressed our concern about this experience. We hope that Japan will act in accordance with international law and take effective measures to protect the marine environment," said ministry spokesman Hong Lei.

"China is following the developments closely, and at the same time doing our special assessment, and will continue to maintain close ties with Japan. We ask the Japanese report
relevant information to China with a fast, comprehensive and accurate. "

Recent Earthquake in Japan Kills 2 Elderly

Large magnitude earthquakes occur in Japan again on Thursday, April 7, 2010. At least two people were killed.
The earthquake happened on Thursday ahead of a midnight local time. Measuring 7.1 on the Richter Scale (SR) - SR 7.4 previously reported - was the strongest quake since the tragedy of 9 magnitude earthquake and tsunami in Japan on 11 March.

Until Friday morning there were two citizens were killed. They are 79 year old man and a woman aged about 60 years. As many as 132 people were reported injured. Epicenter of the quake was located at approximately the same location with the earthquake March 11 last.

Witnesses at the scene said that the earthquake lasted for 15 minutes.

"The earthquake has just happened in Tokyo approximately 15 minutes, the visitor who was watching the Disney Sea Disney Parade was an uproar,"he said Widi Nugroho Sahib, Head of Corporate PR-Soho Group.

Pacific Tsunami Warning Center said no tsunami warning was launched only in Japan, but also in Russia, Marcus Island and also the northern Marianas. Control of the tsunami are now underway in Guam archipelago, Taiwan, Philippines, Indonesia and the Hawaiian Islands.

The quake which hit at 2:46 pm local time at a depth of 10 kilometers, approximately 120 kilometers from the east coast. The region is located approximately 380 kilometers from the region north of Tokyo.

In downtown Tokyo, tall buildings swayed too, making the workers scrambled to seek refuge, reports Assiociated Press

Japan nuclear struggle focuses on cracked reactor pit

TOKYO, April 3  - Japanese officials grappling on Sunday to end the world's worst nuclear crisis since Chernobyl tried to seal a crack that has been leaking radiation into the ocean from a crippled reactor.
An aide to embattled Prime Minister Naoto Kan said the government's main task now was to stop the radiation leaks that are spooking the population and scaring away tourists.

"We have not escaped from a crisis situation, but it is somewhat stablised," said Goshi Hosono, a ruling Democratic Party lawmaker.

Tokyo Electric Power Co (TEPCO) said it had found a crack in a concrete pit at its No.2 reactor in Fukushima on Saturday, generating readings 1,000 millisieverts of radiation per hour in the air inside.

The leaks did not stop after concrete was poured into the pit, and TEPCO was turning to water-absorbent polymers to prevent any more contaminated water from going out.

"We are hoping that the polymers will absorb water and fill in the pipe to prevent water from flowing," said Hidehiko Nishiyama, deputy director general of the Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency (NISA).

He said the latest effort to staunch the flow of radioactive water into the Pacific would start on Sunday afternoon and that workers would top the polymers with more concrete to hold in the water.

Nishiyama told reporters on Saturday that the crack "could be one source" of the radiation leaks that have hobbled efforts to quell the damaged reactor.

On Sunday he added: "This(crack in the pit) for the first time clarified the relationship (of the contaminated water) with the sea."

Officials from the utility said checks of the other five reactors found no cracks.

Radioactive Water Flowing into the Pacific Ocean

High-level radioactive water from Nuclear Power Plant (NPP) Fukushina Dai-Ichi leaked and flowed into the Pacific Ocean. Water flows into the basin as deep as two meters into the sea. Later known, the water flows through holes in concrete walls 20 centimeters in diameter. Thus disclosed Tokyo Electric Power Company officials, Fukushima nuclear power plant managers.

Radiation levels in the hole more than 1,000 millisieverts per hour or 330 times the dose received by the average population in industrialized countries in a year. To stop it, the company will patch the hole with concrete.

These findings obtained on the basis of the results of investigations during the past few days, to seek an explanation surge of sea water contamination near the plant.

Last Thursday, government officials announced on Wednesday afternoon samples taken within a radius of 330 meters from the NPP, iodine-131 levels measured 4385 times above the standard. While the levels of cesium-237 known to 527 times above normal. Experts say, the last radioactive isotope can be a big problem.

Because, cesium-237 would take 30 years to remove half of the radiation. Compare with isotope iodine-131 which only took eight days.

High-level radioactive water levels were also detected in some turbine reactors, tunnels, and underground water. Even the area near the reactor number two the whole show, 100,000 times the radiation level above the normal threshold of a nuclear cooling.

Starting this Saturday a camera installation project in the trenches, which serve to help demonstrate the potential for leakage, begins.

Spraying also continued to lock the radioactive material in and around the nuclear complex - so that no further seeping through water, air and land.

The crew had spread to about 2,000 liters (more than 500 gallons) of synthetic resin in an area of ​​500 square meters. "Functions such as super glue that suppress the contamination," said Nolan Hertel, radiation technicians Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, United States, as published CNN, 2 April 2011.

Japan to Disable Nuclear Power Plant

The Government of Japan and Tokyo Electronic Power Co. (Tepco) said that the crisis in Nuclear Power Plant (NPP) Fukushima Daiichi can no longer overcome. To that end, the four reactors at nuclear power plants will be immediately deactivated and ignored.

As quoted from the pages of The Guardian, Thursday, March 31, 2011, Director of Tepco, Tsunehira Katsumata, said that four nuclear reactors at the nuclear problem will be ignored because they did not efforts are also bearing fruit.

If continued, the business will take up for weeks, even months, with no certainty of the situation will return to normal. Katsumata said there was no other option but to ignore and disable the reactor units one to four in the nuclear power plant.

Deactivation and neglect will be conducted at four reactor units, but the fifth and sixth reactor units will still operate. Both reactors are located separately from the other four reactor units reported no damage, because it does not operate during the earthquake and tsunami occurred March 11 last.

However, the intention to maintain the two reactors was opposed by the government. Yukio Edano government spokesman, said that all the reactors in nuclear power plants have 40-year-old will be disabled. "This decision is very clear, look at the situation that developed at this time," said Edano.

Not sure when this will be done by disabling the government or by Tepco.

Deactivation decisions taken at the middle of the deteriorating situation in the nuclear power plant. International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) reported a radiation coverage as far as 40 kilometers. The IAEA also saw an increase in radiation levels in the sea water around the plant.

Fear of Radiation, South Korea & Hawaii Residents buy Iodine Pills

Potassium iodine is believed to block radioactive iodine into the thyroid gland / thyroid that can trigger cancer. That's why residents in neighboring South Korea and Hawaii to Japan, panic buying iodine pills so nuclear crisis hit Japan.

Japan bounced back in earthquake

An earthquake measuring 6.5 Richter struck off the east coast of Japan on Monday morning, sparking a local tsunami warning.
According to the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), the quake occurred at around 07:23 local time Monday (22:23 GMT Sunday), at a depth of 5.9 kilometers. The quake's epicenter was about 161 km east-northeast of Fukushima, Honshu, and 368 km northeast of Tokyo.

Anti-Nuclear Action Rallies

Rally with about 250 thousand people was held simultaneously in Berlin, Hamburg, Cologne, and Munich. Grand demonstration was held with the slogan "Fukushima Warning: Shut down all nuclear power plants!" The action followed protests by environmental activist groups, unions and church organizations.

Kitaro concert to help tsunami victims in Japan

Japanese musician, Kitaro again held a concert in Indonesia. Concert 'The Silk Road-World Tour 2011'that will be held at the Plenary Hall of Jakarta Convention Center (JCC) on 7 April 2011. The virtuoso is scheduled to arrive in Indonesia on April 5, 2011.

Radiation Contaminated tap water, the Tokyo Citizens Buying Bottled Water

Tokyo - Japan declared ready to drink tap water contaminated with radiation and should not be given to infants. The parents finally bought bottled water.
Many shops in Japan ran out of bottled water because Tokyo residents hired, although the government urged people not to panic and hoard bottled water, as reported by Reuters, on March 24, 2011

Rampant theft occurred after the earthquake in japan

In the midst of admiration of the world order which will be maintained after the earthquake and tsunami in Japan, many reported incidents of theft and looting began to happen at some point in the location of the disaster center.
Shinkin Bank report to the police, (March 22, 2011), that one of its branch office in the city of Kesennuma, Miyagi Prefecture, plundered people. Money as many as 40 million yen (approximately USD 4.3 billion) reportedly disappear from the bank vault.

United States, Stop Food Imports From Japan

Washington - The U.S. government announced the termination of some food imports from Japan. The ban was imposed because of fears of radiation and nuclear contamination following the earthquake and tsunami in Japan.Drug regulatory authorities and the U.S. food aka the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) said it would stop the import of dairy products and products from the area around the Fukushima nuclear power plant is leaking radiation. This is as reported by AFP, (23/03/2011).

Crude Oil Prices Soar Higher Threatens World Economy

The global economy is facing various obstacles which threaten the recovery of the crisis. The biggest threat is the price of crude oil.CNNMoney, Tuesday, March 22, 2011 report, more than two-thirds of the 23 economists surveyed said that high oil prices are identified as the most serious risks for the global economy.
Unrest in the Middle East and North Africa to raise oil prices by 15 percent in the last two months. Missile attacks and no-fly Libya by the United States and its allies are also pushing gas prices higher.

Property Theft Victims of Earthquake and Tsunami in Japan

As reported by Telegraph.co.uk, Tuesday, March 22, 2011, within ten days after devastating natural disasters, at least 250 cases of looting in the two affected areas.
Incidents of looting or theft of goods victims of the earthquake and tsunami occurred in Japan. Looting it increasingly makes victims of the earthquake and tsunami of despair.

Miracle Stories Tsunami and Earthquake in Japan

Behind the big quake struck by tragedy with the tsunami in Japan, save a few stories that just make us explosions.Tsunami incident in Japan clearly makes wounds for the people there, especially for those who survived the catastrophic threat is. Many of the victims of Earthquake and Tsunami in Japan, March 11, 2011 yesterday survivors with fight tooth and nail against the tide as high as 40-10 meters with a speed of 800 kilometers per hour. Not a few of those who survived after the trail as far as 15 km towards the ocean, and found in safe condition.

Efforts to extinguish the Japan Nuclear

Workers raced to repair the damaged reactor while the temperature in all 6 fuel storage pool at the complex Fukushima Dai chi. Nuclear below boiling point, showing that efforts to cool the water the fuel rods used in reactors to work.Using a helicopter equipped with infrared equipment, officials determined that a pool of six reactor plant is under 100 degrees Celsius (212 Fahrenheit), said Minister of Defense of Japan Toshimi Kitazawa last night.

nuclear industry regulators in Japan and the United States says one of the biggest risks in Fukushima, the worst nuclear disaster in 25 years.

Oil prices rose after American, British and French launched missile into Libya

Oil prices jumped more than $2 a barrel on March 21, 2011 as the Western military action in Libya and continuing unrest in a host of other countries in the oil-rich Middle East region raised fears of possible disruptions to crude supplies.The price for crude oil has risen continuously since expectations of a solid economic recovery in the United States solidified last year, and oil prices have soared sharply in recent months after anti-government protests erupted in northern Africa and the Middle East earlier this year.

Some Nuclear Reactor in the world was operating in earthquake prone areas

Dozens of nuclear reactors around the world were operating in an area prone to earthquakes. Diantarnya are 14 nuclear reactors located in the most disaster-prone zone earthquake.As reported by the Wall Street Journal, March 19, 2010, Japan and Taiwan experienced an energy crisis on the Richter scale 9 earthquake that shook Japan on March 11, 2011 last.

Hawaii Tourism Impact From Japan Nuclear Radiation

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Hawaii has made it open for business, rejecting concerns about dangerous nuclear radiation reaching the U.S. state of tourist-friendly island of Japan hit by earthquake.
This popular holiday has seen some Japanese tourists cancel trips after last week's .Earthquake and tsunami of 4000 miles (6400 km) in the Pacific, which destroy a nuclear power plant and the release of harmful radiation.
But officials speaking confidence that there will be no mass cancellations, especially from the U.S. mainland, which provides 73 percent of visitors.

"We are open for business continued to Hawaii. To become an earthly paradise," said Governor Neil Abercrombie. "Japan's Nuclear Emergency is not harmful to Hawaii.