April 10 retrospektiv link-dump

Links I posted on Facebook retroactivly reposted to Blogger with some messy html remaining.
:-(This is May 5 but this post's links were collected prior to Apr 10)-:
This way I won't have to look at facebook for my links either, because I hate (and like) facebook.
My apologies to my reader for the complete lack of posts in the post-earthquake post-tsunami recent past.

http://www.iaea.org/newscenter/news/tsunamiupdate01.html
http://english.kyodonews.jp/rss/news_japan_nuclear_crisis.xml
http://www.greenpeace.org/usa/en/campaigns/nuclear/Fukushima-nuclear-disaster/
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2011/03/16/world/asia/reactors-status.html
http://allthingsnuclear.org/
http://mitnse.com/
http://twitter.com/JAPANTIMES
http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news.html
http://twitter.com/Reuters
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/japan-earthquake-and-tsunami
Radiation: http://www.japantimes.co.jp/radiation-levels.html
Water: http://atmc.jp/water/
http://atmc.jp/
Earthquakes: http://tenki.jp/earthquake/
http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/radiation-visualization.html


Normally, the public is supposed to only get ONE extra millisievert per year from nuclear-industrial actions, nuclear workers 50 millisieverts.
The Japanese govt is saying 20 millisieverts a year is now OK for the public before they would consider evacuation
(and note that some UNevacuated areas are getting much more than that weekly),
250milliSvrt for nuclear workers (That is actually in line with guidelines for life-saving activities.)
This is a commercial site, but has a good explanation.
http://www.oasisllc.com/abgx/radioactivity.htm

Radioactivity and alpha, beta, gamma radiations and X rays

Atoms are not all stable. The excess energy contained in an unstable atom is released in one of a few basic particles and energetic waves. The Greek alphabet is used to name the particles (in the order of their discovery).

Another speedy solution suggested by some experts is to pour concrete or sand over the overheated reactors, not waiting until they cool. The tactic has been dismissed by Japan's nuclear safety agency and other experts have called it risky as the nuclear fuel may melt through the container.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110409/ap_on_bi_ge/as_japan_earthquake_nuclear_endgame

Information is beautiful. Radiation, not so much.
http://www.informationisbeautiful.net/visualizations/radiation-dosage-chart/

I would have said "castle made of sand" (Hendrix tribute)
http://mdn.mainichi.jp/perspectives/news/20110409p2a00m0na001000c.html
A society that depends on nuclear energy is just like a house of cards

A little long but a sign of change, read later?
http://www.abc.net.au/rn/sundayprofile/stories/2011/3173783.htm
Japanese Opposition MP, Taro Kono, has long argued against Japan's reliance on nuclear power, and he says Japan must move to an energy strategy that includes renewables and natural gas. Taro Kono is also on the Liberal Democratic Party's counter-relief committee. The group is examining better ways of responding and preparing for such disasters as this month's earthquake and tsunami.


Hell no, we won't go, hell no, we won't glow.
http://english.kyodonews.jp/news/2011/04/84251.html
Companies dispatching workers to Tokyo Electric Power Co.'s crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant are refusing to adopt the government-imposed provisional limit on radiation exposure for those workers at the plant, saying it would not be accepted by those at the site, Kyodo News learned Saturday.

Former U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission member Victor Gilinsky said the Japanese crisis seems far tougher than the Hanford Nuclear Reservation in Washington State, regarded as the most highly contaminated nuclear weapons site in the United States. At Hanford, the Energy Department reportedly plans to decommission eight reactors and process about 58 million gallons of radioactive sludge now in leaky underground tanks at a cost estimated up to $130 billion.
http://www.upi.com/Top_News/World-News/2011/04/07/Disposal-of-radioactive-water-next-issue/UPI-44251302178116/

Possible reason why tapwater cesium and iodine is undetectable now: added filtering.
http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/nn20110408n1.html
Efforts to protect Tokyo's tap water from radiation leaked by the damaged Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant have led to a run on Indonesian coconut husks.


http://www.eli.org/pdf/Energy_Subsidies_Black_Not_Green.pdf
Diagram of subsidies to the black energy and green energy industries.

NPR gets critical.
http://www.npr.org/2011/04/06/135175611/in-wake-of-nuclear-crisis-tepcos-plans-questioned

In Wake Of Nuclear Crisis, TEPCO's Plans Questioned : NPR

www.npr.org

Experts say that in the weeks following the series of explosions and fires inside the reactors at the Fukushima Dai-ichi power plant, TEPCO made very costly — and avoidable — mistakes. The company, they say, was deeply surprised and overwhelmed by the course of events.

NPR on liquefaction
http://www.npr.org/2011/04/07/135181474/in-japan-shaken-soil-turned-soft-after-quake

In Japan, Shaken Soil Turned Soft After Quake : NPR

www.npr.org

The violent shaking from Japan's March 11 earthquake stirred up the soil, leading to broken water pipes, tilted utility poles and manholes that popped out of the ground. The phenomenon, known as liquefaction, was particularly noticeable in areas built on land reclaimed from the sea.

EXPLOSION!
OK... He probably went a little foo far with the word "explosion" and that idea, but I don't think he was part of the "alarmist" media. I had to work this out and reach my own state of alarm all by myself, only found this much later.
http://dcbureau.org/201103141303/Natural-Resources-News-Service/fission-criticality-in-cooling-ponds-threaten-explosion-at-fukushima.html

Fission Criticality In Cooling Ponds Threaten Explosion At Fukushima

dcbureau.orgThe threat of a fission explosion at the Fukushima power facility emerged today when the roof of the number three reactor exploded and fears that a spent fuel pool, located over the reactor, has been compromised.

A powerpoint of a presentation by TEPCO about their plans to put Fukushima Daiichi's admittedly overpacked spent fuel in the pools into dry cask storage up in Aomori, far from Tokyo.
http://www.nirs.org/reactorwatch/accidents/6-1_powerpoint.pdf
Slides 4, 5, 9, 10, and 11 are especially relevant to understanding the fuel amounts (or =the tonnage of radwaste) at Fukushima Daiichi, and how they have re-stacked fuel assemblies beyond the design parameters in the cooling pools.


virtual reality
The plaque that you can see in this panorama with the date 35.5.24 indicates the water level of the tsunami caused by the 1960 (Showa35) May 22 Valdivia, Chile earthquake, a magnitude 9.5 and the largest in recorded history.
360° panorama
http://www.360cities.net/image/damage-in-ohfunato-iwate-pref-2-japan#190.50,1...1.29,10.0
This event at USGS:
http://pubs.usgs.gov/circ/c1187/

Before:After
http://static.panoramio.com/photos/original/38195106.jpg
~=~
http://www.360cities.net/image/damage-in-kamaishi-iwate-pref-1-japan#95.39,-5.64,17.5



http://blog.360cities.net/japan-tsunami-and-earthquake-damage/
This post links to a collection of 360° panoramas/VRs from post-tsunami Japan.


Before:After
http://www.panoramio.com/photo/49679345
=
http://www.360cities.net/image/damage-in-rikuzen-takada-iwate-pref-7-japan#177.92,2.10,15.9


Before:After
http://www.panoramio.com/photo/34514560
=
http://www.360cities.net/image/damage-in-rikuzen-takada-iwate-pref-3-japan#-42.90,3.73,33.8


After:Before
http://www.360cities.net/image/damage-in-rikuzen-takada-iwate-pref-5-japan#441.11,23.07,71.9
~=~
http://maps.google.co.jp/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=ja&geocode&q=%E5%B2%A9%E6%89%8B%E7%9C%8C%E9%99%B8%E5%89%8D%E9%AB%98%E7%94%B0%E5%B8%82%E9%AB%98%E7%94%B0%E7%94%BA&aq&brcurrent=3%2C0x5f88a30facc61139%3A0xd40ddee6af6d4902%2C1&brv=22.25&sll=...39.011886%2C141.631968&sspn=0.005919%2C0.014913&ie=UTF8&hq&hnear=%E5%B2%A9%E6%89%8B%E7%9C%8C%E9%99%B8%E5%89%8D%E9%AB%98%E7%94%B0%E5%B8%82%E9%AB%98%E7%94%B0%E7%94%BA&ll=39.012565%2C141.626902&spn=0.005319%2C0.029826&t=h&z=16&layer=c&cbll=39.012563%2C141.626903&cbp=11%2C0%2C%2C0%2C0&photoid=po-49395267


nuclear industrial complex
nuke boosters

[JAIF] Japan Atomic Industrial Forum, Inc.

www.jaif.or.jp

http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/nn20110408f1.html

Tokai mayor slams Tepco, government | The Japan Times Online

search.japantimes.co.jp

MITO, Ibaraki Pref. (Kyodo) The mayor of Tokai, Ibaraki Prefecture, has criticized the central government and Tokyo Electric Power Co. over their handling of the nuclear crisis in neighboring Fukushima Prefecture.

http://www.thenewstribune.com/2011/04/08/1617720/japans-disasters-might-be-the.html

Japan’s disasters might be the opportunity for needed cultural overhaul

www.thenewstribune.com

TOKYO – Something fascinating is afoot in Japan: anger. People are fuming about the nuclear crisis that put their nation in the spotlight for all the wrong reasons.

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/06/world/asia/06village.html?ref=asia&pagewanted=all
“We have been sacrificed so that Tokyo can enjoy bright lights,” said Takao Takahashi, 68, a tobacco farmer.


‎"Nuclear reactors are inherently dangerous, and will always be vulnerable to the potentially deadly combination of human error, design failure and natural disaster. Governments around the world must commit to a future based on energy efficiency and renewable energy – nuclear power has no place in a modern safe and secure energy system!"

Ocean dumping: Fukushima far from under control

www.greenpeace.org

http://english.kyodonews.jp/news/2011/04/83604.html
We must deliberate this matter slowly and carefully... zzzzz
http://english.kyodonews.jp/news/2011/04/83604.html

Gov't reviewing radiation exposure level for evacuation | Kyodo News

english.kyodonews.jp The government is reviewing the radiation exposure level currently used to designate the evacuation zone around the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant, as the nuclear crisis triggered by last month's massive earthquake and tsunami continues to unfold, its top spokesman said Wednesday.

http://www.pref.chiba.lg.jp/suidou/souki/documents/sokuteiichiran0402.pdf
Radioactive Cesium in Chiba water peaked around 3-23 or another spike on 3-27 but has been largely undetectable since. Radioactive iodine is well below the 200 bq cutoff for infants. I think i'l go back to tapwater and save the bottled water.

[Chiba has a lot less Iodine-131 and a little less Cesium-137 than Tokyo.]
http://mextrad.blob.core.windows.net/page/13_Tokyo.html

April 7 retrospektiv (link dump)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-LPGzzaSsbU
Japan Earthquake - Ground shifts, water seeps during quake in Chiba, Japan

blackcat123ciao in Urayasu, who also had liquefaction
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cy-MOZwr5G0

A better example of it getting a little out of hand indoors was the one in Mito:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mj17QnmTzng

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6FsOw2SKhxM
Mito City
水戸市の震災状況 (3.11 15：15頃 M7.4余震時）

Liquefaction in NZ
http://www.flickr.com/photos/stevetaylors/5489428369/

Liquefaction demonstration in a wheelbarrow
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/christchurch-earthquake-videos/news/video.cfm?c_id=1503037&gal_cid=1503037&gallery_id=117058


driving inside the evacuated zone, seeing many abandoned animals
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yp9iJ3pPuL8&feature=share
http://www.videonews.com/

Tokyo - The Japanese government has issued the evacuation order on March 12 for the residents living within the 20 kilometer radius of the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant. Since then, residents have left their homes...

http://www.nisa.meti.go.jp/english/files/en20110316-1.pdf
English language pdf pamflet from NISA, the Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency.
http://www.nisa.meti.go.jp/english/

"Pay attention
not to fall victim to
rumors or
Demonstrations."

You wouldn't want to be a victim of a political, educational, or awareness-raising campaign. Better to be a victim of government and industrial corporate nuclear blunders and misinformation campaigns. If you are exposed to a demonstration, return home, remove and wash your brain thoroughly in a solution of warm soapy water and concentrated Iodine 134, and visit the TEPCO or NISA website for further instructions.

http://www.trust.org/alertnet/news/analysis-radiation-fixes-may-help-fukushima-exclusion-zone
Give up the land, plant a forest, come back in 150 years. What about the sea? Will radioactive elements bioaccumulate?

http://www.victorpost.com/highlight/x796069628/Cheryl-Miller-Japans-earthquake-More-to-the-story-than-radiation
Hope this is true. It assumes everything is over now...

http://www.vjy2010.jp/cp/detail/detail.php?shopid=20091127-3235 Ishinomori Mangattan Museum

“There is some trial and error,” said Kuni Yogo, a former atomic energy policy planner in Japan’s Science and Technology Agency. “But this is the beginning of a three- to five-year effort to seize the damage.”

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/30/world/asia/30japan.html?pagewanted=all

http://www.reuters.com/assets/print?aid=USTRE72S2UA20110329
great article

http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/fl20110329zg.html
http://quakebook.blogspot.com/

http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/nn20110329n1.html

As of 11 p.m. Saturday, some 99 products, including milk and vegetables, were found contaminated in Tokyo and five prefectures to its north and east, according to the ministry's statement on its website.
Chiba detected above-maximum radiation on 11 vegetables, including red-leaf lettuce, Kyodo reported Sunday.

http://robgilhooly.photoshelter.com/gallery/JAPAN-EARTHQUAKE-2011/G0000yDG6JxqEqG4/
#86(?) This is the end of the estimated tsunami inundation area. Get past here and you should be good. Hello, Pooh Bear.


http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/eu_germany_radioactive_boars
...

The German boars roam in forests nearly 950 miles (1,500 kilometers ) from Chernobyl. Yet, the amount of radioactive cesium-137 within their tissue often registers dozens of times beyond the recommended limit for consumption and thousands of times above...

TEPCO

March 29 link collection

http://www.businessweek.com/news/2011-03-18/japan-disaster-caps-decades-of-faked-reports-accidents.html
This March 18 article in BusinessWeek details the lies and cover-ups in Japan's nuclear industry.

Japan Disaster Caps Decades of Faked Reports, Accidents - Businessweek

www.businessweek.com

The unfolding disaster at the Fukushima nuclear plant follows decades of falsified safety reports, fatal accidents and underestimated earthquake risk in Japan’s atomic power industry.

One Per Cent: More robots sent in to tackle crisis at Fukushima

www.newscientist.com
"Just before loading the aircraft, we received the message that Japan declared "they don't
need INTRA robots in the current situation", Michel Chevallier, INTRA's Director General, told New Scientist. "Our robots are now back in our headquarters."


http://earthquake.usgs.gov/learn/glossary/?term=tsunamigenic
Word of the day: *tsunamigenic*

U.S. races freshwater to Japan nuclear plant - CBS News

www.cbsnews.com

IAEA experts said the ocean will quickly dilute the worst contamination. Radioactive iodine breaks down within weeks but cesium could foul the marine environment for decades.

In Minamisoma, a city of 71,000 about 20 miles north of the nuclear plant, all but one or two shops shut their doors because of a lack of goods and customers, said city official Sadayasu Abe.

"Commercial trucks are simply not coming to the c ...ity at all due to radiation fears," he said Saturday.

Military troops and some private companies took up the task of delivering rice, instant noodles, bottled water and canned foods to eight central spots in the city, Abe said.

He said the city was urging the 10,000 or so still holding out to leave since the situation at the plant remains precarious.

"Life is very difficult here," he told The Associated Press by telephone. "We have electricity, gas and running water, but no food."

http://www.greenpeace.org/usa/en/news-and-blogs/campaign-blog/from-our-radiation-sampling-team-in-japan/blog/33956

From our radiation sampling team in Japan

www.greenpeace.org

Jacob Namminga, one of our radiation safety advisors, spoke to me via Skype about today's sampling trip in a rural area of Japan, to the north west of the Fukushima nuclear plant. We'll be reporting the details of our findings once they are compiled...
As we found out today, the radiation levels are high in Fukushima city -- our measurements confirmed levels that have been reported in newspapers and by the government -- in some places so high that you would get your "maximum annual dose" (if you believe in such things) in about 8 days. It's a bit strange to see people biking and going about their business.

They must be hoping those levels come down fast or i don't see how they really have any choice but to evacuate Fukushima City. It's only 280,000 people, not so big in Japan. At 50 miles away from F#1 , it is consistent with or a little bey...ond the US recommendation that people stay 50 miles away. That's a little worse than the evacuated area at Chernobyl. They must be reluctant because Fukushima is the major link to points north, including the main expressway and shinkansen. Without that and the eastern coastal road, the north is two-thirds severed. I also wonder whether people would welcome irradiated evacuees. http://maps.google.com/maps?f=d&source=s_d&saddr=Fukushima%2C+Fukushima+Prefecture%2C+Japan&daddr=%E7%A6%8F%E5%B3%B6%E7%9C%8C%E5%8F%8C%E8%91%89%E9%83%A1%E5%A4%A7%E7%86%8A%E7%94%BA%E5%A4%A7%E5%AD%97%E5%A4%AB%E6%B2%A2%E5%AD%97%E5%8C%97%E5%8E%9F%EF%BC%92%EF%BC%92&hl=en&geocode=FdMuQAIdDHRfCCnZTToq0Y6KXzFG40_BD00GDA%3BFb32OgIdzNNnCCnx5PMvUN0gYDEPLRSAZsB09g&mra=ltm&dirflg=d&doflg=ptm&sll=37.760625%2C140.737725&sspn=0.789286%2C1.667175&ie=UTF8&z=11

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L6lI6g94Hl8
One more liquefaction n Chiba.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J0fwKQREmJ4
Looks like a bus stop outside Disneyland.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SRUpJ3CAcYA This person had the (mis)fortune of witnessing four large explosions at the Cosmo refinery in Ichihara, Chiba.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UFA6d8LV7SY Makuhari Driver's License Center. Been here many times.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BVMNG3M5rQ4 Liquefaction in progress videos. I guess it continues for a while after the quake.

東京ディズニーリゾート 液状 化2

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C_qlgQ9CGr0 Short liquefaction-in-action film

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dGQGq42ajAw Office in Ginza --not so bad-- measured using the innovative coffeometer scale of earthquake intensity.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lEmAQ6Xizd4 Narita train platform!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z_Is0J_tdFc 2011-03-11 at Disney Sea

地震直後のケイヨーデイ ツー 新浦安店納品所付近の液状化状況

飛び出したマンホー ル... 液状化の爪痕　浦安

www.youtube.com

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YQunzgtqvzI Nearby! You can see Tokyo Sky Tree.

2011/03/11 東日本大震災 14：50頃に震度5の地震が！ 東京都江東区菊川

www.youtube.com

‎2011/03/11 東日本大震災 14：50頃に震度5の地震が！ 東京都江東区菊川 三ッ目通りにて 東日本大震災 2011 03 15 東日本大震災の爪跡 東京ディズニーランドそばにて 1 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WkpWFw7n9qg 2011 03 15 東日本大震災の爪跡 東京ディズニーランドそばにて 2 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KCb3y3OEc6E

Breach possible at troubled Japanese power plant - National Business - MiamiHerald.com

www.miamiherald.com

A possible breach at Japan's troubled nuclear plant escalated the crisis anew Friday, two full weeks after an earthquake and tsunami first compromised the facility. The development suggested radioactive contamination may be worse than first thought, with tainted groundwater the most likely consequen

Japan quake loaded stress on fault closer to Tokyo

news.yahoo.com

The recent monster quake that hit northeastern Japan altered the earth's surface, geologists say, loading stress onto a different segment of the fault line much closer to Tokyo.

PressTV - 'Japan careless about radiation dangers'

www.presstv.ir

Interview with Professor Chris Busby from the European committee on radiation, London


Fukushima Prefecture said on its website that it measured radiation of 4.77 microsieverts an hour around 1100 GMT Thursday in Fukushima City, about 60 kilometers northwest of the plant. It said it detected 4.05 microsieverts an hour in Koriyama City, about 60 kilometers west of the plant, and 1.51 microsieverts an hour in Iwaki City, about 40 kilometers southwest of the plant, at about 1100 GMT Thursday.

Radiation Level In Tokyo Slightly Down Thursday Vs Wednesday - WSJ.com

Fukushima 1 (Daiichi) radiation briefing

www.greenpeace.org

This Greenpeace briefing serves to provide analysis and advice of the risks and potential health impacts following releases of radioactivity from Japan's Fukushima 1/Daiichi nuclear power plant, which was damaged by the March 11th earthquake and tsunami.



Links that were in the US Embassy/State Depts mailing:

http://www.nisa.meti.go.jp/english/

NISA - Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency

www.nisa.meti.go.jp

http://www.who.int/hac/crises/jpn/faqs/en/index.html

http://www.iaea.org/

http://www.wpro.who.int/

http://www.mext.go.jp/english/radioactivity_level/detail/1303962.htm

Ralph Nader: ‘Nuclear Nightmare’ – OpEd « Eurasia Review

The unfolding multiple nuclear reactor catastrophe in Japan is prompting overdue attention to the 104 nuclear plants in the United States—many of them aging, many of them near earthquake faults, some on the west coast exposed to potential tsunamis.

After catastrophes, vibrant city of Tokyo turns somber

www.washingtonpost.com

In the days since the earthquake and the tsunami, and with Japan now in the middle of a radiation scare, many feel certain that something has been lost: A part of Tokyo that they loved.

Japan Quake Map

www.japanquakemap.com

Time-lapse visualisation of the March 11, 2011 earthquake off the coast of Sendai, Japan and its aftershocks.

All Things Nuclear

allthingsnuclear.org

Insights on Science and Security

http://www.ustream.tv/news

http://www.tepco.co.jp/en/index-e.html

舞浜駅前ロータリー

www.flickr.com

http://www.flickr.com/photos/katakanadian/4892096344/

Do you know where your tsunami inundation zone starts?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tUN_UTY0GNo&feature=player_profilepage

TsunamiTeacher USA - Tsunami Basics

www.youtube.com

Explains the basics of tsunamis and how to protect yourself. For more information: http://www.tsunami.gov/ and http://www.tsunamiwave.info/ Produced by UNESCO/IOC-NOAA International Tsunami Information Center, NOAA/Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory, SeismicReady Consulting, Inc., US Geolog

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lo5uH1UJF4A&feature=player_profilepage

Narrated animation of March 11, 2011 Honshu tsunami propagation

www.youtube.com

Propagation of the March 11, 2011 Honshu tsunami and maximum amplitude plot were computed with the NOAA forecast method using MOST model with the tsunami source inferred from DART® data. From the NOAA Center for Tsunami Research, located at NOAA PMEL in Seattle, WA. See http://nctr.pmel.noaa.gov/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/eitaroh/5525866958/

Narita Officials

www.flickr.com

Canon S90 Two Narita Airport officials sitting side-by-side taking a moment's rest several hours after the M9.0 earthquake hit Japan. For some reason there is an almost comedic quality about them.

Flickr: Jun Kamil's Photostream

http://www.flickr.com/photos/keiblog/
She seems to live in KaihinMakuhari.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/hiromiiguchi/5525399854/
Not "superheated" but...

http://www.flickr.com/photos/jrockjared/5521035615/

A look at Urayasu, Chiba (next to Tokyo, Tokyo Disneyland) and liquefaction there. 5000 liter military water truck. Very slight damage compared to the earthquake zone proper. http://www.flickr.com/photos/anzu_c/sets/72157626270032852/with/5527818197/

Looks like Urayasu (near Tokyo Disneyland) may even be worse than Makuhari; no unning water over there. http://www.flickr.com/photos/gwright/

Radiation From Worst-Case Nuclear Disaster Is Limited Threat - Businessweek

www.businessweek.com

A nuclear meltdown or explosion at Tokyo Electric Power Co.’s crippled plant is unlikely to pose a health risk beyond 50 kilometers (36 miles) of the site, doctors and scientists said.

http://www.businessweek.com/news/2011-03-18/radiation-from-worst-case-nuclear-disaster-is-limited-threat.html

http://www.ndtv.com/article/world/fukushima-nuclear-crash-may-be-as-disastrous-as-chernobyl-92475
"Ukraine operates four nuclear power plants with 15 reactors. Their share in the country's electric power output makes over 50%."

Fukushima nuclear crash may be as disastrous as Chernobyl

www.ndtv.com

A major crash at the Japanese Fukushima nuclear power plant may entail the same disastrous aftermath as the awful blast at the Ukrainian Chernobyl nuclear power plant, chairman of the Ukrainian State Committee for Nuclear Regulation Yelena Mikolaichuk told reporters here.

Tokyo Radiation Risk Limited Even in Worst Case, U.K. Says

www.bloomberg.com

The risks to human health from Tokyo Electric Power Co.’s damaged Fukushima Daiichi atomic plant are limited to an evacuated area adjacent to the facility, according to the U.K.’s Chief Scientific Officer John Beddington .

The Bane of Nuclear Energy: Nuclear Waste - Storage

library.thinkquest.org
http://library.thinkquest.org/17940/texts/nuclear_waste_storage/nuclear_waste_storage.html#

Video: Japan's past nuclear power cover-ups

cnn.com

CNN's Drew Griffin reports on a pattern of cover ups in Japan's nuclear power industry.

Timeline: Japan's unfolding nuclear crisis

www.reuters.com

‎(Reuters)- Japan is under global scrutiny over the handling of its nuclear crisis after a huge earthquake crippled several reactors at a nuclear power complex, raising fears of an uncontrolled radiation

U.S. stands by nuclear power, Energy secretary says

www.latimes.com

Energy Secretary Steven Chu on Tuesday restated the Obama administration's commitment to keeping nuclear power in the mix of renewable sources under development in the U.S., but treaded carefully around questions of how the nuclear disaster in Japan might affect that effort.

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-steven-chu-20110316,0,2062754.story

Radiological Terrorism: Sabotage of Spent Fuel Pools - Harvard - Belfer Center for Science and Inter

belfercenter.ksg.harvard.edu
Please see the INESAP Bulletin online for the full text at

http://www.inesap.org/pdf/INESAP_Bulletin22.pdf.

http://www.politicshome.com/uk/article/24103/professor_sir_john_beddington_reasonable_to_understand_the_worst_case_scenario.html

Professor Sir John Beddington: 'Reasonable to understand the worst case scenario' |

4. Nuclear Waste Pools in North Carolina | Project Censored

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Source: CounterPunch, August 9, 2008 Title: “Pools of Fire” Author: Jeffrey St. Clair Student Researchers: Krisden Kidd and Karene Schelert Faculty

Japan Earthquake Aftermath - Alan Taylor - In Focus - The Atlantic

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"the unprecedented scale of Friday's earthquake and tsunami left questions about not only the adequacy of the measures but the basic policy of pursuing nuclear power in a country as earthquake-prone as Japan"

no kidding!

Basic nuclear policy questioned | The Japan Times Online

OSAKA — Severe damage to the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant had the central government and local authorities in neighboring towns racing Saturday to evacuate residents and implement previously agreed upon emergency response measures.

http://www.esri.com/services/disaster-response/japan-earthquake-tsunami-2011-map/index.html

Japan Earthquake and Tsunami Map

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View a map and satellite image from the 8.9 earthquake that struck off the coast of Japan on March 11. The initial earthquake triggered a subsequent tsunami warning for the entire Pacific coast from Alaska to Chile.

Previously, the worst "civilian" nuclear accident was the Tokai-mura Criticality incident, otherwise known as the nuclear-reaction-in-a-bucket thing.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tokaimura_nuclear_accident

Girl From The North Country (EELS--live)

Girl from the North Country.
Only E does a decent version of this song, but I also have to give credit to Bob Dylan for writing it.