Japan Earthquake: Helicopter aerial view video of giant tsunami waves

[Christina]

Re: Japan nuclear plant explosion world wide aftereffects

Might you have the link for that one ? so I can send it in email to some friends?
Oh, this is not good for the world.

[Christina]

Re: Japan Earthquake: Helicopter aerial view video of giant tsunami waves

This quake is massive and you have to wonder if their any kind of natural disaster that Japan doesn't get?

I do recall that there is the so called "Ring of Fire" of all the major Volcanoes that are around the
certain regions that go from Washington upstate region and other areas that go in a
coastal map line. And if, God forbid, they go one after the other, then that is really
bad, bad news.

There was Mt. St. Helenas eruption a long time ago. Most people forget. Then there is the famous one
in Hawai'i. it is on the big island that has Kona on the other side. They make that volcano a
"tourist site." Yeah. I would not go near that volcano for all the tea in China!
Hilo is the big city on the Big kahuna island: Hawai'i volcanoes national park it is listed on a
map from 1950s. Pahala is south of it. Oh my, I feel for them too. Not a good thing to have that in their
back yard.

[retro]

Re: Japan Earthquake: Helicopter aerial view video of giant tsunami waves

Four reactors are in trouble, three of which are seemingly melting down due to cooling systems failure.

Unit 2 of the Tokai nuclear complex, which is near Kyodo and just 75 miles north of Tokyo, is reported to have a coolant pump failure and three units at Fukushima two of which have had hydrogen explosions.

Meltdown fears rise after rods at Japanese nuclear reactor partially exposed

TOKYO - Water levels fell far enough to partially expose fuel rods at Fukushima No.1 nuclear plant's No. 2 reactor, sparking meltdown fears, Jiji Press reported Monday.

The dangerous exposure came after a cooling system at the reactor failed Monday afternoon.

Earlier Monday, an explosion at the No. 3 reactor at the No. 1 plant, 120 miles north of Tokyo, sparked panic around 11:00am local time. However, Japan's nuclear safety agency said after the explosion that there was "absolutely no possibility of a Chernobyl" at the plant despite the ongoing nuclear concerns, according to national strategy minister Koichiro Genba.

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Ultimate impact of damage to Japan nuclear reactors still unknown

The detection of the highly radioactive elements cesium-137 and iodine-131 outside the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant heralds the beginning of an ecological and human tragedy. The open question is whether it will be limited, serious or catastrophic.

The two radioactive isotopes can mean only one thing: Two or more of the reactor cores are badly damaged and at least partially melted down.

In the best case, operators will pump enough seawater and other coolants into the stricken reactor cores to squelch overheating. Such a success would prevent further releases of radiation beyond the unknown amount spewed into the air by controlled venting and the explosion of reactor containment buildings Saturday and Monday.

In such a hoped-for scenario, the only casualties would probably be the handful of plant workers reported Sunday to be suffering from acute radiation sickness. But there's also the immense anxiety triggered by the incident and the toll of the subsequent evacuation on nearby residents.

The consequences of the most dire scenarios are much harder to estimate. They include the loss of the facility, an expensive local cleanup - a foregone conclusion - and a wide-scale disaster that renders the countryside around the plant uninhabitable for decades.

"There is a worst case, and then the question is, 'Is there a worst case beyond the worst case?' " said Gilbert Brown, a nuclear engineer at the University of Massachusetts at Lowell.

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Tokyo: The US Seventh Fleet said on Monday it had moved its ships and aircraft away from a quake-stricken Japanese nuclear power plant after discovering low-level radioactive contamination.

The fleet said that the radiation was from a plume of smoke and steam released from the crippled Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant, where there have been two hydrogen explosions since Friday's devastating earthquake and tsunami.

The aircraft carrier USS Ronald Reagan was about 100 miles (160 kilometres) offshore when its instruments detected the radiation. The fleet said the dose of radiation was about the same as one month's normal exposure to natural background radiation in the environment.

Read more: http://www.zeenews.com/news693232.html#ixzz1GZKFhdcP

[KanadaHye]

Re: Japan Earthquake: Helicopter aerial view video of giant tsunami waves

The Japanese finally found a way to get rid of Americans....

Tokyo: The US Seventh Fleet said on Monday it had moved its ships and aircraft away from a quake-stricken Japanese nuclear power plant after discovering low-level radioactive contamination.

The fleet said that the radiation was from a plume of smoke and steam released from the crippled Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant, where there have been two hydrogen explosions since Friday's devastating earthquake and tsunami.

The aircraft carrier USS Ronald Reagan was about 100 miles (160 kilometres) offshore when its instruments detected the radiation. The fleet said the dose of radiation was about the same as one month's normal exposure to natural background radiation in the environment.

Read more: http://www.zeenews.com/news693232.html#ixzz1GZKFhdcP

Dose of radiation equivalent to one month's normal exposure? Hey, I'm no genius but I'd rather be exposed to small consistent amounts than a large dosage all at once.