Registered Member #1675 Joined: Tue Nov 25 2008, 09:29AM : Posts: 3290
More Trouble for the Striken Fukushima Power Plant
Experts have warned of a potentially dangerous radiation leak if Japan proceeds with plans to flood a damaged reactor containment vessel at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant. The facility's operator has admitted uranium fuel rods in the No 1 reactor partially melted after being fully exposed because of the 11 March tsunami. Tokyo Electric Power (Tepco) said water levels had fallen to at least one metre below four-metre-long fuel rods inside the reactor core and melted fuel had slumped to the bottom of the reactor's containment vessel.
Registered Member #1675 Joined: Tue Nov 25 2008, 09:29AM : Posts: 3290
still about 9,500 people missing
More than two months after a devastating earthquake and tsunami ravaged the Tohoku region, about 9,500 people remain unaccounted for. Police and Self-Defense Forces personnel continue to search the wrecked areas, but as time passes fewer bodies are being found. Identifying bodies is also proving difficult, as the extreme force of the tsunami stripped victims of clothes, IDs and jewelry. At a temporary burial site on a hill in Higashimatsushima, Miyagi Prefecture, the graves of unidentified victims are marked only with numerals written in kanji. (Japan Times)
Registered Member #1675 Joined: Tue Nov 25 2008, 09:29AM : Posts: 3290
Japan widens Evacuation Zone
Japan on Sunday started the first evacuations of homes outside a government exclusion zone after the March 11 earthquake and tsunami crippled one of the country's nuclear power plants. Some 4,000 residents of Iidate-mura village as well as 1,100 people in Kawamata-cho town, in the quake-hit northeast, began the phased relocations to public housing, hotels and other facilities in nearby cities. Their communities are outside the 20-kilometre radius from the Fukushima Daiichi power plant, officially designated as an area of forced evacuation due to health risks from the radiation seeping from the ageing and damaged plant. (AFP )
Registered Member #1675 Joined: Tue Nov 25 2008, 09:29AM : Posts: 3290
more Nuclear Shutdows
Electricity supply from nuclear plants, already down by almost 20 percent following the March 11 earthquake and tsunami, will drop further during peak summer demand as operators shut reactors for maintenance. Six reactors are scheduled to be offline for checks and maintenance by the end of August. Chubu Electric Power Co. last week shut two reactors out of fear of a natural disaster causing a crisis similar to the one at Tokyo Electric Power Co.'s Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant. The planned shutdowns mean 75 percent of Japan's nuclear power capacity will be idled or damaged by August when air conditioning demand surges as temperatures can rise to as high as 40 degrees. (Japan Times)
Registered Member #1675 Joined: Tue Nov 25 2008, 09:29AM : Posts: 3290
super typhoon is heading towards Japan,
[Click Here] right now its near the phillipines at a catagory 5, with sustain winds at 161 and wind gusts at 195 but is expected to weaken as it gets near Japan..
Registered Member #1675 Joined: Tue Nov 25 2008, 09:29AM : Posts: 3290
Typhoon Chedeng (international name Songda) has veered away from the Philippines and is now going towards Japan. The impending typhoon, which some forecasters were comparing to 2009's Tropical Storm Ondoy, had whipped up signal number 1 and 2 winds and rains in several parts of the country, resulting in the cancellation of flights and stranding of oceanbound passengers. By Saturday morning, it is expected to be 190 km northeast of Basco, Batanes, and by Sunday morning, it is expected to be 610 km north-northeast of Basco, Batanes or 170 km southwest of Okinawa, Japan.
Registered Member #1675 Joined: Tue Nov 25 2008, 09:29AM : Posts: 3290
A powerful typhoon passed the Sakishima Islands in Okinawa Prefecture Saturday, threatening to bring further heavy rains to Japan's southwestern main island of Kyushu Sunday afternoon, the Japan Meteorological Agency said. The weather agency issued warnings about landslides and river floods as the typhoon could activate the rain front and cause heavy rain in wide areas of Japan, including Shinmoe Peak, a volcano that recently erupted in Kyushu, and northeastern Japan hit by the March 11 earthquake and tsunami. As of 9 p.m. Saturday, Typhoon Songda, the second typhoon this year, was located about 30 kilometers west-northwest of Kumejima Island, around 100 km west of Okinawa Island. It was traveling northeast at a speed of 40 km per hour.
Rain, can we put Japan on a back burner and worry about what is happening here closer to home. thanks I don’t need your attitude thanks, I have one of my own!
Hug your family, reach out to your friends, and look around at all the new friends you've yet to make. Prayers to all those whose lives will never be the same.
Everyday I am thankfull for something. Today a friend said "Glass half full, be greatfull you have a glass. "I would add to that even if your glass is dirty be greatfull you have a glass to clean.
I'm thankful for the warm sun on my face when I wake in the morning, the whir of my ceiling fan cooling me as I go to bed, my soft puppie's fur snuggling up against me, the fact I have food to eat and family and friends that I love and that love me. Every day I wake is a new day and new chance to do better. I'm thankful for my friends on SCM, sho are always there for me, worried when I worry and this last year with my daughter's head on collision on Moonridge in Aug and then the fire up the block form my house a couple weeks ago have been trying but it is nothing like a tornado where the school is ripped to shreads. I am thankful I try to help people and for kind persons I see doing it too.
I'm thankful for each new day that brings opportunity, pause for thought and appreciation. I'm thankful for my family : the love, the chaos, the laughs, the tears... All of it. Signing off for tonight.
Orr Family Farm media inquiries might be worth a try: 405 609 7068 They might be able to refer them to someone. Its a nightmare now. There are many many horses unaccounted for and they are racing dark to find them and triage them. Identifying them might not happen right away. I'd be a wreck waiting to hear about my babies!
I'm thankful for my life, family and friends, including all my horses, dogs, cats, birds and every living creature that I take care of. I'm also thankful I have a bed to sleep in and a roof over my head. I'll be reall thankful for the survivors of all disasters that have happened lately...past present and future.
As always, thanks everyone for the updates. Continued prayers. 2013 has started off to be a year full of disasters, loss, and fear. Anyone care to share what they're thankful for?
MAJOR EARTHQUAKE NEAR JAPAN
